22/12/2024:
Dear Reader and Authors,
We have implemented systematic changes in our journal using the Web of Science (WoS) criteria. As per the decision of our editorial board:

1. The content of our Turkish and English article templates has been updated to meet the new standards, and the extended abstract section has been reorganized. A link to the "Guide for Preparing an Extended Abstract in English" has been added to the template, and this guide has also been included in our Documents menu.
2. Our Documents menu has been hierarchically updated and organized in Turkish and English.
3. The "PUBLICATION VERSION AUTHOR CONSENT" form has been added to the Documents menu. Starting with articles finalized after December 20, 2024, authors must sign this consent form before acceptance.
4. The Author Consent Form is provided at https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/journal-file/32775 link, in Turkish and English. The same forms can also be accessed through our Documents menu.
Together, towards a better and more advanced future...

22/10/2024:
1. In accordance with the decision of the Publication Board (S:106/2024/6/3 dated 22/10/2024), the article submission fee will be 5,000 Turkish Liras or 150 USD, effective from 15/11/2024. Future increases in the article submission fee will be determined by the Kent Academy Publication Board.

2. Authors are required to submit the final version of the article, along with a wet-signed Final Upload Control Form, during the post-peer-review submission process. This requirement will be effective starting from 15/11/2024.

05/09/2024:

WhatsApp technical support line has been launched. For your information:.
https://wa.me/message/UH2K76RB4JSQB1

15/08/2024:

The article submission fee will be 2,500 Turkish Liras or 75 USD, effective from 15/03/2024. This new fee will apply to articles submitted after 15/03/2024. Article submission fee changes will occur annually.

02/07/2024:

Extension of the Special Issue Submission Deadline

In the meeting of the Publication Board (S:100/2024/4/3 dated 02/07/2024), it was decided to extend the deadline for submitting articles for the special issue until 15/07/2024. Additional details have been added to the "About" section on our homepage.

11/06/2024
Special Issue Deadline Extension
At the meeting of our Editorial Board numbered S:100/2024/4/3 and dated 02/07/2024, it was decided to extend the special issue article acceptance date to 15.07.2024. Additional explanation on the subject has also been added to the About section on our home page.

11/06/2024
Extension of the Special Issue Submission Deadline.

In the meeting of the Publication Board (S:99/2024/4/2 dated 11/06/2024), it was decided to extend the submission deadline for articles for the special issue until 30/06/2024. Additional details have been added to the "About" section on our homepage.

28/05/2024:
The journal's artificial intelligence policy was approved by the Publication Board (S:98/2024/4/1 dated 28/05/2024) and presented to our readers and authors. Please find more information here:
https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/journal-file/32050

31/02/2024
In the meeting of the Urban Academy Publication Board (S:93/2024/2/4 dated 27/02/2024), a special issue was decided to be published on the theme of "Sustainable Human Development and Cities." Details regarding the special issue, including article acceptance and publishing conditions, can be found at the following link: Sustainable Human Development and the City/Urban Special Issue

Direct Link: https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/journal-file/30558

13/02/2024:

The article submission fee will be 2,500 Turkish Liras or 75 USD, effective from 15/03/2024. This new fee will apply to articles submitted after 15/03/2024.

Important Dates for our "Sustainable Human Development and the City/Urban" Special Issue:

1. Special Issue Name: “Sustainable Human Development and the City/Urban”
2. Special Issue Theme: Sustainable Development; Sustainable Cities and Communities
3. Submission Date: 15 March 2024
4. Deadline: 15 June 2024 (It has been extended to 30 June 2024 by the decision of the Editorial Board numbered S:99/2024/4/2 and dated 11/06/2024.)
5. Publication Date: 15 October 2024

15/08/2023:

Special Issue Announcement: The 100th Anniversary of the Republic of Turkey
I. Rationale: In the 16th year of publication, the Urban Academy Publication Board (S:56/2023/3/4 dated 14/08/2023) decided to publish a special issue in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Republic of Turkey. This issue will focus on the intersection of urbanization and sustainability, and it will be dedicated to our Republic, to be published by 29 October 2023.

