Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Subfield ranking · 2016
Computational Mechanics journal rankings 2016
105 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Computational Mechanics has 105 ranked journals in 2016. The median OJR fell 0.08 on 2015 to 1.11, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.72. The top three are Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, SIAM Journal on Optimization, and Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering.
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
105 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 Energy and Combustion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 14.88Q1 | 22.81 2.51 up from 2015 | 55 | 22% | $6,990 | ||
2SIAM Journal on OptimizationSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 3.56Q1 | 3.14 0.85 down from 2015 | 290 | 41% | — | ||
3Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.28Q1 | 5.10 1.65 up from 2015 | 938 | 55% | $4,830 | ||
4Supercomputing Frontiers and InnovationsOAPublishing center of the South Ural State University · Russia | 3.09Q1 | 3.91 0.86 up from 2015 | 35 | 100% | — | ||
5Combustion and FlameElsevier BV · United States | 3.08Q1 | 4.74 1.20 up from 2015 | 984 | 38% | $4,320 | ||
6Information and Inference A Journal of the IMAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.91Q1 | 2.40 1.38 down from 2015 | 31 | 35% | $3,718 | ||
7AIAA JournalAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 2.79Q1 | 2.38 0.28 up from 2015 | 885 | 17% | — | ||
8Computer-Aided DesignElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.62Q1 | 3.14 0.71 up from 2015 | 360 | 38% | $3,140 | ||
9Proceedings of the Combustion InstituteElsevier BV · United States | 2.59Q1 | 5.04 2.53 up from 2015 | 441 | 39% | $3,570 | ||
1053rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences MeetingPublisher not listed | 2.38Q1 | 1.01no 2015 value | 1,042 | — | — | — | |
11Journal of Fluids and StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.33Q1 | 2.61 0.35 up from 2015 | 549 | 32% | $3,740 | ||
12Experiments in FluidsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.32Q1 | 2.89 0.39 up from 2015 | 660 | 32% | $2,590 | ||
13SIAM Journal on Numerical AnalysisSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 2.25Q1 | 2.62 0.11 down from 2015 | 427 | 56% | — | ||
1452nd Aerospace Sciences MeetingPublisher not listed | 2.18Q1 | 0.96 0.06 down from 2015 | 906 | — | — | ||
15Experimental Thermal and Fluid ScienceElsevier BV · United States | 2.12Q1 | 2.96 0.29 up from 2015 | 763 | 15% | $3,720 | ||
16SIAM Journal on Scientific ComputingSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 2.07Q1 | 2.97 0.09 up from 2015 | 670 | 47% | — | ||
17International Journal of Heat and Fluid FlowElsevier BV · United States | 2.07Q1 | 2.41 0.31 up from 2015 | 404 | 23% | $3,420 | ||
| 2.05Q1 | —no 2015 value | 1,183 | — | — | |||
19International Journal of Multiphase FlowElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.01Q1 | 2.83 0.20 up from 2015 | 449 | 19% | $3,900 | ||
20Computers & FluidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.00Q1 | 2.75 0.50 up from 2015 | 1,013 | 29% | $3,700 | ||
21Flow Turbulence and CombustionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.94Q1 | 2.08 0.01 down from 2015 | 241 | 33% | $2,590 | ||
22Combustion Theory and ModellingTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.92Q1 | 2.88 0.77 up from 2015 | 101 | 30% | — | ||
23Journal of Fluid MechanicsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.89Q1 | 3.07 0.29 up from 2015 | 2,254 | 49% | $3,550 | ||
24Journal of Computational PhysicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.83Q1 | 3.09 0.14 up from 2015 | 2,088 | 60% | $3,980 | ||
25Granular MatterSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.80Q1 | 2.27 0.04 down from 2015 | 205 | 28% | $2,590 | ||
26International Journal for Numerical Methods in FluidsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 1.99 0.09 down from 2015 | 389 | 41% | $4,220 | ||
27Numerische MathematikSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.72Q1 | 1.98 0.08 down from 2015 | 271 | 44% | $3,190 | ||
