Journal rankings · indicator year 2009
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Subfield ranking · 2009
Mechanical Engineering journal rankings 2009
248 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Mechanical Engineering has 248 ranked journals in 2009. The median journal has an OJR of 0.51, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2008; Q1 starts at OJR 1.08. The top three are International Materials Reviews, Research in Engineering Design, and Composites Part B Engineering.
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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248 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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1International Materials ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.01Q1 | 5.22 0.90 up from 2008 | 45 | 14% | $4,400 | ||
2Research in Engineering DesignSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 3.74Q1 | 2.03 0.19 down from 2008 | 50 | 9% | $4,090 | ||
3Composites Part B EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.28Q1 | 2.24 0.61 up from 2008 | 282 | 9% | $5,210 | ||
4Annual IEEE Semiconductor Thermal Measurement and Management Symposium/ProceedingsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.20Q1 | 0.98 0.47 up from 2008 | 59 | — | — | ||
5Design StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.07Q1 | 1.77 0.33 down from 2008 | 100 | 10% | $4,570 | ||
6Journal of Mechanical DesignAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers · United States | 2.91Q1 | 1.89 0.31 up from 2008 | 370 | 10% | — | ||
7International Journal of PlasticityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.60Q1 | 4.48 0.67 up from 2008 | 302 | 7% | $3,740 | ||
8International Journal of Machine Tools and ManufactureElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.60Q1 | 2.06 0.21 up from 2008 | 526 | 3% | $5,610 | ||
9WearElsevier BV · Switzerland | 2.49Q1 | 2.14 0.46 up from 2008 | 1,034 | 7% | $5,394 | ||
10Energy Conversion and ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.36Q1 | 2.27 0.01 up from 2008 | 972 | 6% | $4,600 | ||
11Tribology InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.32Q1 | 1.67 0.06 down from 2008 | 550 | 4% | $5,390 | ||
12ASHRAE winter conference papersAmerican Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers · United States | 2.25Q1 | 0.14 0.15 down from 2008 | 46 | 0% | — | ||
13CIRP AnnalsElsevier BV | 2.23Q1 | 2.23 0.36 up from 2008 | 451 | 6% | $3,190 | ||
14Scripta MaterialiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.21Q1 | 2.79 0.14 up from 2008 | 1,872 | 6% | $3,220 | ||
15Applied Thermal EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.19Q1 | 1.73 0.15 up from 2008 | 1,026 | 29% | $3,660 | ||
16International Journal of Mechanical SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 1.29 0.06 up from 2008 | 377 | 4% | $4,740 | ||
17IntermetallicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 2.01 0.14 down from 2008 | 597 | 5% | $2,730 | ||
18International Journal of Pressure Vessels and PipingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 1.20 0.03 up from 2008 | 308 | 2% | $3,620 | ||
19I-THERM :/I-THERM - Intersociety Conference on Thermal Phenomena in Electronic SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.98Q1 | 0.63no 2008 value | 151 | — | — | — | |
20International Journal of Heat and Mass TransferElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.96Q1 | 1.89 0.04 down from 2008 | 1,660 | 8% | $4,220 | ||
21Journal of TribologyASM International · United States | 1.94Q1 | 1.32 0.08 down from 2008 | 295 | 2% | — | ||
22SPE Eastern Regional MeetingPublisher not listed | 1.89Q1 | —no 2008 value | 36 | 0% | — | ||
23CIRP journal of manufacturing science and technologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.87Q1 | 0.87no 2008 value | 38 | 3% | $2,950 | — | |
24Science and Technology of Welding & JoiningManey Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.76Q1 | 1.52 0.06 down from 2008 | 310 | 6% | $4,400 | ||
25Journal of Sandwich Structures & MaterialsSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.73Q1 | 1.28 0.46 up from 2008 | 65 | 12% | $4,400 | ||
26Journal of Materials Processing TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.72Q1 | 1.42 0.14 up from 2008 | 2,868 | 7% | $3,980 | ||
27Advanced Engineering MaterialsWiley · Germany | 1.72Q1 | 1.86 0.41 up from 2008 | 574 | 13% | $4,520 | ||
28International Journal of Thermal SciencesElsevier BV · France | 1.69Q1 | 1.43 0.20 down from 2008 | 479 | 5% | $3,920 | ||
29Artificial intelligence for engineering design analysis and manufacturingCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.67Q1 | 1.34 0.29 up from 2008 | 98 | 45% | $3,550 | ||
30Precision EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.66Q1 | 1.53 0.54 up from 2008 | 174 | 6% | $3,340 | ||
31Tribology LettersSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.65Q1 | 1.56 0.24 down from 2008 | 396 | 16% | $3,990 | ||
| 1.64Q1 | —no 2008 value | 111 | — | — | |||
33Vehicle System DynamicsTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 1.63Q1 | 1.09 0.13 up from 2008 | 375 | 13% | — | ||
34Materials & Design (1980-2015)Elsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.63Q1 | 1.37 0.33 up from 2008 | 948 | 3% | — | ||
35Surface and Coatings TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.62Q1 | 1.98 0.22 up from 2008 | 2,780 | 7% | $3,880 | ||
36Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part F Journal of Rail and Rapid TransitSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.54Q1 | 0.90 0.09 up from 2008 | 133 | 10% | $4,150 | ||
37International Journal of Rotating MachineryOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · Netherlands | 1.52Q1 | 0.71 0.03 up from 2008 | 64 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
38Materials Science and Engineering AElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.52Q1 | 1.82 0.24 up from 2008 | 5,070 | 5% | $3,430 | ||
39International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard MaterialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.50Q1 | 1.13 0.18 down from 2008 | 285 | 1% | $3,310 | ||
40International Journal of RefrigerationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.46Q1 | 1.41 0.03 down from 2008 | 518 | 4% | $3,220 | ||
41Metallurgical and Materials Transactions ASpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.44Q1 | 1.59 0.26 up from 2008 | 1,122 | 18% | $3,990 | ||
42ASME Journal of Heat and Mass TransferASM International · United States | 1.42Q1 | 1.32 0.08 down from 2008 | 554 | 4% | — | ||
43Journal of Manufacturing Science and EngineeringASM International · United States | 1.41Q1 | 1.08 0.07 up from 2008 | 301 | 2% | — | ||
44The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.38Q1 | 1.07 0.01 up from 2008 | 1,777 | 7% | $3,990 | ||
45Journal of Engineering Materials and TechnologyAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers · United States | 1.37Q1 | 1.06 0.01 down from 2008 | 192 | 14% | — | ||
46Experimental MechanicsSpringer Nature · United States | 1.33Q1 | 1.37 0.30 down from 2008 | 292 | 15% | $2,390 | ||
47AdsorptionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.30Q1 | 1.64 0.45 up from 2008 | 199 | 5% | $4,090 | ||
48Journal of Laser ApplicationsLaser Institute of America · United States | 1.29Q1 | 1.36 0.37 up from 2008 | 113 | 0% | — | ||
49CalphadElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.29Q1 | 1.27 0.22 down from 2008 | 231 | 1% | $3,250 | ||
50International Journal of Technology and Design EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.25Q1 | 0.67 0.01 down from 2008 | 95 | 15% | $3,390 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Mechanical 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.
77 additional Mechanical 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
- 248
- Window papers (baseline)
- 131,580 +25.2% from indicator year 2006
- Median OJR
- 0.5090 -0.5% from indicator year 2006
- Rising journals (2025)
- 37
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 | 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.