About the journal

"Journal of Sustainable Architecture & Environment " Magazine with the approach of expanding and creating a platform for scientific communication between researchers and exchange of ideas, discussing and presenting the views and opinions of prominent domestic and foreign professors and researchers on "Architecture, Urbanism  and Sustainable Environment" Publication of session of determining the validity of publications in the field of humanities and art of Islamic Azad University in the session dated 1401/11/10 in accordance with letter No. 32/76841 dated 1401/11/13 as a quarterly by the Islamic Azad University of Shiraz be released.

The quarterly journal "Architecture and Sustainable Environment" has received a publication license from the Supervisory Board of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance Presse, according to license number 96341, dated 7/3/1403.

According to the Memorandum No. 28846/01/1402 dated 15/11/1402 concluded between the Islamic Azad University of Shiraz Branch and the Scientific Association of Sustainable Buildings of Iran, it enjoys joint cooperation with this association for publication. 

Sustainable Architecture & Environment (JSAE)

• Publisher: Islamic Azad University of Shiraz
  
• Online ISSN: 2981-0892
• Date of First Publication: 2023
• Format: Online
• Frequency: Quarterly
• Journal Ranking: "B" from Islamic Azad University
• Coverage: Sustainable Architecture & Environment
• Type of Journal: Scientific Journal
  
• Country: Iran
• Language: Persian (Including Extended English Abstracts, Bibliographies, and References) and English
  
• Indexed & Abstracted: Yes
• Types of articles: scientific-research / scientific-review / scientific-promotional
• Editorial Board: Read the details of the journal's editorial board members here
• Peer-Review Policy: Double Blind Peer Review; at least three reviewers (Read Peer-Review Policy here and Read the guide for authors here)
• Initial review time: maximum 1 week
• Review Time: six weeks approximately (Read peer review process here)
• Article Processing Charges (APCs): There is a fee for authors inside Iran / no fee for authors outside Iran (Read more information here)
• Advance Access: Articles in Press are available
• Contact E-mail: jsae.shiraz@gmail.com
• Type of License: CC- BY (Read the journal access license here)
• Type of Access: Open Access (OA) (Read the journal open access statement here)
• Strategy to deal with Plagiarism: Samimnoor Similarity System (Read the strategy of the journal here)
  
• Publication Ethics: Publication Based On the International Ethics Committee's Publication (COPE) (Read publication ethics here)
  
• Article Identifier: Dor & DOI
• Referencing Style: APA
  
• Revenue sources: receiving fees from authors of articles as well as organizational support by Islamic Azad University, Shiraz branch.
  
• Advertising: No advertising that has profit interests will be displayed on the magazine's website or the text of the published articles.
• Self-archiving policies for authors: Authors are permitted to post their work online in institutional/disciplinary repositories or on their own websites (read journal policy here). 
  

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• This quarterly is based on pure judgment and has free access to the public .  This publication also follows the free access procedure and there are no restrictions on access to all published articles. 
• Also, with respect to the rules of ethics in publications, it is subject to the rules of the Committee on Ethics in Publication and follows the executive regulations of the Law on Prevention and Combating Fraud in Scientific Works. This quarterly uses a similarity system in order to protect the intellectual property rights of researchers and writers in evaluating articles. 

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  • Articles in this publication may be republished under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

  Dear authors, for similarity, you can use Samimonour system (click), system Hamanandjoo (click), system Hamyab (click), Dupli Checker (click)
  

  to send similarity report to the quarterly. Dear authors, be careful that you must send the PDF report of the similarity that they receive directly from the similarity along with the submission of the article to the quarterly.

Refereeing costs and publication of an article in the Journal of Sustainable Architecture & Environment

According to the executive instructions for the financial support of scientific publications of Islamic Azad University No. 10/62815 dated 10/4/2018, it was decided that in case of initial approval by the editor; 1,500,000 Rials for each article sent for refereeing, and after final approval, another 3,500,000 Rials for the publication of the article should be received from the respected authors. (It should be noted that if the article is declared rejected by the respected referees, the initial amount of 1,500,000 Rials cannot be returned to the author).