Focus and Scope

METAL: Jurnal Sistem Mekanik dan Termal translated as METAL: Journal of Systems in Mechanical and Thermal is a scholarly peer-reviewed journal published by Mechanical Engineering Department of Engineering Faculty at Universitas Andalas, Padang, Indonesia.

The journal focused on the mechanics and thermal aspects of the mechanical engineering area, and accepted articles are in these subjects:

Energy

• Renewable energy
• Green industry
• Energy conversion

Mechanical System Engineering

• Solid body mechanics
• Machine construction
• Vibration and control
• Mechatronics
• Tribology

Production System

• Manufacturing engineering
• Product design and development
• Production technology
• Production logistics and transportation

Materials Engineering

• Material technology
• Nanotechnology

METAL is published twice a year in the 1st and 2nd semester.

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

METAL is using these reviewing policies:

• Every submitted paper will be reviewed by peer-reviewers.
• Reviewing process will consider novelty, objectivity, method, scientific impact, conclusion, and references.
• Reviewers will suggest the acceptance of article manuscripts.
• Editors will decide whether the manuscripts are meeting METAL's requirement. Editors' decision is final.

Publication Frequency

METAL publishes 5 - 15 articles in each edition with 5 - 20 pages in each article. One volume of METAL is divided into two editions, which are published in the 1st and 2nd semester each year. Articles are written in Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian language) and abstract is written in English.

Open Access Policy

Archiving

METAL stores back issues and current articles following LOCKSS idea of keeping lots of copies of our items on several servers. Archives are stored in Universitas Andalas' repository server, the university's Local Content Collection and all of them are digitally submitted to Indonesian National Library's Indonesia OneSearch and periodically harvested by OCLC WorldCat.

Fees

No fees incurred for article processing, submission, neither reviewing the articles submitted to METAL.

Under the aforementioned conditions, we are waiving in full for authors from developing countries should they need to submit and publish their papers in METAL.

Authors or other parties needed print/hard copies of the journal, an IDR 250,000/copy should be paid for the printing and binding.

Please send us an email stating your interest in printed copies and we will return to you with further details.

Reference Management

Every article submitted to METAL shall use reference management software e.g. EndNote® or Mendeley. An author of Engineering Faculty staff in Universitas Andalas has provided a concise guideline in using Mendeley as a reference manager.

Plagiarism and Retraction

METAL uses Turnitin Similarity Check as the tool in checking similarities or plagiarism in the articles. A maximum of 30% similarity index will be tolerated. 

The papers published in METAL will be considered for a retraction if :

• They have clear evidence that the findings are unreliable, either as a result of misconduct (e.g. data fabrication) or honest error (e.g. miscalculation or experimental error)
• the findings have previously been published elsewhere without proper crossreferencing, permission or justification (i.e. cases of redundant publication)
• it constitutes plagiarism
• it reports unethical research
• The mechanism of retraction follows the Retraction Guidelines of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) which can be accessed at https://publicationethics.org/files/retraction%20guidelines.pdf.