Journal rankings · indicator year 2004
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Field ranking · 2004
Engineering journal rankings 2004
1,159 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Engineering has 1,159 ranked journals in 2004. The median journal has an OJR of 0.75, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2003; Q1 starts at OJR 1.49. The top three are Materials Science and Engineering R Reports, International Journal of Aeroacoustics, and IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2004. 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 2001–2003, the window the 2004 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 in Engineering (16)
Up to Physical Sciences- Electrical and Electronic Engineering235
- Mechanical Engineering189
- Aerospace Engineering126
- Biomedical Engineering114
- Civil and Structural Engineering114
- Mechanics of Materials89
- Computational Mechanics74
- Control and Systems Engineering72
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering40
- Building and Construction35
- Ocean Engineering32
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality18
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1,159 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 2003. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2001–2003, the window the 2004 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2001–2003 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 2004. | Compare |
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1Materials Science and Engineering R ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 11.53Q1 | 16.06 5.01 up from 2003 | 47 | 0% | $6,150 | ||
2International Journal of AeroacousticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 10.39Q1 | 1.66 0.38 up from 2003 | 35 | 14% | $4,150 | ||
3IEEE Transactions on Robotics and AutomationInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 8.22Q1 | 4.65 1.46 up from 2003 | 297 | 2% | — | ||
4Digest of technical papers/Digest of technical papers - IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided DesignAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 7.94Q1 | 4.09 1.62 up from 2003 | 117 | — | — | ||
5AutomaticaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.08Q1 | 3.39 0.92 up from 2003 | 776 | 5% | $3,760 | ||
6IEEE Transactions on Automatic ControlInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 7.07Q1 | 3.62 1.02 up from 2003 | 963 | 7% | $2,645 | ||
7Research in Engineering DesignSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 6.32Q1 | 2.77 0.37 up from 2003 | 40 | 0% | $4,090 | ||
8Transportation ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 6.17Q1 | 2.12 0.43 up from 2003 | 86 | 14% | — | ||
9IEEE Communications MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.14Q1 | 5.75 0.73 up from 2003 | 631 | 3% | $2,995 | ||
10IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in CommunicationsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.08Q1 | 7.40 2.86 up from 2003 | 512 | 5% | $2,645 | ||
11IEEE Control SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.04Q1 | 3.41 0.59 up from 2003 | 143 | 1% | — | ||
12Progress in Energy and Combustion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.70Q1 | 4.00 0.14 down from 2003 | 53 | 0% | $6,990 | ||
13International Materials ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.67Q1 | 5.00 1.87 up from 2003 | 36 | 12% | $4,400 | ||
14Applied Mechanics ReviewsAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers · United States | 5.63Q1 | 3.59 0.43 up from 2003 | 379 | 22% | — | ||
15Journal of Guidance Control and DynamicsAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 5.48Q1 | 1.97 0.40 up from 2003 | 490 | 8% | — | ||
16IEEE Wireless CommunicationsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.43Q1 | 5.89 1.82 up from 2003 | 108 | 9% | $2,995 | ||
17Progress in Aerospace SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.43Q1 | 3.73 0.35 up from 2003 | 55 | 6% | $5,860 | ||
18Advanced MaterialsGermany | 5.39Q1 | 7.85 1.25 up from 2003 | 1,370 | 6% | $6,070 | ||
19IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.21Q1 | 3.07 0.03 up from 2003 | 226 | 3% | $2,645 | ||
20IEEE Transactions on Control Systems TechnologyInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.93Q1 | 2.44 0.53 up from 2003 | 270 | 7% | $2,645 | ||
21Proceedings of the IEEEInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.87Q1 | 4.77 0.69 up from 2003 | 412 | 4% | $2,645 | ||
22Transportation Research Part C Emerging TechnologiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.58Q1 | 1.90 0.76 up from 2003 | 82 | 8% | $4,040 | ||
23Design StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.33Q1 | 1.80 0.44 up from 2003 | 124 | 18% | $4,570 | ||
24IEEE/ASME Transactions on MechatronicsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.28Q1 | 2.20 0.53 up from 2003 | 168 | 2% | $2,645 | ||
25IEEE Transactions on Wireless CommunicationsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.19Q1 | 4.28 1.55 up from 2003 | 212 | 7% | $2,645 | ||
26Journal of Composites for ConstructionAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 4.13Q1 | 1.13 0.60 down from 2003 | 131 | 6% | — | ||
27Journal of Process ControlElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.04Q1 | 1.99 0.45 up from 2003 | 245 | 3% | $3,700 | ||
28Journal of Microelectromechanical SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.04Q1 | 4.48 0.80 up from 2003 | 278 | 5% | $2,645 | ||
29Journal of TurbomachineryASM International · United States | 4.01Q1 | 1.29 0.24 up from 2003 | 200 | 2% | — | ||
