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Journal rankings · indicator year 2014

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Field ranking · 2014

Engineering journal rankings 2014

2,001 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences

Engineering has 2,001 ranked journals in 2014. The median journal has an OJR of 0.76, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2013; Q1 starts at OJR 1.46. The top three are IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, and Materials Science and Engineering R Reports.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2014. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

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.

2,001
35% of Physical Sciences
Median OJR

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.

0.76-0.01 vs 2013
This fieldAll 0.90World 1.00
Open-access journals

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.

26%
All fields: 27%
Median listed APC

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.

$3,190
Median positive listed APC: $3,190 among 831 journals. Another 18 list $0; 1,152 have no known price. All fields: $3,400.

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Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

They are computed within the list on screen, so a journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 in the global ranking.

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Engineering ranking, 2014

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.

OJR

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.

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1IEEE Communications Surveys & TutorialsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States
16.71Q119.61 6.31 up from 201321237%$2,645
2Progress in Energy and Combustion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom
15.36Q122.65 1.21 up from 20136315%$6,990
9.20Q118.00 2.82 up from 2013308%$6,150
4IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States
8.42Q18.11 0.29 down from 201336421%$2,645
5Energy & Environmental ScienceRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom
8.30Q121.44 4.40 up from 20131,44023%—
6International Journal of AeroacousticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
7.77Q11.32 0.24 down from 20139319%$4,150
7IEEE Wireless CommunicationsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States
7.69Q17.25 1.12 down from 201328820%$2,995
8AutomaticaElsevier BV · United Kingdom
7.58Q16.59 1.44 up from 20131,22023%$3,760
9The International Journal of Robotics ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
7.32Q17.24 0.10 down from 201328922%$4,400
10International Materials ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
7.05Q19.54 1.48 up from 20135321%$4,400
11IEEE Transactions on Smart GridInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States
7.05Q19.24 0.64 up from 201363320%$2,645
12IEEE Transactions on Industrial InformaticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States
6.94Q18.61 0.70 up from 201348121%$2,645
13IEEE Transactions on Automatic ControlInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States
6.84Q14.98 0.34 up from 20131,15126%$2,645
14IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in CommunicationsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States
6.79Q17.96 1.22 up from 201377833%$2,645
6.60Q13.83 0.62 down from 201325911%$4,240
16Progress in Aerospace SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom
6.57Q14.01 1.03 up from 201310710%$5,860
17Transportation ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States
6.50Q14.14 0.86 up from 201312928%—
18Annual Reviews in ControlElsevier BV · United Kingdom
6.50Q15.88 1.14 up from 2013794%$3,940
6.43Q114.50 1.11 up from 20133,26228%$6,070
20IEEE Communications MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States
6.39Q17.28 0.93 up from 20131,06336%$2,995
21Proceedings of the IEEEInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States
6.16Q15.86 0.35 down from 201370741%$2,645
22Advanced Energy MaterialsWiley · Germany
6.10Q113.25 0.26 up from 201372724%$5,790
5.81Q14.29 0.06 up from 201338417%$4,040
24Nano TodayElsevier BV · United Kingdom
5.75Q111.22 1.50 down from 201318325%$4,830
25Cement and Concrete CompositesElsevier BV · United Kingdom
5.72Q14.17 0.85 up from 201344414%$5,120
26Journal of Guidance Control and DynamicsAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States
5.63Q12.56 0.36 up from 201357614%—
27IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power ElectronicsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States
5.57Q17.78no 2013 value4912%$2,645—
28IEEE Transactions on CyberneticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States
5.39Q16.48 3.22 up from 201329625%$2,645
29Cement and Concrete ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom
5.36Q13.58 1.02 down from 201347222%$5,180
30IEEE Transactions on RoboticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States
5.31Q15.02 1.14 down from 201337532%$2,645
31IEEE Transactions on Industrial ElectronicsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States
5.21Q18.62 1.40 up from 20131,64716%$2,645
5.13Q14.77 0.39 down from 201315385%$5,230
33Renewable and Sustainable Energy ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom
5.05Q18.68 0.97 up from 20131,79912%$5,220
34IEEE Transactions on Control Systems TechnologyInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States
5.00Q14.39 0.97 up from 201354526%$2,645
35IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States
4.99Q15.01 0.46 up from 201352720%$2,645
36Automation in ConstructionElsevier BV · Netherlands
4.94Q14.63 1.48 up from 201347216%$5,490
37Systems & Control LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands
4.93Q13.82 0.60 up from 201345923%$2,910
4.90Q13.05 0.52 up from 201335717%$3,760
39Robotics and Computer-Integrated ManufacturingElsevier BV · United Kingdom
4.82Q13.60 0.62 up from 201324611%$4,540
40IEEE Transactions on Sustainable EnergyInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States
4.82Q17.23 1.04 up from 201331121%$2,645
41EURO Journal on Transportation and LogisticsOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
4.78Q13.00 1.07 up from 201338100%$1,400
42Journal of Process ControlElsevier BV · Netherlands
4.76Q14.03 0.51 up from 201346714%$3,700
43GPS SolutionsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States
4.72Q12.84 0.14 up from 201316215%$2,790
44Journal of Field RoboticsWiley · United States
4.53Q13.88 0.87 down from 201313725%$3,590
45IET Control Theory and ApplicationsOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United States
4.44Q13.68 0.54 up from 201376341%$3,300
46Advanced Engineering InformaticsElsevier BV · United Kingdom
4.44Q13.12 0.41 down from 201316817%$3,560
47SIAM Journal on OptimizationSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States
4.42Q14.22 0.27 up from 201324429%—
48Mechanical Systems and Signal ProcessingElsevier BV · United Kingdom
4.37Q13.08 0.37 down from 201375316%$4,730
4.31Q19.65 0.55 up from 20132,27331%$5,790
50Journal of Manufacturing SystemsElsevier BV · United Kingdom
4.28Q13.24 0.22 up from 201317710%$3,850

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.

712 additional 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2014. Publication window: 2011–2013. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
2,001
Window papers (baseline)
3,484,492 +13.3% from indicator year 2011
Median OJR
0.756 -8.0% from indicator year 2011
Rising journals (2025)
211Comparison-group list (211)

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.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals9451,0101,0721,1191,1591,2171,2561,3421,4451,5291,5781,6721,7741,8992,0012,1062,1882,2392,2902,3582,3892,4282,4442,4372,4422,405
Window papers (baseline)1,301,9321,430,0701,586,5091,745,4511,896,1382,058,4222,234,6402,416,7442,583,0932,754,5222,914,7773,076,7353,239,0273,369,0913,484,4923,569,8883,612,0803,500,2353,153,0562,758,7252,539,0692,563,3962,580,5132,422,2732,259,7502,274,258
Median OJR0.630.650.6940.7580.750.77770.77820.770.79300.800.8200.8220.79330.7650.7560.720.730.6920.6700.67050.680.700.6890.6880.6690.6714
Category context (2025)
MeasureCategory statisticEligible population
Journal self-citation shareMedian: 4.9%1,952 journals
Retracted papers per 1,000Pooled rate: 1.935 per 1,0001,719 journals
Output growthMedian: +3.7%2,142 journals
Open access shareMedian: 53.0%2,405 journals
Listed APC (USD)Median including $0 listed prices: $2,8901,349 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices
International collaboration shareMedian: 22.2%2,312 journals
Review shareMedian: 0.0%2,405 journals
Articles-only OJRMedian: 0.672,362 journals
Uncited shareMedian: 29.8%2,405 journals
Citation concentrationMedian: 43.9%2,402 journals

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.