Journal rankings · indicator year 2009
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Subfield ranking · 2009
Biomedical Engineering journal rankings 2009
161 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Biomedical Engineering has 161 ranked journals in 2009. The median journal has an OJR of 0.87, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.04 on 2008; Q1 starts at OJR 1.48. The top three are IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Proceedings, and Biomaterials.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2009. 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 2006–2008, the window the 2009 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 Engineering339
- Mechanical Engineering248
- Biomedical Engineering161
- Aerospace Engineering153
- Civil and Structural Engineering152
- Mechanics of Materials106
- Control and Systems Engineering86
- Computational Mechanics83
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering51
- Building and Construction48
- Ocean Engineering40
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality23
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161 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 2008. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2006–2008, the window the 2009 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2006–2008 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 2009. | Compare |
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1IEEE Transactions on RoboticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 6.85Q1 | 5.68 1.15 up from 2008 | 402 | 17% | $2,645 | ||
2ProceedingsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.74Q1 | —no 2008 value | 32 | — | — | ||
3BiomaterialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.92Q1 | 8.23 0.60 up from 2008 | 1,640 | 25% | $4,640 | ||
4Tissue Engineering Part B ReviewsMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 3.63Q1 | 7.51no 2008 value | 37 | 47% | — | — | |
5Biomass and BioenergyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.25Q1 | 3.77 0.68 up from 2008 | 451 | 10% | $4,270 | ||
6Lab on a ChipRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 3.25Q1 | 6.32 0.69 down from 2008 | 858 | 19% | — | ||
7Bioinspiration & BiomimeticsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.51Q1 | 3.03 0.25 up from 2008 | 92 | 44% | $3,325 | ||
8FuelElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.50Q1 | 3.22 0.63 up from 2008 | 1,139 | 8% | $4,330 | ||
9Acta BiomaterialiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.26Q1 | 4.14 0.34 up from 2008 | 547 | 15% | $3,810 | ||
10Biofuels Bioproducts and BiorefiningWiley · United Kingdom | 2.24Q1 | 3.00 0.55 up from 2008 | 118 | 15% | $4,530 | ||
11Smart Materials and StructuresIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.21Q1 | 2.35 0.14 up from 2008 | 833 | 51% | $3,325 | ||
12Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 2.85 0.25 up from 2008 | 728 | 27% | — | ||
13International Journal of Humanoid RoboticsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 2.04Q1 | 2.63 1.06 up from 2008 | 90 | 9% | — | ||
14Microfluidics and NanofluidicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.96Q1 | 3.24 0.07 up from 2008 | 315 | 21% | $3,990 | ||
15Biomedical MicrodevicesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.96Q1 | 3.34 0.15 up from 2008 | 307 | 28% | $4,190 | ||
16Journal of vibration and acousticsAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers | 1.91Q1 | 1.27 0.43 up from 2008 | 226 | 5% | — | ||
17Tissue EngineeringMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 1.90Q1 | 4.83 0.97 up from 2008 | 977 | 0% | — | ||
18Fuel Processing TechnologyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.89Q1 | 2.57 0.04 down from 2008 | 464 | 5% | $3,180 | ||
19Tissue Engineering Part C MethodsMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 1.84Q1 | 3.40no 2008 value | 57 | 31% | — | — | |
20Journal of Micromechanics and MicroengineeringIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.81Q1 | 2.67 0.03 down from 2008 | 1,203 | 53% | $3,325 | ||
21Biomechanics and Modeling in MechanobiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.78Q1 | 3.36 0.40 up from 2008 | 131 | 33% | $4,190 | ||
22Advanced RoboticsTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 1.77Q1 | 1.72 0.22 up from 2008 | 248 | 6% | — | ||
23Journal of Biomedical OpticsOASPIE · United States | 1.77Q1 | 3.55 0.06 up from 2008 | 836 | 97% | $1,675 | ||
24IEEE Transactions on Biomedical EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.73Q1 | 2.87 0.11 down from 2008 | 1,148 | 21% | $2,645 | ||
25AIChE JournalWiley · United States | 1.72Q1 | 2.33 0.23 up from 2008 | 912 | 9% | $4,940 | ||
26Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process IntensificationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.68Q1 | 1.85 0.51 up from 2008 | 602 | 8% | $3,910 | ||
27PlasmonicsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.65Q1 | 3.09 0.47 down from 2008 | 76 | 8% | $4,090 | ||
28International Journal of NanomedicineOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 1.65Q1 | 3.43 0.87 up from 2008 | 110 | 100% | $2,836 | ||
29Chemical Engineering ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.64Q1 | 2.12 0.33 up from 2008 | 2,069 | 8% | $4,050 | ||
30Sensors and Actuators A PhysicalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.64Q1 | 2.26 0.38 up from 2008 | 1,437 | 6% | $3,750 | ||
31Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials/Journal of mechanical behavior of biomedical materialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.64Q1 | 2.31 0.04 down from 2008 | 93 | 14% | $3,690 | ||
32IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.63Q1 | 2.77 0.40 up from 2008 | 82 | 9% | $2,645 | ||
33Annals of Biomedical EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.60Q1 | 2.90 0.21 down from 2008 | 584 | 38% | $4,390 | ||
34BiomicrofluidicsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.59Q1 | 3.42 0.98 up from 2008 | 39 | 100% | — | ||
35Proceedings/Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics SymposiumInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.57Q1 | 0.57 0.08 up from 2008 | 582 | — | — | ||
36Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part AWiley · United States | 1.56Q1 | 2.67 0.17 down from 2008 | 1,703 | 20% | $4,220 | ||
37Journal of Biomaterials Science Polymer EditionTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 1.53Q1 | 2.93 0.33 up from 2008 | 293 | 5% | — | ||
38Industrial Crops and ProductsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.53Q1 | 2.17 0.51 up from 2008 | 318 | 8% | $3,720 | ||
39Industrial & Engineering Chemistry ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.50Q1 | 2.01 0.04 down from 2008 | 3,399 | 7% | $4,500 | ||
40Journal of Biomechanical EngineeringASM International · United States | 1.50Q1 | 2.33 0.39 down from 2008 | 345 | 25% | — | ||
41Macromolecular BioscienceWiley · Germany | 1.48Q1 | 3.01 0.05 up from 2008 | 434 | 15% | $4,880 | ||
42The Journal of Rehabilitation Research and DevelopmentOAUnited States Department of Veterans Affairs · United States | 1.48Q2 | 2.13 0.07 down from 2008 | 290 | 20% | — | ||
43The Journal of Supercritical FluidsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.44Q2 | 2.59 0.03 down from 2008 | 620 | 4% | $3,910 | ||
44Ultrasound in Medicine & BiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.42Q2 | 2.69 0.25 up from 2008 | 722 | 47% | $2,650 | ||
45Biomedical MaterialsIOP Publishing | 1.39Q2 | 2.42 0.64 up from 2008 | 236 | 34% | $3,325 | ||
46Nano TodayElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.39Q2 | 2.78 1.11 up from 2008 | 403 | 8% | $4,830 | ||
47Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B Applied BiomaterialsWiley · United States | 1.39Q2 | 2.22 0.27 up from 2008 | 823 | 13% | $3,400 | ||
48Colloids and Surfaces B BiointerfacesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.36Q2 | 2.80 0.21 up from 2008 | 870 | 7% | $3,790 | ||
49IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency ControlInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.34Q2 | 1.99 0.10 up from 2008 | 1,047 | 14% | $2,645 | ||
50Journal of BiomechanicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.33Q2 | 1.98 0.37 up from 2008 | 1,506 | 29% | $3,650 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Biomedical Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering339
- Mechanical Engineering248
- Biomedical Engineering161
- Aerospace Engineering153
- Civil and Structural Engineering152
- Mechanics of Materials106
- Control and Systems Engineering86
- Computational Mechanics83
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering51
- Building and Construction48
- Ocean Engineering40
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality23
- Automotive Engineering21
- Media Technology18
- Architecture0
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2009. Corpus-wide, 71.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
67 additional Biomedical Engineering journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2006–2008, 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: 2009. Publication window: 2006–2008. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 161
- Window papers (baseline)
- 126,039 +37.2% from indicator year 2006
- Median OJR
- 0.87 +13.2% from indicator year 2006
- Rising journals (2025)
- 33
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2006–2008 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.