Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Subfield ranking · 2017
Aerospace Engineering journal rankings 2017
181 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Aerospace Engineering has 181 ranked journals in 2017. The median journal has an OJR of 0.47, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2016; Q1 starts at OJR 1.21. The top three are Progress in Aerospace Sciences, GPS Solutions, and Journal of Field Robotics.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2017. 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 2014–2016, the window the 2017 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 Engineering506
- Mechanical Engineering360
- Biomedical Engineering272
- Civil and Structural Engineering250
- Aerospace Engineering181
- Control and Systems Engineering128
- Mechanics of Materials126
- Computational Mechanics103
- Building and Construction81
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering79
- Ocean Engineering71
- Automotive Engineering27
181 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 2016. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2014–2016, the window the 2017 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2014–2016 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 2008 to 2017. | Compare |
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1Progress in Aerospace SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.50Q1 | 4.01 0.93 down from 2016 | 152 | 13% | $5,860 | ||
2GPS SolutionsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 5.27Q1 | 3.04 0.15 down from 2016 | 232 | 23% | $2,790 | ||
3Journal of Field RoboticsWiley · United States | 4.65Q1 | 4.32 1.33 down from 2016 | 192 | 31% | $3,590 | ||
4Journal of GeodesySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.38Q1 | 3.97 0.77 up from 2016 | 285 | 39% | $3,590 | ||
5Journal of Guidance Control and DynamicsAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 3.74Q1 | 2.63 0.31 up from 2016 | 769 | 17% | — | ||
6Journal of TurbomachineryASM International · United States | 3.48Q1 | 2.10 0.03 up from 2016 | 336 | 12% | — | ||
7Wind EnergyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.36Q1 | 2.83 0.16 down from 2016 | 334 | 35% | $3,730 | ||
8IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation LettersIEEE Antennas & Propagation Society · United States | 3.03Q1 | 3.32 0.02 down from 2016 | 1,843 | 13% | $2,645 | ||
9IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.94Q1 | 2.67 0.15 up from 2016 | 791 | 13% | $2,645 | ||
10IEEE Transactions on Antennas and PropagationIEEE Antennas & Propagation Society · United States | 2.83Q1 | 4.35 0.47 up from 2016 | 2,393 | 16% | $2,645 | ||
11Aerospace Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · France | 2.74Q1 | 2.90 0.21 up from 2016 | 873 | 18% | $4,360 | ||
12IET Radar Sonar & NavigationOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United Kingdom | 2.67Q1 | 1.90 0.14 up from 2016 | 548 | 21% | $2,620 | ||
13Journal of Unmanned Vehicle SystemsCanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 2.66Q1 | 2.80 0.18 up from 2016 | 62 | 74% | — | ||
14IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing LettersInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.64Q1 | 3.12 0.09 down from 2016 | 1,286 | 8% | $2,645 | ||
15NAVIGATION Journal of the Institute of NavigationOAWiley · United States | 2.61Q1 | 1.52 0.44 down from 2016 | 90 | 12% | $3,000 | ||
16International Journal of Micro Air VehiclesOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.45Q1 | 1.45 0.12 up from 2016 | 69 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
17IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.34Q1 | 2.08 1.08 up from 2016 | 239 | 4% | $2,995 | ||
18Journal of Thermal Spray TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media | 2.04Q1 | 2.08 0.34 up from 2016 | 455 | 17% | $3,190 | ||
19Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process IndustriesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.98Q1 | 2.43 0.17 up from 2016 | 666 | 18% | $4,020 | ||
20Journal of Intelligent & Robotic SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.92Q1 | 2.30 0.09 up from 2016 | 396 | 24% | $3,090 | ||
21Volume 9: Oil and Gas Applications; Supercritical CO2 Power Cycles; Wind EnergyPublisher not listed | 1.89Q1 | 0.91 0.37 up from 2016 | 135 | 14% | — | ||
22Journal of Surveying EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.79Q1 | 1.81 0.34 up from 2016 | 86 | 15% | — | ||
23International Journal of AeroacousticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.76Q1 | 0.96 0.07 up from 2016 | 118 | 38% | $4,150 | ||
24Unmanned SystemsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.76Q1 | 1.54 0.42 down from 2016 | 64 | 14% | — | ||
