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Focus and Scope
Integrated Assessment combines knowledge from diverse disciplines to accurately represent and analyze policy-relevant real world problems. Given the complex, intuitive, and value-laden process of accurate representation and analysis of policy problems, successful policy application in today’s world requires encompassing and incorporating insights from emerging interdisciplinary research and application. Integrated Assessment provides a systematic approach to interdisciplinary research that bridges traditional disciplinary boundaries. Integrated Assessment provides an opportunity to develop a coherent framework for considering multiple objectives of decision-making and identifying possible policy criteria. Through model-based systems, simulation gaming, scenario analysis, and qualitative studies, Integrated Assessment creates open and flexible tools to provide timely, relevant analysis at the level of aggregation appropriate to the problems and issues at hand. Dedicated to the burgeoning field of Integrated Assessment, and to the rapidly expanding scope of interdisciplinary studies, this journal aims to help practitioners, policy makers/analysts, and disciplinary scholars connect, develop common language, and share lessons from analysis and practice.
Section Policies
Op-ed
 Open Submissions |
Indexed |
 Peer Reviewed |
Articles
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Book/Media Reviews
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Letters
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Policy Spotlight
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Peer Review Process
IA is committed to prompt evaluation and publication of submitted papers. The submission and review process is fully electronic. Manuscripts are reviewed for suitability within two weeks of submission. Authors of manuscripts that are not highly rated or are not relevant to the journal are notified by e-mail at that time. The Editors reserve the right to refuse any manuscript submitted, whether on invitation or otherwise, and to make suggestions and modifications before publication. Membership in TIAS is not a factor in selection of manuscripts for publication.
Selected papers are edited to improve accuracy and clarity, and to shorten, if necessary. All corrections in the proofs other than printing errors are at the author’s expense. The selected papers are published within six weeks of acceptance. If a paper was rejected on the basis of serious reviewer error, resubmission will be considered.
Publication Frequency
Quarterly
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...
Information on The Integrated Assessment Society
Integrated Assessment serves as the official research journal of The Integrated
Assessment Society (TIAS).
Information on obtaining past print articles
Past articles published in the IAJ, available in electronic format, have been reproduced in the archives section.