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GitHub用于评估稿件是否符合IJMTM期刊范围，提供选题定位、重构建议及拒稿启发式规则。聚焦制造科学机理，强调实验与建模结合，适用于加工、成形、机床动力学及精密测量等领域的投稿前审查。
Trigger Scenarios
作者指定IJMTM并需进行匹配度检查
需将参数优化类论文重构为机理贡献
在IJMTM与其他增材/材料期刊间做选择
需要了解严格的方法论标准以规避Desk Reject
Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill international-journal-of-machine-tools-and-manufacture -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "international-journal-of-machine-tools-and-manufacture",
"description": "Use when targeting the International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture (IJMTM) or deciding whether a precision\/advanced-manufacturing manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the manufacturing-science bar combining experiment and modeling, the process-mechanics scope, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics."
}
International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture (international-journal-of-machine-tools-and-manufacture)
Journal positioning
The International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture (IJMTM) is a leading archival journal for precision and advanced manufacturing science: the mechanics of machining and forming processes, machine-tool dynamics, precision metrology, surface integrity, and novel manufacturing processes. Its center of gravity is manufacturing science — a quantitative, mechanistic understanding of why a process behaves as it does and how it governs accuracy, surface quality, or productivity — established through rigorous experiment combined with modeling. Papers that report a parameter optimization for one workpiece with no transferable manufacturing insight, or a measurement with no process understanding, are a weak fit. This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing tool. It does not replace the journal's current official author guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live IJMTM Guide for Authors.
When to trigger
- The author names IJMTM for a machining, forming, metrology, or machine-tool manuscript and wants a fit/framing check.
- A manufacturing paper must be re-framed from "we optimized parameters for this part" into a process-mechanics or machine-tool-science contribution.
- The author is choosing between IJMTM (subtractive/precision, process mechanics) and an additive-manufacturing or materials venue.
- The author needs IJMTM's manufacturing-science rigor bar and desk-reject heuristics.
Scope & topic fit
- Machining process mechanics: cutting force/temperature/chip-formation modeling, tool wear, high-speed/precision/micro-machining, and machinability of advanced materials.
- Forming process mechanics: metal forming, incremental and sheet/bulk forming, springback and formability with a process-science contribution.
- Machine-tool dynamics and structures: chatter and stability, spindle/feed-drive dynamics, thermal errors, vibration, and control of machine behavior.
- Precision metrology and inspection: on-machine and in-process measurement, error modeling and compensation, dimensional and geometric accuracy.
- Surface integrity and functional surfaces: residual stress, surface texture, and the process-to-surface-property link.
- Novel and hybrid manufacturing processes (e.g., laser-assisted, ultrasonic-assisted, micro/nano fabrication) when the manufacturing mechanism is the advance.
Method & evidence bar
- The central claim is a mechanistic understanding of a manufacturing process or machine-tool behavior — predictive of accuracy, surface, stability, or productivity — not a one-off best-parameter table.
- Experiments must be controlled and quantitative: report process conditions, instrumentation, measurement uncertainty, and repeatability.
- Models (analytical, FE, dynamic) must be validated against experiment and used to explain the process, not merely curve-fit a single dataset.
- Metrology and accuracy claims require traceability and stated measurement capability, not nominal manufacturer specs.
- Benchmark against the correct baseline process/condition and against state-of-the-art manufacturing methods, not a strawman.
- Reproducibility: report machine, tooling, material, process windows, and measurement protocol in enough detail to reproduce the process behavior.
Structure & house style
- Standard full-length research-article structure; IJMTM publishes archival articles — re-check article types on the live guide.
- The introduction motivates the manufacturing-science gap (process mechanism, accuracy, stability), not a single application; the discussion makes the process–performance argument explicit.
- Equations and models are supported by validation; notation and units follow manufacturing-engineering conventions.
- Figures are load-bearing: force/stability diagrams, surface and metrology data with uncertainty, model-vs-experiment overlays, and process schematics.
- Supplementary material carries extended process data and measurement details; the main-text figures must support the central manufacturing insight on their own.
Official-submission checklist
- Before giving submission-ready advice, read
../../resources/source-basis.mdand../../resources/official-source-map.md; start from the Elsevier anchors, then cite the current IJMTM Guide for Authors page you checked. - Search the live site for "International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture guide for authors" and follow the current Elsevier/Editorial Manager version.
- Re-check article types, length/figure expectations, and the data-availability policy for process/measurement data.
- Confirm highlights, graphical-abstract, and any structured-abstract requirement.
- Re-check competing-interests, funding, author-contribution (CRediT), and AI-use disclosure requirements.
- If the live official instructions conflict with this skill, the official instructions win.
Pre-submission self-check
- The contribution is a manufacturing-process or machine-tool mechanism, not a parameter optimization for one part.
- Experiments report conditions, instrumentation, measurement uncertainty, and repeatability.
- Models are validated against experiment and used to explain the process, not just fitted to one dataset.
- Metrology/accuracy claims are traceable with stated measurement capability.
- Results are benchmarked against the correct baseline process and state-of-the-art methods.
- The article type and length fit IJMTM's archival format.
Common desk-reject triggers
- Parameter/Taguchi optimization for a single workpiece with no transferable process science.
- Measurement or characterization report with no process mechanism or machine-tool understanding.
- Models presented without experimental validation or used only to curve-fit one dataset.
- Accuracy/surface claims without measurement uncertainty or traceability.
- Scope mismatch: a pure materials, additive-process, or control-theory paper with manufacturing as a label.
- Better framed as an additive-manufacturing study or a materials/structures application.
Re-routing decision
- Additive-manufacturing process or process–structure–property focus →
additive-manufacturing. - Microstructure-first materials mechanism of the machined/formed material →
acta-materialia. - Forming mechanics where the constitutive/plasticity model is the core →
international-journal-of-plasticity. - Composite-material machining/manufacturing where composites are the focus →
composites-part-b-engineering. - Machine-tool control theorems with guarantees rather than process science →
ieee-transactions-on-automatic-control.
Output format
[Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason)
[Target] International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture
[Topic tags] <2–3 closest manufacturing subtopics>
[Process insight] <the process/machine-tool mechanism in one line>
[Method/evidence] <does experiment + validated modeling clear IJMTM's manufacturing-science bar?>
[Top risk] <the single most likely reason for rejection>
[Official items to re-check] <article type / length / data policy / abstract / disclosures>
[Re-route suggestion] <if not a fit, a better-matched venue>
Version History
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