Smart Cities and Regional Development Journal

Aims & Scope

About the Journal SCRD - The Smart Cities and Regional Development Journal (ISSN: 2537-3803, ISSN-L: 2537-3803, ISSN online: 2821-7888) is built by the Smart-EDU Hub within The Faculty of Public Administration, National University of Political Studies & Public Administration. Aims & Scope SCRD Journal is committed to an international perspective of the Smart City concept, promoting articles in all areas of the concept, such as: Smart Governance, Smart Environment, Smart Economy, Smart People, Smart Mobility, Smart Living and Smart State, and making them widely available through open access publishing. The SCRD Journal publishes empirical and theoretical contributions from all over the world in the mentioned area of research. Its aims are to disseminate results of rigorous and relevant studies, to expose positions and commentaries regarding the development of the concept. The Smart Cities and Regional Development Journal objectives are: Raise awareness and promote a better understanding of the Smart Cities concept among stakeholders. Build and strengthen the capacity of these stakeholders to actively participate in national, regional and international Smart Cities developing process. Facilitate multistakeholder discussions, exchanges and collaboration on Smart Cities related issues that are of particular concern for stakeholders. Contribute to creating linkages between the Smart Cities realities at the national, European and international level. Fees: The SCRD Journal does not have any article submission, processing or publishing fee. Reviewing process: The review process of the journal involves an initial editorial screening, followed by a rigorous double-blind peer review. Each submitted manuscript is evaluated by at least two external reviewers , who are experts in the relevant field and independent from the editorial board. Both authors' and reviewers' identities remain anonymous throughout the process to ensure impartiality. Typically, the review phase is comple

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Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

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