Journal rankings · indicator year 2007
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Subfield ranking · 2007
Mechanical Engineering journal rankings 2007
216 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Mechanical Engineering has 216 ranked journals in 2007. The median journal has an OJR of 0.55, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.04 on 2006; Q1 starts at OJR 1.10. The top three are International Materials Reviews, Design Studies, and Research in Engineering Design.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2007. 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 2004–2006, the window the 2007 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 Engineering291
- Mechanical Engineering216
- Biomedical Engineering140
- Civil and Structural Engineering137
- Aerospace Engineering126
- Mechanics of Materials101
- Computational Mechanics80
- Control and Systems Engineering79
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering44
- Building and Construction41
- Ocean Engineering39
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality19
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216 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 2006. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2004–2006, the window the 2007 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2004–2006 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 2007. | Compare |
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1International Materials ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.97Q1 | 4.30 2.32 down from 2006 | 47 | 19% | $4,400 | ||
2Design StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.23Q1 | 2.08 0.19 up from 2006 | 102 | 11% | $4,570 | ||
3Research in Engineering DesignSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 3.24Q1 | 1.37 0.52 down from 2006 | 43 | 18% | $4,090 | ||
4International Journal of PlasticityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.07Q1 | 4.19 0.09 up from 2006 | 272 | 11% | $3,740 | ||
5Scripta MaterialiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.50Q1 | 2.71 0.25 up from 2006 | 1,662 | 5% | $3,220 | ||
6IntermetallicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.50Q1 | 1.88 0.08 down from 2006 | 676 | 4% | $2,730 | ||
7Composites Part B EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.38Q1 | 1.43 0.31 down from 2006 | 257 | 4% | $5,210 | ||
8International Journal of Machine Tools and ManufactureElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.31Q1 | 1.72 0.24 up from 2006 | 715 | 6% | $5,610 | ||
9ASHRAE winter conference papersAmerican Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers · United States | 2.28Q1 | 0.38 0.17 down from 2006 | 66 | 0% | — | ||
10International Journal of Mechanical SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.27Q1 | 1.31 0.13 down from 2006 | 410 | 7% | $4,740 | ||
11Journal of Mechanical DesignAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers · United States | 2.21Q1 | 1.11 0.89 down from 2006 | 555 | 21% | — | ||
12Artificial intelligence for engineering design analysis and manufacturingCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.13Q1 | 1.17no change | 70 | 29% | $3,550 | ||
13Journal of TribologyASM International · United States | 2.03Q1 | 1.60 0.07 down from 2006 | 378 | 4% | — | ||
14Journal of Engineering DesignTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.99Q1 | 0.98 1.23 down from 2006 | 119 | 4% | — | ||
15Journal of Materials Processing TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.97Q1 | 1.70 0.43 up from 2006 | 2,586 | 4% | $3,980 | ||
16International Journal of Heat and Mass TransferElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.94Q1 | 1.77 0.20 down from 2006 | 1,458 | 6% | $4,220 | ||
17Tribology InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.89Q1 | 1.14 0.20 down from 2006 | 570 | 5% | $5,390 | ||
18WearElsevier BV · Switzerland | 1.85Q1 | 1.77 0.34 up from 2006 | 1,010 | 4% | $5,394 | ||
19CIRP AnnalsElsevier BV | 1.78Q1 | 1.61 0.21 down from 2006 | 413 | 3% | $3,190 | ||
20Tribology LettersSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.75Q1 | 1.62 0.16 up from 2006 | 415 | 5% | $3,990 | ||
21Journal of Manufacturing Science and EngineeringASM International · United States | 1.74Q1 | 0.94 0.25 down from 2006 | 412 | 4% | — | ||
22Journal of Engineering Materials and TechnologyAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers · United States | 1.72Q1 | 1.22 0.29 down from 2006 | 243 | 3% | — | ||
23Vehicle System DynamicsTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 1.65Q1 | 0.87 0.14 up from 2006 | 296 | 8% | — | ||
24CalphadElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.64Q1 | 1.50 0.29 up from 2006 | 172 | 3% | $3,250 | ||
