International Journal of Thermal Sciences

International Journal of Thermal Sciences is an Elsevier journal, published in Paris, devoted to the physics of heat transfer and its coupling with mass transfer and fluid flow. It descends from a French title founded in 1962 and its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 4.9.《国际热科学杂志》由（Elsevier）在巴黎出版，专注传热物理及其与传质和流体流动的耦合。其前身是 1962 年创办的法文期刊，2025 年期刊影响因子为 4.9。

Scope

• The journal publishes original research on the physics of processes involving heat transfer and its coupling with mass transfer, fluid flow or both, whether experimental, numerical or model-based.刊物发表传热过程物理的原创研究，涵盖传热与传质、流体流动或二者的耦合，方法上包括实验、数值模拟与模型讨论。
• Heat and relevant mass transfer are treated at nano, micro and macro scales and in heterogeneous, composite and biological materials.传热与相关传质在纳观、微观与宏观尺度上得到讨论，对象包括非均质材料、复合材料与生物材料。
• Forced, natural and mixed convection in reactive or non-reactive media is a core area.反应性与非反应性介质中的强制对流、自然对流与混合对流是核心领域。
• Single- and multi-phase flows, with or without phase change, fall within the remit.单相与多相流动，无论是否伴随相变，均在收稿范围之内。
• Near-field and far-field radiative heat transfer, combined modes in complex systems such as plasmas, biological or geological systems, and multiscale modelling are also covered.近场与远场辐射传热、等离子体与生物或地质等复杂系统中的复合传热模式，以及多尺度建模，同样在覆盖之列。
• Stability studies and self-developed codes are considered only when centred on heat and mass transfer physics, with experimental validation strongly encouraged.稳定性分析与自编程序只有在以传热传质物理为核心时才予考虑，刊物强烈鼓励实验验证。
• Purely mathematical developments, commercial CFD runs without new physical insight, material characterisation, black-box statistics and studies of overall industrial performance are excluded.纯数学推导、缺乏新物理认识的商业软件计算、材料表征、黑箱统计以及工业系统整体性能研究不在范围之内。

History

• The journal began in 1962 as Revue Générale de Thermique, a French-language review of thermal engineering.刊物 1962 年以法文刊名（Revue Générale de Thermique）创刊，是一份热工领域的法文评论。
• It took its present title in 1999, when volume 38 opened with an editorial by André Charette, André Lallemand and Karl Stephan.1999 年刊物改用现名，第 38 卷卷首刊出（Andre Charette）、（Andre Lallemand）与（Karl Stephan）撰写的社论。^[1]
• The renaming brought new identifiers, with ISSN 1290-0729 and e-ISSN 1778-4166 replacing those of the French title.更名同时更换刊号，以 1290-0729 与电子刊号 1778-4166 取代原法文刊的编号。
• It is published from Paris by Éditions scientifiques et médicales Elsevier, now part of Elsevier.刊物由（Éditions scientifiques et médicales Elsevier）在巴黎出版，该社现属（Elsevier）。
• Volume numbering continued across the change, and frequency rose from eleven issues a year in 1999-2001 to monthly publication from 2002.卷号在更名前后连续，年出版期数由 1999 至 2001 年的 11 期增至 2002 年起的每月一期。
• The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 4.9, after 5.0 in 2024, 4.779 in 2022 and 3.744 in 2021.2025 年期刊影响因子为 4.9，2024 年为 5.0，2022 年为 4.779，2021 年为 3.744。
• It is first quartile in engineering, mechanical (32nd of 184) and in thermodynamics (16th of 78), with a CiteScore of 10.0 and six days from acceptance to online publication.刊物在机械工程（184 种期刊中第 32 位）与热力学（78 种期刊中第 16 位）均列一区，CiteScore 为 10.0，录用至在线发表约需 6 天。

Editors

• The editors-in-chief are Chakravarthy Balaji of IIT Madras, Cathy Castelain of Nantes University and Helcio Orlande of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.主编为（IIT Madras）的（Chakravarthy Balaji）、（Nantes University）的（Cathy Castelain）与（Federal University of Rio de Janeiro）的（Helcio Orlande）。
• Eleven associate editors are drawn from France, China, Portugal, Canada, the United Kingdom, India, Italy and Israel.十一位副编辑来自法国、中国、葡萄牙、加拿大、英国、印度、意大利与以色列。
• Six honorary editors-in-chief include Yildiz Bayazitoglu, André Charette, Dominique Gobin, Ulrich Gross, André Lallemand and Karl Stephan.六位荣誉主编包括（Yildiz Bayazitoglu）、（Andre Charette）、（Dominique Gobin）、（Ulrich Gross）、（Andre Lallemand）与（Karl Stephan）。
• An advisory board of eleven members represents Canada, the United States, China, Brazil, France, Japan, Iran, Belarus and Germany.十一人的顾问委员会覆盖加拿大、美国、中国、巴西、法国、日本、伊朗、白俄罗斯与德国。
• Review is single-anonymized, with at least two independent reviewers and a single round of appeal.刊物采用单盲评审，通常至少送两位独立审稿人，作者仅可提出一次申诉。
• Review articles require the corresponding author to contact an editor-in-chief before submission, and manuscripts may be written in English or French.综述类稿件须由通讯作者在投稿前联系一位主编，正文可用英文或法文撰写。