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Journal rankings · indicator year 2009

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Field ranking · 2009

Chemical Engineering journal rankings 2009

11 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences

Chemical Engineering has 11 ranked journals in 2009. The median OJR rose 0.19 on 2008 to 1.34, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.82. The top three are SAE International Journal of Engines, Journal of Rheology, and International Journal of Engine Research.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2009. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

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.

11
<1% of Physical Sciences
Median OJR

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.

1.34
This fieldAll 0.92World 1.00
Open-access journals

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.

9%
All fields: 18%
Median listed APC

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.

$3,900
Median positive listed APC: $3,900 among 5 journals. 6 have no known price. All fields: $3,510.

Subfields in Chemical Engineering (6)

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11 ranked journals

Filters

Quartile

Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

They are computed within the list on screen, so a journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 in the global ranking.

Access
APC (list price)
Chemical Engineering ranking, 2009

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.

OJR

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
1SAE International Journal of EnginesSAE International · United States
2.31Q11.89no 2008 value1142%——
2Journal of RheologyAmerican Institute of Physics · United States
2.30Q12.85 0.13 up from 200818727%—
3International Journal of Engine ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
1.82Q11.66 0.27 up from 200810014%$3,900
1.77Q22.01 1.01 up from 20081364%—
5Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid MechanicsElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.70Q22.11 0.07 up from 200842115%$3,010
6Rheologica ActaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
1.34Q21.86 0.28 up from 200827518%$3,990
0.98Q30.19 0.22 down from 2008114——
8Journal of Solution ChemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · United States
0.93Q31.40 0.18 down from 200837011%$3,490
9Physics and Chemistry of LiquidsTaylor & Francis · United States
0.46Q30.64 0.60 down from 20082044%—
10Nihon Reoroji GakkaishiOASociety of Rheology, Japan · Japan
0.30Q40.51 0.08 up from 2008107100%—
11ACS Chemical Health & SafetyAmerican Chemical Society · Netherlands
0.24Q40.26 0.20 up from 20082470%$4,500

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.

2 additional Chemical 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2009. Publication window: 2006–2008. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
11
Window papers (baseline)
31,121 +16.4% from indicator year 2006
Median OJR
1.34 +42.2% from indicator year 2006
Rising journals (2025)
0

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.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals88910999891112111112121212121313131413151515
Window papers (baseline)18,79019,98021,36822,42623,41824,95726,72828,19829,47331,12132,47333,98135,31236,94738,71040,19140,82840,59439,90940,27341,15942,91943,92944,23544,31747,403
Median OJR0.580.530.750.861.2910.910.941.021.151.341.171.2931.130.9170.981.011.140.8410.9190.8360.690.550.400.390.450.32
Category context (2025)
MeasureCategory statisticEligible population
Journal self-citation shareMedian: 10.9%Eligible journals: 11 (small population)
Retracted papers per 1,000Pooled rate: 0.229 per 1,000Eligible journals: 12 (small population)
Output growthMedian: -3.7%Eligible journals: 12 (small population)
Open access shareMedian: 33.2%Eligible journals: 15 (small population)
Listed APC (USD)Median including $0 listed prices: $3,4907 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices (small population)
International collaboration shareMedian: 17.5%Eligible journals: 15 (small population)
Review shareMedian: 0.0%Eligible journals: 15 (small population)
Articles-only OJRMedian: 0.32Eligible journals: 15 (small population)
Uncited shareMedian: 49.2%Eligible journals: 15 (small population)
Citation concentrationMedian: 47.8%Eligible journals: 15 (small population)

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.