About
Focus and Scope
Future Cities and Environment aims to tackle the environmental impact of cities and challenges to their long-term sustainability, on both the local and global scale. Through high quality and multi-disciplinary research on developments being introduced in our existing cities, as well as those which could become reality in the cities of the future, the journal provides a forum for discussion on a more enlightened approach to city design. We publish research in the areas of transport, urban planning, architecture and design, and energy and infrastructure and accept both fundamental and applied research, critical reviews and case studies, including experimental development, demonstration and computer modelling.
The journal also encourages authors to publish datasets alongside their published papers and can support audio or video files within the publication.
Publication Frequency
The journal is published online as a continuous volume and issue throughout the year. Articles are made available as soon as they are ready to ensure that there are no unnecessary delays in getting content publically available.
Special collections of articles are welcomed and will be published as part of the normal issue, but also within a separate collection page.
Open Access Policy
This journal 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.
Publication in Future Cities and Environment gives the opportunity to publish large datasets, colour illustrations, video or audio files, to display data in a form that can be read directly by other software packages so as to allow readers to manipulate the data for themselves, and to create all relevant links (for example, to PubMed, to sequence and other databases, and to other articles).
Authors of articles published remain the copyright holders and grant third parties the right to use, reproduce, and share the article according to the Creative Commons license agreement.
Journal Archiving
The journal’s publisher focuses on making content discoverable and accessible through indexing services. Content is also archived around the world to ensure long-term availability.
This journal is indexed by the following services:
- BASE
- Cengage/Gale
- Center for Open Science
- COPE
- Chronos
- CrossRef
- CNKI
- DOAJ
- EBSCO Host
- EBSCO Knowledge Base
- Ex Libris
- J-Gate
- JISC KB+
- Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals
- OCLC
- OpenAire
- ProQuest
- Sherpa Romeo
- Scopus (Citescore 3.2 and in the 85th percentile for the category of Engineering: Architecture)
In addition, the journal is available for harvesting via OAI-PMH.
To ensure permanency of all publications, this journal also utilises CLOCKSS, and LOCKSS archiving systems to create permanent archives for the purposes of preservation and restoration.
If the journal is not indexed by your preferred service, please contact us or alternatively by making an indexing request directly with the service.
Journal Statistics
Core journal statistics for the 2023 volume:
| Submissions received1 | 50 |
| Reviews requested2 | 140 |
| Reviews received3 | 51 |
| Total Rejections4 | 17 |
| ...of which, Desk rejects5 | 9 |
| Acceptances6 | 19 |
| Acceptance rate7 | 53% |
| Time from submission to publication8 | 157 days |
Definitions
1Number of new articles received by the journal
2Number of peer review invitation emails that were sent out
3Number of completed peer review reports received
4Total number of articles rejected (including desk rejects)
5Number of articles rejected prior to peer review
6Number of articles that received a 'Accept for publication' decision
7Number of acceptances, as a percentage, against the total number of final decisions
8'Mean' average from submission to publication for all publications in the volume
Annotation and post-publication comment
The journal platform permits readers to leave comments and in-browser annotations via hypothes.is. Readers will require a hypothes.is account to create annotations, and will have the option to make these public or private. Comments may be moderated by the journal, however, if they are non-offensive and relevant to the publication subject, comments will remain online without edit.
Advertisement policy
The journal only displays advertisements that are of relevance to its scope and will be of interest to the readership (e.g. upcoming conferences). All advertising space is provided free of charge and the editor and publisher have the right to decline or withdraw adverts at any point.
If you wish to propose a potential advert then please contact the editorial team. All advert images will have to be provided to the publisher.