KazBSQA Bulletin is a printed and electronic open access journal registered by the Ministry of Information and Public Consent of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Certificate No. 1438-Ж dated August 14, 2000). The journal has been published since 2001 and is included in the list of publications recommended by the Committee for Quality Assurance in Science and Higher Education of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan by Order No. 38 dated 02/14/2022. It has ISSN (print): 1680-080X; ISSN (online): 2788-6948.

Language: Kazakh, English, Russian

Periodicity: Quarterly (4 numbers per year)

Publisher's name: "Construction and Architecture", Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan

Thematic Directions (Scope): 

• Architecture
• Urban planning
• Restoration and reconstruction of buildings and structures
• History of architecture
• Design (architectural environment, interior, graphic, television, industrial)
• Technology and organization of construction production
• Calculation and design of buildings and structures
• Energy efficient design and construction
• Building materials and structures

 Geodesy and cartography, land management and cadastre

• Economics of construction
• Sustainable development of architecture and construction
• Innovative technologies in architecture, construction, production of building materials, products and structures
• Information technology in architecture, construction, design

Territory of Distribution: Over the Internet

Types of Manuscripts: Articles and (or) Reviews

DOI Registration Agency: Crossref

Aim: publication of original scientific papers on problems and achievements in the field of architecture and urban planning, design and construction of buildings, structures, progressive building materials, energy-saving technologies, economics of housing and civil engineering, and innovations in architectural and construction education.

The journal has an Editorial Board represented by leading Kazakhstani and foreign scientists, an Editorial Policy aimed at openness and accessibility of authors' publications, a Publication Ethics, and a website.

The Editorial Board is actively working to improve the quality and ranking of the journal, including in the international scientometric databases such as Scopus and Web of Science. At the moment the journal is indexed in such databases and repositories as Crossref, Digital object identifier, ROAD Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources, National Center of Science and Technology Evaluation, Science and Higher Education Quality Assurance Committee of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The journal's objectives are:

• To advance architectural, construction, and engineering science and practice in modern conditions;
• To provide opportunities for the consolidation of scientific, practical, and educational knowledge in the architectural and construction sector and to create a platform for information exchange between representatives of related industries and scientific schools from different countries;
• To offer a platform for publishing research results for scientists, practicing specialists, academic staff of educational institutions, doctoral candidates, master's students, and undergraduates.

Manuscript Publication Terms

To ensure the integrity of scientific research, authors need to adhere to international standards for scientific publications:

• Articles (Reviews) must be consistent with the stated purpose and thematic direction of the journal.
• Articles (Reviews) should contain their own deductions and interim or final results of scientific research, experimental and analytical activities, containing the author's developments, and conclusions. Borrowings must be necessarily accompanied by a reference to the source.
• The authors must guarantee that the Article (Review) is original, has not been previously published in another resource in the current or similar form, has not been transferred to other publishers; settled interests related to copyright and the publication, no translations of published Articles (Reviews) in other languages are accepted.
• Each Article (Review) ensures the replicability of the results of the study, describing the methodology of the study with the origin of the equipment and materials, methods of statistical processing of data, and other ways to ensure replicability.
• Adding or deleting authors is not allowed after acceptance for publication.
• When using ChatGPT and (or) artificial intelligence (AI), it is strictly required to adhere to the following COPE's position statement: "Authors who use AI tools in the writing of a manuscript, production of images or graphical elements of the manuscript, or in the collection and analysis of data, must be transparent in disclosing in the Materials and Methods (or similar section) of the manuscript how the AI tool was used and which tool was used. Authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, even those parts produced by an AI tool, and are thus liable for any breach of publication ethics".
• The authors should follow the COPE position - Publishing material from theses, which states that if the author owns the copyright, they may subsequently publish thesis material regardless of whether the thesis is freely available via a university’s or research institution’s repository or has a licence allowing reuse (such as a Creative Commons licence). If any part of the thesis has coauthors, they must be in agreement with the decision to submit it for publication. The thesis should be acknowledged as the source of the work and cited in the publication.

Procedure of Review

procedure of review is available by clicking here.

Archiving and Open Access Policy

The journal "KazGASA Bulletin" has been published as an electronic online open-access edition since 2021 (https://vestnik.mok.kz/). Readers and authors can access electronic versions of the current issue and archives for previous periods.

Publication Ethics

Publication ethics is available by clicking here.