Journal profile · Engineering, Mechanical
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part B Journal of Engineering Manufacture
ISSN 0954-4054 · eISSN 2041-2975 · SAGE Publications Inc. · ENGLAND · Monthly · Founded 1983
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part B Journal of Engineering Manufacture: CAS Zone 4 · Engineering (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.98; subscription journal; APC about USD 4,150; review about 2.8 months (community reports); community-reported acceptance: easy; 174 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part B Journal of Engineering Manufacture 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 Advanced machining processes and optimization, Advanced Surface Polishing Techniques and Manufacturing Process and Optimization, together about 41.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Mechanical Engineering. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Journal of Engineering Manufacture provides a focus for new developments in engineering manufacture, covering technological and scientific rese...
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Engineering, Mechanical
Editor-in-chief P G MaropoulosPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 6 in mainland China (about 17%); most named United Kingdom 13, Mainland China 6, United States 5, Hong Kong, China 2, Portugal 2 (36 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Advanced machining processes and optimizationEngineering18.6%
- Advanced Surface Polishing TechniquesEngineering12.3%
- Manufacturing Process and OptimizationEngineering10.7%
- Advanced Machining and Optimization TechniquesEngineering9%
- Metal Forming Simulation TechniquesEngineering5.1%
- Metallurgy and Material FormingEngineering4.7%
- Advanced Measurement and Metrology TechniquesEngineering4.7%
- Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing TechnologiesEngineering3.6%
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, Manufacturing | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Engineering, Mechanical | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Engineering Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Engineering | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Engineering, Manufacturing | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Engineering, Mechanical | Zone 4 |
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 | Engineering, Manufacturing | 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
- 1.98LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 2.1Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 2.2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 5.1LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.45LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.9LetPub ·
- h-index
- 51LetPub ·
- h-index
- 95OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 2,758OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.92OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 19%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 1.38%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 173LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 5,433 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 127 | 5 | 63 |
| 2025 | 174 | 3 | 211 |
| 2024 | 180 | 18 | 650 |
| 2023 | 156 | 13 | 1,100 |
| 2022 | 226 | 15 | 1,947 |
| 2021 | 155 | 17 | 1,809 |
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 2.8 monthsLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 4,150 / GBP 3,043 | — | — | |
| 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
- Abstract
- 150–200 words
- Reference style
- Vancouver
Article types accepted10, with length limits
- brief communicationPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Original Research Article: Describes a piece of complete o…Length not stated
- editorialPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Original Research Article: Describes a piece of complete o…Length not stated
- letter to the editorPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Original Research Article: Describes a piece of complete o…Length not stated
- letters to the editorPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Original Research Article: Describes a piece of complete o…Length not stated
- opinionPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Original Research Article: Describes a piece of complete o…Length not stated
- original research articlePlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Original Research Article: Describes a piece of complete o…main text ≤ 7,000 words
- perspectivePlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Original Research Article: Describes a piece of complete o…Length not stated
- reviewPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Original Research Article: Describes a piece of complete o…Length not stated
- short communicationPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Original Research Article: Describes a piece of complete o…main text ≤ 2,000 words
- viewpointPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. Original Research Article: Describes a piece of complete o…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
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
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal. Figures submitted in color will be published in color in the online version of the journal at no cost. For specifically requested colour reproduction in print, you will receive information regarding the costs from Sage after receipt of your accepted article. Optional open access publishing is available for a fee via the Sage Choice pr…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Single-anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Associate Editors 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…
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
- ENGLAND
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Founded
- 1983
- ISSN
- 0954-4054
- Electronic ISSN
- 2041-2975
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part B Journal of Engineering Manufacture
What CAS zone is Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part B Journal of Engineering Manufacture in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part B Journal of Engineering Manufacture is in Zone 4 of Engineering, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Engineering, Manufacturing / Engineering, Mechanical. 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 Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part B Journal of Engineering Manufacture?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.98; CiteScore 5.1, h-index 95.
How long does peer review take at Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part B Journal of Engineering Manufacture?
Authors report an average review time of about 2.8 months; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”. 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 Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part B Journal of Engineering Manufacture?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: 150–200 words; 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 Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part B Journal of Engineering Manufacture based?
Of the 36 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 6 (about 17%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United Kingdom (13), Mainland China (6) and United States (5). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part B Journal of Engineering Manufacture?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part B Journal of Engineering Manufacture is indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Is Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part B Journal of Engineering Manufacture open access, and what is the APC?
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part B Journal of Engineering Manufacture is a subscription journal. APC about USD 4,150.
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: .