Journal profile · Materials Science, Textiles
Textile Research Journal
ISSN 0040-5175 · eISSN 1746-7748 · SAGE Publications Ltd · UNITED STATES · Semimonthly · Founded 1945
Textile Research Journal: CAS Zone 4 · Engineering (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.05; hybrid open access; APC about USD 4,150; review about 1.3 months (community reports); community-reported acceptance: 50%; 268 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus; flagged on an early-warning list or for an indexing change: check before submitting.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Textile Research Journal 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, Dyeing and Modifying Textile Fibers and Mechanical Behavior of Composites, together about 55.7% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Textile Research Journal (TRJ) is the one and only globally recognised peer reviewed flagship journal for textiles. Over the years, it has made its mark on the shaping of textile research and innovation worldwide. The journal is devoted to the dissemination of theoretical and applied scientific knowledge in materials, chemistry, processes, manufacture, and … | View full journal description This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Materials Science, Textiles
Editor-in-chief Roshan PaulPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 4 in mainland China (about 14%); most named United States 5, Mainland China 4, India 3, United Kingdom 2, Türkiye 2 (29 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Textile materials and evaluationsMaterials Science34.9%
- Dyeing and Modifying Textile FibersEngineering15.2%
- Mechanical Behavior of CompositesEngineering5.6%
- Industrial Vision Systems and Defect DetectionEngineering3.8%
- Material Properties and ProcessingEngineering3.5%
- Structural Analysis and OptimizationEngineering3.2%
- Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting MaterialsEngineering2.9%
- Research in Cotton CultivationAgricultural and Biological Sciences2.6%
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 | 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 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
Early warning / risk: CAS Early Warning Journal List: listed in the 2023 edition (medium risk); not listed in the other 5 editions.LetPub
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
- 2.05LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 2.2Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 2.3Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 5.1LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.5LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.9LetPub ·
- h-index
- 74LetPub ·
- h-index
- 125OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 6,320OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.6OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 13.6%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 8.57%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 269LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 18,503 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 103 | 21 | 4 |
| 2025 | 268 | 84 | 406 |
| 2024 | 242 | 78 | 1,181 |
| 2023 | 277 | 90 | 1,815 |
| 2022 | 365 | 39 | 3,097 |
| 2021 | 326 | 42 | 3,789 |
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 1.3 monthsLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- 50%LetPub ·
- Peer review
- Double 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
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 4,150 / GBP 3,043 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 775 | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Submission fee
- USD 775
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 prepare6 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 250 words
- Keywords
- ≥ 3
- Reference style
- Vancouver
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted13
- editorialContributions suitable for Textile Research Journal should fall into one of the following classifications: Original research articles, presenting important new …Length not stated
- letters to the editorContributions suitable for Textile Research Journal should fall into one of the following classifications: Original research articles, presenting important new …Length not stated
- opinionContributions suitable for Textile Research Journal should fall into one of the following classifications: Original research articles, presenting important new …Length not stated
- original articleContributions suitable for Textile Research Journal should fall into one of the following classifications: Original research articles, presenting important new …Length not stated
- original research articleContributions suitable for Textile Research Journal should fall into one of the following classifications: Original research articles, presenting important new …Length not stated
- original research articlesOriginal research articles, presenting important new information and data in any area of science related to the textile and allied fieldsLength not stated
- perspectiveContributions suitable for Textile Research Journal should fall into one of the following classifications: Original research articles, presenting important new …Length not stated
- reviewContributions suitable for Textile Research Journal should fall into one of the following classifications: Original research articles, presenting important new …Length not stated
- review articleContributions suitable for Textile Research Journal should fall into one of the following classifications: Original research articles, presenting important new …Length not stated
- review articlesReview articles of an authoritative and critical nature on a topic of major importanceLength not stated
- short communicationContributions suitable for Textile Research Journal should fall into one of the following classifications: Original research articles, presenting important new …Length not stated
- short communicationsShort Communications, presenting important new information and data with a page limit of two - five pages.Length not stated
- technical articlesTechnical articles describing development work, engineering advances and innovations in manufacture and processingLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints
- 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
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
Online-only journal Model summary
To help support the cost of wide dissemination of research, the author is required to pay a publication charge. The publication charge is currently US$775 per article +VAT where applicable. Payment of this charge entitles an author to access to 50 complimentary e-prints. Additional reprints can be purchased and timely payment of publication charges is expected. No charge will be imposed for publis…
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 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 ·
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
- Semimonthly
- Founded
- 1945
- ISSN
- 0040-5175
- Electronic ISSN
- 1746-7748
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Textile Research Journal
What CAS zone is Textile Research Journal in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Textile Research Journal 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 Textile Research Journal?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.05; CiteScore 5.1, h-index 125.
How long does peer review take at Textile Research Journal?
Authors report an average review time of about 1.3 months; the community-reported acceptance is “50%”. 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 Textile Research Journal?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 250 words; Keywords: ≥ 3; Reference style: Vancouver; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Optional; Cover letter: 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 Textile Research Journal based?
Of the 29 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 4 (about 14%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (5), Mainland China (4) and India (3). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Textile Research Journal?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Textile Research Journal is indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Is Textile Research Journal open access, and what is the APC?
Textile Research Journal is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: 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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .