About the Journal

Focus and Scope

BAC Boletín Académico Revista de Investigación y Arquitectura Contemporánea is the scientific journal of the Higher Technical School of Architecture of the University of A Coruña. It is published in Open Journal Systems (OJS) format, on an annual basis, and follows the double-blind peer review procedure. Each issue contains research articles, interviews, architectural critiques and reviews of publications, without a specific theme, as long as they are original and unpublished contributions and are related to architecture.

Peer Review Process

BAC Boletín Académico Revista de Investigación y Arquitectura Contemporánea only supports sending texts 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 Abelleira Doldán (Universidade da Coruña)

Editorial board

  • Cristina Ansede Viz (Universidade da Coruña)
  • Juan Creus Andrade (Universidade da Coruña)
  • Antonio S. Río Vázquez (Universidade da Coruña)

Scientific Committee 

  • María Isabel Alba Dorado (Universidad de Málaga) 
  • Nadia Casabella Álvarez (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
  • Isabel Concheiro Guisán (Haute école d'ingénierie et d'architecture de Fribourg)
  • Eduardo Fernandes (Universidade do Minho)
  • Marina Otero Verzier (Columbia University)
  • Sergio Sebastián Franco (Universidad de Zaragoza)
  • Eliana Sousa Santos (Universidade de Coimbra)
  • Udo Thoennissen (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich)

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 Boletín Académico Revista de Investigación y Arquitectura Contemporánea is published in Spanish/Galician and English.

Texts may be submitted in Spanish, Galician and English for evaluation. If the publication is accepted, the translation must also be provided so that each text can be published in Spanish and English or in Galician and English.

Ethic statement on publication and bad practices

BAC Boletín Académico. Revista de investigación y arquitectura contemporánea 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.
BAC Boletín Académico. Revista de investigación y arquitectura contemporánea 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. Revista de investigación y arquitectura contemporánea is the scientific journal of the Higher Technical School of Architecture of the University of A Coruña. 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.

From issue 6 onwards, DOIs are incorporated and it is published in English and Spanish/Galician.

This journal has its origin in a previous Boletín Académico, published by the Higher Technical School of Architecture of the University of A Coruña from 1985 to 2002.