Venues and journal specs¶

Every paper targets a venue (conference or journal). The stack models the venue with its quartile, word-count ranges, reference counts, required sections, citation style and quality gates.

Canonical source

This page migrates from docs/shared/VENUES.md. The specs SSOT lives in .agent/specs/journal_specs.yaml.

`journal_specs.yaml` — Source of Truth¶

Per-quartile structure (excerpt):

conference:
  word_count_min: 2500
  word_count_max: 5000
  refs_min: 10
  refs_max: 30
  citation_style: IEEE
  typical_venues: [EWSHM, IMAC, WCEE, ASCE Structures]
  gates: [AI_prose, data_traceability, style_calibration]

q2:
  word_count_min: 5000
  word_count_max: 10000
  refs_min: 30
  refs_max: 80
  gates:
    - statistical_rigor_HARD   # Gate 2 — error bars, N, p<0.05, Cohen's d
    - normative_codes          # Eurocode, ASCE 7, E.030 cited

q1:
  word_count_min: 6000
  word_count_max: 10000
  refs_min: 40
  refs_max: 120
  gates:
    - statistical_rigor_HARD
    - multi_structure          # 2+ validated structures
    - theoretical_contribution
    - hypothesis_test
    - effect_size_Cohen_d

Conference targets (structural domain)¶

Venue	Type	Cadence	Style
EWSHM — European Workshop on SHM	Proceedings	Biennial	IEEE
IMAC — SEM IMAC Conference	Proceedings	Annual	Springer
ASCE Structures Congress	Proceedings	Annual	ASCE
WCEE — World Conf. on Earthquake Engineering	Proceedings	Every 4 yrs	IAEE
SHMII — Int. Conf. on SHM of Intelligent Infra.	Proceedings	Biennial	IEEE

Q1–Q4 journals by domain¶

Structural / SHM¶

Q2/Q3: Structural Control and Health Monitoring (Wiley)
Q3: Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring (Springer)
Q3/Q4: Structures (Elsevier)
Q4: Earthquakes and Structures (Techno-Press)

Water / CFD¶

Q2: Journal of Hydraulic Engineering (ASCE)
Q3: Water (MDPI)
Q4: Journal of Hydroinformatics (IWA)

Air / Wind¶

Q2: Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics (Elsevier)
Q3: Wind and Structures (Techno-Press)

Biomedical¶

Q1/Q2: IEEE TBME, Computers in Biology and Medicine
Q3: Biomedical Signal Processing and Control

Style calibration from real venues¶

Before IMPLEMENT, the stack downloads 3–5 real papers from the target venue via OpenAlex and extracts writing patterns → produces a Style Card the narrators imitate.

python tools/style_calibration.py \
  --venue "EWSHM" --year 2026 --n 5 \
  --paper-id icr-shm-ae --save-md

The Style Card captures voice (active/passive, person), citation density, sentence length, section structure and venue lexical markers. It is a mandatory pre-batch: without calibration the narrators produce generic AI prose and Gate 0 (anti-AI prose) fails.

Draft frontmatter¶

---
title: "Informed Cross-Referenced Structural Health Monitoring..."
paper_id: icr-shm-ae
domain: structural
quartile: conference
venue: "EWSHM 2026"
institution: continental        # or null
citation_style: IEEE
status: draft                   # draft | review | submitted | accepted
---

validate_submission.py reads this frontmatter and applies the venue + institutional + quartile gates.

Golden rules¶

One paper = one venue. Decided in PROPOSE, immutable until ARCHIVE.
Mandatory ladder: Conference → Q4 → Q3 → Q2 → Q1. No skipping.
Style Card first. Without calibration, Gate 0 fails.
Journal specs are SSOT. If a journal changes requirements, update journal_specs.yaml.
Venue and domain are orthogonal. Structural can go to EWSHM, MSSP (Q1) or Structures (Q3).

See also Rules and RED LINES (Rule #8 — mandatory ladder).