Applied Science and Engineering Progress

On behave of the editorial board members and the secretary committee of Applied Science and Engineering Progress (ASEP: E-ISSN: 2673-0421), we are pleased to announce that ASEP has been indexed in the SCOPUS database as Q1 in Engineering subject (announced on 3 June 2025 at SCOPUS). We value our ongoing engagement with authors, readers and reviewers and would like to be get warm welcome and continuing support from research community to ensure the high quality and integrity for publications.

To express our sincere appreciation for the valuable contributions of our peer reviewers, the ASEP Journal is pleased to offer a discount voucher equivalent to 20 USD for each completed review per one article.

• Eligibility: One voucher will be granted per reviewer per article reviewed.
• Voucher Use: The voucher can be applied toward article processing charges (APCs) for future submissions to ASEP Journal or affiliated publications. Each voucher will have 2 year-period for credit use
• Voucher credit collection: Start on 18 Mar 2025 onward

ASEP is grateful for your dedication and support in maintaining the quality and integrity of our journal. Thank you for being an essential part of the ASEP community!

Lead Editor of Special Issue: Dr. Sanjay Mavinkere Rangappa

Scope of Special issue

This Special Issue aims to explore innovative solutions and strategies that address sustainability challenges across various engineering disciplines. This issue seeks to bring together cutting-edge research and practical applications that promote eco-friendly and resource-efficient technologies in areas such as materials science, manufacturing, environmental engineering, renewable energy systems, and digital engineering. With a focus on reducing environmental impact, conserving resources, and promoting the circular economy, the special issue will cover topics like green manufacturing processes, sustainable materials and composites, energy-efficient designs, waste minimization, and the integration of Industry 4.0 for sustainability. By addressing the intersection of technology, engineering, and sustainability, this issue will serve as a platform for advancements that contribute to the development of sustainable infrastructure and systems for a greener future.

This special issue will be a collection of 15 peer-reviewed contributions that present original breakthrough research in the field of Sustainable Engineering. Moreover, the special issue expects to provide a platform to publish cutting-edge research from around the globe.

Important dates
First draft – December 15th, 2024
Publication – ASEP Journal Issue 3, 2025

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Submission

Most viewed paper in 2022

Role of Polymer Composites in Railway Sector: An Overview
Praveenkumara Jagadeesh, Madhu Puttegowda, Sanjay Mavinkere Rangappa and Suchart Siengchin

Effective Data Augmentation and Training Techniques for Improving Deep Learning in Plant Leaf Disease Recognition
Prem Enkvetchakul and Olarik Surinta

A Review on Chemical Pretreatment Methods of Lignocellulosic Biomass: Recent Advances and Progress
Diana Jose, Nichapat Kitiborwornkul, Malinee Sriariyanun and Katam Keerthi

Most viewed paper in 2023

Activated Carbon from Coconut Shell: Synthesis and Its Commercial Applications- A Recent Review
Nilufer Anwar Basha, Thirumalaisamy Rathinavel and Harini Sridharan

A Review on Chemical Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Biomass for the Production of Bioproducts: Mechanisms, Challenges and Applications
Sukunya Areeya, Elizabeth Jayex Panakkal, Malinee Sriariyanun, Tawiwan Kangsadan, Atthasit Tawai, Suksun Amornraksa, Unalome Wetwattana Hartley and Patchanee Yasurin

A Review on the Application of Voltammetry in the Determination of Various Substances in Fruit Juices
Joseph R. Ortenero, Nathaniel P. Dugos, Allan N. Soriano, Erika Mae T. Borres, Ashley Mae T. Juan Sing, Mike Dane A. Pararuan and Erika Leanne R. Tined

Top cited paper in 2022

An Efficient IWOLRS Control Technique of Brushless DC Motor for Torque Ripple
P. Rajesh, Francis H. Shajin and G. Kodeeswara Kumaran

A Review on Chemical Pretreatment Methods of Lignocellulosic Biomass: Recent Advances and Progress
Diana Jose, Nichapat Kitiborwornkul, Malinee Sriariyanun and Katam Keerthi

