Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Subfield ranking · 2017
Mechanics of Materials journal rankings 2017
126 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Mechanics of Materials has 126 ranked journals in 2017. The median OJR fell 0.08 on 2016 to 0.96, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.62. The top three are Applied Mechanics Reviews, International Journal of Coal Geology, and International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences.
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
126 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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1Applied Mechanics ReviewsAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers · United States | 5.32Q1 | 7.50 0.09 up from 2016 | 59 | 19% | — | ||
2International Journal of Coal GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.37Q1 | 5.08 0.38 up from 2016 | 506 | 21% | $4,090 | ||
3International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining SciencesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.89Q1 | 3.41 0.59 up from 2016 | 642 | 13% | $4,110 | ||
4Composites Part A Applied Science and ManufacturingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.84Q1 | 5.80 1.09 up from 2016 | 996 | 18% | $4,480 | ||
5AAPG BulletinAmerican Association of Petroleum Geologists · United States | 2.78Q1 | 3.65 0.16 up from 2016 | 261 | 9% | — | ||
6Composites Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.63Q1 | 6.24 0.63 up from 2016 | 907 | 14% | $4,610 | ||
7Composite StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.62Q1 | 4.53 0.06 down from 2016 | 2,614 | 19% | $4,660 | ||
8International Journal of Engineering ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.58Q1 | 7.75 3.15 up from 2016 | 369 | 9% | $4,980 | ||
9Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-ResourcesOASpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 2.57Q1 | 3.88 1.07 up from 2016 | 41 | 16% | $3,890 | ||
10Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical EngineeringOAElsevier BV · China | 2.46Q1 | 2.33 0.14 down from 2016 | 254 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
11Rock Mechanics and Rock EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 2.38Q1 | 2.94 0.65 up from 2016 | 599 | 15% | $3,990 | ||
12Computational MechanicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.31Q1 | 3.28 0.48 down from 2016 | 401 | 39% | $3,990 | ||
13Marine and Petroleum GeologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.21Q1 | 3.50 0.24 up from 2016 | 893 | 23% | $3,440 | ||
14International Journal of FatigueElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 3.32 0.40 up from 2016 | 904 | 27% | $3,940 | ||
15Petroleum Exploration and DevelopmentOAElsevier BV · China | 2.04Q1 | 3.04 0.40 up from 2016 | 339 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
16NDT & E InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 2.45 0.77 down from 2016 | 294 | 16% | $4,440 | ||
17Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of SolidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.03Q1 | 4.19 0.36 down from 2016 | 611 | 47% | $4,220 | ||
18International Journal for Numerical Methods in EngineeringWiley · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 2.75 0.09 down from 2016 | 726 | 32% | $4,250 | ||
19Engineering With ComputersSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.92Q1 | 3.17 0.57 up from 2016 | 145 | 8% | $2,190 | ||
20Finite Elements in Analysis and DesignElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.88Q1 | 2.52 0.11 up from 2016 | 284 | 51% | $2,990 | ||
21Applied Mathematical ModellingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.87Q1 | 2.83 0.29 up from 2016 | 1,664 | 100% | $4,510 | ||
22Engineering Fracture MechanicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.86Q1 | 2.83 0.30 up from 2016 | 925 | 24% | $4,120 | ||
23Spectrochimica Acta Part B Atomic SpectroscopyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.85Q1 | 2.91 0.27 down from 2016 | 539 | 26% | $3,530 | ||
24International Journal of Mining Science and TechnologyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.82Q1 | 2.70 0.48 up from 2016 | 482 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
25Energy Science & EngineeringOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.73Q1 | 3.56 0.58 up from 2016 | 97 | 100% | $2,780 | ||
25European Journal of Mechanics - A/SolidsElsevier BV · France | 1.73Q1 | 2.91 0.01 up from 2016 | 371 | 23% | $4,040 | ||
27International Journal of Solids and StructuresElsevier BV · United States | 1.69Q1 | 2.79 0.18 down from 2016 | 1,174 | 98% | $3,790 | ||
28International Journal of FractureSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.69Q1 | 2.63 0.07 up from 2016 | 250 | 24% | $3,790 | ||
29Theoretical and Applied Fracture MechanicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.67Q1 | 2.54 0.11 down from 2016 | 337 | 21% | $3,730 | ||
30Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the EnvironmentSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.65Q1 | 1.58 0.11 down from 2016 | 416 | 7% | $3,990 | ||
31Mechanics of MaterialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.64Q1 | 3.10 0.51 up from 2016 | 457 | 22% | $3,850 | ||
32LithosphereOAGeological Society of America · United States | 1.62Q1 | 3.37 0.05 down from 2016 | 143 | 100% | $2,100 | ||
33Organic GeochemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.55Q2 | 2.87 0.37 down from 2016 | 432 | 32% | $3,270 | ||
34GeofluidsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.53Q2 | 2.17 0.29 down from 2016 | 117 | 100% | $2,160 | ||
35Journal of Analytical Atomic SpectrometryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.50Q2 | 3.59 0.07 down from 2016 | 696 | 12% | — | ||
36International Journal of Adhesion and AdhesivesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.46Q2 | 2.56 0.34 up from 2016 | 478 | 15% | $3,760 | ||
37UltrasonicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.45Q2 | 2.67 0.12 up from 2016 | 705 | 15% | $3,680 | ||
38Journal of Nondestructive EvaluationSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.43Q2 | 2.04 0.13 down from 2016 | 159 | 19% | $3,290 | ||
39Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & StructuresWiley · United Kingdom | 1.40Q2 | 2.01 0.72 down from 2016 | 445 | 17% | $3,860 | ||
40Engineering Analysis with Boundary ElementsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.39Q2 | 2.38 0.43 up from 2016 | 539 | 14% | $3,590 | ||
41GEM - International Journal on GeomathematicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.33Q2 | 1.95 0.82 up from 2016 | 34 | 50% | $2,490 | ||
42Journal of Thermal StressesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.31Q2 | 2.13 0.29 up from 2016 | 283 | 11% | — | ||
43Egyptian Journal of PetroleumOAElsevier BV · Egypt | 1.31Q2 | 2.67 1.15 up from 2016 | 259 | 100% | — | ||
44Mechanics Research CommunicationsElsevier BV · United States | 1.29Q2 | 1.93 0.15 up from 2016 | 340 | 13% | $3,580 | ||
45Mechanics of Advanced Materials and StructuresTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.20Q2 | 1.89 0.02 down from 2016 | 394 | 8% | — | ||
46Curved and Layered StructuresOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 1.18Q2 | 1.15 3.62 down from 2016 | 47 | 100% | $848 | ||
47Journal of Petroleum GeologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.18Q2 | 1.38 0.15 up from 2016 | 82 | 10% | $3,400 | ||
48Acta MechanicaSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 1.18Q2 | 2.34 0.30 up from 2016 | 711 | 13% | $3,490 | ||
49Quantitative InfraRed Thermography JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.17Q2 | 1.34 0.79 down from 2016 | 60 | 13% | — | ||
50Journal of Sustainable MiningOAPoland | 1.13Q2 | 1.51 0.37 up from 2016 | 74 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Mechanics of Materials 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.
19 additional Mechanics of Materials 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
- 126
- Window papers (baseline)
- 99,874 -11.2% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 0.965 -9.0% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 14
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 | 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.