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General Paper Status and Plans

This document provides an overview of the general review phase, journal choice, final steps, costs, and invites discussion on any missing details or concerns.

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General Paper Status and Plans

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  1. General Paper Status and Plans Dennis Wright Geant4 Collaboration Meeting 28 September 2015

  2. Outline • General review phase • Journal choice • Final steps • Costs • Discussion

  3. General Review Phase • Collaboration-wide review • complete first draft has been open for review since July 6th • four substantive responses so far, generally positive • no further responses? • proceed to final version • Paper is now 116 single-column pages (85 double-column) • paper committee decided not to divide it into two papers • Two incomplete sections • biasing/performance • biasing/anticipated_developments

  4. General Review Phase • Some small re-organization may be needed • physics list discussion in EM sections to move to general physics list section • for consistency reformat “Thank-you” footnotes : to references?

  5. Journal Choice • NIM A • Reviews of Modern Physics: Geant4 not modern enough • Physical Review: Geant4 too computer-science oriented, paper too long • Journal of Computational Physics, Computer Communications: not high enough impact • several other journals: article too long • IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. will be back-up choice • have essentially said they will publish anything we send them

  6. Final Steps • Completion of details (end of October) • consistency of fonts, class name conventions, reference styles • English check • format for NIM A submission • check figures for quality • Completion of author list (November) • Present second (and final?) draft for collaboration review (end of November) • no major changes allowed at this point • Submission (December)

  7. Costs • Will publish Open Access • cost: about $2500 • to save cost, will not have color figures, but rely on on-line color • G4AI has agreed to submit the paper • costs will be divided among institutes • total amount sent to G4AI for payment to journal

  8. Paper Committee • Andrea Dotti • Peter Gumplinger • Francesco Romano • Pete Truscott • Marc Verderi • Dennis Wright

  9. Discussion • Missing details? • Concerns?

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