Journal rankings · indicator year 2009
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Subfield ranking · 2009
Mechanics of Materials journal rankings 2009
106 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Mechanics of Materials has 106 ranked journals in 2009. The median OJR fell 0.08 on 2008 to 0.90, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.55. The top three are Applied Mechanics Reviews, Composites Part A Applied Science and Manufacturing, and Composites Science and Technology.
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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106 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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1Applied Mechanics ReviewsAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers · United States | 6.93Q1 | 3.18 2.07 down from 2008 | 57 | 0% | — | ||
2Composites Part A Applied Science and ManufacturingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.03Q1 | 2.68 0.34 up from 2008 | 578 | 10% | $4,480 | ||
3Composites Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.02Q1 | 2.81 0.42 up from 2008 | 1,175 | 9% | $4,610 | ||
4Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of SolidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.91Q1 | 3.61 0.33 up from 2008 | 406 | 17% | $4,220 | ||
5Mechanics of MaterialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.70Q1 | 2.04 0.17 down from 2008 | 228 | 9% | $3,850 | ||
6Composite StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.58Q1 | 2.04 0.44 up from 2008 | 735 | 6% | $4,660 | ||
7International Journal for Numerical Methods in EngineeringWiley · United Kingdom | 2.55Q1 | 2.29 0.18 up from 2008 | 931 | 20% | $4,250 | ||
8Engineering Fracture MechanicsElsevier BV · United States | 2.54Q1 | 1.66 0.10 up from 2008 | 774 | 8% | $4,120 | ||
9International Journal of FatigueElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.43Q1 | 1.62no change | 696 | 9% | $3,940 | ||
10AAPG BulletinAmerican Association of Petroleum Geologists · United States | 2.33Q1 | 1.99 0.28 up from 2008 | 244 | 2% | — | ||
11European Journal of Mechanics - A/SolidsElsevier BV · France | 2.32Q1 | 1.41 0.39 down from 2008 | 239 | 34% | $4,040 | ||
12Computational MechanicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.18Q1 | 1.80 0.12 up from 2008 | 334 | 28% | $3,990 | ||
13International Journal of Solids and StructuresElsevier BV · United States | 2.17Q1 | 1.81 0.05 down from 2008 | 1,176 | 100% | $3,790 | ||
14Spectrochimica Acta Part B Atomic SpectroscopyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.14Q1 | 3.06 0.26 up from 2008 | 584 | 5% | $3,530 | ||
15Finite Elements in Analysis and DesignElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.14Q1 | 1.40 0.23 up from 2008 | 284 | 4% | $2,990 | ||
16International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining SciencesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.06Q1 | 1.33 0.17 up from 2008 | 345 | 4% | $4,110 | ||
17Engineering With ComputersSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 0.95 0.20 down from 2008 | 135 | 12% | $2,190 | ||
18Journal of Analytical Atomic SpectrometryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.88Q1 | 3.88 0.34 down from 2008 | 502 | 10% | — | ||
19International Journal of Adhesion and AdhesivesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 1.64 0.08 down from 2008 | 200 | 15% | $3,760 | ||
20Applied Composite MaterialsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.72Q1 | 0.92 0.30 down from 2008 | 69 | 8% | $4,090 | ||
21Organic GeochemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.70Q1 | 2.07 0.34 down from 2008 | 540 | 9% | $3,270 | ||
22NDT & E InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.69Q1 | 1.35 0.11 up from 2008 | 245 | 8% | $4,440 | ||
23GeofluidsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.69Q1 | 2.20 0.64 up from 2008 | 101 | 14% | $2,160 | ||
24International Journal of Coal GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.69Q1 | 1.82 0.05 up from 2008 | 309 | 6% | $4,090 | ||
25Journal of Composite MaterialsSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.65Q1 | 1.18 0.06 down from 2008 | 475 | 6% | $4,150 | ||
26Applied Mathematical ModellingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.55Q1 | 1.28 0.30 up from 2008 | 735 | 100% | $4,510 | ||
27Engineering Analysis with Boundary ElementsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.55Q1 | 1.32 0.20 down from 2008 | 367 | 4% | $3,590 | ||
