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We are pleased to announce that following the decision of 17th November 2017 of the Index Copernicus International Scientific Evaluation Team, the publishing quality of the Scientific Journals of the Maritime University of Szczecin has been evaluated as higher which is expressed by the ICV 2016 index of 90.35. For comparison, in the previous three years, the indices were respectively: in 2014 the ICV 2013 = 6.16 (64.38 according to the new methodology); in 2015 the ICV 2014 = 7.76 (79.38 according to the new methodology); in 2016 the ICV 2015 = 87.49. Thus, in the period mentioned, the index has increased by 42.5%. It must be emphasised here that the constant improvement of our magazine’s publishing quality is a result of hard work of the editorial team, members of the scientific board, reviewers, and current and previous university authorities through their policy supporting the development of our quarterly.

It is my great pleasure to introduce the latest issue of the Scientific Journals of the Maritime University in Szczecin number 51 (122). Taking advantage of this opportunity, I would like to share with you some news about the journal. Scientific Journals of the Maritime University in Szczecin have set sail to wide international waters thanks to the Web of Science Core Collection – a database in which they have been indexed since July this year.

Until 2014, articles published on the pages of the Scientific Journals of the Maritime University in Szczecin (SJ) were indexed in bibliometric databases such as BazTech, EBSCO, Google Scholar and Index Copernicus. In recent months, the journal has been registered in new bases, which resulted from the inclusion of SJ in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) last October. This database is a part of the prestigious Web of Science platform.

The Web of Science platform, which now includes SJ, counts the citations of particular articles; it directly affects the bibliometric rating of other articles indexed previously in the database and quotability of individual scientists. Therefore, it is a huge opportunity for our authors to showcase the results of their research on an international forum and improve the quantitative indicators of scientific activity. For our journal, it is the opportunity to increase the number of citations and, consequently, move forward to implement the SJ quarterly to the Journal Citations Reports, JCR® .

In the current issue, we publish the results of the latest research from the fields of marine engineering, sea navigation and transport engineering. The introductory article entitled “Application of Root Conflict Analysis (RCA+) to Formulate Inventive Problems in Maritime Industry” has been prepared by TRIZ MASTER Valeri Souchkov – Vice President of the International TRIZ Association (MATRIZ), Founding Member and Information Manager of ETRIA (the European TRIZ Association) Executive Board, head of ICG Training & Consulting (Enschede, the Netherlands), lecturer of University of Twente (Enschede, The Netherlands) and lecturer of TIAS Business School (Tilburg, the Netherlands). The paper focuses on the use of his original RCA+ method in the cause-and-effect analysis of the Estonia ferry catastrophe. The publication was funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland from funds for activities popularising science: grant No. 790/P-DUN/2016. I hope that this material will prove to be fascinating to all readers interested in safety issues during marine transportation and using creative methods.

In the Marine Technology and Innovation section, we publish articles on the economic justification of the new approach to video-based smoke detection onboard ships as well as the use of heuristic and numerical methods in designing hulls of sea vessels.

The section devoted to navigation describes a method for ship’s safe trajectory determination and discusses selected legal aspects of investigating marine accidents in Poland.

The section entitled Transportation Engineering includes articles that relate to coastal transport, hinterland transport in service of the Ports of Szczecin and Świnoujście, economic aspects of exploiting ship systems and determining the floodable length of a bulk carrier.

In addition, this issue includes the Miscellaneous section, featuring papers on the design and modelling of exoskeleton torque sensor, diagnostic modelling, computer simulations in offshore mining, and a study of the effectiveness of the team of specialists and the occurrence of team roles according to Belbin’s theory.

To access the electronic version of the current issue and archival journals reaching back to the first publication in 1973, please visit our website: http://scientific-journals.eu/. The digitisation and access to archival issues was funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland from the previously mentioned funds for activities popularising science.

We cordially invite authors to submit articles and readers to provide us with comments, which will help us improve the quality of the journal.

                                                                                                                          Leszek Chybowski, DSc PhD CRP
                                                                                                                          Editor-in-Chief
                                                                                                                          Szczecin, 15.09.2017

Scientific Journals of the Maritime University of Szczecin was included in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). Since July 2017  our quarterly’s papers have started to be indexed by the Web of Science Core Collection database currently owned by Clarivate Analytics. The Web of Science platform counts citations for each article, what directly affects the bibliometric indicators of other articles indexed before by that database as well as citation intensity of each researcher. For our authors it is then a great opportunity to present their research on the international forum and improve their quantitative scientific indicators. And for our quarterly it is a possibility to increase the number of citations and get closer to the ISI Master Journal List.

