Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Subfield ranking · 2015
Biomedical Engineering journal rankings 2015
248 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Biomedical Engineering has 248 ranked journals in 2015. The median journal has an OJR of 0.74, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.03 on 2014; Q1 starts at OJR 1.43. The top three are Nano Today, Soft Robotics, and IEEE Transactions on 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
248 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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1Nano TodayElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.10Q1 | 10.86 0.36 down from 2014 | 188 | 36% | $4,830 | ||
2Soft RoboticsMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 4.72Q1 | 8.87 1.74 up from 2014 | 30 | 19% | — | ||
3IEEE Transactions on RoboticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.46Q1 | 4.97 0.04 down from 2014 | 357 | 29% | $2,645 | ||
4Nano EnergyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.26Q1 | 10.40 1.42 up from 2014 | 610 | 22% | $5,210 | ||
5BiomaterialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.73Q1 | 9.33 0.20 up from 2014 | 2,730 | 39% | $4,640 | ||
6Biotechnology for BiofuelsOASpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 3.41Q1 | 8.01 0.94 down from 2014 | 480 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
7Acta BiomaterialiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.05Q1 | 6.85 0.42 up from 2014 | 1,469 | 35% | $3,810 | ||
8Tissue Engineering Part B ReviewsMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 3.00Q1 | 6.13 0.86 down from 2014 | 140 | 47% | — | ||
9Bioinspiration & BiomimeticsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.98Q1 | 4.28 0.33 up from 2014 | 202 | 67% | $3,325 | ||
10IEEE Reviews in Biomedical EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.98Q1 | 5.46 0.01 up from 2014 | 44 | 20% | $2,645 | ||
11BiofabricationIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.83Q1 | 5.80 0.27 up from 2014 | 160 | 73% | $3,895 | ||
12PhotoacousticsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.74Q1 | 4.81 0.38 up from 2014 | 33 | 100% | $3,200 | ||
13ACS Sustainable Chemistry & EngineeringAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.57Q1 | 6.35 1.47 up from 2014 | 591 | 15% | $4,500 | ||
14Lab on a ChipRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.45Q1 | 6.05 0.41 down from 2014 | 1,830 | 36% | — | ||
15FuelElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.41Q1 | 4.44 0.56 up from 2014 | 3,013 | 18% | $4,330 | ||
16Smart Materials and StructuresIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.38Q1 | 3.74 0.39 up from 2014 | 1,326 | 64% | $3,325 | ||
17Biomass and BioenergyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.37Q1 | 4.18 0.31 down from 2014 | 1,188 | 25% | $4,270 | ||
18Fuel Processing TechnologyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.26Q1 | 3.91 0.09 down from 2014 | 1,073 | 19% | $3,180 | ||
19Industrial Crops and ProductsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.13Q1 | 3.85 0.02 up from 2014 | 1,821 | 13% | $3,720 | ||
20Advanced Healthcare MaterialsWiley · Germany | 2.11Q1 | 4.86 0.04 up from 2014 | 639 | 46% | $4,880 | ||
21Signs and SocietyOAUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 2.08Q1 | 0.90 0.26 down from 2014 | 31 | 13% | $3,550 | ||
22BioEnergy ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.07Q1 | 2.83 1.43 down from 2014 | 370 | 32% | $3,990 | ||
23Journal of Materials Chemistry BRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.05Q1 | 5.25 0.17 up from 2014 | 1,740 | 18% | — | ||
24Journal of Analytical and Applied PyrolysisElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.04Q1 | 4.07 0.23 up from 2014 | 679 | 14% | $3,580 | ||
25International Journal of NanomedicineOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 2.03Q1 | 4.85 0.26 down from 2014 | 1,439 | 100% | $2,836 | ||
26IEEE Transactions on Biomedical EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.02Q1 | 4.02 0.12 up from 2014 | 1,169 | 32% | $2,645 | ||
27Biofuels Bioproducts and BiorefiningWiley · United Kingdom | 1.97Q1 | 3.56 0.36 down from 2014 | 220 | 19% | $4,530 | ||
28Biomedical Optics ExpressOAOptica Publishing Group · United States | 1.96Q1 | 4.48 0.08 up from 2014 | 885 | 100% | $1,913 | ||
29Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Nanomedicine and NanobiotechnologyWiley · United States | 1.93Q1 | 4.64 0.63 down from 2014 | 145 | 43% | $4,730 | ||
30Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials/Journal of mechanical behavior of biomedical materialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.88Q1 | 3.60 0.21 up from 2014 | 841 | 29% | $3,690 | ||
31Alexandria Engineering JournalOAElsevier BV · Egypt | 1.87Q1 | 2.73 0.98 up from 2014 | 224 | 100% | $1,900 | ||
32Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 1.87Q1 | 3.06 0.34 up from 2014 | 1,007 | 65% | — | ||
33AIChE JournalWiley · United States | 1.84Q1 | 3.08 0.15 down from 2014 | 965 | 14% | $4,940 | ||
34Colloids and Surfaces B BiointerfacesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.80Q1 | 4.26 0.17 down from 2014 | 1,867 | 15% | $3,790 | ||
352014 Solid-State, Actuators, and Microsystems Workshop Technical DigestPublisher not listed | 1.77Q1 | 0.58no 2014 value | 125 | — | — | — | |
36Biomedical MaterialsIOP Publishing | 1.75Q1 | 3.91 0.36 down from 2014 | 247 | 63% | $3,325 | ||
37Biomaterials ScienceRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.74Q1 | 3.81 0.54 down from 2014 | 336 | 28% | — | ||
38Annals of Biomedical EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.73Q1 | 3.25 0.06 down from 2014 | 677 | 55% | $4,390 | ||
39Chemical Engineering ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.69Q1 | 2.85 0.14 up from 2014 | 1,915 | 22% | $4,050 | ||
40Journal of BiomechanicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.68Q1 | 3.29 0.25 up from 2014 | 1,439 | 43% | $3,650 | ||
41Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process IntensificationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.66Q1 | 2.64 0.05 up from 2014 | 428 | 11% | $3,910 | ||
42Annual Review of Biomedical EngineeringAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.65Q1 | 13.59 5.30 down from 2014 | 58 | 72% | — | ||
43Process Safety and Environmental ProtectionElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.64Q1 | 2.75 0.28 up from 2014 | 1,057 | 15% | $3,500 | ||
44Industrial & Engineering Chemistry ResearchAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.62Q1 | 3.02 0.02 up from 2014 | 5,646 | 12% | $4,500 | ||
45Journal of Breath ResearchIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.62Q1 | 4.71 0.66 down from 2014 | 166 | 71% | $3,325 | ||
46Materials Science and Engineering CElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.61Q1 | 4.09 0.53 up from 2014 | 1,901 | 14% | $3,560 | ||
47IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.60Q1 | 3.44 0.81 down from 2014 | 265 | 17% | $2,645 | ||
48Frontiers in Bioengineering and BiotechnologyOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.60Q1 | 3.87 2.50 up from 2014 | 97 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
49IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and MedicineOAInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.59Q1 | 2.78 1.42 up from 2014 | 49 | 100% | $2,075 | ||
50Sustainable Chemical ProcessesSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.57Q1 | 3.38 1.12 down from 2014 | 48 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Biomedical 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.
107 additional Biomedical 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
- 248
- Window papers (baseline)
- 200,371 +24.0% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 0.74 +2.5% from indicator year 2012
- Rising journals (2025)
- 33
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 | 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.