SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE

Sociologia urbana e rurale has been founded in 1979 by Paolo Guidicini. Maurizio Bergamaschi is the current General Editor. This journal is promoted and managed by the Center for Studies on City and Territory Problems (Ce.P.Ci.T) of the Department of Sociology and Business Law at the University of Bologna and is published quarterly by FrancoAngeli.
Sociologia urbana e rurale is the only Italian journal of sociology of the environment and the territory and publishes theoretical and empirical studies mainly related to the transformations of urban and rural areas. Particular attention is paid to their socio-spatial configurations, poverty and social exclusion, urban governance, migratory movements at local and international scale, environmental issues, architectural design and urban planning, tourism, and new metropolitan populations.
The journal also includes methodological essays, history of the discipline, and bibliographic reviews on specific topics. The journal does not intend to limit itself to sociology, but rather to revive the debate with other disciplines and professional figures, particularly architects, urbanists and geographers, interrupted for some time. The journal intends to broaden publishing opportunities, to stimulate debate, and to compare ideas and research results. This journal not only uses the collaboration with Italian scholars but also with international ones, and for this reason, prominent European and American researchers have agreed to join the Executive Board.
The structure of the journal includes a monographic section in every issue, committed to one or two editors, indicated by the steering Committee, presented and introduced by them, but it also includes, in a second section, studies and researches, reports, reflections on specific disciplinary aspects, bibliographical reviews of the most up-to-date literature. Each journal issue has also a section for national and international books reviews. Each year, the Executive Board plans the topics of the monographic section and its editors.
Editors are committed to launch an international call for paper that will be advertised on the journal's website and on the Sociology of Territory section website of the Italian Association of Sociology (AIS), or directly requesting potential contributors. The Executive Board reserves the right to evaluate proposals for the monographic section of the journal. All authors are invited to submit a monographic number to the Executive Board.
The articles are expected to be published in one of the following languages: Italian, French, English, German and Spanish.
The articles proposed for publication are submitted to an Evaluation Committee.
The authors must present their articles with a brief summary (10 lines) and 6 key words in Italian and English.

Editor in Chief
Maurizio Bergamaschi (Università di Bologna)

Executive board
Marco Castrignanò (Università di Bologna); Matteo Colleoni (Università di Milano Bicocca); Antonietta Mazzette (Università di Sassari); Simona Totaforti (Università per stranieri Dante Alighieri di Reggio Calabria).

Scientific board
Marco Alberio (Università di Bologna - UQAR Université du Québec); Maurizio Ambrosini (Università di Milano); Giandomenico Amendola (Università di Firenze); Franco Bianchini (Leeds Metropolitan University); Marc Breviglieri (Haute Ecole Spécialisée de Suisse Occidentale; Genève); Giovanni Carrosio (Università di Trieste); Ada Cavazzani (Università della Calabria); Terry Clark (University of Chicago); Alessia de Biase (LAA-LAVUE -UMR 7218 CNRS- Ecole nationale superieure de Paris la Villette); Michael Dear (University of California; Berkeley); Nancy Duxbury (Centre for Social Studies; University of Coimbra); Alberto Gasparini (Università di Trieste); Nancy Holman (London School of Economics); Ray Hutchison (University of Wisconsin - Green Bay); Tom Hutton (University of British Columbia; Vancouver); Yuri Kazepov (University of Vienna); Volker Kirchberg (Universität Lüneburg); Juan-Luis Klein (Université du Québec); Jean Francois Laé (Universitè Paris VIII); John Logan (Brown University); Eduardo Cesar Leão Marques (Universidade de São Paulo); Ezio Marra (Università di Milano Bicocca); Alfredo Mela (Politecnico di Torino); Enzo Mingione (Università di Milano Bicocca); Ali Modarres (University of Washington Tacoma); Harvey Molotch (New York University); Giampaolo Nuvolati (Università di Milano Bicocca); Alessandra Olivi (Universidad de Valparaíso); Simon Parker (University of York); Luigi Pellizzoni (Università di Pisa); Juan José Pujadas (Universitat Rovira I Virgili di Tarragona); Jason Prior (University of Technology; Sydney); Dean J. Saitta (University of Denver); Mario Small (Harvard University); Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay (TÉLUQ; Université du Québec); Francesca Zajczyk (Università di Milano Bicocca)

