Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Subfield ranking · 2012
Mechanical Engineering journal rankings 2012
279 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Mechanical Engineering has 279 ranked journals in 2012. The median journal has an OJR of 0.55, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.03 on 2011; Q1 starts at OJR 1.04. The top three are International Materials Reviews, Design Studies, and CIRP Annals.
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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279 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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1International Materials ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 7.10Q1 | 10.00 0.19 up from 2011 | 42 | 30% | $4,400 | ||
2Design StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.97Q1 | 2.92 0.24 up from 2011 | 108 | 16% | $4,570 | ||
3CIRP AnnalsElsevier BV | 3.64Q1 | 3.69 0.27 up from 2011 | 458 | 11% | $3,190 | ||
4SPE Eastern Regional MeetingPublisher not listed | 3.61Q1 | 0.96 0.58 down from 2011 | 114 | 0% | — | ||
5Research in Engineering DesignSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 3.42Q1 | 2.12 0.35 down from 2011 | 62 | 29% | $4,090 | ||
6International Journal of Machine Tools and ManufactureElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.33Q1 | 3.14 0.15 down from 2011 | 357 | 8% | $5,610 | ||
7CIRP journal of manufacturing science and technologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.30Q1 | 2.32 0.19 up from 2011 | 146 | 8% | $2,950 | ||
8International Journal of PlasticityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.63Q1 | 5.65 1.33 up from 2011 | 271 | 11% | $3,740 | ||
9Composites Part B EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.56Q1 | 2.70 0.21 up from 2011 | 611 | 6% | $5,210 | ||
10International Journal of Thermal SciencesElsevier BV · France | 2.56Q1 | 3.02 0.37 up from 2011 | 699 | 7% | $3,920 | ||
11Energy Conversion and ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.53Q1 | 3.76 0.77 up from 2011 | 1,184 | 9% | $4,600 | ||
12Journal of Materials Processing TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.51Q1 | 2.54 0.04 up from 2011 | 819 | 9% | $3,980 | ||
13Applied Thermal EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.46Q1 | 2.53 0.10 up from 2011 | 1,231 | 8% | $3,660 | ||
14International Journal of Mechanical SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.45Q1 | 2.11 0.29 up from 2011 | 395 | 7% | $4,740 | ||
15Materials & Design (1980-2015)Elsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.41Q1 | 3.08 0.19 up from 2011 | 2,007 | 5% | — | ||
16Journal of Engineering DesignTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.40Q1 | 1.61 0.20 down from 2011 | 110 | 13% | — | ||
17Journal of Mechanical DesignAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers · United States | 2.33Q1 | 2.24 0.44 up from 2011 | 467 | 6% | — | ||
18International Journal of Heat and Mass TransferElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.29Q1 | 2.80no change | 1,802 | 7% | $4,220 | ||
19Tribology InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.14Q1 | 2.13 0.36 up from 2011 | 732 | 8% | $5,390 | ||
20International Journal of Rotating MachineryOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · Netherlands | 2.09Q1 | 0.81 0.34 down from 2011 | 44 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
21International Journal of RefrigerationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.07Q1 | 2.08 0.06 up from 2011 | 620 | 9% | $3,220 | ||
22International Communications in Heat and Mass TransferElsevier BV · United States | 1.96Q1 | 2.70 0.17 up from 2011 | 634 | 5% | $3,560 | ||
23Science and Technology of Welding & JoiningManey Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 1.60 0.82 down from 2011 | 311 | 4% | $4,400 | ||
24Vehicle System DynamicsTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 1.93Q1 | 1.23 0.14 down from 2011 | 297 | 20% | — | ||
25Precision EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.88Q1 | 1.70 0.15 up from 2011 | 231 | 12% | $3,340 | ||
26WearElsevier BV · Switzerland | 1.87Q1 | 1.78 0.37 down from 2011 | 1,240 | 10% | $5,394 | ||
27Tribology LettersSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.82Q1 | 2.09 0.33 up from 2011 | 488 | 15% | $3,990 | ||
28Journal of Manufacturing ProcessesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 1.69 0.66 up from 2011 | 66 | 0% | $3,520 | ||
29Journal of TribologyASM International · United States | 1.78Q1 | 1.47 0.08 up from 2011 | 248 | 6% | — | ||
30Scripta MaterialiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 3.02 0.28 up from 2011 | 1,734 | 8% | $3,220 | ||
31Production EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.76Q1 | 1.41 0.33 up from 2011 | 212 | 7% | $3,290 | ||
32International Journal of Pressure Vessels and PipingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.74Q1 | 1.28 0.03 up from 2011 | 245 | 7% | $3,620 | ||
33ASME Journal of Heat and Mass TransferASM International · United States | 1.73Q1 | 2.15 0.03 down from 2011 | 694 | 3% | — | ||
34The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.69Q1 | 1.59 0.10 down from 2011 | 1,915 | 6% | $3,990 | ||
35Materials Science and Engineering AElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.69Q1 | 2.55 0.25 up from 2011 | 3,274 | 5% | $3,430 | ||
36Archives of Civil and Mechanical EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Poland | 1.68Q1 | 1.74 0.50 up from 2011 | 142 | 0% | $3,290 | ||
37International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard MaterialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.67Q1 | 1.65 0.36 down from 2011 | 368 | 2% | $3,310 | ||
38Metallurgical and Materials Transactions ASpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.63Q1 | 1.98 0.37 up from 2011 | 1,240 | 18% | $3,990 | ||
39IntermetallicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.62Q1 | 2.16 0.31 up from 2011 | 876 | 6% | $2,730 | ||
40MaterialsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.59Q1 | 3.02 0.62 up from 2011 | 485 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
41Experimental MechanicsSpringer Nature · United States | 1.58Q1 | 1.87 0.25 up from 2011 | 356 | 13% | $2,390 | ||
42Surface and Coatings TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.52Q1 | 2.26 0.03 up from 2011 | 2,485 | 7% | $3,880 | ||
43Procedia EngineeringOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.51Q1 | 0.45 0.25 down from 2011 | 5,092 | 100% | — | ||
44Materials CharacterizationElsevier BV · United States | 1.48Q1 | 2.04 0.19 up from 2011 | 540 | 5% | $3,320 | ||
45Journal of Applied MechanicsASM International · United States | 1.47Q1 | 1.55 0.39 up from 2011 | 392 | 9% | — | ||
46Volume 3: Controls, Diagnostics and Instrumentation; Cycle Innovations; MarinePublisher not listed | 1.46Q1 | 0.45 0.18 up from 2011 | 107 | — | — | ||
47CalphadElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.44Q1 | 1.58 0.07 down from 2011 | 224 | 5% | $3,250 | ||
48Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part K Journal of Multi-body DynamicsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.33Q1 | 0.68 0.11 up from 2011 | 84 | 3% | $4,150 | ||
49Journal of Sandwich Structures & MaterialsSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.32Q1 | 0.68 0.26 down from 2011 | 104 | 9% | $4,400 | ||
50Research in Nondestructive EvaluationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.27Q1 | 0.80 0.20 down from 2011 | 43 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Mechanical 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.
95 additional Mechanical 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
- 279
- Window papers (baseline)
- 164,074 +24.7% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 0.551 +8.3% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 37
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 | 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.