JoLA is the academic Journal of the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS), established in 2006. It is published three times a year. JoLA aims to support, stimulate, and extend scholarly debate in Landscape Architecture and related fields. It also gives space to the reflective practitioner and to design research. The journal welcomes articles addressing any aspect of Landscape Architecture, to cultivate the diverse identity of the discipline.
JoLA is internationally oriented and seeks to both draw in and contribute to global perspectives through its four key sections: the ‘Articles’ section features both academic scholarship and research related to professional practice; the ‘Under the Sky’ section fosters research based on critical analysis and interpretation of built projects; the ‘Thinking Eye’ section presents research based on thoughtful experimentation in visual methodologies and media; the ‘Review’ section presents critical reflection on recent literature, conferences and/or exhibitions relevant to Landscape Architecture.
Peer-Review Statement
All manuscript submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double anonymized. Book, conference, and exhibition reviews are subject to editorial review.
Journal metrics
Usage
51K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
0.4 (2023) Impact Factor
1.0 (2023) 5 year IF
0.6 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
0.000 (2023) SNIP
0.186 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
0 days avg. from submission to first
decision
5 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
16% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication.
However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s
quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it
should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to
support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside
other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its
readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In
addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and
never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year
and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six
months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated
annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of
the following metrics
(find out why).
Usage:
the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users
of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the
nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles published in the
journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science
Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI),
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources
Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
Impact Factor Best Quartile*:
the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation
Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
5 Year Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal
within a five-year window.
CiteScore (Scopus)†:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over
a four-year period.
CiteScore Best Quartile†:
the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1
= 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
SNIP
(Source Normalized Impact per Paper):
the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation
potential in the field.
SJR
(Scimago Journal Rank):
Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the
number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
From submission to first decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a
first decision in the last six months.
From submission to first post-review decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review.
Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last
six months.
From acceptance to online publication:
the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to
online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published
in the last six months.
Acceptance rate:
articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous
calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
Anaïs Leger-Smith – Toulouse School of Architecture, France
Francisca Lima - The University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Burcu Yigit Turan – Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
Under the Sky:
Sonia Keravel - Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Paysage de Versailles, France
Thinking Eye:
Usue Ruiz Arana - Newcastle University, Great Britain
Book Reviews:
Ursula Wieser Benedetti - CIVA, Brussels, Belgium
Editorial Advisory Board:
Thorbjörn Andersson – Sweden
Anita Berrizbeitia – USA
Bernadette Blanchon - France
Jackie Bowring - New Zealand
Catherine Dee - UK
Kamni Gill - University of Manitoba, Canada
Maria Goula - Spain
Imke van Hellemondt - Netherlands
Gini Lee - Australia
Bruno Notteboom - Belgium
Martin Prominski - Germany
Bianca Maria Rinaldi - Italy
Kelly Shannon - USA
Simon Swaffield - New Zealand
Marc Treib - USA
Udo Weilacher - Germany
Graphic Design: Oliver Kleinschmidt
Copy Editing: D'Laine Camp
Proof Reading: Vacancy
Open access
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Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
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