Light Peer Review

The IPAC’26 Light Peer Review process will offer an intermediate level of publication between a non-refereed IPAC paper published in the JACoW conference proceedings and a refereed journal like PRAB.

Successful peer-reviewed papers will be published in a conference journal.

The deadline for the submission of paper contributions to the Light Peer Review is:

Wednesday, April 1st, 2026 at 23:59 CEST (UTC+2)

Papers submitted to the Light Peer Review have to be prepared according to the same guidelines (including paper length) as for the conference.

In addition to the files specified in the guidelines, the corresponding author must sign and submit a “Publication Right Form” available for download here. This form must be saved as IPAC26_publication_right_form_{code}.pdf (where code is the contribution code) and submitted along with the other files.

We see the introduction of light peer review as an opportunity to publish papers that do not fulfil all the acceptance criteria of journals, given their limited content. Examples of papers that may survive light peer review but may not meet the rigour of PRAB include review papers, technical advancements without novel schemes, incremental design or performance improvements, and similar topics.

The papers submitted to the Peer-Reviewed IPAC’26 proceedings will be reviewed by referees selected by the Scientific Publication Board (SPB) from among conference participants. All papers are reviewed by two referees. In the event of disagreement between referees, the SPB shall resolve the case.

Due to time and referee constraints, it cannot be guaranteed that all submitted papers will be reviewed.

All scientific participants to IPAC’26 may be invited to review papers as part of the Light Peer Review. When contacted, you will have an option to decline reviewing a paper if you are unavailable.

The IPAC’26 Light Peer Review is coordinated by Gianluca Geloni (EuXFEL).