Security and Management in Modern Civil Engineering

Focus and Scope

Aims: Security and Management in Modern Civil Engineering is an international journal publishing reviews, original research contributions, and short communications and other types of paper. The scientific community is encouraged to submit the details of both their experimental and theoretical results of any length to the journal. It provides a forum for publishing papers which advance the in-depth understanding in security and management of civil engineering modernization.

Scope:

Urban and Rural Construction,
Real Estate Industry,
Cost Management
Project Management,
Urban Economy and Management
Management Forum
Civil Engineering
Security Engineering

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

Editorial Procedures and Peer-Review
Initial Checks

All submitted manuscripts received by the Editorial Office will be checked by a professional in-house Managing Editor to determine whether they are properly prepared and whether they follow the ethical policies of the journal. Manuscripts that do not fit the journal's ethics policy or do not meet the standards of the journal will be rejected before peer-review. Manuscripts that are not properly prepared will be returned to the authors for revision and resubmission.

Peer-Review

Once a manuscript passes the initial checks, it will be assigned to at least two independent experts for peer-review. A double-blind review is applied, where authors' identities are not known to reviewers and reviewers identities are not known to authors.

In the case of regular submissions, in-house assistant editors will invite experts, including recommendations by an academic editor. These experts may also include Editorial Board Members of the journal. Reviewers should not have published with any of the co-authors during the past five years and should not currently work or collaborate with any of the institutions of the co-authors of the submitted manuscript.

The reviewers will complete the review in 2-3 weeks.

Editorial Decision and Revision

All the articles, reviews, communications and other type papers published in this journal go through the peer-review process and receive at least two reviews. The in-house editor will communicate the decision of the academic editor, which will be one of the following:

Accept after Minor Revisions:
The paper is in principle accepted after revision based on the reviewer’s comments. Authors are given 7 days for minor revisions.
Reconsider after Major Revisions:
The acceptance of the manuscript would depend on the revisions. The author needs to provide a point by point response or provide a rebuttal if some of the reviewer’s comments cannot be revised. Usually, only one round of major revisions is allowed. Authors will be asked to resubmit the revised paper within a suitable time frame, and the revised version will be returned to the reviewer for further comments.
Reject and Encourage Resubmission:
If additional experiments are needed to support the conclusions, the manuscript will be rejected and the authors will be encouraged to re-submit the paper once further experiments have been conducted.
Reject:
The article has serious flaws, and/or makes no original significant contribution. No offer of resubmission to the journal is provided.
All reviewer comments should be responded to in a point-by-point fashion. Where the authors disagree with a reviewer, they must provide a clear response.

Publication Frequency

Most articles accepted and ready for publication in SMMC are published Online First, prior to the assignment to one issue. Articles published Online First are copyedited and proofed by the in-house editors and author(s) before being published. Online First articles can be cited by the article’s Digital Object Identifier (DOI). Every article has a unique DOI which is the permanent identifier of all versions of that article. A DOI will always be resolved to the latest version.

Open Access Policy

All articles published by Security and Management in Modern Civil Engineering are made immediately available worldwide under an open access license. This means:
everyone has free and unlimited access to the full-text of all articles published in this journal;
everyone is free to re-use the published material if proper accreditation/citation of the original publication is given.

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...