Journal rankings · indicator year 2006
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Subfield ranking · 2006
Mechanical Engineering journal rankings 2006
200 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Mechanical Engineering has 200 ranked journals in 2006. The median journal has an OJR of 0.51, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2005; Q1 starts at OJR 1.12. The top three are International Materials Reviews, Design Studies, and Research in Engineering Design.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2006. 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 2003–2005, the window the 2006 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 Engineering270
- Mechanical Engineering200
- Biomedical Engineering130
- Civil and Structural Engineering125
- Aerospace Engineering121
- Mechanics of Materials96
- Computational Mechanics76
- Control and Systems Engineering73
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering44
- Building and Construction37
- Ocean Engineering37
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality20
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200 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 2005. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2003–2005, the window the 2006 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2003–2005 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 2006. | Compare |
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1International Materials ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 6.55Q1 | 6.62 0.65 up from 2005 | 47 | 0% | $4,400 | ||
2Design StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.77Q1 | 1.89 0.51 up from 2005 | 121 | 8% | $4,570 | ||
3Research in Engineering DesignSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 3.12Q1 | 1.89 0.14 down from 2005 | 47 | 13% | $4,090 | ||
4Journal of Mechanical DesignAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers · United States | 2.99Q1 | 2.00 0.59 down from 2005 | 530 | 8% | — | ||
5International Journal of PlasticityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.88Q1 | 4.11 0.50 up from 2005 | 293 | 8% | $3,740 | ||
6ASHRAE winter conference papersAmerican Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers · United States | 2.87Q1 | 0.56 0.48 up from 2005 | 46 | 0% | — | ||
7Composites Part B EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.75Q1 | 1.74 0.10 up from 2005 | 230 | 5% | $5,210 | ||
8Scripta MaterialiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.38Q1 | 2.46 0.37 up from 2005 | 1,607 | 6% | $3,220 | ||
9Artificial intelligence for engineering design analysis and manufacturingCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.38Q1 | 1.16 0.03 up from 2005 | 66 | 26% | $3,550 | ||
10Journal of TribologyASM International · United States | 2.35Q1 | 1.67 0.07 down from 2005 | 357 | 4% | — | ||
11International Journal of Mechanical SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.33Q1 | 1.44 0.26 up from 2005 | 354 | 6% | $4,740 | ||
12International Journal of Machine Tools and ManufactureElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.29Q1 | 1.48 0.01 up from 2005 | 678 | 4% | $5,610 | ||
13Vehicle System DynamicsTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 2.28Q1 | 0.73 0.11 down from 2005 | 215 | 5% | — | ||
14ASME Journal of Heat and Mass TransferASM International · United States | 2.20Q1 | 1.58 0.10 up from 2005 | 582 | 4% | — | ||
15International Journal of Heat and Mass TransferElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.18Q1 | 1.97 0.26 up from 2005 | 1,473 | 4% | $4,220 | ||
16IntermetallicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.13Q1 | 1.96 0.54 up from 2005 | 625 | 2% | $2,730 | ||
17WearElsevier BV · Switzerland | 2.01Q1 | 1.43 0.06 down from 2005 | 1,177 | 3% | $5,394 | ||
18Journal of Manufacturing Science and EngineeringASM International · United States | 1.97Q1 | 1.19 0.05 up from 2005 | 404 | 6% | — | ||
19ManufacturingInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United Kingdom | 1.94Q1 | —no 2005 value | 77 | 0% | — | ||
20Journal of Engineering DesignTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.89Q1 | 2.21 0.95 up from 2005 | 127 | 3% | — | ||
21CIRP AnnalsElsevier BV | 1.87Q1 | 1.82 0.33 up from 2005 | 385 | 7% | $3,190 | ||
22Tribology InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 1.33 0.11 down from 2005 | 485 | 3% | $5,390 | ||
23Journal of Engineering Materials and TechnologyAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers · United States | 1.79Q1 | 1.51 0.05 up from 2005 | 205 | 7% | — | ||
24Microscale Thermophysical EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.76Q1 | 1.64 0.17 down from 2005 | 83 | — | — | ||
25Materials Science and Engineering AElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.70Q1 | 1.82 0.51 up from 2005 | 3,860 | 2% | $3,430 | ||
