Journal rankings · indicator year 2001
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Subfield ranking · 2001
Mechanical Engineering journal rankings 2001
165 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Mechanical Engineering has 165 ranked journals in 2001. The median journal has an OJR of 0.54, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.03 on 2000; Q1 starts at OJR 1.07. The top three are Design Studies, Research in Engineering Design, and ASHRAE winter conference papers.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2001. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 1998–2000, the window the 2001 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Engineering (16)
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering202
- Mechanical Engineering165
- Aerospace Engineering106
- Biomedical Engineering102
- Civil and Structural Engineering98
- Mechanics of Materials81
- Control and Systems Engineering66
- Computational Mechanics65
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering34
- Building and Construction30
- Ocean Engineering27
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality14
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165 ranked journals
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Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2000. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1998–2000, the window the 2001 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1998–2000 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2001. | Compare |
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1Design StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.16Q1 | 1.87 0.17 up from 2000 | 90 | 24% | $4,570 | ||
2Research in Engineering DesignSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 3.60Q1 | 1.08 0.33 up from 2000 | 52 | 0% | $4,090 | ||
3ASHRAE winter conference papersAmerican Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers · United States | 3.28Q1 | 0.33 0.23 down from 2000 | 44 | 0% | — | ||
4International Materials ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.04Q1 | 1.30 0.19 up from 2000 | 46 | 0% | $4,400 | ||
5ASME Journal of Heat and Mass TransferASM International · United States | 2.18Q1 | 1.12 0.47 up from 2000 | 509 | 2% | — | ||
6IntermetallicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 1.15 0.10 down from 2000 | 437 | 4% | $2,730 | ||
| 1.93Q1 | 0.81 0.42 up from 2000 | 85 | 5% | — | |||
8Metallurgical and Materials Transactions ASpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.88Q1 | 1.16 0.05 down from 2000 | 1,011 | 5% | $3,990 | ||
9International Journal of Mechanical SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.83Q1 | 0.86 0.05 down from 2000 | 304 | 5% | $4,740 | ||
10Experimental Heat TransferTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.79Q1 | 0.73 0.42 up from 2000 | 63 | 3% | — | ||
11Composites Part B EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.72Q1 | 0.88 0.01 up from 2000 | 221 | 3% | $5,210 | ||
12Journal of Mechanical DesignAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers · United States | 1.71Q1 | 0.67 0.01 down from 2000 | 381 | 0% | — | ||
13Artificial intelligence for engineering design analysis and manufacturingCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.60Q1 | 0.52 0.13 down from 2000 | 108 | 6% | $3,550 | ||
14International Journal of Technology and Design EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.58Q1 | 0.87 0.11 up from 2000 | 49 | 0% | $3,390 | ||
15Microscale Thermophysical EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.53Q1 | 1.24 0.55 up from 2000 | 67 | 0% | — | ||
16Journal of TribologyASM International · United States | 1.50Q1 | 0.78 0.14 down from 2000 | 511 | 2% | — | ||
17Tribology InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.47Q1 | 0.52 0.12 down from 2000 | 280 | 2% | $5,390 | ||
18Tribology LettersSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.43Q1 | 1.30 0.13 down from 2000 | 185 | 1% | $3,990 | ||
19Scripta MaterialiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.38Q1 | 1.05 0.22 up from 2000 | 1,243 | 3% | $3,220 | ||
20Philosophical Magazine LettersOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.36Q1 | 1.19 0.36 down from 2000 | 329 | 9% | — | ||
21Materials Transactions JIMOAJapan Institute of Metals · Japan | 1.30Q1 | 0.92 0.08 up from 2000 | 725 | — | — | ||
22CIRP AnnalsElsevier BV | 1.28Q1 | 0.90 0.08 down from 2000 | 355 | 5% | $3,190 | ||
23Materials Science and Engineering AElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.27Q1 | 0.87 0.03 up from 2000 | 2,278 | 3% | $3,430 | ||
24Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part J Journal of Engineering TribologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.27Q1 | 0.65 0.47 down from 2000 | 135 | 3% | $4,150 | ||
25Journal of Laser ApplicationsLaser Institute of America · United States | 1.25Q1 | 0.64 0.40 down from 2000 | 116 | 9% | — | ||
26International Journal of RefrigerationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.25Q1 | 0.95 0.41 up from 2000 | 177 | 5% | $3,220 | ||
27American Ceramic Society bulletinAmerican Ceramic Society · United States | 1.25Q1 | 0.67 0.08 down from 2000 | 35 | 0% | — | ||