II. Key Dates:
1. Special Issue Name: “The 100th Anniversary of the Republic of Turkey”
2. Theme: Urban and Environmental Research in the 100th Year of the Republic
3. Article Submission Deadline: 31 August 2023
4. Publication Date: 29 October 2023

III. Other Publishing Conditions:
• Articles will undergo a peer review process involving at least three reviewers.
• Articles should directly relate to the theme of the 100th anniversary of the Republic and urban/environmental research.
• Articles submitted in English will be given priority during the process.

04/07/2023

A. By the decision of our Editorial Board dated 04/072023 and numbered S:56/2023/3/2

It was decided that:

1. It was decided that extended abstracts will be required for articles in Turkish.

2.Authors are allowed to use the referees' response template in the refereeing processes and to use this template in the D.5 Reply to referees template in our DOCUMENTS menu.

3. Acceptance of the first upload and final version templates and Section Editorial Process Guidelines as they come to the board, and the simultaneous updating of these files in the Documents menu and announcing them to the authors.

B. Our article's first upload and latest version template and our Section Editor Process Guidelines have been updated. You can access up-to-date files from our Documents menu.

30/03/2023

Dear authors, we would like to share the following announcements about our journal with you.

1. a:  Our journal fee policy has been updated within the scope of our fee policy, by the decision taken in the meeting dated 28/02/2023 and numbered S:54/2023/1/3. Accordingly, to cover our journal's publication and process costs, it has been decided to update the 500 TL fee to 1000 TL (One Thousand Turkish Lira) which will start from 15/03/2023 for each article. This fee is taken from Turkish citizens, and the publication fee of 50 USD from foreigners will stay the same as before. Details on our publication fee policies can be accessed from the "Publication Fee Policy" menu of our journal.

Karadeniz Şairler ve Yazarlar Derneği IBAN ACCOUNTS:
IBAN NUMBER (TL) TR: 070001500158007316964344
IBAN NUMBER (USD) TR: 530001500158048021390124

2. The preferred themes in our 2023/2, 3, and 4 issues will be within the scope of Disasters, Earthquakes, Building Safety, Sustainable Building Designs, Early Warning Systems, Assembly Areas, Crisis Management, Global Warming, and Smart Cities. Theme suitability has an impact on the publication ranking of accepted articles.

05/01/2023

By the decision of our Editorial Board dated S:54/2023/1/1 and numbered S:54/2023/1/1, it has been decided that the publication period will be changed to be six issues per year (bimonthly) and this change will be put into effect as of the exact date of 2024. We present the information of all our authors.

30/11/2022

Our journal is listed in the SOBIAD Citation Index in the Q1 list in the field of Social and Human Sciences and the Q2 list in the field of Educational Sciences. The ratios in other fields of science have not yet been determined, as they were added to the index records of these fields of science. This success belongs to all of us, from our authors to our readers, from our Editorial Board to our editors and referees.

Volume 15 Issue 4 It will return to the standard issue view as of tomorrow.

Volume 16 Issue 1 (Our March Issue) will be published in early view as of December 15, 2022. In this process, article acceptance will continue until our 16/1 issue is filled.

Volume 16 / 1 Open. The last article upload date for this issue is 15/01/2022.

Volume 16 / 2 Open.

03/11/2022

For the attention of our writers,
For all the information regarding the processes of your submissions, you may refer to the related editors or section editors through the system. Any other applications or messaging outside this procedure will be disregarded. Other applications cause coordination and authorization problems.

13/10/2022

Our volume 15, Issue 4, has been published with an early view. Article page numbers in our issue are subject to change. When the number of articles in our issue reaches 30, you can use the page numbers.

