ISSN: 1974-4951
E-ISSN: 1973-9494
Conservation Science in Cultural Heritage is a scholarly journal which continues Quaderni di Scienza della Conservazione, established in 2001.
Focus and scope
As a historical-technical journal, it publishes research, studies, experimental contributions, thematic collections, as well as congressional proceedings and conferences centered on the complex and diverse issues of an interdisciplinary nature relating to cultural and environmental heritage.
Main topics of publication:
• Study of the system: artifact-environment-biota
• Historical-artistic knowledge of cultural heritage (i.e. author, art movement, period of realization, techniques, society and cultural characteristics, socio-economic context, commissioning, financing, interested public)
• History, diagnosis, restoration, maintenance, conservation, valorization, prevention
• Document research
• Book, codex, and manuscript production in its historical context
• Appropriate methodologies and analytical techniques used for the characterization of historical artifacts and evaluation of the conservation state
• Environmental monitoring: assessment of atmospheric pollution and correlated degradation of monuments and historical-artistic sites
• Micro and macroclimatic monitoring in confined areas (i.e. museums, libraries, archives, churches, galleries…)
• Art diagnostics and evaluation of the authentication of art works
• Art market and auction houses
• Experiences in cultural heritage conservation
• Evaluation of the suitability of products for restoration, conservation, and maintenance of works of art
• Information science and cultural heritage: data processing and cataloguing methods
• Virtual re-elaboration and use of historical artifacts and environments
• Study, valorization and digitalization of archive and library heritage
• Environmental context and technical-conservative issues related to historic architecture
• Virtual or traditional conservation, cataloguing and processing of photographs
• Various other topics including education, safeguard, education, legislation, economics, social aspects, management, marketing, interdisciplinarity, internationalization, etc.
Periodicity: Annual
Peer-review: Double blind
Indexing: ERIH PLUS; ANVUR (Classe A - Area 8); Scopus; Web of Science-ESCI; DOAJ; Emerging Sources Citation Index; Art Abstracts; Art Source; Index Islamicus; Art Index
Editor-in-Chief
SALVATORE LORUSSO conservation scientist
Deputy Editors
FRANCO PALLA biologist, Dip. Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche, Chimiche e Farmaceutiche, Univ. di Palermo, Italy
WALTER TEGA historian, President Accademia delle Scienze dell’Istituto di Bologna, Italy
GIOVANNI CARBONARA architect, Emeritus Professor, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
Editors
COSIMO DAMIANO FONSECA, historian, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, Italy
VINCENZO BARONE, chemist, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
FERRUCCIO TRIFIRÒ, chemist, Accademia delle Scienze dell’Istituto di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
MAURO MANTOVANI, philosopher, Rector Università Pontificia Salesiana and President CRUIPR, Rome, Italy
Editorial Board
MARIO ALÌ Corte dei Conti, Rome, Italy
PIO BALDI architect, former President Fondazione MAXXI, Accademia Nazionale San Luca, Rome, Italy
DARIO BRAGA chemist, President Istituto di Studi Avanzati, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
FABRIZIO BOLLETTA chemist, former Dean Facoltà di Scienze Matematiche, Fisiche e Naturali, Università di Bologna, Italy
LUCIO CALCAGNILE physicist, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Innovazione, Università degli Studi del Salento, Lecce, Italy
PIERFRANCESCO CALLIERI archaeologist, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Università di Bologna, Ravenna, Italy
LUIGI CAMPANELLA chemist, former President Società Chimica Italiana, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
LUIGI CANETTI historian, Director Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Università di Bologna, Ravenna, Italy
CAO JINYAN Executive Associate Director, the Cultural Heritage Institute, Zhejjang University, Hangzhou, China
FEDERICO CINQUEPALMI architect, Ministero dell’Istruzione, Università e Ricerca, Rome, Italy
GIAMPAOLO MARIA COGO lawyer, Studio Legale Cogo, Rome, Italy
GIANLUIGI COLALUCCI restorer, Conservazione e Restauro S.n.c., Rome, Italy
LUCIO COLIZZI engineer, Dipartimento di Informatica e Matematica, Università di Bari, Italy
FRANCO COTANA engineer, Dipartimento di Ingegneria, Università di Perugia, Italy
GINO MIROCLE CRISCI geologist, Rector, Università della Calabria, Cosenza, Italy
MAURIZIO CUMO engineer, honorary President Società Italiana per il Progresso delle Scienze (SIPS), Rome, Italy
LUIGI DEI chemist, Rector, Università di Firenze, Florence, Italy
DANIELA ESPOSITO architect, Director Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Architettonici e del Paesaggio, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
