Principles of Transparency

Peer-review process
All submitted articles are evaluated at the submission to meet the structural and subject principles of Urban Design Discourse- a Review of Contemporary Litreatures and Theories. The matched articles will gone under a double-blinded peer-review process by at least 3 reviewers (expert in the field who are not part of the journal’s editorial staff) who are selected by the Editorial Board members according to their field specialties. The Editorial Board members have the final responsibility to select the articles.
 
Governing body
Urban Design Discourse- a Review of Contemporary Litreatures and Theories is under the scientific control of Editorial Board whose members are recognized experts in the subject areas included within the journal’s scope. Some executive roles of the Editorial Board members are delegated to the Editor-in-Chief who is well-known in the journal’s scope.
 
Editorial team
Urban Design Discourse- a Review of Contemporary Litreatures and Theories is under the scientific supervision of the Editorial Team whose members are all experts with high number of publications in their field.
 
Author fees/Access
There are No Fees or Charges at all for submission, reviewing and publishing processes in Urban Design Discourse- a Review of Contemporary Litreatures and Theories.
Urban Design Discourse- a Review of Contemporary Litreatures and Theories follows the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing.
 
Copyright
The content of Urban Design Discourse- a Review of Contemporary Litreatures and Theories is under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License. To the extent this Public License may be interpreted as a contract, we are granted the Licensed Rights in consideration of your acceptance of these terms and conditions, and the Licensor grants you such rights in consideration of benefits the Licensor receives from making the Licensed Material available under these terms and conditions.
 
Process for identification of and dealing with allegations of research misconduct
Publisher and editors of Urban Design Discourse- a Review of Contemporary Litreatures and Theories are reasonable to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred, including plagiarism, citation manipulation, and data falsification/fabrication, among others. In doing so, Urban Design Discourse- a Review of Contemporary Litreatures and Theories follows COPE’s guidelines in dealing with allegations.
 
Ownership and management
Urban Design Discourse- a Review of Contemporary Litreatures and Theories is owned by Tarbiat Modares University, Iran, and is managed and published by YektaPub Co.
 
Conflicts of interests
All Urban Design Discourse- a Review of Contemporary Litreatures and Theories Editorial Board members and the Editor-in-Chief submitted articles are gone under the same reviewing process as the other authors gone. In the cases that a reviewer suspects undisclosed conflict of interest in a submitted manuscript or a reader suspects undisclosed conflict of interest in a published article (all authors are filling the ICMJE Form for Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest at the submission time) Urban Design Discourse- a Review of Contemporary Litreatures and Theories will follow COPE’s guidelines.
 
Revenue sources/Advertising/Direct marketing
Urban Design Discourse- a Review of Contemporary Litreatures and Theories is financially supported completely by Tarbiat Modares University, Iran, and has no other sources for earning funds. Urban Design Discourse- a Review of Contemporary Litreatures and Theories accepts No advertisements in the site or even as a report article.
 
Publishing schedule/Archiving
Urban Design Discourse- a Review of Contemporary Litreatures and Theories is published 4 issues per year. All the content from the beginning to the end will be available for ever on Urban Design Discourse- a Review of Contemporary Litreatures and Theories exclusive website. Also Urban Design Discourse- a Review of Contemporary Litreatures and Theories is included at EBSCOhost and has the plan to enter to Scopus and Thomson-Reuters databases.