About the Proceedings

The Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas (SPP) is a professional organization of physicists and physics educators in the Philippines. Every year, the SPP holds a Physics Congress for its annual members' meeting and conference that showcases the research done by its members and their collaborators across several field of physics. For many Filipino students and early career physicists, participating in the SPP Physics Conference is one of their first experiences presenting their work to an international audience. Full article manuscripts that are presented at the SPP Physics Congress are reviewed by peers and published in the Proceedings of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas.

ISSN 2719-1621 (online)

Open access
Articles published in the Proceedings are freely available for download to registered users. New readers may sign up for open access through the registration link here.

Editorial Procedure and Anonymous Peer Review
Once manuscripts are received via SPP Paperview, members of the Publication Committee evaluate the submission and verify that the topic of the paper falls within the scope of the SPP Physics Conference and that it follows the Author Submission guidelines.

If it does, the paper is sent to a Topical Editor with expertise in the relevant field of physics. The Topical Editor sends the manuscript to one or more referees for peer review. Referees must have an advanced degree in physics or an associated discipline, a scientific publication record on the relevant topic, or is a practicing professional in the field. The review process is single anonymous: the identities of the referees are not revealed to the authors.

Once the review is complete, the Topical Editor assesses the referee reports and determines whether the paper should be accepted, revised, or declined. The Topical Editor may initiate more rounds of review.

Upon acceptance, the paper is scheduled for presentation in one of the Conference sessions by the Scientific Program Committee.

Frequency
The Proceedings of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas is published annually to coincide with the SPP Physics Congress.

Article fees
Authors are not charged any article processing fees. However, since the Proceedings of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas is a record of the SPP Physics Conference, at least one co-author is required to register and present their work at the Conference.

Archiving
The Proceedings of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas periodically deposits a backup up of its digital record to an archive to ensure its continued availability to the public it serves.

Publication Ethics and Scientific Integrity

The Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas is committed to maintaining the scientific integrity of the work it publishes.

Authors are expected to submit articles in good faith: reporting accurate results and conclusions supported by their data and analyses, adhering to scientific standards and ethical practices, citing and crediting others properly for contributing ideas and data, and disclosing possible conflicts of interest. They must assert that their submissions satisfy the conditions set in the Author Guidelines before the manuscripts are sent through the review process. 

Editors are expected to secure the confidentiality of the review process, and to make impartial decisions by carefully evaluating author revisions and responses against reviewer criticism, and act as an unbiased intermediary between authors and reviewers. We allow our Topical Editors to also provide their expert opinion within the review process, but they must make an independent editorial decision based on all available scientific correspondence. Should a conflict of interest arise regarding their assignment to a particular manuscript during the review process, editors are tasked to consult another member of the Editorial Board to arrange a manuscript transfer.

Reviewers are expected to provide objective and expert feedback on the manuscripts assigned to them and uphold the confidentiality of their assignments. They are expected to disclose to the handling editor any possible conflict of interest or expertise mismatch that may affect the objectivity and content of their report.

Concerns on publication integrity and scientific malpractice
Expressions of concern regarding the integrity of a published article or an editorial decision may be sent to the Editorial Board through the Editor-in-Chief. Communications that are clear, specific, and substantiated will be forwarded to an Editorial Committee of at least three disinterested Topical Editors to investigate and recommend actions for the Editorial Board. The Board's final resolution of the expression of concern will be guided by the Core Practices developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Research data involving human or animal participants
Authors whose manuscripts contain data collected from human or animal subjects must upload along with their initial submission a statement with institutional letterhead that contains the following declarations:

  • That the data was gathered in a manner consistent with the authors' institutional policy on data collection from human or animal subjects,
  • That the manner of data collection from human subjects and archiving conforms with the authors' institutional policy on data privacy and protection, and/or
  • That data collected from human subjects that are presented in the submission appears only in aggregate form and that no personally-identifiable information will be presented at the SPP Physics Conference.

Use of artificial intelligence AI tools
The authors must declare and describe their use of artificial intelligence AI tools for scientific idea and content generation at the end of their article, if any were used in this submission.