Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Subfield ranking · 2017
Biomedical Engineering journal rankings 2017
272 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Biomedical Engineering has 272 ranked journals in 2017. The median journal has an OJR of 0.77, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2016; Q1 starts at OJR 1.35. The top three are Nano Today, Nano Energy, and IEEE Transactions on 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
272 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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1Nano TodayElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.87Q1 | 12.20 0.31 down from 2016 | 212 | 20% | $4,830 | ||
2Nano EnergyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.29Q1 | 13.39 0.28 up from 2016 | 1,399 | 24% | $5,210 | ||
3IEEE Transactions on RoboticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.19Q1 | 6.91 1.61 up from 2016 | 420 | 30% | $2,645 | ||
4IEEE Reviews in Biomedical EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.73Q1 | 6.35 1.73 down from 2016 | 44 | 25% | $2,645 | ||
5BiomaterialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.56Q1 | 9.24no change | 2,278 | 26% | $4,640 | ||
6Soft RoboticsMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 3.34Q1 | 7.09 0.61 down from 2016 | 69 | 31% | — | ||
7BiofabricationIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.12Q1 | 9.02 1.52 up from 2016 | 224 | 75% | $3,895 | ||
8Applied Materials TodayElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.92Q1 | 10.24 1.90 up from 2016 | 68 | 30% | $4,400 | ||
9Tissue Engineering Part B ReviewsMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 2.73Q1 | 5.73 0.36 down from 2016 | 132 | 36% | — | ||
10Biotechnology for BiofuelsOASpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 2.70Q1 | 7.72 0.51 up from 2016 | 693 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
11Acta BiomaterialiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.70Q1 | 6.67 0.04 down from 2016 | 1,560 | 41% | $3,810 | ||
12Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Nanomedicine and NanobiotechnologyWiley · United States | 2.52Q1 | 7.65 1.79 up from 2016 | 161 | 36% | $4,730 | ||
13Bioengineering & Translational MedicineOAWiley · United States | 2.52Q1 | 6.44no 2016 value | 36 | 100% | $2,890 | — | |
14Microsystems & NanoengineeringOASpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 2.51Q1 | 6.54 0.64 up from 2016 | 57 | 100% | $3,790 | ||
15ACS SensorsAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.45Q1 | 6.16 0.72 up from 2016 | 242 | 31% | $4,500 | ||
16ACS Sustainable Chemistry & EngineeringAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.42Q1 | 6.65 0.09 up from 2016 | 1,685 | 15% | $4,500 | ||
17FuelElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.41Q1 | 5.27 0.33 up from 2016 | 3,560 | 14% | $4,330 | ||
18IEEE Robotics and Automation LettersInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | 2.41Q1 | 3.79 1.44 up from 2016 | 239 | 32% | $2,645 | ||
19Bioinspiration & BiomimeticsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.34Q1 | 3.45 0.49 down from 2016 | 314 | 69% | $3,325 | ||
20Biosurface and BiotribologyOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · Netherlands | 2.31Q1 | 4.44 1.08 up from 2016 | 41 | 100% | $2,200 | ||
21Lab on a ChipRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.29Q1 | 6.65 0.21 up from 2016 | 1,452 | 27% | — | ||
22IEEE Transactions on Biomedical EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.14Q1 | 4.26 0.25 down from 2016 | 1,076 | 31% | $2,645 | ||
23Frontiers in Robotics and AIOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 2.12Q1 | 3.19 0.55 up from 2016 | 129 | 100% | $2,353 | ||
24Industrial Crops and ProductsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.08Q1 | 4.53 0.68 up from 2016 | 2,268 | 17% | $3,720 | ||
25Biomass and BioenergyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.95Q1 | 3.92 0.05 down from 2016 | 1,106 | 29% | $4,270 | ||
26PhotoacousticsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.94Q1 | 4.08 1.15 down from 2016 | 57 | 100% | $3,200 | ||
27Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 3.54 0.16 up from 2016 | 1,047 | 85% | — | ||
28Fuel Processing TechnologyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.93Q1 | 4.35 0.29 up from 2016 | 1,306 | 13% | $3,180 | ||
29Alexandria Engineering JournalOAElsevier BV · Egypt | 1.92Q1 | 3.74 0.53 up from 2016 | 595 | 100% | $1,900 | ||
30Biofuel Research JournalOAGreen Wave Publishing of Canada · Canada | 1.92Q1 | 5.43 0.27 up from 2016 | 75 | 100% | — | ||
31Advanced Healthcare MaterialsWiley · Germany | 1.87Q1 | 4.99 0.06 down from 2016 | 889 | 43% | $4,880 | ||
32Reviews in Chemical EngineeringDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.83Q1 | 3.56 0.26 up from 2016 | 107 | 13% | $0 listed | ||
33Biomaterials ScienceRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.81Q1 | 6.17 1.13 up from 2016 | 456 | 15% | — | ||
34International Journal of NanomedicineOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 1.81Q1 | 4.86 0.07 up from 2016 | 1,591 | 100% | $2,836 | ||
35BiosensorsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.81Q1 | 4.71 0.65 up from 2016 | 137 | 100% | $2,654 | ||
36Smart Materials and StructuresIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.81Q1 | 3.37 0.02 up from 2016 | 1,476 | 61% | $3,325 | ||
37Annals of Biomedical EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.80Q1 | 3.91 0.58 up from 2016 | 755 | 53% | $4,390 | ||
38Materials Science and Engineering CElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.74Q1 | 5.19 0.60 up from 2016 | 2,931 | 10% | $3,560 | ||
39Journal of Materials Chemistry BRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.71Q1 | 4.95 0.11 up from 2016 | 2,566 | 14% | — | ||
40ACS Biomaterials Science & EngineeringAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.70Q1 | 4.72 0.73 up from 2016 | 481 | 28% | $4,500 | ||
41Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials/Journal of mechanical behavior of biomedical materialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.66Q1 | 3.65 0.19 up from 2016 | 1,109 | 25% | $3,690 | ||
42Reaction Chemistry & EngineeringRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.66Q1 | 4.71 0.09 down from 2016 | 79 | 17% | — | ||
43Journal of Functional BiomaterialsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.65Q1 | 4.55 1.35 up from 2016 | 111 | 100% | $3,258 | ||
44Biomaterials ResearchOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.65Q1 | 3.88 0.65 up from 2016 | 77 | 100% | $2,700 | ||
45Process Safety and Environmental ProtectionElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.65Q1 | 3.26 0.34 up from 2016 | 1,600 | 13% | $3,500 | ||
46Signs and SocietyOAUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 1.64Q1 | 0.98 0.29 up from 2016 | 63 | 18% | $3,550 | ||
47Biomedical Optics ExpressOAOptica Publishing Group · United States | 1.64Q1 | 4.06 0.14 down from 2016 | 1,186 | 100% | $1,913 | ||
48IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.63Q1 | 4.13 0.11 up from 2016 | 310 | 21% | $2,645 | ||
49BioEnergy ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.62Q1 | 3.21 0.39 up from 2016 | 388 | 28% | $3,990 | ||
50Frontiers in Bioengineering and BiotechnologyOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.61Q1 | 4.10 0.17 down from 2016 | 413 | 100% | $3,801 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Biomedical 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.
120 additional Biomedical 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
- 272
- Window papers (baseline)
- 213,015 +12.8% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 0.768 +8.4% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 33
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 | 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.