Journal rankings · indicator year 2002
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Subfield ranking · 2002
Biomedical Engineering journal rankings 2002
105 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Biomedical Engineering has 105 ranked journals in 2002. The median journal has an OJR of 0.71, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.04 on 2001; Q1 starts at OJR 1.14. The top three are Biomaterials, Smart Materials and Structures, and Lab on a Chip.
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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105 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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1BiomaterialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.46Q1 | 3.35 0.77 up from 2001 | 865 | 3% | $4,640 | ||
2Smart Materials and StructuresIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.27Q1 | 1.42 0.24 up from 2001 | 353 | 62% | $3,325 | ||
3Lab on a ChipRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.18Q1 | 2.08no 2001 value | 37 | 7% | — | — | |
4AIChE JournalWiley · United States | 2.08Q1 | 1.79 0.22 down from 2001 | 750 | 7% | $4,940 | ||
5Tissue EngineeringMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 1.99Q1 | 3.17 0.63 up from 2001 | 179 | 4% | — | ||
6The Journal of Supercritical FluidsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.89Q1 | 2.15 0.42 up from 2001 | 181 | 3% | $3,910 | ||
7Multiphase Science and TechnologyBegell House · United States | 1.76Q1 | 1.11 0.81 up from 2001 | 36 | 0% | — | ||
8Journal of BiomechanicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.71Q1 | 2.22 0.10 up from 2001 | 590 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
9Journal of Biomedical OpticsOASPIE · United States | 1.68Q1 | 2.73 0.55 up from 2001 | 168 | 97% | $1,675 | ||
10IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency ControlInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.64Q1 | 1.73 0.60 up from 2001 | 562 | 4% | $2,645 | ||
11Journal of Biomedical Materials ResearchWiley · United States | 1.61Q1 | 2.10 0.43 up from 2001 | 1,599 | 7% | — | ||
12Journal of Micromechanics and MicroengineeringIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.58Q1 | 1.60 0.12 up from 2001 | 280 | 61% | $3,325 | ||
13Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 1.56Q1 | 1.70 0.16 up from 2001 | 583 | 9% | — | ||
14ElectrophoresisWiley · Germany | 1.55Q1 | 3.10 0.15 up from 2001 | 1,911 | 5% | $3,940 | ||
15Industrial & Engineering Chemistry ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.48Q1 | 1.29 0.15 down from 2001 | 2,015 | 3% | $4,500 | ||
16Chemical Engineering ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.48Q1 | 1.39 0.24 down from 2001 | 1,753 | 6% | $4,050 | ||
17IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.47Q1 | 2.79 1.15 up from 2001 | 123 | — | — | ||
18Journal of Biomechanical EngineeringASM International · United States | 1.39Q1 | 1.64 0.18 up from 2001 | 290 | 0% | — | ||
19Journal of vibration and acousticsAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers | 1.36Q1 | 0.64 0.09 down from 2001 | 244 | 3% | — | ||
20Sensors and Actuators A PhysicalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.35Q1 | 1.44 0.29 up from 2001 | 1,060 | 2% | $3,750 | ||
21Ultrasound in Medicine & BiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.27Q1 | 1.96 0.52 up from 2001 | 536 | 2% | $2,650 | ||
22Journal of Analytical and Applied PyrolysisElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.26Q1 | 1.14 0.63 down from 2001 | 265 | 7% | $3,580 | ||
23IEEE Transactions on Biomedical EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.24Q1 | 1.83 0.09 up from 2001 | 544 | 9% | $2,645 | ||
24Biomedical MicrodevicesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.21Q1 | 1.44 0.41 up from 2001 | 77 | 10% | $4,190 | ||
25Colloids and Surfaces B BiointerfacesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.16Q1 | 1.40 0.11 down from 2001 | 344 | 3% | $3,790 | ||
26FuelElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.16Q1 | 1.10 0.19 up from 2001 | 673 | 3% | $4,330 | ||
27Journal of Materials Science Materials in MedicineOASpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.14Q1 | 1.09 0.01 up from 2001 | 412 | 4% | $2,590 | ||
28Journal of Biomaterials Science Polymer EditionTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 1.14Q2 | 1.61 0.34 up from 2001 | 273 | 4% | — | ||
