About this journal

Aims and scope

One of the largest, multidisciplinary open access engineering journals of peer-reviewed research, Cogent Engineering, part of the Taylor & Francis Group, covers all areas of engineering and technology, from chemical engineering to computer science, and mechanical to materials engineering. Cogent Engineering encourages interdisciplinary research and also accepts negative results, software article, replication studies and reviews.

The journal’s Editor-in-Chief, Professor Duc Pham (University of Birmingham, UK) leads a diverse and talented editorial team from institutions around the World. Our editors, each a specialist in their subject area, assess manuscripts objectively and fairly and provide quality, constructive and timely peer review. Article-level metrics allow the research to be assessed on its own merit.

With all articles free to read and download, research can be accessed by a large global audience; as the journal is included in a number of international indexes, including Scopus, Web of Science and IET Inspec, it is more discoverable than ever. Cogent Engineering is a fully peer-reviewed, open access scholarly journal with a mission to help researchers publish their work for a global audience and discover new and exciting connections.

Cogent Engineering considers original primary research articles, review articles, rapid communications and software articles in any of the following areas of engineering research:

Biomedical Engineering

Covering all aspects of the rapidly developing interface of engineering and medicine, submissions are welcomed on biomechanics, biomaterials, bio-mechatronics, bionics, tissue engineering, and medical devices. All areas of advanced medical imaging, bioinformatics, computational modelling, tools and clinical applications to orthopedics, cardiovascular system, dental, skin, rehabilitation are encouraged.

Chemical Engineering

Chemical engineering is a discipline that can make our lives better via manufacturing high-quality industrial and consumer products, and providing sustainable energy, healthy food, affordable healthcare, clean water and environment. We welcome manuscripts addressing global challenges, and scientific and technical issues relevant to a wide range of chemical processes and products including functional materials.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Covers all areas of infrastructure development, including structural, building, transportation (roads, rail tracks and runways), environmental, geotechnical and geoenvironmental, hydraulics and water resources, waste disposal and utilization, construction, site management, cost-benefit analysis, risk analysis, climate change impacts, and sustainability.

Computer Science

Covering the full array of computer science, this section accepts submissions on all topics covering, but not limited to, networks, telecommunications, cyber-security, human-computer interactions, wireless technologies, information and technology management, mobile technology, artificial intelligence, data engineering, process modelling, sensor networks, cryptology, and computer vision.

Electrical & Electronic Engineering

All major fields in electrical and electronic engineering are accepted, including power systems: sustainable energy, smart grids, communications, signal processing, sensors and sensing technology as well as their intersection with topics covered in the systems & control and computer science sections such as robotics and AI, VR , sensors, antennas and more.

Materials Engineering

The entire spectrum of materials science, engineering and technology is covered. Submissions dealing with design, synthesis, characterization, modelling, testing, processing and use of materials are all welcome. Papers on bio-inspired materials, novel active materials, functional materials, self-healing materials and any other new materials, as well as their exploitation to create smart artefacts and adaptive structures for applications in engineering and beyond are of particular interest.

Mechanical Engineering


Covers the science, art and practice of mechanical engineering as well as its interactions with other disciplines. The section publishes technical and survey papers in all areas of mechanical engineering including aerodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, computer-aided design, computer-aided engineering, computer-aided manufacture, control systems, engineering design, finite-elements analysis, fluid mechanics, fracture mechanics, mechatronics, MEMS, metrology, microsystems, nanotechnology, plasticity, solid mechanics, sound and vibrations, structural dynamics, thermodynamics and tribology.

Production & Manufacturing

Bridging the gap between theoretical research and industrial applications on advanced production and manufacturing systems, topics related to production design and simulation, manufacturing planning and optimization, production measurement and operation, product quality control and maintenance, logistics systems are welcome. Emerging production and manufacturing areas such as manufacturing intelligence, manufacturing service, robotic manufacturing/re-manufacturing, sustainable manufacturing approaches, cyber-physical production systems, and industrial big data, are also considered for publication.

Systems & Control

A forum for the rapid dissemination of research results on both new theoretical contributions and novel applications of established theories in systems and control engineering. Apart from traditional areas and topics, we encourage papers on new developments including cyber-physical systems, hybrid systems, autonomous systems, event-triggered and data-driven systems, quantum systems, and their control applications.

Cogent Engineering takes an objective and constructive approach to peer review, with editorial teams evaluating work based on its methodological soundness and relevance rather than a predicted level of future importance. A host of post-publication metrics will indicate the ongoing impact of each individual article.

What can authors expect from Cogent Engineering ?

