Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Subfield ranking · 2016
Biomedical Engineering journal rankings 2016
257 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Biomedical Engineering has 257 ranked journals in 2016. The median journal has an OJR of 0.75, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2015; Q1 starts at OJR 1.33. The top three are Nano Today, Nano Energy, and IEEE Transactions on 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
257 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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1Nano TodayElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.76Q1 | 12.51 1.64 up from 2015 | 188 | 26% | $4,830 | ||
2Nano EnergyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.30Q1 | 13.11 2.71 up from 2015 | 909 | 29% | $5,210 | ||
3IEEE Transactions on RoboticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.21Q1 | 5.29 0.32 up from 2015 | 374 | 34% | $2,645 | ||
4Soft RoboticsMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 3.97Q1 | 7.69 1.18 down from 2015 | 50 | 39% | — | ||
5IEEE Reviews in Biomedical EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.88Q1 | 8.09 2.63 up from 2015 | 34 | 20% | $2,645 | ||
6BiomaterialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.65Q1 | 9.24 0.08 down from 2015 | 2,680 | 27% | $4,640 | ||
7Tissue Engineering Part B ReviewsMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 3.13Q1 | 6.09 0.04 down from 2015 | 134 | 48% | — | ||
8Biotechnology for BiofuelsOASpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 3.03Q1 | 7.21 0.79 down from 2015 | 615 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
9BiofabricationIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.02Q1 | 7.50 1.70 up from 2015 | 178 | 68% | $3,895 | ||
10Acta BiomaterialiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.02Q1 | 6.71 0.14 down from 2015 | 1,495 | 42% | $3,810 | ||
11PhotoacousticsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.78Q1 | 5.23 0.41 up from 2015 | 55 | 100% | $3,200 | ||
12Bioinspiration & BiomimeticsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.68Q1 | 3.93 0.34 down from 2015 | 263 | 63% | $3,325 | ||
13ACS Sustainable Chemistry & EngineeringAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.52Q1 | 6.55 0.20 up from 2015 | 1,030 | 14% | $4,500 | ||
14Lab on a ChipRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.47Q1 | 6.45 0.40 up from 2015 | 1,585 | 35% | — | ||
15FuelElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.47Q1 | 4.94 0.50 up from 2015 | 3,243 | 12% | $4,330 | ||
16ACS SensorsAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.41Q1 | 5.44no 2015 value | 32 | 30% | $4,500 | — | |
17Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Nanomedicine and NanobiotechnologyWiley · United States | 2.29Q1 | 5.86 1.21 up from 2015 | 158 | 55% | $4,730 | ||
18Biomass and BioenergyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.21Q1 | 3.96 0.22 down from 2015 | 1,161 | 32% | $4,270 | ||
19Biofuel Research JournalOAGreen Wave Publishing of Canada · Canada | 2.20Q1 | 5.16 0.04 up from 2015 | 51 | 100% | — | ||
20Smart Materials and StructuresIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 3.35 0.39 down from 2015 | 1,384 | 62% | $3,325 | ||
21IEEE Transactions on Biomedical EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.08Q1 | 4.51 0.49 up from 2015 | 1,108 | 34% | $2,645 | ||
22Signs and SocietyOAUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 2.06Q1 | 0.69 0.21 down from 2015 | 54 | 27% | $3,550 | ||
23Fuel Processing TechnologyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.02Q1 | 4.06 0.15 up from 2015 | 1,176 | 13% | $3,180 | ||
24Advanced Healthcare MaterialsWiley · Germany | 2.01Q1 | 5.05 0.18 up from 2015 | 744 | 44% | $4,880 | ||
25Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 2.00Q1 | 3.38 0.32 up from 2015 | 1,024 | 77% | — | ||
26Alexandria Engineering JournalOAElsevier BV · Egypt | 2.00Q1 | 3.20 0.48 up from 2015 | 336 | 100% | $1,900 | ||
27Industrial Crops and ProductsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.98Q1 | 3.85no change | 2,145 | 11% | $3,720 | ||
28International Journal of NanomedicineOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 1.94Q1 | 4.79 0.06 down from 2015 | 1,503 | 100% | $2,836 | ||
29Journal of Materials Chemistry BRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.89Q1 | 4.84 0.41 down from 2015 | 2,522 | 18% | — | ||
30Frontiers in Robotics and AIOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.88Q1 | 2.64 0.04 down from 2015 | 50 | 100% | $2,353 | ||
31Reviews in Chemical EngineeringDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.85Q1 | 3.30 1.04 up from 2015 | 85 | 13% | $0 listed | ||
32Frontiers in Bioengineering and BiotechnologyOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.79Q1 | 4.27 0.41 up from 2015 | 307 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
33Materials Science and Engineering CElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.79Q1 | 4.59 0.50 up from 2015 | 2,302 | 12% | $3,560 | ||
34Journal of Analytical and Applied PyrolysisElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.77Q1 | 3.80 0.27 down from 2015 | 741 | 15% | $3,580 | ||
35Biomedical Optics ExpressOAOptica Publishing Group · United States | 1.76Q1 | 4.20 0.28 down from 2015 | 1,015 | 100% | $1,913 | ||
36Colloids and Surfaces B BiointerfacesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.75Q1 | 4.23 0.04 down from 2015 | 2,081 | 13% | $3,790 | ||
37Biomaterials ScienceRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.73Q1 | 5.04 1.23 up from 2015 | 441 | 20% | — | ||
38Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials/Journal of mechanical behavior of biomedical materialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.72Q1 | 3.46 0.14 down from 2015 | 990 | 22% | $3,690 | ||
39Annals of Biomedical EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.71Q1 | 3.33 0.08 up from 2015 | 743 | 58% | $4,390 | ||
40Biofuels Bioproducts and BiorefiningWiley · United Kingdom | 1.69Q1 | 3.53 0.02 down from 2015 | 224 | 37% | $4,530 | ||
41Sustainable Chemical ProcessesSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.68Q1 | 2.81 0.56 down from 2015 | 65 | 100% | — | ||
42Chemical Engineering ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.67Q1 | 3.26 0.41 up from 2015 | 1,966 | 26% | $4,050 | ||
43Process Safety and Environmental ProtectionElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.66Q1 | 2.92 0.17 up from 2015 | 1,311 | 13% | $3,500 | ||
44Regenerative BiomaterialsOAUniversity of Oxford · United Kingdom | 1.66Q1 | 3.95 1.42 up from 2015 | 44 | 100% | $1,820 | ||
45IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.66Q1 | 4.02 0.58 up from 2015 | 283 | 20% | $2,645 | ||
46BioEnergy ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.66Q1 | 2.83 0.01 down from 2015 | 394 | 27% | $3,990 | ||
47IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and MedicineOAInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.65Q1 | 3.20 0.43 up from 2015 | 76 | 100% | $2,075 | ||
48AIChE JournalWiley · United States | 1.65Q1 | 3.13 0.05 up from 2015 | 1,102 | 19% | $4,940 | ||
49ACS Biomaterials Science & EngineeringAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.65Q1 | 3.99 0.35 up from 2015 | 165 | 30% | $4,500 | ||
50Journal of BiomechanicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.63Q1 | 3.01 0.28 down from 2015 | 1,487 | 46% | $3,650 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Biomedical 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.
123 additional Biomedical 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
- 257
- Window papers (baseline)
- 208,275 +19.4% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 0.75 -3.9% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 33
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 | 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.