REview Process
Our goal for Journal of Mechanical Design (JMD) is to expedite the review of submissions while maintaining a high quality, thorough, and fair review process. Maintaining an expeditious and selective review process ensures that we publish the best papers with the highest impact possible.
Each paper is reviewed by 2-4 reviewers, typically by three. Associate Editors (AEs) recommend an action to the Editor, who then makes the final decision.
The following are recommended time periods for critical review tasks:
- 5 days for the Editor to assign AE
- 5 days for AE to assign reviewers
- 35 days to complete first round of reviews
- 15-30 days for authors to submit revision
- 5-30 days to complete revision review
- 3-7 days for AE to make a recommendation
- 3-7 days for final decision
- 7-14 days for author to submit final manuscript files
- 7 days for final manuscript approval
In total this process generally takes 3-5 months. After this process is completed and all required copyright forms are completed the manuscript will move into production.
QUICK LINKS
- FAQs – Many of your submission questions are answered here.
- ASME Digital Library – Shortcut to the ASME Digital Library containing JMD articles that have been published and JMD articles that have been accepted for publication.
- Article submission – Shortcut to the electronic submission site for new authors.
- Reviewer login – Shortcut to the login page for reviewers.
- ASME Community – Shortcut to ASME’s virtual community and networking tools.
Open Access Papers
After a paper is accepted, authors can choose to pay Article Publication Charges (APCs) so that their paper is immediately available upon publication in compliance with funder mandates. For more information please see ASME’s Open Access policies
ASME Digital Collection
Visit ASME’s Digital Collection to view JMD’s latest accepted manuscripts and most accessed papers.
