Welding in the world – 2022 update

Technical editors

Prof. John C. Lippold (United States)

Prof. Dr.-Ing Thomas Böllinghaus (Germany)

Prof. Américo Scotti (Sweden/Brazil)

Dr. Majid Farajian (Germany)

Managing editor

Erdmuthe Raufelder (Germany)

In 2021, Volume 65 of Welding in the World published 186 papers and over 2400 pages of fundamental and applied research associated with materials joining and allied technologies. The distribution of papers published in 2021, arranged by Technology Area, is shown in the accompanying figure. The journal continues to publish papers in a wide range of technology areas associated with both welding and joining of materials and additive manufacturing.

Over 450 papers were submitted to the journal in 2021. The acceptance rate for these papers was 35% and average time to first decision was ~ 80 days. As shown in the accompanying chart, the journal impact continues to increase based on both Impact Factor (IF) and CiteScore, with an anticipated IF of 2.4 expected for 2021. The number of paper downloads again increased dramatically in 2021 to over 210,000, up 40% from 2020. Also, the time from paper submission to online publication was reduced to ~ 200 days. Further improvements are anticipated in 2022 with a goal of reducing time to online publication to 150 days.

Despite the challenges created by holding another online IIW Annual Assembly in 2021 and the reliance on virtual working unit meetings, paper submission to WitW remained strong even with the drop in recommended papers from the Working Units. The simplified keyword system introduced in 2020 has helped streamline the peer review system and facilitated the assignment of papers to the most appropriate reviewers.

In October 2021, Dr. Majid Farajian (Germany) was added as a fourth Technical Editor. Dr Farajian’s areas of expertise are fracture, fatigue and structural integrity. Additions were also made to the Editorial Board which now consists of 44 members spanning the range of technology areas published in the journal. This group has been critical in assisting the Editors with the pre-screening of open submission papers and the overall execution of the peer review process. There are now approximately 300 active Principal Reviewers and Reviewers for WitW. The members of the Editorial Board are listed on the website.

The Editors wish to thank all who contribute to the continued success of the journal including authors, working unit chairs and co-chairs, principal reviewers and members of the review panel, the Editorial Board, the IIW Secretariat, and the support staff at Springer. The remarkable progress in the growth and impact of the journal would not be possible without this support structure.

1 Welding in the world – performance data

WitW Data	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Invited papers from IIW WUs	130	131	115	130	126	135	156	82	94
Open submission papers received	-	49	172	278	256	305	380	420	364
Papers published	82	84	90	114	120	120	160	179	186
Pages published	945	925	930	1300	1300	1350	1900	2170	2440
Total Cites	114	205	327	521	807	829	939	1,556	2,319
CiteScore	0.9	1.1	1.6	1.9	2	2.2	2.6	2.9	~ 3.2
Downloads	29,815	37,657	43,250	59,093	73,820	83,651	111,022	154,897	216,101
SCI Impact Factor	0.424	0.746	0.861	0.948	1.206	1.278	1.589	2.103	~ 2.4

2 Principal reviewers for WitW in 2021

Shaju ALBERT

M. AMIRTHALIINGAM

Joel ANDERSSON

Antoni ARTINOV

Satoru ASAI

Sudarsanam BABU

Marcel BACHMANN

Zuheir BARSOUM

Joerg BAUMGARTNER

Jean Pierre BERGMANN

Arun Kumar BHADURI

Elliot BIRO

Carl CROSS

Amitava DE

Bruno DE MEESTER

Pingsha DONG

Jorge DOS SANTOS

Stephan EGERLAND

Norbert ENZINGER

Majid FARAJIAN

Carolin FINK

G. GARBARINO

Sven-F GOECKE

Jerry GOULD

David GREWELL

Andrey GUMENYUK

Stefan HABISCH

André HALSIG

Kai HILGENBERG

Yoshinori HIRATA

Patrick HOCHANADEL

Erika HODULOVA

Simon JAHN

Sven JUETTNER

Thomas KANNENGIESSER

Leif KARLSSON

Doug KAUTZ

Hee Jin KIM

Menachem KIMCHI

Damjan KLOBCAR

Damian KOTECKI

Arne KROMM

Veli KUJANPAA

Martin LEITNER

Hong LI

John LIPPOLD

Stephen LIU

Mauro MADIA

Milan MARONEK

Christian MATHISZIK

Peter MAYR

Teresa MELFI

Tobias MENTE

Gerson MESCHUT

Fumiyoshi MINAMI

Anthony MURPHY

Suck-Joo NA

John NORRISH

Shigetaka OKANO

Zengxi PAN

Boyd PANTON

Matthias PELKNER

Andreas PITTNER

Gerhard POSCH

Tim RADEL

Heikki REMES

Haishui REN

Michael RETHMEIER

Michael RHODE

Ian RICHARDSON

Klemens ROTHER

Ronald SCHNITZER

Volker SCHOEPPNER

Klaus SCHRICKER

Américo SCOTTI

Junjun SHEN

Masaya SHIGETA

Amir SHIRZADI

Aude SIMAR

Christof SOMMITSCH

Stefano SORRENTINO

Jeffrey SOWARDS

Herbert STAUFER

Masaaki TABUCHI

Manabu TANAKA

Claus THOMY

Murali TUMULURU

Jari TUOMINEN

Maria Asuncion VALIENTE

Vincent VAN DER MEE

Pedro VILACA

Elin WESTIN

Rebecca WHEELING

Gerald WILHELM

Lukas WOJARSKI

ChuanSong WU

Hua-Ping XIONG

Lei YE

Hao Yi

Halid YILDIRIM

Zhuyao ZHANG

Guisheng ZOU