Journals

  • Journal of Planning and Land Management

    Papers published in the Journal of Planning and Land Management are reviewed by competent academics and professionals with expertise in the field of Land Management, Real Estate, Planning, Community Development, Geographic Information System (GIS), at the Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies (SDD-UBIDS) and other local and foreign Universities. Papers are thoroughly reviewed by a duo-blind review team and published promptly without compromising on the quality of the final output. Potential authors must read the author guidelines before preparing and submitting their manuscripts. Papers that do not follow these guidelines will be desk rejected until concerns are addressed appropriately.
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    Research and Development Conference Proceedings

    The 2024 Research and Development Conference invites the submission of empirical and conceptual manuscripts for consideration for publication in its Conference Proceedings. Please Register to enable you to submit a paper and ensure you comply with the Author Guide. All author (s) are strongly encouraged to comply strictly with the guidelines. Those who fail to do so risk desk rejection.    

    ORDER OF PRESENTING VARIOUS COMPONENTS OF A PAPER

     

    1. Empirical Papers
      Empirical research manuscripts should be structured as follows:
      1)Title, 2)Abstract, 3)Keywords, 4)Introduction, 5)Literature review, 6)Methods, 7)Results, 8)Discussion (you may merge results and discussion), 9) Conclusions, and 10)Implications of the study (for policy, practice and theory. Conclusions and implications may be combined), 11)limitations and areas of further research, 12)Declarations (declaration of competing interest, ethical considerations, funding etc.)[if any] and 13)References. Please note that the results and discussion could be combined or presented as separate sections.

    2. Conceptual Papers and Systematic Reviews
      While this structure is flexible, 1)the introduction (including the problem and objectives/questions), 2) the literature review, 3)methods, 4) Results/Discussion, 5)conclusions and 6)implications must be provided.

    3. Deadline for the Submission of Full Papers: 31st December 2024