Journal rankings · indicator year 2008
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Field ranking · 2008
Engineering journal rankings 2008
1,445 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Engineering has 1,445 ranked journals in 2008. The median journal has an OJR of 0.79, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2007; Q1 starts at OJR 1.58. The top three are Materials Science and Engineering R Reports, Digest of technical papers/Digest of technical papers - IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, and Progress in Energy and Combustion Science.
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 in Engineering (16)
Up to Physical Sciences- 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
1,445 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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1Materials Science and Engineering R ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 13.48Q1 | 14.70 4.06 down from 2007 | 34 | 6% | $6,150 | ||
2Digest of technical papers/Digest of technical papers - IEEE International Solid-State Circuits ConferenceInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 13.36Q1 | 5.50no 2007 value | 84 | 6% | — | ||
3Progress in Energy and Combustion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 11.42Q1 | 10.33 2.80 up from 2007 | 57 | 7% | $6,990 | ||
4ACM Transactions on Sensor NetworksAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 10.61Q1 | 9.36 1.10 up from 2007 | 57 | 14% | — | ||
5IEEE Communications Surveys & TutorialsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 10.31Q1 | 6.97 4.06 down from 2007 | 56 | 9% | $2,645 | ||
6IEEE Transactions on Automatic ControlInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 9.34Q1 | 4.58 0.02 up from 2007 | 992 | 12% | $2,645 | ||
7AutomaticaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 9.31Q1 | 4.34 0.72 up from 2007 | 800 | 12% | $3,760 | ||
8Transportation ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 7.82Q1 | 3.07 0.44 down from 2007 | 125 | 11% | — | ||
9IEEE Industrial Electronics MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 7.41Q1 | 4.05no 2007 value | 111 | 3% | — | — | |
10Journal of Field RoboticsWiley · United States | 7.41Q1 | 4.16 1.02 up from 2007 | 121 | 33% | $3,590 | ||
11IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 7.11Q1 | 5.19 0.16 up from 2007 | 260 | 6% | $2,645 | ||
12IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in CommunicationsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.84Q1 | 7.17 0.65 up from 2007 | 680 | 12% | $2,645 | ||
13IEE Proceedings - Radar Sonar and NavigationUnited Kingdom | 6.78Q1 | 2.27 0.14 down from 2007 | 123 | — | — | ||
14IEEE Transactions on RoboticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.73Q1 | 4.53 0.02 down from 2007 | 399 | 17% | $2,645 | ||
15IEEE Wireless CommunicationsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.72Q1 | 5.34 1.21 down from 2007 | 230 | 11% | $2,995 | ||
16Applied Mechanics ReviewsAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers · United States | 6.64Q1 | 5.25 1.73 up from 2007 | 58 | 5% | — | ||
17ProceedingsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.53Q1 | 2.16 0.66 up from 2007 | 32 | — | — | ||
18Progress in Aerospace SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.51Q1 | 2.47 0.23 down from 2007 | 51 | 4% | $5,860 | ||
19IEEE Transactions on Control Systems TechnologyInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.03Q1 | 3.57 0.98 up from 2007 | 347 | 9% | $2,645 | ||
20IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.70Q1 | 3.75 0.34 down from 2007 | 182 | 10% | $2,645 | ||
21Proceedings of the IEEEInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.63Q1 | 4.96 0.02 down from 2007 | 654 | 3% | $2,645 | ||
22Annual Reviews in ControlElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.40Q1 | 2.58 0.64 down from 2007 | 71 | 5% | $3,940 | ||
23Transportation Research Part C Emerging TechnologiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.38Q1 | 1.92 0.32 down from 2007 | 100 | 14% | $4,040 | ||
24Advanced MaterialsGermany | 5.30Q1 | 8.72 0.12 up from 2007 | 2,053 | 12% | $6,070 | ||
25IBM Journal of Research and DevelopmentIBM · United States | 5.17Q1 | 4.72 0.58 down from 2007 | 187 | 3% | — | ||
26Journal of Guidance Control and DynamicsAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 5.11Q1 | 1.86 0.20 up from 2007 | 572 | 6% | — | ||
27Systems & Control LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.06Q1 | 2.64 0.31 up from 2007 | 315 | 13% | $2,910 | ||
28International Journal of AeroacousticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.97Q1 | 0.91 0.38 down from 2007 | 61 | 9% | $4,150 | ||
29The International Journal of Robotics ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.93Q1 | 5.10 1.40 up from 2007 | 208 | 16% | $4,400 | ||
