Journal profile · ENGINEERING, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
International Journal of Production Management and Engineering
ISSN 2340-5317 · eISSN 2340-4876 · Universitat Politecnica de Valencia · Spain
International Journal of Production Management and Engineering: CAS Zone 4 · Engineering (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2 (journal website); fully open access; no APC; review about 20 weeks (community reports); 17 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
International Journal of Production Management and Engineering is published by Universitat Politecnica de Valencia 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 Quality and Supply Management, Sustainable Supply Chain Management and Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization, together about 32.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Strategy and Management. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
International Journal of Production Management and Engineering is an open access scientific journal that publishes theoretical and empirical peer-reviewed articles in English twice a year. Contributions must promote the progress and understanding of phenomena related with all aspects of production engineering and management. Proposals of strategic, tactic or operative challenges in industrial or service organizations, such as individual enterprises, and supply or distribution network approaches, are considered. Morevoer, cross-disciplinary working areas, such a business process modelling, operation research, performance measurement systems, enterprise engineering or information technology, etc., as decision support systems are welcome. Strategy and Design: Physical systems design, supply or distribution network design, business models & modelling, business process, behavioural issues, collaborative networks, risk management, software services and enterprise architectures, KPIs, inventory policies, etc., based on new models, methodologies, techniques, tools, etc. Operations and Control: Demand forecasting, production planning & scheduling, order promising, project management, multi-level lot sizing, routing, etc., using exact heuristic or meta-heuristic methods based on fuzzy logic, mathematical models, intelligence software agents, methodologies, algorithms, etc. Written specifically for and by academic researchers and practitioners of Production Management and Engineering, the Journal provides in-depth coverage of cutting-edge research and applications issues in the corresponding area. The Journal is committed to publishing refereed research papers and review papers that contribute to advance knowledge in the area.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): ENGINEERING, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Editor-in-chief Josefa MulaPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Spain 18, United Kingdom 4, Portugal 3, Germany 2, France 2 (35 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Quality and Supply ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting13.1%
- Sustainable Supply Chain ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting10.2%
- Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics OptimizationEngineering8.8%
- Scheduling and Optimization AlgorithmsEngineering8%
- Digital Transformation in IndustryEngineering7.4%
- Assembly Line Balancing OptimizationEngineering5.7%
- Manufacturing Process and OptimizationEngineering4.6%
- Supply Chain Resilience and Risk ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting4.6%
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, Multidisciplinary | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Engineering Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Engineering | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Engineering, Multidisciplinary | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub
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 (publisher) 2025
- 2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 4.1LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2039
- 4.1Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 4.1Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.41LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2039
- 0.41Publisher website ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.41Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.71LetPub ·
- h-index
- 17OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 48OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.28OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 10%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 17LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 8,178Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 187 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 18 | 18 | 7 |
| 2025 | 17 | 17 | 65 |
| 2024 | 11 | 11 | 79 |
| 2023 | 20 | 20 | 145 |
| 2022 | 18 | 18 | 194 |
| 2021 | 12 | 12 | 255 |
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)
- about 20 weeksLetPub ·
- Desk decision
- 90 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewLetPub
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 accessOpenAlex
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
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 prepare4 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 200 words
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 10,000 words
- Reference style
- APA
- Not considered
- Footnotes or endnotes
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism
- Authorship
Authorship policy requiring all contributors to be named as co-authors. Model summary
All the persons who have a reasonable claim to authorship must be named in the manuscript as co-authors; the corresponding author must be authorized by all co-authors to act as an agent on their behalf in all matters pertaining to the publication of the manuscript.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability
Funding sources must be acknowledged in the manuscript. Model summary
Please supply all the details required by any funding and grant-awarding bodies as an Acknowledgement in the manuscript and in a separate paragraph (see Funding sources policy).
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright Notice
The works published in this journal are subject to the following terms: 1. The authors retain the authorship rights and grant the journal the right of first publication, with the work available under a license specified in point 2. 2. The works are published in the online edition of the journal under a Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International. You can share (copy and redistri…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license for published works (from Vol. 11 Iss. 2, 2023). Model summary
The works are published in the online edition of the journal under a Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Double-blind peer review process. Model summary
If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review must be followed.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism
Plagiarism policy requiring original work. Model summary
Authors warrant that, apart from any such third party copyright material included in the paper, the paper is their original work does not infringe the intellectual property rights of any other person or entity, and cannot be construed as plagiarizing any other published work.
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
- Universitat Politecnica de Valencia
- Country or region
- Spain
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2340-5317
- Electronic ISSN
- 2340-4876
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about International Journal of Production Management and Engineering
What CAS zone is International Journal of Production Management and Engineering in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, International Journal of Production Management and Engineering is in Zone 4 of Engineering, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Engineering, Multidisciplinary. 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 International Journal of Production Management and Engineering?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 2 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 4.1, h-index 17.
How long does peer review take at International Journal of Production Management and Engineering?
Authors report an average review time of about 20 weeks. 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 are the manuscript requirements of International Journal of Production Management and Engineering?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 200 words; Manuscript length: ≤ 10,000 words; Reference style: APA. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of International Journal of Production Management and Engineering based?
Of the 35 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Spain (18), United Kingdom (4) and Portugal (3). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index International Journal of Production Management and Engineering?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, International Journal of Production Management and Engineering is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is International Journal of Production Management and Engineering open access, and what is the APC?
International Journal of Production Management and Engineering is a fully open-access journal. It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; 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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .