In 2014, Journal of Materials and Engineering Structures (JMES) successfully released its first issue and was inaugurated as a scientific journal, managed and published by the Mouloud MAMMERI University of Tizi Ouzou, Algeria. JMES acts as a forum for sharing knowledge and experience in the disciplines of engineering structures and materials.
In 2016, in response to the submission of editors in chief Prof. ASMA Farid and Prof. HAMMOUM Hocine, JMES was first evaluated for inclusion in Scopus in early 2017. The Scopus title evaluation support recommended that JMES may serve an important institutional purpose, however, because of its poor citedness it fails to fulfill the requirements for inclusion in an international database such as Scopus. The editors in chief therefore decided that JMES would be further developed and expanded to include more articles in order to improve the number of citations.
In 2017, JMES has been evaluated then indexed in Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) since June 2017 (www.doaj.org). As a reminder, DOAJ covers all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content as JMES. This will increase the visibility, impact and ease of use of the published articles by JMES. In short, as defined by DOAJ team, the DOAJ aims to be the one-stop shop for readers, searchers and users of open access journals.
In the same year, since September 2017, JMES has been selected for coverage in Clarivate Analytics products and services (Formerly Thomson Reuters). JMES is indexed and abstracted in valuable Thomson Reuters Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). This brings higher visibility to the published research.
In 2018, on proposal of the Editors in Chief, JMES has been evaluated by American Chemical Society (ACS), and then indexed in ACS since January 2019.
2020 year has been a difficult one for most of us; the coronavirus pandemic has not only affected our health and sanity, but has also had a lasting impact on our lives. However, JMES editorial team continued to work and to provide the issues in time. The novelty, is that JMES published special issue including manuscripts of some of the presentations at the third International Conference on Sustainability in Civil Engineering (ICSCE 2020), held during 26- 27 November, 2020 at Hanoi, Vietnam. ICSCE 2020 received more than 200 abstracts and 135 full paper were submitted and 23 were selected for publication, from all over the world have been rigorously reviewed before being accepted for this special issue. Based on their subject matter and professional merit, twenty-three of the best papers presented at the ICSCE 2020 conference are included in the special issue, from six different countries (Vietnam, Japan, Portugal, China, Australia and Malaysia).
In 2022, JMES published special issue including manuscripts of some of the presentations at the fourth International Conference on Sustainability in Civil Engineering (ICSCE 2022) held at University of Transport and Communications, Hanoi, Vietnam on 25-27th November 2022. The ICSCE 2022 had the theme "Green Technology in Civil Engineering". ICSCE 2022 is very significant to the development of new ideas and the promotion of research into advanced in Sustainability in Civil Engineering field. ICSCE 2022 received more than 220 abstracts and 162 full papers from 14 countries and 120 full papers were accepted. Based on their subject matter and professional merit, 31 of the best papers presented at the ICSCE 2022 conference have been rigorously reviewed before being accepted for this special issue.
In July 2023, JMES received for the first time a JIF=0.6, in the 2023 annual Journal Citation Reports™ (JCR™) published by Clarivate. It is important to note, that only journals that have met the rigorous quality standards for inclusion in the Web of Science™ index are selected to receive a JIF. This JIF helps the scholarly community more easily identify trustworthy, high-quality journals that have been selected by the Web of Science editorial team.
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In December 2023, JMES has been indexed and included in EBSCOhost. EBSCOhost is an intuitive online research platform used by thousands of academics institutions and universities and millions of researchers worldwide. It provides access to a vast collection of reference databases, scholarly journals, and e-books.
On 3 March 2026, JMES was accepted for inclusion in the Scopus database. Scopus is one of the largest scientific databases, launched in 2004 by the publisher Elsevier. For researchers, publishing in a journal indexed by Scopus is often a guarantee of quality, credibility and visibility. It is important to emphasise that the Scopus journal evaluation team concluded that JMES has a clear research identity, as well as clear aims and scope that align with its published content. Specially, JMES plays a valuable regional function.
The number of papers published by JMES has increased significantly since its launch. 432 papers have been published to date, of which 380 (87.96%) are in English. The following table shows the distribution by volume.
Year | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
Number of published papers | 16 | 19 | 16 | 21 | 32 | 48 | 59 | 36 | 59 | 41 | 46 | 39 |
English | 12 | 15 | 9 | 16 | 25 | 42 | 54 | 33 | 54 | 36 | 45 | 39 |
French | 4 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
The number of citations of JMES has increased, 242 papers are cited in Scopus. Details of the number of the citations are presented in the table below:
Year | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
Google scholar | 8 | 7 | 25 | 52 | 67 | 151 | 187 | 307 | 318 | 381 | 349 |
Scopus | 3 | 4 | 14 | 28 | 37 | 87 | 104 | 161 | 208 | 231 | 231 |
The JMES editorial team is working hard to meet the criteria required by Clarivate Analytics’ products and services, so that the journal can be considered for inclusion in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE). This is one of the editorial team’s main objectives.
We are compiling this history of JMES to highlight the long road that has been traveled since its creation, and that this result is the outcome of a long human adventure.
Tizi Ouzou, 30 March 2026
Editors in Chief:
Prof. Farid ASMA, Department of mechanical engineering, Mouloud Mammeri University, Tizi Ouzou, Algeria
Prof. Hocine HAMMOUM, Department of civil engineering, Mouloud Mammeri University, Tizi Ouzou, Algeria.
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