Journal rankings · indicator year 2014
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Subfield ranking · 2014
Biomedical Engineering journal rankings 2014
230 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Biomedical Engineering has 230 ranked journals in 2014. The median OJR fell 0.07 on 2013 to 0.71, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.36. The top three are Nano Today, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, and Biotechnology for Biofuels.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2014. 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 2011–2013, the window the 2014 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 Engineering445
- Mechanical Engineering318
- Biomedical Engineering230
- Civil and Structural Engineering214
- Aerospace Engineering178
- Control and Systems Engineering119
- Mechanics of Materials117
- Computational Mechanics97
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering74
- Building and Construction69
- Ocean Engineering62
- Media Technology28
230 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 2013. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2011–2013, the window the 2014 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2011–2013 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 2005 to 2014. | Compare |
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1Nano TodayElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.75Q1 | 11.22 1.50 down from 2013 | 183 | 25% | $4,830 | ||
2IEEE Transactions on RoboticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.31Q1 | 5.02 1.14 down from 2013 | 375 | 32% | $2,645 | ||
3Biotechnology for BiofuelsOASpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 3.86Q1 | 8.95 0.58 up from 2013 | 344 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
4Nano EnergyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.86Q1 | 8.98 1.96 up from 2013 | 300 | 16% | $5,210 | ||
5BiomaterialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.74Q1 | 9.13 0.43 down from 2013 | 2,884 | 29% | $4,640 | ||
6Tissue Engineering Part B ReviewsMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 3.40Q1 | 6.99 1.12 down from 2013 | 137 | 56% | — | ||
7Bioinspiration & BiomimeticsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.98Q1 | 3.95 0.08 up from 2013 | 185 | 54% | $3,325 | ||
8Acta BiomaterialiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.92Q1 | 6.43 0.26 up from 2013 | 1,408 | 35% | $3,810 | ||
9IEEE Reviews in Biomedical EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.80Q1 | 5.45 1.58 up from 2013 | 49 | 44% | $2,645 | ||
10Biomass and BioenergyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.70Q1 | 4.49 0.22 down from 2013 | 1,264 | 17% | $4,270 | ||
11Lab on a ChipRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.54Q1 | 6.46 0.16 up from 2013 | 1,838 | 33% | — | ||
12Smart Materials and StructuresIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.47Q1 | 3.35 0.28 up from 2013 | 1,179 | 52% | $3,325 | ||
13BioEnergy ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.46Q1 | 4.26 0.53 up from 2013 | 270 | 20% | $3,990 | ||
14BiofabricationIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.39Q1 | 5.53 0.18 down from 2013 | 119 | 62% | $3,895 | ||
15FuelElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.33Q1 | 3.89 0.25 up from 2013 | 2,592 | 13% | $4,330 | ||
16Biofuels Bioproducts and BiorefiningWiley · United Kingdom | 2.32Q1 | 3.92 0.14 down from 2013 | 232 | 21% | $4,530 | ||
17Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Nanomedicine and NanobiotechnologyWiley · United States | 2.28Q1 | 5.27 0.76 down from 2013 | 133 | 39% | $4,730 | ||
18ACS Sustainable Chemistry & EngineeringAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.27Q1 | 4.88 2.25 up from 2013 | 282 | 14% | $4,500 | ||
19Fuel Processing TechnologyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.16Q1 | 4.00 0.68 up from 2013 | 945 | 19% | $3,180 | ||
20Advanced Healthcare MaterialsWiley · Germany | 2.12Q1 | 4.82 0.61 up from 2013 | 416 | 40% | $4,880 | ||
21Journal of Materials Chemistry BRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.11Q1 | 5.08 1.55 up from 2013 | 863 | 19% | — | ||
22International Journal of NanomedicineOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 2.08Q1 | 5.11 0.14 down from 2013 | 1,267 | 100% | $2,836 | ||
23Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 2.07Q1 | 2.72 0.85 down from 2013 | 1,015 | 72% | — | ||
24Journal of Analytical and Applied PyrolysisElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.06Q1 | 3.84 0.34 up from 2013 | 590 | 14% | $3,580 | ||
25AIChE JournalWiley · United States | 1.99Q1 | 3.23 0.55 up from 2013 | 891 | 11% | $4,940 | ||
