Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Subfield ranking · 2012
Mechanics of Materials journal rankings 2012
108 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Mechanics of Materials has 108 ranked journals in 2012. The median OJR fell 0.06 on 2011 to 1.06, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.86. The top three are Applied Mechanics Reviews, Composite Structures, and Composites Part A Applied Science and Manufacturing.
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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108 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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1Applied Mechanics ReviewsAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers · United States | 4.12Q1 | 3.66 1.03 down from 2011 | 50 | — | — | ||
2Composite StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.77Q1 | 3.05 0.42 up from 2011 | 937 | 11% | $4,660 | ||
3Composites Part A Applied Science and ManufacturingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.32Q1 | 3.81 0.14 up from 2011 | 715 | 8% | $4,480 | ||
4Composites Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.30Q1 | 3.86no change | 874 | 8% | $4,610 | ||
5International Journal for Numerical Methods in EngineeringWiley · United Kingdom | 2.86Q1 | 2.52 0.03 down from 2011 | 796 | 21% | $4,250 | ||
6Spectrochimica Acta Part B Atomic SpectroscopyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.85Q1 | 3.94 1.03 up from 2011 | 427 | 11% | $3,530 | ||
7International Journal of Coal GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.72Q1 | 3.31 0.48 up from 2011 | 357 | 4% | $4,090 | ||
8International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining SciencesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.60Q1 | 1.74 0.21 up from 2011 | 379 | 12% | $4,110 | ||
9AAPG BulletinAmerican Association of Petroleum Geologists · United States | 2.59Q1 | 2.48 0.12 up from 2011 | 219 | 3% | — | ||
10Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of SolidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.57Q1 | 4.08 0.99 up from 2011 | 380 | 25% | $4,220 | ||
11Computational MechanicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.51Q1 | 2.67 0.55 up from 2011 | 315 | 21% | $3,990 | ||
12International Journal of Solids and StructuresElsevier BV · United States | 2.47Q1 | 2.46 0.20 up from 2011 | 916 | 99% | $3,790 | ||
13Engineering ComputationsEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.40Q1 | 1.84 0.12 up from 2011 | 176 | 10% | — | ||
14International Journal of FatigueElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.37Q1 | 1.92 0.32 down from 2011 | 617 | 14% | $3,940 | ||
15Engineering Fracture MechanicsElsevier BV · United States | 2.34Q1 | 1.89 0.27 up from 2011 | 725 | 10% | $4,120 | ||
16Finite Elements in Analysis and DesignElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.27Q1 | 1.69 0.41 up from 2011 | 355 | 6% | $2,990 | ||
17International Journal of Adhesion and AdhesivesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.23Q1 | 2.32 0.10 up from 2011 | 262 | 11% | $3,760 | ||
18NDT & E InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.20Q1 | 1.88 0.13 down from 2011 | 307 | 6% | $4,440 | ||
19Rock Mechanics and Rock EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 2.19Q1 | 1.59 0.08 up from 2011 | 181 | 22% | $3,990 | ||
20European Journal of Mechanics - A/SolidsElsevier BV · France | 2.16Q1 | 1.99 0.08 up from 2011 | 290 | 19% | $4,040 | ||
21Applied Mathematical ModellingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.08Q1 | 2.04 0.07 down from 2011 | 1,316 | 100% | $4,510 | ||
22Mechanics of MaterialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.03Q1 | 2.43 0.41 up from 2011 | 301 | 11% | $3,850 | ||
23Journal of Analytical Atomic SpectrometryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.01Q1 | 3.65 0.47 up from 2011 | 693 | 8% | — | ||
24GeofluidsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.95Q1 | 2.60 0.50 up from 2011 | 119 | 13% | $2,160 | ||
25Journal of Nondestructive EvaluationSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.94Q1 | 1.34 0.34 down from 2011 | 81 | 5% | $3,290 | ||
26Marine and Petroleum GeologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.91Q1 | 2.38 0.26 up from 2011 | 407 | 7% | $3,440 | ||
27Engineering With ComputersSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 1.48 0.66 up from 2011 | 139 | 20% | $2,190 | ||
28International Journal of FractureSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.82Q2 | 1.52 0.03 up from 2011 | 337 | 11% | $3,790 | ||
29Organic GeochemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.81Q2 | 2.70 0.05 down from 2011 | 450 | 12% | $3,270 | ||
30International Journal of Engineering ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.71Q2 | 2.08 0.47 up from 2011 | 398 | 12% | $4,980 | ||
31Applied Composite MaterialsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.67Q2 | 1.02 0.04 down from 2011 | 160 | 7% | $4,090 | ||
32International Journal of Damage MechanicsSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.62Q2 | 1.56 0.05 up from 2011 | 152 | 6% | $4,400 | ||
33Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the EnvironmentSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.59Q2 | 0.77 0.15 down from 2011 | 221 | 6% | $3,990 | ||
34Acta MechanicaSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 1.59Q2 | 1.64 0.19 up from 2011 | 438 | 8% | $3,490 | ||
35Mechanics Research CommunicationsElsevier BV · United States | 1.57Q2 | 1.61 0.22 up from 2011 | 347 | 13% | $3,580 | ||
| 1.53Q2 | 1.58 1.20 up from 2011 | 47 | 0% | — | |||
37Engineering Analysis with Boundary ElementsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.50Q2 | 1.66 0.02 down from 2011 | 413 | 9% | $3,590 | ||
38Archive of Applied MechanicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.48Q2 | 1.22 0.07 up from 2011 | 311 | 20% | $4,090 | ||
39Journal of Energetic MaterialsTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.45Q2 | 1.00 0.33 up from 2011 | 79 | 3% | — | ||
40Mechanics of Advanced Materials and StructuresTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.43Q2 | 1.16 0.09 down from 2011 | 174 | 6% | — | ||
41LithosphereOAGeological Society of America · United States | 1.42Q2 | 2.54 0.69 up from 2011 | 112 | 64% | $2,100 | ||
42Propellants Explosives PyrotechnicsWiley · Germany | 1.40Q2 | 1.19 0.08 up from 2011 | 247 | 14% | $3,840 | ||
43UltrasonicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.37Q2 | 1.89 0.03 up from 2011 | 371 | 15% | $3,680 | ||
44Journal of Petroleum GeologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.37Q2 | 1.37 0.50 up from 2011 | 77 | 4% | $3,400 | ||
45The Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering DesignSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.32Q2 | 1.21 0.02 up from 2011 | 178 | 12% | $4,150 | ||
46Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & StructuresWiley · United Kingdom | 1.31Q2 | 1.06 0.01 up from 2011 | 321 | 19% | $3,860 | ||
47Journal of Thermal StressesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.27Q2 | 0.92 0.16 down from 2011 | 213 | 1% | — | ||
48Acta Mechanica Solida SinicaElsevier BV · China | 1.16Q2 | 1.66 0.59 up from 2011 | 178 | 5% | $3,190 | ||
49Theoretical and Applied Fracture MechanicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.14Q2 | 1.01 0.62 down from 2011 | 151 | 0% | $3,730 | ||
50Flow Measurement and InstrumentationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.13Q2 | 1.43 0.23 up from 2011 | 174 | 10% | $3,080 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Mechanics of Materials 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.
21 additional Mechanics of Materials 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
- 108
- Window papers (baseline)
- 106,668 +18.8% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 1.061 +18.6% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 14
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 |
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| 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.