Journal of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering

About Journal of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering

Journal of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering — Journal Profile

The Journal of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (JNAME) is the peer-reviewed research journal of the Association of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers of Bangladesh, published on the Bangladesh Journals Online (BanglaJOL) platform. Its print ISSN is 1813-8535 and its online ISSN is 2070-8998, the pair carried on this Journals World record, in its Directory of Open Access Journals entry and in the OpenAlex source record for the title. It is a fully open-access journal that charges authors nothing, appears twice a year, and has been published continuously since volume 1 in 2004 — volume 23 appeared in 2026. From its base in one of the world's great riverine and shipbuilding nations, it covers the design, hydrodynamics, structure, production and operation of ships and offshore structures, together with the fluid mechanics and heat-transfer research that modern maritime engineering increasingly runs on.

Bangladesh is the right home for such a journal, and understanding why explains the journal's character. The country sits on the delta of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers; inland and coastal vessels are everyday transport for millions of people; its yards build ocean-going ships for export and break a large share of the world's retired fleet; and its universities, above all in Dhaka, train naval architects for the whole region. A national journal that referees ship science to an international standard, publishes it openly where local engineers can actually read it, and indexes it in Scopus and the Web of Science's Emerging Sources Citation Index is infrastructure, not decoration. JNAME's two decades of uninterrupted publication — through a special conference issue in 2023 to its current volumes — is the record of that infrastructure working.

Identity at a Glance

History and Continuity

The journal's archive on BanglaJOL, read in full for this profile, runs from volume 1, number 1 in 2004 through volume 23, number 2 in 2026, at a steady two issues a year. There are two instructive details in that archive. The first is the special issue: volume 20 gained a third number in 2023 carrying papers from MARTEC 2022, the International Conference on Marine Technology held at BUET — the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology — in Dhaka in December 2022. A journal that can absorb a national conference's refereed output into its own numbered run is performing the classic society-journal role of binding a research community's conference and journal literatures together. The second detail is a discrepancy worth recording honestly: one aggregator's record gives a first publication year of 1970 for this ISSN pair. The journal's own complete archive begins in 2004, and this profile follows the primary evidence of the archive. Researchers citing the journal's age should use 2004.

The platform is part of the story too. BanglaJOL was established by INASP, the international network for scholarly communication, and is managed by the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences as a national service giving Bangladeshi journals a professional online home — DOIs through Crossref, structured archives, and visibility to the indexing services. JNAME's DOAJ record dates its open-access publishing from 2007, consistent with its arrival on that platform, and the journal has been open ever since: every one of the 277 works OpenAlex counts for the title is recorded as open access. For a field in which the working literature is often locked inside expensive commercial titles, a two-decade, fully open run from a professional association is a genuinely useful public resource for engineers and students across South and Southeast Asia.

Scope: The Working Territory

The journal states that it covers wide areas of naval architecture, marine, offshore and ocean engineering and related fields, and that it invites papers demonstrating originality and quality in research and practical experience. Its published topic list is long and specific, and it repays reading as a map of the discipline:

The ship itself. Ship design and economics; ship production and repair; ship hydrodynamics and structure; manoeuvring and control; resistance and power; propellers, rudders, hydrofoils and shafting; hull vibration; shipbuilding materials; intact and damaged stability. These headings are the classical core of naval architecture, and papers under them speak to designers, yards and class-related practice as much as to academics.

The machinery and the sea. Marine engines and fuels; offshore and ocean engineering; safety and environmental applications; welding technology. This is the operational half of the scope — propulsion, fabrication, and the safety and environmental performance of vessels and offshore structures, subjects on which Bangladesh's own fleet and yards generate hard, practical research questions.

The computational and thermal stream. Heat transfer and fluid flow related to ships; solid and fracture mechanics; design optimisation; experimental methods and applications; numerical modelling and simulation. Anyone who reads the journal's recent issues will notice how large this stream has become. The current issue at the time of writing (volume 23, number 2, 2026) contains work on trihybrid nanofluids in heat exchangers, radiative Casson–Williamson fluid flow, entropy generation in hybrid nanofluid flow, machine-learning interpolation for catamaran motion prediction built on a classic experimental dataset, the effect of pitting corrosion on the reliability of ship panels, and a review of fluid–structure interaction in fibre-reinforced hull laminates. OpenAlex's topic analysis of the journal tells the same story, ranking heat transfer and numerical methods, nanofluid flow, fluid dynamics and ship hydrodynamics among its largest themes. The centre of the journal is still the ship; the methods are increasingly those of computational engineering, and authors with strong CFD, thermal or data-driven work framed for maritime problems are squarely in scope.

