The Journal of Thermal Science and Technology (JTST) is an Open Access, international peer-reviewed journal jointly edited and published by the Thermal Engineering Division of JSME and the Heat Transfer Society of Japan (HTSJ). The objective of JTST is to spread internationally knowledge generated through excellent research and state-of-the-art technology development in the field of thermal engineering. JTST takes over the fields of thermal engineering and heat transfer from the JSME International Journal, Series B that has been discontinued since January, 2007 and also the former Thermal Science and Engineering by HTSJ that has recently changed to a volume bound with the Journal of the Heat Transfer Society of Japan consisting mainly of Japanese articles. JTST covers a variety of fields in thermal engineering including heat and mass transfer, thermodynamics, combustion, bio-heat transfer, micro- and macro-scale transport phenomena and practical thermal problems in industrial applications.
Since the editorial and peer-review systems are web-based, the period of time from submission to publication will be greatly cut down. Individual papers will appear on the J-STAGE as soon as the review process is completed. Everyone can subscribe to JTST free of charge through the above website.
On behalf of the editorial board, I would like to invite all researchers and engineers in the field of thermal engineering to contribute their research papers and review papers to JTST. It is our pleasure if many contributors and readers make use of JTST as a stage for exchange of up-to-date knowledge and information. JTST is always open to all the world.
This journal publishes articles in follwoing fields.
The Manuscript Template for special issue can be downloaded below. The authors must prepare their manuscript using the specified template and copyright-transfer statement with signature.
JSME template for special issue (Word) : Template-special-issue.docx(Sample)
LaTeX template: english-template.zip
Copyright Transfer (PDF) : English-Copyright-Transfer-Form.pdf(Sample)
Special issues we are going to publish is as follows:
Vol.20 No.3 (December,2025) ※Tentative
Submission starting date: March 3, 2025
Submission Deadline: July 1, 2025
Note: Please select a Section/Category "Special Issue of the Third Pacific Rim Thermal Engineering Conference (JTST:PRTEC2024)" on Editorial Manager.
The Thermal Engineering Division launched a new conference series, Pacific Rim Thermal Engineering Conference (PRTEC) in Hawaii Island, Hawaii (2016) and in Maui Island, Hawaii (2019) as a successive conference of AJTEC. The key themes of the PRTEC series are "Fundamental", "Interdisciplinary" and "Diversity" with a vision for the future of Thermal Engineering. The third conference of the PRTEC series (PRTEC2024) will be held in Oahu Island, Hawaii. PRTEC2024 provides an international forum for the exchange of new ideas and direction related to the future thermal engineering and the presentation of the latest work in this field.
This conference is composed of 6 plenary lectures, 15 keynotes and 3 tracks of general sessions. The numbers of presentations and participations are expected to be more than 250 and 400, respectively. Based on the recommendation of the editorial board, about 15 excellent papers from over 120 papers which will be contributed from the JSME members will be selected. Through the standard journal publication process, those selected papers are to be published in the special issue of “Journal of Thermal Science and Technology”.
To all authors
We annouce that JTST changes DOIs representation for papers which are published later than 1st Jan, 2022.
So far, the journal describes DOI with serial numbers. Since 2022, paper reception number is used for DOI. (December 1st, 2021)
Current DOI description rule: 10.1299/jtst.2021jtstXXXX (X is serial number)
New DOI description rule: 10.1299/jtst.XX-XXXXX (X is paper reception number)
To all authors
We announce that JTST adopts CC license "CC BY-NC-ND". Thus, the journal publishes articles submitted later than September 1st with CC-BY-NC-ND license. Please check and recognize "CC BY-NC-ND" before your submission. (August 15th, 2021)
To chinese authors
Currently, editorial staff cannot send email to "@163.com", "@126.com" and "@139.com" address. Thus, we would like you to register the address except for them. We appreciate for your cooperation.(August 24th, 2020)
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