29Journal of Electromyography and KinesiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.14Q2 | 1.54 0.24 up from 2001 | 131 | 3% | $3,450 | ||
30Numerical Heat Transfer Part A ApplicationsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.12Q2 | 0.83 0.02 down from 2001 | 318 | 5% | — | ||
31Journal of ElasticitySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.10Q2 | 0.69 0.30 up from 2001 | 173 | 8% | $3,890 | ||
32Numerical Heat Transfer Part B FundamentalsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.08Q2 | 0.88 0.27 down from 2001 | 149 | 7% | — | ||
33Fuel Processing TechnologyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.08Q2 | 0.86 0.11 up from 2001 | 276 | 5% | $3,180 | ||
34Journal of Microcolumn SeparationsWiley · United States | 1.03Q2 | 1.32 0.12 up from 2001 | 326 | — | — | ||
35Artificial OrgansWiley · United States | 1.02Q2 | 0.91 0.09 down from 2001 | 574 | 8% | $3,990 | ||
36European Journal of Applied Physiology and Occupational PhysiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.98Q2 | 2.04 0.68 up from 2001 | 108 | — | — | ||
37Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process IntensificationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.97Q2 | 0.80 0.03 up from 2001 | 181 | 2% | $3,910 | ||
38IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology MagazineIEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society · United States | 0.94Q2 | 1.38 0.72 up from 2001 | 220 | 5% | — | ||
39International Journal of HyperthermiaOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.92Q2 | 1.50 0.31 up from 2001 | 142 | 94% | $2,557 | ||
40Annals of Biomedical EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.92Q2 | 1.52 0.09 up from 2001 | 330 | 6% | $4,390 | ||
41Biomass and BioenergyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.91Q2 | 0.77 0.03 down from 2001 | 253 | 5% | $4,270 | ||
42Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part H Journal of Engineering in MedicineSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.88Q2 | 1.06 0.70 down from 2001 | 172 | 12% | $4,150 | ||
43IEEE Transactions on Applied SuperconductivityIEEE Council on Superconductivity · United States | 0.83Q2 | 1.39 0.07 down from 2001 | 2,476 | 21% | $2,645 | ||
44Process Safety and Environmental ProtectionElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.82Q2 | 0.57 0.02 down from 2001 | 556 | 2% | $3,500 | ||
45The Journal of the Acoustical Society of AmericaAcoustical Society of America · United States | 0.81Q2 | 1.21 0.06 up from 2001 | 2,560 | 2% | — | ||
46Fluid Phase EquilibriaElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.81Q2 | 0.92 0.29 down from 2001 | 801 | 4% | $3,630 | ||
47Science ProgressOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.80Q2 | 1.00 0.68 down from 2001 | 37 | 95% | $2,650 | ||
48Journal of Biomaterials ApplicationsSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.80Q2 | 0.91 0.21 up from 2001 | 72 | 4% | $4,150 | ||
49Journal of Applied BiomechanicsInternational Society of Biomechanics · United States | 0.78Q2 | 0.98 0.51 up from 2001 | 96 | 16% | — | ||
50Journal of Chemical & Engineering DataAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 0.74Q2 | 0.74 0.06 up from 2001 | 845 | 5% | $4,500 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Biomedical 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.
35 additional Biomedical 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
- 105
- Window papers (baseline)
- 64,091 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Median OJR
- 0.707 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Rising journals (2025)
- 33
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 | 94 | 102 | 105 | 107 | 114 | 120 | 130 | 140 | 148 | 161 | 173 | 194 | 201 | 220 | 230 | 248 | 257 | 272 | 281 | 303 | 312 | 327 | 334 | 341 | 346 | 349 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 55,775 | 59,860 | 64,091 | 69,017 | 74,963 | 82,840 | 91,889 | 103,123 | 114,335 | 126,039 | 136,464 | 148,180 | 161,587 | 174,502 | 188,850 | 200,371 | 208,275 | 213,015 | 217,166 | 225,393 | 235,887 | 249,917 | 263,157 | 272,415 | 278,139 | 288,254 | |
| Median OJR | 0.65 | 0.66 | 0.707 | 0.731 | 0.67 | 0.79 | 0.766 | 0.718 | 0.828 | 0.87 | 0.831 | 0.826 | 0.720 | 0.776 | 0.709 | 0.74 | 0.75 | 0.768 | 0.726 | 0.76 | 0.781 | 0.81 | 0.80 | 0.82 | 0.86 | 0.89 |
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.