Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society became the first published journal of science in 1665 (The Royal Society, 2010). Journals contain articles related to a broad field (The International Journal of Engineering), a sub-field (the Power Engineering Journal), or may be interdisciplinary (the Journal of Biomedics Optics).

Journals belong to the family of publications called 'periodicals', due to the fact that they come out periodically; it is common for new journal issues to be released every one, two, or four months. In the past, journals were ordered through the mail, usually by paid subscription.

Today, journals are most easily accessed over the Internet, where some are freely available while others require subscription. Universities will often provide access to a variety of selected journals through their libraries; in electronic and/or hard copy formats.

The following list of journals is based on AIT fields of study. Engineering and Technology

• Journal of Construction Engineering and Management

• Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

• Journal of Structural Engineering

• Journal of Transportation Engineering

• Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering

• Disaster Management & Response

• Journal of Agricultural Engineering Research

• Aquaculture

• Journal of Energy Engineering

• Journal of Environmental Engineering

• Journal of Food Engineering

• Journal of Gender Studies

• Geography and Natural Resources

• Journal of Pulp and Paper Science

• International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning

• Journal of Urban Planning and Development Business Administration

• Business Process Management Journal

• Journal of Hydraulic Engineering

• IEEE/ASME Transactions of Mechatronics

• IEEE Embedded Systems Letters

• The Journal of Manufacturing Systems

• IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

• Journal of Computer Science and Technology

• IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

• International Journal of Information Management

• Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

• IEEE Transactions on Communications

• IEEE Communications Letters Environment, Resources and Development