Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Subfield ranking · 2003
Aerospace Engineering journal rankings 2003
118 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Aerospace Engineering has 118 ranked journals in 2003. The median journal has an OJR of 0.26, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2002; Q1 starts at OJR 0.96. The top three are Progress in Aerospace Sciences, Journal of Turbomachinery, and Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2003. 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 2000–2002, the window the 2003 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 Engineering232
- Mechanical Engineering181
- Aerospace Engineering118
- Civil and Structural Engineering110
- Biomedical Engineering107
- Mechanics of Materials90
- Computational Mechanics74
- Control and Systems Engineering70
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering37
- Building and Construction33
- Ocean Engineering30
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality16
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118 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 2002. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2000–2002 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 2003. | Compare |
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1Progress in Aerospace SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.01Q1 | 3.38 1.11 up from 2002 | 52 | 5% | $5,860 | ||
2Journal of TurbomachineryASM International · United States | 4.78Q1 | 1.05 0.23 up from 2002 | 200 | 5% | — | ||
3Journal of Guidance Control and DynamicsAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 4.18Q1 | 1.57 0.41 up from 2002 | 534 | 4% | — | ||
4Volume 3: Heat Transfer; Electric Power; Industrial and CogenerationPublisher not listed | 3.78Q1 | 0.93 0.44 up from 2002 | 283 | — | — | ||
5NAVIGATION Journal of the Institute of NavigationOAWiley · United States | 2.73Q1 | 1.00 0.46 up from 2002 | 74 | 0% | $3,000 | ||
6Journal of the American Helicopter SocietyVertical Flight Society · United States | 2.52Q1 | 1.05 0.19 down from 2002 | 88 | 9% | — | ||
7Journal of Light MetalsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.47Q1 | 0.98 0.06 up from 2002 | 57 | — | — | ||
8Journal of Thermal Spray TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media | 2.36Q1 | 0.93 0.43 up from 2002 | 171 | 8% | $3,190 | ||
9Oxidation of MetalsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.31Q1 | 1.08 0.12 down from 2002 | 195 | 2% | $3,590 | ||
10IEE Proceedings - Radar Sonar and NavigationUnited Kingdom | 2.21Q1 | 1.06 0.43 up from 2002 | 132 | 2% | — | ||
11Journal of AircraftAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 2.04Q1 | 1.12 0.03 down from 2002 | 491 | 4% | — | ||
| 1.96Q1 | 0.58 0.20 up from 2002 | 288 | — | — | |||
13IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.94Q1 | 1.08 0.29 up from 2002 | 409 | 3% | $2,645 | ||
14CATTECHSpringer Nature · Netherlands | 1.88Q1 | 1.39 0.28 up from 2002 | 40 | 0% | — | ||
15IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation LettersIEEE Antennas & Propagation Society · United States | 1.83Q1 | 1.21no 2002 value | 66 | 9% | $2,645 | — | |
16Journal of Spacecraft and RocketsAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.80Q1 | 1.06 0.19 up from 2002 | 385 | 4% | — | ||
17Journal of Propulsion and PowerAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.78Q1 | 1.22 0.35 up from 2002 | 540 | 4% | — | ||
18Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part G Journal of Aerospace EngineeringSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.75Q1 | 1.10 0.18 up from 2002 | 86 | 21% | $4,150 | ||
19IEEE Transactions on Antennas and PropagationIEEE Antennas & Propagation Society · United States | 1.63Q1 | 1.48 0.19 up from 2002 | 742 | 10% | $2,645 | ||
20Aerospace Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · France | 1.54Q1 | 0.75 0.07 down from 2002 | 159 | 1% | $4,360 | ||
21International Journal of Satellite CommunicationsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.50Q1 | 1.07 0.21 up from 2002 | 93 | — | — | ||
22Journal of GeodesySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.43Q1 | 1.29 0.44 up from 2002 | 193 | 9% | $3,590 | ||
23The Journal of the Astronautical SciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.40Q1 | 0.77 0.18 down from 2002 | 91 | 23% | $3,190 | ||
24Wind EnergyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.38Q1 | 0.68 0.24 up from 2002 | 71 | 9% | $3,730 | ||
