The Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers were first published by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Institution of Mechanical Engineers

The Institution of Mechanical Engineers is the British engineering society based in central London, representing mechanical engineering. It is licensed by the Engineering Council UK to assess candidates for inclusion on ECUK's Register of professional Engineers...

 (IMechE) in 1847. The Proceedings were published under this single title until 1963, when they began to be published in two parts. The Proceedings have since expanded further, in part by incorporating four journals previously published separately: the Proceedings of the Institution of Automobile Engineers (in 1971), the Journal of the Institution of Locomotive Engineers (in 1971), the Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science (in 1983) and Engineering in Medicine (in 1989). Sixteen individual parts now make up the Proceedings, as follows:

• Part A: Journal of Power and Energy
  Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy
  The Journal of Power and Energy, Part A of the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers , is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes research on the technology of energy conversion systems...
  
  
• Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture
  Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture
  The Journal of Engineering Manufacture, Part B of the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers , is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes research on engineering manufacture...
  
  
• Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science
  Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science
  The Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, Part C of the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers , is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes research into the fundamentals of engineering science and its application to the solution of challenges and problems in engineering...
  
  
• Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering
  Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering
  The Journal of Automobile Engineering, Part D of the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers , is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes research on automobile engineering...
  
  
• Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering
  Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering
  The Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering, Part E of the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers , is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes research on the design and operation of process equipment...
  
  
• Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit
  Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit
  The Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit, Part F of the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers , is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes research on engineering applicable to rail and rapid transit...
  
  
• Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering
  Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering
  The Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Part G of the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers , is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes research in applied sciences and technology dealing with aircraft and spacecraft, as well as their support systems...
  
  
• Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine
  Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine
  The Journal of Engineering in Medicine, Part H of the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers , is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes research across the field of engineering in medicine...
  
  
• Part I: Journal of Systems and Control Engineering
  Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part I: Journal of Systems and Control Engineering
  The Journal of Systems and Control Engineering, Part I of the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers , is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes research in systems and control studies...
  
  
• Part J: Journal of Engineering Tribology
  Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part J: Journal of Engineering Tribology
  The Journal of Engineering Tribology, Part J of the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers , is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes research on engineering science associated with tribology and its applications...
  
  
• Part K: Journal of Multi-body Dynamics
  Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part K: Journal of Multi-body Dynamics
  The Journal of Multi-body Dynamics, Part K of the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers , is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers mechanical design and dynamic analysis of multi-body systems...
  
  
• Part L: Journal of Materials: Design and Applications
  Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part L: Journal of Materials: Design and Applications
  The Journal of Materials: Design and Applications, Part L of the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers , is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the usage and design of materials for application in an engineering context...
  
  
• Part M: Journal of Engineering for the Maritime Environment
• Part N: Journal of Nanoengineering and Nanosystems
• Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability
  Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability
  The Journal of Risk and Reliability, Part O of the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers , is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers risk analysis and reliability engineering. The remit of the journal includes engineering, mathematical modelling and statistical analysis...
  
  
• Part P: Journal of Sports Engineering and Technology
  Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part P: Journal of Sports Engineering and Technology
  The Journal of Sports Engineering and Technology, Part P of the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers , is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the development of novel sports apparel, footwear, and equipment; and the materials, instrumentation, and processes that make...
  
  

In 2010, SAGE Publications

SAGE Publications

SAGE is an independent academic publisher of books, journals, and electronic products in the humanities and social sciences and the scientific, technical, and medical fields. SAGE was founded in 1965 by George McCune and Sara Miller McCune. The company is headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California,...

 began publishing the Institution's journals on behalf of the IMechE. The IMechE Proceedings Archive 1847–1996 continues to be hosted on the MetaPress platform.

Abstracting and indexing

As of May 2011, 14 of the journals that make up the Proceedings were included in the Journal Citation Reports

Journal Citation Reports

Journal Citation Reports is an annual publication by the Healthcare & Science division of Thomson Reuters. It has been integrated with the Web of Knowledge, by Thomson Reuters, and is accessed from the Web of Science to JCR Web. It provides information about academic journals in the sciences and...

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