06/08/2022

1. Dicle University II. International Architecture Symposium Special Issue has been published. Congratulations to all the scientists involved.
2. Volume 15/3. The article upload deadline is passed. Article submission continues for our volume 15/4 issue.
3. 3. It is obligatory to add an EXTENDED SUMMARY for Turkish Articles to be published in our 15/3 issue.

05/07/2022

1. Our journal's publication charge policy has been updated by the decision taken at the ordinary meeting dated 05/07/2022 and numbered S:51/2022/3/1.
Accordingly, to cover the publication and process costs of our journal, TC. decided to charge a publication fee of 500 TL from its citizens and 50 USD from foreigners for each article. Details on our publication fee policies can be accessed from the "Publication Fee Policy" menu of our journal.

2. Article fee payments will be valid for articles that will be uploaded to the system after 05/07/2022, for which the decision has been taken.
3. Fee payments will be made through the TL and USD accounts of the Black Sea Poets and Writers Association, the publisher of our journal.

Black Sea Poets and Authors Association IBAN ACCOUNTS:

IBAN NUMBER     (TL) TR: 070001500158007316964344
IBAN NUMBER (USD) TR: 530001500158048021390124

4. Last upload date for our 2022/3 issue: 31 July 2022

5. The theme of our 2022/3 issue is Climate Change. For our Climate Change-themed issue, only articles written in English will be accepted.

6. As of our 2022/2 issue, the JEL code that we announced to put into practice for the Articles was abandoned because the code in question was not sufficiently developed in science.

20/04/2022
1. 2022/2 Deadline for our 2022/2 issue: : 15 Mayıs 2022
2. The theme of our 2022/3 issue is Climate Change. For the Climate Change themed issue, only articles written in English will be accepted.

16/04/2022
Within the scope of our Editorial Board decision, the following changes and updates have been made to our journal publication flow.

1. It has been decided to apply the extended summary application in Turkish articles starting from Volume 15, Issue 3 so that the authors who have articles in the process do not suffer.

2. For articles, adding JEL code will be applied from Volume 15 Issue 2.

3. The editorial period of the article (including the pre-control process, the refereeing process, and the publication preparation process) is foreseen as 60 days. However, if this period of 60 days passes, our authors can inform the relevant section editors about the delay. This information will be perceived as being informed by our editors. If at least 6 months have passed since the publication of our authors' articles, the field editor will be warned.

28/03/2022

The new article template will be used from Volume 15 Issue 1 (Volume 15, Issue 1). You can access our article template from our DOCUMENTS menu.

You can CLICK on the URL LINK we have prepared to fill out the template:

LAST VERSION DESIGN TEMPLATE LINK CURRENT BY 2022:

For Open Link: https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/journal-file/19843

You can access the VIDEO we prepared using the new template and link the ORCID number HERE.

For Video Open Link: https://www.kentakademisi.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Kent-Akademisi-Sablon-Kullanimi.mp4

We wish you all success in your academic studies.

15/01/2022
Vol 15, Issue 1 (2022/1): This issue has been completed. New incoming articles can be published at the earliest, in Volume 15, Issue 2.
Volume 15, Issue 2 (2022/2): The acceptance of the article continues.

Architecture Symposium Special Issue: Preparation continues.

06/01/2022

Vol 15, No 1 (2022/1): The deadline for manuscript acceptance has been extended to January 15, 2022.
Volume 15, Issue 2 (2022/2): The acceptance of the article continues.

The extended abstract application start date will be available from the 2022/2 issue.

08/12/2021

1. Only research and review articles are accepted in our journal. Articles such as Letters to the Editor and Book reviews will be published on our website www.kentakademisi.com under the book reviews menu.

2. Extended abstracts will be requested for articles in TURKISH sent to our journal as of 2022/1.

3. From 2022, in addition to the requirement that similarity rates should be below 20%, each reference value will also need to be no more than 1%.

