Journal rankings · indicator year 2002
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Subfield ranking · 2002
Aerospace Engineering journal rankings 2002
115 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Aerospace Engineering has 115 ranked journals in 2002. The median journal has an OJR of 0.24, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.05 on 2001; Q1 starts at OJR 0.89. The top three are Progress in Aerospace Sciences, Journal of Turbomachinery, and Journal of the American Helicopter Society.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2002. 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 1999–2001, the window the 2002 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 Engineering215
- Mechanical Engineering174
- Aerospace Engineering115
- Civil and Structural Engineering109
- Biomedical Engineering105
- Mechanics of Materials85
- Computational Mechanics69
- Control and Systems Engineering68
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering36
- Ocean Engineering30
- Building and Construction29
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality16
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115 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 2001. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1999–2001, the window the 2002 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1999–2001 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 2002. | Compare |
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1Progress in Aerospace SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.31Q1 | 2.27 0.73 down from 2001 | 47 | 5% | $5,860 | ||
2Journal of TurbomachineryASM International · United States | 3.58Q1 | 0.82 0.18 down from 2001 | 286 | 12% | — | ||
3Journal of the American Helicopter SocietyVertical Flight Society · United States | 3.44Q1 | 1.25 0.15 up from 2001 | 94 | 19% | — | ||
4Journal of Guidance Control and DynamicsAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 2.96Q1 | 1.16 0.29 up from 2001 | 529 | 7% | — | ||
5Journal of AircraftAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 2.59Q1 | 1.15 0.19 up from 2001 | 484 | 4% | — | ||
6Oxidation of MetalsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.58Q1 | 1.20 0.33 up from 2001 | 185 | 5% | $3,590 | ||
7Volume 3: Heat Transfer; Electric Power; Industrial and CogenerationPublisher not listed | 2.44Q1 | 0.48 0.28 down from 2001 | 405 | — | — | ||
8IEEE Transactions on Antennas and PropagationIEEE Antennas & Propagation Society · United States | 1.89Q1 | 1.29 0.30 up from 2001 | 750 | 10% | $2,645 | ||
9IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.89Q1 | 0.79 0.12 up from 2001 | 406 | 1% | $2,645 | ||
10Journal of Thermal Spray TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media | 1.84Q1 | 0.51 0.19 down from 2001 | 174 | 4% | $3,190 | ||
11NAVIGATION Journal of the Institute of NavigationOAWiley · United States | 1.81Q1 | 0.54 0.23 down from 2001 | 79 | 0% | $3,000 | ||
12The Journal of the Astronautical SciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.79Q1 | 0.95 0.44 up from 2001 | 82 | 4% | $3,190 | ||
13Journal of Spacecraft and RocketsAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.68Q1 | 0.87 0.04 up from 2001 | 383 | 5% | — | ||
| 1.61Q1 | 0.38 0.02 up from 2001 | 384 | — | — | |||
15Journal of Propulsion and PowerAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.56Q1 | 0.87 0.19 up from 2001 | 502 | 6% | — | ||
16IEEE Antennas and Propagation MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.47Q1 | 0.66 0.09 down from 2001 | 219 | 7% | $2,995 | ||
17Nuclear Science and EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.46Q1 | 0.93 0.07 up from 2001 | 232 | 5% | — | ||
18International Journal of Satellite CommunicationsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.43Q1 | 0.86 0.55 up from 2001 | 119 | 11% | — | ||
19Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part G Journal of Aerospace EngineeringSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.40Q1 | 0.92 0.80 up from 2001 | 101 | 4% | $4,150 | ||
20IEE Proceedings - Radar Sonar and NavigationUnited Kingdom | 1.27Q1 | 0.63 0.16 up from 2001 | 133 | 0% | — | ||
21Aerospace Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · France | 1.25Q1 | 0.82 0.21 up from 2001 | 144 | 3% | $4,360 | ||
22Journal of Aerospace EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.22Q1 | 0.52 0.34 up from 2001 | 69 | 12% | — | ||
23Journal of GeodesySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.17Q1 | 0.85 0.03 up from 2001 | 210 | 5% | $3,590 | ||
24Wind EnergyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.17Q1 | 0.44 0.14 up from 2001 | 64 | 13% | $3,730 | ||
25GPS SolutionsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.13Q1 | 0.55 0.14 up from 2001 | 138 | 0% | $2,790 | ||
26Shock WavesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.06Q1 | 0.60 0.03 up from 2001 | 121 | 2% | $3,890 | ||
27Journal of Agricultural Engineering ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.02Q1 | 0.58 0.03 up from 2001 | 413 | — | — | ||