Influence of Sulfuric Acid Pretreatment and Inhibitor of Sugarcane Bagasse on the Production of Fermentable Sugar and Ethanol
Elizabeth Jayex Panakkal, Malinee Sriariyanun, Jakaphan Ratanapoompinyo, Patchanee Yasurin, Kraipat Cheenkachorn, Wawat Rodiahwati and Prapakorn Tantayotai

Top cited paper in 2023

Recent Trends and Updates for Chemical Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Biomass
Marttin Paulraj Gundupalli and Malinee Sriariyanun

A Review on Chemical Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Biomass for the Production of Bioproducts: Mechanisms, Challenges and Applications
Sukunya Areeya, Elizabeth Jayex Panakkal, Malinee Sriariyanun, Tawiwan Kangsadan, Atthasit Tawai, Suksun Amornraksa, Unalome Wetwattana Hartley and Patchanee Yasurin

Effect of Fiber Orientation on Physical and Mechanical Properties of Typha angustifolia Natural Fiber Reinforced Composites
Venkateswaran Bhuvaneswari, Lakshminarasimhan Rajeshkumar, Thottyeapalayam Palanisamy Sathishkumar, Guruswamy Rajeshkumar, Mavinkere Rangappa Sanjay and Suchart Siengchin

ASEP has been included in SCOPUS database since 2019 (SCOPUS). It is announced in SCOPUS on 8 June 2023 that ASEP is indexed in Q2 (General Engineering and Computer Science) with CiteScore of 3.1 in 2022. Our journal publishes open access articles with free of charge and has average turnaround time for reviewing process less than 2 week/round. With our improved quality and visibility, ASEP gained submissions from authors of 34 countries worldwide. With supports from our authors, reviewers, readers and editors, ASEP aims to maintain high standard of peer-review process to make sure the integrity and reliability of publishing.

The Journal of Applied Science and Engineering Progress has been recognized for its exceptional performance at the TCI-TSRI Collaboration Project Conference held on May 26, 2023, at the Eastin Grand Payathai Hotel in Bangkok. This journal, under the editorship of Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Suchart Siengchin, was awarded the Outstanding Performance Award, a highly cited journal, a testament to its continuous improvement and significant contributions to the field. Please see more detail at here.

ASEP has been included in SCOPUS database since 2019 (Scopus). It is announced by SCIMAGO on 25 May 2023 that ASEP is indexed in Q2 (Engineering and Computer Science) with SJR of 0.35 (SJR). Our journal publishes open access articles with free of charge and has turnaround time for reviewing process less than 1 month/round. With increased numbers of submission and our visibility, we select only high quality manuscripts that attract interest of our readers. Currently the acceptance rate of ASEP in 2023 is at 3%. With supports from our authors, reviewers, readers and editors, ASEP aims to maintain high standard of peer-review process to make sure the integrity and reliability of publishing. 

ASEP has been included in SCOPUS database since 2019 (SCOPUS). It is announced in SCOPUS on 8 June 2022 that ASEP is indexed in Q3 (General Engineering) with CiteScore of 1.1 in 2021 and the current CiteScore of 1.5 in 2022. Our journal publishes open access articles with free of charge and has turnaround time for reviewing process less than 1 month/round. With our improved quality and visibility, ASEP gained submissions from authors of 32 countries worldwide and our published articles were cited by 56 countries with the acceptance rate for publication at 9.8%. With supports from our authors, reviewers, readers and editors, ASEP aims to maintain high standard of peer-review process to make sure the integrity and reliability of publishing.

ASEP has been included in SCOPUS database since 2019 (https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21100939572?origin=resultslist). It is announced in SJR website on 19 May 2021 that ASEP is indexed in Q3 with SJR score of 0.173 and cites/doc (2 yr average) of 1.889 (https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=21100939572&tip=sid&clean=0) in 2020. Our journal publishes open access articles with free of charge and has turnaround time for reviewing process less than 1 month/round. During Jan-May 2021, we published 23 high quality articles from 156 submissions (rejection rate at 85%). With this progress, ASEP aims to maintain high standard of peer-review process to make sure the integrity and reliability of publishing. Lastly, we hope our readers, reviewers and authors keep support our journal to become the frontier journal in the future.

