Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Subfield ranking · 2015
Mechanical Engineering journal rankings 2015
336 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Mechanical Engineering has 336 ranked journals in 2015. The median journal has an OJR of 0.55, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2014; Q1 starts at OJR 1.11. The top three are International Materials Reviews, Journal of Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources, and SPE Eastern Regional Meeting.
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
336 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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1International Materials ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 6.22Q1 | 7.24 2.30 down from 2014 | 61 | 8% | $4,400 | ||
2Journal of Unconventional Oil and Gas ResourcesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.16Q1 | 5.11 3.44 up from 2014 | 36 | 27% | — | ||
3SPE Eastern Regional MeetingPublisher not listed | 3.99Q1 | 1.78 0.75 up from 2014 | 92 | 0% | — | ||
4Materials & Design (1980-2015)Elsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.80Q1 | 5.01 1.07 up from 2014 | 2,776 | 8% | — | ||
5International Journal of Machine Tools and ManufactureElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.74Q1 | 4.52 0.01 down from 2014 | 300 | 9% | $5,610 | ||
6CIRP AnnalsElsevier BV | 3.72Q1 | 4.20 0.59 down from 2014 | 468 | 25% | $3,190 | ||
7CIRP journal of manufacturing science and technologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.11Q1 | 3.19 0.31 up from 2014 | 108 | 20% | $2,950 | ||
8Composites Part B EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.04Q1 | 4.87 0.87 up from 2014 | 1,705 | 17% | $5,210 | ||
9International Journal of PlasticityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.84Q1 | 6.31 0.73 up from 2014 | 382 | 40% | $3,740 | ||
10International Journal of Mechanical SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.79Q1 | 3.06 0.46 up from 2014 | 686 | 14% | $4,740 | ||
11Journal of Materials Processing TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.77Q1 | 3.35 0.26 up from 2014 | 916 | 15% | $3,980 | ||
12Design StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.76Q1 | 3.20 0.48 up from 2014 | 82 | 27% | $4,570 | ||
13Energy Conversion and ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.74Q1 | 5.92 0.20 up from 2014 | 2,028 | 12% | $4,600 | ||
14Critical reviews in solid state and materials sciences/CRC critical reviews in solid state and materials sciencesTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.67Q1 | 5.38 1.12 down from 2014 | 44 | 0% | — | ||
15Journal of Engineering DesignTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.65Q1 | 2.17 0.59 up from 2014 | 77 | 29% | — | ||
16Archives of Civil and Mechanical EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Poland | 2.62Q1 | 2.86 0.20 up from 2014 | 263 | 3% | $3,290 | ||
17Case Studies in Thermal EngineeringOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.62Q1 | 3.52 1.58 up from 2014 | 62 | 100% | $1,620 | ||
18Research in Engineering DesignSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 2.43Q1 | 1.78 0.52 down from 2014 | 60 | 26% | $4,090 | ||
19Materials Research LettersOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.40Q1 | 4.91 0.97 up from 2014 | 88 | 100% | $1,459 | ||
20International Communications in Heat and Mass TransferElsevier BV · United States | 2.32Q1 | 3.50 0.10 up from 2014 | 605 | 7% | $3,560 | ||
21Manufacturing LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.31Q1 | 3.12 1.77 up from 2014 | 52 | 20% | $2,000 | ||
22International Journal of Thermal SciencesElsevier BV · France | 2.30Q1 | 3.51 0.47 up from 2014 | 696 | 12% | $3,920 | ||
23Journal of Sandwich Structures & MaterialsSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.27Q1 | 3.12 1.81 up from 2014 | 103 | 19% | $4,400 | ||
24International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing-Green TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 2.23Q1 | 4.34no 2014 value | 44 | 100% | $3,890 | — | |
25Integrating materials and manufacturing innovationSpringer Nature · Germany | 2.20Q1 | 3.10 0.53 up from 2014 | 33 | 100% | $3,790 | ||
26Applied Thermal EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.13Q1 | 3.36 0.14 up from 2014 | 2,304 | 13% | $3,660 | ||
27Tribology InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.11Q1 | 2.87 0.23 up from 2014 | 869 | 11% | $5,390 | ||
