Production Engineering Archives

Production Engineering Archives is published by Walter de Gruyter 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 Management Systems, Quality and Supply Management and Manufacturing Process and Optimization, together about 31.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Strategy and Management and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The Journal of "Production Engineering Archives" has been published by the Publishing Office of Quality and Production Managers Association since 2013 as a quarterly. It is an international peer-reviewed, open access journal published four times per year only in the English language. It is published both in printed and electronic versions.The works papers which are published in the PEA Journal are devoted to production engineering, quality of materials and technology. The PEA journal accepts review articles, original scientific articles, short communications, case studies. All articles published in Production Engineering Archives are permanently free for everyone to read and download. The journal is on the list of scientific journals of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Presently (since 2013) each paper is awarded with 5 points (the list B, pos. 2039).The Journal "Production Engineering Archives" is the international platform of the scientific exchange within the theory of the production engineering systems organizing, management and functioning theory. The area of interest focuses on the following systems: production, quality, total productive maintenance, materials engineering, environmental protection, occupational health and safety, human resources management including elements of innovation and continuous improvement. Published works include technical, economic and social issues. The articles are published in English. Each manuscript submitted for publication in the PEA journal is reviewed (double blind peer-review). All works published in PEA are available on the Journal's website. The members of the Scientific Committee are eminent specialists in the field of production engineering, materials engineering, quality and safety management, human resources, who are working in Poland and abroad. ScopeSubject areas, suitable for publication, include the following fields:Production engineeringQuality and production managementImprovement of production processesSafety systemQuality and improvement in materials engineeringTPM (Total Productive Maintenance)Advanced technologyIntellectual potential management in production engineering

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Engineering-Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Editor-in-chief Robert UlewiczPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor (publisher)

22Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

5.4LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

54Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.42LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.85LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

29OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

153OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

3.47OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

9.1%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

100%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

52LetPub · 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.

Average review time (community reports)

about 6 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 6 weeksDOAJ · 2026-10-25

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.

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Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

Country or region

Poland

Language

English

ISSN

2353-5156

Electronic ISSN

2353-7779

Official links

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