Journals by department

Here are the principal journals in which Polytechnique Montréal professors in the Mechanical Engineering Department have published the most, in the last five years (2019 to 2023).

• Number of articles for the Mechanical Engineering Department only
• 2023 impact factors (and quartile ranking) taken from Journal Citation Reports
• Details of the archiving permissions granted by the publisher in the standard copyright transfer contract

Important note about comparing impact factors and quartile rankings: The impact factor of a journal is determined by the number of citations of its articles. For more details, consult the guide Promoting Your Research Activities - Journal Impact. Also, citation practices are often very different from one field to another and professors in the same department can publish in several fields. Therefore, caution should be used when comparing impact factors. It would be wrong to conclude that journals with the highest impact factor in this list are automatically the most prestigious or the most renowned.

The quartile rank corresponds to the journal's position among journals in the same category, sorted in descending order by impact factor. For example, a journal in the 1st quartile (Q1) has a better impact factor than at least 75% of journals in the same category. (The categories are those of Web of Science. They generally correspond to a specific theme. e.g.: "Engineering, Aerospace," "Plant Sciences," etc.).

Conformity with the Open Access Policies

• Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications
• Fonds de recherche du Québec Open Access Policy for the Dissemination of Research

	Compliant for free for the Tri-Agency and the Fonds de recherche du Québec. Allows embargo-free self-archiving of the accepted version of the article, or an open access journal without article processing charges.
	Compliant for a fee for the Tri-Agency and the Fonds de recherche du Québec.  Hybrid journal with an embargo period of more than 12 months, or an open access journal with article processing charges.
	Compliant for free for the Tri-Agency and compliant for a fee for the Fonds de recherche du Québec. Hybrid journal with an embargo period of 12 months or less.
	Not compliant Journal with no options for publishing in open access.
	Information to be verified Contact the Library
	No embargo period
	Fully Open Access journal
	Open access without article processing charges for the Polytechnique community

The summary of archving rights is given as an indication only, according to the available information at the time of publishing.

The Polytechnique community can benefit from discounts on article processing charges with several publishers. For more details, see Discounts on article processing charges (APC).

All articles published in open access under a Creative Commons license can be deposited in PolyPublie immediately after publication.

Whether they are in a fully open access journal or a hybrid journal (traditional journal with open access option), fees are generally imposed on authors when they are published, while readers can consult it free of charge.

Most journals and publishers today offer open access options to enable you to comply with granting agencies' requirements.

For more details, see our guide on Open Access.

Your journal of choice is not in this list? The major scientific publishers provide you with tools to easily find archiving permissions for your journal.

Feel free to contact the library for publisher policies that do not appear in this list.

Did you know that you can make changes to a contract you sign with a publisher? In order to do this, you can add an addendum to the publication agreement.

Here is an example: the SPARC Canadian Author Addendum, proposed by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL).

For more information on how to use it, consult:

This button allows you to email to the Research Dissemination Service the documents you wish to deposit.

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