CEAS Aeronautical Journal
CEAS Aeronautical Journal is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal that Springer publishes for the Council of European Aerospace Societies, and it carries aeronautical research from flight physics through systems engineering to air transport. Founded in 2011 with support from the German Aerospace Center and the European Space Agency, it reached volume 17 in 2026 and holds a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 2.4.《CEAS 航空学报》是 Springer 代表欧洲航空航天学会理事会(CEAS)出版的季刊,采用同行评议,刊载从飞行物理、系统工程到航空运输的航空研究。该刊 2011 年在德国航空航天中心与欧洲空间局的支持下创办,2026 年已出至第 17 卷,2025 年期刊影响因子为 2.4。
Scope
- The stated scope covers results and findings in every area of aeronautical science and technology, together with new developments in digital design and manufacturing of aircraft, rotorcraft and unpiloted aerial vehicles.该刊声明的范围覆盖航空科学与技术各领域的研究结果,也包括飞机、旋翼机与无人驾驶飞行器在数字化设计与制造方面的新进展。
- Flight physics and aerodynamics sit at the centre of that list, with experimental, numerical and theoretical work on laminar flow, high-lift systems, drag reduction and unsteady aerodynamics.飞行物理与空气动力学处在清单中心,涉及层流、增升装置、减阻与非定常空气动力学的实验、数值与理论研究。
- Aeroelasticity and structural mechanics take in flutter, load prediction, composite and hybrid airframes, structural health monitoring and fatigue assessment.气动弹性与结构力学涵盖颤振、载荷预测、复合材料与混合结构机体、结构健康监测以及疲劳评定。
- Aeroacoustics appears through airframe noise, fan and jet noise prediction, acoustic liners and wind-tunnel measurement technique.气动声学方面涉及机体噪声、风扇与喷流噪声预测、声衬以及风洞测量技术。
- Work on structures and materials runs from metallic and composite airframes to additive manufacturing, bonding and the crashworthiness of fuselage sections.结构与材料方向的研究从金属与复合材料机体延伸到增材制造、胶接以及机身段的耐撞性。
- Flight mechanics and flight control papers discuss handling qualities, envelope protection, model-based control laws and piloted simulation.飞行力学与飞行控制类论文讨论操纵品质、包线保护、基于模型的控制律以及有人驾驶模拟。
- Systems engineering contributions examine avionics architectures, equipment qualification, software assurance and the integration of more electric subsystems.系统工程类稿件考察航空电子架构、设备鉴定、软件保证以及多电化子系统的集成。
- Flight guidance, communication, navigation and surveillance research shows up in satellite-based approach procedures, trajectory prediction and air-ground datalink studies.飞行引导、通信、导航与监视研究见于星基进近程序、航迹预测以及空地数据链研究。
- Air traffic management work addresses capacity constraints, sectorless control concepts, arrival management and the environmental efficiency of flown trajectories.空中交通管理研究处理容量约束、无扇区管制概念、到达管理以及实际飞行航迹的环境效率。
- Aircraft design studies span multidisciplinary optimisation, preliminary sizing tools, high-lift system integration and configuration trade-offs for derivative projects.飞机设计研究涵盖多学科优化、初步尺寸估算工具、增升系统集成以及衍生型号的构型取舍。
- Rotorcraft coverage includes active rotor control, individual blade control, wake modelling for blade-vortex interaction noise and simulator fidelity.旋翼机方向包括主动旋翼控制、单片桨叶控制、针对桨涡干扰噪声的尾迹建模以及模拟器逼真度。
- Propulsion topics extend to compressor and combustor aerodynamics, low-emission fuel injectors, engine integration and hybrid-electric or hydrogen concepts.推进方向延伸到压气机与燃烧室气动、低排放燃油喷嘴、发动机集成以及混合电推进或氢动力概念。
