Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Subfield ranking · 2016
Mechanics of Materials journal rankings 2016
124 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Mechanics of Materials has 124 ranked journals in 2016. The median OJR fell 0.05 on 2015 to 1.04, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.72. The top three are Applied Mechanics Reviews, International Journal of Coal Geology, and Composite Structures.
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
124 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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1Applied Mechanics ReviewsAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers · United States | 4.61Q1 | 7.41 2.77 up from 2015 | 67 | 6% | — | ||
2International Journal of Coal GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.91Q1 | 4.70 0.63 up from 2015 | 460 | 19% | $4,090 | ||
3Composite StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.14Q1 | 4.59 0.40 up from 2015 | 2,072 | 20% | $4,660 | ||
4AAPG BulletinAmerican Association of Petroleum Geologists · United States | 3.01Q1 | 3.50 0.06 down from 2015 | 275 | 15% | — | ||
5International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining SciencesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.88Q1 | 2.82 0.14 up from 2015 | 661 | 13% | $4,110 | ||
6Composites Part A Applied Science and ManufacturingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.85Q1 | 4.71 0.14 up from 2015 | 855 | 15% | $4,480 | ||
7Computational MechanicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.76Q1 | 3.75 0.39 up from 2015 | 403 | 22% | $3,990 | ||
8Composites Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.69Q1 | 5.61 0.79 up from 2015 | 900 | 13% | $4,610 | ||
9NDT & E InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.69Q1 | 3.22 0.77 up from 2015 | 270 | 18% | $4,440 | ||
10Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical EngineeringOAElsevier BV · China | 2.59Q1 | 2.48 0.58 up from 2015 | 229 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
11Rock Mechanics and Rock EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 2.47Q1 | 2.29 0.16 up from 2015 | 534 | 16% | $3,990 | ||
12Marine and Petroleum GeologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.41Q1 | 3.26 0.02 down from 2015 | 747 | 20% | $3,440 | ||
13Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of SolidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.38Q1 | 4.55 0.04 down from 2015 | 500 | 57% | $4,220 | ||
14Finite Elements in Analysis and DesignElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.26Q1 | 2.41 0.05 up from 2015 | 305 | 22% | $2,990 | ||
15Applied Mathematical ModellingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.19Q1 | 2.54 0.07 up from 2015 | 1,696 | 100% | $4,510 | ||
16Engineering Fracture MechanicsElsevier BV · United States | 2.18Q1 | 2.54 0.02 up from 2015 | 840 | 20% | $4,120 | ||
17Theoretical and Applied Fracture MechanicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.17Q1 | 2.65 0.17 up from 2015 | 249 | 21% | $3,730 | ||
18International Journal for Numerical Methods in EngineeringWiley · United Kingdom | 2.16Q1 | 2.84 0.07 up from 2015 | 657 | 40% | $4,250 | ||
19Spectrochimica Acta Part B Atomic SpectroscopyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.15Q1 | 3.18 0.25 down from 2015 | 502 | 24% | $3,530 | ||
20Engineering With ComputersSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 2.11Q1 | 2.61 1.40 up from 2015 | 114 | 13% | $2,190 | ||
21International Journal of FatigueElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.11Q1 | 2.92 0.04 down from 2015 | 768 | 21% | $3,940 | ||
22International Journal of Solids and StructuresElsevier BV · United States | 2.05Q1 | 2.98 0.24 up from 2015 | 1,154 | 99% | $3,790 | ||
23European Journal of Mechanics - A/SolidsElsevier BV · France | 2.01Q1 | 2.90 0.10 down from 2015 | 366 | 27% | $4,040 | ||
24Quantitative InfraRed Thermography JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.01Q1 | 2.13 0.93 up from 2015 | 57 | 13% | — | ||
25LithosphereOAGeological Society of America · United States | 1.96Q1 | 3.42 0.21 up from 2015 | 120 | 100% | $2,100 | ||
26International Journal of Engineering ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.95Q1 | 4.60 1.23 up from 2015 | 376 | 17% | $4,980 | ||
27Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the EnvironmentSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.84Q1 | 1.69 0.42 up from 2015 | 368 | 4% | $3,990 | ||
28Petroleum Exploration and DevelopmentOAElsevier BV · China | 1.82Q1 | 2.64 0.44 up from 2015 | 337 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
29Journal of Analytical Atomic SpectrometryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 3.66 0.12 up from 2015 | 719 | 23% | — | ||
30Mechanics of MaterialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.74Q1 | 2.60 0.28 down from 2015 | 456 | 26% | $3,850 | ||
31Journal of Nondestructive EvaluationSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.72Q1 | 2.18 0.30 up from 2015 | 151 | 19% | $3,290 | ||
32International Journal of Mining Science and TechnologyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.71Q2 | 2.22 0.38 up from 2015 | 471 | 22% | $0 listed | ||
33Organic GeochemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.70Q2 | 3.24 0.23 up from 2015 | 449 | 33% | $3,270 | ||
34International Journal of FractureSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.69Q2 | 2.56 0.43 up from 2015 | 260 | 23% | $3,790 | ||
35Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & StructuresWiley · United Kingdom | 1.68Q2 | 2.73 0.47 up from 2015 | 350 | 16% | $3,860 | ||
36Energy Science & EngineeringOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.58Q2 | 2.99 0.71 up from 2015 | 85 | 100% | $2,780 | ||
37Continuum Mechanics and ThermodynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.57Q2 | 2.77 0.67 up from 2015 | 194 | 33% | $2,990 | ||
38International Journal of Adhesion and AdhesivesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.55Q2 | 2.22 0.47 down from 2015 | 476 | 24% | $3,760 | ||
39UltrasonicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.47Q2 | 2.56 0.23 up from 2015 | 663 | 16% | $3,680 | ||
40Mechanics Research CommunicationsElsevier BV · United States | 1.42Q2 | 1.78 0.07 up from 2015 | 349 | 19% | $3,580 | ||
41Engineering Analysis with Boundary ElementsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.40Q2 | 1.95 0.19 up from 2015 | 548 | 13% | $3,590 | ||
42GeofluidsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.38Q2 | 2.46 0.85 up from 2015 | 137 | 27% | $2,160 | ||
43StrainWiley · United Kingdom | 1.33Q2 | 1.83 0.09 up from 2015 | 129 | 36% | $4,220 | ||
44Journal of Petroleum GeologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.31Q2 | 1.23 0.14 up from 2015 | 82 | 16% | $3,400 | ||
45Mechanics of Advanced Materials and StructuresTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.30Q2 | 1.91 1.00 up from 2015 | 390 | 7% | — | ||
46Mathematics and Mechanics of SolidsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.29Q2 | 2.40 0.64 up from 2015 | 286 | 21% | $4,150 | ||
47Acta MechanicaSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 1.29Q2 | 2.04 0.41 up from 2015 | 707 | 11% | $3,490 | ||
48Propellants Explosives PyrotechnicsWiley · Germany | 1.28Q2 | 1.64 0.23 up from 2015 | 408 | 12% | $3,840 | ||
49Journal of Thermal StressesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.27Q2 | 1.84 0.44 up from 2015 | 219 | 8% | — | ||
50Applied Composite MaterialsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.23Q2 | 1.62 0.49 up from 2015 | 157 | 23% | $4,090 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Mechanics of Materials 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.
21 additional Mechanics of Materials 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
- 124
- Window papers (baseline)
- 106,266 -3.6% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 1.04 -1.2% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 14
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 | 78 | 81 | 85 | 90 | 89 | 91 | 96 | 101 | 105 | 106 | 106 | 110 | 108 | 115 | 117 | 121 | 124 | 126 | 123 | 123 | 121 | 123 | 122 | 121 | 126 | 124 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 41,039 | 46,235 | 51,243 | 57,208 | 61,654 | 67,090 | 72,297 | 77,433 | 83,476 | 89,782 | 95,236 | 100,355 | 106,668 | 110,219 | 112,431 | 110,199 | 106,266 | 99,874 | 95,912 | 96,897 | 101,761 | 106,369 | 109,525 | 109,615 | 109,306 | 111,140 | |
| Median OJR | 0.70 | 0.83 | 0.964 | 0.97 | 0.986 | 0.977 | 1.01 | 0.985 | 0.978 | 0.895 | 1.03 | 1.12 | 1.061 | 1.05 | 1.060 | 1.09 | 1.04 | 0.965 | 0.93 | 0.8976 | 0.910 | 0.912 | 0.8984 | 0.82 | 0.76 | 0.80 |
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.