Journal rankings · indicator year 2008
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Subfield ranking · 2008
Biomedical Engineering journal rankings 2008
148 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Biomedical Engineering has 148 ranked journals in 2008. The median OJR rose 0.11 on 2007 to 0.83, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.44. The top three are IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Proceedings, and Biomaterials.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2008. 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 2005–2007, the window the 2008 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 Engineering313
- Mechanical Engineering239
- Biomedical Engineering148
- Civil and Structural Engineering144
- Aerospace Engineering139
- Mechanics of Materials105
- Control and Systems Engineering84
- Computational Mechanics83
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering50
- Building and Construction44
- Ocean Engineering41
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality23
Show all 16 subfields
148 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 2007. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2005–2007, the window the 2008 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2005–2007 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 2008. | Compare |
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1IEEE Transactions on RoboticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.73Q1 | 4.53 0.02 down from 2007 | 399 | 17% | $2,645 | ||
2ProceedingsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.53Q1 | 2.16 0.66 up from 2007 | 32 | — | — | ||
3BiomaterialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.73Q1 | 7.63 0.83 up from 2007 | 1,705 | 27% | $4,640 | ||
4Lab on a ChipRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 3.51Q1 | 7.01 1.58 up from 2007 | 656 | 18% | — | ||
5Biomass and BioenergyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.07Q1 | 3.09 0.58 up from 2007 | 337 | 9% | $4,270 | ||
6Bioinspiration & BiomimeticsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.71Q1 | 2.78 0.89 up from 2007 | 58 | 53% | $3,325 | ||
7Fuel Processing TechnologyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.38Q1 | 2.61 0.32 up from 2007 | 363 | 7% | $3,180 | ||
8Acta BiomaterialiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.31Q1 | 3.80 0.62 up from 2007 | 318 | 16% | $3,810 | ||
9Microfluidics and NanofluidicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.27Q1 | 3.17 0.64 up from 2007 | 228 | 6% | $3,990 | ||
10Biofuels Bioproducts and BiorefiningWiley · United Kingdom | 2.16Q1 | 2.45no 2007 value | 49 | 11% | $4,530 | — | |
11Tissue EngineeringMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 2.10Q1 | 3.85 0.30 up from 2007 | 1,146 | 2% | — | ||
12FuelElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 2.59 0.66 up from 2007 | 1,084 | 7% | $4,330 | ||
13Smart Materials and StructuresIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.01Q1 | 2.21 0.39 up from 2007 | 855 | 50% | $3,325 | ||
14PlasmonicsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.89Q1 | 3.56 1.13 up from 2007 | 48 | 11% | $4,090 | ||
15Biomedical MicrodevicesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.87Q1 | 3.19 0.09 down from 2007 | 229 | 14% | $4,190 | ||
16Advanced RoboticsTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 1.84Q1 | 1.50 0.06 down from 2007 | 215 | 6% | — | ||
17Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 1.84Q1 | 2.60 0.48 up from 2007 | 648 | 30% | — | ||
18Journal of Micromechanics and MicroengineeringIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.79Q1 | 2.71 0.16 up from 2007 | 1,121 | 55% | $3,325 | ||
19Journal of Biomedical OpticsOASPIE · United States | 1.77Q1 | 3.49 0.36 up from 2007 | 732 | 97% | $1,675 | ||
20Annals of Biomedical EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.65Q1 | 3.11 0.15 up from 2007 | 567 | 32% | $4,390 | ||
21IEEE Transactions on Biomedical EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.65Q1 | 2.98 0.02 down from 2007 | 959 | 20% | $2,645 | ||
22IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.64Q1 | 2.37no 2007 value | 41 | 6% | $2,645 | — | |
23Critical Reviews in Biomedical EngineeringBegell House · United States | 1.58Q1 | 2.30 0.14 up from 2007 | 33 | 20% | — | ||
24AIChE JournalWiley · United States | 1.58Q1 | 2.10 0.18 up from 2007 | 1,052 | 8% | $4,940 | ||
25Biomechanics and Modeling in MechanobiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.58Q1 | 2.95 1.18 up from 2007 | 131 | 23% | $4,190 | ||
26Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part AWiley · United States | 1.57Q1 | 2.84 0.13 down from 2007 | 1,507 | 17% | $4,220 | ||
27Chemical Engineering ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.55Q1 | 1.79 0.23 down from 2007 | 2,224 | 6% | $4,050 | ||
28IEE Proceedings - NanobiotechnologyUnited Kingdom | 1.54Q1 | 1.86 0.58 down from 2007 | 48 | — | — | ||
29Current NanoscienceBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 1.54Q1 | 2.42 0.77 down from 2007 | 97 | 0% | — | ||
