Journal rankings · indicator year 2013
Choose a field to open its ranking, or a journal to find its row in its subfield’s list.
Subfield ranking · 2013
Biomedical Engineering journal rankings 2013
220 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Biomedical Engineering has 220 ranked journals in 2013. The median OJR rose 0.06 on 2012 to 0.78, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.44. The top three are IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Nano Today, and Biotechnology for Biofuels.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2013. 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 2010–2012, the window the 2013 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 Engineering427
- Mechanical Engineering297
- Biomedical Engineering220
- Civil and Structural Engineering206
- Aerospace Engineering169
- Mechanics of Materials115
- Control and Systems Engineering109
- Computational Mechanics97
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering66
- Building and Construction63
- Ocean Engineering56
- Media Technology26
220 ranked journals
Filters
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 2012. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2010–2012, the window the 2013 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2010–2012 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 2004 to 2013. | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1IEEE Transactions on RoboticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.56Q1 | 6.16 0.75 up from 2012 | 362 | 26% | $2,645 | ||
2Nano TodayElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.54Q1 | 12.72 0.21 up from 2012 | 192 | 19% | $4,830 | ||
3Biotechnology for BiofuelsOASpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 3.90Q1 | 8.37 0.19 up from 2012 | 187 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
4BiomaterialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.70Q1 | 9.56 0.69 up from 2012 | 2,863 | 30% | $4,640 | ||
5Nano EnergyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.47Q1 | 7.03 1.60 down from 2012 | 157 | 3% | $5,210 | ||
6Tissue Engineering Part B ReviewsMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 3.27Q1 | 8.11 0.39 down from 2012 | 127 | 59% | — | ||
7Bioinspiration & BiomimeticsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.00Q1 | 3.87 0.34 up from 2012 | 163 | 64% | $3,325 | ||
8Biomass and BioenergyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.85Q1 | 4.71 0.49 up from 2012 | 1,235 | 11% | $4,270 | ||
9Acta BiomaterialiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.85Q1 | 6.17 0.14 up from 2012 | 1,362 | 32% | $3,810 | ||
10Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Nanomedicine and NanobiotechnologyWiley · United States | 2.72Q1 | 6.02 1.83 down from 2012 | 135 | 39% | $4,730 | ||
11BiofabricationIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.60Q1 | 5.71 0.16 up from 2012 | 102 | 45% | $3,895 | ||
12IEEE Reviews in Biomedical EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.60Q1 | 3.87 0.16 down from 2012 | 58 | 56% | $2,645 | ||
13Lab on a ChipRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.60Q1 | 6.30 0.22 up from 2012 | 1,752 | 28% | — | ||
14BioEnergy ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.59Q1 | 3.73 0.20 down from 2012 | 210 | 20% | $3,990 | ||
15Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 2.57Q1 | 3.56 0.35 down from 2012 | 978 | 40% | — | ||
16Biofuels Bioproducts and BiorefiningWiley · United Kingdom | 2.46Q1 | 4.06 0.24 up from 2012 | 206 | 23% | $4,530 | ||
17FuelElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.33Q1 | 3.64 0.14 up from 2012 | 2,085 | 11% | $4,330 | ||
18Smart Materials and StructuresIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.26Q1 | 3.07 0.35 up from 2012 | 1,032 | 50% | $3,325 | ||
19International Journal of NanomedicineOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 2.15Q1 | 5.25 0.58 up from 2012 | 959 | 100% | $2,836 | ||
20Reviews in Chemical EngineeringDe Gruyter · Germany | 2.14Q1 | 3.42 1.85 up from 2012 | 34 | 23% | $0 listed | ||
21Fuel Processing TechnologyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.09Q1 | 3.32 0.31 up from 2012 | 956 | 23% | $3,180 | ||
22Biomaterials ScienceRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.03Q1 | 4.17no 2012 value | 30 | 26% | — | — | |
23Advanced Healthcare MaterialsWiley · Germany | 1.94Q1 | 4.22 0.12 down from 2012 | 199 | 39% | $4,880 | ||
24IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.90Q1 | 4.02 0.79 down from 2012 | 211 | 35% | $2,645 | ||
25Colloids and Surfaces B BiointerfacesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.85Q1 | 4.18 0.06 up from 2012 | 1,605 | 12% | $3,790 | ||
26Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process IntensificationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.84Q1 | 2.59 0.01 up from 2012 | 447 | 9% | $3,910 | ||
27Chemical Engineering ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.83Q1 | 2.71 0.36 up from 2012 | 1,954 | 14% | $4,050 | ||
28Industrial Crops and ProductsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.83Q1 | 3.43 0.36 up from 2012 | 1,084 | 9% | $3,720 | ||
29Tissue Engineering Part C MethodsMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 1.82Q1 | 4.13 0.59 up from 2012 | 346 | 69% | — | ||
30Journal of Analytical and Applied PyrolysisElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.81Q1 | 3.50 0.44 up from 2012 | 488 | 10% | $3,580 | ||
31Journal of BiomechanicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.81Q1 | 3.21 0.25 down from 2012 | 1,391 | 39% | $3,650 | ||
32IEEE Transactions on Biomedical EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.80Q1 | 3.50 0.38 up from 2012 | 1,253 | 34% | $2,645 | ||
33Numerical Heat Transfer Part B FundamentalsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.80Q1 | 1.93 0.33 down from 2012 | 146 | 8% | — | ||
34Annals of Biomedical EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.78Q1 | 4.07 0.80 up from 2012 | 794 | 52% | $4,390 | ||
35BiomicrofluidicsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.75Q1 | 4.48 0.43 up from 2012 | 398 | 100% | — | ||
36Biomedical Optics ExpressOAOptica Publishing Group · United States | 1.75Q1 | 4.10 0.30 up from 2012 | 724 | 100% | $1,913 | ||
37Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials/Journal of mechanical behavior of biomedical materialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.75Q1 | 3.50 0.46 up from 2012 | 588 | 29% | $3,690 | ||
38Journal of vibration and acousticsAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers | 1.74Q1 | 1.46 0.24 down from 2012 | 314 | 10% | — | ||
39Process Safety and Environmental ProtectionElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.73Q1 | 2.41 0.33 up from 2012 | 921 | 11% | $3,500 | ||
40BioMedical Engineering OnLineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.73Q1 | 3.34 0.50 up from 2012 | 284 | 100% | $2,690 | ||
41AIChE JournalWiley · United States | 1.71Q1 | 2.68 0.33 up from 2012 | 958 | 11% | $4,940 | ||
42Annual Review of Biomedical EngineeringAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.71Q1 | 19.58 4.25 up from 2012 | 56 | 50% | — | ||
43The Journal of Rehabilitation Research and DevelopmentOAUnited States Department of Veterans Affairs · United States | 1.70Q1 | 3.14 0.81 up from 2012 | 334 | 22% | — | ||
44Critical Reviews in Biomedical EngineeringBegell House · United States | 1.68Q1 | 2.91 0.08 up from 2012 | 83 | 14% | — | ||
45Biomechanics and Modeling in MechanobiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.65Q1 | 3.34 0.26 down from 2012 | 278 | 49% | $4,190 | ||
462010 Solid-State, Actuators, and Microsystems Workshop Technical DigestPublisher not listed | 1.59Q1 | —no 2012 value | 132 | — | — | ||
47Biomedical MicrodevicesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.58Q1 | 3.26 0.03 up from 2012 | 322 | 31% | $4,190 | ||
48Nano Communication NetworksElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.57Q1 | 2.83 0.46 down from 2012 | 79 | 9% | $2,420 | ||
49Journal of Breath ResearchIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.55Q1 | 4.14 1.22 up from 2012 | 118 | 56% | $3,325 | ||
50Industrial & Engineering Chemistry ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.54Q1 | 2.71 0.06 up from 2012 | 4,814 | 8% | $4,500 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Biomedical Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering427
- Mechanical Engineering297
- Biomedical Engineering220
- Civil and Structural Engineering206
- Aerospace Engineering169
- Mechanics of Materials115
- Control and Systems Engineering109
- Computational Mechanics97
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering66
- Building and Construction63
- Ocean Engineering56
- Media Technology26
- Automotive Engineering24
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality24
- Architecture0
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2013. Corpus-wide, 76.9% 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 2010–2012, 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: 2013. Publication window: 2010–2012. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 220
- Window papers (baseline)
- 174,502 +27.9% from indicator year 2010
- Median OJR
- 0.776 -6.6% from indicator year 2010
- Rising journals (2025)
- 33
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2010–2012 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.