The Journal of Spatial Planning and Geomatics is one of the TMU Press journals that is published by the responsibility of its Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board in the determined scopes.

Aim and scope
The Journal of Spatial Planning & Geomatics is devoted to publishing peer-reviewed, high-quality, original papers in the field of Geography Science. The Journal welcomes, but is not limited to, papers on the following topics:
-Rs & GIS Applications
-Spatial Planning
-Urban & Regional Planning
-Rural Planning
-Climatic & Geomorphological Hazards
-Remote Sensing
-GIS
-Tourism

-Spatial Modeling
-Satellite Image Processing

Open Access Policy:   This Journal contents and the individual articles are freely available to readers without subscriptions or payments through the journal website or its permanent repositories. 

This open-access journal is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License which permits Share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and Adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material) under the Attribution-NonCommercial terms.

Peer-Review Policy: The peer review process in The Journal of Spatial Planning and Geomatics is double-blinded in which the reviewer’s name is unknown to the author and, vice versa. Submitted articles go through a structural and subject evaluation to align with The Journal of Spatial Planning and Geomatics principles. Matches go through a double-blind peer review by three field experts (non-editorial staff) chosen by the Board based on specialty. The Board makes the final article selection.


Duties of Reviewers:

  • Assist editor in decision-making and potentially help authors improve papers through editorial communication.
  • Decline reviews if unqualified or unable to promptly review.
  • Treat manuscripts as confidential documents and avoid unauthorized sharing.
  • Conduct objective reviews, avoiding personal criticism and providing clear, supported feedback.
  • Identify relevant, uncited published work and report potential plagiarism or overlap with other publications.
  • Maintain confidentiality of information and ideas, avoiding personal gain or reviewing papers with conflicts of interest
 
This Journal  is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  "(CC BY-NC)
 
Publishing Ethics: This journal follows all the terms and conditions of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and complies with the highest ethical standards in accordance with ethical laws. Authors may refer to the Committee on Publication Ethics’ International Standards for Authors for comprehensive information.
 
Authors fees : Dear authors/ paper contributors, you are being humbly informed that the journal charges 5,000,000 rials (In two steps: Reviewing and Publishing).
 
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Self-archiving policies for authors
Authors are permitted to post their work online in institutional/disciplinary repositories or on their own websites. Pre-print versions posted online should include a citation and link to the final published version in this Journal as soon as the issue is available; post-print versions (including the final publisher's PDF) should include a citation and link to the journal's website.


Copyright Policy: Under open access license, authors retain ownership of the copyright for their content, but allow anyone to download, reuse, and reprint, modify, distribute, and/or copy the content as long as the original authors and source are cited properly


 
 

Publisher
Tarbiat Modares University

Editor-in-Chief

Frequency
Quarterly
Print ISSN
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