E-Journal of Advanced Maintenance (EJAM)

A. Scope of the General Articles

Aims and Scope

(1) Aims

A basic structure of EJAM comprises three components. EJAM presents these described as follows:

(1) General Articles which broadly related to maintenance
(2) Academic Articles focused on the structure of maintenology
(3) New Technology that are to put globally advanced technologies on a common ground and to discuss its sophistication.

Briefly, General Articles aims for building a concept of maintenology, Academic Articles is for academic systematization of maintenance, and New Technology is for sophistication of maintenance technology. A concept of maintenance has notionally sustains both Academic Articles and New Technology which complements each other and plays the role in achieving a plant safety in combining with the two.

maintenance-concept

(2) Scope

Each scope of three fields is described as below

The scope in this article is broad. It mainly covers;

Maintenance technology in general
Regulations
World nuclear events
Maintenance critics
Social aspects of maintenance
Quality assurance

B. Scope of Academic Articles

Scientific maintenance
Maintenance engineering and technology
Maintenance standards and rules
Maintenance optimization
Monitoring techniques for maintenance
Structural integrity related to maintenance
Ageing management and reliability centered maintenance
Human Factors Related to Maintenance
Robot Technology
Decommissioning

C. Scope of New Technology

Maintenance technology
Replacement technology
Preventive maintenance technology
Non destructive testing
Condition monitoring technology
Advanced technology for cause finding

Copy Right

All the copyrights are reserved in JSM (10th Imon-ikenohata Bldg., 2-7-17 Ikenohata, Taito-ku, Tokyo 110-0008, Japan ).　No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electric, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher, JSM.

JSM does not prevent authors from using whole or a part of their papers besides books for copies, translations or adaptations. In case they copy their whole papers for other books, they must obtain permission of JSM in the form of documents.

Publication Charge

There is no publication charge for now.

Review Process

All the submitted manuscripts go through each review process according to the type of articles.

Presentation of Manuscripts

Only manuscripts in English will be published. Care should be taken to differentiate between certain letters and numbers (e.g. the letter O and zero, the letter I and the number 1). Authors for whom English is a second language may have their manuscript professionally edited before submission to improve the English.

Please refer to each section for more information

EJAM General Articles Submission Guidelines

Submission Guidelines

General Articles / Academic Articles / New Technology

Articles should be written in English, and should not have been submitted to any other journals.
Authors are welcomed to write articles freely, including figures and tables.
For submission, the original manuscript should be prepared as a PDF file and should be sent to EJAM Administration Office via e-mail together with the EJAM General Article Submission Form.
JSM holds all copy rights for articles published on the journals. An original EJAM Administration Paper Copyright Transfer Form (PDF) should be signed by the authors and be sent to EJAM Administration Office by mail when the paper is accepted.
The date of receipt is defined as the date when EJAM Administration Office first receives an article. The article far from the scope of General Articles is not accepted.
All the submitted articles are sent to reviewers internationally assigned by EJAM Administration Office.

EJAM Administration Office
Japan Society of Maintenance
10th, Imon-Ikenohata Bld., 2-7-17 Ikenohata, Taito-ku, Tokyo, Japan 110-0008
Tel: +81-3-5814-5430
Fax: +81-3-5814-6705
E-mail: ejam@jsm.or.jp

EJAM Academic Articles Submission Guidelines

Papers should be original studies on maintenance methodology in engineering structure such as nuclear power plants. They should be written in English, and should not have been submitted to any other journals except for a secondary publication of articles published in “Maintenology” in Japanese. They are not allowed to be submitted to any other journals, unless they are rejected.

Academic Articles can be classified into "Invited Paper," "Contributed Paper," "Invited Review," "Review Paper," and "Technical Note."

Papers should be written following “To Contributors.”

All the submitted manuscripts are subjected to rigorous peer-review.

For submission, the original manuscript should be prepared as a PDF file and should be sent to EJAM Administration Office via email together with EJAM Academic Articles Submission Form. At the same time, an EJAM Academic Articles Confirmation Form at Paper Submission (PDF) signed by the authors should also be sent to Chair of the EJAM Academic Comittee, Fumio Kojima: ejam@jsm.or.jp.

The manuscripts should be organized in the required format. Please follow the EJAM_academic_articles_template (Word / PDF) for formatting of the manuscript.

JSM holds all copy rights for papers published on the journals. An original EJAM Academic Articles Copyright Transfer Form (PDF) signed by the authors should be sent to Chair of the EJAM Academic Comittee, Fumio Kojima: ejam@jsm.or.jp if the paper is accepted.

