Publisher

Official Publisher

The official publisher of the Journal of Planner and Development (JPD) is the Center of Urban and Regional Planning for Postgraduate Studies, University of Baghdad. The Center of Urban and Regional Planning for Postgraduate Studies provides the institutional, academic, and administrative publishing environment for the journal, including support for journal management, editorial coordination, online publication, archiving, and scholarly dissemination.

Relationship with the Center of Urban and Regional Planning for Postgraduate Studies and the University of Baghdad

JPD is institutionally affiliated first with the Center of Urban and Regional Planning for Postgraduate Studies, which serves as the journal’s direct academic publishing body. The Center of Urban and Regional Planning for Postgraduate Studies is one of the academic formations of the University of Baghdad, which includes a wide range of colleges, institutes, and research centers.

Accordingly, the journal’s direct institutional relationship is with the Center of Urban and Regional Planning for Postgraduate Studies, while its broader institutional affiliation is with the University of Baghdad. This relationship supports the journal’s academic identity, disciplinary specialization, and institutional continuity in the fields of urban and regional planning, urban design, sustainable development, environmental planning, spatial analysis, and related planning disciplines.

Institutional and Publishing Support

The Center of Urban and Regional Planning for Postgraduate Studies supports the journal by providing the institutional framework required for scholarly publishing. This includes maintaining the journal’s academic identity, supporting the online journal platform, facilitating editorial administration, preserving published content, and promoting open access dissemination.

Separation between Institutional Affiliation and Editorial Decisions

The institutional affiliation of JPD with the Center of Urban and Regional Planning for Postgraduate Studies and the University of Baghdad does not influence editorial decisions. Manuscripts are evaluated according to the journal’s aims and scope, academic quality, originality, methodological soundness, ethical compliance, and peer review reports.

Editorial decisions, including acceptance, revision, rejection, correction, or retraction, are made independently by the Editor-in-Chief, assigned editors, and the editorial process of the journal. Institutional support, author affiliation, publication fees, or administrative considerations do not affect peer review outcomes or editorial judgments.

The following official institutional links provide access to the publisher and the parent university. These links open in the current browser page.

University of Baghdad Center of Urban and Regional Planning for Postgraduate Studies

This page should be read together with the journal’s editorial, ethical, peer review, open access, and publication fee policies.