Urbani izziv (ISSN: 0353-6483)

Description

Urbani izziv is a scholarly peer-reviewed journal published by the Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia. The first issue of the journal was published in December 1989. Urbani izziv is intended for the dissemination of new knowledge and discussion of contemporary spatial planning issues:
Urban planning and design
Landscape planning and design
Regional development
Urban renewal
Management of urban areas
Natural and cultural heritage protection
Environmental protection
Spatial information technology
Housing studies
Traffic studies
Demographic studies for spatial planning
Accessibility for the disabled
Despite its major focus on social science topics, the orientation of the journal is interdisciplinary, encompassing developments and new directions in research fields, thereby strengthening, broadening, improving and synergising skills. In addition to Slovenian authors, the editors strive to ensure a balanced participation of authors, also from other countries in the region and worldwide.
Urbani izziv is the most comprehensive journal in Central and Eastern Europe in the field of spatial planning. The journal’s most distinguishing feature is its international scope in the dissemination of new knowledge and discussion of contemporary spatial planning issues. Currently, the field of spatial planning is dominated by Anglo-Saxon scientific journals, which tend to primarily focus on issues that are relevant to countries that are normally categorised under this linguistic group. Under these circumstances, scholars from other countries (especially Central and East European) find it very difficult to get their articles published in these journals. Articles submitted by authors from non-English speaking countries are often rejected not due to poor quality, but because they deal with issues that are, in most cases, less relevant to the wider public, towards which the Anglo-Saxon journals are orientated. On the contrary, Urbani izziv offers an opportunity for the publication of top quality scholarly articles by authors dealing with spatial planning issues in Central and Eastern Europe and other parts of the world.
The journal is published twice a year. The first issue is published in June, and the second in December.
Urbani izziv is published in two languages: all contributions are published in Slovenian and English.
Abstracts and full texts of articles are included in the Slovenian COBISS database and the Digital Library of Slovenia (dLib.si), as well as in the international bibliographic databases: SCOPUS Elsevier, EBSCOhost (Art & Architecture Complete, Academic Search Complete), ProQuest (ProQuest Central, ProQuest Research Library, ProQuest SciTech Journals, ProQuest Engineering Journals, ProQuest Technology Journals, ProQuest Political Science, ProQuest Environmental Science Journals, ProQuest 5000, Sociological Abstracts, Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts), CEEOL (Central and Eastern European Online Library), IBSS (Intenational Bibliography of Social Sciences), IBZ (International Bibliography of Periodical Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences), GEODOK (Geographic Literature Database), EZB (Electronic Journals Library), CGP (Current Geographical Publications), ICONDA (International Construction Database), DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), OCLC (Online Computer Library Center), PRORCH (Promotion of Research), CORE (COnnecting REpositories), Virtual Science Libraries (VSL Open), Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, Academic Journals Database, Sciencegate, Index Copernicus International, J-Gate, libsearch (Open access digital libraries).