Temporarily a page charge is not imposed on all papers for publication.

Please feel free to contact us if you need more information
EJAM Administration Office
Japan Society of Maintenology
10th, Imon-Ikenohata Bld., 2-7-17 Ikenohata,
Taito-ku, Tokyo, Japan. 110-0008
Tel: +81-3-5814-5430 Fax: +81-3-5814-6705
E-mail: ejam@jsm.or.jp

EJAM New Technology Submission Guidelines

1. Introduction

EJAM aims to distribute a great amount of information on effective maintenance technology to achieve safety in nuclear power plants all over the world. The following states the submission guidelines of manuscript for New Technology on EJAM.

2. Direction

2.1 Basic idea

New Technology covers all maintenance technologies, from inspection, evaluation, to maintenance (repair, replacement, and preventive maintenance).

These technologies are categorized as indicated on Attachment-1 "EJAM Maintenance Technology Map".

In addition, all the submitted manuscripts should state their "Development Phase" based on Attachment-2 "Development phase of the Technology on EJAM New Technology" to give better understanding to readers.

2.2 For publication

Submissions from any fields are welcomed. All the contributions go through review by the New Technology Committee, and are to be published on approval of Journal Board. Generally three or four articles are to be issued on New Technology at each number.

2.3 Copy right

2.3.1 Industrial property, such as patents on technology itself must be negotiated by the parties concerned. Japan Society of Maintenology (JSM) is not to be involved in the negotiation.

2.3.2 All the copyrights are reserved in JSM (7th Imon-ikenohata Bldg., 2-7-17 Ikenohata, Taito-ku, Tokyo 110-0008, Japan).

2.3.3 An original EJAM New Technology Copyright Transfer Form (PDF) signed by the authors should be sent to EJAM Administration Office by mail or e-mail (PDF) if the paper is accepted.

3. Manuscripts preparation

Manuscripts should be prepared based on Attachment-3 "Guideline to Prepare NT Articles". Its whole layout is left to EJAM Administration office.

4. Submission Procedure

4.1 An author is now required to submit his/her manuscript as individual original files as follows to EJAM Administration Office by e-mail or mail, or by uploading to the server.

(1)New Technology submission form

(2) Manuscript text as Microsoft Word

(3) PDF of (2)

(4) Figures as high-resolution TIFF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, EPS or PDF files as appropriate

(5) Supporting information files as required

Please put a file name as follows;

(1') New Technology submission form ：submission form**

(2') Manuscript text : text**

(3') PDF of (4) : text **

(4') Figures / Table : Fig.#** / Table#**

(5') Supporting information files : support(#) **

Please put down a name of the first author on**

Each figure and table should be sent separately.

4.2 Media of (1)～(5) stated above is basically not returned to the author.

4.3 Please send a manuscript to ejam@jsm.or.jp

Or if the file size is too big to be sent by e-mail, it can be submitted through the server as follows: (Please refer to a EJAM FTP Manual if needed)

[1] Send a New Technology submission form to ejam@jsm.or.jp

[2] A server account number and a password will be sent to an author to upload a file of the manuscript prepared following 4.1.

[3] The author uploads the file on the server, and let EJAM Administration Office know by e-mail.

[4] EJAM Administration office sends an e-mail to the author for an acknowledgement of the acceptance. Then the submitted manuscript goes through review process.

4.4 Temporarily a page charge is not imposed on all papers for publication.

4.5 If authors wish to retract their manuscript and cancel the submission, a statement on the cancellation of the submitted manuscript must be submitted immediately with the signatures of all authors.

4.6 When a cancelled manuscript is re-submitted, the manuscript will be treated as a new submission

5. Criteria for Publication

5.1 Acceptance or Rejection is decided by New Technology Committee.

5.2 When some members in the Committee decide to reject manuscripts, they must state reasons for rejection or suggest improvements to the author. The manuscripts will be accepted if modified in accordance with the suggestions.

5.3 When the Committee agrees to reject manuscripts, authors will be immediately notified with reasons for rejection.

5.4 The Chair of the Committee decides acceptance or rejection when all the members cannot reach an agreement.

EJAM Administration Office
10th, Imon-Ikenohata Bld., 2-7-17 Ikenohata, Taito-ku, Tokyo 110-0008, Japan
Tel: +81-3-5814-5430
Fax: +81-3-5814-6705
E-mail：ejam@jsm.or.jp