25Chinese Journal of AeronauticsElsevier BV · China | 1.76Q1 | 2.05 0.37 up from 2016 | 551 | 99% | $2,000 | ||
26AerospaceOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.75Q1 | 1.53 0.62 up from 2016 | 77 | 100% | $2,896 | ||
| 1.72Q1 | 0.91 0.45 up from 2016 | 130 | 6% | — | |||
28Volume 8: Microturbines, Turbochargers and Small Turbomachines; Steam TurbinesPublisher not listed | 1.67Q1 | 0.75 0.34 up from 2016 | 146 | 5% | — | ||
29Journal of AircraftAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.60Q1 | 1.15 0.32 down from 2016 | 670 | 23% | — | ||
30Journal of Propulsion and PowerAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.59Q1 | 1.48 0.32 down from 2016 | 581 | 15% | — | ||
31Acta AstronauticaElsevier BV · United States | 1.58Q1 | 2.46 0.38 up from 2016 | 1,190 | 15% | $3,350 | ||
32Shock WavesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.52Q1 | 1.32 0.07 down from 2016 | 200 | 14% | $3,890 | ||
33IET Microwaves Antennas & PropagationOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United Kingdom | 1.48Q1 | 2.07 0.11 up from 2016 | 730 | 18% | $2,520 | ||
34Annals of Nuclear EnergyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.44Q1 | 1.49 0.10 up from 2016 | 1,535 | 19% | $2,820 | ||
35BuR - Business ResearchOASpringer Nature · Germany | 1.43Q1 | 0.21 0.08 down from 2016 | 185 | 100% | $1,535 | ||
36Progress in Nuclear EnergyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.42Q1 | 1.34 0.06 down from 2016 | 704 | 13% | $2,930 | ||
37Survey ReviewTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.42Q1 | 1.31 0.45 up from 2016 | 195 | 16% | — | ||
38Journal of Spacecraft and RocketsAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.40Q1 | 1.35 0.05 down from 2016 | 475 | 13% | — | ||
39Journal of Applied GeodesyDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.40Q1 | 1.48 0.55 up from 2016 | 75 | 8% | $2,712 | ||
40Oxidation of MetalsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.35Q1 | 1.54 0.04 up from 2016 | 229 | 36% | $3,590 | ||
41Artificial SatellitesOADe Gruyter · Poland | 1.31Q1 | 0.90 0.29 up from 2016 | 47 | 100% | — | ||
42IEEE Antennas and Propagation MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.28Q1 | 1.59 0.61 up from 2016 | 684 | 7% | $2,995 | ||
43The Journal of the Astronautical SciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.25Q1 | 0.95 0.05 down from 2016 | 61 | 21% | $3,190 | ||
44Journal of Aerospace Information SystemsAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.25Q1 | 1.52 0.04 down from 2016 | 158 | 15% | — | ||
45Journal of Aerospace EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.24Q1 | 1.42 0.30 up from 2016 | 320 | 5% | — | ||
46Journal of the American Helicopter SocietyVertical Flight Society · United States | 1.21Q1 | 1.02 0.25 up from 2016 | 111 | 9% | — | ||
47Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part A Journal of Power and EnergySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.21Q2 | 1.31 0.26 up from 2016 | 195 | 15% | $4,150 | ||
48Nuclear Engineering and TechnologyOAElsevier BV · South Korea | 1.20Q2 | 1.71 0.38 up from 2016 | 376 | 100% | $200 | ||
49Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part G Journal of Aerospace EngineeringSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.18Q2 | 0.93 0.05 down from 2016 | 655 | 5% | $4,150 | ||
50CEAS Space JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 1.18Q2 | 1.23 0.38 up from 2016 | 84 | 33% | $3,390 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Aerospace Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering506
- Mechanical Engineering360
- Biomedical Engineering272
- Civil and Structural Engineering250
- Aerospace Engineering181
- Control and Systems Engineering128
- Mechanics of Materials126
- Computational Mechanics103
- Building and Construction81
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering79
- Ocean Engineering71
- Automotive Engineering27
- Media Technology27
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality26
- Architecture2
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2017. Corpus-wide, 77.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
87 additional Aerospace Engineering journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2014–2016, 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: 2017. Publication window: 2014–2016. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 181
- Window papers (baseline)
- 2,119,832 +1.9% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 0.47 -1.6% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 10
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2014–2016 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.