- A cross-cutting emphasis on mitigating aviation's climate impact draws in sustainable aviation fuels, contrail research and net-zero propulsion studies for regional aircraft.减缓航空气候影响的跨领域重点吸纳了可持续航空燃料、凝结尾迹研究以及支线飞机净零推进研究。
- Alongside original articles the journal runs invited in-depth reviews of development status and short communications of roughly 2,500 words for results that need quick publication.除原创论文之外,该刊还刊登受邀撰写的进展深度综述,以及约 2500 词、面向需快速发表结果的短通讯。
History
- CEAS set the journal up in 2011 as a publication platform for scientists and engineers worldwide, with the German Aerospace Center and the European Space Agency lending support.CEAS 于 2011 年创办该刊,作为面向全球科学家与工程师的发表平台,德国航空航天中心与欧洲空间局提供支持。
- The council behind it is a Belgian non-profit association of European aerospace societies whose operations began on 1 January 2007, with a head office in Brussels housed at the office of DLR.其背后的理事会是由欧洲各国航空航天学会组成的比利时非营利协会,自 2007 年 1 月 1 日起运作,总部设在布鲁塞尔德国航空航天中心的办公处。
- Eleven trustee societies, among them 3AF, AIDAA, DGLR, RAeS and SVFW, and seven corporate members including ESA, EASA and EUROCONTROL, give the title its institutional base.十一家理事学会(其中包括 3AF、AIDAA、DGLR、RAeS 与 SVFW)和七家企业会员(包括 ESA、EASA 与 EUROCONTROL)构成该刊的机构基础。
- Volume 1 came out in September 2011 with issues 1 to 4 bound into a single volume, opened by a two-page editorial signed by Joachim Szodruch.第 1 卷于 2011 年 9 月面世,第 1 至第 4 期合订为一卷,卷首社论由(Joachim Szodruch)撰写,篇幅两页。[1]
- A second volume followed in December 2011, gathering selected papers of the German Aerospace Congress under an introduction by Detlef Müller-Wiesner, Rolf Henke and Constantinos Stavrinidis.第 2 卷在 2011 年 12 月接续出版,汇集德国航空航天大会的精选论文,卷首导言由(Detlef Müller-Wiesner)、(Rolf Henke)与(Constantinos Stavrinidis)合写。
- Volumes 3 and 4 ran from April to December, and by 2014 the rhythm had settled into four issues dated March, June, September and December.第 3 卷与第 4 卷的刊期从 4 月排到 12 月,到 2014 年已稳定为每年四期,分别标注 3 月、6 月、9 月与 12 月。
- Springer Vienna has carried the title from the outset, while the copyright line names the German Aerospace Center rather than the publishing house.该刊自创刊起由 Springer Vienna 出版,版权行标注的却是德国航空航天中心。
- A companion CEAS Space Journal was created under the same umbrella so that spaceflight research would have a separate outlet, and both titles share the supporting institutions.同一框架下另设姊妹刊 CEAS Space Journal,让航天研究有独立的发表渠道,两刊共享同一批支持机构。
- Special issues have marked the volumes since the early years, among them structural health monitoring in 2013, active flow control within the AFLoNext project and rotorcraft work from the European Rotorcraft Forum.特刊从早期卷次起就成为惯例,其中有 2013 年的结构健康监测专辑、AFLoNext 项目内的主动流动控制专辑,以及欧洲旋翼机论坛的旋翼机研究专辑。
- The 2026 volume carries 26 to 32 articles per issue, against 14 to 28 in the 2025 volume.2026 年各期载文 26 至 32 篇,2025 年各期为 14 至 28 篇。
- Open access expanded under Springer's hybrid Open Choice scheme, and more than 500 articles are now freely readable, in line with a gold open access share above 80 percent.开放获取在 Springer 的混合模式 Open Choice 下扩张,目前可免费阅读的文章超过 500 篇,与八成以上的金色开放获取占比相符。
- Coverage began in the Emerging Sources Citation Index rather than the Science Citation Index Expanded, and the title is also indexed in Scopus, EI Compendex and the Astrophysics Data System, with selected citations reaching PubMed.该刊的引文索引收录起步于新兴来源引文索引,全文科学引文索引扩展版并未收录,同时它被 Scopus、EI Compendex 与天体物理数据系统收录,部分引文进入 PubMed。
