Publication

● It is expected that a selection of the papers presented in the 7th International Conference on Urban e-Planning will be published in Open Access in the International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR), which is since January 2021 a Gold Open Access journal.

● IJEPR open access offers authors the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licensing arrangement. The copyright for the work remains solely with the author(s) of the article.

● The IJEPR is Indexed in: Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), SCOPUS, Compendex (Elsevier Engineering Index), INSPEC and 15 more indices.

● The IJEPR is ranked in Scimago's Q2 (2nd Quartile) in 'Urban Studies', in 2019, 2020, and 2021 and Q2 also in 'Geography, Planning and Development' in 2020 and 2021.

● The IJEPR is ranked in the 75th percentile of Scopus's CiteScore, in Urban Studies, in 2020, and in the 80th percentile in 2021. It is ranked in the 75th percentile of Scopus's CiteScore, in Geography, Planning and Development in 2021.

● The IJEPR is included in Class A of Scientific journals by the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes (Areas: 08/C1; 08/F1; 11B1 - Engineering and Architecture, Planning, Geography). IJEPR is also included in the Excellence in Research for Australia, from the Australian Research Council (ERA 2018 Journal List - ERA Journal Id 210655).

● The IJEPR is a member of the COPE - Committee on Publication Ethics.

● IJEPR is archived in the CLOCKSS and LOCKSS initiatives.

● Full paper to be submitted after the conference should have approx. 8,000 words.

● The selected papers will undergo the IJEPR standard double-blind peer-review process.

● These papers presented in the Conference will benefit of a discount of 35% in the APC . The first five papers accepted for publication, after the double-blind peer review, will benefit of a full waive of the APC and the following five a discount of 40%. This is valid for full papers from the conference submitted until end of August 2023.

● More information on the publication plan and formatting will be provided later.