25Advanced Engineering MaterialsWiley · Germany | 1.62Q1 | 1.68 0.08 up from 2006 | 535 | 6% | $4,520 | ||
26Metallurgical and Materials Transactions ASpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.61Q1 | 1.46 0.01 down from 2006 | 1,164 | 10% | $3,990 | ||
27Materials Science and Engineering AElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.61Q1 | 1.52 0.29 down from 2006 | 4,892 | 4% | $3,430 | ||
28Energy Conversion and ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.58Q1 | 1.58 0.24 up from 2006 | 740 | 7% | $4,600 | ||
29Science and Technology of Welding & JoiningManey Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.58Q1 | 1.25 0.04 up from 2006 | 293 | 1% | $4,400 | ||
30International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard MaterialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.57Q1 | 1.33 0.44 up from 2006 | 201 | 1% | $3,310 | ||
31Surface and Coatings TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.53Q1 | 1.67 0.18 up from 2006 | 3,397 | 7% | $3,880 | ||
32International Journal of Technology and Design EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.50Q1 | 0.83 0.04 down from 2006 | 59 | 27% | $3,390 | ||
33SPE Eastern Regional MeetingPublisher not listed | 1.47Q1 | 0.35 0.08 up from 2006 | 101 | — | — | ||
34Tribology TransactionsTaylor & Francis | 1.45Q1 | 0.88 0.15 down from 2006 | 209 | 3% | — | ||
35International Journal of Thermal SciencesElsevier BV · France | 1.42Q1 | 1.21 0.07 up from 2006 | 418 | 5% | $3,920 | ||
36Journal of Achievements of Materials and Manufacturing EngineeringIndex Copernicus International S.A. · Poland | 1.42Q1 | 1.70 1.70 up from 2006 | 76 | 0% | — | ||
37Applied Thermal EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.38Q1 | 0.99 0.06 down from 2006 | 880 | 8% | $3,660 | ||
38HydrometallurgyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.35Q1 | 1.73 0.48 up from 2006 | 360 | 6% | $4,350 | ||
39ASME Journal of Heat and Mass TransferASM International · United States | 1.34Q1 | 1.15 0.43 down from 2006 | 645 | 11% | — | ||
40Philosophical Magazine LettersOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.33Q1 | 2.06 0.25 up from 2006 | 252 | 12% | — | ||
| 1.32Q1 | 0.32no 2006 value | 111 | — | — | — | ||
42Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part F Journal of Rail and Rapid TransitSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.31Q1 | 0.70no change | 85 | 17% | $4,150 | ||
43International Journal of RefrigerationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.29Q1 | 1.21 0.05 up from 2006 | 464 | 6% | $3,220 | ||
44International Journal of Pressure Vessels and PipingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.26Q1 | 0.89 0.13 up from 2006 | 336 | 5% | $3,620 | ||
45Precision EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.23Q1 | 1.06 0.10 up from 2006 | 181 | 2% | $3,340 | ||
46Journal of Laser ApplicationsLaser Institute of America · United States | 1.18Q1 | 1.11 0.07 down from 2006 | 124 | 10% | — | ||
47Metallurgical and Materials Transactions BSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.16Q1 | 0.78 0.20 down from 2006 | 314 | 5% | $3,990 | ||
48Materials & Design (1980-2015)Elsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.16Q1 | 0.71 0.07 up from 2006 | 809 | 6% | — | ||
49Materials Science and TechnologyManey Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.13Q1 | 0.98 0.02 up from 2006 | 702 | 2% | $4,150 | ||
50Materials CharacterizationElsevier BV · United States | 1.11Q1 | 0.81 0.13 down from 2006 | 477 | 6% | $3,320 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Mechanical Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering291
- Mechanical Engineering216
- Biomedical Engineering140
- Civil and Structural Engineering137
- Aerospace Engineering126
- Mechanics of Materials101
- Computational Mechanics80
- Control and Systems Engineering79
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering44
- Building and Construction41
- Ocean Engineering39
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality19
- Media Technology15
- Automotive Engineering14
- Architecture0
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2007. Corpus-wide, 72.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
81 additional Mechanical Engineering journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2004–2006, 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: 2007. Publication window: 2004–2006. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 216
- Window papers (baseline)
- 114,255 +24.4% from indicator year 2004
- Median OJR
- 0.5481 +16.9% from indicator year 2004
- Rising journals (2025)
- 37
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2004–2006 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.