28Progress in Nuclear EnergyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.95Q1 | 0.50 0.21 up from 2001 | 227 | 3% | $2,930 | ||
29Nuclear Engineering and DesignElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.89Q1 | 0.52 0.22 up from 2001 | 646 | 2% | $2,710 | ||
30Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part A Journal of Power and EnergySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.87Q2 | 0.35no change | 175 | 9% | $4,150 | ||
31Nuclear TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.81Q2 | 0.55 0.16 up from 2001 | 335 | 0% | — | ||
32Annals of Nuclear EnergyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.76Q2 | 0.66 0.24 up from 2001 | 344 | 3% | $2,820 | ||
33Space CommunicationsIOS Press · Netherlands | 0.73Q2 | 0.23 0.02 up from 2001 | 72 | 2% | — | ||
34International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided EngineeringWiley · United States | 0.73Q2 | 0.51 0.03 up from 2001 | 174 | 35% | $2,570 | ||
35Thermal sprayUnited States | 0.68Q2 | 0.18 0.07 up from 2001 | 559 | 1% | — | ||
36ImmunotechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.65Q2 | 0.00 0.17 down from 2001 | 140 | 0% | — | ||
37Environmental ProgressWiley · United States | 0.64Q2 | 0.45 0.05 up from 2001 | 181 | 6% | — | ||
38Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process IndustriesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.63Q2 | 0.45 0.14 down from 2001 | 196 | 1% | $4,020 | ||
39Journal of Intelligent & Robotic SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.62Q2 | 0.41 0.06 up from 2001 | 200 | 10% | $3,090 | ||
40AHS International Forum 56Publisher not listed | 0.60Q2 | 0.29no change | 59 | — | — | ||
41Johns Hopkins APL technical digestJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 0.56Q2 | 0.65 0.20 up from 2001 | 76 | 0% | — | ||
42ElectromagneticsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.55Q2 | 0.41no change | 131 | 8% | — | ||
43IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 0.54Q2 | 0.28 0.11 up from 2001 | 281 | 5% | — | ||
44Clinical ElectroencephalographySAGE Publishing · United States | 0.53Q2 | 0.48 0.29 down from 2001 | 200 | 1% | — | ||
45Space DebrisSpringer Nature · Netherlands | 0.52Q2 | 0.10 0.14 down from 2001 | 39 | — | — | ||
46The Aeronautical JournalCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.47Q2 | 0.33 0.10 up from 2001 | 303 | 20% | $3,550 | ||
47Acta AstronauticaElsevier BV · United States | 0.47Q2 | 0.44 0.17 up from 2001 | 514 | 0% | $3,350 | ||
48Journal of Surveying EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 0.41Q2 | 0.22 0.22 down from 2001 | 37 | 0% | — | ||
49Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and ApplicationsTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.40Q2 | 0.38 0.11 up from 2001 | 509 | 4% | — | ||
50Science in China Series F Information SciencesSpringer Nature · China | 0.40Q2 | 0.28no 2001 value | 50 | 0% | — | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Aerospace Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering215
- Mechanical Engineering174
- Aerospace Engineering115
- Civil and Structural Engineering109
- Biomedical Engineering105
- Mechanics of Materials85
- Computational Mechanics69
- Control and Systems Engineering68
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering36
- Ocean Engineering30
- Building and Construction29
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality16
- Automotive Engineering11
- Media Technology10
- Architecture0
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2002. Corpus-wide, 69.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
55 additional Aerospace Engineering journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 1999–2001, 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: 2002. Publication window: 1999–2001. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 115
- Window papers (baseline)
- 1,049,316 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Median OJR
- 0.24 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Rising journals (2025)
- 10
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1999–2001 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 | 97 | 106 | 115 | 118 | 126 | 125 | 121 | 126 | 139 | 153 | 156 | 158 | 163 | 169 | 178 | 175 | 177 | 181 | 180 | 184 | 174 | 175 | 178 | 163 | 150 | 141 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 864,282 | 944,257 | 1,049,316 | 1,146,256 | 1,238,710 | 1,330,720 | 1,430,174 | 1,523,455 | 1,603,059 | 1,689,594 | 1,781,855 | 1,873,600 | 1,952,796 | 2,021,396 | 2,079,722 | 2,144,639 | 2,193,289 | 2,119,832 | 1,792,733 | 1,361,403 | 1,060,974 | 995,192 | 933,116 | 734,756 | 535,389 | 464,917 | |
| Median OJR | 0.3535 | 0.29 | 0.24 | 0.26 | 0.32 | 0.23 | 0.38 | 0.349 | 0.3531 | 0.39 | 0.463 | 0.50 | 0.55 | 0.561 | 0.48 | 0.464 | 0.485 | 0.47 | 0.488 | 0.560 | 0.62 | 0.70 | 0.73 | 0.72 | 0.65 | 0.66 |
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.