28Physics of FluidsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.71Q2 | 2.57 0.25 up from 2015 | 1,823 | 31% | — | ||
29GAMM-MitteilungenWiley · Germany | 1.71Q2 | 1.65 2.01 down from 2015 | 44 | 0% | $3,140 | ||
30Powder TechnologyElsevier BV · Switzerland | 1.68Q2 | 3.33 0.28 up from 2015 | 2,087 | 17% | $4,610 | ||
31Mathematics of ComputationAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 1.65Q2 | 1.62 0.07 down from 2015 | 450 | 88% | — | ||
32Journal of Scientific ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.55Q2 | 1.94 0.21 up from 2015 | 466 | 26% | $3,290 | ||
33ParticuologyElsevier BV · China | 1.51Q2 | 2.77 0.39 up from 2015 | 387 | 14% | $3,090 | ||
34Computers & Mathematics with ApplicationsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.48Q2 | 1.87 0.05 down from 2015 | 931 | 96% | $3,170 | ||
35Journal of TurbulenceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.47Q2 | 1.96 0.34 up from 2015 | 164 | 20% | — | ||
36ESAIM Mathematical Modelling and Numerical AnalysisEDP Sciences · France | 1.45Q2 | 1.69 0.04 up from 2015 | 237 | 88% | $0 listed | ||
37Graphical ModelsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.45Q2 | 1.55 0.08 up from 2015 | 109 | 19% | $2,180 | ||
38CALCOLOSpringer Science+Business Media · Italy | 1.43Q2 | 1.62 0.47 up from 2015 | 96 | 21% | $3,090 | ||
39European Journal of Mechanics - B/FluidsElsevier BV · France | 1.42Q2 | 2.16 0.52 up from 2015 | 330 | 27% | $3,380 | ||
40Computational Particle MechanicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.40Q2 | 2.22 1.89 down from 2015 | 88 | 100% | $3,790 | ||
41Physical Review EAmerican Physical Society · United States | 1.39Q2 | 2.61 0.06 up from 2015 | 7,479 | 0% | — | ||
42IMA Journal of Numerical AnalysisOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.38Q2 | 1.58 0.24 down from 2015 | 226 | 46% | $3,718 | ||
43Annual Review of Fluid MechanicsAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.37Q2 | 15.66 2.89 up from 2015 | 61 | 55% | — | ||
44Advances in Computational MathematicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.34Q2 | 1.74 0.26 up from 2015 | 145 | 36% | $3,190 | ||
45Advanced Powder TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.33Q2 | 2.97 0.60 up from 2015 | 593 | 10% | $3,170 | ||
46Journal of Computational and Applied MathematicsElsevier BV · Belgium | 1.32Q2 | 1.69 0.16 up from 2015 | 1,452 | 99% | $3,250 | ||
47Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and PowerASM International · United States | 1.32Q2 | 1.54 0.15 up from 2015 | 852 | 19% | — | ||
48Optimization methods & softwareTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.25Q2 | 1.16 0.12 down from 2015 | 156 | 22% | — | ||
49International journal of computational fluid dynamicsTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 1.22Q2 | 1.55 0.38 up from 2015 | 92 | 25% | — | ||
50Applied Numerical MathematicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.21Q2 | 1.40 0.11 down from 2015 | 296 | 34% | $2,000 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Computational Mechanics 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.
17 additional Computational Mechanics 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
- 105
- Window papers (baseline)
- 73,090 +8.0% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 1.11 -5.1% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 11
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 | 60 | 65 | 69 | 74 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 80 | 83 | 83 | 83 | 90 | 95 | 97 | 97 | 99 | 105 | 103 | 103 | 102 | 103 | 102 | 94 | 96 | 95 | 98 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 36,165 | 38,765 | 40,500 | 43,030 | 44,729 | 47,165 | 50,494 | 53,211 | 56,063 | 58,071 | 59,829 | 62,248 | 65,214 | 67,674 | 70,379 | 72,114 | 73,090 | 72,766 | 72,858 | 73,849 | 76,122 | 77,791 | 78,271 | 75,603 | 72,795 | 73,468 | |
| Median OJR | 1.14 | 1.36 | 1.31 | 1.39 | 1.33 | 1.51 | 1.41 | 1.25 | 1.24 | 1.23 | 1.27 | 1.28 | 1.19 | 1.17 | 1.16 | 1.20 | 1.11 | 1.18 | 1.0036 | 1.0039 | 0.95 | 0.81 | 0.86 | 0.84 | 0.80 | 0.73 |
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.