About Journal of Fiber Bioengineering and Informatics

Journal of Fiber Bioengineering and Informatics

The Journal of Fiber Bioengineering and Informatics (JFBI) is a peer-reviewed journal for research where fibre science, textile engineering, bioengineering and informatics meet. It is the journal of the Textile Bioengineering and Informatics Society and is published by Global Science Press, with much of its editorial community connected to textile research in Shanghai, including Donghua University, China's leading university for textile science. Where most journals treat fibres either as a materials problem or as a fashion and manufacturing problem, JFBI treats them as both, and adds two further lenses: the biological, covering medical and bio-inspired uses of fibres, and the computational, covering the modelling, data and digital-design methods that now run through textile research. That four-way intersection is unusual, and it defines everything the journal publishes.

Identity, society and bibliographic record

Articles in the journal carry the ISSN 1940-8676, shown on its published papers together with the copyright of the Textile Bioengineering and Informatics Society, and its digital object identifiers use the prefix 10.3993/jfbim, as in the citation doi:10.3993/jfbim02941 for a 2024 article. The journal appears quarterly, and its volume numbering reached volume 17 in 2024 and volume 18 in 2025, indicating a journal well into its second decade. Its standard abbreviation is J. Fiber Bioeng. Inform. Bibliographic records list the publisher in two complementary ways: Global Science Press as the publishing house, and the Textile Bioengineering and Informatics Society, associated with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in some directory listings, as the society behind the title. The society connection is the key fact: JFBI is a learned-society journal serving a defined research community, not a general commercial title, and its conferences and society network feed its submissions.

The community behind the journal

The Textile Bioengineering and Informatics Society brings together researchers in textile science, clothing engineering, biomedical textiles and computational design, a community that also meets through the Textile Bioengineering and Informatics Symposium tradition. Donghua University in Shanghai, which grew from China's historic textile institutes, is a major centre of that community, and the clean directory record for JFBI notes that much of its editorial community is based there. This matters for readers because the journal's contents reflect a real research network: papers on fibre materials sit alongside papers on garment engineering, digital human modelling, wearable systems and the informatics of design and manufacture, all written by groups who meet, collaborate and cite one another. S-Logix's journal profile names Henry Yi Li as editor-in-chief; editorial boards change over time, so authors should confirm the current board on the journal's official site before submitting.

Aims and scope

The journal describes its objective as publishing high-quality research at the intersection of fibre science, bioengineering and informatics, advancing understanding of fibre materials and technologies, including their biological applications and computational modelling. In expanded form, its scope covers fibre materials and technologies, including the properties, processing and applications of natural and synthetic fibres; bioengineering applications, including tissue engineering, implants and medical devices made from fibres; textile engineering, including design, manufacturing processes and performance evaluation; clothing and apparel science; and the informatics strand, covering simulation, digital design, data analysis and intelligent systems applied to fibres and textiles. It also welcomes innovative fibre-based products and interdisciplinary research integrating fibre engineering with chemistry, biology and materials science. That combination explains why a single volume can contain both a laboratory study of a fibre's structure and a computational study of how a garment fits a moving body.

Evidence from recent issues

Recent published articles illustrate the scope concretely. A 2024 article in volume 17 examined Chinese embroidery in cultural and creative product design, combining the Analytical Hierarchy Process, Quality Function Deployment and TRIZ to turn a traditional craft into a systematic design methodology — a paper that is simultaneously about textiles, design informatics and cultural heritage. A 2023 article in volume 16 used image segmentation and 3D virtual technology to digitally restore costumes depicted in Tang dynasty tomb murals, applying garment engineering to archaeology. A 2025 article in volume 18 developed design guidelines for accessible dining apparel for visually impaired wearers, based on interviews, questionnaires and experiments, and framed around inclusive and sustainable fashion. Together these papers show the journal's characteristic move: taking a fibre, textile or clothing question and answering it with engineering, biological or computational method, often with a Chinese cultural or industrial context that few Western textile journals cover in the same depth.

Subject classification and indexing

Scopus records coverage of JFBI beginning in 2012, with coverage histories in ranking services running through 2024, and the journal is classified in Scopus-based rankings under Computer Science (miscellaneous) and Materials Science (miscellaneous) — a pairing that captures its dual identity precisely. SCImago placed it in the third quartile in those categories in 2024, after earlier fourth-quartile listings, and its CiteScore was reported at 1.5 for 2024 in journal profiles. Rankings of this kind move from year to year and should not be over-read, but the classification itself is informative: indexers place the journal between computing and materials because its papers genuinely belong to both. For a specialist society journal, Scopus coverage is the essential point, since it makes its articles discoverable alongside the wider textile, materials and informatics literature.

Fibres, bioengineering and why the combination matters

The journal's field deserves explanation, because its importance has grown quickly. Fibres are the building blocks of textiles, composites, filters, ropes, paper and many medical products, from sutures and wound dressings to scaffolds on which tissue can grow. Bioengineering brings the methods of engineering to biological and medical problems, so fibre bioengineering includes designing fibrous structures that interact safely and usefully with the body. Informatics brings computation: simulating how a fibre or fabric behaves, using sensor data from wearable textiles, applying image analysis to quality control, and building digital models of bodies and garments so clothing can be designed and tested virtually. Research that combines these strands can shorten product development, reduce material waste, improve medical devices and preserve cultural heritage in digital form — all themes visible in JFBI's recent contents.

Publication pattern and how to cite it

JFBI publishes quarterly through Global Science Press, with articles available through the publisher's journal platform, where the journal maintains an official site for the title. Each article carries a DOI in the 10.3993/jfbim series, which should be used when citing recent work, together with the journal name, volume, issue, year and page range as printed on the article; for example, volume 17, issue 2 (2024), pages 89–102, for the embroidery design study discussed above. The masthead information printed on articles, including the ISSN 1940-8676 and the society copyright line, is the authoritative source for the journal's bibliographic details in any given year.

Readership and authors

Readers of JFBI include textile scientists, clothing engineers, materials researchers, biomedical engineers working with fibrous scaffolds and devices, and computer scientists working on simulation, image analysis and human-body modelling for design. Its authors come disproportionately from universities with strong textile programmes in China and the wider Asia-Pacific region, reflecting the geography of the modern textile industry and of the society behind the journal, but the questions addressed — how fibres perform, how garments fit and function, how digital tools change design — are global. For a researcher entering the field, the journal offers a compact way to see the whole intersection at once, rather than chasing separate literatures in materials, medicine and computing.

Place among textile and materials journals

Large general textile journals cover fibres mainly as industrial materials, and large medical journals cover fibrous devices only occasionally. JFBI's contribution is to hold the intersection open as a field in its own right, with a society, a symposium community and a quarterly journal reinforcing one another. Published by Global Science Press for the Textile Bioengineering and Informatics Society, indexed in Scopus since 2012 and reaching its eighteenth volume in 2025, the Journal of Fiber Bioengineering and Informatics remains a distinctive record of how fibre science is being reshaped by biology and computation.