  • A simple and friendly publishing service
  • Immediate, free access to your article for anyone anywhere in the world
  • Rigorous peer review featuring constructive dialogue with experts
  • Fast publication on a state-of-the-art platform
  • Innovative article-level performance metrics
  • Global marketing
  • High production values
  • Extensive indexing and archiving of your work
  • Retention of the full copyright in their work


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Journal metrics

Usage

  • 1.2M annual downloads/views

Citation metrics

  • 2.1 (2023) Impact Factor
  • Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
  • 2.0 (2023) 5 year IF
  • 4.0 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
  • Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
  • 0.907 (2023) SNIP
  • 0.428 (2023) SJR

Speed/acceptance

  • 41 days avg. from submission to first decision
  • 55 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
  • 16 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
  • 39% acceptance rate

Editorial board

Editor-in-Chief

Duc Pham (University of Birmingham, UK)

Honorary Editors:

Guangren Duan (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
Eileen Harkin-Jones (University of Ulster, UK)
Jianguo Lin (Imperial College London, UK)
Maria Lurdes Lopez (University of Porto, Portugal)
Li Da Xu (Old Dominion University, USA)

Jump to section

Cogent Engineering publishes across nine areas of engineering and technology. Each section is led by a Senior Editor and is supported by an Editorial Board, as listed below.

Biochemical Engineering

Senior Editor

Zhongmin Jin (University of Leeds, UK)


Chemical Engineering

Senior Editor

Harvey Arellano-Garcia (University of Surrey, UK)


Civil & Environmental Engineering

Senior Editor

Marco Montemurro (École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers, France)


Computer Science

Senior Editor

Jenhui Chen (Chang Gung University, Taiwan)


Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Senior Editor

Qingsong Ai (Wuhan University of Technology, China)


Materials Engineering

Senior Editor

Ian Jones (University of Birmingham, UK)


Mechanical Engineering

Senior Editor

Duc Pham (University of Birmingham, UK)


Production Manufacturing

Senior Editor

Zude Zhou (Wuhan University of Technology, China)


Systems Control

Senior Editor

James Lam (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Deputy Senior Editors

Mostafa Barigou (University of Birmingham, UK)
Manoj Tiwari (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)
Wenjun Xu (Wuhan University of Technology, China)

