About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Engineering, Technology and Applied Science Research (ETASR) is an open access, peer-reviewed, wide scope international journal comprising various diverse aspects of science application, technology and engineering.

The main aim of ETASR is to provide fast publication to scientists, researchers and engineers from both academia and industry, that wish to communicate recent developments and applications in their field.

ETASR publishes mainly technical papers that should contain new theoretical and/or test results. ETASR will also consider for publication review articles and correspondence concerning views and information about articles published in previous issues.

ETASR publishes original papers in various fields of Applied Science, Technology and Engineering that cover, but are not limited to, the following areas: Aeronautics and Aerospace Engineering, Agricultural Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering, Data Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Geological Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Marine and Naval Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Metallurgy and Metallurgical Engineering, Ocean Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, Power Engineering, Software Engineering, Applied Physics, Artificial Intelligence, Automation and Control, Computer Hardware and Architecture, Computer Science, Construction and Building Technology, Cryptography and Steganography, Cybernetics, Electronics, Energy and Fuels, Food Science and Technology, Information Systems, Information Technology and Informatics, Instruments and Instrumentation, Laser and Optics, Materials Science, Measurement and Metrology, Medical Informatics, Medical Laboratory Technology, Medical Physics, Mineralogy, Mining and Mineral Processing, Nuclear Medicine and Medical Imaging, Nuclear Science and Technology, Operations Research and Management Science, Plant Sciences, Polymer Science, Radiology, Remote Sensing, Robotics, Signal Processing, Soil Science, Sustainability, Telecommunications, Transport and Communications, Transportation Science and Technology, Water Resources, Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, and Human-Computer Interaction.

ETASR is oriented towards publishing articles that communicate advances, interesting implementations and parts of on-going research in fields of interest.

In addition, ETASR offers a medium to authors for fast publishing individual parts of their work that are used as basis for diverse further research (e.g. a new software, a modification or an original measuring apparatus/technique) and specific aspects of their research that are important but not closely linked with the rest of the work (e.g. a study for the economical aspect of a technical implementation).

Unlike most journals, ETASR accepts papers that describe negative findings and research failures, since it feels that publishing negative results is valuable and saves considerable time and effort for other scientists around the world.

ETASR publishes papers from diverse fields of engineering, technology and science application and has a rather diverse oriented Editorial Board in an attempt to strengthen the collaboration of scientists and researchers of different backgrounds, which can prove valuable in their specific areas and in promoting research in general.

Terms, Policies and Publication Ethics

Please refer to this page.

Publication Frequency

The journal is published bimonthly and a decision about each submitted article is usually reached within 4 weeks from submission. Accepted articles will be published as soon as possible (possibly in the following issue).

Indexing

ETASR is indexed in several major indexing databases and tries to keep an updated record of current indexing in the Indexing & Links page and also preserve past indexing in the Past Indexing page.

Journal History & Important Dates

Engineering, Technology & Applied Science Research was firstly published in February 2011 as a group effort of active researchers and engineers to have their “own” journal.

The goal was to introduce a journal "from researchers for researchers". Collective experience available from interacting with the publishing industry from various positions (authors, reviewers, editors etc) was employed as a guide throughout the journal's planning and operation.

Accurate and fast reviews, thorough copyediting, fast and efficient responses, internationality, flexibility and focusing on the goal of communicating research findings and engineering/technology applications were the goals set.

As we gained in experience, several things were redesigned. We decided to “open” our editorial board to new members in late 2011. The steady-number-of-papers-per-issue scheme was abandoned in December 2012. More changes were made in the following year (2013). The first hard copy collective volume was published in 2013. New pages were added in the journal’s site providing useful data & statistics as well as indexing information and links to the interested reader. An effort was made to give something back to the community by sponsoring events and becoming a Publishing Member of DOAJ at the time.

In late 2013, Science magazine published a study describing the submission of a fake research article to more than 300 open-access journals. ETASR was one of the 98 journals that declined the bogus paper.

