Journal of Thermal Stresses

Journal of Thermal Stresses is a monthly peer-reviewed journal published by Taylor & Francis, and it has carried work on the theory and the industrial application of thermal stress since 1978. It addresses analysts and experimenters alike, appears in twelve numbers a year, and holds a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 2.4 with a CiteScore of 3.7.《热应力杂志》由 Taylor & Francis 出版，1978 年创刊，是一份月刊，刊发热应力理论与工业应用方面的同行评审研究。刊物面向解析研究者与实验研究者，每年出版 12 期，2025 年期刊影响因子为 2.4，CiteScore 为 3.7。

Scope

• The stated aim opens with a claim of priority, calling the title the first international journal devoted exclusively to the subject, and it sets out a remit of refereed articles on the theoretical and industrial applications of thermal stresses.公开宗旨开篇即点明这份刊物是热应力领域第一本专门的国际期刊，收稿范围则是热应力理论与工业应用的经同行评审论文。
• It is meant as a forum for those engaged in analytic as well as experimental research, and it takes in papers on mathematical and practical applications.刊物自述为解析研究与实验研究者的共同论坛，收录数学处理与实际应用两方面的论文。
• Emphasis falls on new developments in thermoelasticity, the coupling of deformation and temperature in a solid, where a strain field and a heat conduction field have to be solved together.重点放在热弹性的新进展上，也就是固体中变形与温度的耦合，应变场与热传导场需要联立求解。
• Thermoplasticity carries the same weight, covering the permanent deformation that survives a thermal cycle and the residual stress it leaves in a body cooled unevenly.热塑性享有同等分量，涉及热循环之后仍然留存的永久变形，以及物体冷却不均时留下的残余应力。
• The publisher's one-sentence description joins the two under the mechanics of thermoelastic and thermoplastic materials, which fixes the ground the journal works on.出版方的一句话简介把两者并入热弹性材料与热塑性材料的力学，这一说法划定了刊物的基本范围。
• Papers on experimental methods are published as well, the bench side of the field, where temperature fields and thermal strains are measured and used to test a model.实验方法类论文同样在收稿之列，属于这一领域的台架一侧，温度场与热应变在那里被测量出来，用来检验模型。
• Numerical work is named explicitly, finite element methods among them, which places computation beside the closed-form analysis the subject grew out of.数值工作被明确写入范围，有限元方法也在其中，计算由此与这一领域起家的闭式解析并列。
• Analytic papers still hold the center, and a closed-form solution for a heated plate, a cylinder or a half-space remains the kind of result the journal was built to print.解析论文仍居中心，受热板件、圆柱体或半空间问题的闭式解，仍是这份刊物自创刊起就愿意刊出的结果类型。
• Recent contents show where the subject sits now, with functionally graded cylinders and shells, nanobeams and nanoplates, semiconductor photo-thermoelasticity, laser heating, and residual stress in additive manufacturing and in thermal barrier coatings.近期目录显示出这一题目当下的落点，包括功能梯度圆柱与壳体的分析、纳米梁与纳米板的振动、半导体光热弹性、激光加热，以及增材制造与热障涂层中的残余应力。
• The industrial side is written into the aim, and applications are expected to come with the theory, since the journal was set up for readers who build and run hardware.工业一侧写在宗旨里，应用被期望与理论同行，因为这份刊物从设立起就面向制造并运行设备的人。
• Two article types are accepted, Articles and Methods, and the second is a medium-length peer-reviewed form for an advancement in current methods and research procedures.刊物接受两类稿件，即 Articles 与 Methods，后者是一种中等篇幅的同行评审稿件，用来描述现有方法与研究流程的改进。
• Authors of a Methods paper are expected to describe a procedure others can adopt, which gives instrumentation and test protocols a home that full research papers tend to compress.Methods 稿件要求写出别人可以照做的流程，仪器与试验规范因此有了落脚处，而这类内容在研究论文里往往被压缩得很短。
• Readership is given as physicists, engineers and mathematicians in universities, research institutions and industry, a mix that matches a subject sitting between heat transfer and solid mechanics.读者群包括大学与研究机构的物理学家、工程师和数学家，也包括工业界的同类人员，这一组合正对应一门介于传热学与固体力学之间的学科。
• Manuscripts are taken in English only, and the editorial pages say so plainly, which keeps the archive in one language across five decades.稿件只接受英文，投稿页对此写得很直白，这也让刊物五十年间的过刊保持同一种语言。