Editorial board
Alfredo Agustoni (Università di Chieti e Pescara); Teresa Carlone (Università di Bologna); Alessandra Corrado (Università della Calabria); Luca Daconto (Università di Milano Bicocca); Carlo Gelosi (Università per stranieri Dante Alighieri di Reggio Calabria); Alessandra Landi (Università di Bologna); Alice Lomonaco (Università di Bologna); Manuela Maggio (Università di Bologna); Gabriele Manella (Università di Bologna); Carolina Mudan Marelli (Università di Bologna); Francesca Mantovani (Università di Bologna); Agostino Petrillo (Politecnico di Milano); Valeria Piro (Università di Padova); Asterio Savelli (Università di Bologna); Camillo Tidore (Università di Sassari).

Ethics commission
Maurizio Bergamaschi (Università di Bologna); Marco Castrignanò (Università di Bologna); Alessandra Landi (Università di Bologna).

Editorial staff
Mattia Fiore (Università di Bologna); Maria Grazia Montesano (Università di Bologna); Tommaso Rimondi (Università di Bologna); Selene Tondini (Università di Bologna).

Centro Studi sui Problemi della Città e del Territorio (Ce.P.Ci,T), Dipartimento di Sociologia e Diritto dell'Economia - Strada Maggiore 45 - 40125 Bologna.
E-mail:maurizio.bergamaschi@unibo.it

The journal uses the Ojs platform to manage the review of articles, which are submitted for evaluation by at least two anonymous reviewers (double blind peer review process).
Manuscripts undergo an initial evaluation by the Scientific Board and are sent to the referees only if judged relevant and in strict accordance with the scientific standards of the Journal.
The referees, assigned by the Executive Board on the basis of specific expertise, will give their opinion about the publication and any requests for modification of the submitted contributions.
In case of a dissenting opinion, the contribution will be sent to a third referee.
The opinion of the referees will be communicated to the authors by one of the members of the Editorial Board, who in turn will have verified compliance with the Code of Ethics and Editorial Standards.
The Journal is committed to providing an opinion on the publishability of the manuscripts within a maximum period of three months.
The authors will receive the evaluations even in the event of a rejection for publication.
Every two years, the journal publishes the complete list of referees.
Referees 2021/2023

- CAB International: Agricultural Economics Database

- Catalogo italiano dei periodici/Acnp

- Ebsco Discovery Service

- Elsevier/Scopus

- ERIH Plus

- Essper

- Google Scholar

- JournalSeek

- JournalTOCS

- ProQuest - Sociological Abstracts

- ProQuest Summon

- Torrossa - Casalini Full Text Platform

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Articles concerning individuals or containing personal information that makes a human subject identifiable must comply with the international standards set by the Declaration of Helsinki, developed by the World Medical Association (WMA) and revised in 2013.
When signing the publication agreement, the author is required to declare any conflicts of interest, indicate the funding received, and ensure compliance with copyright rules for quotations and previously published materials. If serious errors, conflicts of interest, or cases of plagiarism are identified, the editorial board informs the publisher and the author and, if appropriate, publishes an erratum or requests the withdrawal of the article.
The author also declares that, to guarantee the ethics and integrity of the research, they have followed the guidelines indicated by CNR or ELLEA and adhered to the “Charter of Principles for Research in Social Sciences and Humanities” published by CNR in 2017.
Articles concerning individuals or containing personal information that makes a subject identifiable must comply with international standards established by the Declaration of Helsinki, developed by the World Medical Association (WMA) and updated in 2013. If the article involves experiments with animals, the author must provide a statement ensuring compliance with national and institutional standards for the care and use of laboratory animals, as suggested by the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals drafted by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).
The journal allows for the publication of replies, comments, notes and letters to the editor, which undergo a peer-review process appropriate to their nature. Any corrections or retractions are published in a transparent and traceable manner.

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Classified in Class A:
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• Area 14/C2 - Sociology of cultural and communicative processes;
• Area 14/C3 - Sociology of political and legal phenomena;
• Area 14/D1 - Sociology of economic, labour and environmental processes.

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