ETASR was added to Web of Science in late 2015 (up to mid 2024), through the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI).

ETASR incorporated the PROJECT COUNTER process to count views in November 2017, so that multi-clicks and bot views are filtered by default. Prior to that, all page views and pdf downloads were counted and recorded in a simple database table. Such views are possibly misrepresentative of actual readership, as bot views, crawler indexing, and potential author or visitor abuse (eg. multi-clicking) were not filtered out and, thus, these values are no longer considered in any Metrics related to this journal. Abstract views and pdf downloads are provided in each article's abstract page. A list with all views for all articles as counted prior to November 2017 is provided here.

The journal software was upgraded to OJS 3 in March 2020. An "online first" function was also added shortly after. A Reviewer Rewards program was initiated in June 2020, initially through participating in a proposed cross-publisher scheme.

ETASR joined Crossref and started assigning DOIs to all its published articles (retrospectively) in November 2020. In December 2020, ETASR implemented reference linking (checking references in all papers and adding DOIs where available). A "cited-by" function was also added in December, 2020. ETASR was also awarded a DOAJ seal (for journals that "adhere to outstanding best practice") in December 2020.

A new software upgrade was performed in July 2021 (this time to OJS 3.3.0.7). Along with this new upgrade, new custom-made functions were added. Among others, the manuscript submission process was slightly altered providing new functions such as proposing reviewers. Another upgrade was implemented in November 2021 (to OJS 3.3.0.8). In December 2021, we decided to add a Crossref Citations Statistics page at our site to present the citations we have received from Crossref members per year (later decided to be redundant and removed in February 2026). A Dimensions badge was also added in each article's abstract page in December 2021 as an alternative way to view citations.

Following a suggestion made by Scopus, we altered our template in February 2022 so that key handling dates (i.e. received, revised, accepted) are shown in the published pdf (the change is effective from our April 2022 issue). We also added these dates to the abstract pages of all published manuscripts starting from our February 2021 issue.

In July 2022, ETASR passed the 10,000 registered users mark. In the same month, Clarivate announced that ETASR (along with all other journals indexed in ESCI) will be given an impact factor in the 2023 release of the Journal Citation Reports. In September 2022, we resubmitted ETASR for evaluation to Scopus. Following that, in the same month, we added a statement about the corresponding author in each published paper's abstract page (under the key handling dates) and a Frequently Asked Questions page to our site. ETASR was accepted for indexing in Scopus on November 13, 2022. Our OJS software was upgraded to version 3.3.0.13 in December 2022.

ETASR passed the 12000 registered users and 7500 registered reviewers mark in May, 2023. Starting from Vol. 13, No. 3 (June, 2023), license/copyright information and DOI links were added to the published PDF version of manuscripts and a revised version of our template (that incorporated these information) was added to our site.

In June 2023, Clarivate announced the 2023 Journal Citation Report (JCR) containing the 2022 data and ETASR was awarded its first Impact Factor of 1.5. Also, Clarivate provided a quartile ranking for ETASR based on the Clarivate Journal Citation Indicator (JCI) and ETASR was included in the Q2 group.

In September 2023, ETASR initiated its first campaign utilizing the Clarivate Web of Science Author Connect service to announce our journal's Clarivate Journal Impact Factor and JCI Quartile Ranking to a wider audience (campaign still available online here)

in November 2023, Scopus announced our first CiteScore Tracker value (which at the time was 2.7).

In March 2024, we decided to utilize our Reviewer Rewards internally, offering rewards to all our reviewers, without any third-party reliance.

ETASR passed the 15000 registered users and 10000 registered reviewers mark in March, 2024.

In 2024, ETASR was also added in SCImago, a publicly available portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus database that calculates the SJR metric and SJR quartile rankings. Our first SJR value was 0.373 and our first quartile ranking (in the "Engineering (miscellaneous)" category) was Q2.

