Submission

Peer Review

The articles in this journal are peer-reviewed according to the BenchCouncil Journals review rules. Before sending the paper to a specific Associate Editor (AE) for further handling, the Editor-in-Chief (EIC) team, consisting of one EIC, one or two associate EICs, and one assistant EIC, will guarantee each paper reaches the minimum publication standards. The one member of the EIC team without conflict of interest (COI) is responsible for checking COIs, while the other EIC and AE, who do not know the authors' identities, make a final decision. Each published article is reviewed by a minimum of three independent reviewers using a double-blind peer-review process. The identities of the reviewers are not known to the authors. Still, the reviewers also do not know the identities of the authors. Articles are screened for plagiarism before acceptance. For each paper, the EIC team makes a final decision within three months.

Cost

TBench is an open-access publication. To publish in TBench, authors are not required to pay an article-processing charge (APC).

Manuscript Types Accepted by TBench

TBench manuscript types and submission length guidelines are described below. All page limits do not include references and author biographies.

  • Research article – 12 double-column pages (All research article page limits do not include references and author biographies.)

  • Survey article – no page limits.

  • Benchmark article – 12 double-column pages (All benchmark article page limits do not include references and author biographies.)

  • Standard article – 12 double-column pages (All standard article page limits do not include references and author biographies.)

  • Data article – 8 double-column pages (All data article page limits do not include references and author biographies.)

  • Tool article – 8 double-column pages (All tool article page limits do not include references and author biographies.)

  • Practice article – 8 double-column pages (All practice article page limits do not include references and author biographies.)

  • Editor’s Letter– 4 double-column pages

  • Letter– 4 double-column pages (All letter page limits do not include references and author biographies.) After being peer-reviewed, the EIC team will make a final decision with one month.

  • Comment – 2 double-column pages. The EIC team will make a final decision with one week.