Reviews in Emerging Technology and Applications (RETA) publishes comprehensive surveys and critical reviews of emerging and advancing technologies across engineering, applied sciences, and interdisciplinary fields. The journal aims to consolidate knowledge, evaluate technological progress, and identify research gaps, practical challenges, and future directions.

Subject Areas & Core Domains

Topics of interest include comprehensive reviews and surveys in the following fields, but are not limited to:

• Computing, AI & Quantum Systems: Artificial intelligence, intelligent computing, autonomous systems, quantum computing, quantum communications, and next-generation quantum technologies.
• Security, Connectivity & Trust: Cybersecurity, privacy frameworks, trustworthy digital technologies, advanced communications, networking, and connected systems.
• Electronics & Electrical Engineering: Electronics, semiconductor design, photonics, advanced sensing infrastructure, power electronics, and intelligent control mechanisms.
• Robotics, Manufacturing & Automation: Mechanical engineering, robotics, mechatronics, advanced manufacturing, additive manufacturing, and industrial automation.
• Materials, Nanotech & Chemical Processing: Materials science, nanotechnology, functional materials, chemical engineering, process technologies, and industrial biotechnology.
• Energy, Infrastructure & Environment: Renewable energy, energy storage, sustainable systems, civil engineering, resilient infrastructure, environmental engineering, pollution control, resource recovery, water technologies, waste management, and circular-economy solutions.
• Bio-Engineering, Medical & Agriculture: Biomedical engineering, medical devices, advanced healthcare technologies, biotechnology, bioengineering, synthetic biology, agricultural technologies, precision farming, and food engineering.
• Aerospace, Mobility & Physics: Aerospace engineering, space technologies, remote sensing, transportation systems, mobility, marine technologies, applied physics, instrumentation, and measurement technologies.
• Modeling, Governance & Convergence: Computational modeling, simulation frameworks, digital twins, technology convergence, cross-disciplinary applications, reliability assessment, standardization, technology adoption, commercialization paths, governance, and societal impacts.

Submissions must provide a substantive review of technologies, engineering methods, enabling scientific advances, or their applications. Articles should critically evaluate existing evidence, explain how literature was identified and selected, compare approaches, and identify limitations and future research priorities.

The journal welcomes comprehensive surveys, systematic reviews, scoping reviews, critical and integrative reviews, umbrella reviews, and meta-analyses. Bibliometric reviews must include substantive critical synthesis beyond publication and citation statistics. Standalone original research papers and reviews without a clear technological connection are outside the journal’s scope.