About the Journal

Focus and Scope

in_bo is an open-access online Journal, that aims to publish research papers on the various fields related to architecture, urbanism and engineering. Blind peer-reviewed papers can be in Italian or English. Since 2012, in_bo has been included in the ANVUR (Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of the University and Research Systems) list of scientific journals. Since 2016, in_bo is rated as a "classe A" journal by ANVUR. In 2019 in_bo was accepted in Elsevier's Scopus. in_bo focuses on the past and present forms of architecture and the city. The editorial board is interested in receiving proposals on the following research topics: didactics of architecture, design theory, the relationship between the sacred and the built space, and the history and transformations of architecture, the city and the landscape, without chronological or geographical limits.

Journal History

in_bo was founded in 2008 as the journal of the Department of Architecture (now DA, then DAPT) of the University of Bologna, by Roberto Mingucci (editor in chief from 2008 to 2013) and Luisa Bravo (Journal Manager from 2008 to 2014). From the very beginning, in_bo was located among several research fields connected to architecture, urbanism and engineering, mirroring the study course of the Master Degree in Building Engineering and Architecture, promoted by the Department of Architecture itself.

In order to celebrate its first 10 years, the Journal has renovated its Editorial Board and the members of its Scientific Committee.

Editor in chief
Luigi Bartolomei (2014–)
Roberto Mingucci (2008–2013)
Journal Manager
Federica Fuligni (2022–)
Sofia Nannini (2018–2021)
Gilda Giancipoli (2014–2018)
Luisa Bravo (2008–2014)
Scientific Committee (2018 –)
Ilaria Agostini, Ernesto Antonini, Micaela Antonucci, Sérgio Barreiros Proença, Eduardo Delgado Orusco, Esteban Fernández-Cobián, Arzu Gönenç Sorguç, Luca Gullì, Silvia Malcovati, Sara Marini, Thomas Oles, Alberto Perez Gomez, Claudio Sgarbi, Teresa Stoppani
Scientific Committee (2011–2018)

Luisella Gelsomino, Riccardo Gulli, Roberto Mingucci, Carlo Monti, Piero Orlandi, Giorgio Praderio, Claudio Sgarbi

Scientific Commitee (2008–2011)

Anna Barozzi, Alberto Corlaita, Adolfo Cesare Dell’Acqua, Luisella Gelsomino, Riccardo Gulli, Roberto Mingucci, Carlo Monti, Celestino Porrino, Giorgio Praderio, Piero Secondini

Peer Review Process

Acceptance of articles for publication is subject to a double-blind peer review process. Two anonymous referees are chosen on the basis of their specific competence and research fields. Papers are evaluated according to criteria such as intrinsic quality, thematic relevance and originality.

By submitting an article, the author implicitly accepts the double-blind peer-review process. The Editorial Team will provide a judgment both in case of approval or non-approval of the article. The article will be published online within twelve months after the evaluation. Once the paper is submitted and before the evaluation of the proposals, the Editorial Team will use the software iThenticate, in order to evaluate the originality of the texts and of their quotes, and detect possible acts of plagiarism.

in_bo published original articles, that have not been previously published in journals or other channels. The Editorial team may take into consideration articles that have already been published elsewhere, provided that the authors will assume the responsibility of the copyright related to their work.

Publication Frequency

in_bo is an annual journal.

Open Access Policy

in_bo 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.

This journal is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial Licence 4.0(CC-BY-NC){rel=“license”}.

This license allows anyone to download, reuse, re-print, modify, distribute and/or copy the final version of the papers without commercial purposes. The works must be properly attributed to its author(s). It is not necessary to ask further permissions both to author(s) or journal board, although you are kindly requested to inform the journal board for every reuse of the papers.

Authors who publish on this journal maintain the copyrights.

Publication Fees

The Journal has neither article processing charges nor submission processing fees.

Indexing and Abstracting

The journal is indexed in the following databases:

In 2012 in_bo has been included in ANVUR (Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes) list of scientific journals for the purpose of the National Scientific Qualification. Since 2016, in_bo is rated as a "classe A" journal by ANVUR. In 2019 in_bo was accepted in Elsevier's Scopus.

Ethics

in_bo adopts the AlmaDL Journals Code of Ethics.

The code is inspired by the guidelines from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), in particular to the COPE Core Practices and its Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing.

All parties involved in the editorial process, editorial staff members, authors, reviewers must know and apply the ethical principles of that document.

Data Policy

When relevant, authors are encouraged to follow Open Science and FAIR principles by publishing the research data associated to their articles in trusted data repositories, according to the international best practices and data management guidelines.

Detailed information is reported in the AlmaDL Journals Data Policy.

Authors who are affiliated to the University of Bologna can publish their data in AMSActa, the institutional research data repository.

Archiving Policy

As part of AlmaDL Journals, the Journal adopts a strategy to ensure long term preservation of the published content. Please see the archiving policy of the publishing service AlmaDL Journals.

Publisher

Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Alma Diamond – open scholarly communication

Via Zamboni 33,
40126 - Bologna (Italy)

Ownership

Dipartimento di Architettura – DA
Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna

Viale del Risorgimento, 2
40136 - Bologna (Italy)