KARL M. HELLEMANN Director, Hygienicum Institut für Mikrobiologie und Hygiene-Consulting GmbH, Graz, Austria
VALERIE HIGGINS archaeologist, The American University of Rome, Rome, Italy
JEAN-PIERRE ISBOUTS art historian, Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, (CA), USA
JAVID A. JAFAROV publishing specialist, Deputy Director Central Scientific Library of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
OLEG KUZNETSOV geologist, President of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Moscow, Russia
ALEXANDRE P. LOBODANOV philologist, Dean Faculty of Arts, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
LUO WEIDONG economist, Vice President Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
GIUSEPPE MANICA former Director Area Promozione Culturale del Ministero Affari Esteri, Rome, Italy
ANTONIO GARCIA MARTINEZ architect, Departamento de Construcciones Arquitectónicas I, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
MASSIMO MAZZINI biologist, Dip. Innovazione nei Sistemi Biologici, Agroalimentari e Forestali, Università della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy
FABRIZIO MICARI engineer, Rector Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
ALBERTO MONTANARI engineer, Director Dip. di Ingegneria Civile, Chimica, Ambientale e dei Materiali, Università di Bologna, Italy
ANTONIO PANAINO philologist, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Università di Bologna, Ravenna, Italy
GREGORY T. PAPANIKOS economist, President Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER), Athens, Greece
VADIM A. PARFENOV engineer, St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University, St. Petersburg, Russia
LUIGI PERSICO former deputy prosecutor, Tribunale di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
VALERY PETROSYAN chemist, Rector Open Ecological University, Vice-president Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Moscow, Russia
ARTURO CARLO QUINTAVALLE art historian, President Associazione Italiana degli Storici dell’Arte Medievale, Parma, Italy
NIMA REZAEI M.D., founding President Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Iran
JAN ROSVALL technologist, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
CLAUDIO SPADONI art historian, former Director Museo d’Arte della Città di Ravenna (MAR), Ravenna, Italy
CLAUDIO STRINATI art historian, former General Director, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Italy
IWONA SZMELTER art historian, Dean Faculty of Conservation-restoration of Works of Art, Academy of Fine Art, Warsaw, Poland
LEVAN TAVADYAN chemical physicist, Director of Institute of Chemical Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
MARIA ROSARIA TINÈ chemical biophysicist, Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Pisa, Italy
MARIJA S. TODOROVIC engineer, Virtual Engineering and Art, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
LUIGI TOMASSINI historian, former Director Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Università di Bologna, Ravenna, Italy
PIER GIORGIOTUPINI President Accademia della Cultura Enogastronomica, Rome, Italy
FRANCESCO UBERTINI engineer, Rector Università di Bologna, Italy
BRUNO ZANARDI art historian, Teoria e Tecnica del Restauro, Università di Urbino “Carlo Bo”, Urbino, Italy
GANGFENG ZANG sociologist, Research Institute of HR Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
ANGELA MARI BRAIDA linguistic advisor, Rome, Italy
MARIALAURA VIGNOCCHI publishing manager, Head Digital Library, Università di Bologna, Italy
PIERO GRANDESSO Open Journal Support, Servizio AMS Riviste, Digital Library, Università di Bologna, Italy
Journal Administration
ANDREA NATALI
Editorial Staff
FRANCA DE LEO
LUCIA CECILIA Lorusso
Publisher
ROBERTO MARCUCCI
Papers should be sent in electronic format, via e-mail to: salvatore.lorusso@unibo.it
Submissions
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As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
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The text is single-spaced; all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end and are accompanied by proper captions.
The reference guidelines have been followed (when available, Digital Object Identifiers - DOIs, should be included).
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines section.
The author is aware of the reviewing and editing process of the Journal.
Author Guidelines
Authors should submit manuscripts in the font specified in the text guidelines and organize their work according to the following sequence: title, name of all authors (First Author, Corresponding Author, co-authors if applicable) and their affiliation (institution, town and country); keywords; text with sections and subsections including tables, figures, drawings, diagrams, etc.; acknowledgments; notes; references; biographical notes; summary.
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