28Marine and Petroleum GeologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.53Q2 | 1.60 0.18 up from 2008 | 245 | 7% | $3,440 | ||
29International Journal of Engineering ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.51Q2 | 1.37 0.22 down from 2008 | 335 | 7% | $4,980 | ||
30International Journal of Computational MethodsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.46Q2 | 1.27 0.66 up from 2008 | 97 | 0% | — | ||
31International Journal of FractureSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.45Q2 | 1.05 0.15 down from 2008 | 434 | 13% | $3,790 | ||
32Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & StructuresWiley · United Kingdom | 1.42Q2 | 1.02 0.02 up from 2008 | 325 | 24% | $3,860 | ||
33Rock Mechanics and Rock EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 1.37Q2 | 0.83 0.12 up from 2008 | 110 | 11% | $3,990 | ||
34Journal of Nondestructive EvaluationSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.35Q2 | 0.92 0.26 up from 2008 | 38 | 5% | $3,290 | ||
35International Journal of Damage MechanicsSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.31Q2 | 1.41 1.82 down from 2008 | 80 | 8% | $4,400 | ||
36Theoretical and Applied Fracture MechanicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.29Q2 | 1.09 0.26 down from 2008 | 139 | 8% | $3,730 | ||
37Flow Measurement and InstrumentationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.28Q2 | 1.16 0.34 up from 2008 | 129 | 3% | $3,080 | ||
38Journal of Thermal StressesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.28Q2 | 0.99 0.21 up from 2008 | 229 | 9% | — | ||
39Archive of Applied MechanicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.27Q2 | 0.89 0.01 down from 2008 | 303 | 15% | $4,090 | ||
40Acta MechanicaSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 1.23Q2 | 1.08 0.17 down from 2008 | 419 | 14% | $3,490 | ||
41Mechanics of Time-Dependent MaterialsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.21Q2 | 1.35 0.49 up from 2008 | 68 | 11% | $4,190 | ||
42Journal of China University of Mining and TechnologyElsevier BV · China | 1.20Q2 | 0.85 0.36 up from 2008 | 305 | 0% | — | ||
43Mechanics of Advanced Materials and StructuresTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.14Q2 | 0.74 0.28 down from 2008 | 141 | 2% | — | ||
44Propellants Explosives PyrotechnicsWiley · Germany | 1.12Q2 | 0.94 0.35 down from 2008 | 214 | 17% | $3,840 | ||
45Communications in Numerical Methods in EngineeringWiley · United Kingdom | 1.08Q2 | 1.02 0.17 down from 2008 | 307 | 23% | — | ||
46The Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering DesignSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.07Q2 | 0.98 0.23 up from 2008 | 173 | 8% | $4,150 | ||
47Continuum Mechanics and ThermodynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.05Q2 | 1.56 0.36 down from 2008 | 86 | 24% | $2,990 | ||
48UltrasonicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.04Q2 | 1.49 0.26 up from 2008 | 553 | 9% | $3,680 | ||
49Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the EnvironmentSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.03Q2 | 0.52 0.10 down from 2008 | 149 | 10% | $3,990 | ||
50Journal of Petroleum GeologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.99Q2 | 0.60 0.18 down from 2008 | 87 | 6% | $3,400 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Mechanics of Materials 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.
15 additional Mechanics of Materials 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
- 106
- Window papers (baseline)
- 89,782 +24.2% from indicator year 2006
- Median OJR
- 0.895 -11.2% from indicator year 2006
- Rising journals (2025)
- 14
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 | 78 | 81 | 85 | 90 | 89 | 91 | 96 | 101 | 105 | 106 | 106 | 110 | 108 | 115 | 117 | 121 | 124 | 126 | 123 | 123 | 121 | 123 | 122 | 121 | 126 | 124 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 41,039 | 46,235 | 51,243 | 57,208 | 61,654 | 67,090 | 72,297 | 77,433 | 83,476 | 89,782 | 95,236 | 100,355 | 106,668 | 110,219 | 112,431 | 110,199 | 106,266 | 99,874 | 95,912 | 96,897 | 101,761 | 106,369 | 109,525 | 109,615 | 109,306 | 111,140 | |
| Median OJR | 0.70 | 0.83 | 0.964 | 0.97 | 0.986 | 0.977 | 1.01 | 0.985 | 0.978 | 0.895 | 1.03 | 1.12 | 1.061 | 1.05 | 1.060 | 1.09 | 1.04 | 0.965 | 0.93 | 0.8976 | 0.910 | 0.912 | 0.8984 | 0.82 | 0.76 | 0.80 |
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.