AIM AND SCOPE

International Journal of Civil and Structural Engineering is a quarterly peer reviewed journal
published by Integrated Publishing Association (IPA). It is one of the pioneering start up journal in
Civil and Structural engineering which receives high quality research works from researchers across
the globe. The journal publishes original research and review papers falling within the broad field of
Civil Engineering which includes, but are not limited to, the following domains

General Civil Engineering

Structural/ Infrastructural Engineering

Environmental Engineering and its other disciplines

Highway and Transportation Engineering including shipping, docks, harbor engineering

Railway/ Harbour Engineering

Surveying and other verticals.

Hydraulics and Water power engineering

Geomatics, Geosciences, Remote Sensing, Geographical Information systems

Application of IT in Civil Engineering

Emerging areas of Civil Engineering.

Any other areas of importance to Civil Engineering

Advances in concrete research

New building materials

IJCER publishes theoretical papers, practice-oriented papers including case studies related to Civil
Engineering, state-of-the-art reviews. Authors who are working in the area of Civil Engineering are
welcome and encouraged to send articles for publication, which will support for the advancement of
science and technology in civil engineering.
Organizations, education institutions teaching Civil Engineering as a course and who are interested
to publish papers regularly and willing to have tie- up with IJCSE are also welcome.
Individuals, researchers and academia who are working in the field of Civil Engineering and willing to
serve
as
editors
or
reviewers
are
also
welcome,
please
send
a
mail
to editorial@ipublishing.co.in providing your resume.

Key Features

Emphasizes to bring out research articles that seeks to uncover the science underlying Civil
engineering- The oldest engineering.

IJCSE aims to cover all complete Civil engineering domain.

Offering rapid review and publication, mostly the submitted papers will be published within a
month.

Online availability throughout the year enabling the user to download articles.

Free to publish methodology adopted, no article process fee charged to our authors for
publishing in any of our journals if registered once.

Presently issuing DOI to all articles published through our journal.

Multi national authors and internation readers.

Submission of articles to major indexing databases and leading University libraries

Member of Crossref, Crosscheck, Citation backbone linking.

Rapid publishing of articles, most of the articles are online within 40 days from submission.

Adopt high quality editorial procedures and also follow ethical publishing procedures.

Submission of articles
Authors are invited to submit their research articles, review papers properly formatted as per the
author guidelines to submissions@ipublishing.co.in mentioning the name of the journal or through
the submission form.
Frequency of publication
IJCSE is published as a quarterly journal with four issues per year. Special editions are also planned
subjected to the scope and need. Currently we are also publishing peer reviewed papers of
International and National level conferences conducted by various research and academic
institutions .
Article processing
All submitted articles will be initially subjected to editorial procedures, if found suitable for publishing
will be sent to reviewers for peer review. Authors are also invited to suggest at least three potential
reviewers who can review their article. It is not mandatory for the editor to send the articles only to
the reviewer referred by authors, it is at discretion of the editor to send articles to any reviewer of his/
her choice. Once the review process is over and the article is accepted authors will be intimated over

mail with the galley proof which the author is insisted to reply within 5 days of time, after which the
article will be sent for publishing.
Digtial Object identifier ( Doi )
Each article published will be issued with a doi which offers more features in enabling and finding the
citation to the article and from the article. Our journal doi is 10.6088/ijcser. and starting from the first
issue itself articles were issued with doi and all articles were submitted to Crosscheck. We are also
participating in citation back bone linking which enable our authors to trace the citation of their
published article.
Copyright and open access policy
We are adopting open access publishing policy in which all articles submitted to IJCSE will be
published under Creative Commons Attribution Licence (3.0) . Copyright of the pubished articles will
be with the concerned authors as per the license, authors will be requested to grant first publishing
rights to IJCSER. Under this license authors published article can be posted in their personal or their
institutions website, can be emailed to their friends and colleagues, also may be printed, freely
distributed, archived in any collection, included in a course material, quoted in publications,
translated and distributed, provided that the original work is cited. For full details about the Creative
Commons License click here and to view our open access policy click here.
Abstracting and indexing
All IPA journals are widely indexed in major databases, we assure the listing of our journals in most
popular and most respected databases. Presently we are listed in more than 40 databases and we
are present in many University libraries. We had also signed strategic content sharing agreement
with many country databases so that articles published through our journals are available to the
international research fraternity.
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