The International Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering (IISEE) was established in 1962 and has provided training courses in the field of seismology and earthquake engineering for the so-called developing countries supported by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (Ministry of Construction until Jan. 2001) of Japanese Government and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The current activities and history of IISEE are shown in the following URL.
https://iisee.kenken.go.jp/en
IISEE Bulletin is published on the IISEE web (https://iisee.kenken.go.jp/en/information/bltndb/). The Bulletin publishes invited articles on seismology, earthquake engineering, and tsunami disaster mitigation, relevant to developing countries. Please contact the editorial office if you are interested in submitting an article for publication in the IISEE Bulletin.
The current members of the editorial office are the followings:
Dr. Sci. Yushiro Fujii, Director, IISEE
Dr. Eng. Namikiho Inoue, Reserch Fellow, IISEE (concurrent post)
Dr. Eng. Tatsuya Azuhata, Senior Fellow, IISEE
Dr. Sci. Bunichiro Shibazaki, Senior Fellow, IISEE
Dr. Sci. Tatsuhiko Hara, Chief Research Seismologist, IISEE
Dr. Eng. Hiroto Nakagawa, Senior Research Engineer, IISEE
Dr. Sci. Saeko Kita, Senior Research Seismologist, IISEE
Dr. Sci. Takumi Hayashida, Senior Research Seismologist, IISEE
Dr. Eng. Hidekazu Watanabe, Senior Research Engineer, IISEE
Dr. Eng. Mai Ito, Senior Research Engineer, IISEE
Dr. Eng. Yuri Otsuka, Senior Research Engineer, IISEE
Dr. Eng. Moeko Matoba, Senior Research Engineer, IISEE
Dr. Eng. Eri Ito, Research Seismologist, IISEE
Mr. Yasuhiko Akiba, Head of Training and General Affair Section, IISEE
Ms. Chieko Goto, Trainer of Training and General Affair Section, IISEE
Mr. Kazuya Nanto, Administrative Official of Training and General Affair Section, IISEE
The manuscripts submitted for invited Original Papers and Letters will be reviewed by those the editorial office will select appropriately. The editorial office will inform acceptance, request a considerable or minor change, or Reject.
When submitting manuscripts, misconduct such as duplicate submission, fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, etc. is prohibited. If any misconduct is found, the editorial office will withdraw the published paper. However, the following contents can be submitted as exceptions for the duplicate submission:
1) Papers intended for very limited readers (e.g., reference materials for a closed study meeting, reports for Grants-in-Aid
for scientific research, reports or others on achievement for contracted research)
2) Manuscripts that only contain summarized contents (e.g., abstracts for a workshop, symposium, or international
meeting)
3) Academic dissertations (theses) by authors
4) Other contents approved by the editorial office as an exception.
IISEE does not request any submission fee from the contributors to IISEE Bulletin for promoting and helping the research activities in developing countries. However, to minimize the IISEE's financial load, the contributors are requested to make their manuscript exactly following the instruction written on the back cover of this volume.
Contributors are also requested to fill out and submit the check sheet designated by the editorial office when submitting a manuscript. The check sheet and the template file are provided to contributors from https://iisee.kenken.go.jp/ or by e-mail if necessary.
Potential users of tables, figures, or short extracts of papers published in IISEE Bulletin must apply to the editorial office by e-mail and obtain permission for reuse of them.
The copyright of papers in IISEE Bulletin belongs to IISEE.
Manuscript and correspondence should be addressed to:
Editorial Office,
International Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering,
Building Research Institute,
1-Tachihara, Tsukuba, 305-0802, JAPAN
Tel: +81-29-879-0679, Fax: +81-29-864-6777, e-mail: iisee@kenken.go.jp
Electronic submission via e-mail is strongly encouraged to simplify the editing process. The file should be readable and modifiable by Microsoft Word or by Adobe Acrobat.