About the Journal

Journal Summary
The Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal (E-BPJ) is the flagship publication of the Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers (AMER). The E-BPJ fully adheres to the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition of open access: granting users the unconditional right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles.
The journal publishes selected, original, double-blind, peer-reviewed international conference proceedings focusing strictly on Environment-Behaviour relations, Environmental Psychology, and Quality of Life (QoL) issues. Its primary scope focuses on how various dimensions of the built, natural, social, financial, physical, and digital environments impact human behaviour and community well-being, with particular reference to Asian, African, and Arabian communities living in their homeland and abroad.
To maintain strict thematic relevance and specialized international indexing compliance, every paper published must clearly examine the direct relationship between a specific environment and human behaviour or Quality of Life outcomes. The journal reviews and categorizes all proceedings submissions across six core thematic domains:
  • Smart Technology & Digital Behavioral Environments
  • Socio-Economic, Management & Public Policy Environments
  • Built Environment, Spatial Design & Spatial Infrastructure
  • Social, Cultural & Community Interaction Environments
  • Human Development, Spatial Education & Physical Wellbeing
  • Sustainability, Energy & Natural Cognitive Environments
Papers focusing purely on technical coding, computer software algorithms, raw engineering material optimization, corporate supply chains, macroeconomic banking liquidity, or commercial marketing metrics without a primary, measurable focus on human behaviour or Quality of Life (QoL) impacts are strictly out of scope.
The selected proceeding papers published were presented at multiple serial annual international conferences held worldwide since 2010, primarily organised by AMER and, where appropriate, jointly organised with the institutions of the international conference organising committee. The E-BPJ’s core goal is to disseminate original Environment-Behaviour research works internationally, encouraging contributors from all global regions.
It is important to note that the views expressed in the proceeding papers do not necessarily reflect the official stance of AMER. This policy encourages open scholarly discussion and diverse opinions in relation to Environment-Behaviour (Environmental Psychology) studies.
The E-BPJ is published by e-IPH Ltd UK (eISSN 2398-4287).

 

Open Access Policy

The Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal (E-BPJ) is a fully open-access journal. This means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or their institution.

In accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition of open access, users are granted the immediate and unconditional right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.

To support maximum global dissemination, all proceeding papers are published under a Creative Commons attribution framework, ensuring that authors retain copyright while allowing their work to be universally discoverable and legally reusable upon publication.

 

Focus and Scope

The Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal (E-BPJ) is an international, peer-reviewed journal strictly dedicated to advancing empirical knowledge in Environment-Behaviour relations and Environmental Psychology studies. The journal focuses specifically on how various dimensions of the built, natural, social, financial, and digital environments impact human behaviour, psychological well-being, and individual or community Quality of Life (QoL), with particular reference to Asian, African, and Arabian communities living in their homeland and abroad.
To maintain strict thematic relevance and specialized indexing compliance, every paper published must clearly examine the direct relationship between a specific environment and human behaviour or Quality of Life outcomes.
To facilitate specialized peer-review routing and thematic organization, the journal reviews and categorizes submissions under the following six permanent research tracks:
  • Track 1: Smart Technology & Digital Behavioral Environments
    Advancing knowledge in cyber-psychology and behavioral dynamics within communication and social media environments; human-machine adaptation within Artificial Intelligent environments; and the spatial or social impacts of Big Data and smart computing environments on digital Quality of Life (QoL).
  • Track 2: Socio-Economic, Management & Public Policy Environments
    Investigating consumer and organizational psychology within business and commercial/retail spaces; the behavioral impacts of household financial stress and local economic equity; and the administrative or behavioral consequences of legal, policy, public sector, and tourism/hospitality environments on community well-being.
  • Track 3: Built Environment, Spatial Design & Spatial Infrastructure
    Exploring site safety behaviors within construction environments; environmental design psychology; human interaction with therapeutic landscaping; housing satisfaction within residential environments; pedestrian, driver, and commuter behavior in transportation environments; and the mitigation of spatial stressors within urban psychology.
  • Track 4: Social, Cultural & Community Interaction Environments
    Analyzing behavioral settings and interpersonal dynamics within community environments; spatial design for physical well-being in sports and recreational environments; cultural behavior settings and local heritage environments (including food culture); rural psychology; and workplace environmental ergonomics.
  • Track 5: Human Development, Spatial Education & Physical Wellbeing
    Examining behavioral settings and spatial accessibility for vulnerable populations within children, youth, elderly, and inclusive/disabled environments; environmental cognition within educational/learning environments; and patient recovery tracking within healing/healthcare environments.
  • Track 6: Sustainability, Energy & Natural Cognitive Environments
    Evaluating conservation behavior and pro-environmental actions within energy environments; sustainable community lifestyles within green environments; and human psychological restoration or wellness derived from the natural environment.
Strict Exclusion Criteria (Out of Scope):
To safeguard editorial integrity and indexing alignment, papers focusing purely on technical coding, computer software algorithms, raw engineering material optimization, corporate supply chains, macroeconomic banking liquidity, stock market trading metrics, corporate accounting matrices, or commercial marketing/advertising metrics without a primary, measurable focus on human behaviour or Quality of Life (QoL) impacts are strictly out of scope and will be summarily rejected at the editorial desk.

