IIW Annual Report 2025

INFLUENCING WELDING IN THE WORLD ANNUAL REPORT 2025

In 2025, Volume 69 of Welding in the World published 256 papers comprising over 3,900 pages of fundamental and applied research associated with materials joining and allied technologies. Figure 1 shows the distribution of these papers by Technology Area

Technical Editors

Managing Editor

Dr Majid Farajian (Germany)

Prof. Américo Scotti (Brazil)

Erdmuthe Raufelder (Germany)

Prof. Thomas Kannengiesser (Germany)

Prof. Norbert Enzinger (Austria)

Key Performance Indicators (2024 value)

Change from 2022

Number of papers submitted (798)

37%

Number of paper decisions (652)

27%

Technology areas of the Welding in the World journal 2025 ( Figure 1 ) Additive Manufacting 14% Arc Welding Processes 9% Brazing and Soldering 9% Design and Fitness-for-Service 16% HED Processes 10% Metallurgy and Materials 21% Solid-State Process 10% Other 10%

Number of papers published (220)

18%

Number of pages published (3315)

24%

Total Cites (4220)

29%

CiteScore (4.6)

21%

SCI Impact Factor (2.5)

19%

Full text Downloads (429,890) 71% Royalties paid by Springer (62,472 Euro - 2024) 90%

Table 1. Key Performance Indicators values in 2024 and the changes in comparison with the year 2022

The journal continues to publish papers in a wide range of advanced technological areas associated with scientific aspects of materials joining science, technology, and performance including artificial intelligence in design and manufacturing. Following a tradition established in 2023 the IIW is organizing a symposium on Intelligent Welding Manufacturing (IWM) held as part of the Annual Assembly. This symposium is dedicated to the advancements in key technologies for future intelligent/smart, robotic, and automated welding manufacturing. The journal supports the IWM Symposium by publishing selected papers in topical collections. Focus of the 2025 Symposium was generative AI enabling new solutions. Accepted papers will be published in a special issue in the first half of 2026.

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