About the Journal

About the Journal

The Journal of Computers, Mechanical and Management (officially abbreviated J. Comput. Mech. Manag.; e-ISSN 3009-075X) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal published by AAN Publishing, Malaysia. The journal serves as a forum for the dissemination of original research and high-quality review articles across the broad domains of engineering and technology, computing, and management sciences, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary and applied research.

Aims

The Journal of Computers, Mechanical and Management publishes interdisciplinary research at the convergence of three domains: computing and data-driven technologies; engineering, with particular emphasis on mechanical, industrial, electrical and electronics, civil, and biomedical engineering; and management, business, and economic systems. The journal aims to support the dissemination of research that demonstrates novelty, methodological rigour, and practical or theoretical significance, and that makes meaningful contributions across or between these three domains.

Subject coverage includes, but is not limited to, computer science and artificial intelligence, modelling and simulation, applied mathematics and operations research, engineering management and industrial engineering, technology-driven business and economic systems, and the basic sciences and mathematics that support engineering and technological research. The journal welcomes original research articles, systematic reviews, and short communications. A detailed scope, with subject areas and worked examples of in-scope and out-of-scope topics, is provided on the Aims and Scope page.

Publication History

The Journal of Computers, Mechanical and Management was established in 2022, with its first issue published in October 2022. The journal received its e-ISSN (3009-075X) from the ISSN National Centre for Malaysia in September 2025. The journal was accepted for indexing in Scopus in December 2025, with retrospective coverage of the journal's full publication history from 2022. As of 31 March 2026, the journal has published 102 articles across multiple volumes.

Publisher

The Journal of Computers, Mechanical and Management is owned and published by AAN Publishing, an academic publisher registered in Malaysia (registration number AS0507055W). AAN Publishing is responsible for the journal's hosting, technical infrastructure, financial administration, and indexing-application coordination. AAN Publishing has no role in editorial decisions on individual submissions; editorial authority rests entirely with the Editor-in-Chief and the editorial team. Full publisher details, including registered office, ownership, and management, are provided on the Publisher page.

Editorial Independence

The editorial team operates independently of the publisher in all decisions on the acceptance, revision, or rejection of submissions. Editorial decisions are based solely on the scholarly merit, methodological soundness, and scope-fit of each manuscript, as assessed through external peer review. The journal applies a documented Editorial Submissions Policy when manuscripts are submitted by members of the editorial team or the active reviewer pool, ensuring that such submissions are handled by an independent editor with no involvement of the author-editor in the editorial process. The journal commits to keeping the proportion of articles authored by editorial team members and active reviewers below 15% in any rolling 12-month period. The full statement is published on the Editorial Independence page.

Peer Review

All submissions are subject to an initial editorial screening to assess scope-fit, originality, and basic methodological adequacy. Manuscripts that pass this stage are evaluated through a single-blind peer-review process by a minimum of two independent external reviewers. Additional reviewers may be invited at the discretion of the handling editor. Manuscripts authored by members of the editorial team are reviewed under the journal's Editorial Submissions Policy with double-blind review by reviewers external to the editorial team. The full peer-review process, including stages, criteria, and timelines, is described on the Peer Review Policy page.

Open Access and Licensing

All articles are published as open access immediately upon publication, with no subscription, registration, or payment required to access full text. Articles are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence. Authors retain copyright of their work. Full terms are described on the Open Access Policy and Copyright and Licensing pages.

Article Processing Charges

Manuscripts submitted on or before 30 September 2026 are processed under an APC of USD 250 per accepted article, irrespective of the date of acceptance. Manuscripts submitted from 1 October 2026 onwards are subject to a revised APC of USD 1000 per accepted article. APCs are requested only after final acceptance.

Applicable taxes and transaction charges are additional to the APC and are borne by the author.

A structured APC waiver scheme applies from 1 October 2026, based on the corresponding author's institutional affiliation and the World Bank country classification. Authors whose corresponding-author affiliation is in a low-income economy receive a full APC waiver, applied automatically. Authors whose corresponding-author affiliation is in a lower-middle-income economy receive a 50% APC waiver, applied automatically. Discretionary waivers on demonstrated financial hardship are available for authors elsewhere, evaluated case-by-case by the Editor-in-Chief. Waiver decisions have no bearing on editorial decisions. Full details are on the Article Processing Charges page.

Publication Ethics

The Journal of Computers, Mechanical and Management adheres to the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and applies these principles to all stages of the editorial process, from submission through publication and post-publication correction. The journal applies similarity screening to all submissions, requires authorship contributions to be declared using the CRediT taxonomy, and follows COPE flowcharts for the handling of suspected research misconduct. The full statement is on the Publication Ethics page.

Indexing and Abstracting

The Journal of Computers, Mechanical and Management is indexed in Scopus (Source ID 21101390129; coverage from 2022), SCImago Journal Rank, Crossref, the ROAD Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources, and Google Scholar.

Scopus classifies the journal under the following subject areas: Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous); Engineering (miscellaneous); Mathematics (miscellaneous); and Modeling and Simulation. A full list of indexing services, with current metrics where available and direct links to the journal's records, is on the Indexing and Abstracting page.

Editorial Performance

The following figures are derived from the journal's editorial workflow records and are reviewed periodically. The reporting period covers the journal's full publication history.

Reporting period: 24 June 2022 – 25 April 2026
Submissions received: 671
Submissions published: 102
Acceptance rate: 19%
Days to first editorial decision: 23
Days to final acceptance: 87

Identifiers and Contact

  • ISSN (Online): 3009-075X (registered 8 September 2025 by the ISSN National Centre for Malaysia)
  • DOI prefix: 10.57159 (registered with Crossref)
  • Scopus Source ID: 21101390129
  • Publication frequency: Bimonthly (six issues per year), with continuous online publication of accepted articles
  • Editorial contact: editor@jcmm.co.in
  • Editorial Office and publisher contact: journalmanager@jcmm.co.in
  • Registered office of the publisher: AAN Publishing, 62 Suasana Damai, Bandar Darulaman, 06000 Jitra, Kedah Darulaman, Malaysia

Membership and Standards

The journal aligns its editorial and ethical practices with: