Journal rankings · indicator year 2014
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Subfield ranking · 2014
Mechanics of Materials journal rankings 2014
117 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Mechanics of Materials has 117 ranked journals in 2014. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.06 against 1.00, up 0.01 on 2013. A journal needs OJR 1.76 to reach Q1. The top three are International Journal of Coal Geology, Composite Structures, and AAPG Bulletin.
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
117 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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1International Journal of Coal GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.65Q1 | 3.79 0.33 up from 2013 | 423 | 9% | $4,090 | ||
2Composite StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.42Q1 | 3.74 0.08 up from 2013 | 1,358 | 15% | $4,660 | ||
3AAPG BulletinAmerican Association of Petroleum Geologists · United States | 3.07Q1 | 3.71 0.59 up from 2013 | 266 | 6% | — | ||
4Applied Mechanics ReviewsAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers · United States | 3.06Q1 | 2.73 0.45 up from 2013 | 44 | 26% | — | ||
5International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining SciencesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.05Q1 | 2.38 0.14 up from 2013 | 459 | 12% | $4,110 | ||
6Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of SolidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.92Q1 | 4.12 0.34 down from 2013 | 441 | 30% | $4,220 | ||
7Composites Part A Applied Science and ManufacturingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.86Q1 | 3.87 0.24 up from 2013 | 735 | 21% | $4,480 | ||
8Composites Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.83Q1 | 3.96 0.42 down from 2013 | 849 | 9% | $4,610 | ||
9International Journal of FatigueElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.80Q1 | 2.67 0.61 up from 2013 | 688 | 17% | $3,940 | ||
10Engineering With ComputersSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 2.79Q1 | 1.84 0.18 down from 2013 | 144 | 23% | $2,190 | ||
11International Journal for Numerical Methods in EngineeringWiley · United Kingdom | 2.70Q1 | 2.99 0.43 up from 2013 | 647 | 25% | $4,250 | ||
12Rock Mechanics and Rock EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 2.70Q1 | 2.14 0.04 down from 2013 | 391 | 17% | $3,990 | ||
13NDT & E InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.65Q1 | 2.62 0.63 up from 2013 | 329 | 18% | $4,440 | ||
14Applied Mathematical ModellingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.62Q1 | 3.00 0.56 up from 2013 | 1,758 | 100% | $4,510 | ||
15Finite Elements in Analysis and DesignElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.60Q1 | 2.41 0.42 up from 2013 | 356 | 15% | $2,990 | ||
16Engineering Fracture MechanicsElsevier BV · United States | 2.49Q1 | 2.33 0.46 up from 2013 | 739 | 14% | $4,120 | ||
17Computational MechanicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.45Q1 | 3.34 0.81 up from 2013 | 390 | 29% | $3,990 | ||
18Spectrochimica Acta Part B Atomic SpectroscopyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.35Q1 | 3.49 0.66 up from 2013 | 410 | 18% | $3,530 | ||
19International Journal of Solids and StructuresElsevier BV · United States | 2.27Q1 | 2.57 0.01 up from 2013 | 1,025 | 100% | $3,790 | ||
20Marine and Petroleum GeologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.21Q1 | 2.87 0.26 up from 2013 | 461 | 14% | $3,440 | ||
21European Journal of Mechanics - A/SolidsElsevier BV · France | 2.18Q1 | 2.53 0.39 up from 2013 | 347 | 13% | $4,040 | ||
22Mechanics of MaterialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 2.57 0.33 up from 2013 | 381 | 18% | $3,850 | ||
23LithosphereOAGeological Society of America · United States | 1.99Q1 | 3.28 0.41 up from 2013 | 110 | 74% | $2,100 | ||
24Organic GeochemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.94Q1 | 3.27 0.28 up from 2013 | 457 | 13% | $3,270 | ||
25Journal of Analytical Atomic SpectrometryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.90Q1 | 3.64 0.09 down from 2013 | 687 | 17% | — | ||
26International Journal of Adhesion and AdhesivesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 2.28 0.18 down from 2013 | 414 | 12% | $3,760 | ||
27Quantitative InfraRed Thermography JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.83Q1 | 1.89 1.07 up from 2013 | 52 | 21% | — | ||
28International Journal of Engineering ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 2.56 0.06 down from 2013 | 391 | 11% | $4,980 | ||
29International Journal of FractureSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.79Q1 | 1.86 0.22 up from 2013 | 325 | 14% | $3,790 | ||
30Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & StructuresWiley · United Kingdom | 1.76Q1 | 1.90 0.30 up from 2013 | 315 | 17% | $3,860 | ||
31Engineering ComputationsEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.75Q2 | 2.04 0.12 up from 2013 | 153 | 7% | — | ||
32Applied Composite MaterialsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.70Q2 | 1.46 0.03 down from 2013 | 177 | 18% | $4,090 | ||
33International Journal of Damage MechanicsSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.66Q2 | 1.74 0.24 up from 2013 | 166 | 8% | $4,400 | ||
34Journal of Thermal StressesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.62Q2 | 1.29 0.16 down from 2013 | 222 | 5% | — | ||
35Mechanics Research CommunicationsElsevier BV · United States | 1.50Q2 | 1.58 0.19 down from 2013 | 373 | 12% | $3,580 | ||
36StrainWiley · United Kingdom | 1.50Q2 | 1.83 0.43 up from 2013 | 115 | 30% | $4,220 | ||
37Journal of Nondestructive EvaluationSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.50Q2 | 1.63 0.31 up from 2013 | 126 | 23% | $3,290 | ||
38Journal of Petroleum GeologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.48Q2 | 1.33 0.14 down from 2013 | 73 | 3% | $3,400 | ||
39Engineering Analysis with Boundary ElementsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.48Q2 | 1.87 0.28 up from 2013 | 476 | 8% | $3,590 | ||
40Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the EnvironmentSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.43Q2 | 1.08 0.05 down from 2013 | 200 | 15% | $3,990 | ||
41GeofluidsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.40Q2 | 1.91 0.42 up from 2013 | 113 | 25% | $2,160 | ||
42UltrasonicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.40Q2 | 2.05 0.19 up from 2013 | 514 | 14% | $3,680 | ||
43Acta MechanicaSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 1.36Q2 | 1.71 0.10 up from 2013 | 572 | 11% | $3,490 | ||
44Continuum Mechanics and ThermodynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.33Q2 | 2.19 0.29 up from 2013 | 150 | 27% | $2,990 | ||
45Theoretical and Applied Fracture MechanicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.32Q2 | 1.95 0.25 up from 2013 | 136 | 5% | $3,730 | ||
46Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical EngineeringOAElsevier BV · China | 1.32Q2 | 1.03 0.52 up from 2013 | 150 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
47Propellants Explosives PyrotechnicsWiley · Germany | 1.30Q2 | 1.43 0.11 up from 2013 | 333 | 21% | $3,840 | ||
| 1.30Q2 | 0.96 0.76 down from 2013 | 66 | 0% | — | |||
49International Journal of Mining Science and TechnologyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.28Q2 | 1.55 0.79 up from 2013 | 310 | 22% | $0 listed | ||
50The Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering DesignSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.26Q2 | 1.24 0.21 down from 2013 | 174 | 15% | $4,150 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Mechanics of Materials 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.
27 additional Mechanics of Materials 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
- 117
- Window papers (baseline)
- 112,431 +12.0% from indicator year 2011
- Median OJR
- 1.060 -5.6% from indicator year 2011
- Rising journals (2025)
- 14
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 | 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.