Editorial Process, Access and Terms

The journal's own account of its process is precise: each submission is anonymously reviewed by an average of two independent reviewers, to keep the standard of accepted work high; the review is usually single blind, in that authors do not know the reviewers, and authors may remove their names from a manuscript before submission to make the review double blind in effect. The DOAJ record summarises the arrangement as single anonymous peer review and gives a publication time of 20 weeks. The journal also maintains a publication ethics and malpractice statement built on the standard publisher ethics resources, and its announcements page shows the office actively managing compliance — submissions have been required since 2020 to arrive with the journal's copyright documentation and a list of suggested reviewers, with incomplete submissions liable to removal after a month. Authors should read the current announcements before submitting, because these administrative requirements are enforced.

On access and money, the position is simple and confirmed in two places. The journal provides immediate open access on the principle, stated on its about page, that making research freely available supports a greater global exchange of knowledge; authors need pay no article processing charge and no submission fee; and articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial licence, CC BY-NC 4.0, which permits reuse and building on the material for non-commercial purposes with proper citation. One term differs from many open journals and should be noted: the DOAJ record states that authors do not retain copyright, so the licence operates through the publisher's grant rather than the author's. Commercial reuse of an article therefore needs permission beyond the licence — a point that matters to industry readers in particular.

Metrics — Attributed, and With Their Years Attached

JNAME's own site presents its Scopus-based metrics with their years, and this profile follows that example: the journal displays a CiteScore for 2022 of 1.9, at the 41st percentile, an SJR for 2022 of 0.443 and a SNIP for 2022 of 0.913. The same site lists a series it labels impact factor by Scopus for earlier years — 2.5 for 2018, 2.1 for 2019, 0.9 for 2020, 1.0 for 2021 and 1.9 for 2022. Those are the journal's own presentations of Scopus-derived figures; they are not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor, and no JCR figure is asserted in this profile. The series is still informative read correctly: it shows a small specialist journal whose citation performance rose, dipped during the pandemic-era disruption of its field, and recovered — the normal biography of a working engineering title rather than a marketing curve.

OpenAlex, in the source record fetched for this profile (source S189299512), counts 277 works and 2,547 citations, an h-index of 25, an i10-index of 83 and a two-year mean citedness of 1.381, all stated as at checking in October 2026. Set beside the older figures carried in the earlier thin version of this record — an h-index of 17 — the direction is consistent: the citation base is growing as the post-2013 volumes accumulate citations and as the journal's computational stream connects it to the much larger fluid-mechanics citing community. Its listing in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, part of the Web of Science Core Collection, is the other credential authors most often need: it means the journal is inside the Clarivate system, even though ESCI titles should not be described as holding a Journal Impact Factor of the flagship kind.

Who Should Submit, and What to Check First

JNAME fits authors — in Bangladesh and well beyond it — with refereed-quality work on ship design, production, hydrodynamics, marine machinery, offshore structures or maritime safety, and authors with fluid-flow, heat-transfer or computational work that can be framed honestly for ships and marine systems. It is a particularly rational choice for researchers who need Scopus and ESCI visibility without an article charge, and for practitioners whose results deserve a permanent, citable, openly readable home. Before submitting, check the announcements page for the current documentation requirements, prepare the manuscript to the submissions guidance on BanglaJOL, suggest reviewers as the office asks, and be clear that the licence will be CC BY-NC with copyright held by the publisher. Authors needing a commercial-reuse-friendly CC BY licence, or a monthly mega-journal timetable, should look elsewhere; authors needing a real naval architecture readership will find one here.