In June 2024, Scopus announced ETASR's first yearly Scopus Cite Score (3.0), Scimago Journal Ranking (0.373) and quartile ranking (Q2).

In February 2025, we signed an agreement with OAKPINE to secure advanced copyediting services for manuscripts accepted for publication in "Engineering, Technology & Applied Science Research".

In April 2025 it was announced that our journal was again ranked in Q2 (Engineering) by Scimago for 2024 (SJR 2024=0.332, H-INDEX=27)

ETASR passed the 25000 registered users and 20000 registered reviewers mark in June, 2025.

In June 2025, Scopus announced its 2024 metrics. ETASR's 2024 Scopus metrics were the following: CiteScore: 2.9, Scimago Journal Ranking (SJR): 0.332, SNIP: 1.196 and quartile ranking: Q2.

In June 2025, a new version of our template was uploaded at our site. This time the changes were not related to format and style. We have incorporated recent experience from the whole handling process (including peer review discussions) to add some new sections (and figures) in our template that should help clarify issues like the readability of figures, citing and using datasets, and basic comparative analysis rules.

In October 2025, ETASR and its publisher (PUBETA) sponsored the 1st International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Applied Science Innovations (ICETASI 2025), held in Western Greece.

In December 2025, we also announced that we will sponsor the "2nd International Conference on Engineering, Technology, and Applied Science Innovations" (ICETASI 2026) which will be held at the island of Zakynthos, Greece on September 24-26, 2026.

ETASR passed the 40000 registered users and 35000 registered reviewers mark in February, 2026.

In March 2026, we updated our site and template mainly to include explicit policy statements and declarations regarding data availability and AI use.

You can see respective announcements for most of the above in our announcements page.

For additional information, current indexing values and links, visit our indexing and links page.

Note that we also try to keep a preservation page regarding past indexing (sites that used to index ETASR or that still index it but they seem to have incomplete files) here for those that may be interested.

ETASR continues its operation always aiming to the best possible result for authors and readers.

Publication History & Organization Associations

"Engineering, Technology and Applied Science Research" is published by "PUBETA SINGLE MEMBER P.C." under the aegis of EOS Cultural Association, a nonprofit organization established in 2006 and based in Peloponnisos, Greece aiming to promote culture, science & education, as stated here. EOS Cultural Association is registered in the Greek Ministry of Culture registry of non-profit associations with registration number 68259 as stated here.

For a series of years, "Engineering, Technology and Applied Science Research" was published directly by EOS Association. The role of the publisher was assumed by the journal's Editor-in-Chief (Dr D. Pylarinos) in late 2020 initially under his name and later (in September 2024) through PUBETA SINGLE MEMBER P.C., a Private Company based in Greece (legal profile here).

The journal's core team remains the same since launch, the cooperation and connection with EOS is still going strong, with PUBETA and "Engineering, Technology and Applied Science Research" sponsoring several EOS events such as the "Railway Festival" and the "International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Applied Science Innovations".

Science Magazine's Sting & Beall's list & Common Sence

In late 2013, Science magazine published a study entitled "Who's Afraid of Peer Review?" by J. Bohannon, describing the submission of a fake research article to 304 open-access journals. 49 of them were proved dead. Over 60% of the remaining 255 (an exact number of 157) journals, accepted the paper. ETASR was one of the 98 journals that declined the bogus paper. Full data (publisher/journal/outcome/emails) can be found here. Even though the concept, process, conclusions and motivation of this sting (and of the publicity around it) have raised questions, choosing a proper journal for the publication of someone's work should always be an important issue. There are several sites/blogs that may help (e.g. this one) but some common sense is usually sufficient.

Journal Abbreviation & Citation

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Crossref Membership & DOI assignment

ETASR is a Crossref member. ETASR's DOI prefix is 10.48084 and its direct DOI link is https://doi.org/10.48084/etasr. All our published articles acquire a DOI and get registered in Crossref. ETASR also implements reference linking which means that each article's references are checked and DOIs are added.