Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building is a peer reviewed, open access publication for original research into all aspects of the economics and management of building and construction, quantity surveying and property management.

 

Section Policies

Editorial

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Articles

Each contribution will be screen for suitability for publication in AJCE&B within two working days. If suitable the manuscript will be sent to a minimum of three reviewers with special interests in the topic. Based on the advice from the reviewers the editor will accept the paper, stipulate changes before the paper can be accepted or reject the paper. This process should take less than six weeks, and if there are any delays, authors will be notified.

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Viewpoint

Each contribution will be screen for suitability for publication in AJCE&B . If suitable the manuscript will be sent to a minimum of two reviewers  Papers must be of a high standard but may be conceptual and polemic or dealing with professional problems.  

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Book reviews

Submitted directly to editor

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Reprints

Unchecked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Discussion Board

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Special Issue on BIM

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Guest Editorial

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Peer Review Process

Each contribution will be screen for suitability for publication in AJCE&B within two working days. If suitable the manuscript will be sent to a minimum of three reviewers with special interests in the topic. Based on the advice from the reviewers the editor will accept the paper, stipulate changes before the paper can be accepted or reject the paper. This process should take less than six weeks, and if there are any delays, authors will be notified.

 

Publication Frequency

AJCEB items are published collectively, as part of an issue with its own Table of Content. The journal will publish four issues per year

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

 

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...

 

Editorial Board

Professor Allan Ashworth, University of Salford, UK

Associate Professor Rick Best, Bond University, Australia

Professor Christian Brockman, Bremen University of Applied Science, Germany

Professor Carlos Torres Formoso, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Professor Stuart Green, Reading University, UK

Associate Professor Anna Kadefors, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Professor Mariza Katavic, University of Zagreb Croatia

Professor Yong-Su Kim, Chung-Ang University, Korea

Professor Craig Langston, Bond University, Australia

Professor Heng Li, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Professor Helen Lingard, RMIT Australia

Professor Kerry London, Deakin University, Australia

Professor Martin Loosemore, University of New South Wales, Australia

Assistant Professor Cindy Menches, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

Professor Stephen Ogunlana, Heriot Watt University, UK

Professor Pantaleo Rwelamila, University of South Africa, South Africa

Professor Abdul Rashid Abdul Aziz, Universiti SainsMalaysia, Malaysia

Professor Li-yin Shen, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Professor Martin Skitmore, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Associate Professor Willie Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore

 

 

Management Committee

Associate Professor Rick Best (Chair) Bond University, Australia

Mr Terry Aulich, Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors

Mr Robert Hunt, Australian Institute of Building

Mr Vincent Shaw, Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors

Associate Professor Florence Ling, Singapore Institute of Surveyors and Valuers

Mr John Granville, New Zealand Institute of Quantity Surveyors

Mr Rick Mason, New Zealand Institute of Building



ISSN: 1837-9133