Journal rankings · indicator year 2008
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Subfield ranking · 2008
Mechanical Engineering journal rankings 2008
239 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Mechanical Engineering has 239 ranked journals in 2008. The median journal has an OJR of 0.50, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.05 on 2007; Q1 starts at OJR 1.16. The top three are International Materials Reviews, Design Studies, and Research in Engineering Design.
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
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239 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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1International Materials ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.46Q1 | 4.32 0.02 up from 2007 | 45 | 6% | $4,400 | ||
2Design StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.24Q1 | 2.10 0.02 up from 2007 | 93 | 14% | $4,570 | ||
3Research in Engineering DesignSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 3.12Q1 | 2.22 0.86 up from 2007 | 41 | 26% | $4,090 | ||
4International Journal of Machine Tools and ManufactureElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.64Q1 | 1.85 0.13 up from 2007 | 644 | 3% | $5,610 | ||
5International Journal of PlasticityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.47Q1 | 3.81 0.39 down from 2007 | 279 | 8% | $3,740 | ||
6Composites Part B EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.44Q1 | 1.62 0.20 up from 2007 | 280 | 4% | $5,210 | ||
7Tribology InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.32Q1 | 1.73 0.59 up from 2007 | 550 | 6% | $5,390 | ||
8ASHRAE winter conference papersAmerican Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers · United States | 2.32Q1 | 0.29 0.09 down from 2007 | 61 | 0% | — | ||
9Scripta MaterialiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.30Q1 | 2.65 0.05 down from 2007 | 1,793 | 5% | $3,220 | ||
10Journal of TribologyASM International · United States | 2.21Q1 | 1.40 0.20 down from 2007 | 350 | 2% | — | ||
11Journal of Mechanical DesignAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers · United States | 2.20Q1 | 1.57 0.46 up from 2007 | 406 | 8% | — | ||
12IntermetallicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.17Q1 | 2.15 0.27 up from 2007 | 574 | 2% | $2,730 | ||
13Energy Conversion and ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.15Q1 | 2.25 0.67 up from 2007 | 803 | 3% | $4,600 | ||
14WearElsevier BV · Switzerland | 2.15Q1 | 1.68 0.08 down from 2007 | 1,111 | 5% | $5,394 | ||
15CIRP AnnalsElsevier BV | 2.14Q1 | 1.87 0.26 up from 2007 | 437 | 10% | $3,190 | ||
16International Journal of Mechanical SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.12Q1 | 1.23 0.08 down from 2007 | 426 | 8% | $4,740 | ||
17SPE Eastern Regional MeetingPublisher not listed | 2.11Q1 | 0.58 0.23 up from 2007 | 71 | — | — | ||
18Artificial intelligence for engineering design analysis and manufacturingCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.03Q1 | 1.05 0.12 down from 2007 | 86 | 26% | $3,550 | ||
19International Journal of Heat and Mass TransferElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.01Q1 | 1.93 0.15 up from 2007 | 1,559 | 6% | $4,220 | ||
20International Journal of Pressure Vessels and PipingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.90Q1 | 1.17 0.28 up from 2007 | 280 | 1% | $3,620 | ||
21Journal of Materials Processing TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.85Q1 | 1.28 0.41 down from 2007 | 2,811 | 4% | $3,980 | ||
22Applied Thermal EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.84Q1 | 1.58 0.59 up from 2007 | 940 | 22% | $3,660 | ||
23Vehicle System DynamicsTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 1.80Q1 | 0.97 0.10 up from 2007 | 299 | 6% | — | ||
24Journal of Sandwich Structures & MaterialsSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.76Q1 | 0.82 0.01 up from 2007 | 71 | 0% | $4,400 | ||
25Tribology LettersSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.75Q1 | 1.80 0.19 up from 2007 | 402 | 6% | $3,990 | ||
| 1.74Q1 | 0.45 0.24 up from 2007 | 148 | — | — | |||
27International Journal of Manufacturing ResearchInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 1.71Q1 | 0.92 0.19 up from 2007 | 61 | 0% | — | ||
28ASME Journal of Heat and Mass TransferASM International · United States | 1.69Q1 | 1.40 0.24 up from 2007 | 552 | 6% | — | ||
29International Journal of RefrigerationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.68Q1 | 1.44 0.22 up from 2007 | 495 | 3% | $3,220 | ||
30International Journal of Thermal SciencesElsevier BV · France | 1.64Q1 | 1.62 0.41 up from 2007 | 454 | 5% | $3,920 | ||
31Journal of Manufacturing Science and EngineeringASM International · United States | 1.59Q1 | 1.01 0.07 up from 2007 | 309 | 3% | — | ||
32Annual IEEE Semiconductor Thermal Measurement and Management Symposium/ProceedingsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.57Q1 | 0.51no 2007 value | 37 | 9% | — | — | |
| 1.55Q1 | 0.42 0.11 up from 2007 | 111 | — | — | |||
34Surface and Coatings TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.55Q1 | 1.75 0.08 up from 2007 | 3,132 | 8% | $3,880 | ||
35Archives of Materials Science and EngineeringIndex Copernicus International S.A. · Poland | 1.53Q1 | 1.49 1.49 up from 2007 | 116 | 0% | — | ||
36Materials Science and Engineering AElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.51Q1 | 1.58 0.06 up from 2007 | 5,149 | 4% | $3,430 | ||
37Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part F Journal of Rail and Rapid TransitSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.49Q1 | 0.80 0.11 up from 2007 | 102 | 15% | $4,150 | ||
38Metallurgical and Materials Transactions ASpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.48Q1 | 1.33 0.13 down from 2007 | 1,160 | 15% | $3,990 | ||
39Advanced Engineering MaterialsWiley · Germany | 1.46Q1 | 1.44 0.24 down from 2007 | 559 | 9% | $4,520 | ||
40Machining Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.43Q1 | 1.05 0.16 up from 2007 | 87 | 3% | — | ||
41Precision EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.42Q1 | 0.99 0.07 down from 2007 | 166 | 12% | $3,340 | ||
42Research in Nondestructive EvaluationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.40Q1 | 0.85 0.54 up from 2007 | 42 | 8% | — | ||
43Science and Technology of Welding & JoiningManey Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.38Q1 | 1.58 0.33 up from 2007 | 300 | 4% | $4,400 | ||
44Philosophical Magazine LettersOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.38Q1 | 1.70 0.36 down from 2007 | 265 | 10% | — | ||
45International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard MaterialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.36Q1 | 1.31 0.02 down from 2007 | 245 | 4% | $3,310 | ||
46Journal of Engineering Materials and TechnologyAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers · United States | 1.35Q1 | 1.07 0.15 down from 2007 | 211 | 8% | — | ||
47Experimental MechanicsSpringer Nature · United States | 1.33Q1 | 1.67 0.62 up from 2007 | 331 | 16% | $2,390 | ||
48International Journal of Rotating MachineryOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · Netherlands | 1.33Q1 | 0.68 0.32 up from 2007 | 66 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
49Materials & Design (1980-2015)Elsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.32Q1 | 1.03 0.33 up from 2007 | 715 | 4% | — | ||
50CalphadElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.31Q1 | 1.49 0.01 down from 2007 | 194 | 9% | $3,250 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Mechanical 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.
72 additional Mechanical 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
- 239
- Window papers (baseline)
- 121,976 +23.1% from indicator year 2005
- Median OJR
- 0.5022 +0.2% from indicator year 2005
- Rising journals (2025)
- 37
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 | 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.