       

  It is my great pleasure to present to the new issue 50 (122) of the Scientific Journals of the Maritime Academy in Szczecin. This publication contains the most recent research results on marine engineering, energy, navigation and transport engineering.

   The introductory article in this issue has been prepared by Dr Floris Goerlandt, a researcher from Aalto University, Helsinki. It focusses on modelling oil spill scenarios from tanker collision accidents in the Northern Baltic Sea. This publication has been financed from the funds for activities of promoting science: grant No. 790/P-DUN/2016 of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education. It is my expectation that this material will be attractive to all readers interested in the issues of security in marine transport and minimising the results of ecological disasters.

  The Marine Technology and Innovation section contains papers on infrared cameras used in detecting sources of fire on ships, estimating oil consumption based on ship service parameters in real weather conditions, and on the effect of the angle of attack on the generated water wave propagation.

   The Navigation oriented section includes papers on the concepts of route prediction for a person drifting in water, analyses of vessels traffic flow on a waterway bend as well as radiocommunication and detection of spoofing using differential GNSS. The Transportation Engineering section contains articles addressing inland transport, operation of a sea port and vehicle safety.

  To access the electronic version of the current issue or archival volumes, please visit our website http://scientific-journals.eu/. You will also be able to access all papers published by the Scientific Journals from 1973. The digitalisation and sharing of archival issues has been financed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education from the fund (above) for activities associated with the promotion of science.

  I strongly encourage and invite authors to submit their work and readers to forward their comments to the journal.

Dear Readers,

    It is my great pleasure to present to you the 49th issue of the Scientific Journals of the Maritime University of Szczecin. This issue contains the most current research findings from the fields of marine engineering, sea navigation and transport engineering. We have also included papers discussing the issue of mining safety, the use of new communication techniques as well as data mining models to predict ocean wave energy flux in the absence of wave recordings. 

   The introductory article for this issue has been prepared by Professor Oliver Mayer, Senior Principal Engineer at General Electric Global Research. The article is devoted to the concept of using TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problems Solving) tools, especially the innovative application of trimming for rationalising electrical networks. Its publication has been financed by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education from a fund dedicated to the promotion of science. It is our expectation that this resource will be both interesting and useful for those searching for state-of-the-art methods of developing technical systems.

    The Marine Technology and Innovation section features articles on marine hydromechanics, dual-fuel engines, and selected aspects of vessel automation. 

 

    The Navigation section contains articles on a mobile navigation system, concepts related to the intact stability of a bulk carrier, and control procedures for merchant vessel course indicators.

    The Transportation Engineering section contains articles on inland transportation, and experimental verification of the concept of using controlled pyrotechnic reactions as a source of energy as a part of the transport system from the seabed.

    We strongly encourage authors to submit their articles, and readers are more than welcome to forward their remarks. To access an online version of the current issue as well as archival volumes, please visit our website http://scientific-journals.eu/.
 

   It is my great pleasure to present the 48th issue of the Scientific Journals of the Maritime University of Szczecin. This issue features recent findings from the fields of marine engineering, sea navigation as well as waterborne and land transportation.

 

   The Marine Technology and Innovation studies address fire safety, modelling the work of marine systems such as steam boilers and dynamic positioning systems, the use of liquid fuels and selected methods for constructing an ontology for automatic communication at sea.

 

   The Navigation and Marine Transport section contains articles focussed on the use of integrated marine navigation systems, optimising sea routes, analysing vessel domains and stochastic simulations for the course of search and rescue missions at sea.

 

   The Transportation Engineering section contains studies examining inland waterway shipping, road infrastructure in the European Union as well as optimising parameters of port areas. The article discussing a theoretical framework for controlled pyrotechnical reactions as an energy source constituting a component for transportation from the sea bed deserves particular attention.

 

      I am also very pleased to announce that that our quarterly has been indexed by Global Impact Factor (GIF), an international database of scientific journals. The quality of the Scientific Journals of the Maritime University of Szczecin has been assessed using an in-depth analysis method to provide a Global Impact and Quality Factor. The journal’s scores for the last for years are as follows: 2012 – 0.415; 2013 – 0.528; 2014 – 0.780; 2015 – 0.854. This clearly reflects the increasing quality and standard of the work published by the journal, indeed our scores have increased by 61.7% over the last 2 years. 

 

   I strongly invite authors to submit their articles and encourage readers to provide feedback. Access to the online version of this issue and previous issues is available at http://scientific-journals. eu/.