Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Subfield ranking · 2016
Aerospace Engineering journal rankings 2016
177 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Aerospace Engineering has 177 ranked journals in 2016. The median journal has an OJR of 0.49, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2015; Q1 starts at OJR 1.04. The top three are Progress in Aerospace Sciences, GPS Solutions, and Journal of Field Robotics.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2016. 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 2013–2015, the window the 2016 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 Engineering498
- Mechanical Engineering349
- Biomedical Engineering257
- Civil and Structural Engineering232
- Aerospace Engineering177
- Control and Systems Engineering130
- Mechanics of Materials124
- Computational Mechanics105
- Building and Construction82
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering81
- Ocean Engineering67
- Media Technology31
177 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 2015. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2013–2015, the window the 2016 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2013–2015 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 2007 to 2016. | Compare |
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1Progress in Aerospace SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.09Q1 | 4.93 0.74 up from 2015 | 123 | 8% | $5,860 | ||
2GPS SolutionsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 5.51Q1 | 3.19 0.45 up from 2015 | 199 | 23% | $2,790 | ||
3Journal of Field RoboticsWiley · United States | 5.35Q1 | 5.65 0.94 up from 2015 | 176 | 20% | $3,590 | ||
4Journal of Guidance Control and DynamicsAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 4.08Q1 | 2.32 0.22 down from 2015 | 694 | 16% | — | ||
5Journal of GeodesySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.88Q1 | 3.20 0.13 up from 2015 | 257 | 28% | $3,590 | ||
6Wind EnergyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.58Q1 | 3.00 0.52 up from 2015 | 369 | 40% | $3,730 | ||
7IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.52Q1 | 2.52 0.06 down from 2015 | 765 | 11% | $2,645 | ||
8Journal of TurbomachineryASM International · United States | 3.48Q1 | 2.07 0.70 up from 2015 | 443 | 17% | — | ||
9IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation LettersIEEE Antennas & Propagation Society · United States | 3.34Q1 | 3.34 0.11 up from 2015 | 1,735 | 14% | $2,645 | ||
10IEEE Transactions on Antennas and PropagationIEEE Antennas & Propagation Society · United States | 3.01Q1 | 3.88 0.27 up from 2015 | 2,293 | 16% | $2,645 | ||
11Progress in Propulsion PhysicsPublisher not listed | 2.99Q1 | —no 2015 value | 42 | 100% | — | ||
12Aerospace Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · France | 2.92Q1 | 2.69 0.40 up from 2015 | 665 | 13% | $4,360 | ||
13IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing LettersInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.82Q1 | 3.21 0.54 up from 2015 | 1,187 | 7% | $2,645 | ||
14IET Radar Sonar & NavigationOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United Kingdom | 2.74Q1 | 1.76 0.03 up from 2015 | 494 | 10% | $2,620 | ||
15Journal of Intelligent & Robotic SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.56Q1 | 2.21 0.56 down from 2015 | 465 | 26% | $3,090 | ||
16NAVIGATION Journal of the Institute of NavigationOAWiley · United States | 2.51Q1 | 1.96 0.11 up from 2015 | 74 | 23% | $3,000 | ||
17International Journal of Micro Air VehiclesOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.40Q1 | 1.33 0.42 up from 2015 | 66 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
18Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process IndustriesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.16Q1 | 2.27 0.45 up from 2015 | 544 | 15% | $4,020 | ||
19Unmanned SystemsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 2.12Q1 | 1.95 0.07 down from 2015 | 59 | 4% | — | ||
20Journal of Thermal Spray TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media | 2.09Q1 | 1.74 0.09 down from 2015 | 477 | 15% | $3,190 | ||
21Journal of Unmanned Vehicle SystemsCanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 1.98Q1 | 2.62 1.33 down from 2015 | 44 | 48% | — | ||
22Journal of AircraftAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.82Q1 | 1.47 0.16 down from 2015 | 613 | 21% | — | ||
23Chinese Journal of AeronauticsElsevier BV · China | 1.81Q1 | 1.69 0.10 up from 2015 | 584 | 99% | $2,000 | ||
24International Journal of AeroacousticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.81Q1 | 0.88 0.05 up from 2015 | 110 | 13% | $4,150 | ||
25Journal of Propulsion and PowerAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.72Q1 | 1.80 0.21 up from 2015 | 545 | 12% | — | ||
