Journal profile · MATERIALS SCIENCE, TEXTILES
Journal of Industrial Textiles
ISSN 1528-0837 · eISSN 1530-8057 · SAGE Publications Ltd · UNITED STATES · Quarterly
Journal of Industrial Textiles: CAS Zone 4 · Engineering (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.21; fully open access; APC about USD 2,100; review over 12 weeks (community reports); community-reported acceptance: easy; 110 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Industrial Textiles is published by SAGE Publications Ltd 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 Textile materials and evaluations, Mechanical Behavior of Composites and Natural Fiber Reinforced Composites, together about 39.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Polymers and Plastics. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Journal of Industrial Textiles is a leading peer-reviewed journal devoted exclusively to technology, processing, methodology, modelling and applications in technical textiles, nonwovens, coated and laminated fabrics, textile composites and nanofibers.JIT publishes research-based articles by specialist and researchers on developments in technical textile materials as well as emerging state-of-the-art research areas including sustainable and circular materials, textile recycling and life-cycle assessment and bio-based and biodegradable fibers. These papers deal with research in Agrotech, Buildtech, Clothtech, Geotech, Hometech, Indutech, Medtech, Mobiltech, Packtech, Protech, Sporttech, Oekotech and Nanotech. JIT presents peer-reviewed research and review papers from leading research organizations, universities, industrial laboratories, government research centers, and independent researchers.This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Submission information Submit your manuscript today at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jit. Please see the Submission Guidelines tab (on the right side of this page) for more information on how to submit your article to the journal.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): MATERIALS SCIENCE, TEXTILES
Editor-in-chief Amit RawalPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 3%); most named India 9, Türkiye 5, United States 4, Australia 3, Egypt 3 (38 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Textile materials and evaluationsMaterials Science22%
- Mechanical Behavior of CompositesEngineering9.6%
- Natural Fiber Reinforced CompositesMaterials Science8.3%
- Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting MaterialsEngineering8%
- Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical ApplicationsMaterials Science7.8%
- Dyeing and Modifying Textile FibersEngineering4.4%
- Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing TechnologiesEngineering4.1%
- Fiber-reinforced polymer compositesEngineering3.1%
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 | Materials Science, Textiles | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Engineering Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Engineering | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Materials Science, Textiles | 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 | Materials Science, Textiles | Zone 3 |
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
- 2.21LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 2.3Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 2.9Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 8.3LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.52LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.88LetPub ·
- h-index
- 31LetPub ·
- h-index
- 75OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,126OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.8OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 4.3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 99.7%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 108LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,701 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 31 | 31 | 5 |
| 2025 | 110 | 110 | 493 |
| 2024 | 117 | 117 | 741 |
| 2023 | 112 | 112 | 776 |
| 2022 | 240 | 240 | 2,268 |
| 2021 | 151 | 150 | 2,386 |
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)
- over 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 18.3%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 2 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 28 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 32 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double 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 2,100 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC | |
| Publisher website | USD 2,400 | — | — |
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
- Reference style
- Vancouver
- Suggested reviewers
- Required
Article types accepted11
- brief communicationJournal of Industrial Textiles publishes research-based articles by specialists on new developments in technical textile materials including fibers, fibrous ass…Length not stated
- editorialJournal of Industrial Textiles publishes research-based articles by specialists on new developments in technical textile materials including fibers, fibrous ass…Length not stated
- letter to the editorJournal of Industrial Textiles publishes research-based articles by specialists on new developments in technical textile materials including fibers, fibrous ass…Length not stated
- letters to the editorJournal of Industrial Textiles publishes research-based articles by specialists on new developments in technical textile materials including fibers, fibrous ass…Length not stated
- opinionJournal of Industrial Textiles publishes research-based articles by specialists on new developments in technical textile materials including fibers, fibrous ass…Length not stated
- original research articleJournal of Industrial Textiles publishes research-based articles by specialists on new developments in technical textile materials including fibers, fibrous ass…Length not stated
- perspectiveJournal of Industrial Textiles publishes research-based articles by specialists on new developments in technical textile materials including fibers, fibrous ass…Length not stated
- research articleJournal of Industrial Textiles publishes research-based articles by specialists on new developments in technical textile materials including fibers, fibrous ass…Length not stated
- reviewJournal of Industrial Textiles publishes research-based articles by specialists on new developments in technical textile materials including fibers, fibrous ass…Length not stated
- short communicationJournal of Industrial Textiles publishes research-based articles by specialists on new developments in technical textile materials including fibers, fibrous ass…Length not stated
- viewpointJournal of Industrial Textiles publishes research-based articles by specialists on new developments in technical textile materials including fibers, fibrous ass…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Authorship
Please view our authorship policies, which includes information on criteria for authorship, who should be the corresponding author and more. Please note that AI chatbots, for example ChatGPT, should not be listed as authors. For more information see the policy on Use of ChatGPT and generative AI tools.
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
Member of 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 ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
Journal of Industrial Textiles 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, paid b…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Double anonymized peer review Model summary
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Double-anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor/Authors 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 de…
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 Ltd
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- ISSN
- 1528-0837
- Electronic ISSN
- 1530-8057
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
- Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗DOAJ
- Editorial board ↗DOAJ
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Industrial Textiles
What CAS zone is Journal of Industrial Textiles in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Journal of Industrial Textiles is in Zone 4 of Engineering, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Materials Science, Textiles. 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 Journal of Industrial Textiles?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.21; CiteScore 8.3, h-index 75.
How long does peer review take at Journal of Industrial Textiles?
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 18.3%. 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 Journal of Industrial Textiles?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Reference style: Vancouver; Suggested reviewers: Required. 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 Journal of Industrial Textiles based?
Of the 38 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 1 (about 3%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are India (9), Türkiye (5) and United States (4). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Journal of Industrial Textiles?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Industrial Textiles is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Journal of Industrial Textiles open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Industrial Textiles is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,100.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, DOAJ, 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: .