Description: The journal of SMPS is an international and peer-reviewed electronic journal in the field of theoretical and applied statistics and probability with emphasis in reliability. The language of the Journal is English and is published two issues per year. SMPS holds publication license number 88865, issued on December 6, 2021, by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance.
Abbreviated key-title: Stoch. Model. Probab. Stat.
Stochastic Models in Probability and Statistics (SMPS) promotes the global exchange of knowledge on a non-commercial basis. Authors retain full copyright to their work and are not required to transfer it to the journal. Consequently, all research articles accepted and published by SMPS are made immediately and freely available online for reading, downloading, and sharing, without any subscription fees or registration barriers.
Stochastic Models in Probability and Statistics © 2024 by Ferdowsi University of Mashhad is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
Publishing schedule
The journal is published on a quarterly basis, and the table below shows the exact dates of publication for each volume in a given year. The journal adheres to this publishing schedule unless there are exceptional circumstances.
Issue Date of publication
Issue 1 JULY
Issue 2 December
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad owns and manages this journal.
The editorial board members of this journal are recognized experts in the subject areas stated in the Journal's aims and scope. The full names and affiliations of each board member are provided on the journal's website under the 'Editorial Board' section, and the list is regularly updated. To ensure that the journal maintains its integrity and to avoid association with predatory or deceptive practices, the journal periodically reviews its editorial board in collaboration with the publisher to ensure its relevancy and appropriateness.
There is no submission fee, publication fee (article review processing charges, language editing fees) or page charge for manuscripts submitted to IJNAO.
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad as the publisher of SMPS, supports it for each published issue by paying a defined budget according to its published annual rank in Portal of Scientific Journals of Iranian Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. The allocated budget includes those pertaining to setup and maintenance of the publication infrastructure, routine operation of the Journal, processing of manuscripts through peer-reviews, editing, publishing, maintaining the scholarly record, and archiving.
Website Archiving
All of our electronic content, including the Journal's website and manuscripts, is archived in two different ways. Firstly, the PDF format of the journal's content is accessible online to readers from our main server. Secondly, a copy of all content is kept as a backup on another server. In case of any content failure, it can be made available online again within 24-36 hours from our backup server.
Moreover, every published issue of the journal is sent to the following databases: [Portico]
Therefore, the content can be accessed at any time even in the absence of website operation.
Abstracting/Indexing Services
Our journal's Abstracting/Indexing services store all essential information about the articles. The list of these services can be found in the 'Indexing and Abstracting' section.
Self-Archiving
Authors can archive the final published version of their articles in personal or institutional repositories, after their article’s publication.
Advertising
This Journal does not accept any advertising.
There are no direct marketing activities in this journal.
To prevent plagiarism, SMPS uses the iThenticate system for checking any similarity, and if the percentage of similarity is more than 25%, the article will be withdrawn from the review process.
The Names and Email addresses entered in this journal’s website will be used exclusively for the purposes of publishing the Journal and will not be available to any other person or organization.
Peer review
All submitted manuscripts to this journal undergo peer review, with the type of review process being single-blind. The peer reviewers are typically external to the journal's editorial team. Information on all peer review procedures can be found in the 'Peer Review Process' section.
Publication ethics and related editorial policies
This journal is a member of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and complies with the highest ethical standards in accordance with ethical laws.
The Editorial Board, Reviewers, and Authors are encouraged to study the Publication Ethics for the Stochastic Models in Probability and Statistics (SMPS). If they encounter any issues, including plagiarism, citation manipulation, or data falsification/fabrication in submitted or published articles, they should contact the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Jafar Ahmadi at ahmadi-j@um.ac.ir or the publisher's principal contact at fumpress@um.ac.ir, who will follow COPE flowcharts.