Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Subfield ranking · 2012
Biomedical Engineering journal rankings 2012
201 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Biomedical Engineering has 201 ranked journals in 2012. The median OJR fell 0.11 on 2011 to 0.72, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.41. The top three are IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Nano Today, and Biotechnology for Biofuels.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2012. 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 2009–2011, the window the 2012 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 Engineering395
- Mechanical Engineering279
- Biomedical Engineering201
- Civil and Structural Engineering182
- Aerospace Engineering163
- Mechanics of Materials108
- Control and Systems Engineering102
- Computational Mechanics95
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering68
- Building and Construction58
- Ocean Engineering50
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality26
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201 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 2011. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2009–2011, the window the 2012 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2009–2011 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 2003 to 2012. | Compare |
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1IEEE Transactions on RoboticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.83Q1 | 5.41 0.11 down from 2011 | 395 | 13% | $2,645 | ||
2Nano TodayElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.04Q1 | 12.51 3.62 up from 2011 | 189 | 15% | $4,830 | ||
3Biotechnology for BiofuelsOASpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 4.38Q1 | 8.18 1.39 down from 2011 | 124 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
4Tissue Engineering Part B ReviewsMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 3.93Q1 | 8.49 0.53 down from 2011 | 135 | 53% | — | ||
5BiomaterialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.75Q1 | 8.87 0.01 down from 2011 | 2,878 | 27% | $4,640 | ||
6Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Nanomedicine and NanobiotechnologyWiley · United States | 3.37Q1 | 7.85 1.19 up from 2011 | 150 | 29% | $4,730 | ||
7Bioinspiration & BiomimeticsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.97Q1 | 3.53 1.00 up from 2011 | 121 | 51% | $3,325 | ||
8Biomass and BioenergyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.91Q1 | 4.22 0.27 up from 2011 | 1,009 | 12% | $4,270 | ||
9BioEnergy ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.84Q1 | 3.93 0.34 down from 2011 | 138 | 18% | $3,990 | ||
10Acta BiomaterialiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.82Q1 | 6.03 0.22 up from 2011 | 1,368 | 25% | $3,810 | ||
11IEEE Reviews in Biomedical EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.69Q1 | 4.03 0.05 down from 2011 | 57 | 23% | $2,645 | ||
12Lab on a ChipRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.58Q1 | 6.08 0.04 down from 2011 | 1,521 | 23% | — | ||
13Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 2.47Q1 | 3.91 0.20 up from 2011 | 926 | 40% | — | ||
14BiofabricationIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.46Q1 | 5.55 0.74 up from 2011 | 86 | 63% | $3,895 | ||
15Biofuels Bioproducts and BiorefiningWiley · United Kingdom | 2.44Q1 | 3.82 0.27 down from 2011 | 215 | 7% | $4,530 | ||
16FuelElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.32Q1 | 3.51 0.07 down from 2011 | 1,626 | 10% | $4,330 | ||
17Smart Materials and StructuresIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.18Q1 | 2.72 0.14 up from 2011 | 946 | 47% | $3,325 | ||
18Fuel Processing TechnologyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.12Q1 | 3.01 0.49 down from 2011 | 836 | 34% | $3,180 | ||
19IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.93Q1 | 4.81 1.12 up from 2011 | 196 | 13% | $2,645 | ||
20Journal of BiomechanicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.91Q1 | 3.46 0.19 up from 2011 | 1,445 | 19% | $3,650 | ||
21Journal of vibration and acousticsAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers | 1.89Q1 | 1.71 0.35 up from 2011 | 303 | 10% | — | ||
22International Journal of NanomedicineOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 1.89Q1 | 4.67 0.74 up from 2011 | 486 | 100% | $2,836 | ||
23Biomedical Optics ExpressOAOptica Publishing Group · United States | 1.84Q1 | 3.80 0.89 up from 2011 | 444 | 100% | $1,913 | ||
24Colloids and Surfaces B BiointerfacesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.82Q1 | 4.12 0.33 up from 2011 | 1,445 | 9% | $3,790 | ||
25Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process IntensificationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.80Q1 | 2.58 0.24 up from 2011 | 438 | 8% | $3,910 | ||