Editors

Oday Ibraheem Abdullah (Technische Universität Hamburg, Germany)
Robert J. Adams (University of Kentucky, USA)
Amimul Ahsan (University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia)
Moulay Akhloufi (University of Moncton, Canada)
Mushtak Al-Atabi (Heriot-Watt University, Malaysia)
Raya Al-Dadah (University of Birmingham, UK)
Dhiya Al-Jumeily (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)
Alex Alexandridis (Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Greece)
Fares Almomani (Qatar University, Qatar)
Mutiu K. Amosa (Department of Petroleum Resources, Nigeria)
Harvey Arellano-Garcia (University of Surrey, UK)
Nikos Aspragathos (University of Patras, Greece)
Faieza Abdul Aziz (University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia)
Hamidi Abdul Aziz (Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia)
Chitti Babu (Indian Institute of Information Technology, India)
Rubina Bahar (University Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia)
Abbas Barabadi (University of Tromsø, Norway)
Andrew Bayly (University of Leeds, UK)
Steve Beeby (University of Southampton, UK)
Majid Beidaghi (Auburn University, USA)
Salvatore Benfratello (University of Palermo, Italy)
Lyes Bennamoun (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
Kaiming Bi (Curtin University, Australia)
Stéphane Pierre Alain Bordas (Cardiff University, UK)
Simone Borsci (Imperial College London, UK)
Wojciech Bozejko (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)
Giuseppe Brando (University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy)
Thomas M. Brown (University of Rome - Tor Vergata, Italy)
Sujin Bureerat (KhonKaen University, Thailand)
Pierfrancesco Cacciola (University of Brighton, UK)
Alessandra Caggiano (The University of Naples Federico II, Italy)
Jack P. Callaghan (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Claudio Cameselle (University of Vigo, Spain)
José Ricardo Carneiro (University of Porto, Portugal)
Vitor Hugo Mendes da Costa Carvalho (Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave (IPCA), Portugal)
Marco Castellani (University of Birmingham, UK)
José Eduardo S. F. Castanheiro (Universidade de Evora, Portugal)
Pasquale Daniele Cavaliere (University of Salento, Italy)
Mohammed Chadli (Université Paris-Saclay, France)
Emmanuel Chailleux (The French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, Development and Networks, France)
Sarawuth Chaimool (Khon Kaen University, Thailand)
Hsien-Tsung Chang (Chang Gung University, Taiwan)
Kun Chen (Wuhan University of Technology, China)
Yun-Heh Jessica Chen-Burger (Heriot-Watt University, UK)
Girija Chetty (University of Canberra, Australia)
Chung-Che Chou (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Anil Kumar Choudhary (The National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur, India)
Chih-Hsing Chu (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Tae-Jin Chung (Kunsan National University, South Korea)
Francesco Costantino (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Robert Cripps (University of Birmingham, UK)
Sérgio M Â Cruz (Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal)
Mohamed Darouach (University of Lorraine, France)
Ahmed Haj Darwish (University of Aleppo, Syria)
Georgi Dimirovski (Dogus University, Turkey)
M W M Gamini Dissanayake (University of Technology, Australia)
Lefteris Doitsidis (Technical University of Crete, Greece)
Zuhriah Ebrahim (Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia)
Eldaw E Eldukhri (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia)
Shyma Elsaeed (Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute (EPRI), Egypt)
Khamis Essa (University of Birmingham, UK)
Swapnil Fegade (University of North Dakota, US)
Jun'e Feng (Shandong University, China)
Marcello Fera (University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy)
Francisco Javier Ramírez Fernández (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)
Antonio Formisano (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)
Fabio Fruggiero (University of Basilicata, Italy)
Fabio Galatioto (Transport Systems Catapult, UK)
Barry D. Ganapol (University of Arizona, USA)
Marinella Giunta (Mediterranea University of ​​Reggio Calabria, Italy)
Rajappa Gnanamoorthy (Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design & Manufacturing, India)
Yury Gogotsi (Drexel University, USA)
Kheng Lim Goh (Newcastle University, UK)
R. Hugh Gong (University of Manchester, UK)
Giulio Di Gravio (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Jun Guo (Wuhan University of Technology, China)
Manoj Gupta (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Mohammad M Hamasha (The Hashemite University, Jordan)
Hai-Chao Han (University of Texas, USA)
Wei He (University of Science and Technology Beijing, China)
Jose Martin Herreros (University of Birmingham, UK)
Daniel W C Ho (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Cathy Holt (Cardiff University, UK)
Ouyang Hongwei (Zhejiang University, China)
Andrés Honrubia Escribano (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)
Jun Huang (University of Birmingham, UK)
Dinh Cong Huong (Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
Abir Hussain (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)
Raja Rizwan Hussain (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia)
Muhammad Ibn Ibrahimy (International Islamic University Malaysia, Malaysia)
Michele Iervolino (University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy)
Winai Jaikla (King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand)
Jayant Jain (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)
Syuhaida Ismail (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia)
Chungian Ji (University of Birmingham, UK)
Charles Q. Jia (University of Toronto, Canada)
Pengcheng Jiao (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Akhtar Kalam (Victoria University, Australia)
Shahrul Kamaruddin (Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Malaysia)
Hamid Reza Karimi (Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy)
Edward Keedwell (University of Exeter, UK)
Kaisar R. Khan (McNeese State University, USA)
Mohd Yawar Ali Khan (King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia)
Ketan Kotecha (Symbiosis International (Deemed University), India)
Nikos Konofaos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Mahesh Krishnamurthy (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
Murat Kunelbayev (Institute Information and Computational Technologies MES RK, Kazakhstan)
