SAE’s Kim Martin Takes Scientific Publishing to the Next Level
Posted: August 18, 2024
Seeing journal publishing evolve drives Kim Martin’s passion for publishing.
“It’s amazing how far publishing has come in the forty years I’ve worked in it because when I first started in this business, computers hadn’t been around very long,” said Kim. “There was a whole group of people creating pages by hand, and now today there’s so much technology involved in publishing.”
In her role as Editorial Director, Journals, Technical Papers, and SAE MobilityRxiv® for SAE International, Kim partners with industry and academic experts to develop the vision and reach of these SAE publications.
SAE International Scholarly Journals cover all areas relevant to ground vehicle, commercial vehicle, and aerospace engineering technology and aim to meet the needs of academic and industry authors, researchers, and readers in a manner that is tailored for the discovery, integration, and application of research.
Nearly all of SAE’s Journals have been granted impact factors by the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) from Clarivate Analytics. Authors and librarians around the world look to ISI for journal impact factors when deciding where to publish and which publications to add to their portfolios.
“One of the big things for publishing with SAE is that we have a name in this business, and there is authority behind the SAE brand. We're working with many different universities and organizations across industry. Publishing with us can provide authors that boost in credibility,” said Kim.
Before SAE Journals are published, manuscripts go through a peer-review process. During this review process, SAE reviewers are checking a manuscript to ensure the research provides value to the field, clearly explains its motivations and methodology, states its results and their potential impacts of any newly discovered information, and accounts for any limitations of the study. SAE staff work diligently to ensure that the reviews are helpful, thorough, and offer concrete steps to improve the manuscript.
“SAE has a process to improve your work, to get it to the very best position before it’s published,” said Kim. “You may go through a couple rounds of peer review, but don’t look at it as taking a long time; look at it as providing you with more suggestions to refine and improve your work and get it to the best possible state before it gets published and your peers read it and judge it.”
In addition to journals, Kim and her team have established non-event technical papers for those who aren't able to attend an SAE event but still want to be published. These papers can be published on your own schedule and can cover any aspect of the mobility industry. The non-event technical papers go through the same peer-review process and utilize many of the same peer reviewers as the Journals program.
Visit sae.org/PublishNow to learn more about how you can start your journey to publishing with SAE.