ABOUT

Journal of Human Settlements in West China, China’s first comprehensive academic journal with the key words human settlements in its name, is supervised by the Ministry of China and run by Chongqing University. It was initiated in 1986, with the name Interior Design. In 2013, it was officially given the present name Journal of Human Settlements in West China. Headquartered in west China, the journal keeps a close eye on major problems with urban and rural human settlements from a global perspective. It is devoted to, truthfully and innovatively, exploring theories and practices on scientific development with Chinese human settlements, driving interdisciplinary innovation and offering a platform for academic discussions and communications on urban and rural planning, landscaping, construction, urban environment and ecology. This way, it aims to pave the way for academic communications and development on the science of human settlements.

Contributors of the journal are specially solicited and their articles have to come under two-way blind review and five-time censorship before publication. An academic journal integrated with theories and practices, Journal of Human Settlements in West China highly values digital publishing and digital development and has had dynamic and open knowledge chain established, with its Weibo and official WeChat accounts updated on a real-time basis. It focuses on basic theories and construction practices on mountainous human settlements. Based on urban and rural planning, architecture, landscaping and relevant disciplines, the journal aims to make cross-disciplinary innovation, explore new methods and technologies, learn and pass down experience on mountainous human settlements and to develop the platforms for communicating with international counterparts.

Currently the journal serves as a source journal (extend library) of CSCD and has been rated by RCCSE Chinese Core Academic Journal (Class A). For 3 consecutive years, it has been selected into Chinese S&T Journal Citation Report (Core Edition) and the Hierarchical Directory (2020) (T3) of High Quality Scientific and Technological Journal on Architecture. It ranks the 16th place at the CNKI Chinese Academic Journal Clout Factor Annual Report as a Q1 journal. It has won such awards as Chinese University Excellent Scientific and Technological Journal 2020, Outstanding Academic Journal, the Most Remarkable Journal of Chongqing, the Most Remarkable Journal of China, etc. In 2019, Journal of Human Settlements in West China was qualified for the High Quality Journal Exhibition to Celebrate the 70 Anniversary of the PRC. Besides, it has been voted, many times, Chongqing’s Journal with Excellent Articles. For 3 consecutive years from 2018 to 2020, it was the excellent work and nomination winner of Jin Jingchang Chinese Urban Planning Outstanding Paper Award organized jointly by Urban Planning Society of China and Jin Jingchang Urban Planning Educational Funds. As an academic journal, it is recommended by Urban Planning Society of China, Architecture Society of China and Chinese Society of Landscape Architecture, and accepted as the sole academic journal by West China Architectural University Alliance. At present it serves as a vice chairman unit of the editing and publishing committee of Urban Planning Society of China. And meanwhile, it is a council member of Media and Communication Committee, Architecture Society of China.

Journal of Human Settlements in West China, China’s first comprehensive academic journal with the key words human settlements in its name, will work together with other Chinese journals to advance studies on human settlements and contribute a part to urban and rural development in west and the rest regions of China.