30SIAM Journal on Control and OptimizationSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 3.92Q1 | 2.04 0.21 up from 2003 | 283 | 20% | — | ||
31Journal of Light MetalsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.86Q1 | 1.10 0.11 up from 2003 | 57 | — | — | ||
32Advanced Functional MaterialsWiley · Germany | 3.86Q1 | 5.67 2.18 up from 2003 | 362 | 6% | $5,790 | ||
33SIAM Journal on OptimizationSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 3.80Q1 | 2.52 0.27 down from 2003 | 181 | 23% | — | ||
34NAVIGATION Journal of the Institute of NavigationOAWiley · United States | 3.78Q1 | 1.64 0.64 up from 2003 | 71 | 7% | $3,000 | ||
35International Journal of ControlTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.77Q1 | 1.65 0.34 up from 2003 | 431 | 8% | — | ||
36Systems & Control LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.72Q1 | 1.77 0.16 up from 2003 | 389 | 7% | $2,910 | ||
37IEEE Transactions on NanotechnologyInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.63Q1 | 4.54 1.56 up from 2003 | 95 | 12% | $2,645 | ||
38IBM Journal of Research and DevelopmentIBM · United States | 3.61Q1 | 3.83 0.15 down from 2003 | 162 | 1% | — | ||
39IEEE Journal of Solid-State CircuitsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.60Q1 | 3.93 0.23 up from 2003 | 885 | 5% | $2,645 | ||
40IEEE Transactions on CommunicationsIEEE Communications Society · United States | 3.59Q1 | 3.59 0.33 up from 2003 | 793 | 2% | $2,645 | ||
41The International Journal of Robotics ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.56Q1 | 1.87 0.38 up from 2003 | 247 | 10% | $4,400 | ||
42Volume 3: Heat Transfer; Electric Power; Industrial and CogenerationPublisher not listed | 3.55Q1 | —no 2003 value | 134 | — | — | ||
43Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of SolidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.53Q1 | 3.60 0.09 up from 2003 | 386 | 9% | $4,220 | ||
44Organic ElectronicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.53Q1 | 3.04 0.69 down from 2003 | 68 | 1% | $3,650 | ||
45International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear ControlWiley · United Kingdom | 3.52Q1 | 1.75 0.72 up from 2003 | 234 | 22% | $4,270 | ||
46Journal of Mechanical DesignAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers · United States | 3.44Q1 | 2.30 1.41 up from 2003 | 215 | 3% | — | ||
47National Cooperative Highway Research Program reportUnited States | 3.42Q1 | 0.97 0.37 down from 2003 | 46 | 0% | — | ||
48IEEE Robotics & Automation MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.42Q1 | 1.89 0.26 up from 2003 | 80 | 4% | $2,045 | ||
49IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote SensingInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.30Q1 | 2.80 0.49 up from 2003 | 871 | 7% | $2,645 | ||
50Proceedings - IEEE Aerospace ConferenceInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.27Q1 | 0.94no 2003 value | 357 | — | — | — |
Subfields of Engineering, compared.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering235
- Mechanical Engineering189
- Aerospace Engineering126
- Biomedical Engineering114
- Civil and Structural Engineering114
- Mechanics of Materials89
- Computational Mechanics74
- Control and Systems Engineering72
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering40
- Building and Construction35
- Ocean Engineering32
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality18
- Media Technology11
- Automotive Engineering10
- Architecture0
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2004. Corpus-wide, 69.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
401 additional Engineering journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2001–2003, 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: 2004. Publication window: 2001–2003. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 1,159
- Window papers (baseline)
- 1,896,138 +32.6% from indicator year 2001
- Median OJR
- 0.75 +16.1% from indicator year 2001
- Rising journals (2025)
- 211Comparison-group list (211)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2001–2003 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 | 945 | 1,010 | 1,072 | 1,119 | 1,159 | 1,217 | 1,256 | 1,342 | 1,445 | 1,529 | 1,578 | 1,672 | 1,774 | 1,899 | 2,001 | 2,106 | 2,188 | 2,239 | 2,290 | 2,358 | 2,389 | 2,428 | 2,444 | 2,437 | 2,442 | 2,405 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 1,301,932 | 1,430,070 | 1,586,509 | 1,745,451 | 1,896,138 | 2,058,422 | 2,234,640 | 2,416,744 | 2,583,093 | 2,754,522 | 2,914,777 | 3,076,735 | 3,239,027 | 3,369,091 | 3,484,492 | 3,569,888 | 3,612,080 | 3,500,235 | 3,153,056 | 2,758,725 | 2,539,069 | 2,563,396 | 2,580,513 | 2,422,273 | 2,259,750 | 2,274,258 | |
| Median OJR | 0.63 | 0.65 | 0.694 | 0.758 | 0.75 | 0.7777 | 0.7782 | 0.77 | 0.7930 | 0.80 | 0.820 | 0.822 | 0.7933 | 0.765 | 0.756 | 0.72 | 0.73 | 0.692 | 0.670 | 0.6705 | 0.68 | 0.70 | 0.689 | 0.688 | 0.669 | 0.6714 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 4.9% | 1,952 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 1.935 per 1,000 | 1,719 journals |
| Output growth | Median: +3.7% | 2,142 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 53.0% | 2,405 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $2,890 | 1,349 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 22.2% | 2,312 journals |
| Review share | Median: 0.0% | 2,405 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.67 | 2,362 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 29.8% | 2,405 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 43.9% | 2,402 journals |
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.