Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Aerospace Engineering journal rankings 2018
180 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Aerospace Engineering has 180 ranked journals in 2018. The median journal has an OJR of 0.49, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2017; Q1 starts at OJR 1.18. The top three are Progress in Aerospace Sciences, Wind energy science, and GPS Solutions.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2018. 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 2015–2017, the window the 2018 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 Engineering518
- Mechanical Engineering367
- Biomedical Engineering281
- Civil and Structural Engineering252
- Aerospace Engineering180
- Control and Systems Engineering131
- Mechanics of Materials123
- Computational Mechanics103
- Building and Construction89
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering86
- Ocean Engineering75
- Automotive Engineering30
180 ranked journals
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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 2017. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2015–2017, the window the 2018 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2015–2017 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 2009 to 2018. | Compare |
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1Progress in Aerospace SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.35Q1 | 4.95 0.94 up from 2017 | 149 | 17% | $5,860 | ||
2Wind energy scienceOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 6.41Q1 | 4.45 0.61 up from 2017 | 62 | 100% | $1,132 | ||
3GPS SolutionsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 4.85Q1 | 3.57 0.54 up from 2017 | 253 | 21% | $2,790 | ||
4Journal of GeodesySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.64Q1 | 4.00 0.03 up from 2017 | 306 | 40% | $3,590 | ||
5Journal of Field RoboticsWiley · United States | 4.27Q1 | 3.74 0.58 down from 2017 | 222 | 43% | $3,590 | ||
6IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.48Q1 | 4.17 2.09 up from 2017 | 208 | 62% | $2,995 | ||
7Wind EnergyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.37Q1 | 3.58 0.75 up from 2017 | 281 | 43% | $3,730 | ||
8IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.35Q1 | 3.33 0.66 up from 2017 | 907 | 19% | $2,645 | ||
9Journal of Guidance Control and DynamicsAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 3.24Q1 | 2.75 0.12 up from 2017 | 803 | 21% | — | ||
10IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation LettersIEEE Antennas & Propagation Society · United States | 3.15Q1 | 3.93 0.61 up from 2017 | 1,695 | 14% | $2,645 | ||
11Journal of TurbomachineryASM International · United States | 2.85Q1 | 2.11no change | 317 | 12% | — | ||
12IEEE Transactions on Antennas and PropagationIEEE Antennas & Propagation Society · United States | 2.84Q1 | 4.97 0.62 up from 2017 | 2,473 | 22% | $2,645 | ||
13Aerospace Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · France | 2.76Q1 | 3.76 0.86 up from 2017 | 1,139 | 19% | $4,360 | ||
14IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing LettersInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.72Q1 | 3.94 0.82 up from 2017 | 1,348 | 15% | $2,645 | ||
15International Journal of Micro Air VehiclesOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.51Q1 | 1.47 0.02 up from 2017 | 79 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
16IET Radar Sonar & NavigationOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United Kingdom | 2.41Q1 | 2.13 0.23 up from 2017 | 564 | 28% | $2,620 | ||
17International Journal of AeroacousticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.17Q1 | 1.29 0.33 up from 2017 | 119 | 23% | $4,150 | ||
18Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process IndustriesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.07Q1 | 2.59 0.16 up from 2017 | 742 | 13% | $4,020 | ||
19BuR - Business ResearchOASpringer Nature · Germany | 2.07Q1 | 0.82 0.61 up from 2017 | 167 | 100% | $1,535 | ||
20Journal of Thermal Spray TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media | 2.06Q1 | 2.30 0.21 up from 2017 | 467 | 22% | $3,190 | ||
21NAVIGATION Journal of the Institute of NavigationOAWiley · United States | 1.94Q1 | 1.87 0.35 up from 2017 | 102 | 21% | $3,000 | ||
22Journal of Surveying EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.92Q1 | 2.41 0.60 up from 2017 | 107 | 27% | — | ||
23Acta AstronauticaElsevier BV · United States | 1.82Q1 | 2.99 0.53 up from 2017 | 1,294 | 20% | $3,350 | ||
| 1.76Q1 | 0.80 0.10 down from 2017 | 123 | — | — | |||
