The Society for Multidisciplinary & Advanced Research Techniques  (SMART) is a Pan-African  Multidisciplinary Research  Advocacy Group  registered in Nigeria with a focus on harnessing and synergizing research outputs from different  domain strains Nationally & Internationally. The Society pursues her objectives by clustering academics, scholars, researchers, students, practitioners and other multidisciplinary enthusiasts nationally and internationally  through its academic and research forums, the International Science, Technology, Education, Arts, Management & Social Sciences (STEAMS) Conference Series held severally annually at different institutions and locations globally as well as through  institutional collaborations and   research Journal Publications. SMART leading collaborators include all institutional hosts of the iSTEAMS Conference, the International Centre for Information Technology & Development (ICITD), USA, the African Society for Information & Communications Technology, The African Institute for Development Informatics & Policy (AIDIP), The ICT University Foundations  and other corporate and organizational sponsors of its publications and conferences.

SMART promotes and contributes to the dissemination of national, indigenous African, Diaspora and International research communication through its the iSTEAMS Conference Proceedings, Collaborative Technical Paper Series with leading International Associations, and its Series of Journals under the aegis  of the Advances in Multidisciplinary Journal Publication Series. This Journals and Conference Proceedings/Technical Publications are indexed and assigned Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) minted through CrossREF.  Existing SMART Multidisciplinary Journals are listed below:

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1. The Advances in Multidisciplinary & Scientific Research Journals

2. The Digital Innovations and Contemporary Research in Science, Engineering & Technology

3. The Computing, Information Systems and Development Informatics Journal

4. The Humanities,Management, Arts, Education  & The Social Sciences Journal

5. The Advances in Mathematical & Computational Sciences Journal

6. The Behavioural Informatics, Digital Humanities & Development Studies Research Journal

7. The Social Informatics, Business, Policy, Law & Technology Research Journal

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The objective of the SMART publication Series  is to emphasize collaborative, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research as a paradigm shift that can better address the myriads of  socio-economic, political, scientific, infrastructural and human capital development challenges posed to the world today. The iSTEAMS Conference Series   offers a nexus for discourses, debates, dialogues and presentations on novel approaches that engage digital tools and related measures as pragmatic measures through which the dividends of a digital-driven age can be realized. 

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Notes for Potential and Existing Jourla Authors and Conference Delegates/Participants

Intending Journal Authors considering paper submissions and prospective delegates to  our conferences are implored to check, clarify and validate their specific institutional requirements as regards multidisciplinary, institution-based, society based and accepted typologies of publications by their institutions as well as number of articles allowed per Journal per year/volume  before proceeding to submit articles for publication. SMART will not accept liability resulting from specific institutional peculiarities on the nature or  otherwise of articles published in any of our research publication outlets. Journal Editors are selected from different institutions across the world where the Society have collaborators and partnerships and Publication locations are designated by Editors or Guest Editor's contact locations. Please ascertain your specific institutional requirement before proceeding with your article submissions for review and consideration.

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Check out upcoming Conferences as well as Journals by clicking the appropriate links that interest you on this webpage.

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Professor Longe Olumide Babatope

President - SMART Nigeria

School of IT & Computing, American University of Nigeria

Team Leader -SMART & Senior Affiliate Researchers (ICITD)

Distinguished Fulbright, & HLF (Germany) & African Scientific Institute Fellow