31 July 2015 marked the first anniversary of the publication of the very first paper in Cogent Engineering. Shortly afterwards, we accepted our 100th article. These events are milestones for our young journal which I cordially invite our authors, readers, reviewers, editors and staff to join me in celebrating.
Together, we have achieved much: a range of carefully refereed and professionally edited research papers and state-of-the-art review articles covering all major engineering disciplines; an authorship and an editorship representing six populated continents; and a readership to date of more than 25,000 also drawn from across the globe.
A wide readership is, of course, one of the main benefits of open-access publishing which extends circulation far beyond the traditional readers group often said to be made up of just the authors, reviewers and editors! In contrast, our papers have each attracted hundreds of downloads on average. This bodes well for future citation statistics. Indeed, several of our articles have already been quoted and I expect citation rates to rise quickly in the coming years.
To appreciate the quality of the papers we publish, I encourage you to check out some of them, for example:
| • | the most cited and downloaded article “DTALite: A queue-based mesoscopic traffic simulator for fast model evaluation and calibration” (DOI: 10.1080/23311916.2014.961345), by Zhou and Taylor, in our Civil and Environmental Engineering section; | ||||
| • | another well-read and cited paper, “On partial approximate controllability of semilinear systems” (DOI: 10.1080/23311916.2014.965947), by Bashirov and Ghahramanlou, from our Systems and Control Engineering section; | ||||
| • | an extensive and much downloaded survey paper, “Telemedicine: A brief analysis” (DOI: 10.1080/23311916.2014.966459), by Gupta et al., from our Biomedical Engineering section; | ||||
| • | a similarly popular research paper, “An integer linear programming for a comprehensive reverse supply chain” (DOI: 10.1080/23311916.2014.939440), by Mahmoudi and Fazlollahtabar, within our Production and Manufacturing Engineering section; and | ||||
| • | our current fastest rising star review article, “Self-healing composites: A review” (DOI: 10.1080/23311916.2015.1075686), by Wang et al., within our Materials Engineering section. | ||||
These are just a small sample of the papers featured in Cogent Engineering so far. They should nevertheless give you a flavour of our journal and reflect our quality. They should evidence our fresh approach to peer review, with work evaluated according to its methodological soundness and relevance rather than a predicted level of future importance. Hopefully, they will inspire you to read other Cogent Engineering articles and to contribute your work to the journal.
Editor-in-Chief
University of Birmingham, UK
E-mail: [email protected]