26International Journal of Intelligent Unmanned SystemsEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.63Q1 | 1.26 0.49 up from 2015 | 35 | 17% | — | ||
27Journal of Surveying EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.59Q1 | 1.47 0.08 up from 2015 | 60 | 11% | — | ||
28Acta AstronauticaElsevier BV · United States | 1.52Q1 | 2.07 0.26 up from 2015 | 1,030 | 17% | $3,350 | ||
29Oxidation of MetalsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.49Q1 | 1.50 0.05 up from 2015 | 248 | 21% | $3,590 | ||
30IET Microwaves Antennas & PropagationOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United Kingdom | 1.48Q1 | 1.96 0.33 up from 2015 | 631 | 11% | $2,520 | ||
31Journal of Aerospace Information SystemsAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.46Q1 | 1.55 0.42 up from 2015 | 168 | 23% | — | ||
32Journal of Spacecraft and RocketsAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.33Q1 | 1.40 0.03 up from 2015 | 498 | 10% | — | ||
33Shock WavesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.32Q1 | 1.39 0.36 up from 2015 | 176 | 23% | $3,890 | ||
34Progress in Nuclear EnergyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.31Q1 | 1.41 0.13 up from 2015 | 622 | 14% | $2,930 | ||
35Volume 9: Oil and Gas Applications; Supercritical CO2 Power Cycles; Wind EnergyPublisher not listed | 1.27Q1 | 0.54no 2015 value | 70 | 3% | — | — | |
36IET Signal ProcessingOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United States | 1.22Q1 | 1.77 0.03 down from 2015 | 290 | 7% | $2,610 | ||
37Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part A Journal of Power and EnergySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.21Q1 | 1.06 0.16 up from 2015 | 227 | 11% | $4,150 | ||
38Annals of Nuclear EnergyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.21Q1 | 1.39 0.13 up from 2015 | 1,605 | 21% | $2,820 | ||
39Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part G Journal of Aerospace EngineeringSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.20Q1 | 0.98 0.19 up from 2015 | 547 | 9% | $4,150 | ||
40BuR - Business ResearchOASpringer Nature · Germany | 1.17Q1 | 0.29 0.11 up from 2015 | 196 | 100% | $1,535 | ||
41Journal of the American Helicopter SocietyVertical Flight Society · United States | 1.16Q1 | 0.77 0.31 down from 2015 | 109 | 8% | — | ||
42Survey ReviewTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.09Q1 | 0.86 0.01 up from 2015 | 204 | 16% | — | ||
43Journal of Aerospace EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.07Q1 | 1.12 0.28 up from 2015 | 283 | 5% | — | ||
44IEEE Antennas and Propagation MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.05Q1 | 0.98 0.29 up from 2015 | 890 | 8% | $2,995 | ||
45International Journal of Aerospace EngineeringOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.04Q1 | 0.92 0.10 up from 2015 | 113 | 100% | $2,570 | ||
46Nuclear Engineering and TechnologyOAElsevier BV · South Korea | 1.04Q2 | 1.34 0.16 up from 2015 | 317 | 100% | $200 | ||
47Nuclear Engineering and DesignElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.00Q2 | 1.32 0.11 up from 2015 | 1,511 | 22% | $2,710 | ||
48Advances in aircraft and spacecraft sciencePublisher not listed | 1.00Q2 | 0.90 0.76 down from 2015 | 52 | 18% | — | ||
49PositioningOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 1.00Q2 | 0.96 0.28 up from 2015 | 52 | 100% | — | ||
50The Journal of the Astronautical SciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.96Q2 | 1.00 0.67 up from 2015 | 65 | 4% | $3,190 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Aerospace Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering498
- Mechanical Engineering349
- Biomedical Engineering257
- Civil and Structural Engineering232
- Aerospace Engineering177
- Control and Systems Engineering130
- Mechanics of Materials124
- Computational Mechanics105
- Building and Construction82
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering81
- Ocean Engineering67
- Media Technology31
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality28
- Automotive Engineering25
- Architecture2
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2016. Corpus-wide, 77.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
95 additional Aerospace Engineering journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2013–2015, 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: 2016. Publication window: 2013–2015. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 177
- Window papers (baseline)
- 2,193,289 +8.5% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 0.485 -13.5% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 10
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2013–2015 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.