About the Journal

The "Iranian Urban Design Studies" is published based on authorization letter No. 14033/10/4370 dated 06/19/2024 from the Vice Chancellor for Research at Shiraz University, with approval and licensing from the Shiraz University Research Council, in collaboration with the Iranian Society of Architecture and Urban Planning.

This journal, according to letter No. 21636-1403 dated 2025/09/17  from the Commission of Scientific Journals of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, has been granted “Scientific” status starting from Volume 1, Issue 1 (April 2024). Moreover, in the  2024–2025 evaluation, it has been awarded Grade “B”.

In addition, the Iranian Urban Design Studies journal, based on letter No. 1404/4430 dated 17/10/2025 from the esteemed Research Deputy of the Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC), has been successfully included in the preliminary list of ISC-indexed journals starting from Volume 1, Issue 1, and is now indexed in this citation database.

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Fields of Article Submission

The "Iranian Urban Design Studies" accepts original research and review articles in the following fields:

- Theoretical, practical, and applied studies in the field of urban design knowledge in Iran, emphasizing the enhancement of Iranian-Islamic identity
- Evaluation of environmental quality and analysis of urban spaces in urban design
- The relationship between the quality of urban public spaces and the safety, security, health, functionality, identity, efficiency, comfort, and ease for users of these public spaces
- Physical identity and Iranian-Islamic urban design
- Urban livability in terms of citizen behavior, land use and activity, transportation, and urban facilities
- The interactive effects of environmental conditions and quality, environmental pollution, and climate change on the quality of life and satisfaction of citizens in public urban spaces
- Evaluation of environmental, visual, cultural, and social effects on the quality of public urban spaces
- Urban regeneration, urban aesthetics, environmental perception and psychology, urban landscape, resilience, and environmental sustainability in public urban spaces

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Journal Information

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Open Access Policy

Iranian Urban Design Studies (IUDS) is an open-access journal, ensuring that all articles are freely available to readers without any subscription or payment.

Author Rights & Licensing:
Authors retain the copyright of their work.
Published articles are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). This license allows others to share and redistribute the work, provided proper credit is given to the original author(s).
The journal does not impose any subscription fees or usage restrictions on published content.

For more details on this license, visit:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Ethical Policy

The Iranian Urban Design Studies voluntarily adheres to the Code of Ethics for Publications of the Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology of the Islamic Republic of Iran and is committed to upholding professional ethical values. All authors, reviewers, scientific editors, and the editor-in-chief are required to comply with these ethical standards in their interactions with the journal.

Ministry of Science, Research and Technology Publications Research Ethics Charter (view).

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Plagiarism Detection

All articles submitted in the Persian section are checked by the IranDoc Similarity Check System and the Samim Noor Text Similarity Detector, and in the English section, by the iThenticate plagiarism detection system.

Access to IranDoc's duplicate search system

 Samim Noor Text Similarity Detector  

Access to the iThenticate plagiarism system

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Important Notice

Only articles submitted through the journal's main website at https://iuds.shirazu.ac.ir  will enter the evaluation stage.

• Authors must review the journal’s article submission guidelines and author instructions (under “Author Guide”) before submission. 
• Please ensure that the names and order of authors entered in the system match the author details form and the author commitment form exactly. In the event of any discrepancy, the author details form will be the standard for the authorship listed in the journal's publications.