Building & Management is an open access scientific e-journal promoted by the School of Building Engineering (ETSEM) of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) and published every four months, three times a year, April, August, and December. It aims at the dissemination of high quality original works related to the management of processes associated to buildings, in any phase of their development, where various agents in the sectors of architecture, engineering and construction participate.
Peer review process
The Editorial Board of the magazine, after verification that the article complies with the rules on style and content indicated in the guidelines for authors, sent the text, as double-blind model, to two anonymous external expert reviewers within the specific field, for its evaluation, or to a third if necessary. The author will be informed about the initial acceptation or rejection within a month.
The evaluation will focus in the interest of the article, its contribution to knowledge of the subject treated, the contributed novelty, the established relationships, critical judgment, developed content, structure, use of bibliographic and references that are handled properly, wording, etc., indicating recommendations for its possible improvement.
Based on the recommendations of the reviewers, the Editorial Board will inform authors the reasoned result of reports by email, at the address they have used to send the article. The revision process lasts approximately three or four months, without any cost for authors.
The Editorial Board will communicate the result to the principal author of the review (published unchanged, with minor corrections publication, publication with important fixes, not suitable for publication). If the manuscript has been accepted with modifications, authors should resubmit a new version of the article, following demands and suggestions of the external evaluators. If desired, the authors can also provide a letter, by email, to the Editorial Board in which they indicate the content of modifications of the article.
The articles with significant corrections may be sent back to blind peer review to verify the validity of changes made by the author. Considering the degree of compliance with changes requested, the Board shall decide whether or not the article will be published. This decision shall be communicated to the author by the Editorial Board and in case of publication the manuscript will be dated as accepted.
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