Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Biomedical Engineering journal rankings 2018
281 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Biomedical Engineering has 281 ranked journals in 2018. The median journal has an OJR of 0.73, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.04 on 2017; Q1 starts at OJR 1.37. The top three are Science Robotics, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, and Nano Energy.
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
281 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 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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1Science RoboticsAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science · United States | 7.70Q1 | 16.05 2.95 down from 2017 | 58 | 30% | — | ||
2IEEE Transactions on RoboticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.63Q1 | 7.07 0.16 up from 2017 | 435 | 50% | $2,645 | ||
3Nano EnergyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.38Q1 | 16.82 3.44 up from 2017 | 1,790 | 25% | $5,210 | ||
4Nano TodayElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.18Q1 | 11.39 0.81 down from 2017 | 210 | 14% | $4,830 | ||
5BiomaterialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.66Q1 | 11.30 2.06 up from 2017 | 1,940 | 41% | $4,640 | ||
6BiofabricationIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.34Q1 | 9.45 0.43 up from 2017 | 264 | 77% | $3,895 | ||
7Soft RoboticsMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 3.32Q1 | 8.69 1.60 up from 2017 | 94 | 38% | — | ||
8IEEE Reviews in Biomedical EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.13Q1 | 6.80 0.44 up from 2017 | 59 | 28% | $2,645 | ||
9Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Nanomedicine and NanobiotechnologyWiley · United States | 2.88Q1 | 8.53 0.88 up from 2017 | 149 | 47% | $4,730 | ||
10Applied Materials TodayElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.80Q1 | 9.03 1.21 down from 2017 | 191 | 31% | $4,400 | ||
11Bioengineering & Translational MedicineOAWiley · United States | 2.74Q1 | 8.12 1.67 up from 2017 | 60 | 100% | $2,890 | ||
12Acta BiomaterialiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.70Q1 | 7.46 0.79 up from 2017 | 1,688 | 46% | $3,810 | ||
13ACS SensorsAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.56Q1 | 7.18 1.02 up from 2017 | 494 | 25% | $4,500 | ||
14Tissue Engineering Part B ReviewsMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 2.55Q1 | 6.81 1.08 up from 2017 | 121 | 38% | — | ||
15EngineeringOAElsevier BV · China | 2.40Q1 | 5.10 2.54 up from 2017 | 274 | 100% | $1,300 | ||
16Microsystems & NanoengineeringOASpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 2.38Q1 | 6.51 0.03 down from 2017 | 108 | 100% | $3,790 | ||
17Lab on a ChipRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.30Q1 | 6.04 0.62 down from 2017 | 1,442 | 36% | — | ||
18IEEE Robotics and Automation LettersInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | 2.29Q1 | 4.63 0.84 up from 2017 | 560 | 42% | $2,645 | ||
19ACS Sustainable Chemistry & EngineeringAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.28Q1 | 7.63 0.99 up from 2017 | 2,719 | 13% | $4,500 | ||
20Biosurface and BiotribologyOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · Netherlands | 2.26Q1 | 3.17 1.27 down from 2017 | 63 | 100% | $2,200 | ||
21FuelElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.24Q1 | 5.97 0.70 up from 2017 | 3,857 | 18% | $4,330 | ||
22Bioinspiration & BiomimeticsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.22Q1 | 3.72 0.27 up from 2017 | 363 | 66% | $3,325 | ||
23Biotechnology for BiofuelsOASpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 6.42 1.30 down from 2017 | 800 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
24Advanced Healthcare MaterialsWiley · Germany | 2.00Q1 | 5.69 0.70 up from 2017 | 1,056 | 43% | $4,880 | ||
25IEEE Transactions on Biomedical EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.99Q1 | 4.01 0.25 down from 2017 | 1,083 | 48% | $2,645 | ||
26Frontiers in Robotics and AIOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.95Q1 | 3.87 0.68 up from 2017 | 182 | 100% | $2,353 | ||
27PhotoacousticsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.94Q1 | 5.74 1.67 up from 2017 | 66 | 100% | $3,200 | ||
28International Journal of BioprintingOASingapore | 1.93Q1 | 5.17 1.79 down from 2017 | 50 | 100% | — | ||
29Industrial Crops and ProductsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.92Q1 | 4.82 0.29 up from 2017 | 2,314 | 15% | $3,720 | ||
30Bioactive MaterialsOAElsevier BV · China | 1.87Q1 | 5.65 1.53 up from 2017 | 68 | 100% | $2,200 | ||
31Materials Science and Engineering CElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.83Q1 | 5.58 0.39 up from 2017 | 3,192 | 15% | $3,560 | ||
32Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering SciencesRoyal Society · United Kingdom | 1.83Q1 | 3.75 0.21 up from 2017 | 1,057 | 87% | — | ||
33Signs and SocietyOAUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 1.81Q1 | 1.52 0.55 up from 2017 | 65 | 0% | $3,550 | ||
34Journal of Functional BiomaterialsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.81Q1 | 3.58 0.97 down from 2017 | 143 | 100% | $3,258 | ||
35IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and MedicineOAInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.81Q1 | 3.29 0.26 up from 2017 | 96 | 100% | $2,075 | ||
36IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.80Q1 | 4.09 0.04 down from 2017 | 362 | 39% | $2,645 | ||
37Alexandria Engineering JournalOAElsevier BV · Egypt | 1.80Q1 | 3.60 0.13 down from 2017 | 777 | 100% | $1,900 | ||
38Biomaterials ScienceRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.78Q1 | 4.54 1.63 down from 2017 | 609 | 20% | — | ||
39International Journal of NanomedicineOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 1.76Q1 | 5.20 0.34 up from 2017 | 1,708 | 100% | $2,836 | ||
40Smart Materials and StructuresIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.76Q1 | 4.01 0.65 up from 2017 | 1,538 | 61% | $3,325 | ||
41Fuel Processing TechnologyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.75Q1 | 4.84 0.50 up from 2017 | 1,253 | 14% | $3,180 | ||
42Biofuel Research JournalOAGreen Wave Publishing of Canada · Canada | 1.75Q1 | 5.60 0.17 up from 2017 | 72 | 100% | — | ||
43NanotheranosticsOAIvyspring International Publisher · Australia | 1.75Q1 | 5.02 0.52 up from 2017 | 42 | 100% | $668 | ||
44Biomaterials ResearchOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.72Q1 | 5.78 1.89 up from 2017 | 83 | 100% | $2,700 | ||
45Journal of Materials Chemistry BRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.70Q1 | 5.61 0.65 up from 2017 | 2,550 | 13% | — | ||
46Frontiers in Bioengineering and BiotechnologyOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.70Q1 | 4.24 0.14 up from 2017 | 417 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
47Annals of Biomedical EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.68Q1 | 4.04 0.14 up from 2017 | 687 | 53% | $4,390 | ||
48Biomass and BioenergyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.67Q1 | 4.03 0.11 up from 2017 | 979 | 29% | $4,270 | ||
49ACS Biomaterials Science & EngineeringAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.66Q1 | 5.00 0.28 up from 2017 | 828 | 23% | $4,500 | ||
50BiosensorsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.66Q1 | 3.98 0.73 down from 2017 | 167 | 100% | $2,654 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Biomedical 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.
117 additional Biomedical 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
- 281
- Window papers (baseline)
- 217,166 +8.4% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.726 -1.7% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 33
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 | 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.