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JATAIR Journal of Aviation Technology & AI Research
About the journal

Aims, scope & editorial policy

What JATAIR publishes, how it is reviewed, and the standards every submission is held to.

Aims and scope

The Journal of Aviation Technology & AI Research (JATAIR) publishes original research, surveys, and short communications at the intersection of aviation engineering and artificial intelligence. The journal welcomes work that demonstrates a clear application or operational context, not only theoretical advances.

Core areas include autonomous flight and UAV systems, air traffic management AI, avionics and flight-critical software, predictive maintenance and prognostics for aircraft systems, aviation safety analytics, human factors in cockpit automation, and the certification and assurance of AI in aerospace applications.

Article types

TypeTypical lengthReview track
Research article5,000–9,000 wordsDouble-blind, 2–3 reviewers
Survey / review7,000–12,000 wordsDouble-blind, 2–3 reviewers
Short communicationup to 3,000 wordsDouble-blind, 2 reviewers
Systems / flight-test paper4,000–6,000 wordsDouble-blind, 2 reviewers + data/artifact check

Peer review process

All submissions undergo double-blind peer review. An assigned handling editor first checks scope and formatting compliance before sending the manuscript out for review.

  1. 1

    Editorial screening

    Scope, originality, and formatting are checked. Manuscripts outside scope are returned within 5 working days without external review.

  2. 2

    Reviewer assignment

    The handling editor assigns two to three reviewers with relevant subject expertise, blind to author identity.

  3. 3

    Review & first decision

    Reviewers return comments within three weeks of assignment.

  4. 4

    Revision

    Authors revise and submit a point-by-point response to reviewer comments, typically within four weeks.

  5. 5

    Final decision & production

    Accepted manuscripts move to copyediting, DOI registration, and assignment to an upcoming issue.

Publication ethics

JATAIR follows the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines on authorship, conflicts of interest, plagiarism, and research misconduct. All submissions are screened with similarity-detection software, and authors are required to disclose funding sources, flight-test data provenance, and competing interests at submission.

Open access & licensing

Authors may choose to publish under open access (CC BY 4.0) or under standard subscription-based access. There is no submission fee. Open-access publication carries an article processing charge, waived in full or in part for authors from low- and middle-income countries on request.