About Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering

Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering™ (JMM) is a hybrid open access journal dedicated to advances in the nano- and micro-scale science and engineering of mechanical, electromechanical, electrical, and mechatronic systems.

The journal welcomes experimental results as well as studies that contain some or wholly computational/simulation-based work. In the case of the latter, authors should compare their findings with experimental data, if it exists in the literature, and provide sufficient information to enable all computational results to be reproduced.

From 2024, JMM is now welcoming any simulation-only work, provided it is within the journal scope and meets the quality and novelty requirements of the journal.

The scope of the journal includes MEMS/NEMS technologies and applications, as well as:

• Biomedical systems and devices (including bio MEMS, biosensors, assays, organ-on-a-chip, drug delivery, cells, biointerfaces)
• Electronics (including flexible electronics, wearable electronics, interface electronics)
• Energy and power (including power MEMS/NEMS, energy harvesters, actuators, microbatteries)
• Fabrication techniques and manufacturing (including micromachining, etching, lithography, deposition, patterning, self-assembly, 3d printing, inkjet printing)
• Lab-on-a-chip
• Materials, testing, and reliability
• Physical and chemical sensors (including inertial, force, magnetic, tactile, gas, humidity, acoustic and vision sensors)
• Optical systems and devices (including micro mirrors, silicon photonics, infrared sensors, optical resonators and clocks, plasmonic devices, LiDAR systems, micro display systems, fiber-based systems)
• Packaging and integration technologies (including material/processes for packaging, liquid/vacuum packaging/encapsulation, heterogeneous integration, 3D MEMS integration)
• Emerging technologies and applications for MEMS/NEMS (including robotics, smart X, internet of things, autonomous vehicles, machine learning, artificial intelligence)
• Micro and Nano fluidics (including droplet/digital/centrifugal/capillary microfluidics, pumps/valves/dispensers, mixers/reactors, separation, integrated microfluidic systems)
• RF systems and components (including oscillators, resonators, SAW, BAW, timing, 5G)

Papers focused on materials science with no obvious application or link to nano- or micro-engineering are not suitable for the journal.

• High standards: fast, rigorous and constructive reviewing process.
• Fast publication: we are committed to providing you with a quick, professional service to ensure rapid first decision, acceptance and publication. Once accepted, your article will be accessible to readers within 24 hours and will include a citable DOI.
• Open access: the choice to make individual articles available on an open access basis (on payment of an article publication charge).
• Transfer opportunities: as well as accepting direct submissions, the journal also offers you a quick and easy solution to transfer your manuscript from another IOP Publishing journal if it does not fit that journal’s scope or significance criteria. Articles are transferred along with peer review reports to save time and avoid duplication of work for reviewers.
• International Editorial Board: led by Weileun Fang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.
• Society owned: IOP Publishing is a leading society publisher of advanced physics research. Any profits generated by IOP Publishing are invested in the Institute of Physics, helping to support research, education and outreach around the world.

JMM welcomes submissions of the following article types:

• Papers: reports of original scientific research, techniques and applications. Up to 14 journal pages.
• Technical Notes: these are technical communications containing material typically insufficient for publication as a full scientific article but revealing new technical procedures. A Technical Note should be sufficiently detailed and in-depth to further the technical know-how of the community and help the development of novel devices. Up to eight journal pages.
• Topical Reviews: articles presenting a timely review of recent progress in a particular field.
• Perspectives: commentaries on the impact of previously published work, or authoritative discussions on the future direction of a field, that are of notable interest to the community.

This journal publishes Focus Issues, which are collections serving to highlight the exciting work conducted in specific areas of interest. Special Issues are commissioned by the Guest Editors.

Our policy on conference material submitted to JMM

JMM will not consider the same research already published in a well-known conference proceedings publication and which is readily accessible to the community. Manuscripts submitted to JMM should contain substantially more research and analysis than the original conference paper published by the same authors. Upon submission, we ask authors to declare all their previously published conference papers that are similar in content to any submission made to JMM.

We work with our authors to make help their work as easy to discover as possible. JMM is currently included in the following abstracting and discovery services:

• Chemical Abstracts Service
• CNKI Scholar
• EBSCO Academic Search Alumni Edition
• EBSCO Academic Search Complete
• EBSCO Academic Search Elite
• EBSCO Academic Search Premier
• EBSCO Academic Search Ultimate
• EBSCO Engineering Source
• EBSCO Nanotechnology Collection: India
• EBSCO STM Source
• EBSCO TOC Premier
• Ei Compendex
• INIS (International Nuclear Information System)
• Inspec
• NASA Astrophysics Data System
• PASCAL
• Scopus
• VINITI Abstracts Journal (Referativnyi Zhurnal)
• Web of Science (Science Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded, Current Contents – Engineering, Computing & Technology)