19/10/2021
1. The deadline for uploading the special issue of the symposium has been extended until 11:59 pm on October 24, 2021.

2. The scope of publication of our journal has been narrowed. For the articles to be published in our journal as of 2022, the scope of the new journal will be evaluated according to their topics.

19/08/2021:

Our Home Page "Explanations" section has been updated. Some new changes have been made in this section. These updates are below:

Our journal is an international 3 mutually blind peer-reviewed journal that publishes four issues per year in March, June, September, and December. The publication language is Turkish and English. The similarity report of the articles should be below 20%. When uploading an article, authors should download an article template from the Documents menu and upload it according to this template, when creating a bibliography, leave a line space between each reference in the bibliography, bibliographies, books, articles, theses, etc. We kindly ask you to sort them by surname in a single block without making any distinctions.

Note: The articles submitted in English in our journal are given priority in the processes and publication. In the assignment and reassignment table to our journal, a certificate of appreciation is given to our authors who have been cited in A1 or 1A group journals. This certificate is published on the social media page of our journal and our portal site at www.kentakademisi.com.

Volume 14, Issue 3: Closed.
Volume 14, Issue 4, Deadline: November 14, 2021
Architecture Symposium Special Issue, Deadline: October 14, 2021

THE THEME OF OUR DECEMBER 2021 ISSUE: Disaster and Crisis Management in Urban Areas.

Non-theme articles are published sequentially after themed articles. Only research and review articles are accepted in our journal. Articles such as Letter to the Editor and Book Review will be published on our website www.kentakademisi.com under a separate menu.

Our article writers must add their active mobile phones while registering to the Dergi Park system.

28/06/2021:
Regarding the ethics committee permission within the scope of TR Dizin Journal Evaluation Criteria; The permission process, which is expected to be applied for studies that used research data before 2020, starts in 2020 and is mandatory for articles whose research data belongs to 2020. Retrospective ethics committee approval is not required for articles produced from master's/doctoral studies, whose research data were used before this date (2020).

We present it to the information of our authors.

31/05/2021:

Our Journal has accepted the ULAKBIM social and ULAKBIM Natural and Applied Sciences indexes, Validity/effect from the beginning of 2019. This achievement is for all of us. (Editors, Co-Editor, Section Editors, Reviewers, Authors, and Readers. Thanks a lot, Thanks a lot ULAKBIM

22/10/2020:
Dear reader and author, The editorial board has been updated. Boards of old issues have started to be uploaded.
Links below:
https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/kent/board

09/11/2020:

As it is known in our journal, since Volume 13, Issue 3, at least three referees have been required in the 3 referee processes.

As of Volume 14, Issue 1, (March 2022) during the refereeing processes;

1. Each of the three referees must be from a different university,

2. If two referees have to be from the same university (due to their field of expertise and peer referee), each of the referees from the same university is from a different faculty, He can be accepted if he is employed in the institute or academic unit.

3. It cannot be withdrawn by the author of the article who has entered the refereeing process and has been appointed as a referee.

As our conditions get harder with our international accreditations, our quality will increase even more. To bright tomorrows hand in hand. Our success is your success.

08/10/2020:
Our schedule and article theme in our winter issue was Public Health in Urban Areas, and we will continue with the same plan and theme in the first issue of 2021.
For our Winter Issue (VOLUME 13, ISSUE 4) Submission Deadline: is 15/11/2020. Articles sent after this date will be included in the publication schedule of Volume, 14, Issue 1.
As of 2021, our journal will make the English Extended Abstract section mandatory.

05/10/2020:
Our Fall Issue (Volume 13, Issue 3) will be published on October 15, 2020, with a delay of one month. There is no change in the publication process of our winter issue.
In our winter issue, our agenda and article theme was Public Health in Urban Areas, and we will continue with the same plan and theme in the first issue of 2021.

20/03/2019
Our journal has started to give DOI numbers to articles.