26Microfluidics and NanofluidicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.77Q1 | 3.30 0.29 down from 2011 | 537 | 20% | $3,990 | ||
27Chemical Engineering ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.75Q1 | 2.35 0.18 down from 2011 | 2,068 | 10% | $4,050 | ||
28Tissue Engineering Part C MethodsMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 1.75Q1 | 3.55 0.03 down from 2011 | 390 | 56% | — | ||
29Industrial Crops and ProductsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.73Q1 | 3.07 0.18 up from 2011 | 660 | 11% | $3,720 | ||
30The Journal of Rehabilitation Research and DevelopmentOAUnited States Department of Veterans Affairs · United States | 1.73Q1 | 2.33 0.02 up from 2011 | 281 | 21% | — | ||
31Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials/Journal of mechanical behavior of biomedical materialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.70Q1 | 3.04 0.72 up from 2011 | 392 | 24% | $3,690 | ||
32BiomicrofluidicsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.69Q1 | 4.04 0.07 down from 2011 | 305 | 99% | — | ||
33Biomechanics and Modeling in MechanobiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.67Q1 | 3.60 0.66 up from 2011 | 218 | 59% | $4,190 | ||
34Journal of Analytical and Applied PyrolysisElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.67Q1 | 3.06 0.04 up from 2011 | 378 | 11% | $3,580 | ||
35Nano Communication NetworksElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.67Q1 | 3.29 0.04 up from 2011 | 58 | 12% | $2,420 | ||
36Annals of Biomedical EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.65Q1 | 3.28 0.19 up from 2011 | 822 | 54% | $4,390 | ||
37Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part AWiley · United States | 1.65Q1 | 3.69 0.19 up from 2011 | 992 | 18% | $4,220 | ||
38Biomedical MicrodevicesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.63Q1 | 3.22 0.43 down from 2011 | 322 | 27% | $4,190 | ||
39Industrial & Engineering Chemistry ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.61Q1 | 2.65 0.06 down from 2011 | 4,364 | 7% | $4,500 | ||
40Process Safety and Environmental ProtectionElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.61Q1 | 2.08 0.09 up from 2011 | 917 | 6% | $3,500 | ||
41IEEE Transactions on Biomedical EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.61Q1 | 3.13 0.14 up from 2011 | 1,158 | 22% | $2,645 | ||
42Waste and Biomass ValorizationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.60Q1 | 2.36 0.34 up from 2011 | 100 | 14% | $3,790 | ||
43BioMedical Engineering OnLineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.54Q1 | 2.84 0.27 up from 2011 | 232 | 100% | $2,690 | ||
44AIChE JournalWiley · United States | 1.54Q1 | 2.35 0.12 up from 2011 | 1,121 | 7% | $4,940 | ||
45Journal of Biomedical OpticsOASPIE · United States | 1.53Q1 | 3.37 0.11 down from 2011 | 1,234 | 95% | $1,675 | ||
46Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B Applied BiomaterialsWiley · United States | 1.49Q1 | 2.86 0.03 up from 2011 | 691 | 15% | $3,400 | ||
47Sensors and Actuators A PhysicalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.48Q1 | 2.45 0.14 up from 2011 | 1,156 | 10% | $3,750 | ||
48Numerical Heat Transfer Part B FundamentalsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.47Q1 | 2.26 0.12 down from 2011 | 141 | 4% | — | ||
49Numerical Heat Transfer Part A ApplicationsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.43Q1 | 2.24 0.58 down from 2011 | 281 | 7% | — | ||
502010 Solid-State, Actuators, and Microsystems Workshop Technical DigestPublisher not listed | 1.43Q1 | 0.43 0.42 down from 2011 | 132 | — | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Biomedical Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering395
- Mechanical Engineering279
- Biomedical Engineering201
- Civil and Structural Engineering182
- Aerospace Engineering163
- Mechanics of Materials108
- Control and Systems Engineering102
- Computational Mechanics95
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering68
- Building and Construction58
- Ocean Engineering50
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality26
- Automotive Engineering23
- Media Technology23
- Architecture1
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2012. Corpus-wide, 75.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
99 additional Biomedical Engineering journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2009–2011, 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: 2012. Publication window: 2009–2011. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 201
- Window papers (baseline)
- 161,587 +28.2% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 0.720 -16.9% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 33
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2009–2011 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.