25Chinese Journal of AeronauticsElsevier BV · China | 1.72Q1 | 2.45 0.39 up from 2017 | 562 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
26Journal of Propulsion and PowerAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.70Q1 | 2.16 0.68 up from 2017 | 519 | 15% | — | ||
27Journal of Unmanned Vehicle SystemsCanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 1.68Q1 | 1.54 1.26 down from 2017 | 68 | 59% | — | ||
28IEEE Antennas and Propagation MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.66Q1 | 1.46 0.14 down from 2017 | 562 | 38% | $2,995 | ||
29The Journal of the Astronautical SciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.65Q1 | 1.56 0.61 up from 2017 | 57 | 0% | $3,190 | ||
30Volume 9: Oil and Gas Applications; Supercritical CO2 Power Cycles; Wind EnergyPublisher not listed | 1.62Q1 | 1.05 0.14 up from 2017 | 215 | 11% | — | ||
31AerospaceOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.62Q1 | 1.90 0.38 up from 2017 | 131 | 100% | $2,896 | ||
32Journal of Intelligent & Robotic SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.58Q1 | 2.68 0.38 up from 2017 | 471 | 37% | $3,090 | ||
33IET Microwaves Antennas & PropagationOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United Kingdom | 1.42Q1 | 2.40 0.33 up from 2017 | 836 | 26% | $2,520 | ||
34Oxidation of MetalsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.42Q1 | 1.49 0.05 down from 2017 | 324 | 16% | $3,590 | ||
35Survey ReviewTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.27Q1 | 1.32 0.01 up from 2017 | 186 | 15% | — | ||
36Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part A Journal of Power and EnergySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.26Q1 | 1.60 0.29 up from 2017 | 207 | 12% | $4,150 | ||
37IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.26Q1 | 1.33 0.57 up from 2017 | 486 | 27% | — | ||
38Journal of AircraftAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.26Q1 | 1.33 0.18 up from 2017 | 601 | 21% | — | ||
39International Journal of Satellite Communications and NetworkingWiley · United Kingdom | 1.25Q1 | 1.27 0.19 up from 2017 | 149 | 38% | $2,860 | ||
| 1.22Q1 | 0.59 0.18 up from 2017 | 210 | 1% | — | |||
41Journal of Spacecraft and RocketsAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.22Q1 | 1.49 0.13 up from 2017 | 424 | 18% | — | ||
42Journal of Aerospace EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.21Q1 | 1.63 0.22 up from 2017 | 329 | 5% | — | ||
43Artificial SatellitesOADe Gruyter · Poland | 1.19Q1 | 0.71 0.19 down from 2017 | 40 | 100% | — | ||
44Annals of Nuclear EnergyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.18Q1 | 1.49no change | 1,599 | 20% | $2,820 | ||
45AIAA SPACE and Astronautics Forum and ExpositionPublisher not listed | 1.18Q1 | 0.47no 2017 value | 246 | — | — | — | |
46Volume 8: Microturbines, Turbochargers and Small Turbomachines; Steam TurbinesPublisher not listed | 1.15Q2 | 0.67 0.08 down from 2017 | 210 | 3% | — | ||
47Shock WavesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.14Q2 | 1.30 0.02 down from 2017 | 234 | 19% | $3,890 | ||
48Progress in Nuclear EnergyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.13Q2 | 1.50 0.16 up from 2017 | 685 | 19% | $2,930 | ||
49Nuclear Engineering and TechnologyOAElsevier BV · South Korea | 1.13Q2 | 1.63 0.08 down from 2017 | 474 | 100% | $200 | ||
50Journal of Aerospace Information SystemsAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.12Q2 | 1.33 0.18 down from 2017 | 129 | 14% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Aerospace Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering518
- Mechanical Engineering367
- Biomedical Engineering281
- Civil and Structural Engineering252
- Aerospace Engineering180
- Control and Systems Engineering131
- Mechanics of Materials123
- Computational Mechanics103
- Building and Construction89
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering86
- Ocean Engineering75
- Automotive Engineering30
- Media Technology29
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality25
- Architecture1
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2018. Corpus-wide, 81.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
97 additional Aerospace Engineering journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2015–2017, 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: 2018. Publication window: 2015–2017. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 180
- Window papers (baseline)
- 1,792,733 -16.4% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.488 +5.1% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 10
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2015–2017 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.