- The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 2.4, which puts the title in the second quartile of aerospace engineering at 20 of 59, and the median wait from submission to first decision is 19 days.2025 年期刊影响因子为 2.4,在航空航天工程类目 59 份期刊中列第 20 位,从投稿到首次决定的中位等待时间为 19 天。
Editors
- Markus Fischer of the German Aerospace Center in Cologne is Editor-in-Chief, and the editorial office sits in Cologne as well.(Markus Fischer)任职于科隆的德国航空航天中心,担任主编,编辑部同样设在科隆。
- Three managing editors, Andrea Dieball, Cornelia Hillenherms and Janko Kreikemeier, all at DLR, steer manuscripts through the process and choose the associate editors who assess them.三位执行编辑(Andrea Dieball)、(Cornelia Hillenherms)与(Janko Kreikemeier)均在 DLR 工作,负责推进稿件流程并挑选承担评审的副编辑。
- Final authority rests with the managing editors and the Editor-in-Chief, so associate editors recommend and may request revisions but cannot accept a paper on their own.最终决定权属于执行编辑与主编,副编辑提出建议并可要求修改,无权独自录用稿件。
- The editorial board lists ONERA's Philippe Beaumier, the Politecnico di Milano's Franco Bernelli, AIDAA's Paolo Gaudenzi and Anastasia Pesce of the European Space Research and Technology Centre.编委会名单中有 ONERA 的(Philippe Beaumier)、米兰理工大学的(Franco Bernelli)、AIDAA 的(Paolo Gaudenzi)以及欧洲空间研究与技术中心的(Anastasia Pesce)。
- Roughly fifty associate editors serve, drawn mainly from Italy and Germany, with others in France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Poland, Türkiye, Brazil, India, Russia and the United States.副编辑约五十人,主要来自意大利与德国,其余分布在法国、荷兰、英国、波兰、土耳其、巴西、印度、俄罗斯与美国。
- DLR staff cover flight guidance, rotorcraft acoustics, structures and air transport, which keeps the editorial profile close to the research agenda of the supporting centre.DLR 的研究人员覆盖飞行引导、旋翼机声学、结构与航空运输,使编辑阵容贴近支持机构的研究议程。
- Manuscripts follow a single-blind procedure, usually assessed by two referees from the worldwide research community together with one associate editor.稿件采用单盲评审,通常由国际研究界的两位审稿人加上一位副编辑共同评估。
- No paper is accepted without two complete and final reviews, and revised submissions that needed major changes normally return to the original referees.没有两份完整且最终的评审意见,任何论文都不会被录用,需要大改的修改稿通常回到原审稿人手中。
- Editors screen for conflicts of interest and avoid referees who work closely with the authors, such as former advisors or frequent co-authors.编辑会排查利益冲突,回避与作者合作密切的审稿人,例如曾经的导师或经常合作的共同作者。
- Board members may submit their own work only when the handling associate editor and the referees stay fully anonymous, and their papers receive no preferential treatment.编委本人投稿须以经办副编辑与审稿人完全匿名作为前提,其论文也不享受优待。
- Special issues are run by guest editors who assign at least two referees to each article, while papers coming from those guest editors are routed to independent associate editors.特刊由客座编辑主持,每篇至少安排两位审稿人,客座编辑自己的投稿则转交独立的副编辑处理。
- Submissions enter through Springer Nature's online submission system, and short communications must be filed under the correspondence article type.稿件经 Springer Nature 的在线投稿系统进入,短通讯在投稿环节须选用通讯类文章类型。
References
- ^Joachim Szodruch. Editorial. CEAS Aeronautical Journal. 2011, 1, 1-2. DOI: 10.1007/s13272-011-0006-8