Journal profile · Engineering, Mechanical
Experimental Heat Transfer
ISSN 0891-6152 · eISSN 1521-0480 · Taylor and Francis Ltd. · UNITED STATES · Quarterly
Experimental Heat Transfer: CAS Zone 3 · Engineering (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.95; JCR Q2 (journal website); subscription journal; APC charged, amount not published; median 108 days to acceptance (61 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: easy; 24 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Experimental Heat Transfer is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. and is in Zone 3 of Engineering in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Heat Transfer and Optimization, Heat Transfer Mechanisms and Heat Transfer and Boiling Studies, together about 52.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Mechanical Engineering and Computational Mechanics. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Experimental Heat Transfer provides a forum for experimentally based high quality research articles and communications in the general area of heat-mass transfer and the related energy fields. In addition to the established multifaceted areas of heat transfer and the associated thermal energy conversion, transport, and storage, the journal also communicates contributions from new and emerging areas of research such as micro- and nanoscale science and technology, life sciences and biomedical engineering, manufacturing processes, materials science, and engineering. Heat transfer plays an important role in all of these areas, particularly in the form of innovative experiments and systems for direct measurements and analysis, as well as to verify or complement theoretical models. All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer reviews are single anonymized. Original, normal size articles, as well as technical notes are considered. Review articles require previous communication and approval by the Editor before submission for further consideration. Readership: Engineers and scientists in instrumentation; experimental and laser technology; heat transfer; and nuclear, petroleum, fluid, civil, energy, chemical, and mechanical engineering.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Engineering, Mechanical
Editor-in-chief Dimos PoulikakosPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United Kingdom 1, Australia 1, Switzerland 1 (3 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Heat Transfer and OptimizationEngineering18.6%
- Heat Transfer MechanismsEngineering18.2%
- Heat Transfer and Boiling StudiesEngineering15.3%
- Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent FlowsEngineering8.2%
- Nanofluid Flow and Heat TransferEngineering7.9%
- Combustion and flame dynamicsEngineering2.4%
- Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic SystemsEnergy2.4%
- Refrigeration and Air Conditioning TechnologiesEngineering2.1%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Engineering Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Engineering | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Engineering, Mechanical | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Thermodynamics | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Engineering Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Engineering | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Thermodynamics | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Engineering, Mechanical | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Engineering Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Engineering | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Engineering, Mechanical | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Thermodynamics | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q2 · best quartile · 2025
- CiteScore Q1 · 2025
Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
EI CompendexPublisher website
Other: CSA: Corrosion Abstracts, SA: Mechanical Engineering Abstracts, CSA: Metals Abstracts/METADEX, CSA: Solid State & Superconductivity Abstracts, CSA: Technology Research Database
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
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
- 2.95LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 3.1Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.5Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 7.4LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 7.4Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.59LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.59Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.08LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 1.08Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 29LetPub ·
- h-index
- 51OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 582OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.09OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 22.6%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0.89%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 27LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 30,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,165 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 28 | 3 | 12 |
| 2025 | 24 | 0 | 92 |
| 2024 | 43 | 3 | 285 |
| 2023 | 46 | 2 | 385 |
| 2022 | 68 | 4 | 816 |
| 2021 | 46 | 2 | 588 |
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
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
108 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 86 days – 145 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 11 days (61 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 118 days
- Sample
- 61 articles with submission and acceptance dates (67 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- over 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 10%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 94 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 88 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 12 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
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
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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)
Article types accepted3
- original, normal size articlesOriginal, normal size articles, as well as technical notes are considered.Length not stated
- review articlesReview articles require previous communication and approval by the Editor before submission for further consideration.Length not stated
- technical notesOriginal, normal size articles, as well as technical notes are considered.Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access
- Open access Open access
Experimental Heat Transfer is a hybrid open access journal that is part of the Taylor & Francis Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research. Why choose open access? Increase the discoverability …
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
- Taylor and Francis Ltd.
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- ISSN
- 0891-6152
- Electronic ISSN
- 1521-0480
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 39, Issue 6 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Experimental Heat Transfer
What CAS zone is Experimental Heat Transfer in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Experimental Heat Transfer is in Zone 3 of Engineering, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Engineering, Mechanical / Thermodynamics. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Engineering. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Experimental Heat Transfer?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.95; CiteScore 7.4, h-index 51.
How long does peer review take at Experimental Heat Transfer?
Based on the dates recorded on 61 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 108 days (interquartile range 86–145 days); authors report an average review time of over 12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 10%. 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.
What JCR quartile is Experimental Heat Transfer in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q2 (best quartile). JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones; in the CAS ranking the journal is in Zone 3 of Engineering.
Where are the editorial board members of Experimental Heat Transfer based?
Of the 3 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United Kingdom (1), Australia (1) and Switzerland (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Experimental Heat Transfer?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Experimental Heat Transfer is indexed in SCIE and Scopus. The journal's website also lists EI Compendex; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Experimental Heat Transfer open access, and what is the APC?
Experimental Heat Transfer is a subscription journal. APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; 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: .