Aims and Scope
Aims and Scope
Aim
The Asian Review of Mechanical Engineering (ARME) aims to advance research, innovation, and professional practice across the broad field of mechanical engineering by publishing rigorous theoretical, experimental, computational, and application-oriented studies. The journal provides an international platform for researchers, engineers, academicians, and industry professionals to disseminate findings that contribute to the development, analysis, design, manufacture, operation, and sustainability of mechanical systems and technologies.
ARME encourages interdisciplinary research addressing emerging engineering challenges, advanced manufacturing, energy-efficient technologies, intelligent mechanical systems, sustainable engineering, computational modelling, and the application of innovative materials and digital technologies in mechanical engineering. The journal particularly welcomes research demonstrating scientific originality, methodological rigour, engineering relevance, and potential industrial or societal impact.
Scope of the Journal
ARME publishes original research articles, review articles, and case studies in areas including:
- Mechanical design, machine design, and engineering analysis
- Solid mechanics, structural mechanics, and fracture mechanics
- Fluid mechanics, fluid machinery, and computational fluid dynamics
- Thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer, and thermal engineering
- Manufacturing engineering and advanced manufacturing technologies
- Materials engineering, composites, and mechanical behaviour of materials
- Mechatronics, robotics, automation, and intelligent mechanical systems
- CAD, CAM, CAE, and computer-integrated engineering
- Renewable energy, energy systems, and energy efficiency
- Automotive, transportation, and mobility engineering
- Vibration, acoustics, dynamics, and condition monitoring
- Tribology, wear, lubrication, and surface engineering
- Additive manufacturing and advanced machining processes
- Computational mechanics, numerical modelling, and simulation
- Industrial engineering, production systems, and maintenance engineering
- Sustainable manufacturing, green engineering, and life-cycle engineering
- Smart manufacturing, Industry 4.0, digital twins, and AI-enabled mechanical engineering
- Reliability, failure analysis, optimisation, and mechanical system performance
The journal welcomes contributions that advance fundamental understanding, introduce innovative engineering methodologies, validate new technologies, or demonstrate meaningful applications in mechanical engineering and closely related interdisciplinary fields.
Journal Insights
The Asian Review of Mechanical Engineering (ARME) is a half-yearly, double-blind peer-reviewed, Gold Open Access journal dedicated to the dissemination of original research, review articles, and engineering applications in the field of mechanical engineering. The journal covers areas including mechanical design, solid and fluid mechanics, thermal engineering, manufacturing and production engineering, materials and composites, mechatronics and robotics, automotive engineering, tribology, computational mechanics, renewable energy systems, additive manufacturing, smart manufacturing, and sustainable mechanical engineering technologies.
Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Chinedum Ogonna Mgbemena
ISSN: 2249-6289 (Print)
3049-1886 (Online)
Frequency: Half-Yearly
Start Year: 2012
Language of Publication: English
Subject Area: Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Current Publisher: Centre for Research and Innovation (CRI), The Bharath Social and Research Foundation, Coimbatore, India.
Journal History: The Asian Review of Mechanical Engineering (ARME) was established in 2012 and was published by The Research Publication until 2023. Since 2024, the journal has been published by the Centre for Research and Innovation (CRI), The Bharath Social and Research Foundation, Coimbatore, India.
Open Access: Gold Open Access publishing model.
Peer Review: Double-blind peer-review process, normally involving at least two independent external reviewers.
Article Types: Original Research Articles, Review Articles, and Case Studies.
Licence: Articles published in ARME are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
Abstracting, Indexing and Discovery
ARME reports coverage or discoverability through J-Gate, Google Scholar, EBSCO Information Services, Engineering Source, Library and Information Science Source, One Belt One Road Reference Source, Scilit, Crossref, Library of Congress, WorldCat, and Scite. ARME lists only abstracting, indexing, and discovery services for which current coverage or discoverability has been verified and updates this information when coverage changes.
- INR 3,000 for authors based in India.
- USD 50 for authors based outside India.
- No manuscript submission fee.
- The APC is requested only after editorial acceptance following peer review.
- Payment, waiver or discount status does not influence editorial assessment, peer review, acceptance, or publication decisions.
Citation Metrics
ARME monitors its scholarly visibility and citation performance through publicly available academic indexing and discovery services. The journal currently reports a Google Scholar h-index of 14 and an i10-index of 20.
Citation metrics are derived from third-party sources and may change as databases update their records and citation coverage.