Hak-Keung Lam (King's College London, UK)
Francesco Lambiase (University of L'Aquila, Italy)
Massimo Latour (University of Salerno, Italy)
Kittichai Lavangnananda (King Mongkut’s University of Technology, Thailand)
Ben Q. Li (University of Michigan, USA)
Shuhui Li (The University of Alabama, USA)
Weidong Li (Coventry University, UK)
Yibing Li (Wuhan University of Technology, China)
Rui Lima (University of Minho, Portugal)
Jianguo Lin (Imperial College London, UK)
Guoping Liu (University of South Wales, UK)
Jun Liu (Dalian University of Technology, China)
Shan Liu (Xi’an Jiaotong University, China)
Nan Liu (Western Digital Corporation, USA)
Guglielmo Lomonaco (University of Genova, Italy)
Ping Lou (Wuhan University of Technology, China)
William Lu (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Maria Giovanna Masciotta (D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara, Italy)
Simone Mancini (University Giustino Fortunato, Italy)
Giorgio Mannina (University of Palermo, Italy)
Xuerong Mao (University of Strathclyde, UK)
Wei Meng (Wuhan University of Technology, China)
Ruben Mercade-Prieto (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan)
Marco Montemurro (Arts et Metiers ParisTech, France)
Subhas Mukhopadhyay (Massey University, New Zealand)
Vincenzo Naddeo (University of Salerno, Italy)
Ki Tae Nam (Seoul National University, South Korea)
Anand Nayyar (Duy Tan University, Vietnam)
Dinh Duc Nguyen (Vietnam National University, Vietnam)
Yugang Niu (East China University of Science and Technology, China)
Humaira Nisar (Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia)
Ehsan Noroozinejad (Graduate University of Advanced Technology, Iran)
Abraham Ogwu (University of the West of Scotland, UK)
Taku Onishi (Mie University, Japan)
Ronald Y. S. Pak (University of Colorado, USA)
Eunil Park (Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea)
Ju Hyun Park (Yeungnam University, South Korea)
Francesco G. Patania (University of Catania, Italy)
Riccardo Patriarca (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Chen Peng (Shanghai University, China)
Tao Peng (Zhejiang University, China)
Atanas Popov (University of Nottingham, UK)
Nataraj Prabaharan (Shanmugha Arts Science Technology and Research Academy, India)
Biswajeet Pradhan (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Chander Prakash (Chitkara University, Punjab, India)
Saurabh Pratap (Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design & Manufacturing Jabalpur, India)
Filippo G. Pratico (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria Via Graziella, Italy)
Radu-Emil Precup (Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania)
Davide Lo Presti (University of Nottingham, UK)
Peter Quesada (University of Louisville, USA)
Ramon Fernando Colmenares Quintero (Metropolitan Technological Institute, Colombia)
Krishnan S Raja (University of Idaho, USA)
Mohamed M. Rashad (Central Metallurgical Research and Development Institute (CMRDI), Egypt)
Javad Rezaie (General Electric Healthcare, Norway)
Marko Robnik-Šikonja (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Mozafar Saadat (University of Birmingham, UK)
Seref Sagiroglu (Gazi University, Turkey)
Zafar Said (University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates)
Tanveer Saleh (International Islamic University, Malaysia)
Meinhard Taher Schobeiri (Texas A&M University, USA)
Guangdong Tian (Jilin University, China)
Adel M Sharaf (Sharaf Energy Systems, Inc, Canada)
Jun Shen (Nanjing Univerisity of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)
Duncan T. Shepherd (University of Birmingham, UK)
Zhusheng Shi (Imperial College London, UK)
Kuei-Ping Shih (Tamkang University, Taiwan)
Zhan Shu (University of Southampton, UK)
Mandeep Singh (National University of Malaysia, Malaysia)
Mariano Sirignano (University of Naples, Italy)
Alan J. Smith (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
Sein Leung Soo (University of Birmingham, UK)
Gautam Srivastava (Brandon University, Canada)
Blaza Stojanovic (University of Kragujevac, Serbia)
Julio Sánchez (Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile)
Naznin Sultana (University of Technology Malaysia, Malaysia)
Sándor Szénási (Óbuda University, Hungary)
M Thangamani (Kongu Engineering College, India)
Hieu Trinh (Deakin University, Australia)
Athanasios Tsolakis (University of Birmingham, UK)
Brian Uy (University of Sydney, Australia)
Mueen Uddin (Effat University, Saudi Arabia)
Felipe Villalobos (Catholic University of the Most Holy Conception, Chile)
Bal Virdee (London Metropolitan University, UK)
Yinhua Wan (Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Lei Wang (Dalian University of Technology, China)
Lin Wang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)
Sheng-Guo Wang (University of North Carolina, USA)
David Hongyuan Wei (Tianjin University, China)
Eugene Wong (Newcastle University, UK)
Ai-Guo Wu (Harbin University of Science & Technology, China)
Shengquan Xie (University of Leeds, UK)
Shengyuan Xu (Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China)
Xinggang Yan (University of Kent, UK)
Guang-Hong Yang (Northeastern University, China)

Yun Yang (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Abu Yaya (University of Ghana, Ghana)
Bekir S Yilbas (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia)
Chau Yuen (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)
Erfan Zalnezhad (Hanyang University, South Korea)
Paolo Zampieri (University of Padua, Italy)
Ali Zemouche (Université de Lorraine, France)
An-Ping Zeng (Technical University of Hamburg, Germany)
Xiaoxing Zhang (Wuhan University of Technology, China)
Pan Zheng (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
Zhang Zhi-Yong (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Bin Zhou (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
Ahmed Zobaa (Brunel University, UK)
Yuanyuan Zou (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)

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  • Primo Central Index - Ex libris
  • ProQuest Engineering Journals
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Open access

Cogent Engineering is an open access journal and only publishes open access articles. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.

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  4. Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
  5. Rigorous peer review for every open access article

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