International Conference of Doctoral Schools of Architecture and Urban Planning (CISDAU)

Bucharest, 23-24 October, 2023

June 27, 2023

The event is organized by the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urban Planning within the project “Strengthening the UAUIM institutional capacity for research in architecture and urban planning, through fostering the culture of dissemination of results”. The project is financed through the “Institutional development fund” program, 2023 competition (CNFIS-FDI-2023-F0462).

The scope of the project is to strengthen the UAUIM support capacity for research in architecture and urban planning, through fostering a culture of dissemination of results, based on several representative actions in the research field. The Conference is subservient to Objective number 3.

The main objectives of the conference are:

Even though the presence of a large audience is encouraged, access to conference proceedings is allowed only to the registered participants, regardless of whether or not they present a paper. The on site activity is dedicated only to PhD students.

All the papers will be delivered as oral presentations with electronic support (Power Point, Adobe Acrobat) and will last maximum 15 minutes, including the Q&A session, within moderated online sessions on 23 October and on site sessions on 24 October, in Bucharest. Rules for Zoom presentations are included in the end of this document.

There is no participation fee required for the registered persons (PhD students, with or without paper, teachers and guests). Registration is open only on-line, until the 10 October 2023, at the following link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1V9alL-f3406UoLqRGHRqYNgOgOJV0_Zzkz4u6xHmUyw

At registration, participants without a paper will be asked to complete their full name and affiliation, and those who will submit a paper, will be asked to provide the following information: paper title, authors, an abstract of maximum 3000 characters (with spaces) in English. The abstract must contain the theoretical context, the research objectives, the research methods and the main results. Failure to comply with the specified drafting conditions will result in the rejection of the proposed papers and the impossibility of presenting them during the sessions. All admitted abstracts will be published on the official internet page of the Doctoral Schools of UAUIM.

Scientific committee

Organizing committee

Contact person: Prof. Alexandru-Ionuț Petrișor, PhD, PhD, Habil., e-mail: alexandru_petrisor@yahoo.com

Publication

Full papers related to presentations in the field of urban planning will be published in the Journal of the Doctoral School of Urban Planning (http://www.rsdu.ro/), the Journal of Landscape and Urban Planning (http://julpreview.ro/) and Urbanism Architecture Constructions (https://uac.incd.ro/EN/index.htm). Those in the field of architecture (and, depending on the options, in the field of urban planning) will be published in sITA – studies in History and Theory of Architecture Journal (https://sita.uauim.ro), Argument Journal (https://argument.uauim.ro) and Urbanism Architecture Constructions (https://uac.incd.ro/EN/index.htm), if they are admitted by the reviewers and follow the editorial instructions of the publications, presented in below. The deadline for submitting the articles to be published is 15 December, 2023.

Revista Școlii Doctorale de Urbanism
URL: http://www.rsdu.ro/
Abstracting and Indexing: http://www.rsdu.ro/Index/indexari.htm
Author Guidelines: general - http://www.rsdu.ro/Index/instr.htm, mandatory template (includes the Guidelines) - http://www.rsdu.ro/Index/AG.doc
Average time of the review process: 3 days
Rejection rate: 10%
Other requirements: the journal requires using the template for drafting the article, and the Harvard style with citations by footnotes for the references. Articles can be written in Romanian, French, or English.

Journal of Landscape and Urban Planning
URL: http://julpreview.ro/
Abstracting and Indexing: http://julpreview.ro/indexation.html
Author Guidelines: general - http://julpreview.ro/submit-a-paper.html, mandatory template (includes the Guidelines) - http://julpreview.ro/template.html

sITA – studies in History and Theory of Architecture
URL: https://sita.uauim.ro
Abstracting and Indexing: https://sita.uauim.ro/about
Author Guidelines: https://sita.uauim.ro/call-for-papers/guidelines
Other requirements: topics for the next issue - https://sita.uauim.ro/call-for-papers

Argument
URL: https://argument.uauim.ro
Abstracting and Indexing: https://argument.uauim.ro
Author Guidelines: general - https://argument.uauim.ro/instructiuni-pentru-autori, mandatory template (includes the Guidelines) - https://argument.uauim.ro/f/Template_argument_RO_2022_v2.docx
Other requirements: topics for the next issue - https://argument.uauim.ro/call-for-papers/

CSAV Journal
URL: https://csav.ro/
Abstracting and Indexing: Central and Eastern European Online Library
Author Guidelines: https://csav.ro/call-for-papers/
Other requirements: topics for the next issue, flexibility for projects - https://csav.ro/prezentarea-publicatiei/

Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs
URL: https://ijcua.com/index.php/ijcua
Abstracting and Indexing: https://www.ijcua.com/index.php/ijcua/abstracting-and-indexing
Author Guidelines: https://www.ijcua.com/index.php/ijcua/information/authors
Rejection rate: 70%
Average time of the review process: 30 days
Other requirements: The articles should be at least one highly cited scholar as co-author. At least 90% of the references should be articles from Clarivate or Scopus indexed journals.

Urbanism Architecture Constructions
URL: https://uac.incd.ro/EN/index.htm
Abstracting and Indexing: https://uac.incd.ro/EN/Index/indexari.htm
Author Guidelines: general - https://uac.incd.ro/EN/Index/instr.htm, guide for formatting references and in-text citations - https://uac.incd.ro/Index/UAC_EN.pdf, checklist for observing the Guidelines - https://uac.incd.ro/Index/Editing_EN.doc, mandatory template (includes the Guidelines) - https://uac.incd.ro/Index/Model.doc
Rejection rate: 85%
Average time of the review process: 30 days
Other requirements: the journal requires authors a rich bibliography, including at least 25 titles, out of which 90% should be published (journal articles, books and book chapters) and at least 80% should be Clarivate or Scopus journal articles, and strictly enforces the observance of Author Guidelines. Along with the strict observance of the Author Guidelines, these are conditions and not recommendations; if they are not met, no article is accepted to the review process. Articles must be written in English only.