Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Subfield ranking · 2015
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering journal rankings 2015
78 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering has 78 ranked journals in 2015. The median OJR fell 0.07 on 2014 to 1.09, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.18. The top three are Transportation Science, Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review, and Journal of Manufacturing Systems.
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
78 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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1Transportation ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 5.61Q1 | 3.30 0.84 down from 2014 | 159 | 18% | — | ||
2Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation ReviewElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.11Q1 | 3.43 0.41 down from 2014 | 298 | 18% | $4,240 | ||
3Journal of Manufacturing SystemsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.70Q1 | 3.63 0.39 up from 2014 | 229 | 20% | $3,850 | ||
4European Journal of Operational ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.55Q1 | 3.85 0.21 up from 2014 | 1,786 | 31% | $3,290 | ||
5Computers & Operations ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.46Q1 | 3.16 0.34 up from 2014 | 713 | 24% | $3,570 | ||
6EURO Journal on Transportation and LogisticsOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.04Q1 | 2.43 0.57 down from 2014 | 69 | 100% | $1,400 | ||
7Computers in IndustryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.89Q1 | 3.60 0.76 up from 2014 | 318 | 28% | $4,080 | ||
8Robotics and Computer-Integrated ManufacturingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.86Q1 | 3.58 0.02 down from 2014 | 237 | 26% | $4,540 | ||
9Advanced Engineering InformaticsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.75Q1 | 3.29 0.17 up from 2014 | 170 | 19% | $3,560 | ||
10Journal of Rail Transport Planning & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.65Q1 | 3.09 1.27 up from 2014 | 31 | 21% | $3,070 | ||
11Computers & Industrial EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.32Q1 | 3.09 0.67 up from 2014 | 837 | 10% | $3,790 | ||
12IEEE Robotics & Automation MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.29Q1 | 1.93 0.68 down from 2014 | 319 | 36% | $2,045 | ||
13International Journal of Production ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.00Q1 | 2.38 0.02 up from 2014 | 1,319 | 16% | — | ||
14Flexible Services and Manufacturing JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.79Q1 | 2.00 0.02 down from 2014 | 71 | 40% | $2,590 | ||
15OR SpectrumSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.69Q1 | 2.13 0.70 up from 2014 | 100 | 24% | $3,290 | ||
16Maritime Economics & LogisticsPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 2.48Q1 | 1.18 0.70 down from 2014 | 89 | 14% | $3,390 | ||
17Journal of HeuristicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.44Q1 | 1.90 0.37 down from 2014 | 80 | 9% | $3,190 | ||
18Journal of Intelligent ManufacturingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.31Q1 | 2.48 0.05 down from 2014 | 392 | 9% | $3,290 | ||
19Maritime Policy & ManagementTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.19Q1 | 1.62 0.38 down from 2014 | 162 | 20% | — | ||
20International Journal of Computer Integrated ManufacturingTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.18Q1 | 1.95 0.23 up from 2014 | 302 | 10% | — | ||
| 2.16Q2 | 2.22 0.01 down from 2014 | 76 | 100% | — | |||
22International Transactions in Operational ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 2.04Q2 | 1.77 0.07 down from 2014 | 178 | 17% | $4,030 | ||
23IIE TransactionsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.03Q2 | 1.87 0.12 up from 2014 | 282 | 25% | — | ||
24International Journal of Shipping and Transport LogisticsInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 1.77Q2 | 1.24 0.21 down from 2014 | 92 | 9% | — | ||
25International Journal of Industrial Engineering ComputationsOAGrowing Science · Canada | 1.71Q2 | 1.36 0.56 down from 2014 | 158 | 100% | — | ||
26Production & Manufacturing ResearchOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.70Q2 | 1.62 0.02 up from 2014 | 52 | 100% | $1,165 | ||
27Serbian Journal of ManagementOAUniversity of Belgrade · Serbia | 1.61Q2 | 0.98 0.39 down from 2014 | 59 | 100% | — | ||