ASEP has been included in SCOPUS database since 2019 (https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21100939572?origin=resultslist). Currently, we adopt EM manuscript submission system powered by Elsevier and Aries (https://www.editorialmanager.com/asep/default.aspx), the same platform with high standard journal worldwide and our turnaround time for reviewing process is less than 1 month in average. During 2020, we published 40 high quality articles from 263 submissions (rejection rate at 85%). Our SCOPUS citescores are growing to 0.5 in 2020 and the number of citation/article during 2019-2020 is 0.7 (updated 20 Jan 2021). With this progress, ASEP aims to maintain high standard of peer-review process to make sure the integrity and reliability of publishing. We are looking forward to provide service for worldwide authors to publish the research to strengthen our research community and society.

Applied Science and Engineering Progress (ASEP) is currently indexed in SCOPUS database. We would like to invite authors to submit the manuscript to publish in the forms of Review article and Research article with free-of-charge policy. The turnaround time for one round of peer reviewing process is less than 4 weeks in average. Starting from Vol. 14 in 2021, ASEP will publish 4 issues per year with 14 articles per issue. Please check out the scope and focus of ASEP at http://ojs.kmutnb.ac.th/index.php/ijst/pages/view/AboutTheJournal.

ASEP has been included in SCOPUS database since 2019 coverage. Since then, we have rising numbers of submitted manuscripts during 2019 (Jan-Dec 2019) and 2020 (Jan-Jun 2020) of 81 and 110 articles, respectively. Among these numbers, we received warm welcome from international authors (49.5% in 2019 and 50% in 2020 of total numbers of submitted manuscripts) we still maintain high standard of peer-review process to make sure the integrity and reliability of publishing. Thus, we have responses back to authors with rejection rate for 55.6% in 2019 and 64.5% in 2020, calculated from total numbers of submitted manuscripts. Collectively, the statistical data of ASEP, continuing from KMUTNB: IJAST (previous journal name), we have published manuscripts with authors from 29 countries and citation from 55 countries. We are looking for further supports from readers, authors and reviewers to ASEP to strengthen our research community and society.

Regarding to the the worldwide trend of readers, the electronic version of published articles has been become the major preference. Applied Science and Engineering Progress’s publisher comes to the conclusive policy to reduce the use of paper to become environmental friendly journal. Therefore, starting from vol 13 in 2020, the hardcopy version of published articles will be printed out upon the request of corresponding authors. We encourage our readers and authors to welcome our policy to reduce the effect of global warming together.

We are pleased to announce that Applied Science and Engineering Progress (ASEP) has been accepted for inclusion in the SCOPUS since August 6, 2019. It is one of the 31st Thai Journals which are recently included in SCOPUS database. ASEP is deeply grateful to the TCI-TRF-SCOPUS Collaboration Project, Thai-Journal Citation Index (TCI) Center, and the local board for their suggestions that are especially useful to the journal quality enrichment. For more detail, please see TCI-TRF-Scopus Collaboration Project

As a member of TCI-SCOPUS collaboration project (http://www.kmutt.ac.th/jif/TCI_Collaboration/), Applied Science and Engineering Progress Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Suchart Siengchin, and editorial team, including Assoc. Prof. Dr. Montree Siripruchyanun, Sumonchai Suteerawatananon, Siriwan Yuphong, Junjiraporn Thongprasit, Jeerapol Kumkeam and Tongpool Heeptaisong have a chance to have a meeting with Prof. Dr. Narongrit Sombatsompop, a head of TCI-SCOPUS collaboration project and TCI center. Our editorial team received comments and suggestion from TCI to improve quality of the journal to reach the standard of high impact international journal.

Applied Science and Engineering Progress (Former journal names are King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok International Journal of Applied Science and Technology [KMUTNB: IJAST] (2014–2018) Print ISSN: 2465-4531 , E-ISSN: 2465-4574 and ASIAN International Journal of Science and Technology in Production and Manufacturing Engineering [AIJSTPME] (2008–2014) Print ISSN: 1906-151X) is an international, double-blind peer-reviewed, open access scientific journal published by King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok (KMUTNB) since 2008. Applied Science and Engineering Progress is currently indexed in TCI1, ACI, Google Scholar, Publons, Researchgate, and CrossRef.