C-SQD facilitates a specialized service for conference organizers aimed at streamlining the publication and review process for conference-associated manuscripts. By participating in this program, organizers can benefit from waived platform fees for manuscripts published under their conference banner by paying a single conference fee.
Upon enrollment in the Conference Partnership Program, reviewers who attend the conference are required to add a specific conference tag to their reviewer profiles. This tag is exclusively available to conference attendees, ensuring that only eligible reviewers are matched with manuscripts related to the conference. The C-SQD platform manages the matching process, possibly with input from conference organizers. Reviewers are assigned ElementReviews based on any manuscripts they have submitted as an author, on their other reviewer community tags, and on any criteria provided by the organizers.
Conference organizers determine the level of review anonymity before and during the conference, though all reviews are made public after the conference in alignment with C-SQD's standard policy. Conference organizers also have the option to mandate that all attendees contribute a predetermined number of ElementReviews. This requirement promotes active engagement in the peer review process and helps maintain the quality and integrity of the conference publications. Additionally, only manuscripts that satisfy certain criteria defined by the conference become eligible for expert synthesis review.
All submitted reviews, including both ElementReviews and SynthesisReviews, are incorporated into the reviewers' public records. This integration provides transparency and acknowledges the contributions of reviewers within the academic community. Manuscripts published through the conference receive Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) like any other C-SQD publication.