28The Asian Journal of Shipping and LogisticsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.60Q2 | 1.09 0.48 up from 2014 | 60 | 100% | $1,350 | ||
29Journal of SchedulingSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.59Q2 | 1.01 0.32 down from 2014 | 134 | 33% | $2,990 | ||
304ORSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.51Q2 | 1.38 0.05 down from 2014 | 82 | 29% | $3,090 | ||
31NetworksWiley · United States | 1.51Q2 | 1.27 0.12 up from 2014 | 167 | 23% | $3,750 | ||
32Journal of Industrial Engineering and ManagementOAOmniaScience · Spain | 1.45Q2 | 0.86 0.16 down from 2014 | 190 | 100% | $533 | ||
33Journal of Computing and Information Science in EngineeringASM International · United States | 1.33Q2 | 1.50 0.45 up from 2014 | 132 | 6% | — | ||
34European J of Industrial EngineeringInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 1.25Q2 | 0.96 0.25 down from 2014 | 107 | 6% | — | ||
35EURO Journal on Computational OptimizationOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.24Q2 | 1.27 0.33 up from 2014 | 30 | 100% | $1,400 | ||
36INFORMS Journal on Applied AnalyticsInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 1.19Q2 | 0.85 0.27 up from 2014 | 202 | 11% | — | ||
37Concurrent EngineeringSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.17Q2 | 1.13 0.26 down from 2014 | 80 | 13% | $4,150 | ||
38International Journal of Analytical ChemistryOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.11Q2 | 1.31 0.69 down from 2014 | 58 | 100% | $1,630 | ||
39TransportOAVilnius Gediminas Technical University · Lithuania | 1.11Q2 | 1.17 0.12 down from 2014 | 187 | 100% | $431 | ||
40Journal of SensorsHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.08Q3 | 1.29 0.57 down from 2014 | 145 | 100% | $2,830 | ||
41Advances in Production Engineering & ManagementUniversity of Maribor · Slovenia | 1.07Q3 | 1.58 0.38 up from 2014 | 62 | 100% | — | ||
42Central European Journal of Operations ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.06Q3 | 1.43 0.30 up from 2014 | 139 | 33% | $2,990 | ||
43International Journal of Product Lifecycle ManagementInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 1.03Q3 | 0.74 0.12 up from 2014 | 38 | 17% | — | ||
44TopSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.98Q3 | 0.69 0.21 down from 2014 | 107 | 41% | $2,990 | ||
45Asia Pacific Journal of Operational ResearchWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.93Q3 | 0.85 0.05 up from 2014 | 183 | 4% | — | ||
46Industrial Engineering & Management SystemsSouth Korea | 0.88Q3 | 0.67 0.21 down from 2014 | 131 | 100% | — | ||
47Journal of Control Science and EngineeringOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.87Q3 | 0.71 0.31 down from 2014 | 125 | 100% | $1,560 | ||
48IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor ManufacturingIEEE Computer Society · United States | 0.86Q3 | 1.41 0.27 down from 2014 | 230 | 11% | $2,645 | ||
49International Journal of Management Science and Engineering ManagementTaylor & Francis | 0.85Q3 | 0.74 0.12 down from 2014 | 127 | 4% | — | ||
50Quality Management JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.80Q3 | 0.69 0.07 up from 2014 | 81 | 5% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Industrial and Manufacturing 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.
17 additional Industrial and Manufacturing 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
- 78
- Window papers (baseline)
- 44,016 +8.9% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 1.09 -14.3% from indicator year 2012
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
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 | 31 | 34 | 36 | 37 | 40 | 44 | 44 | 44 | 50 | 51 | 55 | 65 | 68 | 66 | 74 | 78 | 81 | 79 | 86 | 87 | 87 | 90 | 86 | 86 | 85 | 84 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 15,320 | 16,693 | 17,936 | 19,688 | 20,825 | 22,675 | 24,599 | 27,617 | 29,952 | 32,271 | 34,386 | 37,027 | 40,419 | 42,136 | 43,935 | 44,016 | 43,986 | 42,172 | 41,220 | 43,326 | 47,952 | 53,290 | 57,318 | 59,343 | 62,188 | 68,148 | |
| Median OJR | 1.04 | 0.960 | 1.31 | 1.52 | 1.54 | 1.51 | 1.72 | 1.56 | 1.34 | 1.48 | 1.25 | 1.36 | 1.275 | 1.279 | 1.167 | 1.09 | 0.961 | 1.172 | 1.07 | 1.02 | 1.002 | 0.95 | 0.97 | 0.9364 | 0.9356 | 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.