Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Subfield ranking · 2017
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering journal rankings 2017
79 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering has 79 ranked journals in 2017. The median OJR rose 0.21 on 2016 to 1.17, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.78. The top three are Journal of Manufacturing Systems, Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review, and Transportation Science.
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
79 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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1Journal of Manufacturing SystemsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.78Q1 | 5.01 0.56 up from 2016 | 248 | 26% | $3,850 | ||
2Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation ReviewElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.69Q1 | 4.41 0.17 up from 2016 | 446 | 28% | $4,240 | ||
3Transportation ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 4.08Q1 | 3.70 0.65 up from 2016 | 204 | 51% | — | ||
4Computers in IndustryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.00Q1 | 4.82 1.46 up from 2016 | 281 | 28% | $4,080 | ||
5European Journal of Operational ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.93Q1 | 4.07 0.19 up from 2016 | 2,098 | 41% | $3,290 | ||
6Advanced Engineering InformaticsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.86Q1 | 4.69 0.75 up from 2016 | 199 | 28% | $3,560 | ||
7Computers & Operations ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.85Q1 | 3.52 0.05 down from 2016 | 677 | 40% | $3,570 | ||
8Computers & Industrial EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.53Q1 | 3.93 0.43 up from 2016 | 1,007 | 13% | $3,790 | ||
9Robotics and Computer-Integrated ManufacturingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.27Q1 | 4.56 1.28 up from 2016 | 257 | 21% | $4,540 | ||
10International Journal of Production ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.97Q1 | 3.40 0.68 up from 2016 | 1,387 | 23% | — | ||
11EURO Journal on Transportation and LogisticsOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.67Q1 | 1.92 0.58 down from 2016 | 57 | 100% | $1,400 | ||
12Flexible Services and Manufacturing JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.42Q1 | 2.20 0.68 up from 2016 | 77 | 43% | $2,590 | ||
13OR SpectrumSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.41Q1 | 2.29 0.25 down from 2016 | 104 | 37% | $3,290 | ||
14International Journal of Computer Integrated ManufacturingTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.28Q1 | 2.30 0.22 up from 2016 | 271 | 21% | — | ||
15Journal of Intelligent ManufacturingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.27Q1 | 2.22 0.39 up from 2016 | 414 | 13% | $3,290 | ||
16Journal of Rail Transport Planning & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.24Q1 | 1.77 0.08 up from 2016 | 53 | 30% | $3,070 | ||
17IIE TransactionsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.22Q1 | 2.83 1.06 up from 2016 | 203 | — | — | ||
18Journal of HeuristicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.09Q1 | 2.11 0.01 up from 2016 | 86 | 41% | $3,190 | ||
19IEEE Robotics & Automation MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.91Q1 | 2.09 0.10 up from 2016 | 338 | 18% | $2,045 | ||
20Maritime Policy & ManagementTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.78Q1 | 3.38 1.03 up from 2016 | 141 | 21% | — | ||
21International Journal of Industrial Engineering ComputationsOAGrowing Science · Canada | 1.77Q2 | 2.35 0.95 up from 2016 | 138 | 100% | — | ||
22International Transactions in Operational ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 1.66Q2 | 1.80 0.03 up from 2016 | 246 | 20% | $4,030 | ||
23The Asian Journal of Shipping and LogisticsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.60Q2 | 1.33 0.10 up from 2016 | 78 | 100% | $1,350 | ||
24Journal of SchedulingSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.59Q2 | 1.60 0.19 up from 2016 | 133 | 31% | $2,990 | ||
25EURO Journal on Computational OptimizationOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.55Q2 | 1.67 0.04 down from 2016 | 55 | 100% | $1,400 | ||
26Journal of Industrial and Production EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.52Q2 | 1.98 0.77 up from 2016 | 170 | 3% | — | ||
