Journal profile · Engineering-Architecture
Agathon
ISSN 2464-9309 · eISSN 2532-683X · Palermo University Press · Italy
Agathon: fully open access; APC charged, amount not published; review about 13 weeks (community reports); 55 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Agathon is published by Palermo University Press. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Architecture, Modernity, and Design, Sustainable Design and Development and Architecture and Computational Design, together about 40.7% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
AGATHÓN is an Open Access International Scientific Journal of Architecture, Art and Design (indexed by SCOPUS and SCIMAGO), a half-year tool for information and critical training; it aims to contribute to the growth and dissemination of knowledge in the themes covered by Urban Planning, Architecture, Engineering, Art and (product and visual) Design. Therefore, the Journal represents a scientific place where Authors who have carried out original research can find an opportunity to spread their contributions. Each issue of the Journal includes essays and research works on a specific theme, unpublished works and not submitted for publication with other publishers.Through its internal Board, the Journal promotes and monitors the double-blind peer review process to select articles, providing a mandatory form for reporting. The contributions are published in English and Italian to be placed in the widest range of the international scientific communities. The founding principles of the Journal are originality/innovation, the relevance of the investigated topic for the advancement of knowledge, the knowledge and ability to use literature, methodological rigour, the content clarity and presentation style, the impact on the scientific community, but also the easy accessibility and the wide diffusion of the articles; furthermore, the Journal is open to speculative empirical and descriptive research, about phenomena that present new characters, at least for certain important features.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Engineering-Architecture
Editor-in-chief Francesca ScalisiPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 13%); most named Italy 6, Mainland China 1, Germany 1 (8 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Architecture, Modernity, and DesignEngineering17.3%
- Sustainable Design and DevelopmentEngineering14.4%
- Architecture and Computational DesignEngineering9%
- Urban Planning and Landscape DesignEnvironmental Science7.3%
- Urban Development and Cultural HeritageSocial Sciences6.6%
- Cultural Heritage Management and PreservationArts and Humanities5.8%
- Architecture, Art, EducationArts and Humanities3.6%
- Design Education and PracticeEngineering3.3%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
SCIMAGO (since 2024), ANVUR list of Class A journals (since 2017)Publisher website
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.5LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.29LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.43LetPub ·
- h-index
- 6OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 5OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.16OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 19Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 509 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 31 | 31 | 40 |
| 2025 | 55 | 55 | 49 |
| 2024 | 60 | 60 | 73 |
| 2023 | 55 | 55 | 56 |
| 2022 | 53 | 53 | 42 |
| 2021 | 51 | 51 | 19 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with PubMed · to
Too few articlesOnly 1 articles from the last 24 months carry both submission and acceptance dates, too few for a median
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 13 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 13 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | EUR 600 | Yes | CC BY | |
| LetPub | EUR 500 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | EUR 450 | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted2
- research & experimentation articlesFor the Research & Experimentation Articles, the Editorial Board recommends reading to the AuthorsLength not stated
- review articlesFor the Review Articles, the Editorial Board recommends to the Authors to use the suggestions reported inLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteLicense & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Self-archiving
- License & copyright Copyright Notice
The Journal allows the Authors to hold the copyright without restrictions; however, when submitting their paper, they agree to the following License for Published Content.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access Policy
AGATHÓN is an Open Access Journal, in the sense that it guarantees that no user, no university Library and no individual Reader will have to pay a pay-per-view fee to access the published contents; this on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports the widest global exchange of knowledge.All articles are available to all users on the internet immediately upon public…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Double-Blind Peer Review Process
Articles published in AGATHÓN are subjected preliminarily to peer and anonymous selection and evaluation procedures (the first on abstracts by the entire Editorial Board, the second on papers by the Editorial Board and members of the Editorial Board who are experts on the subject matter, the third, at the end, on the papers by the Reviewers), considering them an indispensable condition to verify o…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Self-archiving Author Self-Archiving Policy
AGATHÓN encourages the Authors to upload their articles in Open Access and extended form – immediately after publication in the Journal – to databases, personal, institutional and scientific disclosure websites (such as academia.edu and researchgate.net), declaring that the contribution was published in the Journal.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Palermo University Press
- Country or region
- Italy
- Language
- English, Italian
- ISSN
- 2464-9309
- Electronic ISSN
- 2532-683X
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 19 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Agathon
How long does peer review take at Agathon?
Authors report an average review time of about 13 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Where are the editorial board members of Agathon based?
Of the 8 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 1 (about 13%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Italy (6), Mainland China (1) and Germany (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Agathon?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Agathon is indexed in Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Agathon open access, and what is the APC?
Agathon is a fully open-access journal. APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .