Journal rankings · indicator year 2004
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Subfield ranking · 2004
Mechanics of Materials journal rankings 2004
89 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Mechanics of Materials has 89 ranked journals in 2004. The median journal has an OJR of 0.99, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2003; Q1 starts at OJR 1.53. The top three are Applied Mechanics Reviews, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, and Engineering With Computers.
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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89 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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1Applied Mechanics ReviewsAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers · United States | 5.63Q1 | 3.59 0.43 up from 2003 | 379 | 22% | — | ||
2Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of SolidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.53Q1 | 3.60 0.09 up from 2003 | 386 | 9% | $4,220 | ||
3Engineering With ComputersSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 3.15Q1 | 1.33 0.18 down from 2003 | 79 | 5% | $2,190 | ||
4Composites Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.97Q1 | 2.17 0.46 up from 2003 | 817 | 4% | $4,610 | ||
5International Journal for Numerical Methods in EngineeringWiley · United Kingdom | 2.83Q1 | 2.06 0.01 down from 2003 | 884 | 14% | $4,250 | ||
6Engineering Fracture MechanicsElsevier BV · United States | 2.52Q1 | 1.57 0.28 down from 2003 | 529 | 3% | $4,120 | ||
7International Journal of Solids and StructuresElsevier BV · United States | 2.40Q1 | 1.65 0.04 down from 2003 | 1,412 | 6% | $3,790 | ||
8Organic GeochemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.31Q1 | 2.35 0.75 up from 2003 | 522 | 5% | $3,270 | ||
9Composites Part A Applied Science and ManufacturingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.18Q1 | 1.45 0.04 up from 2003 | 521 | 3% | $4,480 | ||
10Journal of Analytical Atomic SpectrometryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.16Q1 | 3.37 0.71 up from 2003 | 710 | 6% | — | ||
11Mechanics of MaterialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.16Q1 | 1.53 0.24 up from 2003 | 272 | 7% | $3,850 | ||
12European Journal of Mechanics - A/SolidsElsevier BV · France | 1.93Q1 | 1.31 0.02 up from 2003 | 219 | 4% | $4,040 | ||
13Computational MechanicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.93Q1 | 1.34 0.23 up from 2003 | 301 | 13% | $3,990 | ||
14International Journal for Multiscale Computational EngineeringBegell House · United States | 1.92Q1 | 1.13no 2003 value | 30 | 11% | — | — | |
15International Journal of FatigueElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.88Q1 | 1.05 0.46 down from 2003 | 513 | 5% | $3,940 | ||
16GeofluidsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.87Q1 | 1.76 0.34 down from 2003 | 65 | 10% | $2,160 | ||
17Spectrochimica Acta Part B Atomic SpectroscopyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.79Q1 | 2.46 0.52 up from 2003 | 585 | 3% | $3,530 | ||
18Composite StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.71Q1 | 1.07 0.03 up from 2003 | 721 | 5% | $4,660 | ||
19Mechanics of Advanced Materials and StructuresTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.68Q1 | 0.86 0.05 up from 2003 | 51 | 0% | — | ||
20AAPG BulletinAmerican Association of Petroleum Geologists · United States | 1.67Q1 | 1.09 0.33 down from 2003 | 334 | 3% | — | ||
21Finite Elements in Analysis and DesignElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.57Q1 | 0.73 0.20 down from 2003 | 280 | 4% | $2,990 | ||
22Marine and Petroleum GeologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.56Q1 | 1.21 0.09 down from 2003 | 217 | 2% | $3,440 | ||
23NDT & E InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.53Q1 | 0.98 0.01 up from 2003 | 247 | 4% | $4,440 | ||
24International Journal of Damage MechanicsSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.51Q2 | 0.81 0.04 down from 2003 | 57 | 13% | $4,400 | ||
25International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining SciencesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.42Q2 | 1.01 0.10 down from 2003 | 300 | 1% | $4,110 | ||
26International Journal of FractureSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.37Q2 | 0.95 0.13 down from 2003 | 452 | 3% | $3,790 | ||
27Engineering ComputationsEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.34Q2 | 0.66 0.21 down from 2003 | 136 | 4% | — | ||
