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Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering
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Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering

1355-2511

Published by: Emerald Publishing

https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/jqme

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Engineering and Technology 1266 7 7 5

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 12
Documents by Best Scientists*: 11
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 64
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.567
Impact Factor: 2.4

Overview

Top Research Topics at Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering?

Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering explores disciplines such as Reliability engineering, Preventive maintenance, Operations management, Process (engineering) and Operations research. The journal addresses concerns in Reliability engineering which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Quality (business), Reliability (statistics), Condition monitoring and Component (UML). The Reliability (statistics) study featured in the journal draws parallels with the field of Maintainability.

Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering connects the study in Operations management with the closely related area of Risk analysis (engineering). It focused on Process (engineering) research but expanded to cover Process management. The Process management works featured in the journal incorporate elements from Total productive maintenance and Systems engineering.

Proactive maintenance is a primary topic of Predictive maintenance research in the journal.

  • Reliability engineering (32.99%)
  • Preventive maintenance (13.90%)
  • Operations management (13.51%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Maintenance management: literature review and directions (378 citations)
  • Strategic dimensions of maintenance management (339 citations)
  • A review of overall models for maintenance management (250 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering:

The published papers tackle a plethora of topics, such as Process management, Reliability engineering, Operations management, Risk analysis (engineering) and Total productive maintenance. While work presented in the most cited papers provide substantial information on Reliability engineering, it also covers topics in Reliability (statistics), Analytic hierarchy process, Benchmarking and Spare part. The Risk analysis (engineering) research tackled in the journal publications is interrelated with Predictive maintenance which concerns subjects like Condition-based maintenance.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Statistics
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Mechanical engineering

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The main research concerns discussed in Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering are Reliability engineering, Risk analysis (engineering), Process management, Preventive maintenance and Reliability (statistics). Some problems in Reliability engineering that were presented in the journal overlapped with concepts under Repairable systems, Condition monitoring and Sensitivity (control systems). It facilitates discussions on Risk analysis (engineering) that incorporate concepts from other fields like Operational risk and Maintenance actions.

Process management research featured in the journal incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Asset management, Quality management system, Quality management and Process (engineering). Topics in Preventive maintenance explored in Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering were investigated in conjunction with research in Work order, Estimation, Order (business) and Discrete manufacturing. The overlapping concepts between Markov model and Ticket and Representation (mathematics) are the key highlights of Reliability (statistics) study.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Multi-stakeholder perspectives on indicators for sustainable maintenance performance in production contexts: an exploratory study (8 citations)
  • Analytical evaluation of TPM performance based on an economic criterion (3 citations)
  • Cybersecurity workforce in railway: its maturity and awareness (2 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Uday Kumar (18 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Jezdimir Knezevic (14 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Balbir S. Dhillon (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Tore Markeset (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Andrew K.S. Jardine (10 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Luleå University of Technology (39 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (24 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Stavanger (17 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Ottawa (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Exeter (12 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 88.89% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 20.00% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 20.00% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 0.00% of all publications and 60.00% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Maintenance and sustainability: a systematic review of modeling-based literature

    (2022)
    43 Citations
  • A data mining approach for lubricant-based fault diagnosis

    James Wakiru;Liliane Pintelon;Peter Ng’ang’a Muchiri;Peter K. Chemweno

    (2021)
    15 Citations
  • A decision support system to assure high-performance maintenance service

    Giuseppe Aiello;Julio Benítez;Silvia Carpitella;Antonella Certa

    (2021)
    11 Citations
  • Validating elements of organisational maintenance policy for maintenance management of public buildings in Nigeria

    (2022)
    6 Citations
  • Mechanization level assessment and technology identification for productivity improvement in petrochemical facility maintenance

    Zhe Yin;Carlos Caldas;Daniel de Oliveira;Bon-Gang Hwang

    (2020)
    6 Citations
  • Preventive maintenance and silica exposure limits integrated in the production planning of a granite processing unit

    (2022)
    1 Citations
  • Modeling and solving the multi-objective energy-efficient production planning and scheduling with imperfect maintenance activities

    (2023)
    0 Citations

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