IIW Annual Report 2025

Over 1,000 papers were submitted in 2025 increasing the number of submissions by 35% over 2024. The acceptance rate was 41% and the average time from submission to first decision was less than 40 days. Also, the average time from paper submission to online publication for Volume 69 was 167 days with 56% of the papers published in less than 150 days. IIW Commissions recommended 138 papers during 2025. This number consists of 122 papers from the Annual Assembly held in Genoa and 16 papers from Intermediate Meetings. The number of full text downloads again increased significantly in 2025 to over 511,654 as of October 2025, up 19% from 2024. It is estimated that the number of full-text downloads will increase to well over 520,000 by the end of the year 2025. Some of the Key Performance Indicators and publication data are presented in Tables 1 and 2 respectively.

WitW Data

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

Number of papers

422

532

468

469

581

676

798

1085

submitted Recommended papers from IIW Commissions Total Decisions

135

156

82

93

143

123

153

138

443 120

477 160

580 179

455 186

510 186

600 210

652 220

> 880

Papers published Pages published

256

1350

1900

2170 1,556

2440 2,319

2670 3,255

2850 3,506

3315 4,220

3913

Total Cites

829

939

4,211 *

Full Text Downloads

83,651 111,022 154,897 216,101 250,541 345,052

429,890 511,654 *

CiteScore

2.2

2.6

2.9

3.5

3.8 2.1

4.2 2.4

4.6 2.5

SCI Impact Factor

1.278

1.589

2.103

1.984

Table 2. Welding in the World Publication and performance data

* Numbers YTD

The Editorial Board now consists of 42 members covering all technology topics featured in the journal. This group plays an essential role by helping Editors pre-screen unsolicited submissions and managing the peer review process. The Editorial Board members are listed below. WitW currently has 107 active Principal Reviewers and about 1,300 Reviewers. The Editors thank all contributors to the journal's success, including authors, unit chairs and co-chairs, reviewers, principal reviewers, the Editorial Board, IIW Secretariat, and Springer support staff. The journal's growth and impact rely on this support. 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 4,500 4,000 3,500 3,000 2,500 2,000 1,500 1,000 0,500 0,000 5,000 Impact Factor / Cite Score 0,861 1,6 0,948 1,9 1,206 2,0 1,278 2,2 1,589 2,6 2,103 2,9 1,984 3,5 2,100 3,8 2,400 4,2 2,500 4,6 Figure 2. Development of the impact factor and the CiteScore As shown in the accompanying tables, the journal performance continues to increase based on both Impact Factor (IF) and CiteScore, with an anticipated IF of 2.8 expected for 2025. The development of the IF and the CiteScore since 2015 is shown in figure 2. Welding in the World - 2015-2024 Impact Factor Cite Score

Welding in the World - Editorial Board, December 2025 1. Shaju Albert (India)

15. Menachem Kimchi (USA) 16. Martin Leitner (Austria) 17. Wenya Li (China) 18. Hong Li (China) 19. Peter Mayr (Germany) 20. Giovanni Meneghetti (Italy) 21. Tony Murphy (Australia) 22. John Norrish (Australia) 23. Matthias Pelkner (Germany) 24. Carl Peters (USA) 25. Gerhard Posch (Austria) 26. Heikki Remes (Finland) 27. Michael Rethmeier (Germany) 28. Michael Rhode (Germany)

29. Klemens Rother (Germany) 30. Volker Schoeppner (Germany) 31. Jeff Sowards (USA) 32. Manabu Tanaka (Japan) 33. Murali Tumuluru (USA) 34. Asun Valiente (Sweden) 35. Vincent Van der Mee (Netherlands) 36. Elin Westin (Austria) 37. Peer Woizeschke (Germany)

2. Joerg Baumgartner (Germany) 3. Jean-Pierre Bergmann (Germany) 4. Amitava De (India) 5. Stephan Egerland (Austria) 6. Carolin Fink (USA) 7. David Grewell (USA) 8. Jonas Hensel (Germany) 9. Yoshi Hirata (Japan) 10. Pat Hochanadel (USA)

38. ChuanSong Wu (China) 39. Huaping Xiong (China) 40. YuMing Zhang (USA) 41. Zhuyao Zhang (UK) 42. Guisheng Zou (China)

11. Erika Hodúlová (Slovakia) 12. Simon Jahn (Germany)

13. Doug Kautz (USA) 14. Hee Jin Kim (Korea)

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