28Journal of Engineering DesignTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.22Q1 | 0.48 0.15 up from 2000 | 72 | 8% | — | ||
29International Journal of PlasticityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.21Q1 | 1.30 0.31 up from 2000 | 196 | 4% | $3,740 | ||
30Journal of Engineering Materials and TechnologyAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers · United States | 1.21Q1 | 0.61 0.34 down from 2000 | 252 | 0% | — | ||
31International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard MaterialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.20Q1 | 0.84 0.41 up from 2000 | 143 | 1% | $3,310 | ||
32ISIJ InternationalOAThe Iron and Steel Institute of Japan · Japan | 1.19Q1 | 0.49 0.14 up from 2000 | 570 | 100% | $700 | ||
33Surface and Coatings TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.19Q1 | 1.19 0.20 up from 2000 | 1,832 | 2% | $3,880 | ||
33Journal of Adhesion Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 1.19Q1 | 1.04 0.11 up from 2000 | 275 | 2% | — | ||
35Tribology TransactionsTaylor & Francis | 1.19Q1 | 0.78 0.06 up from 2000 | 312 | 2% | — | ||
36Journal of Manufacturing Science and EngineeringASM International · United States | 1.16Q1 | 0.44 0.08 down from 2000 | 403 | 0% | — | ||
37Journal of Sandwich Structures & MaterialsSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.14Q1 | 0.52 0.08 up from 2000 | 48 | 7% | $4,400 | ||
38International Journal of Machine Tools and ManufactureElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.12Q1 | 0.57 0.13 up from 2000 | 369 | 2% | $5,610 | ||
39Experimental MechanicsSpringer Nature · United States | 1.12Q1 | 0.71 0.25 down from 2000 | 165 | 2% | $2,390 | ||
40Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part F Journal of Rail and Rapid TransitSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.07Q1 | 0.45 0.16 up from 2000 | 64 | 3% | $4,150 | ||
41Vehicle System DynamicsTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 1.07Q1 | 0.43 0.15 up from 2000 | 266 | 2% | — | ||
42Heat and Mass TransferSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.07Q1 | 0.59 0.38 up from 2000 | 249 | 1% | $2,290 | ||
43Materials & Design (1980-2015)Elsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.06Q2 | 0.65 0.13 up from 2000 | 146 | 2% | — | ||
44Materials at High TemperaturesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.04Q2 | 0.43 0.14 up from 2000 | 202 | 0% | — | ||
45AdsorptionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.04Q2 | 0.97 0.22 up from 2000 | 105 | 0% | $4,090 | ||
46WearElsevier BV · Switzerland | 1.04Q2 | 1.02 0.20 up from 2000 | 896 | 3% | $5,394 | ||
47Machining Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.02Q2 | 0.52 0.09 down from 2000 | 65 | 4% | — | ||
48International Journal of Heat and Mass TransferElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.01Q2 | 1.24 0.56 up from 2000 | 1,090 | 3% | $4,220 | ||
49Metallurgical and Materials Transactions BSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.97Q2 | 0.55no change | 427 | 3% | $3,990 | ||
50Heat Transfer EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.96Q2 | 0.29 0.08 up from 2000 | 155 | 3% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Mechanical Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering202
- Mechanical Engineering165
- Aerospace Engineering106
- Biomedical Engineering102
- Civil and Structural Engineering98
- Mechanics of Materials81
- Control and Systems Engineering66
- Computational Mechanics65
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering34
- Building and Construction30
- Ocean Engineering27
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality14
- Media Technology11
- Automotive Engineering9
- Architecture0
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2001. Corpus-wide, 67.0% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
58 additional Mechanical Engineering journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 1998–2000, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2001. Publication window: 1998–2000. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 165
- Window papers (baseline)
- 69,348 Change unavailable from indicator year 1998
- Median OJR
- 0.539 Change unavailable from indicator year 1998
- Rising journals (2025)
- 37
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1998–2000 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 153 | 165 | 174 | 181 | 189 | 197 | 200 | 216 | 239 | 248 | 253 | 259 | 279 | 297 | 318 | 336 | 349 | 360 | 367 | 371 | 379 | 380 | 376 | 376 | 372 | 366 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 62,334 | 69,348 | 76,751 | 85,480 | 91,814 | 99,066 | 105,079 | 114,255 | 121,976 | 131,580 | 138,936 | 149,595 | 164,074 | 174,982 | 184,498 | 189,752 | 192,405 | 190,265 | 188,986 | 196,408 | 208,840 | 221,656 | 231,232 | 237,955 | 243,502 | 258,806 | |
| Median OJR | 0.511 | 0.539 | 0.531 | 0.553 | 0.47 | 0.501 | 0.51157 | 0.5481 | 0.5022 | 0.5090 | 0.565 | 0.58 | 0.551 | 0.59 | 0.561 | 0.5478 | 0.57 | 0.545 | 0.51162 | 0.500 | 0.5023 | 0.492 | 0.5093 | 0.496 | 0.528 | 0.489 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.