30IEEE Communications MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.87Q1 | 3.59 0.59 down from 2007 | 948 | 5% | $2,995 | ||
31Digest of papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits SymposiumInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.86Q1 | 1.90no 2007 value | 82 | — | — | — | |
32IET Control Theory and ApplicationsOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United States | 4.79Q1 | 1.92 1.15 up from 2007 | 206 | 6% | $3,300 | ||
33IEEE Transactions on Energy ConversionInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.60Q1 | 5.01 1.58 up from 2007 | 352 | 9% | $2,645 | ||
34Advanced Functional MaterialsWiley · Germany | 4.58Q1 | 6.78 0.55 down from 2007 | 1,069 | 12% | $5,790 | ||
35Electromagnetic wavesOAUnited States | 4.55Q1 | 6.30 2.30 up from 2007 | 611 | 63% | — | ||
36IEE Proceedings - Control Theory and ApplicationsInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United Kingdom | 4.48Q1 | 2.72 0.77 up from 2007 | 196 | — | — | ||
37Advanced Engineering InformaticsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.48Q1 | 2.90 0.04 down from 2007 | 109 | 12% | $3,560 | ||
38International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear ControlWiley · United Kingdom | 4.47Q1 | 2.00 0.19 up from 2007 | 266 | 13% | $4,270 | ||
39International Materials ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.46Q1 | 4.32 0.02 up from 2007 | 45 | 6% | $4,400 | ||
40Computers in IndustryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.41Q1 | 2.47 0.25 up from 2007 | 257 | 14% | $4,080 | ||
41Journal of TurbomachineryASM International · United States | 4.41Q1 | 1.21 0.53 up from 2007 | 211 | 4% | — | ||
42CTIT technical reports seriesUniversity of Twente | 4.34Q1 | 0.00 2.21 down from 2007 | 32 | 0% | — | ||
43NAVIGATION Journal of the Institute of NavigationOAWiley · United States | 4.26Q1 | 1.38 0.49 up from 2007 | 70 | 7% | $3,000 | ||
44Earthquake Engineering & Structural DynamicsWiley · United Kingdom | 4.25Q1 | 1.72 0.07 up from 2007 | 340 | 16% | $3,760 | ||
45Design StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.24Q1 | 2.10 0.02 up from 2007 | 93 | 14% | $4,570 | ||
46IEEE Transactions on Industrial ElectronicsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.15Q1 | 8.28 4.01 up from 2007 | 700 | 11% | $2,645 | ||
47Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation ReviewElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.13Q1 | 2.04 0.51 up from 2007 | 149 | 5% | $4,240 | ||
48Information Technologies and International DevelopmentOAUniversity of Southern California · United States | 4.10Q1 | 2.26 0.76 up from 2007 | 48 | 100% | — | ||
49IEEE Transactions on Industrial InformaticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.10Q1 | 2.86 0.63 down from 2007 | 110 | 5% | $2,645 | ||
50Journal of Process ControlElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.03Q1 | 2.31 0.34 up from 2007 | 243 | 11% | $3,700 |
Subfields of Engineering, compared.
- 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.
514 additional 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
- 1,445
- Window papers (baseline)
- 2,583,093 +25.5% from indicator year 2005
- Median OJR
- 0.7930 +2.0% from indicator year 2005
- Rising journals (2025)
- 211Comparison-group list (211)
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 | 945 | 1,010 | 1,072 | 1,119 | 1,159 | 1,217 | 1,256 | 1,342 | 1,445 | 1,529 | 1,578 | 1,672 | 1,774 | 1,899 | 2,001 | 2,106 | 2,188 | 2,239 | 2,290 | 2,358 | 2,389 | 2,428 | 2,444 | 2,437 | 2,442 | 2,405 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 1,301,932 | 1,430,070 | 1,586,509 | 1,745,451 | 1,896,138 | 2,058,422 | 2,234,640 | 2,416,744 | 2,583,093 | 2,754,522 | 2,914,777 | 3,076,735 | 3,239,027 | 3,369,091 | 3,484,492 | 3,569,888 | 3,612,080 | 3,500,235 | 3,153,056 | 2,758,725 | 2,539,069 | 2,563,396 | 2,580,513 | 2,422,273 | 2,259,750 | 2,274,258 | |
| Median OJR | 0.63 | 0.65 | 0.694 | 0.758 | 0.75 | 0.7777 | 0.7782 | 0.77 | 0.7930 | 0.80 | 0.820 | 0.822 | 0.7933 | 0.765 | 0.756 | 0.72 | 0.73 | 0.692 | 0.670 | 0.6705 | 0.68 | 0.70 | 0.689 | 0.688 | 0.669 | 0.6714 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 4.9% | 1,952 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 1.935 per 1,000 | 1,719 journals |
| Output growth | Median: +3.7% | 2,142 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 53.0% | 2,405 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $2,890 | 1,349 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 22.2% | 2,312 journals |
| Review share | Median: 0.0% | 2,405 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.67 | 2,362 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 29.8% | 2,405 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 43.9% | 2,402 journals |
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.