Journal of Aircraft

Journal of Aircraft is published by American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc. (AIAA) 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 Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics, Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows and Aerospace and Aviation Technology, together about 38.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Aerospace Engineering. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

This journal is devoted to the advancement of the applied science and technology of airborne flight through the dissemination of original archival papers describing significant advances in aircraft, the operation of aircraft, and applications of aircraft technology to other fields. The journal publishes qualified papers on aircraft systems, air transportation, air traffic management, and multidisciplinary design optimization of aircraft, flight mechanics, flight and ground testing, applied computational fluid dynamics, flight safety, weather and noise hazards, human factors, airport design, airline operations, application of computers to aircraft including artificial intelligence/expert systems, production methods, engineering economic analyses, affordability, reliability, maintainability, and logistics support, integration of propulsion and control systems into aircraft design and operations, aircraft aerodynamics (including unsteady aerodynamics), structural design/dynamics, aeroelasticity, and aeroacoustics. It publishes papers on general aviation, military and civilian aircraft, UAV, STOL and V/STOL, subsonic, supersonic, transonic, and hypersonic aircraft. Papers are sought which comprehensively survey results of recent technical work with emphasis on aircraft technology application.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Engineering, Aerospace

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

2.29LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

5.5LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.59LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.18LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

84LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

140OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

5,407OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.73OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

12.5%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

1.04%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

227LetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

Other sources

Average review time (community reports)

3–6 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

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The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Publisher

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc. (AIAA)

Country or region

UNITED STATES

Language

English

Frequency

Bimonthly

Founded

1964

ISSN

0021-8669

Electronic ISSN

1533-3868

Latest issue on the website

Volume 63 (August 2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website