Journal profile · THERMODYNAMICS-ENGINEERING, MECHANICAL
International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics
ISSN 1756-8277 · eISSN 1756-8285 · SAGE Publications Inc. · UNITED STATES
International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics: CAS Zone 4 · Engineering (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.11; fully open access; APC about USD 4,150; review about 55 days (first decision after review, publisher); community-reported acceptance: easy; 8 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics 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 Combustion and flame dynamics, Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies and Fire dynamics and safety research, together about 56.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Computational Mechanics. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Journal HighlightsIndexed using Clarivate Analytics, Clarivate Analytics: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), SCOPUS, EBSCO and ProQuestInterna...
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): THERMODYNAMICS-ENGINEERING, MECHANICAL
Editor-in-chief Andrea GiustiPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 3 in mainland China (about 10%); most named United States 8, United Kingdom 5, Mainland China 3, India 3, France 3 (31 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Combustion and flame dynamicsEngineering30.7%
- Advanced Combustion Engine TechnologiesChemical Engineering19%
- Fire dynamics and safety researchEngineering7%
- Wind and Air Flow StudiesEnvironmental Science5.1%
- Combustion and Detonation ProcessesEngineering5%
- Fluid Dynamics and Heat TransferEngineering4.6%
- Aerodynamics and Acoustics in Jet FlowsEngineering4.1%
- Computational Fluid Dynamics and AerodynamicsEngineering3.4%
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 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 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Engineering | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Engineering, Mechanical | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Thermodynamics | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
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
- 1.11LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 1.1Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 1.5Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.5LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.44LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.5LetPub ·
- h-index
- 12LetPub ·
- h-index
- 30OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 132OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.83OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 9.1%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 47.62%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 6LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 328 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 23 | 17 | 6 |
| 2025 | 8 | 3 | 6 |
| 2024 | 17 | 10 | 28 |
| 2023 | 21 | 17 | 99 |
| 2022 | 23 | 19 | 150 |
| 2021 | 10 | 6 | 85 |
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 PubMed · to
Too few articlesOnly 2 articles from the last 24 months carry both submission and acceptance dates, too few for a median
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".
Figures by source
- Average review time (community reports)
- over 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 34.7%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 2 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 55 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 33 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Blind 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 accessLetPub
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 4,150 / GBP 3,043 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 1,200 | Yes | — | |
| 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)
What to prepare2 items from the author guidelines
- Keywords
- ≥ 4
- Reference style
- Vancouver
Article types accepted12, with length limits
- brief communicationOriginal Research Article: Research Articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or…Length not stated
- conference paperOriginal Research Article: Research Articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or…Length not stated
- editorialOriginal Research Article: Research Articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or…Length not stated
- letter to the editorOriginal Research Article: Research Articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or…Length not stated
- letters to the editorOriginal Research Article: Research Articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or…Length not stated
- opinionOriginal Research Article: Research Articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or…Length not stated
- original research articleOriginal Research Article: Research Articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or…Length not stated
- perspectiveOriginal Research Article: Research Articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or…Length not stated
- research articleOriginal Research Article: Research Articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or…Length not stated
- reviewOriginal Research Article: Research Articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or…Length not stated
- short communicationOriginal Research Article: Research Articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or…main text ≤ 10,000 words
- viewpointOriginal Research Article: Research Articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- 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
This Journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics. Model summary
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 ·- License & copyright
Manuscript content licensed under Creative Commons Licenses. Model summary
Manuscript content on this site is licensed under Creative Commons Licenses.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal. Optional open access publishing is available for a fee via the Sage Choice program, and Open Access agreements, where authors can publish open access either discounted or free of charge depending on the agreement with Sage. Find out if your institution is participating by visiting Open Access Agreements at Sage. Open Access agreement …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Identity transparency: Single anonymized 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 ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
The journal conforms to the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment as a condition of consideration for publication. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract.
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
- UNITED STATES
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1756-8277
- Electronic ISSN
- 1756-8285
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics
What CAS zone is International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics 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 3 of Engineering. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.11; CiteScore 3.5, h-index 30.
How long does peer review take at International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics?
The publisher reports about 55 days (first decision after review); 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 34.7%. 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 Spray and Combustion Dynamics?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Keywords: ≥ 4; Reference style: Vancouver. 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 Spray and Combustion Dynamics based?
Of the 31 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 3 (about 10%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (8), United Kingdom (5) and Mainland China (3). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics is indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Is International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics open access, and what is the APC?
International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 4,150.
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: .