28International Journal of Heat and Mass TransferElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.11Q1 | 3.37 0.42 up from 2014 | 2,836 | 13% | $4,220 | ||
29WearElsevier BV · Switzerland | 2.09Q1 | 2.91 0.43 up from 2014 | 1,027 | 16% | $5,394 | ||
30Vehicle System DynamicsTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 2.08Q1 | 1.98 0.23 down from 2014 | 303 | 22% | — | ||
31Procedia EngineeringOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 0.92 0.21 up from 2014 | 9,841 | 100% | — | ||
32FrictionOASpringer Nature · China | 2.06Q1 | 3.40 0.35 down from 2014 | 63 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
33International Journal of Pressure Vessels and PipingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 1.83 0.13 up from 2014 | 240 | 8% | $3,620 | ||
34Journal of CO2 UtilizationOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.02Q1 | 5.16 0.29 down from 2014 | 82 | 13% | $3,360 | ||
35Journal of Mechanical DesignAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers · United States | 2.01Q1 | 2.24 0.36 up from 2014 | 466 | 11% | — | ||
36MaterialsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.90Q1 | 3.69 0.38 up from 2014 | 1,006 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
37Journal of Manufacturing ProcessesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.87Q1 | 2.51 0.20 up from 2014 | 202 | 20% | $3,520 | ||
38Scripta MaterialiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 3.26 0.17 down from 2014 | 1,347 | 27% | $3,220 | ||
39International Journal of RefrigerationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.83Q1 | 2.53 0.28 up from 2014 | 803 | 20% | $3,220 | ||
40International Journal of Rotating MachineryOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · Netherlands | 1.82Q1 | 0.98 0.18 down from 2014 | 116 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
41Precision EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.81Q1 | 2.62 0.29 up from 2014 | 313 | 17% | $3,340 | ||
42Materials Science and Engineering AElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.77Q1 | 3.05 0.12 up from 2014 | 3,752 | 15% | $3,430 | ||
43Materials CharacterizationElsevier BV · United States | 1.74Q1 | 2.88 0.60 up from 2014 | 700 | 12% | $3,320 | ||
44International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard MaterialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.71Q1 | 2.23 0.11 down from 2014 | 602 | 8% | $3,310 | ||
45Tribology LettersSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.71Q1 | 2.37 0.29 up from 2014 | 523 | 16% | $3,990 | ||
46IntermetallicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.71Q1 | 2.80 0.38 up from 2014 | 797 | 9% | $2,730 | ||
47Experimental MechanicsSpringer Nature · United States | 1.64Q1 | 2.31 0.58 up from 2014 | 385 | 20% | $2,390 | ||
48The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.62Q1 | 2.30 0.17 up from 2014 | 2,806 | 9% | $3,990 | ||
49Science and Technology of Welding & JoiningManey Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.56Q1 | 2.19 0.36 up from 2014 | 307 | 5% | $4,400 | ||
50MeccanicaSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.53Q1 | 2.13 0.16 up from 2014 | 515 | 18% | $3,990 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Mechanical 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.
105 additional Mechanical 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
- 336
- Window papers (baseline)
- 189,752 +15.7% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 0.5478 -0.6% from indicator year 2012
- Rising journals (2025)
- 37
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 | 153 | 165 | 174 | 181 | 189 | 197 | 200 | 216 | 239 | 248 | 253 | 259 | 279 | 297 | 318 | 336 | 349 | 360 | 367 | 371 | 379 | 380 | 376 | 376 | 372 | 366 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 62,334 | 69,348 | 76,751 | 85,480 | 91,814 | 99,066 | 105,079 | 114,255 | 121,976 | 131,580 | 138,936 | 149,595 | 164,074 | 174,982 | 184,498 | 189,752 | 192,405 | 190,265 | 188,986 | 196,408 | 208,840 | 221,656 | 231,232 | 237,955 | 243,502 | 258,806 | |
| Median OJR | 0.511 | 0.539 | 0.531 | 0.553 | 0.47 | 0.501 | 0.51157 | 0.5481 | 0.5022 | 0.5090 | 0.565 | 0.58 | 0.551 | 0.59 | 0.561 | 0.5478 | 0.57 | 0.545 | 0.51162 | 0.500 | 0.5023 | 0.492 | 0.5093 | 0.496 | 0.528 | 0.489 |
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.