Journal of Dalian Maritime University is a comprehensive academic journal of science and engineering that mainly publishes research papers in the field of waterway transportation engineering. The scope of this journal includes research papers in the fields of transportation engineering, ship and ocean engineering, thermal energy and power, marine environment, electronic information, control, materials, etc. It has been included in important domestic and foreign retrieval journals and databases such as the British "Maritime Technical Abstracts" (BMTA), the American "Chemical Abstracts" (CA), the Dutch SCOPUS database, the Russian "Abstracts Magazine" (AJ), the American "Cambridge Scientific Abstracts" (CSA), the "Overview of Chinese Core Journals", the Chinese Science Citation Database (CSCD), and the Chinese Science and Technology Paper Statistical Source Journal (also known as "Chinese Science and Technology Core Journals")