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Our 3-step submission process

  1. Before you submit

    Before you submit, we recommend familiarizing yourself with the following.

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    To give your manuscript the best chance of publication, follow these editorial policies and formatting guidelines.

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    After acceptance, we provide support so your article gains maximum impact in the scientific community and beyond.

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Annual Journal Metrics

  • 2022 Citation Impact
    11.0 - 2-year Impact Factor
    7.7 - 5-year Impact Factor
    4.106 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
    2.618 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

    2022 Speed
    20 days submission to first editorial decision for all manuscripts (Median)
    160 days submission to accept (Median)

    2022 Usage 
    240,818 downloads
    6 Altmetric mentions 

The journal is indexed by

  • Science Citation Index Expanded
  • Engineering Compendex
  • SCOPUS
  • DOAJ
  • INIS Atomindex
  • Google Scholar
  • EBSCO Discovery Service
  • OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  • ProQuest-ExLibris Summon
  • ProQuest-ExLibris Primo
  • Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China
  • Naver
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) - GoOA
  • INSPEC
  • WTI Frankfurt eG
  • CNKI