Journal rankings · indicator year 2004
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Subfield ranking · 2004
Mechanical Engineering journal rankings 2004
189 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Mechanical Engineering has 189 ranked journals in 2004. The median OJR fell 0.08 on 2003 to 0.47, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.08. The top three are Research in Engineering Design, International Materials Reviews, and Design Studies.
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 of Engineering (16)
- 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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189 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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1Research in Engineering DesignSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 6.32Q1 | 2.77 0.37 up from 2003 | 40 | 0% | $4,090 | ||
2International Materials ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.67Q1 | 5.00 1.87 up from 2003 | 36 | 12% | $4,400 | ||
3Design StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.33Q1 | 1.80 0.44 up from 2003 | 124 | 18% | $4,570 | ||
4Journal of Mechanical DesignAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers · United States | 3.44Q1 | 2.30 1.41 up from 2003 | 215 | 3% | — | ||
5International Journal of PlasticityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.46Q1 | 3.94 0.08 up from 2003 | 283 | 6% | $3,740 | ||
6IntermetallicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.43Q1 | 1.86 0.42 up from 2003 | 488 | 2% | $2,730 | ||
7International Journal of Mechanical SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.35Q1 | 1.15 0.08 down from 2003 | 413 | 5% | $4,740 | ||
8Composites Part B EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.35Q1 | 1.52 0.20 up from 2003 | 218 | 4% | $5,210 | ||
9Journal of Manufacturing Science and EngineeringASM International · United States | 2.27Q1 | 1.36 0.58 up from 2003 | 216 | 3% | — | ||
10ManufacturingInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United Kingdom | 2.21Q1 | 0.37 0.15 up from 2003 | 147 | — | — | ||
11International Journal of Machine Tools and ManufactureElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.20Q1 | 1.65 0.59 up from 2003 | 544 | 4% | $5,610 | ||
12Microscale Thermophysical EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.17Q1 | 1.38 0.36 down from 2003 | 69 | 7% | — | ||
13Tribology InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 1.23 0.15 up from 2003 | 376 | 3% | $5,390 | ||
14Scripta MaterialiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.03Q1 | 2.01 0.44 up from 2003 | 1,615 | 2% | $3,220 | ||
15Vehicle System DynamicsTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 1.95Q1 | 0.66 0.17 up from 2003 | 197 | 0% | — | ||
16CalphadElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.94Q1 | 2.27 0.95 up from 2003 | 145 | 0% | $3,250 | ||
17ASHRAE winter conference papersAmerican Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers · United States | 1.90Q1 | 0.26 0.26 down from 2003 | 50 | 0% | — | ||
18Artificial intelligence for engineering design analysis and manufacturingCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.85Q1 | 1.14 0.37 up from 2003 | 81 | 27% | $3,550 | ||
19ASME Journal of Heat and Mass TransferASM International · United States | 1.76Q1 | 1.10 0.39 down from 2003 | 394 | 3% | — | ||
20CIRP AnnalsElsevier BV | 1.76Q1 | 1.32 0.11 up from 2003 | 359 | 3% | $3,190 | ||
21WearElsevier BV · Switzerland | 1.71Q1 | 1.28 0.10 down from 2003 | 1,085 | 3% | $5,394 | ||
22Metallurgical and Materials Transactions ASpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.69Q1 | 1.35 0.11 up from 2003 | 1,049 | 9% | $3,990 | ||
23International Journal of Heat and Mass TransferElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.68Q1 | 1.43 0.08 down from 2003 | 1,489 | 4% | $4,220 | ||
24Materials Science and Engineering AElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.64Q1 | 1.44 0.17 up from 2003 | 3,264 | 3% | $3,430 | ||
25Tribology TransactionsTaylor & Francis | 1.44Q1 | 1.11 0.13 up from 2003 | 252 | 31% | — | ||
26AdsorptionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.43Q1 | 1.37 0.47 up from 2003 | 94 | 13% | $4,090 | ||
27Journal of TribologyASM International · United States | 1.43Q1 | 1.01 0.01 down from 2003 | 228 | 6% | — | ||
28Precision EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.43Q1 | 0.96 0.11 up from 2003 | 173 | 4% | $3,340 | ||
29Surface and Coatings TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.37Q1 | 1.44 0.02 down from 2003 | 2,524 | 4% | $3,880 | ||
30Journal of Laser ApplicationsLaser Institute of America · United States | 1.36Q1 | 1.10 0.03 up from 2003 | 113 | 5% | — | ||
31International Journal of RefrigerationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.36Q1 | 0.97 0.05 up from 2003 | 348 | 2% | $3,220 | ||
32Journal of Engineering Materials and TechnologyAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers · United States | 1.33Q1 | 1.11 0.15 down from 2003 | 143 | 5% | — | ||
33International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard MaterialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.30Q1 | 0.80 0.26 up from 2003 | 157 | 0% | $3,310 | ||
34Energy Conversion and ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.29Q1 | 1.32 0.35 up from 2003 | 743 | 3% | $4,600 | ||
35Tribology LettersSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.28Q1 | 1.19 0.48 down from 2003 | 262 | 3% | $3,990 | ||
36Materials CharacterizationElsevier BV · United States | 1.26Q1 | 1.17 0.64 up from 2003 | 307 | 2% | $3,320 | ||
37Philosophical Magazine LettersOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.24Q1 | 1.58 0.21 up from 2003 | 277 | 8% | — | ||
38Journal of Materials Processing TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.23Q1 | 0.78 0.27 up from 2003 | 2,508 | 4% | $3,980 | ||
39Journal of Engineering DesignTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.20Q1 | 0.73 0.29 up from 2003 | 116 | 3% | — | ||
40ISIJ InternationalOAThe Iron and Steel Institute of Japan · Japan | 1.19Q1 | 0.60 0.04 up from 2003 | 746 | 100% | $700 | ||
41Applied Thermal EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.19Q1 | 0.83 0.12 down from 2003 | 567 | 3% | $3,660 | ||
42Materials & Design (1980-2015)Elsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.17Q1 | 0.76 0.09 down from 2003 | 387 | 4% | — | ||
43Journal of Applied MechanicsASM International · United States | 1.16Q1 | 0.74 0.04 up from 2003 | 621 | 49% | — | ||
44Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part F Journal of Rail and Rapid TransitSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.15Q1 | 0.36 0.02 up from 2003 | 80 | 9% | $4,150 | ||
45Journal of Sandwich Structures & MaterialsSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.15Q1 | 0.88 0.01 up from 2003 | 48 | 9% | $4,400 | ||
46Advanced Engineering MaterialsWiley · Germany | 1.11Q1 | 1.10 0.16 up from 2003 | 489 | 10% | $4,520 | ||
47HydrometallurgyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.10Q1 | 0.96 0.65 down from 2003 | 396 | 10% | $4,350 | ||
48SPE Eastern Regional MeetingPublisher not listed | 1.08Q1 | 0.32 0.26 down from 2003 | 57 | 0% | — | ||
49Metallurgical and Materials Transactions BSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.08Q2 | 0.88 0.10 up from 2003 | 313 | 5% | $3,990 | ||
50Journal of Pressure Vessel TechnologyASM International · United States | 1.06Q2 | 0.65 0.17 up from 2003 | 171 | 4% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Mechanical Engineering highlighted.
- 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.
66 additional Mechanical 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
- 189
- Window papers (baseline)
- 91,814 +32.4% from indicator year 2001
- Median OJR
- 0.47 -13.0% from indicator year 2001
- Rising journals (2025)
- 37
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 | 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.