It is sometimes difficult to determine which journals use outside reviewers to help evaluate submitted articles. The Pennsylvania State University Architecture & Landscape Architecture Library has begun a process of contacting editors of journals for architecture and landscape architecture, to determine whether or not feature articles are sent to external jurors for review before publication. Editors were asked who reviews submissions (external readers or the editorial staff) and if authors names are kept confidential (blind review.) The results of our questionnaire are available in the following links:
Article Acceptance Procedures
(a list of journals available as an Excel spreadsheet
or a PDF)
A list of journals that do not accept unsolicited articles
The questionnaire used for this list (as a PDF)
Questionnaire response rates (as a PDF)
This list is a work in progress. Not all of the relevant journals have been contacted. Some queries have not received usable responses. If you know of additional architecture or landscape architecture journals that accept unsolicited articles, please contact Stephanie Jakle Movahedi-Lankarani: 814 863 0511, qum7@psulias.psu.edu
