Publishing Policy

Scope of Publication

The Journal of Sustainable Cities and Built Environment (JSCBE) publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed research that advances knowledge in sustainable urbanism, architecture, planning, and the built environment. All submissions must be original, methodologically sound, and make a meaningful contribution to scholarship and practice.

Publications Types

JSCBE accepts:
• Research Articles
• Review Papers
• Case Studies
• Technical Notes
• Viewpoint Essays

Open Access Policy

JSCBE provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

All articles published in this journal are freely accessible online without subscription, registration, or payment. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.

All articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.

The journal fully complies with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition of open access and meets the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) principles for transparency and best practice in scholarly publishing.

Ethical Standards

The journal adheres to COPE guidelines. Submissions must:
• Be original and not under review elsewhere
• Include ethical approval for studies involving human subjects
• Disclose all conflicts of interest
• Avoid AI generation, plagiarism, fabrication, falsification, and duplicate publication
Violations may lead to rejection or retraction.