Indian Journal of Engineering

About Indian Journal of Engineering

Indian Journal of Engineering — Journal Profile

The Indian Journal of Engineering is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal of general engineering published in India by the Discovery Scientific Society. It carries print ISSN 2319-7757 and electronic ISSN 2319-7765, and it publishes research, analysis, report and perspective articles across the breadth of engineering practice — civil and geotechnical work, mechanical design, agricultural mechanisation, materials, and computing applications among them. Its articles are published open access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence, and each published article prints its own peer-review history, an unusually transparent habit that lets a reader see exactly when a manuscript was received, reviewed, accepted and published.

This profile sets out the verified record for the journal: its identifiers and publisher, the shape and subject matter of what it publishes, its peer-review practice as documented in its own pages, its bibliometric standing in Scopus-derived and OpenAlex data, its indexing, its fee position — which could not be verified from a journal-published schedule and is reported here exactly that way — and practical guidance for authors considering it. Because the journal's title is a generic one shared in part by dozens of unrelated Indian periodicals, this profile also explains how to identify the correct journal with confidence: by its ISSN pair and its publisher, never by its name alone.

At a Glance

• Full title: Indian Journal of Engineering
• Abbreviation: Indian J. Eng.
• Print ISSN: 2319-7757
• Electronic ISSN: 2319-7765
• Publisher: Discovery Scientific Society, India
• Country: India
• Language: English
• Fields: Engineering in general — civil, geotechnical, mechanical, agricultural and materials engineering, with computing and interdisciplinary applications
• Peer review: External peer review by the double-blind method, as printed in the peer-review history of its published articles
• Open access: Yes — articles are published open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, as stated on the articles themselves
• DOAJ: Searches of the Directory of Open Access Journals for both ISSNs returned no record at the time of checking for this profile
• Scopus coverage: 2019–2025 in the Scopus-derived listings consulted
• Article charges: Could not be verified from a fee schedule published by the journal; see the fees section below

Identity: A Generic Title, a Specific Journal

"Indian Journal of" is one of the most crowded title openings in scholarly publishing. India has an Indian Journal of Chemistry, an Indian Journal of Fibre and Textile Research, Indian journals of engineering and technology of several different kinds, and many more besides, each with its own publisher and identifiers. The journal profiled here is the one identified by the ISSN pair 2319-7757 (print) and 2319-7765 (electronic) and published by the Discovery Scientific Society. Its article mastheads print exactly that pairing — "ISSN 2319–7757, EISSN 2319–7765" — together with the society's name and its Discovery imprint, and its articles carry DOIs under the society's own prefix, of which 10.54905/disssi/v20i54/e28ije1661 is a typical example. Any citation, catalogue record or submission decision that rests on the title alone risks landing on the wrong journal; the ISSN pair is the safe anchor.

The journal belongs to the Discovery family of journals issued by the Discovery Scientific Society, an Indian publishing society whose titles share a common article design, a common open-access licence and the practice of printing a full peer-review history with each article. Within that family, the Indian Journal of Engineering is the generalist engineering title: where its sister titles specialise, this one takes engineering whole.

What the Journal Publishes

The Scopus-derived listings classify the journal in a single broad category, Engineering (miscellaneous), and its published contents show what that breadth means in practice. A reader moving through its recent volumes meets geotechnical investigations, such as a 2023 study of the foundation sub-soils of part of the Niger Delta in Bayelsa State, Nigeria, which worked through stratification, bearing capacities and pile-foundation recommendations for a peat-bearing clay profile; mechanical and agricultural engineering, such as the development and later mechanisation of wet-sieving equipment for fermented cassava pulp, published as a report in 2021; road and pavement engineering, such as a 2022 assessment of lateritic soil as a sub-base material on the Lagos–Abeokuta expressway corridor; and computing, such as a statistical perspective on frameworks for Internet of Things data storage, representation and analysis. The author base visible in these examples is international — much of the journal's engineering case material in recent volumes comes from Nigerian universities, alongside Indian and other authors — which makes the journal, despite its national title, a venue where applied engineering problems from across the developing world are documented in detail.

The article types named on its own pages include research articles, analysis articles, reports and perspectives. The common thread is applied, problem-led engineering: field measurements, equipment design and testing, materials behaviour, simulation studies and infrastructure assessment, written up with full methods so that the work can be checked and reused. Volume numbering reached volume 18 in 2021, volume 19 in 2022 and volume 20 in 2023, and the Scopus-derived listings record continuous coverage from 2019 to 2025. The journal's founding year could not be verified from the sources retrieved for this profile, and none is claimed here; the documented, checkable history is the Scopus window and the volume sequence visible in its own articles.

