Publication

All papers submitted to the conference will be assigned to the respective symposium committees based on factors such as submission date and topic relevance. Each symposium committee will then coordinate the peer review process, ensuring rigorous evaluation and making final decisions on acceptance and publication.

Journals

We call for excellent papers and review them according to the requirements of each journal.

Qualified submissions will be recommended for publication in the following journals or corresponding special issues. About the recommendation, please note:

• The reconmmendation process will TAKE NO CHARGE. However, if there is an APC or any charging fee from the journal or special issue, the author(s) should acknowledge that it is irrelevant to the conference.
• The conference committee and reviewers will review the submitted manuscript to decide whether it is qualified to be recommended. The author(s) should acknowledge that the final decision of journals or special issue is irrelevant to the conference and additional peer-review process is required.
• The acceptance and publication of recommended manuscript depend on the recommending journals' review process.
• The conference will not guarantee that recommended manuscripts will receive additional or preferential acceptance policies.
• Recommended manuscripts accepted by the journal or special issue do not require additional conference registration, and NO REGISTRATION FEE will be charged.

The journals listed below have been indexed by Science Citation Index (SCI)/Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-E) and/or Social Science Citation Index (SSCI):

• JCRQ3 - Electronic Commerce Research and Applications: Special Issue on Explainability, Robustness and Fairness for User-centric Intelligent Systems [Impact Factor: 6; CiteScore: 10.1]
• JCRQ3 - European Management Journal: Managing the Invisible: The Challenges of Religious Expression in the Workplace [Impact Factor: 7.5; CiteScore: 10.9]
• JCRQ1 - Advances in Business Intelligence: Theoretical and Empirical Issues [Impact Factor: 2.4; CiteScore: 3.5]
• JCRQ1 - Time Series Forecasting for Economic and Financial Phenomena [Impact Factor: 2.4; CiteScore: 3.5]

Conference Proceedings

Accepted papers of CONF-BPS 2026 will be published in conference proceedings, which will be submitted to Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI), Crossref, CNKI, Portico, Google Scholar and other databases for indexing. The indexing result will be determined by the conference proceedings in which the paper is included.

* Accepted manuscripts will be submitted to the publisher on a rolling basis. Early-registered papers are expected to be published and printed earlier.

Retraction and Refund Policy:

1. Before publication: You may withdraw your manuscript and get a full-refund within 15 days of payment. A formal withdrawal application must be submitted to submission@confbps.org via corresponding email address with full agreement of all authors, including your submission ID and reason for retraction. For more information, please contact us at submission@confbps.org.
2. After publication: Please contact the publisher to retract your manuscript. You need to comply with the publisher's retraction policy. No refund will be made after publication.