About the Journal
Focus and Scope
TRIA is an International Journal, mainly at European level, focused on the themes of territorial planning and urban design, on the wider context of earth sciences and social sciences concerning settlement processes.
Planned by half-yearly periodicity and distributed by Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, it welcomes standing out personalities from the main Italian Universities and from some European Universities (Germany, Sweden, France, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Greece, Malta) within its scientific committee. The scientific committee is supported by editorial managers for each seat and coordinated by an editorial office linked to L.U.P.T. (Regional and Urban Planning Laboratory), an Inter-departmental centre of research of the University of Naples “Federico II”.
The journal is open to qualified research contributions, planning/design experimentations within University structures and administrative institutions, aimed at the management of conservation and transformation of the territory and its habitat.
The journal gives major attention to selected themes having particular relevance and topicality, possibly innovative, linking experiences and theories matured within the European cultural context. The treatment is integrated by a report of major national and international events, such as exhibitions, debates, meetings, bibliographical reviews, legislative reviews, results of design competitions, plans, studies and academic activities of particular interest.
Peer Review Process
Peer review provides a better quality of published articles by a process that is carried out on all reputable scientific journals. Our referees therefore play a vital role in maintaining high standards of the journal TRIA and all items are evaluated by following the procedure described below.
A - Evaluation of Submissions
All submissions are evaluated initially by the editors, who decide to reject the article at this early stage because it is insufficiently original, or is outside the purpose and scope of the journal. Articles that meet these minimum criteria are forwarded to at least two experts to begin the revision phase. The authors of the articles rejected at this stage will be informed within 1 week of receipt.
B - Type of Peer Review
This journal employs the double blind review, in which the referee and the authors remain anonymous throughout the process.
C - How referees are selected
Referees are matched to the items according to their competence. Our database is constantly updated.
D – Referee reports
Referees are asked to evaluate submissions according to the following criteria:
- Relevance of the article for the advancement of scientific research
- Quality and rigor of the methodology followed
- Quality and rigor of the theoretical approach in the scientific debate
- Clarity and quality of writing
- Article relevance to the issues of the journal
Referees are not required to correct manuscripts. In addition, the correction of the language or the layout is not part of the peer review process.
Usually the article will be reviewed within 3 weeks. Should the referees' reports contradict one another or a report is unnecessarily delayed, a further expert opinion will be sought. Referees may request more than one revision of the article.
E - Final Report
The final decision to accept or reject the article belongs to the editor. The final decision of acceptance or rejection of the article will be sent to the author along with any recommendations made by the referees.
Open Access Policy
This journal provides open access to its content, believing that making research freely available to the public improves knowledge exchange globally.
The journal allows you to freely read, download, copy, distribute, print, search and connect to the links of the full texts of its articles and allows their use guaranteed by law.
The journal publishes free of charge and does not impose any cost on the authors for the publication and processing of the articles.
Ethical Code
« TRIA - Territory of Research on Settlements and Environment» is an international scientific “peer-reviewed” and “open access” journal on urban planning. Our ethic statements are based on COPE’s (Committee on Publication Ethics) Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors (http://publicationethics.org/files/u2/Best_Practice.pdf).
1. DUTIES OF EDITORS
a) Publication decisions
The Editor and Co-editor in chief of the journal are responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The Editor and Co-editor in chief may refer to the Editorial Board of the journal and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The Editor and Co-editor in chief may confer with other Editors or reviewers in making this decision.
b) Fair play
The Editor and Co-editor in chief at any time evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
c) Confidentiality
The Editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
d) Disclosure and conflicts of interest
Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an Editor’s own research without the express written consent of the author.
2. DUTIES OF REVIEWERS
a) Contribution to editorial decisions
Peer review assists the Editor and Co-editor in chief in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.
b) Promptness
Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the Editor and/or Co-editor in chief of the review process.
c) Confidentiality
Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the Editor and/or Co-editor in chief.
d) Standards of objectivity
Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
e) Acknowledgement of sources
Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.
f) Disclosure and conflict of interest
Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.
3. DUTIES OF AUTHORS
a) Reporting standards
Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behaviour and are unacceptable.
b) Originality and plagiarism
The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.
c) Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication
An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour.
d) Acknowledgement of sources
Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.
e) Authorship of the paper
Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors.
The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.
f) Disclosure and conflicts of interest
All authors should disclose any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.
g) Fundamental errors in published works
When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.
Consent and Privacy Policy
The data collected from registered and non-registered users of this journal falls within the scope of the standard functioning of peer-reviewed journals. It includes information that makes communication possible for the editorial process; it is used to informs readers about the authorship and editing of content; it enables collecting aggregated data on readership behaviors, as well as tracking geopolitical and social elements of scholarly communication.
This journal’s editorial team uses this data to guide its work in publishing and improving this
journal. Data that will assist in developing this publishing platform may be shared with its developer Public Knowledge Project in an anonymized and aggregated form, with appropriate exceptions such as article metrics. The data will not be sold by this journal or PKP nor will it be used for purposes other than those stated here. The authors published in this journal are responsible for the human subject data that figures in the research reported here.
Those involved in editing this journal seek to be compliant with industry standards for data privacy, including the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provision for “data subject rights” that include (a) breach notification; (b) right of access; (c) the right to be forgotten; (d) data portability; and (e) privacy by design. The GDPR also allows for the recognition of “the public interest in the availability of the data,” which has a particular saliency for those involved in maintaining, with the greatest integrity possible, the public record of scholarly publishing.
