Key-title in original characters

مطالعات طراحی معماری و شهرسازی زمینه گرا

Title Proper

Muṭāli̒āt-i ṭarrāhī-i mi̒mārī va shahrsāzī-i zamīnah/garā

Parallel Title

Contextual Architecture and Urbanism Design Studies

Print ISSN

 3092-670X

Online ISSN

3092-6718

Website

https://context-faru.um.ac.ir

Email address

context-faru@um.ac.ir

Language

Persian+ English Extended abstract

Frequency

Semiannual

Date of publishing

2025
Publisher Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

Editor-in-chief

Dr.Hamed Kamelnia
Status

Active

Peer-Review

Double-blind
License License (CCBY 4/0)

Manuscript identifier

DOI

The Journal of Contextual Architecture and Urbanism Design Studies has a license number (85930) from the Press Supervision Board and is published bi-quarterly in both Farsi and English languages by the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

Open access policy

Encyclopedia of Economics law journal is an open access journal from the first issue that has been published. It means that all the content of the journal is free for users and institutes. They can download, copy, print, search, and link to full text of the manuscripts without any publisher or author permission. The journal provides immediate open access to its content based on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports the greater global exchange of knowledge.

Copyright

  • Under the open access license of the Encyclopedia of Economic Law journal, authors retain copyright ownership of their content.
  • Authors grant Ferdowsi University of Mashhad the license to publish the article and identify itself as the primary publisher.
  • Authors also grant any third party the right to freely use the article, provided its integrity is maintained and the original authors, citation details, and publisher are clearly acknowledged.

Licensing

The Journal of Contextual Architecture and Urbanism Design Studies is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) 

That means readers are free to:

  • Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
  • Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

Digital preservation policy

Website Archiving

The electronic content of the journal is archived using the following method:

A PDF copy of all manuscripts is available online on the journal website for the readers. Another copy of that content is preserved as back-up in the server of the journal. If a problem occurs on the journal website that results in the loss of the manuscript, the backup copy can be quickly restored and the manuscript republished online on the journal website within 24-36 hours.

Personal archive

All authors can archive their articles immediately after publication on the journal website, in their personal system or on their institution website.

Publication Ethics Policies

The Contextual Architecture and Urbanism Design Studies journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and adheres to the Executive Regulations for the Prevention and Control of Academic Misconduct. 

All editorial board members, reviewers, and authors are requested to review the Contextual Architecture and Urbanism Design Studies  journal's Statement of Ethical Principles. In cases of issues such as plagiarism, citation manipulation, or data fabrication in submitted or published articles, they are encouraged to report the matter to the journal's Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Hamed Kamelnia, via email at Kamelnia@um.ac.ir, or contact the publisher at fumpress@um.ac.ir. These matters will be addressed according to COPE flowcharts.

 Review Policy

In this journal, reviewers for articles are not selected from the editorial board members, except in exceptional cases where no external reviewers are available in the subject area of the article.

  • All submitted articles undergo the review process.
  • The review method used by this journal is double-blind peer review.
  • All steps of the review process are explained in the Peer- review process section.

  Ownership and Management

This journal is established and managed by Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, as clearly stated on the homepage of the journal website.

Advisory Body
The editorial board members of this journal are distinguished individuals specializing in the subject areas that is mentioned in Aim & Scope.

  • Full details and organizational affiliations of the editorial board members are provided on the journal website.
  • The list and information about the members are regularly updated.
  • In collaboration with the publisher, the journal periodically reviews its editorial board to ensure relevance and suitability.

Article Processing Charge (APC)

No fees are charged for submitting or reviewing articles.

Discount Policy
The journal does not offer any discount policy.

Other Revenue
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, as the publisher, covers the costs associated with launching and maintaining the journal's infrastructure, the review process, peer review, editing, typesetting, and archiving articles. These costs are supported by the defined budget allocated for each published issue, based on the journal ranking in the annual evaluation published on the Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology's scientific journal portal.

Advertising
The journal does not accept any advertisements

Direct marketing

There are no direct marketing activities in this journal.

Paper Plagiarism Checker

To prevent plagiarism, the Journal of Contextual Architecture and Urbanism Design Studies uses the Samimnoor system as similarity checker tool for the Persian articles and the iThenticate system for the Latin articles. All articles before sending to the reviewers are checked for any similarity, and if the percentage of similarity is more than 25%, the article will be withdrawn from the review process.

Privacy Statement

The Names and Email addresses entered in this journal’s website will be used exclusively for the purposes of publishing the Journal and will not be available to any other person or organization.