30Journal of Biomechanical EngineeringASM International · United States | 1.52Q1 | 2.72 0.79 up from 2007 | 348 | 22% | — | ||
31Journal of Chemical & Engineering DataAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.50Q1 | 2.84 1.30 up from 2007 | 1,287 | 8% | $4,500 | ||
32Proceedings/Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics SymposiumInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.49Q1 | 0.48 0.48 up from 2007 | 582 | — | — | ||
33Industrial & Engineering Chemistry ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.49Q1 | 2.05 0.09 up from 2007 | 3,271 | 7% | $4,500 | ||
34Sensors and Actuators A PhysicalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.47Q1 | 1.88 0.21 up from 2007 | 1,624 | 6% | $3,750 | ||
35IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency ControlInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.47Q1 | 1.89 0.08 down from 2007 | 1,015 | 12% | $2,645 | ||
36ElectrophoresisWiley · Germany | 1.47Q1 | 3.41 0.59 down from 2007 | 1,720 | 14% | $3,940 | ||
37Macromolecular BioscienceWiley · Germany | 1.44Q1 | 2.96 0.19 up from 2007 | 432 | 17% | $4,880 | ||
38Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part H Journal of Engineering in MedicineSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.42Q2 | 2.61 0.88 up from 2007 | 224 | 12% | $4,150 | ||
39Ultrasound in Medicine & BiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.38Q2 | 2.44 0.14 down from 2007 | 695 | 29% | $2,650 | ||
40Journal of BiomechanicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.37Q2 | 1.60 0.53 down from 2007 | 1,429 | 12% | $3,650 | ||
41International Journal of Humanoid RoboticsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.36Q2 | 1.58 0.56 down from 2007 | 82 | 8% | — | ||
42Journal of vibration and acousticsAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers | 1.33Q2 | 0.84 0.10 up from 2007 | 242 | 4% | — | ||
43Journal of ElasticitySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.31Q2 | 1.47 0.56 up from 2007 | 142 | 12% | $3,890 | ||
44Colloids and Surfaces B BiointerfacesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.31Q2 | 2.59 0.46 up from 2007 | 758 | 3% | $3,790 | ||
45Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B Applied BiomaterialsWiley · United States | 1.31Q2 | 1.95 0.06 down from 2007 | 850 | 13% | $3,400 | ||
46The Journal of Rehabilitation Research and DevelopmentOAUnited States Department of Veterans Affairs · United States | 1.29Q2 | 2.20 0.14 down from 2007 | 259 | 15% | — | ||
47Journal of Materials Science Materials in MedicineOASpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.27Q2 | 1.75 0.41 down from 2007 | 898 | 11% | $2,590 | ||
48Annual Review of Biomedical EngineeringAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.26Q2 | 14.63 0.01 up from 2007 | 50 | 25% | — | ||
49Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process IntensificationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.25Q2 | 1.34 0.32 up from 2007 | 581 | 10% | $3,910 | ||
50Journal of Analytical and Applied PyrolysisElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.24Q2 | 2.29 0.57 up from 2007 | 410 | 9% | $3,580 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Biomedical Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering313
- Mechanical Engineering239
- Biomedical Engineering148
- Civil and Structural Engineering144
- Aerospace Engineering139
- Mechanics of Materials105
- Control and Systems Engineering84
- Computational Mechanics83
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering50
- Building and Construction44
- Ocean Engineering41
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality23
- Automotive Engineering16
- Media Technology16
- Architecture0
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2008. Corpus-wide, 71.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
71 additional Biomedical Engineering journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2005–2007, 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: 2008. Publication window: 2005–2007. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 148
- Window papers (baseline)
- 114,335 +38.0% from indicator year 2005
- Median OJR
- 0.828 +4.1% from indicator year 2005
- Rising journals (2025)
- 33
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2005–2007 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 | 94 | 102 | 105 | 107 | 114 | 120 | 130 | 140 | 148 | 161 | 173 | 194 | 201 | 220 | 230 | 248 | 257 | 272 | 281 | 303 | 312 | 327 | 334 | 341 | 346 | 349 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 55,775 | 59,860 | 64,091 | 69,017 | 74,963 | 82,840 | 91,889 | 103,123 | 114,335 | 126,039 | 136,464 | 148,180 | 161,587 | 174,502 | 188,850 | 200,371 | 208,275 | 213,015 | 217,166 | 225,393 | 235,887 | 249,917 | 263,157 | 272,415 | 278,139 | 288,254 | |
| Median OJR | 0.65 | 0.66 | 0.707 | 0.731 | 0.67 | 0.79 | 0.766 | 0.718 | 0.828 | 0.87 | 0.831 | 0.826 | 0.720 | 0.776 | 0.709 | 0.74 | 0.75 | 0.768 | 0.726 | 0.76 | 0.781 | 0.81 | 0.80 | 0.82 | 0.86 | 0.89 |
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.