About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Boletín Académico. Revista de investigación y arquitectura contemporánea is a digital and annual publication that follows the procedure of peer-reviews and is edited in the Open Journal Systems (OJS) format.

Boletín Académico gathers in every issue original, unpublished and specialized articles of investigation dedicated to the contemporary architecture, being able to rely on eventually special collaborations according to the criterion of the Editorial Board. The subject matter of the publication includes all the areas of knowledge that are present in the Spanish Schools of Architecture, though the articles will have to index his theoretical contributions to examples of contemporary architecture, affecting in a special way in those aspects that have supposed investigation, technological development and innovation.

Peer Review Process

Boletín Académico only supports sending scientific papers once a year, while the Call for Papers remains open. Once the deadline is closed, each text will be sent to a couple of specialists of its Scientific Committee that, in an anonymous way and according to a pre-established questionnaire, will be able to agree, to reject or to demand modifications that determine the eventual publication. In case of unlike valuations, a third report will be arbitrated.

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.

Editor in Chief

Miguel A. Abelleira Doldán
Principal. Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura
(Universidade da Coruña)

Editorial board

  • Pablo Gallego Picard (Universidade da Coruña)
  • Zaida García Requejo (Universidade da Coruña)
  • Álvaro Domingues, (Universidade do Porto)

Scientific Committee 

  • Mirian Calvo (Lancaster University)
  • Uriel Fogué Herreros (Universidad Europea de Madrid)
  • Plácido González Martínez (Tongji University)
  • Ferrán Grau Valldosera (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
  • Marta Labastida Juan (Univerisdade do Minho)
  • Francisco Leiva Ivorra (Unviersitat d'Alacant)
  • Fernando Quesada López (Universidad de Alcalá)
  • Lutz Robbers (Jade Hochschule)
  • Juana Sánchez Gómez (Universidad de Málaga)
  • Belinda Tato (Harvard University)
 

Index databases

Outstanding databases:

  • Scopus
  • ESCI (Emerging Source Citation Index) – Web of Science
  • Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

Other databases:

  • Civil Engineering Abstracts
  • Aerospace Database
  • Biotechnology Source
  • STM Source
  • Abstracts in New Technologies and Engineering
  • Aluminium Industry Abstracts
  • Ceramic Abstracts
  • Computer and Information Systems Abstracts
  • Continental Europe Database
  • Copper Technical Reference Library
  • Corrosion Abstracts
  • Electronics & Communications Abstracts
  • Earthquake Engineering Abstracts
  • Engineered Materials Abstracts
  • Mechanical & Transportation Engineering
  • Materials Science & Engineering Collection
  • METADEX
  • REDIB
  • InDICEs-CISC
  • Dialnet
  • REDIB

Journal evaluation portals:

Languages

BAc is published in: English and Spanish/Galician/Portuguese. 

Articles for evaluation could be send in one of the journal lenguages. After aceptance, authors have to send an English version and the article in one of the three Latin languages. 

Ethic statement on publication and bad practices

Boletín Académico. Revista de investigación y arquitectura contemporánea (BAC) makes a commitment to the academic community by ensuring the ethic and quality of its published articles. As a benchmark, our journal uses the Code of Conduct and Good Practices which, for scientific journals, is defined for editors by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
 
Thereby, our journal guarantees an appropriate response to the needs of readers and authors, ensuring the quality of the published work, protecting and respecting the content and integrity of the articles. The Editorial Board will publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when necessary.
In compliance with these best practices, BAC has published the arbitration system that is followed for the selection of articles as well as the evaluation criteria to be applied by the anonymous, external peer-reviewers. BAC keeps these criteria current, based solely on the scientific importance, the originality, clarity and relevance of the presented article.
 
Our journal guarantees the confidentiality of the evaluation process at all times: the anonymity of the reviewers and authors; the reviewed content; the reasoned report issued by the reviewers, and any other communication issued by the editorial, advisory and scientific boards as required.
Equally, the strictest confidentiality applies to possible clarifications, claims or complaints that an author may wish to refer to the journal’s committees or the article reviewers.
 
Boletín Académico. Revista de investigación y arquitectura contemporánea (BAC) declares its commitment to the respect and integrity of work already published. For this reason, plagiarism is strictly prohibited and texts that are identified as being plagiarized, or having fraudulent content, will be eliminated or not published in BAC. The journal will act as quickly as possible in such cases.
In accepting the terms and conditions expressed by our journal, authors must guarantee that the article and the materials associated with it are original and do not infringe copyright and that the article has not been submitted to, or previously published in, any other media. Finally, the authors will also have to warrant that, in the case of joint authorship, there has been full consensus of all authors concerned.
 

Journal History

BAc Boletín Académico is the scientific journal on Contemporary Architecture of A Coruña School of Architecture. From 2011, it is annually published using the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform, and it is subject to a process of double-blind peer review.

This journal has its origin in a previous homonymous one published from 1985 to 2002.