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Journal rankings · indicator year 2005

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Subfield ranking · 2005

Mechanics of Materials journal rankings 2005

91 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering

Mechanics of Materials has 91 ranked journals in 2005. The median journal has an OJR of 0.98, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2004; Q1 starts at OJR 1.58. The top three are Applied Mechanics Reviews, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, and Composites Science and Technology.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2005. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2002–2004, the window the 2005 score is computed on.

91
7% of Engineering
Median OJR

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.

0.98-0.01 vs 2004
This subfieldAll 0.79World 1.00
Open-access journals

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.

14%
All fields: 15%
Median listed APC

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.

$3,840
Median positive listed APC: $3,840 among 57 journals. Another 1 lists $0; 33 have no known price. All fields: $3,550.

Subfields of Engineering (16)

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91 ranked journals

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Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

They are computed within the list on screen, so a journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 in the global ranking.

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Mechanics of Materials ranking, 2005

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.

OJR

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 2004. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor.

Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2002–2004, the window the 2005 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked.

Share of the journal’s 2002–2004 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 2005.

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1Applied Mechanics ReviewsAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers · United States
5.84Q13.75 0.16 up from 20043619%—
3.05Q13.12 0.48 down from 200437612%$4,220
3Composites Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom
3.01Q12.61 0.44 up from 20047897%$4,610
4Engineering Fracture MechanicsElsevier BV · United States
2.47Q11.40 0.17 down from 20045685%$4,120
5Mechanics of MaterialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom
2.37Q12.01 0.48 up from 20042813%$3,850
2.34Q11.84 0.39 up from 200454710%$4,480
2.32Q11.84 0.22 down from 200483714%$4,250
2.27Q11.66 0.01 up from 20041,38883%$3,790
9Marine and Petroleum GeologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom
2.16Q11.60 0.39 up from 20042425%$3,440
10GeofluidsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom
2.14Q11.13 0.63 down from 2004689%$2,160
11Journal of Analytical Atomic SpectrometryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom
2.06Q13.98 0.61 up from 20047278%—
12International Journal of FatigueElsevier BV · United Kingdom
2.04Q11.35 0.30 up from 20044885%$3,940
13Computational MechanicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
2.00Q11.44 0.10 up from 200437112%$3,990
14Theoretical and Applied Fracture MechanicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.84Q11.78 0.73 up from 20041244%$3,730
15Composite StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.80Q11.12 0.05 up from 20048465%$4,660
1.80Q12.29 0.17 down from 20046004%$3,530
17Organic GeochemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.79Q11.73 0.62 down from 20045195%$3,270
1.75Q11.23 0.10 up from 2004648%—
19Mechanics of Advanced Materials and StructuresTaylor & Francis · United States
1.72Q11.64 0.77 up from 2004622%—
20AAPG BulletinAmerican Association of Petroleum Geologists · United States
1.71Q11.34 0.25 up from 20043392%—
1.62Q11.30 0.01 down from 20042368%$4,040
22Applied Composite MaterialsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
1.60Q11.27 0.62 up from 2004679%$4,090
23Mechanics of Time-Dependent MaterialsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
1.58Q11.17 0.04 down from 2004497%$4,190
24Journal of Composite MaterialsSAGE Publishing · United States
1.54Q21.00 0.15 up from 20044094%$4,150
1.51Q20.79 0.01 down from 200437623%$3,860
26NDT & E InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.49Q20.99 0.02 up from 20042652%$4,440
1.47Q21.22 0.48 up from 200415014%$3,840
28Journal of Thermal StressesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
1.44Q21.03 0.33 up from 20042323%—
29Finite Elements in Analysis and DesignElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.43Q20.79 0.06 up from 20042956%$2,990
30Engineering With ComputersSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom
1.41Q20.50 0.83 down from 2004918%$2,190
31International Journal of Coal GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.39Q21.75 0.20 up from 20042383%$4,090
32Engineering Analysis with Boundary ElementsElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.28Q21.27 0.33 up from 20043288%$3,590
33International Journal of Engineering ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.27Q21.24 0.11 up from 20044135%$4,980
34Journal of Composites Technology and ResearchASM International · United States
1.24Q20.88 0.16 up from 200446——
35Archive of Applied MechanicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
1.23Q20.86 0.18 up from 20041808%$4,090
36UltrasonicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.23Q21.17 0.05 down from 20045605%$3,680
37International Journal of FractureSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
1.20Q20.91 0.04 down from 200445910%$3,790
38GeoArabiaBahrain
1.16Q21.76 0.60 up from 200455100%—
1.16Q21.18 0.26 up from 20042278%$3,760
40Mechanics Based Design of Structures and MachinesTaylor & Francis · United States
1.10Q20.45 0.13 down from 2004645%—
41Journal of Nondestructive EvaluationSpringer Science+Business Media · United States
1.09Q20.62 0.19 up from 2004390%$3,290
42Continuum Mechanics and ThermodynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
1.05Q21.30 0.31 up from 20041204%$2,990
43Engineering ComputationsEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
1.04Q20.70 0.03 up from 20041385%—
44Flow Measurement and InstrumentationElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.03Q20.73 0.07 up from 20041346%$3,080
0.99Q20.53 0.47 down from 200458411%$4,110
46Applied Mathematical ModellingElsevier BV · Netherlands
0.98Q20.57 0.11 down from 200426799%$4,510
0.97Q30.62 0.07 down from 20041688%$4,150
48Rock Mechanics and Rock EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria
0.97Q30.60 0.06 up from 2004743%$3,990
49Mechanics Research CommunicationsElsevier BV · United States
0.93Q30.72 0.08 up from 20042797%$3,580
50Acta MechanicaSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria
0.87Q30.78 0.08 up from 20043427%$3,490

Citations made in 2005. Corpus-wide, 70.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.

16 additional Mechanics of Materials journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2002–2004, 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2005. Publication window: 2002–2004. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
91
Window papers (baseline)
67,090 +30.9% from indicator year 2002
Median OJR
0.977 +1.4% from indicator year 2002
Rising journals (2025)
14

Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2002–2004 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.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals78818590899196101105106106110108115117121124126123123121123122121126124
Window papers (baseline)41,03946,23551,24357,20861,65467,09072,29777,43383,47689,78295,236100,355106,668110,219112,431110,199106,26699,87495,91296,897101,761106,369109,525109,615109,306111,140
Median OJR0.700.830.9640.970.9860.9771.010.9850.9780.8951.031.121.0611.051.0601.091.040.9650.930.89760.9100.9120.89840.820.760.80

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.