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Frontiers in Engineering and Built Environment is an academic, open access, peer-reviewed journal publishing articles on all aspects of engineering and built environment. Published by Emerald on behalf of King Khalid University.

ISSN: 2634-2499
eISSN: 2634-2502

You can publish an open access article in this platinum partnership journal. Authors in this journal are not required to pay an article processing charge (APC)

Journal Owners

Aims and scope

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The aim of Frontiers in Engineering and Built Environment (FEBE) is to: disseminate original, scientific, theoretical or applied research in the field of Engineering and Built Environment.

FEBE is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed international research journal published biannually online by King Khalid University. The journal considers the following types of original contributions for peer review and publication: original articles, and critical reviews, in the interdisciplinary area of engineering and built environment. It links several scientific and engineering disciplines including: Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, geoinformatics, environment, and Architecture and planning to ensure representation in all fields.

Frontiers in Engineering and Built Environment operates a double-anonymous peer review model. All articles undergo an initial assessment by the journal editor. If they are considered suitable for peer review, articles will then be reviewed by a minimum of two external reviewers to assess their suitability for publication. Final responsibility for editorial decisions rests with the journal editor.

All articles published in Frontiers in Engineering and Built Environment are published Open Access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. For further information on licencing please see the author guidelines.

Frontiers in Engineering and Built Environment is published by Emerald on behalf of King Khalid University. The journal is owned by King Khalid University and is published under a platinum OA arrangement, in that all charges for publishing an OA article in the journal are funded by King Khalid University. There is no charge to the author.

Transparency statement for Frontiers in Engineering and Built Environment

  1. Journal Ownership: Frontiers in Engineering and Built Environment is published by Emerald Publishing on behalf of the King Khalid University. 
  2. Governing Body: The editorial team is appointed and managed by the King Khalid University. The journal is governed by the editorial team in collaboration with Emerald Publishing. 
  3. Peer Review Process: The journal operates a double blind peer review model. All articles undergo an initial assessment by the journal editor. If they are considered suitable for consideration, articles will then be a reviewed by a minimum of two external reviewers to assess suitability for publication. Final responsibility for editorial decisions rests with the Editor-in-Chief of the journal.  
  4. Editorial team/contact information: Contact details for the editorial team can be found on the journal homepage. Queries may also be directed to Emerald’s Publishing team as follows: Michael Burrows - [email protected]
  5. Copyright: All articles in the journal are published Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY-4.0). This allows authors to retain copyright of their work whilst others can share, use and build upon this work created as long as appropriate attribution is given.  
  6. Author Fees: The journal is published under a Platinum Open Access arrangement, in that all costs associated with publishing an Open Access article in the journal are funded by the King Khalid University. There are currently no Article Processing Charges to the author(s). 
  7. Allegations of Misconduct: All journals published by Emerald are members of and subscribe to the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics. In the event of any allegation of research or publication misconduct the publisher and editor will adhere to COPE guidelines in dealing with such allegations.  
  8. Conflicts of interest: Authors are asked to declare any financial or ethical conflicts of interest upon submitting their work to the journal. Difficult cases will be referred to the Committee on Publishing Ethics (COPE) for advice. 
  9. Frequency: The journal currently publishes five issues per annum 
  10. Access: All journal articles are published Open Access on EmeraldInsight.com - http://www.emeraldinsight.com/loi/febe under a CCBY 4.0 licence (please see section 5). 
  11. Revenue sources: The journal is published under a platinum Open Access arrangement, in that all costs associated with publishing an Open Access article in the journal are funded by the King Khalid University. 
  12. Advertising: The journal does not accept direct advertising  
  13. Archiving: Emerald provides perpetual access for all e-journal content by working with digital preservation schemes Portico, LOCKSS and CLOCKSS.  
  14. Direct marketing: On occasion the journal will use direct marketing activities (primarily email campaigns) to raise awareness of the journal and to invite authors to submit articles.   Marketing activities are conducted by the King Khalid University unless otherwise agreed with Emerald.  

This statement was updated by Doug Medland (Emerald Publishing) on 16th Feb 2020.