28Theoretical and Applied Fracture MechanicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.29Q2 | 1.05 0.04 down from 2003 | 154 | 9% | $3,730 | ||
29Journal of Composite MaterialsSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.21Q2 | 0.85 0.21 up from 2003 | 472 | 6% | $4,150 | ||
30UltrasonicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.20Q2 | 1.22 0.27 up from 2003 | 408 | 3% | $3,680 | ||
31International Journal of Adhesion and AdhesivesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.19Q2 | 0.91 0.24 down from 2003 | 207 | 0% | $3,760 | ||
32Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & StructuresWiley · United Kingdom | 1.19Q2 | 0.79 0.26 down from 2003 | 314 | 19% | $3,860 | ||
33Engineering Analysis with Boundary ElementsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.16Q2 | 0.94 0.36 down from 2003 | 329 | 9% | $3,590 | ||
34International Journal of Engineering ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.14Q2 | 1.13 0.21 up from 2003 | 421 | 4% | $4,980 | ||
35Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum GeologyCanadian Society of Petroleum Geologists · Canada | 1.08Q2 | 0.51 0.33 down from 2003 | 95 | 0% | — | ||
36Journal of Thermal StressesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.08Q2 | 0.70 0.19 down from 2003 | 224 | 6% | — | ||
37Journal of Composites Technology and ResearchASM International · United States | 1.08Q2 | 0.72 0.12 up from 2003 | 76 | — | — | ||
38Archive of Applied MechanicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.08Q2 | 0.68 0.08 down from 2003 | 178 | 4% | $4,090 | ||
39Rock Mechanics and Rock EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 1.04Q2 | 0.54 0.02 up from 2003 | 72 | 3% | $3,990 | ||
40Applied Mathematical ModellingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.04Q2 | 0.68 0.01 down from 2003 | 242 | 99% | $4,510 | ||
41Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the EnvironmentSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.01Q2 | 0.47 0.26 up from 2003 | 129 | 4% | $3,990 | ||
42Continuum Mechanics and ThermodynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.01Q2 | 0.99 0.01 down from 2003 | 99 | 30% | $2,990 | ||
43Journal of Petroleum GeologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.01Q2 | 0.72 0.15 down from 2003 | 74 | 3% | $3,400 | ||
44International Journal of Coal GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.00Q2 | 1.55 0.64 up from 2003 | 203 | 3% | $4,090 | ||
45Communications in Numerical Methods in EngineeringWiley · United Kingdom | 0.99Q2 | 0.73 0.03 down from 2003 | 270 | 10% | — | ||
46Mechanics of Time-Dependent MaterialsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.97Q3 | 1.21 0.06 up from 2003 | 46 | 0% | $4,190 | ||
47Applied Composite MaterialsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.95Q3 | 0.65 0.10 up from 2003 | 72 | 10% | $4,090 | ||
48The Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering DesignSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.93Q3 | 0.68 0.03 up from 2003 | 153 | 9% | $4,150 | ||
49Journal of Nondestructive EvaluationSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.88Q3 | 0.42 0.04 down from 2003 | 39 | 7% | $3,290 | ||
50GeoArabiaBahrain | 0.88Q3 | 1.17 0.05 down from 2003 | 56 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Mechanics of Materials 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.
14 additional Mechanics of Materials 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
- 89
- Window papers (baseline)
- 61,654 +33.3% from indicator year 2001
- Median OJR
- 0.986 +19.2% from indicator year 2001
- Rising journals (2025)
- 14
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 | 78 | 81 | 85 | 90 | 89 | 91 | 96 | 101 | 105 | 106 | 106 | 110 | 108 | 115 | 117 | 121 | 124 | 126 | 123 | 123 | 121 | 123 | 122 | 121 | 126 | 124 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 41,039 | 46,235 | 51,243 | 57,208 | 61,654 | 67,090 | 72,297 | 77,433 | 83,476 | 89,782 | 95,236 | 100,355 | 106,668 | 110,219 | 112,431 | 110,199 | 106,266 | 99,874 | 95,912 | 96,897 | 101,761 | 106,369 | 109,525 | 109,615 | 109,306 | 111,140 | |
| Median OJR | 0.70 | 0.83 | 0.964 | 0.97 | 0.986 | 0.977 | 1.01 | 0.985 | 0.978 | 0.895 | 1.03 | 1.12 | 1.061 | 1.05 | 1.060 | 1.09 | 1.04 | 0.965 | 0.93 | 0.8976 | 0.910 | 0.912 | 0.8984 | 0.82 | 0.76 | 0.80 |
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.