2024 had come to an abrupt end, and this is the final edition for 2024. At the end of 2023, we were still living with the effects of COVID, and continuous load shedding. But life had moved on! Load shedding is (for now at least) history. South Africa had elections in 2024, and a new Government of National Unity was established, and with that, a lot of new optimism about the future! Logistics and the broken rail network are still issues, but you can see how industrial engineering professionals are adapting to these new challenges to find solutions. As mentioned at the end of 2017, it is now customary to evaluate how the journal is performing. Scopus (www.scopus.com) measures impact with a “CiteScore”. The CiteScore for a year is calculated as the Citation Count for the year / number of documents published in the previous three years. The Citescore for 2022 was 1.4, in 2023 it was 1.1 and 2024 is projected to be 1.2 . Our ranking with respect to the Percentile in the category, is currently stable as a Q3 journal. Another important source for journal standing, is Scimago Journal and Country Rank (www.scimagojr.com), where the journal is also listed as a Q3 journal in the “Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering” subject area. It is very encouraging to observe how the number of citations per document has grown (Figure 1).

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The South African Journal of Industrial Engineering

南非工业工程杂志 (SAJIE) 发表文章，重点关注工业工程和工程与技术管理领域的研究、开发和应用。通过这种方式，它旨在为这些研究领域的进一步发展做出贡献，并作为研究和培训导向机构与应用导向行业之间有效交流知识、思想和经验的工具。鼓励发表关于实际应用、原创研究和有意义的新发展以及最先进调查的文章。

The South African Journal of Industrial Engineering publishes articles focusing on research, development, and application in the fields of industrial engineering and engineering and technology management. The journal aims to contribute to the further development of these fields and serves as a bridge for effective communication of knowledge, ideas, and experiences between research and training institutions and application-oriented industries. We encourage submissions on practical applications, original research, significant new developments, and cutting-edge investigations.

南非工业工程杂志 (South African Journal of Industrial Engineering) 发表关于工业工程及工程与技术管理领域的研究、开发和应用的文章。该杂志旨在推动这些领域的进一步发展，并作为研究与培训机构与应用导向行业之间有效交流知识、思想和经验的桥梁。我们鼓励发表关于实际应用、原创研究、重要新发展以及前沿调查的文章。

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工程技术	4
工程技术, 工程工业	4

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ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL	4