The Journal in Its Own Pages: A Closer Look at the Contents

Because the journal's scope statement is broad, its true character is best read from its contents, and the articles retrieved for this profile give a consistent picture across several volumes. In mechanical engineering, a study of three-dimensional flow dynamics in a non-linear 90-degree elbow duct compared theoretical calculation with STAR-CCM+ simulation at inlet velocities of 5, 10, 20 and 40 metres per second, working through mesh convergence, boundary conditions and pressure contours — a compact example of the simulation-plus-calculation pattern the journal favours. In transport and reliability engineering, a 2022 paper evaluated how the age of waste-compactor trucks affects their deliverability, applying reliability concepts to a municipal fleet problem. In materials, its pages carry work on filled high-density polyethylene and on polymer-matrix composites reinforced with agricultural residues, including carbonised cassava cortex — research that treats the material streams of its authors' own economies as engineering feedstocks. And in infrastructure, the geotechnical and pavement studies already described root the journal in soil, laterite, peat and subgrade: the ground on which its readership builds.

Two editorial habits stand out across these examples. The first is completeness of method: the articles print their parameters, test set-ups and intermediate tables in full, in a style closer to an engineering report than to a compressed journal letter, which suits a readership of practising engineers who may replicate the work. The second is the standard article apparatus of the Discovery family: a citation line giving the journal, year, volume and article number; author affiliations with contact emails; the peer-review history; funding, conflict-of-interest and data-availability statements; and the licence and copyright line. For a young, small-circulation title, that apparatus is a meaningful signal — it shows the journal operating the ordinary machinery of scholarly publishing in the open, where it can be inspected.

Peer Review and Editorial Practice

The journal's peer-review model is documented in the most direct way possible: in print, on its articles. Published articles carry a "Peer-Review History" panel stating the dates of receipt, review and revision, acceptance and publication, and recording that "external peer-review was done through double-blind method". The example histories are also instructively concrete. The Niger Delta geotechnical article was received on 20 May 2023, reviewed and revised between 24 May and 22 June 2023, accepted on 26 June and published on 6 July 2023. The cassava-sieving report was received on 5 February 2021, reviewed through mid-March, accepted on 14 March and published the same month. The laterite subgrade study followed a similar path across the summer of 2022. Turnaround of roughly five to seven weeks from submission to publication is what these printed histories show; they are case evidence from the journal's own pages, not a promised service level, and individual manuscripts will move faster or slower. What the practice does guarantee is verifiability: an author or reader can check the editorial path of any article in the journal from the article itself.

Metrics and Standing

The Scopus-derived listings consulted for this profile (SCImago and services republishing the same underlying data) give the journal an h-index of 7. Its SCImago Journal Rank was reported as 0.187 for 2025, up from 0.146 for 2024, with a best quartile of Q4 in Engineering (miscellaneous), and its Scopus CiteScore is reported as 2.1. Those figures describe a small journal early in its indexed life: coverage begins only in 2019, so the backfile on which citation measures can accumulate is short, and quartile position in a generalist category pits it against every kind of engineering title at once.

OpenAlex, resolved through its ISSN endpoint at the time of checking, records the journal as source S4387291254, with 93 works and 246 citations, an h-index of 7 — agreeing with the Scopus-derived figure — an i10-index of 5, and a two-year mean citedness of about 3.36. That last number needs the caution its small base demands: with fewer than a hundred counted works, a handful of well-cited papers moves the average sharply, and the figure should not be quoted as if it were comparable to the journal impact factors of large titles. OpenAlex's topic profile for the source — artificial intelligence in healthcare, geotechnical and construction-materials studies, agricultural engineering and mechanisation, structural behaviour of reinforced concrete, and innovative concrete reinforcement materials — matches the applied, civil-and-materials-heavy contents visible in the journal's own pages. OpenAlex's record for this source carries no publisher or homepage data, which is a gap in that record rather than a fact about the journal; the publisher of record in the Scopus-derived listings and on the journal's own mastheads is the Discovery Scientific Society.

Reading the Journal's Numbers in Context

Authors often meet this journal first through a ranking table, and the ranking numbers need three cautions. First, the journal's Scopus life began in 2019, so every cumulative measure — h-index, total citations, CiteScore trend — is computed over a short window; a journal cannot accumulate a large h-index in six indexed years, and its h-index of 7 should be read as a young journal's figure rather than a verdict on the quality of individual papers. Second, its generalist category, Engineering (miscellaneous), is one of the most heterogeneous in Scopus: the Q4 quartile compares it simultaneously with civil, mechanical, electrical, chemical and interdisciplinary titles, many of them decades old. Third, the services that republish Scopus data do not always agree with each other or update at the same moment: the listings consulted for this profile show the SJR moving from 0.146 for 2024 to 0.187 for 2025, and older snapshots show lower h-index values that have since risen — a reminder to quote metrics with their year and source attached, exactly as this profile does. Set against those cautions is a genuine asset: the journal's articles are open access under CC BY, so whatever citation life a paper has is not throttled by paywalls, and its full texts circulate on the open web and through repositories, as the archived copies consulted for this profile demonstrate.

