Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Subfield ranking · 2003
Mechanical Engineering journal rankings 2003
181 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Mechanical Engineering has 181 ranked journals in 2003. The median journal has an OJR of 0.55, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2002; Q1 starts at OJR 1.17. The top three are Design Studies, International Materials Reviews, and Research in Engineering Design.
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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181 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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1Design StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.21Q1 | 1.36 0.62 down from 2002 | 105 | 15% | $4,570 | ||
2International Materials ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.97Q1 | 3.13 1.70 up from 2002 | 35 | 0% | $4,400 | ||
3Research in Engineering DesignSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 3.92Q1 | 2.40 1.02 up from 2002 | 39 | 10% | $4,090 | ||
4ASHRAE winter conference papersAmerican Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers · United States | 3.37Q1 | 0.53 0.22 up from 2002 | 48 | 0% | — | ||
5Composites Part B EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.68Q1 | 1.32 0.28 up from 2002 | 198 | 8% | $5,210 | ||
6Journal of Mechanical DesignAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers · United States | 2.23Q1 | 0.89 0.36 down from 2002 | 164 | 6% | — | ||
7International Journal of PlasticityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.19Q1 | 3.87 0.94 up from 2002 | 243 | 7% | $3,740 | ||
8ASME Journal of Heat and Mass TransferASM International · United States | 2.19Q1 | 1.49 0.73 up from 2002 | 366 | 4% | — | ||
9International Journal of Mechanical SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.19Q1 | 1.23 0.13 up from 2002 | 433 | 6% | $4,740 | ||
10American Ceramic Society bulletinAmerican Ceramic Society · United States | 2.03Q1 | 1.36 0.41 up from 2002 | 33 | 0% | — | ||
11IntermetallicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.96Q1 | 1.45 0.06 up from 2002 | 479 | 2% | $2,730 | ||
12Tribology InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.89Q1 | 1.08 0.36 up from 2002 | 341 | 2% | $5,390 | ||
13International Journal of Machine Tools and ManufactureElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 1.06 0.04 up from 2002 | 490 | 2% | $5,610 | ||
14Journal of Manufacturing Science and EngineeringASM International · United States | 1.80Q1 | 0.78 0.01 up from 2002 | 202 | 2% | — | ||
15Metallurgical and Materials Transactions ASpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.75Q1 | 1.23 0.15 up from 2002 | 1,083 | 6% | $3,990 | ||
16ManufacturingInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United Kingdom | 1.71Q1 | 0.23no 2002 value | 70 | 1% | — | — | |
17Scripta MaterialiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.70Q1 | 1.58 0.43 up from 2002 | 1,396 | 2% | $3,220 | ||
18Journal of TribologyASM International · United States | 1.68Q1 | 1.02 0.25 up from 2002 | 284 | 2% | — | ||
19Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part J Journal of Engineering TribologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.66Q1 | 0.93 0.32 up from 2002 | 141 | 2% | $4,150 | ||
20Microscale Thermophysical EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.64Q1 | 1.74 0.74 up from 2002 | 61 | 0% | — | ||
21Artificial intelligence for engineering design analysis and manufacturingCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.61Q1 | 0.78 0.04 up from 2002 | 90 | 9% | $3,550 | ||
22Journal of Engineering Materials and TechnologyAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers · United States | 1.61Q1 | 1.26 0.57 up from 2002 | 184 | 8% | — | ||
23Tribology LettersSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.60Q1 | 1.68 0.65 up from 2002 | 193 | 9% | $3,990 | ||
24WearElsevier BV · Switzerland | 1.57Q1 | 1.38 0.41 up from 2002 | 882 | 3% | $5,394 | ||
25International Journal of RefrigerationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.55Q1 | 0.92 0.17 down from 2002 | 286 | 1% | $3,220 | ||
26SPE Eastern Regional MeetingPublisher not listed | 1.54Q1 | 0.58 0.28 up from 2002 | 56 | 0% | — | ||
27International Journal of Heat and Mass TransferElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.53Q1 | 1.51 0.06 up from 2002 | 1,292 | 4% | $4,220 | ||
28Journal of Laser ApplicationsLaser Institute of America · United States | 1.53Q1 | 1.07 0.26 up from 2002 | 107 | 2% | — | ||
29Surface and Coatings TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.51Q1 | 1.46 0.05 up from 2002 | 2,092 | 2% | $3,880 | ||
30Materials & Design (1980-2015)Elsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.50Q1 | 0.85 0.22 up from 2002 | 273 | 2% | — | ||
31Materials Science and Engineering AElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.48Q1 | 1.27 0.16 up from 2002 | 3,001 | 2% | $3,430 | ||
32CIRP AnnalsElsevier BV | 1.47Q1 | 1.21 0.04 up from 2002 | 347 | 9% | $3,190 | ||
33Vehicle System DynamicsTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 1.43Q1 | 0.49 0.28 down from 2002 | 194 | 8% | — | ||
34HydrometallurgyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.40Q1 | 1.60 0.52 up from 2002 | 330 | 7% | $4,350 | ||
35International Journal of Cast Metals ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.37Q1 | 0.73 0.26 up from 2002 | 115 | 1% | — | ||
36Tribology TransactionsTaylor & Francis | 1.34Q1 | 0.98 0.32 up from 2002 | 288 | 9% | — | ||
37Machining Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.33Q1 | 0.57 0.32 down from 2002 | 73 | 15% | — | ||
38International Journal of Technology and Design EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.28Q1 | 1.19 0.63 up from 2002 | 47 | 3% | $3,390 | ||
39Journal of Sandwich Structures & MaterialsSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.28Q1 | 0.87 0.33 up from 2002 | 63 | 0% | $4,400 | ||
40Applied Thermal EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.27Q1 | 0.95 0.28 up from 2002 | 438 | 2% | $3,660 | ||
41Materials Transactions JIMOAJapan Institute of Metals · Japan | 1.27Q1 | 0.00 1.43 down from 2002 | 298 | — | — | ||
42Journal of Applied MechanicsASM International · United States | 1.27Q1 | 0.69 0.19 up from 2002 | 592 | 52% | — | ||
43Precision EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.26Q1 | 0.85 0.06 down from 2002 | 157 | 4% | $3,340 | ||
44Advanced Engineering MaterialsWiley · Germany | 1.20Q1 | 0.94 0.29 up from 2002 | 583 | 6% | $4,520 | ||
45Science and Technology of Welding & JoiningManey Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.18Q1 | 0.63 0.31 up from 2002 | 193 | 0% | $4,400 | ||
46Materials at High TemperaturesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.17Q1 | 0.38 0.06 up from 2002 | 186 | 1% | — | ||
47The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.13Q2 | 0.59 0.06 up from 2002 | 584 | 3% | $3,990 | ||
48Philosophical Magazine LettersOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.10Q2 | 1.37 0.09 down from 2002 | 292 | 3% | — | ||
49Journal of Engineering DesignTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.10Q2 | 0.43 0.04 up from 2002 | 75 | 3% | — | ||
50ISIJ InternationalOAThe Iron and Steel Institute of Japan · Japan | 1.10Q2 | 0.56 0.09 up from 2002 | 670 | 100% | $700 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Mechanical 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.
60 additional Mechanical 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
- 181
- Window papers (baseline)
- 85,480 +37.1% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 0.553 +8.1% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 37
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 | 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.