26Industrial Crops and ProductsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.95Q1 | 3.83 0.39 up from 2013 | 1,469 | 14% | $3,720 | ||
27IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.92Q1 | 4.25 0.23 up from 2013 | 239 | 35% | $2,645 | ||
28Colloids and Surfaces B BiointerfacesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.92Q1 | 4.44 0.26 up from 2013 | 1,783 | 13% | $3,790 | ||
29Biomedical Optics ExpressOAOptica Publishing Group · United States | 1.91Q1 | 4.40 0.30 up from 2013 | 830 | 100% | $1,913 | ||
30Biomaterials ScienceRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.91Q1 | 4.35 0.18 up from 2013 | 168 | 30% | — | ||
31Biomedical MaterialsIOP Publishing | 1.90Q1 | 4.28 0.72 up from 2013 | 239 | 51% | $3,325 | ||
32Tissue Engineering Part C MethodsMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 1.85Q1 | 4.00 0.13 down from 2013 | 333 | 74% | — | ||
33IEEE Transactions on Biomedical EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.84Q1 | 3.90 0.40 up from 2013 | 1,209 | 40% | $2,645 | ||
34Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials/Journal of mechanical behavior of biomedical materialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.83Q1 | 3.38 0.12 down from 2013 | 783 | 24% | $3,690 | ||
35Journal of Breath ResearchIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 5.36 1.22 up from 2013 | 153 | 75% | $3,325 | ||
36Process Safety and Environmental ProtectionElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.81Q1 | 2.47 0.06 up from 2013 | 992 | 12% | $3,500 | ||
37Annals of Biomedical EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.78Q1 | 3.31 0.77 down from 2013 | 681 | 43% | $4,390 | ||
38Chemical Engineering ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.74Q1 | 2.71no change | 2,046 | 18% | $4,050 | ||
39Critical Reviews in Biomedical EngineeringBegell House · United States | 1.73Q1 | 3.81 0.90 up from 2013 | 81 | 18% | — | ||
40Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process IntensificationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.71Q1 | 2.58 0.01 down from 2013 | 422 | 7% | $3,910 | ||
41The Journal of Rehabilitation Research and DevelopmentOAUnited States Department of Veterans Affairs · United States | 1.67Q1 | 2.27 0.87 down from 2013 | 378 | 20% | — | ||
42Reviews in Chemical EngineeringDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.64Q1 | 2.32 1.10 down from 2013 | 49 | 26% | $0 listed | ||
43Industrial & Engineering Chemistry ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.63Q1 | 3.00 0.29 up from 2013 | 5,231 | 10% | $4,500 | ||
44BioMedical Engineering OnLineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.61Q1 | 2.37 0.97 down from 2013 | 331 | 100% | $2,690 | ||
45Journal of BiomechanicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.60Q1 | 3.03 0.17 down from 2013 | 1,361 | 40% | $3,650 | ||
46BiomicrofluidicsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.57Q1 | 3.89 0.58 down from 2013 | 426 | 98% | — | ||
47Biomechanics and Modeling in MechanobiologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.56Q1 | 3.12 0.22 down from 2013 | 261 | 49% | $4,190 | ||
48Annual Review of Biomedical EngineeringAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.56Q1 | 18.89 0.68 down from 2013 | 59 | 71% | — | ||
49Materials Science and Engineering CElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.54Q1 | 3.56 0.84 up from 2013 | 1,355 | 13% | $3,560 | ||
50Journal of Biomedical OpticsOASPIE · United States | 1.46Q1 | 3.41 0.30 up from 2013 | 1,606 | 96% | $1,675 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Biomedical Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering445
- Mechanical Engineering318
- Biomedical Engineering230
- Civil and Structural Engineering214
- Aerospace Engineering178
- Control and Systems Engineering119
- Mechanics of Materials117
- Computational Mechanics97
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering74
- Building and Construction69
- Ocean Engineering62
- Media Technology28
- Automotive Engineering25
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality25
- Architecture0
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2014. Corpus-wide, 77.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
111 additional Biomedical Engineering journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2011–2013, 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: 2014. Publication window: 2011–2013. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 230
- Window papers (baseline)
- 188,850 +27.4% from indicator year 2011
- Median OJR
- 0.709 -14.2% from indicator year 2011
- Rising journals (2025)
- 33
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2011–2013 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.