Focus and Scope

e-journal of reservoir engineering is a peer-reviewed pubication concerned with the theory and practice of reservoir engineering. It contains refereed international contributions on a broad spectrum of topics and provides the reader with informative articles, topical short papers and research reports.

This journal provides free and unrestricted access to its web-based contents on the principle that removing access barriers to literature gives readers extraordinary power to find and make use of relevant literature, and that it gives authors and their works vast and measurable new visibility, readership, and impact. Further information regarding scope, policies and author guidelines for this e-journal can be found by visiting the ";;About";; section within this journal's website.

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Research

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Technical Notes

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Case Study

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

New Technology

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

We believe that access to quality information is of the utmost importance and so articles submitted and published in the Petoleum Journals Online will undergo strict peer review.

We will strive to make the editorial process move as rapidly as possible. Once accepted in principle, each article will be refereed in two ways, on the academic content by a known specialist in the relevant field (a second 'content' referee may be called upon where the Editor deems it necessary) and on its www realization.

Submitted articles will generally be reviewed by two external experts.

Peer reviewers will have four possible options, for each article:
1. accept without revision
2. accept after revision without expecting to check those revisions
3. neither accept nor reject until author(s) make revisions and resubmit
4. reject because scientifically unsound

In deciding whether to accept or reject an article, a reviewer asks him/herself whether the scientific community is better served by publishing or not publishing the article. In the absence of compelling reasons to reject, e-journal of reservoir engineering advises that reviewers recommend acceptance, as ultimately the quality of an article will be judged by the industry after its publication.

When asking for revisions, reviewers have two possible goals: to ask authors to tighten their arguments based on existing data or to identify areas where more data are needed.

e-journal of reservoir engineering normally allows authors a maximum of two revisions of an article.

Peer reviewers are asked to say if the article is not sufficiently clearly written for publication. In such cases authors are asked to revise the article, seeking, if necessary, the assistance of colleagues or a commercial editing service.

We aim to publish research as quickly as possible. Our electronic submission process is designed to facilitate rapid publication.

Where an article is being published jointly with a print publisher, Petoleum Journals Online would expect a single mutually agreeable referee to be appointed for both. Petoleum Journals Online's own referees are not paid and should not be expected to have to comment on texts that have not been checked for spelling, lack complete references etc.

Publication Frequency

To ensure that your paper gets published within 2 to 3 months of initial submission, individual technical papers on Petroleum Journals Online are published as soon as they are ready, by adding them to the "current" volume's Table of Contents. Special features such as editorials, columns, letters, comments and reviews, will also be published as soon as they are ready.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides open access to all of it content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Such access is associated with increased readership and increased citation of an author's work. For more information on this approach, see the Public Knowledge Project, which has designed this system to improve the scholarly and public quality of research, and which freely distributes the journal system as well as other software to support the open access publishing of scholarly resources.

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...