Indexing, Open Access and Fees

The journal's principal bibliographic anchor is Scopus, with coverage recorded from 2019 to 2025, and secondary journal directories also name India's UGC CARE list among its listings. Two points deserve plain statement. First, open access: the journal's articles are genuinely free to read, and their PDFs state that the open-access article is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY), with copyright held by the Discovery Scientific Society in the society's imprint line. Second, the Directory of Open Access Journals: searches of the DOAJ API for both the print ISSN 2319-7757 and the electronic ISSN 2319-7765, run directly for this profile, returned no record, so the journal should be described as open access in practice but not as DOAJ-listed at the time of checking.

On charges, this profile reports a gap rather than a number. No fee schedule published by the journal was retrieved from an authoritative journal page during the research for this profile, so the journal's article processing charge is recorded here as could not be verified. Readers should be particularly careful with third-party "estimated APC" figures attached to this journal in ranking tables: those are modelled estimates produced by the ranking services for valuation purposes, not prices the journal charges, and quoting one as the journal's fee would be a fabrication. An author who needs the fee position should obtain it from the journal or its publisher in writing before submitting.

How to Submit and What to Expect

Submissions are handled through the Discovery journals platform, and the published record suggests a straightforward, brisk editorial path: manuscripts are externally reviewed by the double-blind method, revision windows in the printed histories run at about a month, and accepted articles appear with their full review history attached. Authors should prepare work in the journal's house pattern — a clearly labelled article type (research, analysis, report or perspective), a structured account of field or experimental method, and data presented completely enough for reuse, since the journal's applied readership uses its papers as working references. Because the title is generic, authors should double-check at every step — submission portal, correspondence, and the eventual citation — that the journal in question carries ISSN 2319-7757 and 2319-7765 and the Discovery Scientific Society imprint. Authors for whom institutional recognition matters should also confirm, against their own institution's current rules, how the journal's Scopus coverage and UGC CARE listing are treated, since such lists are revised and the journal is not, at checking, in DOAJ.

Similar Journals and Comparisons

Authors weighing this journal against neighbouring venues might compare the International Journal of Engineering Approaches (ISSN 3062-1240), a younger open-access general engineering title from Türkiye; the Journal of Engineering Research and Reviews (ISSN 3041-4822), another young generalist title; and, within India, the long-established Indian Journal of Chemistry (print ISSN 0019-5103, online ISSN 2583-1321), which is named here only to be distinguished — it is a CSIR-NIScPR chemistry monthly, a different journal in a different field that shares nothing with this one but the first two words of its title. The honest comparison for the Indian Journal of Engineering is with other society-published, open-access general engineering titles serving applied researchers: its distinguishing marks are its printed peer-review histories, its CC BY licensing, and a contents list grounded in field engineering problems.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the Indian Journal of Engineering's ISSNs? Print ISSN 2319-7757 and electronic ISSN 2319-7765. Use them, with the publisher's name, to identify the journal among India's many similarly titled periodicals.

Who publishes the Indian Journal of Engineering? The Discovery Scientific Society, in India, as recorded in the Scopus-derived listings and on the journal's own article mastheads.

Is the Indian Journal of Engineering peer reviewed? Yes. Its published articles state that external peer review was done by the double-blind method, and each article prints its received, reviewed, accepted and published dates.

Is the Indian Journal of Engineering open access? Yes in practice: articles are free to read and carry a CC BY 4.0 licence statement. It was not, however, returned by DOAJ searches for either ISSN at the time of checking, so it should not be described as DOAJ-listed.

What are the journal's metrics? Scopus-derived listings give an h-index of 7, an SJR of 0.187 (2025) and a Q4 quartile in Engineering (miscellaneous), with a reported CiteScore of 2.1. OpenAlex records 93 works and 246 citations at checking, also with an h-index of 7.

Does the journal charge a fee? Its article charges could not be verified from a journal-published schedule during the research for this profile. Estimated fee figures in third-party ranking tables are modelling artefacts of those services, not the journal's prices; ask the publisher directly.

How long does review take? The peer-review histories printed on its articles show roughly five to seven weeks from receipt to publication in the cases examined. That is documented case evidence, not a guarantee.

Sources and Verification

This profile was built from sources retrieved directly during its preparation: the live JournalsWorld record for the journal, which supplied its stored identifiers and coverage window; the journal's own published articles and their mastheads, peer-review histories and licence statements, including the 2021 cassava-sieving report, the 2022 laterite subgrade study and the 2023 Niger Delta geotechnical article; the OpenAlex source record resolved through the ISSN endpoint (source S4387291254), which supplied work, citation and topic counts at checking time; the DOAJ search API, whose searches for both ISSNs returned no record; and the Scopus-derived listings of SCImago and services republishing its data, which supplied the SJR, quartile, CiteScore and coverage figures. Where a fact could not be verified from a retrieved source — the founding year and the article fee among them — it has been reported as unverified rather than filled in by inference.