Journal rankings · indicator year 2010
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Subfield ranking · 2010
Mechanical Engineering journal rankings 2010
253 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Mechanical Engineering has 253 ranked journals in 2010. The median OJR rose 0.06 on 2009 to 0.56, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.05. The top three are International Materials Reviews, SPE Eastern Regional Meeting, and Research in Engineering Design.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2010. 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 2007–2009, the window the 2010 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 Engineering352
- Mechanical Engineering253
- Biomedical Engineering173
- Aerospace Engineering156
- Civil and Structural Engineering152
- Mechanics of Materials106
- Control and Systems Engineering90
- Computational Mechanics83
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering55
- Building and Construction52
- Ocean Engineering45
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality23
Show all 16 subfields
253 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 2009. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2007–2009, the window the 2010 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2007–2009 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 2001 to 2010. | Compare |
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1International Materials ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.33Q1 | 6.77 1.56 up from 2009 | 46 | 15% | $4,400 | ||
2SPE Eastern Regional MeetingPublisher not listed | 4.73Q1 | 1.37no 2009 value | 38 | 0% | — | ||
3Research in Engineering DesignSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 4.45Q1 | 2.60 0.58 up from 2009 | 54 | 24% | $4,090 | ||
4Design StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.08Q1 | 3.27 1.50 up from 2009 | 105 | 8% | $4,570 | ||
5CIRP AnnalsElsevier BV | 3.12Q1 | 3.06 0.83 up from 2009 | 436 | 4% | $3,190 | ||
6International Journal of Machine Tools and ManufactureElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.00Q1 | 2.60 0.55 up from 2009 | 441 | 6% | $5,610 | ||
7I-THERM :/I-THERM - Intersociety Conference on Thermal Phenomena in Electronic SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.94Q1 | 1.03 0.40 up from 2009 | 151 | — | — | ||
8Composites Part B EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.90Q1 | 2.21 0.03 down from 2009 | 266 | 9% | $5,210 | ||
9Procedia EngineeringOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.84Q1 | 0.61no 2009 value | 57 | 100% | — | — | |
10International Journal of PlasticityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.70Q1 | 5.13 0.65 up from 2009 | 303 | 6% | $3,740 | ||
11CIRP journal of manufacturing science and technologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.50Q1 | 1.86 0.99 up from 2009 | 63 | 13% | $2,950 | ||
12Journal of Mechanical DesignAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers · United States | 2.49Q1 | 2.08 0.19 up from 2009 | 370 | 8% | — | ||
13Applied Thermal EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.48Q1 | 2.28 0.56 up from 2009 | 946 | 22% | $3,660 | ||
14Energy Conversion and ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.44Q1 | 2.88 0.61 up from 2009 | 1,109 | 6% | $4,600 | ||
15International Journal of Pressure Vessels and PipingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.23Q1 | 1.12 0.08 down from 2009 | 258 | 7% | $3,620 | ||
16Vehicle System DynamicsTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 2.19Q1 | 1.44 0.35 up from 2009 | 320 | 7% | — | ||
17International Journal of Heat and Mass TransferElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.17Q1 | 2.42 0.53 up from 2009 | 1,675 | 6% | $4,220 | ||
18International Journal of RefrigerationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.17Q1 | 1.69 0.28 up from 2009 | 540 | 6% | $3,220 | ||
19Annual IEEE Semiconductor Thermal Measurement and Management Symposium/ProceedingsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.17Q1 | 0.82 0.16 down from 2009 | 59 | — | — | ||
20Journal of Materials Processing TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.12Q1 | 2.15 0.73 up from 2009 | 2,372 | 8% | $3,980 | ||
21Science and Technology of Welding & JoiningManey Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.12Q1 | 2.08 0.56 up from 2009 | 281 | 5% | $4,400 | ||
22Tribology InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.05Q1 | 1.51 0.16 down from 2009 | 598 | 7% | $5,390 | ||
23WearElsevier BV · Switzerland | 2.02Q1 | 1.81 0.33 down from 2009 | 1,231 | 8% | $5,394 | ||
24International Journal of Mechanical SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.02Q1 | 1.32 0.03 up from 2009 | 355 | 6% | $4,740 | ||