History

• Volume 1, number 1 carries a date of July 1978 in the Crossref record, which fixes the founding year, and the serial is registered under ISSN 0149-5739 with the electronic counterpart 1521-074X.Crossref 记录把第 1 卷第 1 期定在 1978 年 7 月，创刊年由此确定，该连续出版物的纸本号为 ISSN 0149-5739，电子号为 1521-074X。
• Richard B. Hetnarski started the journal and is still listed on the board as Founding Editor, a title kept apart from the editor-in-chief and marking the hand that launched the title.Richard B. Hetnarski 创办了这份刊物，至今仍以创始主编的身份列在编委页上，这一头衔与主编分开，标出最初把刊物办起来的人。
• The publisher of record is Taylor & Francis, carried in the registry as Informa UK Limited, and the imprint is British.登记在册的出版方是 Taylor & Francis，注册名写作 Informa UK Limited，出版地为英国。
• One volume has been completed in each year since the launch, so the count runs from volume 1 in 1978 to volume 49 in 2026 without a gap.自创刊起每年出满一卷，卷号从 1978 年的第 1 卷一路排到 2026 年的第 49 卷，中间没有空缺。
• Twelve numbers fill a volume. The 2026 volume had reached number 11 by late October, which is what a monthly schedule looks like before the year closes.每卷 12 期。2026 年这一卷到 10 月下旬已出到第 11 期，这正是月刊在年底封卷前的模样。
• Its own founding claim says as much, since a journal described as the first devoted exclusively to thermal stresses implies a field that had been carried by applied mechanics and engineering titles before 1978.刊物自己的创刊说法就说明了这一点，一份自称首本专注于热应力的期刊，意味着 1978 年之前这一领域是由应用力学与工程类刊物承载的。
• Citation indexing runs through Science Citation Index Expanded, Current Contents/Engineering, Computing & Technology and the Materials Science Citation Index, which between them cover the applied side of the field.引文索引通过 Science Citation Index Expanded 与 Current Contents 的工程、计算与技术分辑，以及 Materials Science Citation Index 覆盖，三者合起来照看这一领域的应用一侧。
• Engineering databases follow the same line, with Engineering Index Monthly and Engineering Information beside the CSA abstracts covering aluminum, engineered materials, mechanical engineering, metals, and solid state and superconductivity.工程类数据库走同一条线，除 Engineering Index Monthly 与 Engineering Information 之外，还有 CSA 系列文摘，分涉铝工业、工程材料与机械工程，也收金属与固体及超导物理。
• Access is hybrid. The journal belongs to the Open Select program, authors may pay to make an article open, and the subscription route carries no article processing charge at all.访问模式为混合型。刊物属于 Open Select 计划，作者可以选择付费把单篇文章开放，走订阅路线则不产生文章处理费。
• Open access remains marginal in practice, with gold articles taking 1.91 percent of the 2025 content, a share that fits a field whose readers arrive through libraries.开放获取在实际比例上仍属边缘，2025 年金色开放获取文章占 1.91%，这一比例与一个主要经图书馆订阅抵达读者的领域相符。
• Journal Citation Reports files the title in two categories, 92nd of 172 in Mechanics and 41st of 78 in Thermodynamics, both third quartile in the 2025 edition.Journal Citation Reports 把该刊归入两个类目，力学类 172 种中排第 92 位，热力学类 78 种中排第 41 位，在 2025 年版中同属第三四分位。
• The impact factor stood at 3.456 in 2022, fell to 2.6 and then 2.3 over the next two years, and edged back to 2.4 in 2025, while the five-year figure is 2.5.影响因子 2022 年为 3.456，此后两年降到 2.6 与 2.3，2025 年回升至 2.4，五年影响因子为 2.5。
• Turnaround is quick by the standards of the field, at 27 days from submission to a first decision and 59 days to a decision after review, with 32 days from acceptance to publication.按这一领域的标准衡量，处理速度偏快，投稿到首次决定平均 27 天，外审后作出决定平均 59 天，接收到上线平均 32 天。
• The acceptance rate is 34 percent. About 113 articles appeared in 2025, citations to the journal total 3,644, and the cited half-life is 10.4 years, long for an engineering title.接收率为 34%。2025 年发文约 113 篇，刊物累计被引 3644 次，被引半衰期 10.4 年，在工程类刊物中偏长。
• No former title is recorded for the serial, and the volume numbering has run unbroken since the 1978 launch, so the archive reads as one continuous set rather than a series of relaunches.登记记录里没有曾用刊名，卷号自 1978 年创刊起连续编排，整份过刊因此是一套连续集合，而不是几经改版重起的拼接。

