The editorial board of the Iraqi Journal of Architecture and Planning met at the department of architecture .The meeting headed by Assistant Prof. Dr. Safaa El-Din Hussein Ali with the attendance of the editorial committee members to discuss the mechanism of enrolling the journal in the SCOPUS database in addition to other international   publishers.  The assignments were distributed for each of the main and supporting editors of the journal, the mechanism of editing and managing each section were discussed starting by submitting the research to the journal website by the researcher, choosing the Scientific evaluators for the research, processing the official correspondence with the researcher on one side and the scientific evaluator on the other side, concluding this procedure by evaluation determination for each research, then submitted the result to the editorial office and to the journal's editor-in-chief.