26Heat Transfer EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.66Q1 | 0.95 0.34 up from 2005 | 272 | 9% | — | ||
27Energy Conversion and ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.66Q1 | 1.34 0.08 down from 2005 | 743 | 4% | $4,600 | ||
28International Journal of RefrigerationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.65Q1 | 1.16 0.27 up from 2005 | 409 | 7% | $3,220 | ||
29Journal of Materials Processing TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.64Q1 | 1.26 0.47 up from 2005 | 2,782 | 6% | $3,980 | ||
30Metallurgical and Materials Transactions ASpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.62Q1 | 1.47 0.22 up from 2005 | 1,050 | 6% | $3,990 | ||
31Tribology TransactionsTaylor & Francis | 1.61Q1 | 1.02 0.15 down from 2005 | 226 | 2% | — | ||
32Applied Thermal EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.58Q1 | 1.05 0.14 up from 2005 | 785 | 5% | $3,660 | ||
33Advanced Engineering MaterialsWiley · Germany | 1.57Q1 | 1.60 0.16 up from 2005 | 475 | 9% | $4,520 | ||
34International Journal of Thermal SciencesElsevier BV · France | 1.43Q1 | 1.15 0.08 up from 2005 | 418 | 5% | $3,920 | ||
35Science and Technology of Welding & JoiningManey Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.42Q1 | 1.21 0.35 up from 2005 | 234 | 3% | $4,400 | ||
36Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part J Journal of Engineering TribologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.39Q1 | 0.86 0.11 up from 2005 | 136 | 2% | $4,150 | ||
37International Journal of Technology and Design EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.34Q1 | 0.87 0.35 up from 2005 | 57 | 14% | $3,390 | ||
38MaterialsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.31Q1 | 0.24 0.01 down from 2005 | 166 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
39Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part F Journal of Rail and Rapid TransitSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.28Q1 | 0.69 0.27 up from 2005 | 76 | 8% | $4,150 | ||
40Tribology LettersSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.28Q1 | 1.45 0.19 down from 2005 | 366 | 6% | $3,990 | ||
41Surface and Coatings TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.27Q1 | 1.49 0.20 up from 2005 | 3,362 | 5% | $3,880 | ||
42Precision EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.27Q1 | 0.96 0.12 down from 2005 | 181 | 0% | $3,340 | ||
43International Journal of Pressure Vessels and PipingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.24Q1 | 0.76 0.09 down from 2005 | 306 | 5% | $3,620 | ||
44Philosophical Magazine LettersOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.23Q1 | 1.81 0.53 up from 2005 | 256 | 8% | — | ||
45International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard MaterialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.23Q1 | 0.89 0.04 up from 2005 | 170 | 1% | $3,310 | ||
46SPE Eastern Regional MeetingPublisher not listed | 1.21Q1 | 0.28 0.02 up from 2005 | 86 | 0% | — | ||
47Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part B Journal of Engineering ManufactureSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.20Q1 | 0.91 0.30 up from 2005 | 425 | 12% | $4,150 | ||
48Metallurgical and Materials Transactions BSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.19Q1 | 0.99 0.14 up from 2005 | 299 | 4% | $3,990 | ||
49HydrometallurgyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.18Q1 | 1.24 0.10 up from 2005 | 395 | 6% | $4,350 | ||
50Journal of Laser ApplicationsLaser Institute of America · United States | 1.12Q1 | 1.19 0.39 up from 2005 | 112 | 4% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Mechanical Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering270
- Mechanical Engineering200
- Biomedical Engineering130
- Civil and Structural Engineering125
- Aerospace Engineering121
- Mechanics of Materials96
- Computational Mechanics76
- Control and Systems Engineering73
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering44
- Building and Construction37
- Ocean Engineering37
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality20
- Automotive Engineering14
- Media Technology13
- Architecture0
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2006. Corpus-wide, 71.3% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
75 additional Mechanical Engineering journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2003–2005, 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: 2006. Publication window: 2003–2005. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 200
- Window papers (baseline)
- 105,079 +22.9% from indicator year 2003
- Median OJR
- 0.51157 -7.5% from indicator year 2003
- Rising journals (2025)
- 37
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2003–2005 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.