INDEX OF ACADEMIC DOCUMENTS (IAD) ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA FOR CONFERENCES

• Conferences included in the IAD index must adopt an open-access system.
• The IAD does not charge any fees for application or indexing processes.
• All content in the IAD index is publicly accessible. Therefore, conferences included in the index are considered to have given permission for their information, proceedings, and presentations to be displayed in the index.
• There are no additional requirements for conferences indexed in the directories listed below or published on the mentioned platforms. This is because IAD recognizes that the acceptance conditions of these platforms and indexes meet international quality and publishing standards beyond dispute:
  • Conferences indexed by Scopus, WoS, and IEEE are automatically eligible for inclusion.
  • Conferences organized by universities, government institutions, and research institutes.
  • Conferences organized by internationally recognized and reputable non-governmental organizations.
• Other conferences will be evaluated by the IAD editorial board based on their name, contact details, website, archive, organizing committee, scientific committee, organizer information, and policies. Relevant entities will be informed of the outcome following this process.
• Conferences have the right to appeal decisions made by the IAD editorial board. Appeals will be reviewed and decided upon by the editorial and advisory boards.
• Accepted conferences must share their proceedings' specified information with the IAD index authorities.
• The IAD reserves the right to remove any conference from the index without providing a specific reason.
• Conferences or publishers listed in internationally recognized predatory lists are not accepted into the IAD index. If such entities are identified after acceptance, they will be removed from the index without further justification.