Digital Transformation and Society (DTS) is a high-impact, peer-reviewed, diamond open-access journal published by Emerald Publishing on behalf of Chengdu University.This journal bridges the gap between technology, business, and social domains, serving as an exceptional platform for research scholars.
🌟 Key Highlights & Performance Metrics
Indexation: Scopus, UGC-CARE, DOAJ
Publication Fees (APC):₹0 / $0 (Fully Free / Diamond Open Access) — Fully sponsored by Chengdu University, making it completely free for authors to publish open-access articles.
Scopus CiteScore: 2.5
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.353 (Q2 Best Quartile - Library & Information Sciences)
Average Review Speed: First decision in just 28 days.
Acceptance to Publication: Only 33 days on average.
Bilateral Collaborative Research in Social Sciences & Humanities An initiative to strengthen academic cooperation between India and Taiwan by supporting joint, high-quality research projects on new and emerging mutual themes.
📅 Key Timelines & Important Dates
Application Opens: June 01, 2026
Application Deadline: August 03, 2026
Completion of Peer-Review: October 14, 2026
Result Announcement: December 2026
Project Commencement: January 01, 2027
Project End Date: December 31, 2028 (2-Year Duration)
💰 Funding & Grant Breakdown
Total Supported Projects: Maximum of 5 joint research projects.
Maximum Funding Limit: Up to ₹12,00,000 (Twelve Lakh INR) per project.
Primary Expense Intent: Mobility of researchers (travel, lodging, and ground hospitality).
Travel Split: The visiting side bears international & domestic inter-city air travel. The receiving side bears boarding, local lodging, and ground transportation expenses.
🔬 Core Supported Themes & Disciplines
Proposals are accepted across the following key areas:
Economics, Commerce, Management, & Business Administration
Sociology, Social Anthropology, Social Work, Demography, & Gender Studies
Political Science, International Relations, Geography, & Public Administration
Psychology, Education, Criminology, & Law
Linguistics & Literature
Cultural Studies & Arts
Area Studies
History
Buddhist Studies
Philosophy
Artificial Intelligence & Society (Evaluating the social impact of emerging technologies).
🎓 Eligibility Criteria
Qualification: Principal Investigators (PIs) must hold a PhD or equivalent degree.
Employment Status: Must hold a regular research or academic position at a recognized institution (e.g., publicly funded universities/colleges, UGC-recognized deemed universities, or ICSSR research institutes).
Bilateral Development: Proposals must be jointly developed by an Indian PI and a Taiwanese PI.
⚠️ Application Rules & Submissions
Dual Submission Mandatory: The Indian PI must submit the proposal format to ICSSR, while the Taiwanese PI must concurrently submit the complementary application to NSTC. Unilateral submissions will be automatically rejected.
Submission Format: Indian applicants are required to submit both an electronic copy and a physical hard copy to ICSSR on or before the August 3, 2026 deadline.
IPR Agreement: Before final processing, collaborating PIs must outline mutual agreements concerning the management, ownership, and operational framework of potential Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) resulting from the project.
Official Portals: Official guidelines and submission templates can be verified directly at www.icssr.org.
The rapidly changing landscapes of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data demand global forums where cutting-edge discovery intersects with real-world application. To bridge this space, Jio Institute has announced its flagship international forum: Intelligent Data Engineering and AI (IDEA 2026).
Scheduled to take place from December 03–05, 2026, at Jio Institute's state-of-the-art campus in Navi Mumbai, India, this highly anticipated conference brings together international researchers, academicians, industry executives, and policymakers.
The technical program focuses heavily on methodological reproducibility, technical soundness, and the ethical deployment of scalable smart technologies. Accepted and presented papers will achieve elite academic dissemination, with proceedings officially published by Springer.
🔬 Core Conference Tracks
The research tracks for IDEA 2026 address both foundational methodologies and future-forward paradigms:
Intelligent Data Engineering & Big Data: Scalable storage, high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructures for AI, semantic knowledge graphs, and data governance.
Machine Learning & Deep Learning: Foundation models, Generative AI, federated/distributed learning architectures, and explainable AI (XAI).
Computer Vision & NLP: Conversational AI, object detection, multimodal AI systems, and specialized medical imaging.
Ethical, Fair, and Responsible AI: Algorithmic bias mitigation, privacy-preserving ML models, sustainability, and international AI policy frameworking.
AI Applications & Case Studies: Smart cities, FinTech risk modeling, autonomous Industry 4.0 applications, and healthcare diagnosis platforms.
Emerging Trends & Future Directions: Neuromorphic engineering, Edge AI, quantum computing integrations, and global AI alignment parameters.
📅 Important Timelines & Registration Fees
Prospective authors must follow a strict double-blind peer-review standard managed via the CMT platform, adhering to a 10% maximum overall plagiarism similarity threshold.
Paper Submission Opens: April 01, 2026
Submission Deadline: June 15, 2026
Acceptance Notification: August 20, 2026
Registration & Camera-Ready Paper (CRC) Submission: September 20, 2026
Conference Dates: December 03–05, 2026
Participation Tariffs:
Indian Academia & Industry Authors: ₹9,000 per accepted paper
As global challenges demand faster development of smarter, cleaner, and highly efficient systems, materials science acts as the cornerstone of industrial evolution. Published by Elsevier, Next Materials is an international, peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal specifically established to bridge major advancements across modern material applications.
The journal offers a premier platform for research scholars, metallurgists, and engineers aiming to publish high-quality research that can fundamentally change structural designs, electronic devices, and green energy harvesting paradigms.
💡 Core Research Domains & Tracks
Next Materials accepts original research articles, letters, short communications, and authoritative reviews across a wide array of specialized themes:
Rapid Peer Review: Benefiting from Elsevier’s advanced Editorial Manager platform, authors experience structured, quick, and transparent double-blind peer reviews.
Global Visibility: Immediate indexing across prominent discovery databases guarantees extensive global outreach and elite citation velocity.
Flexible Open Access: Authors can choose between traditional subscription models or immediate gold open-access visibility to meet institutional open-science mandates.