 

Copyright and Licensing Terms

The Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal (E-BPJ) operates under a progressive author-retained copyright framework to support unrestricted global scholarly dissemination.
Copyright Ownership
Authors publishing with E-BPJ retain absolute, unrestricted copyright ownership and full publishing rights for their individual articles without limitations.
Licensing Framework
All proceeding papers published in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license. Under this framework, users are free to share, copy, and redistribute the material in any medium or format, provided that appropriate credit is given to the authors and original publication venue, the material is not used for commercial purposes, and no modifications or derivatives are distributed.
Citation Metadata Format
eISSN: 2398-4287 © The Authors. Published for AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers) by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK.

 

Sponsorship and Institutional Backing

The Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal (E-BPJ) is fully sponsored and academically endorsed by the Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers (AMER). As the primary sponsoring entity, AMER provides the essential institutional infrastructure, scientific committee oversight, and scholarly network necessary to sustain the journal's multi-serial international conference proceedings publication cycles. This continuous financial and academic sponsorship ensures that the journal can maintain its open-access model and support global dissemination networks without compromising peer-review stringency or editorial integrity.

 

Privacy and Data Protection Statement

The Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal (E-BPJ) is committed to protecting the personal data and privacy of our authors, reviewers, and portal users.
The names, institutional affiliations, and email addresses entered into this journal platform will be used exclusively for the stated academic and administrative purposes of this journal—including editorial processing, peer-review coordination, and publication notifications. No personal data collected within this site will be made available, sold, or distributed for commercial purposes, nor will it be disclosed to any other third party, except as required by law or international indexing cross-referencing protocols. The journal operates in full compliance with international scholarly data protection standards to ensure complete backend confidentiality.

 

CrossMark Policy and Content Maintenance Statement

The Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal (E-BPJ) participates in CrossMark, a multi-publisher initiative spearheaded by Crossref, to provide a standardized mechanism for global readers to instantly locate the current authoritative version of a published piece of content.

By applying the CrossMark logo to all electronic proceeding papers, E-BPJ commits to permanently maintaining the integrity of the content it publishes and proactively alerting scholarly audiences to formal changes, updates, corrections, or retractions if and when they occur.

Reader Functionality
Clicking on the CrossMark logo embedded within the metadata or PDF of each published proceeding paper will dynamically reveal the active status of the document. Additionally, it may display valuable publication record insights, including open-access licensing details, author ORCID identifiers, and manuscript tracking milestones.

To learn more about the initiative, visit the official CrossMark

 

Digital Object Identifier (Doi)

To ensure permanent digital preservation and seamless cross-publisher citation tracking, the Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal (E-BPJ) assigns a unique, persistent Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to every individual proceeding paper published. 
A DOI serves as a permanent, international digital identifier for an object—whether physical, digital, or abstract—solving the common scholarly challenge of link rot by maintaining a reliable, immutable track of published materials, research assets, and conference activities.
Structure and Resolution
Each DOI consists of a unique alphanumeric string made up of a publisher-specific prefix and an article-specific suffix, systematically separated by a forward slash (for example: 10.21834/ebpj.v11i35.XXXX). These identifiers are machine-readable and fully resolvable via global proxy servers by formatting them as clickable web hyperlinks (e.g., https://doi.org).
Designed for seamless integration across automated indexing scrapers, institutional databases, and human research queries, DOIs allow every published E-BPJ article to be uniquely identified, reliably accessed, and consistently cited across the global scientific network regardless of future server or platform migrations.

 

Content Aggregators

To ensure widespread visibility and open access distribution, the individual proceeding papers and metadata published within the Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal (E-BPJ) are continuously aggregated and indexed across major international scholarly repositories, including:

  • Scilit
    Scilit is a free and comprehensive multidisciplinary scholarly publication database developed and maintained by the open-access publisher MDPI. It indexes over 190 million scholarly publications, including over 49 million open-access articles and 8 million preprints, ensuring that newly published content is fully aggregated and searchable within hours of public release.
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  • WorldCat.org
    WorldCat.org is a premier global network for locating unique, authoritative research materials across thousands of integrated institutional and library collections worldwide. By unifying library catalogs into a single repository, it allows global researchers to discover, cross-reference, and locate full-text electronic entries from one search interface.
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  • Google Scholar
    Google Scholar provides an essential, cross-disciplinary platform to broadly search, track, and cite international scholarly literature. This integration ensures that E-BPJ papers are highly discoverable across institutional, thesis, and abstract indexing queries globally.
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Peer Review Process

The rigorous double-blind peer review process is conducted under the independent academic oversight of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers). To ensure complete academic objectivity and prevent editorial bias, all identifying author information is fully removed prior to manuscript evaluation.
 
