Fee Waiver Policy


 

Fee Waiver Policies

 

 

1- Cite the Journal Of Contemporary Urban Affairs and waive your registration fee for the Conference.

NEW: You don't need to pay the registration fee for the conference for up to 2, 3 and/or 5 years (Depending on how many times you cite the published articles of the Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs after).
NEW: You may also encourage your colleagues and/or students (from any other institution as you wish to cite the Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs), accordingly we will consider their citations as your citation to waive your registration fee.

 I am glad to inform you that due to our agreement with theJournal Of Contemporary Urban Affairs,the organizing committee of the 8th International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism ICCAUA2025 has decided to have a fee waiver policy for its upcoming annual conference. The condition is that if you consider citing the journal in some Scopus and/or Web of Science (Social Science, Art And Humanities, Science Citation, and/or Emerging Source Citation ) indexed journals you will be eligible for this policy.

 

 There are three types of policy in total:

A:

In case you manage to cite 6 times theJournal Of Contemporary Urban Affairs” in at least two of the ''SCOPUS'' and/or ''Emerging Source Citation indexed'', "Social Science", "Art And Humanities" or "Science Citation" indexed journals:

-You will not need to pay the registration fee for the conference for 2 years.

-You will be invited to the scientific committee of the conference.

-You are invited to bring three attendees to the conference at no additional cost for online presentations. We will release their certificate of participation. Additionally, for in-person presentations, one person per article is allowed to enter the conference free of charge.

 -You will have a chance to submit one design project for our annual architectural design competition free of charge. See the competition from here

 Important Note: Publishing your article out of the index of SCOPUS or Web of Science (Social Science, Art And Humanities, Science Citation, and/or Emerging Source Citation Indexed Journals) will not be included in the above-mentioned policy.

 

 B:

In case you could manage to cite 8 times the “Journal Of Contemporary Urban Affairs” in at least two of the WOS (Social Science Index, Art And Humanities Index, Science Citation Index, and/or Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)) Indexed Journals:

-You will not need to pay the registration fee for the conference for 3 years.

-You will be invited to be the session chair of the conference.

-You will be invited to the scientific committee of the conference.

-You are invited to bring three attendees to the conference at no additional cost for online presentations. And we will release the certificate of participation for them. Additionally, for in-person presentations, one person per article is allowed to enter the conference free of charge.

 -You will have a chance to submit two design projects for our annual architectural design competition free of charge. See the competition from here

 Important Note: Citing journals out of the index of SCOPUS or Web of Science (Social Science, Art And Humanities, Science Citation, and/or Emerging Source Citation Indexed Journals) will not be included in the above-mentioned policy.

 

C: In case if you could manage to cite 15 times the “Journal Of Contemporary Urban Affairs” in at least three WOS (Social Science, Art And Humanities, Science Citation, and/or Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) Journals):

-You will be invited as a keynote speaker to the conference for our upcoming year.

-You will not need to pay the registration fee for the conference for 5 years.

-You will be free to select to publish your article in any journal that is available on the conference page.

-You will be invited to the scientific committee of the conference.

- You will be invited to be part of the editorial team of the Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs.

- You will be invited to be the review board member of the Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs.

-You are invited to bring three attendees to the conference at no additional cost for online presentations. We will release their certificate of participation. We will release their certificate of participation. Additionally, for in-person presentations, one person per article is allowed to enter the conference free of charge.

 -You will have a chance to submit three design projects for our annual architectural design competition free of charge. See the competition from here

 Important Note: You may also encourage your colleagues or students (from the same institution as you are) to cite the Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs, we will consider their citations as your citation list to waive your registration fee.

Important Note: Citing journals out of the index of SCOPUS or Web of Science (Social Science, Art And Humanities, Science Citation, and/or Emerging Source Citation Indexed Journals) will not be included in the above-mentioned policy.

 

 

Fee Waiver Policy

 

 

If I encourage my colleagues to cite the journal will I be able to add those citations to use the benefits of your policy?

Yes. You may also encourage your colleagues or students (from any institution as you wish), and we will consider their citations as your citation to waive your registration fee. 

 

I have cited the Journal Of Contemporary Urban Affairs based on the policy of the conference, how to apply to waive the registration fee?

What you need to do is just to let us know one month before the conference and just send the direct links to the articles that you published. We will take care of the rest.

 

Is it possible to send my abstract to the conference by the time that I am working on my papers to publish in SCOPUS or WOS journals?

Yes. You are free to send your full paper and abstracts to the conference. we will work on them to release our acceptance letter. Accordingly, you will have time (maximum 2 weeks before the conference) to send us decimations (direct links to the recently published articles) to show us that you cite the Journal Of Contemporary Urban Affairs.

 

What will happen if I can't manage to publish the articles that I cite in the journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs till the conference day?

Our policy is active and available for upcoming years as well. In case it takes time to publish the article that you cite in the journal, you can apply for our upcoming conference.

 

Do you have any other registration fee waiver policies?

At this moment, the Journal Of Contemporary Urban Affairs is our only sponsor. In this regard, we don’t have any other method to waive the registration fee.