Publication Policy

One of the main aims of the ICEAF Conference series is to ensure excellence and high scientific merit of the events. The publication of high-quality proceedings and special issues of reputable peer-reviewed international journals contribute to achieving this aim.

Therefore, for every work that will be presented at ICEAF IX, the authors will be entitled to submit full papers for publication in the Conference Proceedings Volume or/and in the dedicated Special Issues hosting papers from the Conference. In this frame, the Organizing Committee is happy to confirm, the following publication arrangements:

  1. 1.Publication of the e-book of abstracts

    Participants will have the opportunity to share the short summaries of their presentations in the ICEAF Conference book of abstracts, which will be distributed to the Conference participants and will also be made available online.

  2. 2.Conference Proceedings

    This year's Conference Proceedings will be published in a dedicated peer-reviewed and open-access issue of the Engineering Proceedings Journal [E-ISSN 2673-4591 with Cite Score (2025): 1.2, Scopus Indexed] of the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI). MDPI provides a convenient proceedings publication service where papers are widely indexed and discoverable across all major discovery services. All articles published through the MDPI Engineering Proceedings are open access and free to download.

    Guidelines for Authors

    All authors who are going to present their papers during the conference, are invited to prepare afull paper of up to eight (8) pages and submit it via the e-mail: info@iceaf.eu.

    The acceptance of your paper(s) is a subject of a regular review process performed by the International Scientific Committee. Kindly note thatall accepted papers will be subjected to a similarity check before publication. Papers with a similarity score higher than 25% cannot be included in the Conference Proceedings Volume.To submit your contribution, please follow the instructions provided below:

    MDPI GUIDELINES: Please prepare your full-length paper(s) according to the detailed guidelines for authors provided by MDPI, which can be found here.

    MDPI TEMPLATES: The length of the paper cannot exceed eight (8) pages, and the respective document templates can be found here.

  3. 3.Special Issues

    Further information will be available soon.

  4. 4.Important Notes

    • Each participant is limited to give at most two (2) presentations.
    • In order for a work to be included in the Conference program, presented and included in the Conference Proceedings, as well as be eligible for the Special Issues, at least one author of the work must have completed a paid registration (referred to as the paying author) for the 9th International Conference of Engineering Against Failure.
    • Each author can qualify as the paying author for up to 2 presentations.
    • Prospective authors will be required to warrant that the work is original and submitted for first publication in the respective scientific journal(s). All submitted manuscripts will be checked to avoid claims of plagiarism. In this context, overlaps with already published works, including the full-length papers for the ICEAF IX Conference Proceedings, should typically not exceed 25%. The accurate percentage of acceptable overlap will be set by the respective journal.