25Shock WavesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.37Q1 | 0.79 0.20 up from 2002 | 129 | 2% | $3,890 | ||
26IEEE Antennas and Propagation MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.35Q1 | 0.99 0.32 up from 2002 | 246 | 10% | $2,995 | ||
27GPS SolutionsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.29Q1 | 0.64 0.09 up from 2002 | 147 | 5% | $2,790 | ||
28Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process IndustriesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.21Q1 | 0.74 0.29 up from 2002 | 211 | 2% | $4,020 | ||
29Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part A Journal of Power and EnergySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.98Q1 | 0.60 0.25 up from 2002 | 182 | 4% | $4,150 | ||
30Progress in Nuclear EnergyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.96Q1 | 0.78 0.28 up from 2002 | 247 | 6% | $2,930 | ||
31Journal of Agricultural Engineering ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.95Q2 | 0.70 0.12 up from 2002 | 287 | — | — | ||
32Nuclear TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.92Q2 | 0.55no change | 308 | 1% | — | ||
33Annals of Nuclear EnergyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.84Q2 | 0.59 0.07 down from 2002 | 427 | 2% | $2,820 | ||
34Nuclear Science and EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.84Q2 | 0.73 0.20 down from 2002 | 225 | 3% | — | ||
35Nuclear Engineering and DesignElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.78Q2 | 0.51 0.01 down from 2002 | 650 | 2% | $2,710 | ||
36Thermal sprayUnited States | 0.77Q2 | 0.13 0.05 down from 2002 | 592 | 2% | — | ||
37Journal of Aerospace EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 0.76Q2 | 0.48 0.04 down from 2002 | 69 | 0% | — | ||
38International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided EngineeringWiley · United States | 0.73Q2 | 0.83 0.31 up from 2002 | 149 | 49% | $2,570 | ||
39The Aeronautical JournalCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.72Q2 | 0.45 0.12 up from 2002 | 284 | 19% | $3,550 | ||
40International Journal of Turbo and Jet EnginesDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.72Q2 | 0.37 0.21 up from 2002 | 71 | 3% | $2,712 | ||
41Journal of Intelligent & Robotic SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.72Q2 | 0.54 0.13 up from 2002 | 211 | 7% | $3,090 | ||
42Wind EngineeringSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.71Q2 | 0.56 0.38 up from 2002 | 126 | 8% | $4,150 | ||
43Johns Hopkins APL technical digestJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 0.71Q2 | 0.37 0.28 down from 2002 | 56 | 0% | — | ||
44Clinical ElectroencephalographySAGE Publishing · United States | 0.62Q2 | 0.18 0.30 down from 2002 | 287 | 1% | — | ||
| 0.58Q2 | 0.37 0.15 up from 2002 | 92 | 100% | — | |||
46Journal of Surveying EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 0.56Q2 | 0.33 0.12 up from 2002 | 38 | 0% | — | ||
47Space CommunicationsIOS Press · Netherlands | 0.53Q2 | 0.21 0.03 down from 2002 | 106 | 0% | — | ||
48IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 0.52Q2 | 0.29 0.01 up from 2002 | 271 | 1% | — | ||
49Acta AstronauticaElsevier BV · United States | 0.52Q2 | 0.45no change | 546 | 2% | $3,350 | ||
50FrequenzDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.49Q2 | 0.42 0.22 up from 2002 | 155 | 7% | $2,712 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Aerospace Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering232
- Mechanical Engineering181
- Aerospace Engineering118
- Civil and Structural Engineering110
- Biomedical Engineering107
- Mechanics of Materials90
- Computational Mechanics74
- Control and Systems Engineering70
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering37
- Building and Construction33
- Ocean Engineering30
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality16
- Media Technology11
- Automotive Engineering10
- Architecture0
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2003. Corpus-wide, 70.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
56 additional Aerospace Engineering journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2000–2002, 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: 2003. Publication window: 2000–2002. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 118
- Window papers (baseline)
- 1,146,256 +32.6% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 0.26 -25.1% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 10
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2000–2002 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.