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Aims and Scope
The purpose of the Journal of Green Building is to present the very best peer-reviewed research for the sustainable built environment at the building, community, neighborhood and urban scale. As such, the journal’s coverage includes green building design and construction, community and urban planning, green building policy and developmental studies, building engineering and technological innovation, facilities management, building information modeling, occupant behavior and sustainable landscape development. The Journal of Green Building recognizes the essential role that the built environment plays in reaching carbon neutrality and carbon reduction targets as set by the United Nations and by more local and country-specific development planning agencies. In addition to carbon mitigation, the Journal of Green Building will focus on all related efforts to create a more sustainable built environment that mitigates and eliminates any potentially deleterious effects on the natural environment. The Research section of the Journal of Green Building publishes peer-reviewed articles in the fields of architecture, urban and community planning, building science, engineering, public policy, economics, construction and facilities management, landscape architecture, human behavior, smart buildings and infrastructure and all disciplines related to the sustainable built environment. In addition, the Journal of Green Building publishes applied articles under the headings of New Directions in Teaching and Research, which publishes guidance from teachers and researchers on incorporating innovative sustainable learning into the curriculum or the likely directions of future research, and Campus Sustainability, which publishes articles from academic programs dedicated to greening the university campus and that especially involve student-led initiatives.
Publication model:
The Journal of Green Building offers a mixed model of both restricted and open access (OA) articles. All papers published five years prior to the the current calendar year are made available open access. The Journal of Green Building also participates in EBSCOHost’s program where participating institutions have open access to all articles published two years prior to the current calendar year. For paper authors who require open access for their articles immediately upon publication, an Article-Publication-Charge (APC) is requested and covered in detail under the “Features” section of the Journal of Green Building’s home page. All other articles are published as restricted access to paid institutional subscribers, normally university libraries, who make access widely available to their faculty, students and wider community. Authors may post an Institutional Repository (IR) copy of their paper with their university library upon publication.
Publishing formats:
Electronic (eISSN: 1943-4618) / Print (ISSN: 1552-6100)
Publication frequency:
Quarterly: winter, spring, summer and fall.
Launch date:
2006
Peer Review model:
Two positive peer reviews are required for acceptance. Reviews are performed by Editorial Board members or assigned to academics who publish in the subject area of the submitted paper.
Indexed in:
Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science and Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Columbia’s Avery Architectural Index, Scopus, ScienceOpen, CNPIEC, Construction Building Abstracts (CBA), J-Gate, Crossref and Google Scholar.
Unique article identifiers:
DOI prefix: 10.3992
Journal statistics
Acceptance rate: 48%
Average time between submission & first decision: three weeks
Average time between submission & publication: 6 months
Publication fees
There is a twenty-five dollar fee for authors to submit their papers into the Scholastica peer review system. All submitted papers will be initally vetted by our editorial team to determine if a paper’s content and quality is suitable to move on to the next stage of peer review. Papers not deemed suitable are rejected at this “desk review” stage. The twenty-five dollar submission fee is not refundable if a paper is “desk rejected” and does not move on to the peer review stage. After this in-house review, authors whose papers are accepted into our peer review process, which may or may not lead to publication depending on the reviewers’ assessments, are asked to pay an additional seventy-five dollar fee to help cover the Publisher’s costs of publication. This nonrefundable fee is a small fraction of the cost to edit, design, produce, print, host, market and distribute the Journal of Green Building. For authors publishing under our “restricted access” model, these are the only fees for publication of their work–all other publication costs are covered by the Publisher. Under this model, access to paper content is restricted to faculty and students whose universities hold active subscriptions to the Journal of Green Building. Authors who wish to publish their papers Open Access have the option to pay an Open Access Charge of eighteen hundred and should contact the publisher at collegepub@mindspring.com for futher details.
The timeline between acceptance and publication of a paper varies considerably depending on many factors, including but not limited to how many papers are in queue to be published, how quickly authors revise and sbumit final, revised files, how quickly assigned reviewers complete their tasks, etc. In general, we attempt to receive reviews and notify authors of their acceptance or rejection within six weeks of first receipt of a paper. Accepted papers are then requested to make “reasonable” reviewer request for change to their works within two to three months of receipt of these comments. Publication normally happens within twelve months of receipt of revised files, which should be in Word and PDF format. Several weeks prior to publication, authors will receive “page proofs” of their paper to vet for any necessary changes required before publication.
Production Process
Paper authors are not responsible for the formatting, typesetting and design of the final pages of their published article. The Journal of Green Building’s professional production department handles all these matters. To aid the efforts of the production department, paper authors are expected to submit final files for publication that follow the guidelines for submittal for accepted papers as set forth in our instructions for authors.
Copyright
The paper authors hold the copyright for their article. It is understood that while the authors have the freedom to use essential research findings from their Journal of Green Building publication in the issuance of new works, any derivative papers using these findings ought to have a “uniqueness” of inquiry and findings that substantially differentiate the published Journal of Green Building paper from any future works. In short, any reader should find it obvious that any derivative works do not diminish the importance and originality of the published Journal of Green Building paper.
Sponsors and affiliated institutions
The Journal of Green Building is an imprint of College Publishing.