Reading the Journal: What Twenty-Three Volumes Contain

A reader approaching JNAME for the first time should expect two literatures woven into one run. The first is the literature of Bangladeshi and regional ship science itself: design studies for the river and coastal craft that carry the country's passengers and cargo, work on shipbuilding practice in local yards, stability and safety research prompted by the hard lessons of a dense inland fleet, and offshore and ocean engineering for the Bay of Bengal. This material is difficult or impossible to find elsewhere in refereed form, because the questions it answers are posed by local conditions — shallow and shifting rivers, monsoon weather, a fleet unlike any in the North Atlantic — and it gives the journal a documentary value beyond its citation counts. When the MARTEC conference papers entered the run as a special issue in 2023, they entered in exactly this spirit: the national community's conference work, preserved in the national journal's numbered volumes where later researchers will actually find it.

The second literature is the international computational one described in the scope section: nanofluid and non-Newtonian flow studies, heat-transfer analyses, entropy-generation work, computational fluid dynamics and, increasingly, machine-learning methods applied to classic hydrodynamic datasets. The current issue's catamaran study is a fair emblem of the blend — a learning method, trained and tested on the celebrated experimental series produced at the National Physical Laboratory, addressed to a naval architect's question about predicting a vessel's motions. Papers of this kind cite, and are cited by, the worldwide fluid-mechanics community, which is why the journal's OpenAlex topic profile is dominated by heat transfer and numerical themes and why its two-year mean citedness, at 1.381 in the record fetched for this profile, is the strongest of the simple citation indicators available for it.

For a researcher planning a literature search, the practical guidance is therefore twofold. Search JNAME directly on BanglaJOL, by title words and by author, rather than relying only on the large databases, because the platform's own archive is complete back to 2004 and small specialist runs are unevenly harvested elsewhere. And when citing, cite the platform record — volume, issue, year and pages as BanglaJOL gives them — since the journal's steady two-issues-a-year pattern makes its citations unusually easy to verify. A journal that can be searched completely, read completely without payment, and cited without ambiguity is doing the basic scholarly jobs well, and it is fair to judge JNAME first of all on that standard, which it meets.

Standing in Its Field

Naval architecture is a small world discipline, and its journals divide into the large commercial titles of the big maritime nations, the society journals of the major professional institutions, and a long tail of national and university titles of very uneven quality. JNAME belongs credibly in the middle group in everything but ownership: it is an association journal, refereed, openly published, listed in Scopus and the Emerging Sources Citation Index, carrying a CiteScore the journal displays at 1.9, and continuous for more than twenty years. Titles in the tail rarely achieve half of that. For the Bangladeshi and regional authors who are its core community — and for the growing international authorship its computational stream attracts — it offers something the big commercial titles cannot: editors and referees for whom a ferry, a coastal cargo vessel or a Bay of Bengal structure is not an exotic case but the home fleet.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the ISSNs of the Journal of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering? Print ISSN 1813-8535 and online ISSN 2070-8998.

Who publishes the Journal of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering? The Association of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers of Bangladesh, on the BanglaJOL platform managed by the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences.

When did the journal begin? Volume 1 appeared in 2004, and the archive runs continuously to volume 23 in 2026 at two issues a year.

Does the journal charge authors? No — its about page states that authors pay no article processing charge and no submission fees, and DOAJ confirms the same.

Is the Journal of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering open access? Yes — immediate open access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 licence; it has published openly since 2007, per its DOAJ record.

Where is the journal indexed? Per its own site: the Emerging Sources Citation Index, Scopus, EBSCO, Crossref, IndexCopernicus, Google Scholar, DOAJ, HINARI and BanglaJOL.

What are its metrics? The journal displays CiteScore 1.9, SJR 0.443 and SNIP 0.913, all for 2022 and Scopus-based; OpenAlex counts 277 works, 2,547 citations and an h-index of 25 as at checking. No Clarivate Journal Impact Factor is claimed in this profile.

A note on namesakes. Cite this journal by its ISSN pair when there is any room for doubt. A different title, the Journal of Naval Architecture and Marine Technology, circulates in the same field, and the generic words of this journal's name — naval, architecture, marine, engineering — match thousands of records in any search. The Bangladesh association journal is the one with ISSNs 1813-8535 and 2070-8998, published on BanglaJOL; records carrying other identifiers are other publications, however similar the titles look.

Sources: the journal's about, homepage and archive pages on BanglaJOL; its DOAJ record obtained through the DOAJ search API; and the OpenAlex source record resolved by ISSN — all fetched in October 2026, with figures attributed to their source, their year where the source gives one, and stated as at checking time.