27Advances in Production Engineering & ManagementUniversity of Maribor · Slovenia | 1.49Q2 | 2.19 0.13 up from 2016 | 63 | 97% | — | ||
28NetworksWiley · United States | 1.48Q2 | 1.54 0.26 up from 2016 | 173 | 31% | $3,750 | ||
29Production & Manufacturing ResearchOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.44Q2 | 1.86 0.38 up from 2016 | 76 | 100% | $1,165 | ||
30Maritime Economics & LogisticsPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 1.41Q2 | 1.19 0.14 down from 2016 | 108 | 33% | $3,390 | ||
31Concurrent EngineeringSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.37Q2 | 1.76 0.13 up from 2016 | 92 | 12% | $4,150 | ||
32International Journal of Management Science and Engineering ManagementTaylor & Francis | 1.36Q2 | 1.71 0.43 up from 2016 | 106 | 0% | — | ||
33TransportOAVilnius Gediminas Technical University · Lithuania | 1.34Q2 | 1.72 0.34 up from 2016 | 192 | 100% | $431 | ||
34Management and Production Engineering ReviewOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 1.33Q2 | 1.73 0.98 up from 2016 | 117 | 100% | — | ||
| 1.32Q2 | 2.01 0.13 down from 2016 | 175 | 100% | — | |||
36International journal of production management and engineeringOATechnical University of Valencia · Spain | 1.30Q2 | 1.26 0.83 up from 2016 | 34 | 100% | — | ||
37IISE TransactionsTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.27Q2 | 1.30no 2016 value | 44 | 30% | — | — | |
384ORSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.23Q2 | 1.29 0.07 down from 2016 | 83 | 38% | $3,090 | ||
39Quality Management JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.19Q2 | 0.82 0.03 down from 2016 | 76 | 0% | — | ||
40TopSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.17Q2 | 1.17 0.48 up from 2016 | 123 | 43% | $2,990 | ||
41Serbian Journal of ManagementOAUniversity of Belgrade · Serbia | 1.16Q3 | 0.91 0.17 up from 2016 | 66 | 100% | — | ||
42Central European Journal of Operations ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.10Q3 | 1.62 0.77 up from 2016 | 121 | 25% | $2,990 | ||
43Journal of Industrial Engineering and ManagementOAOmniaScience · Spain | 1.08Q3 | 1.01 0.28 up from 2016 | 222 | 100% | $533 | ||
44Asia Pacific Journal of Operational ResearchWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.08Q3 | 1.20 0.15 up from 2016 | 160 | 2% | — | ||
45Journal of Computing and Information Science in EngineeringASM International · United States | 1.04Q3 | 1.28 0.18 down from 2016 | 144 | 12% | — | ||
46European J of Industrial EngineeringInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 1.03Q3 | 0.97 0.01 up from 2016 | 106 | 14% | — | ||
47Journal of SensorsHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.00Q3 | 1.93 0.23 up from 2016 | 670 | 100% | $2,830 | ||
48International Journal of Shipping and Transport LogisticsInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 1.00Q3 | 1.04 0.07 down from 2016 | 118 | 7% | — | ||
49International Journal of Product Lifecycle ManagementInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.83Q3 | 0.87 0.02 down from 2016 | 63 | 14% | — | ||
50Industrial Engineering & Management SystemsSouth Korea | 0.80Q3 | 0.60 0.42 down from 2016 | 120 | 8% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Industrial and Manufacturing 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.
21 additional Industrial and Manufacturing 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
- 79
- Window papers (baseline)
- 42,172 -4.0% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 1.172 +0.5% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
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 |
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| Ranked journals | 31 | 34 | 36 | 37 | 40 | 44 | 44 | 44 | 50 | 51 | 55 | 65 | 68 | 66 | 74 | 78 | 81 | 79 | 86 | 87 | 87 | 90 | 86 | 86 | 85 | 84 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 15,320 | 16,693 | 17,936 | 19,688 | 20,825 | 22,675 | 24,599 | 27,617 | 29,952 | 32,271 | 34,386 | 37,027 | 40,419 | 42,136 | 43,935 | 44,016 | 43,986 | 42,172 | 41,220 | 43,326 | 47,952 | 53,290 | 57,318 | 59,343 | 62,188 | 68,148 | |
| Median OJR | 1.04 | 0.960 | 1.31 | 1.52 | 1.54 | 1.51 | 1.72 | 1.56 | 1.34 | 1.48 | 1.25 | 1.36 | 1.275 | 1.279 | 1.167 | 1.09 | 0.961 | 1.172 | 1.07 | 1.02 | 1.002 | 0.95 | 0.97 | 0.9364 | 0.9356 | 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.