Aims and scope

The Journal of Environmentally Compatible Air Transport System (JECATS) is a not-for-profit international scientific journal dedicated to the publication and public discussion of aspects of the air transport system with a focus on the environmental implications. JECATS publishes original research and review articles that especially, but not solely, combine areas of aerospace engineering, fuels, environmental analysis, climate change, economics, aviation climate mitigation, circularity and policy analysis. It includes aviation transport related aspects and environmental effects from local to global scales. Research articles and review articles are considered for peer-reviewed publication. These are complemented by invited perspective articles and communications contributions. JECATS publishes special issues of the conferences of the ECATS AISBL (Association internationale sans but lucratif).

A two-stage publication process involving the scientific discussion forum Journal of Environmentally Compatible Air Transport System Discussions (JECATSD) is considered, and ensures to

• foster and provide a lasting record of scientific discussion;
• maximize the effectiveness and transparency of scientific quality assurance;
• enable rapid posting of new scientific results;
• make scientific publications freely accessible.

In the first stage, papers that pass a rapid access peer review are immediately posted in JECATSD. They are then subject to interactive public discussion, during which the referees' comments (anonymous or attributed), additional comments by other members of the scientific community (attributed), and the authors' replies are also posted. In the second stage, the peer-review process is completed and, if accepted, the final revised papers are published in JECATS. To ensure publication precedence for authors, and to provide a lasting record of scientific discussion, JECATSD and JECATS are both ISSN-registered, permanently archived, and fully citable.

JECATS also offers an efficient way of publishing special issues, in which the individual papers are published following the default interactive public discussion as ordinary submissions but are linked electronically. Special issues involving guest editors can be proposed to the executive editors and will focus on specific topics to highlight associated work.