Evaluation Framework & Criteria
Papers are distributed to independent, external subject-matter experts from our International Scientific Committee. Reviewers comprehensively evaluate manuscripts based on seven core parameters:
  1. Topic & Alignment: Clear relevance to Environment-Behaviour metrics, a well-defined research background, and precise clarity of aims and objectives.
  2. Literature Review: Demonstration of structural relationships to existing studies, explicit derivation of research gaps from current literature, and integration of contemporary references (preferably published within the last 5 years).
  3. Methodology: Detailed, reproducible descriptions of the empirical or qualitative framework, clear justification of methodological procedures, and transparent acknowledgment of limitations.
  4. Findings: Clear, structured description of data outputs with key empirical findings objectively highlighted.
  5. Analysis & Discussion: Robust interpretation of findings mapped directly back to established environmental psychology theories, initial objectives, and existing literature, with considerations of broader socio-spatial implications.
  6. Conclusions & Recommendations: Retrospective evaluation of the study's explicit theoretical or practical contributions, actionable recommendations for structural improvement, and identification of future research pathways.
  7. Linguistic Vetting & Technical Compliance: Manuscripts must demonstrate a professional level of academic English proficiency. Submissions are rigorously audited for sentence structure, clarity, and grammatical precision to meet international indexing standards. Authors are highly encouraged to utilize professional academic editing services prior to submission. Content must also clear strict illustration clarity requirements and adhere seamlessly to the current APA referencing style.
Academic Integrity & Editorial Verification
To safeguard international scholarly integrity, all submissions undergo a mandatory similarity index audit. The journal enforces a strict maximum plagiarism tolerance threshold of under 30%, verified via professional, industry-standard automated academic detection infrastructure.
Manuscripts receiving evaluation mandates for revisions must submit detailed amendments alongside a point-by-point author rebuttal. Final publication clearance is granted strictly upon verification of these corrections by the editorial board.

 

Publication Frequency

Commencing Year 2022, the Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal (E-BPJ) is officially published four times annually as part of its regular serial cycle. These regular issues are distributed sequentially across defined quarters to ensure consistent publication intervals.
In addition to its four regular annual numbers, the journal occasionally publishes dedicated Special Issues (such as specialized thematic conference volumes). Every Special Issue adheres to the exact same stringent double-blind peer-review guidelines, linguistic standards, and content relevance criteria enforced within our regular publication cycles to ensure continuous indexing compliance.

 

Indexing

The proceeding papers published in the Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal (E-BPJ) have been continuously and automatically indexed in Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science (Conference Proceedings Citation Index - CPCI) from its inception in 2016 through 2025.
Commencing January 2026, in accordance with the updated structural criteria and independent volume-by-volume evaluation models implemented by Clarivate Analytics, each published conference proceedings issue is subjected to an independent evaluation cycle for Web of Science Core Collection inclusion. E-BPJ remains fully committed to maintaining absolute compliance with all core quality and thematic metrics required by international indexing bodies.
In addition to its historical and active Web of Science tracking, E-BPJ is abstracted, indexed, and cross-referenced across major global academic repositories, including:
  • Crossref (Permanent Digital Object Identifiers - DOIs assigned to all published articles)
  • Google Scholar

 

Journal History

The institutional foundations of the Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal (E-BPJ) trace back to 2010. Proceedings of the inaugural international conferences organised by the Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers (AMER) were historically published and accessible online under a formal 5-year contract with Elsevier's Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences (ISSN: 1877-0428) via www.ScienceDirect.com. Reflecting their high academic standards and strict peer-review workflows, those foundational proceedings volumes were all successfully indexed in the Web of Science (formerly Thomson Reuters).
The scheduled conclusion of that contractual framework led to the timely birth of the Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal (E-BPJ) in 2016 (eISSN 2398-4287). The journal was established primarily to sustain the continuous, independent publication of upcoming annual, serial international conferences organized by AMER, frequently in joint partnership with the prestigious institutions making up our international conference organising committees.
Since its inception in 2016, E-BPJ has maintained an unblemished ten-year track record of continuous indexing within the Web of Science Core Collection, strictly preserving its specialized focus on Environment-Behaviour relations, Environmental Psychology, and Quality of Life (QoL) metrics. Moving forward, the journal continues to upgrade its administrative and native platform architectures to ensure ongoing alignment with international indexing benchmarks and global scholarly integrity standards.
The E-BPJ is published by e-IPH Ltd UK.