Journal profile · Engineering, Mechanical
Advances in Mechanical Engineering
ISSN 1687-8132 · eISSN 1687-8140 · SAGE Publications Inc. · ENGLAND · Continuous publication · Founded 2009
Advances in Mechanical Engineering: CAS Zone 4 · Engineering (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.16; fully open access; APC about USD 2,650; review 6–12 weeks (community reports); community-reported acceptance: easy; 263 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Advances in Mechanical Engineering is published by SAGE Publications Inc. and is in Zone 4 of Engineering in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Hydraulic and Pneumatic Systems, Advanced machining processes and optimization and Gear and Bearing Dynamics Analysis, together about 23.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Mechanical Engineering. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Advances in Mechanical Engineering (AIME) is a JCR Ranked, peer-reviewed, open access journal which publishes a wide range of original research and review articles. The journal Editorial Board welcomes manuscripts in both fundamental and applied research areas, and encourages submissions which contribute novel and innovative insights to the field of mechanical engineering. All submitted articles ... View full journal description This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Engineering, Mechanical
Editor-in-chief Jing ShiPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 19 in mainland China (about 19%); most named Mainland China 19, Italy 12, United States 8, India 6, United Kingdom 5 (102 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Hydraulic and Pneumatic SystemsEngineering8.7%
- Advanced machining processes and optimizationEngineering7.4%
- Gear and Bearing Dynamics AnalysisEngineering7.1%
- Nanofluid Flow and Heat TransferEngineering5.2%
- Tribology and Lubrication EngineeringEngineering5%
- Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent FlowsEngineering4.6%
- Heat Transfer MechanismsEngineering4.5%
- Mechanical Engineering and Vibrations ResearchEngineering4.5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Engineering Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Engineering | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Engineering, Mechanical | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Thermodynamics | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Engineering Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Engineering | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Thermodynamics | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Engineering, Mechanical | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Engineering Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Engineering | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Engineering, Mechanical | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Thermodynamics | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 2.16LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 2.3Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 2.3Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 4.1LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.4LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.77LetPub ·
- h-index
- 29LetPub ·
- h-index
- 86OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 2,681OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.21OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 4.3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 99.78%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 263LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 6,929 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 149 | 149 | 34 |
| 2025 | 263 | 263 | 624 |
| 2024 | 361 | 361 | 1,820 |
| 2023 | 290 | 290 | 2,236 |
| 2022 | 408 | 408 | 3,646 |
| 2021 | 381 | 381 | 4,703 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- 6–12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 35%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 3 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 33 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 16 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | USD 2,650 | Yes | CC BY | |
| OpenAlex | USD 2,650 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 2,650 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 3,200 | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare1 items from the author guidelines
- Reference style
- Vancouver
Article types accepted10
- brief communicationView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Original Research Article: Describes a piece of complete or substantially complete research, or so…Length not stated
- editorialView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Original Research Article: Describes a piece of complete or substantially complete research, or so…Length not stated
- letter to the editorView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Original Research Article: Describes a piece of complete or substantially complete research, or so…Length not stated
- letters to the editorView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Original Research Article: Describes a piece of complete or substantially complete research, or so…Length not stated
- opinionView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Original Research Article: Describes a piece of complete or substantially complete research, or so…Length not stated
- original research articleView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Original Research Article: Describes a piece of complete or substantially complete research, or so…Length not stated
- perspectiveView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Original Research Article: Describes a piece of complete or substantially complete research, or so…Length not stated
- reviewView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Original Research Article: Describes a piece of complete or substantially complete research, or so…Length not stated
- short communicationView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Original Research Article: Describes a piece of complete or substantially complete research, or so…Length not stated
- viewpointView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Original Research Article: Describes a piece of complete or substantially complete research, or so…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints
- Authorship Author contributions
You will be asked to list the contribution of each author as part of the submission process. Please include the Author Contributions heading within your submission after the Acknowledgements section. The information you give on submission will then show under the Author Contributions heading later at the proofing stage.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
Online-only journal Model summary
Advances in Mechanical Engineering is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. All accepted articles are made freely available online immediately upon publication, are published under a Creative Commons license, and hosted online in perpetuity. If, after peer review, your manuscript is accepted for publication, a one-time article processing charge (APC) is payable to cover the cost of publishing, pa…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Single anonymized review Model summary
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Single Anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscripts may be desk rejec…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Inc.
- Country or region
- ENGLAND
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Continuous publication
- Founded
- 2009
- ISSN
- 1687-8132
- Electronic ISSN
- 1687-8140
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Advances in Mechanical Engineering
What CAS zone is Advances in Mechanical Engineering in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Advances in Mechanical Engineering is in Zone 4 of Engineering, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Engineering, Mechanical / Thermodynamics. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Engineering. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Advances in Mechanical Engineering?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.16; CiteScore 4.1, h-index 86.
How long does peer review take at Advances in Mechanical Engineering?
Authors report an average review time of 6–12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 35%. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Where are the editorial board members of Advances in Mechanical Engineering based?
Of the 102 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 19 (about 19%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Mainland China (19), Italy (12) and United States (8). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Advances in Mechanical Engineering?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Advances in Mechanical Engineering is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Advances in Mechanical Engineering open access, and what is the APC?
Advances in Mechanical Engineering is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,650.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .