Journal rankings · indicator year 2006
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Subfield ranking · 2006
Mechanics of Materials journal rankings 2006
96 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Mechanics of Materials has 96 ranked journals in 2006. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.01 against 1.00, up 0.03 on 2005. A journal needs OJR 1.53 to reach Q1. The top three are Applied Mechanics Reviews, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, and Composites Science and Technology.
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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96 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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1Applied Mechanics ReviewsAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers · United States | 5.38Q1 | 4.73 0.98 up from 2005 | 212 | 6% | — | ||
2Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of SolidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.52Q1 | 3.64 0.52 up from 2005 | 354 | 11% | $4,220 | ||
3Composites Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.25Q1 | 2.08 0.53 down from 2005 | 884 | 6% | $4,610 | ||
4Mechanics of MaterialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.45Q1 | 1.96 0.05 down from 2005 | 286 | 7% | $3,850 | ||
5Composites Part A Applied Science and ManufacturingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.41Q1 | 1.65 0.19 down from 2005 | 680 | 6% | $4,480 | ||
6International Journal for Numerical Methods in EngineeringWiley · United Kingdom | 2.36Q1 | 2.00 0.16 up from 2005 | 982 | 14% | $4,250 | ||
7International Journal of Solids and StructuresElsevier BV · United States | 2.27Q1 | 1.69 0.03 up from 2005 | 1,468 | 100% | $3,790 | ||
8Marine and Petroleum GeologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.26Q1 | 1.84 0.24 up from 2005 | 263 | 6% | $3,440 | ||
9European Journal of Mechanics - A/SolidsElsevier BV · France | 2.19Q1 | 1.29no change | 264 | 14% | $4,040 | ||
10International Journal of FatigueElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.17Q1 | 1.27 0.07 down from 2005 | 557 | 6% | $3,940 | ||
11Journal of Analytical Atomic SpectrometryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.14Q1 | 3.86 0.11 down from 2005 | 663 | 7% | — | ||
12Engineering Fracture MechanicsElsevier BV · United States | 2.10Q1 | 1.51 0.11 up from 2005 | 504 | 8% | $4,120 | ||
13Spectrochimica Acta Part B Atomic SpectroscopyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.05Q1 | 3.03 0.75 up from 2005 | 603 | 6% | $3,530 | ||
14Computational MechanicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.84Q1 | 1.24 0.20 down from 2005 | 390 | 16% | $3,990 | ||
15Theoretical and Applied Fracture MechanicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.81Q1 | 1.15 0.63 down from 2005 | 149 | 3% | $3,730 | ||
16Organic GeochemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.76Q1 | 1.89 0.16 up from 2005 | 506 | 6% | $3,270 | ||
17Composite StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.75Q1 | 1.11 0.02 down from 2005 | 877 | 6% | $4,660 | ||
18Mechanics of Advanced Materials and StructuresTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.72Q1 | 1.32 0.32 down from 2005 | 94 | 5% | — | ||
19NDT & E InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.72Q1 | 1.22 0.23 up from 2005 | 287 | 9% | $4,440 | ||
20Rock Mechanics and Rock EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 1.66Q1 | 0.85 0.25 up from 2005 | 84 | 5% | $3,990 | ||
21Finite Elements in Analysis and DesignElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.60Q1 | 0.87 0.08 up from 2005 | 287 | 4% | $2,990 | ||
22Propellants Explosives PyrotechnicsWiley · Germany | 1.59Q1 | 1.26 0.03 up from 2005 | 160 | 20% | $3,840 | ||
23UltrasonicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.57Q1 | 1.78 0.60 up from 2005 | 402 | 3% | $3,680 | ||
24Journal of Composite MaterialsSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.53Q1 | 1.06 0.06 up from 2005 | 367 | 3% | $4,150 | ||
25Journal of Nondestructive EvaluationSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.52Q2 | 1.16 0.54 up from 2005 | 38 | 0% | $3,290 | ||
26Quantitative InfraRed Thermography JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.49Q2 | 1.27 0.27 up from 2005 | 30 | 19% | — | ||
27AAPG BulletinAmerican Association of Petroleum Geologists · United States | 1.48Q2 | 1.55 0.21 up from 2005 | 314 | 0% | — | ||
28GeofluidsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.47Q2 | 1.88 0.75 up from 2005 | 73 | 12% | $2,160 | ||
29Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & StructuresWiley · United Kingdom | 1.47Q2 | 0.92 0.13 up from 2005 | 348 | 18% | $3,860 | ||
30International Journal of Engineering ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.43Q2 | 1.30 0.06 up from 2005 | 320 | 7% | $4,980 | ||
31Mechanics of Time-Dependent MaterialsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.40Q2 | 0.83 0.34 down from 2005 | 50 | 9% | $4,190 | ||
32International Journal of FractureSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.32Q2 | 0.98 0.07 up from 2005 | 431 | 12% | $3,790 | ||
33International Journal of Coal GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.31Q2 | 1.41 0.35 down from 2005 | 272 | 5% | $4,090 | ||
34International Journal of Adhesion and AdhesivesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.30Q2 | 1.10 0.07 down from 2005 | 255 | 4% | $3,760 | ||
35International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining SciencesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.28Q2 | 0.71 0.18 up from 2005 | 620 | 5% | $4,110 | ||
36International Journal for Multiscale Computational EngineeringBegell House · United States | 1.28Q2 | 1.12 0.11 down from 2005 | 95 | 4% | — | ||
37Continuum Mechanics and ThermodynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.24Q2 | 1.44 0.14 up from 2005 | 104 | 9% | $2,990 | ||
38Journal of Thermal StressesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.24Q2 | 1.04 0.01 up from 2005 | 217 | 3% | — | ||
39Engineering Analysis with Boundary ElementsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.21Q2 | 1.24 0.04 down from 2005 | 341 | 12% | $3,590 | ||
40International Journal of Computational MethodsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.17Q2 | 0.79 0.05 down from 2005 | 58 | 3% | — | ||
41Archive of Applied MechanicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.16Q2 | 0.79 0.06 down from 2005 | 205 | 13% | $4,090 | ||
42Engineering ComputationsEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.13Q2 | 0.97 0.27 up from 2005 | 140 | 0% | — | ||
43Applied Composite MaterialsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.13Q2 | 0.50 0.77 down from 2005 | 74 | 9% | $4,090 | ||
44The Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering DesignSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.11Q2 | 0.72 0.11 up from 2005 | 179 | 6% | $4,150 | ||
45World Tribology Congress III, Volume 1Publisher not listed | 1.11Q2 | 0.19no 2005 value | 441 | — | — | — | |
46Communications in Numerical Methods in EngineeringWiley · United Kingdom | 1.07Q2 | 0.74 0.14 up from 2005 | 255 | 18% | — | ||
47International Journal of Damage MechanicsSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.05Q2 | 1.13 0.55 up from 2005 | 58 | 31% | $4,400 | ||
48Alaska Rocks 2005, The 40th U.S. Symposium on Rock Mechanics (USRMS)Publisher not listed | 1.01Q2 | 0.16no 2005 value | 96 | — | — | — | |
49Mechanics Research CommunicationsElsevier BV · United States | 1.00Q3 | 0.74 0.02 up from 2005 | 308 | 11% | $3,580 | ||
50Applied Mathematical ModellingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.95Q3 | 0.66 0.09 up from 2005 | 323 | 100% | $4,510 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Mechanics of Materials 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.
15 additional Mechanics of Materials 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
- 96
- Window papers (baseline)
- 72,297 +26.4% from indicator year 2003
- Median OJR
- 1.01 +3.7% from indicator year 2003
- Rising journals (2025)
- 14
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 | 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.