Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Subfield ranking · 2015
Aerospace Engineering journal rankings 2015
175 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Aerospace Engineering has 175 ranked journals in 2015. The median journal has an OJR of 0.46, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.02 on 2014; Q1 starts at OJR 1.14. The top three are Progress in Aerospace Sciences, GPS Solutions, and Journal of Field Robotics.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2015. 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 2012–2014, the window the 2015 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 Engineering471
- Mechanical Engineering336
- Biomedical Engineering248
- Civil and Structural Engineering227
- Aerospace Engineering175
- Control and Systems Engineering125
- Mechanics of Materials121
- Computational Mechanics99
- Building and Construction78
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering78
- Ocean Engineering68
- Media Technology29
175 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 2014. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2012–2014, the window the 2015 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2012–2014 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 2006 to 2015. | Compare |
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1Progress in Aerospace SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.24Q1 | 4.19 0.18 up from 2014 | 116 | 27% | $5,860 | ||
2GPS SolutionsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 6.11Q1 | 2.74 0.10 down from 2014 | 189 | 21% | $2,790 | ||
3Journal of Field RoboticsWiley · United States | 5.68Q1 | 4.71 0.82 up from 2014 | 152 | 15% | $3,590 | ||
4Journal of Guidance Control and DynamicsAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 5.08Q1 | 2.54 0.02 down from 2014 | 688 | 15% | — | ||
5IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.88Q1 | 2.58 0.19 down from 2014 | 752 | 10% | $2,645 | ||
6Journal of GeodesySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.75Q1 | 3.07 0.35 up from 2014 | 234 | 34% | $3,590 | ||
7IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation LettersIEEE Antennas & Propagation Society · United States | 3.61Q1 | 3.24 0.20 down from 2014 | 1,576 | 10% | $2,645 | ||
8Wind EnergyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.38Q1 | 2.48 0.26 down from 2014 | 389 | 20% | $3,730 | ||
9Journal of TurbomachineryASM International · United States | 3.23Q1 | 1.37 0.12 up from 2014 | 525 | 14% | — | ||
10Journal of Intelligent & Robotic SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.20Q1 | 2.77 0.51 up from 2014 | 466 | 28% | $3,090 | ||
11IET Radar Sonar & NavigationOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United Kingdom | 3.10Q1 | 1.73 0.08 up from 2014 | 392 | 28% | $2,620 | ||
12NAVIGATION Journal of the Institute of NavigationOAWiley · United States | 3.09Q1 | 1.85 0.06 up from 2014 | 73 | 17% | $3,000 | ||
13IEEE Transactions on Antennas and PropagationIEEE Antennas & Propagation Society · United States | 2.99Q1 | 3.61 0.17 down from 2014 | 2,372 | 16% | $2,645 | ||
14International Journal of AeroacousticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.92Q1 | 0.84 0.48 down from 2014 | 100 | 10% | $4,150 | ||
15Aerospace Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · France | 2.84Q1 | 2.29 0.56 up from 2014 | 437 | 11% | $4,360 | ||
16IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing LettersInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.62Q1 | 2.67 0.17 up from 2014 | 1,133 | 10% | $2,645 | ||
17International Journal of Navigation and ObservationHindawi Publishing Corporation · Egypt | 2.24Q1 | 1.57 0.33 down from 2014 | 36 | 100% | — | ||
18Journal of AircraftAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 2.15Q1 | 1.63 0.21 up from 2014 | 692 | 13% | — | ||
19Unmanned SystemsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 2.14Q1 | 2.02 1.73 down from 2014 | 41 | 11% | — | ||
20Journal of Surveying EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.86Q1 | 1.39no change | 64 | 15% | — | ||
21Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process IndustriesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.79Q1 | 1.81 0.09 up from 2014 | 456 | 15% | $4,020 | ||
22International Journal of Micro Air VehiclesOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.76Q1 | 0.92 0.14 down from 2014 | 53 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
23Journal of Thermal Spray TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media | 1.74Q1 | 1.83 0.33 up from 2014 | 468 | 15% | $3,190 | ||
24Chinese Journal of AeronauticsElsevier BV · China | 1.74Q1 | 1.59 0.09 up from 2014 | 511 | 99% | $2,000 | ||
25Journal of the American Helicopter SocietyVertical Flight Society · United States | 1.61Q1 | 1.09 0.12 down from 2014 | 90 | 6% | — | ||
26Progress in Propulsion PhysicsPublisher not listed | 1.58Q1 | 0.62 0.17 down from 2014 | 42 | — | — | ||
27Journal of Geodetic ScienceOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 1.57Q1 | 1.10 0.36 down from 2014 | 82 | 100% | $848 | ||
28Acta AstronauticaElsevier BV · United States | 1.56Q1 | 1.82 0.24 up from 2014 | 1,028 | 17% | $3,350 | ||
29Oxidation of MetalsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.48Q1 | 1.45 0.31 up from 2014 | 229 | 18% | $3,590 | ||
30International Journal of Satellite Communications and NetworkingWiley · United Kingdom | 1.44Q1 | 1.42 0.01 up from 2014 | 92 | 22% | $2,860 | ||
31International Journal of Aerospace EngineeringOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.38Q1 | 0.83 0.28 down from 2014 | 78 | 100% | $2,570 | ||
32International Journal of Aeronautical and Space SciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 1.38Q1 | 0.92 0.26 down from 2014 | 136 | 89% | $3,490 | ||
33BuR - Business ResearchOASpringer Nature · Germany | 1.32Q1 | 0.19 0.03 up from 2014 | 188 | 100% | $1,535 | ||
34Shock WavesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.32Q1 | 1.03 0.06 up from 2014 | 185 | 20% | $3,890 | ||
35Journal of Aerospace Information SystemsAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.31Q1 | 1.13 0.15 up from 2014 | 114 | 10% | — | ||
36IET Microwaves Antennas & PropagationOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United Kingdom | 1.30Q1 | 1.62 0.13 down from 2014 | 668 | 34% | $2,520 | ||
37IET Signal ProcessingOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United States | 1.29Q1 | 1.81 0.40 up from 2014 | 296 | 39% | $2,610 | ||
38Journal of Propulsion and PowerAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.24Q1 | 1.58 0.40 up from 2014 | 700 | 10% | — | ||
39Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part G Journal of Aerospace EngineeringSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.23Q1 | 0.79 0.06 down from 2014 | 506 | 6% | $4,150 | ||
40Infotech@Aerospace 2012Publisher not listed | 1.19Q1 | —no 2014 value | 198 | — | — | ||
41Journal of Spacecraft and RocketsAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.17Q1 | 1.37 0.41 up from 2014 | 593 | 11% | — | ||
42International management reviewUnited States | 1.17Q1 | 0.46 0.09 up from 2014 | 64 | 0% | — | ||
43Annals of Nuclear EnergyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.16Q1 | 1.26 0.10 up from 2014 | 1,477 | 16% | $2,820 | ||
44Progress in Nuclear EnergyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.14Q1 | 1.28 0.14 up from 2014 | 494 | 11% | $2,930 | ||
45IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.13Q2 | 0.64 0.03 down from 2014 | 541 | 9% | — | ||
46International Journal of Antennas and PropagationOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.13Q2 | 1.28 0.04 down from 2014 | 879 | 100% | $2,570 | ||
47Nuclear Engineering and TechnologyOAElsevier BV · South Korea | 1.12Q2 | 1.17 0.05 down from 2014 | 276 | 100% | $200 | ||
48Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace TechnologyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.09Q2 | 1.08 0.49 up from 2014 | 161 | 11% | — | ||
| 1.08Q2 | 0.40no 2014 value | 77 | — | — | — | ||
50CEAS Space JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 1.05Q2 | 0.90 0.45 up from 2014 | 46 | 18% | $3,390 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Aerospace Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering471
- Mechanical Engineering336
- Biomedical Engineering248
- Civil and Structural Engineering227
- Aerospace Engineering175
- Control and Systems Engineering125
- Mechanics of Materials121
- Computational Mechanics99
- Building and Construction78
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering78
- Ocean Engineering68
- Media Technology29
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality26
- Automotive Engineering24
- Architecture1
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2015. Corpus-wide, 78.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
87 additional Aerospace Engineering journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2012–2014, 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: 2015. Publication window: 2012–2014. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 175
- Window papers (baseline)
- 2,144,639 +9.8% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 0.464 -16.3% from indicator year 2012
- Rising journals (2025)
- 10
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2012–2014 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 | 97 | 106 | 115 | 118 | 126 | 125 | 121 | 126 | 139 | 153 | 156 | 158 | 163 | 169 | 178 | 175 | 177 | 181 | 180 | 184 | 174 | 175 | 178 | 163 | 150 | 141 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 864,282 | 944,257 | 1,049,316 | 1,146,256 | 1,238,710 | 1,330,720 | 1,430,174 | 1,523,455 | 1,603,059 | 1,689,594 | 1,781,855 | 1,873,600 | 1,952,796 | 2,021,396 | 2,079,722 | 2,144,639 | 2,193,289 | 2,119,832 | 1,792,733 | 1,361,403 | 1,060,974 | 995,192 | 933,116 | 734,756 | 535,389 | 464,917 | |
| Median OJR | 0.3535 | 0.29 | 0.24 | 0.26 | 0.32 | 0.23 | 0.38 | 0.349 | 0.3531 | 0.39 | 0.463 | 0.50 | 0.55 | 0.561 | 0.48 | 0.464 | 0.485 | 0.47 | 0.488 | 0.560 | 0.62 | 0.70 | 0.73 | 0.72 | 0.65 | 0.66 |
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.