25Scripta MaterialiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.01Q1 | 2.78 0.01 down from 2009 | 1,851 | 7% | $3,220 | ||
26International Journal of Rotating MachineryOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · Netherlands | 1.97Q1 | 0.77 0.06 up from 2009 | 65 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
27Precision EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 1.35 0.18 down from 2009 | 187 | 4% | $3,340 | ||
28International Journal of Thermal SciencesElsevier BV · France | 1.91Q1 | 2.09 0.66 up from 2009 | 540 | 8% | $3,920 | ||
29Materials & Design (1980-2015)Elsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.87Q1 | 2.08 0.71 up from 2009 | 1,286 | 3% | — | ||
30IntermetallicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.84Q1 | 2.24 0.22 up from 2009 | 585 | 4% | $2,730 | ||
31Artificial intelligence for engineering design analysis and manufacturingCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.83Q1 | 1.45 0.12 up from 2009 | 102 | 34% | $3,550 | ||
32International Communications in Heat and Mass TransferElsevier BV · United States | 1.70Q1 | 2.10 0.73 up from 2009 | 495 | 3% | $3,560 | ||
33Materials Science and Engineering AElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.67Q1 | 2.28 0.46 up from 2009 | 3,779 | 5% | $3,430 | ||
34Surface and Coatings TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.65Q1 | 2.29 0.32 up from 2009 | 2,370 | 11% | $3,880 | ||
35International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard MaterialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.64Q1 | 1.70 0.57 up from 2009 | 320 | 2% | $3,310 | ||
36Metallurgical and Materials Transactions ASpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.60Q1 | 1.84 0.25 up from 2009 | 1,088 | 18% | $3,990 | ||
37Journal of Manufacturing ProcessesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.60Q1 | 1.08 0.38 up from 2009 | 38 | 0% | $3,520 | ||
38The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.59Q1 | 1.26 0.19 up from 2009 | 1,612 | 8% | $3,990 | ||
39Journal of TribologyASM International · United States | 1.58Q1 | 1.22 0.10 down from 2009 | 287 | 4% | — | ||
40Advanced Engineering MaterialsWiley · Germany | 1.54Q1 | 1.95 0.09 up from 2009 | 597 | 12% | $4,520 | ||
41ASME Journal of Heat and Mass TransferASM International · United States | 1.50Q1 | 1.79 0.47 up from 2009 | 576 | 6% | — | ||
42CalphadElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.49Q1 | 1.60 0.33 up from 2009 | 234 | 1% | $3,250 | ||
43Materials CharacterizationElsevier BV · United States | 1.49Q1 | 1.69 0.50 up from 2009 | 601 | 4% | $3,320 | ||
44Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part F Journal of Rail and Rapid TransitSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.48Q1 | 0.76 0.14 down from 2009 | 145 | 8% | $4,150 | ||
45Research in Nondestructive EvaluationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.47Q1 | 0.92 0.24 up from 2009 | 38 | 13% | — | ||
46Journal of Manufacturing Science and EngineeringASM International · United States | 1.44Q1 | 1.31 0.23 up from 2009 | 298 | 4% | — | ||
47Tribology LettersSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.38Q1 | 1.54 0.02 down from 2009 | 386 | 18% | $3,990 | ||
48Journal of Sandwich Structures & MaterialsSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.37Q1 | 0.72 0.56 down from 2009 | 96 | 7% | $4,400 | ||
49AdsorptionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.35Q1 | 2.33 0.69 up from 2009 | 218 | 22% | $4,090 | ||
50J of Design ResearchInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 1.33Q1 | 1.17 0.72 up from 2009 | 64 | 14% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Mechanical Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering352
- Mechanical Engineering253
- Biomedical Engineering173
- Aerospace Engineering156
- Civil and Structural Engineering152
- Mechanics of Materials106
- Control and Systems Engineering90
- Computational Mechanics83
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering55
- Building and Construction52
- Ocean Engineering45
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality23
- Automotive Engineering20
- Media Technology17
- Architecture1
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2010. Corpus-wide, 73.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
81 additional Mechanical Engineering journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2007–2009, 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: 2010. Publication window: 2007–2009. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 253
- Window papers (baseline)
- 138,936 +21.6% from indicator year 2007
- Median OJR
- 0.565 +3.0% from indicator year 2007
- Rising journals (2025)
- 37
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2007–2009 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.