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The magazine of the Centro

Assessment criteria

Peer reviewing
Peer reviewing is conducted by the Editorial Board, made up of ten scholars who are also members of the CISA Andrea Palladio Advisory Committee. Of five different nationalities, they are experts in architectural history in fields ranging from the ancient world to the twentieth century. The Board is thus a group of international experts, external and independent from the works being submitted.

Assessment of articles
Each submitted article with the author's name overtly indicated is reviewed by the members of the Editorial Board (henceforth EB). If the majority of the EB are not sufficiently familiar with the subject of the article, the opinion of an outside expert may be sought.
Authors of articles are aware of the names of the EB members, since they are clearly indicated in every issue of the journal and on the website.
All submitted articles, whether accepted or not, will receive an opinion from the EB within four months of sending the article.
Accepted articles immediately receive definitive approval or, more often, approval dependent on revisions being made. The most frequent requests for revision concern: cutting the texts where it is repetitive, redundant or concerns well-known facts in the literature; the division of the text into chapters; bibliographic additions; extra illustrations to make the content of the articles clearer.
The most frequent reasons for articles being rejected are: the topic is not related to the architectural-historical interests of the journal; the topic is too specifically local; or studies that are not sufficiently original, well-documented or up to date with the latest publications.
Any communications between the author and the EB are always confidential.
The editor and EB peer reviewers must abstain from discussing submitted articles that for any reason prevent their decision-making from being unbiased, accurate and disinterested. The editor and EB peer reviewers are not involved in editorial decisions concerning their own articles.

Reviews
The EB welcomes and decides on proposed book reviews. Reviewers are chosen from the most authoritative scholars on the subject, but with a preference for younger scholars, and potential denigrators are not considered.
All the reviews are signed and the reviewer’s email is indicated for possible correspondence.

Abstracts and biographies
Each article must be accompanied by an abstract of 100-300 words. Since the articles mainly deal with the Italian Renaissance, all the abstracts, even those of articles in other languages, will be translated into Italian.
The journal publishes a short biographical note (100 words), including an email address, for all the authors of articles.

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