Editors

• Martin Ostoja-Starzewski of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign holds the editor-in-chief post, and his name heads the listing, above the founding tier and the associate editors.主编由伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校的 Martin Ostoja-Starzewski 担任，他的名字列在编委页最前，其下依次是创始主编与副编辑。
• Below the editor-in-chief the listing keeps a founding tier, where Richard B. Hetnarski of Naples, Florida is named Founding Editor, a title that records the launch and stands apart from the editor-in-chief's office.主编之下另设创始层级，佛罗里达州那不勒斯的 Richard B. Hetnarski 以创始主编的名义列名，这一头衔记录刊物创办，与主编之职分列。
• An advising editor, Yuriy Tokovyy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, completes the senior tier and sits between the editor-in-chief and the associate editors in the listing.指导编辑由乌克兰国家科学院的 Yuriy Tokovyy 担任，资深层级由此齐备，他在名单上列于主编之后、副编辑之前。
• Twenty-six associate editors carry the day-to-day handling, each listed with an institution and a country, and the group is the widest tier of the board.26 位副编辑承担日常编务，每位都附有单位与国别，这一层是编委中人数最多的一档。
• Their countries run from Poland, Italy and Spain through China, Iran and India to Japan, Georgia, Denmark, Sweden, Australia and Hong Kong.他们的所在地包括波兰、意大利与西班牙，也包括中国、伊朗与印度，还有日本、格鲁吉亚与丹麦，瑞典、澳大利亚与香港也在其中。
• Four associate editors come from the University of Salerno, a cluster that stands out on a list of twenty-six spread across more than ten countries.副编辑中有 4 位来自萨莱诺大学，在 26 人且横跨十余个国家的名单上，这一聚集相当显眼。
• Three Chinese universities hold seats at that level, Zhejiang University, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Tongji University, while Yangzhou University appears one tier down.中国的三所高校在副编辑一层占有席位，即浙江大学、南京航空航天大学与同济大学，扬州大学则出现在下一层的编委名单里。
• The board of twenty-one is the smaller of the two groups, and it carries names long tied to thermoelasticity, among them J.R. Barber of Michigan and Naotake Noda of Shizuoka.21 人的编委名单是两档中较小的一组，其中不乏与热弹性长期相关的名字，密歇根大学的 J.R. Barber 与静冈大学的 Naotake Noda 都在列。
• Two Georgian institutions appear, Tbilisi State University with an associate editor and a board member, and Ilia State University with another associate editor.格鲁吉亚有两所机构在列，第比利斯国立大学贡献一位副编辑与一位编委，伊利亚国立大学贡献另一位副编辑。
• Iasi supplies two board members, Stan Chirita and Dorin Iesan, and Polish institutions hold several seats, from Zenon Mróz to Artur Ganczarski and Jan Taler.雅西贡献了 Stan Chirita 与 Dorin Iesan 两位编委，波兰的机构也占数席，从 Zenon Mróz 到 Artur Ganczarski 与 Jan Taler。
• Every manuscript is first appraised by the editor, and one found suitable goes to two independent anonymous experts, with the review single anonymized so that authors never learn who read the paper.每篇稿件先由编辑初评，被认为合适的再送两位独立匿名专家，评审为单盲，作者始终不知道稿件由谁审读。
• Submission runs through the publisher's own system under the journal code UTHS, and the instructions ask for a title page, an abstract and keywords before the main text begins.投稿经出版方自己的系统提交，刊物代码为 UTHS，投稿说明要求正文之前备好标题页、摘要与关键词。
• The main text is then expected to follow introduction, materials and methods, results and discussion, with acknowledgments, a declaration of interest, references, appendices, tables and figures after it.正文随后按引言与材料方法、结果与讨论的顺序展开，末尾附致谢与利益声明，参考文献、附录以及表格与图随后逐一列出。