Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge

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Submissions have to relate to the journal's incentive to exploit and contribute to the constitution and body of architectural knowledge. They should relate to design as core of the architecture discipline – in the sense of "Gestaltung" – and investigate or apply genuine procedures, methodologies or research questions in architecture, landscape architecture, urbanism and relating interdisciplinary fields.

All contributions have to provide keywords and an abstract with not more than 300 words in total. Detailed information on requirements and structure of the contributions are to be found in the authors’ guidelines. All contributions have to be full-length articles with an average length of 20.000–35.000 signs with spaces included. Figures can be included, if they complement the text in a meaningful way. Contributions to the print edition can only be reproduced in black and white. All contributions to the journal have to be written in American English.

Submission periods for the curated editions are scheduled according to the release of calls for papers twice a year. Contributions for Open Access publishing only, will upon acceptance be published within the timeframe of three months at the most.

Current Call for Contributions

Editorial Policy

Call for Papers

For each curated edition, calls for contributions are released about half a year beforehand. According to the publishing of two editions per year, contributions are launched twice a year as well. The call for contributions provides the superordinate introduction to the edition’s thematic framing, presents the subject addressed and formulates the requirements for the contributions and their alignment. Submission to the editions and application for publication in Open Access and print is only possible in response to the Calls for Contributions at the scheduled submission period.

In the context of the transcript.open platform contributions can be published in a relatively short-term procedure and independent from the thematic or temporal preconditions of the editions’ publishing. These individual contributions to the open platform are independent from the curated edition’s subjects, but have to address the creation and body of knowledge in the discipline of architecture. The solely digital format allows for extensive integration of different media and the referencing of external links to provide multi-media presentations. Submissions are possible throughout the year. Contributions to the Open Access archive at transcript.open are charged with a 250,00 € publication fee. 

Both calls – for the curated editions as well as for individual contributions to the transcript.open platform – will be launched on the journal's web representations at transcript Academic Publishing, the journal’s website [dimensions] and in the context of the editorial network. The calls provide detailed authors’ guidelines for submission.

Please find the call for the current curated issue here. 

Peer Review

All contributions – to the curated editions as well as to the open platform – will be evaluated through a double-blind peer-review. Criteria for selection are the thematic correspondence to the advertised topic of the respective issue or to the overall topic of the journal. It is required, that all contributions to DIMENSIONS relate to the body of knowledge in the architecture discipline. As it is the aim of the journal to investigate the creation, constitution and mediation of architecture specific knowledge, the proximity of research to this umbrella subject is an inevitable requirement for selection. 

The peer-review process will be guided by the following superordinate aspects: originality of the work, appropriateness of applied methodology to the research question posed, coherence of the argumentation, comprehensibility of the answer to the questions underlying the contribution, consistency of content with the theme of the respective edition framed in the call for papers or the overall theme of the journal.

For anonymous submission, an external server is provided for submission.

Editorial Review

Apart from the double-blind peer-review as standard procedure for selection, in individual cases DIMENSIONS offers the possibility for editorial review for special formats of reflective or discursive alternative text forms. These form the exception, whereas double-blind peer-review is the general norm. Comparative observations of peer-reviews, discussions or interviews can be additional text categories to be assembled with the full-length articles to broaden the spectrum of investigation in the respective edition’s discourse.

Reviewer Guidelines

Guidelines for Reviewers

Help & Guide during the Review Process

Uta Graff, Ferdinand Ludwig, Katharina Voigt 

Contact

dimensions@bauhow5.eu

Advisory Board

Isabelle Doucet, Uta Graff, Susanne Hauser, Klaske Havik, Jonathan Michael Hill, Wilfried Kühn, Ferdinand Ludwig, Meike Schalk, Katharina Voigt

DIMENSIONS 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. All of our articles are free to access for all immediately from the date of publication. 

All articles in DIMENSIONS are published under the Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 (BY), which means that the text may be remixed, transformed and built upon and be copied and redistributed in any medium or format even commercially, provided credit is given to the author.

All authors publishing with us accept these as the terms of publication. Please note that copyright of the content of all articles and reviews remains with the designated author of the article or review.

Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

A high scientific and content-related standard is an essential principle of DIMENSIONS’s mission. An integral part of this objective is to meet the requirements of good scientific practice and publication ethics. The editorial and publication context of the journal meets this requirement, in bringing together the expertise and experience of academic publishing and leading architectural institutes to form the background of this journal. According to international standards, the guide for ethical editing by the Committee of Publication Ethics forms the foundation upon which the editorial work and procedures of peer-review selection and quality assurance are based (cf. http://publicationethics.org). The academic advisors and editors as well as the publishers play a key role in preserving this quality.

As it is the overarching aim of DIMENSIONS to contribute to the body of knowledge in the discipline of architecture, the editors make it their mission to contribute to the scholarly discourse. In the self-understanding as an academic journal of architectural knowledge, DIMENSIONS represents the established body of knowledge as well as it contributes to its future extension and addition. It is the aim of the journal to provide a context for high standard academic publishing in the field of architecture, inviting scholars and writers at all stages of their career to contribute their knowledge, research and investigation to the discourse and thereby emphasize an increase of an informed debate in the architecture discipline and its scientific practice.

In order to allow a transparent procedure and allow equal information to all participants, DIMENSIONS provides an authors’ guide and guidelines for peers to enable comparability consistency for all editions.

Editorial Policy

The Editorial Policy can be found here

Open Citation Data

transcript Verlag complies with the goals of The Initiative for Open Citations I4OC and deposits reference lists from all its journal articles to Crossref and allows reference distribution, along with other bibliographic metadata that we send to Crossref. This allows references to be distributed without restriction through all of Crossref's Metadata Delivery services, including the REST API and bulk metadata dumps, to any interested party. s

Long-Term Preservation

transcript Verlag stores all electronic publications (books and journals) in the German National Library and with Portico (USA) 

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The retail price for each print issue is 39.00 Euro.

The retail price for an annual subscription to the print issue (incl. shipment) is:

- in Germany: 75.00 Euro

- internationally: 85.00 Euro

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