Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Computational Mechanics journal rankings 2018
103 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Computational Mechanics has 103 ranked journals in 2018. The median OJR fell 0.17 on 2017 to 1.00, level with the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.59. The top three are Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, Combustion and Flame, and Computer-Aided Design.
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
103 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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1Progress in Energy and Combustion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 12.65Q1 | 21.07 2.96 up from 2017 | 91 | 41% | $6,990 | ||
2Combustion and FlameElsevier BV · United States | 3.00Q1 | 5.49 1.13 up from 2017 | 1,096 | 41% | $4,320 | ||
3Computer-Aided DesignElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.88Q1 | 3.22 0.50 down from 2017 | 269 | 31% | $3,140 | ||
4Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.88Q1 | 5.81 0.95 up from 2017 | 1,191 | 56% | $4,830 | ||
5SIAM Journal on OptimizationSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 2.87Q1 | 3.78 0.34 up from 2017 | 323 | 50% | — | ||
655th AIAA Aerospace Sciences MeetingPublisher not listed | 2.51Q1 | 1.13no 2017 value | 1,113 | — | — | — | |
7Journal of Fluids and StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.23Q1 | 3.08 0.48 up from 2017 | 507 | 40% | $3,740 | ||
8AIAA JournalAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 2.11Q1 | 2.54 0.46 up from 2017 | 1,057 | 18% | — | ||
954th AIAA Aerospace Sciences MeetingPublisher not listed | 2.02Q1 | 1.06 0.05 up from 2017 | 1,169 | — | — | ||
10Experimental Thermal and Fluid ScienceElsevier BV · United States | 2.02Q1 | 3.61 0.06 up from 2017 | 943 | 21% | $3,720 | ||
11Proceedings of the Combustion InstituteElsevier BV · United States | 1.91Q1 | 2.67 0.05 up from 2017 | 981 | 51% | $3,570 | ||
12Experiments in FluidsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.90Q1 | 3.00 0.32 down from 2017 | 594 | 35% | $2,590 | ||
13Flow Turbulence and CombustionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.84Q1 | 2.60 0.29 up from 2017 | 272 | 50% | $2,590 | ||
14Journal of Fluid MechanicsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.80Q1 | 3.33 0.24 up from 2017 | 2,438 | 50% | $3,550 | ||
15SIAM Journal on Numerical AnalysisSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 1.78Q1 | 2.66 0.22 up from 2017 | 404 | 53% | — | ||
16International Journal of Heat and Fluid FlowElsevier BV · United States | 1.70Q1 | 2.23 0.13 down from 2017 | 414 | 27% | $3,420 | ||
17Computers & FluidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.69Q1 | 2.61 0.26 up from 2017 | 910 | 43% | $3,700 | ||
18Granular MatterSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.68Q1 | 2.84 0.48 up from 2017 | 236 | 36% | $2,590 | ||
19Journal of Computational PhysicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.67Q1 | 3.33 0.23 up from 2017 | 2,116 | 68% | $3,980 | ||
20SIAM Journal on Scientific ComputingSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 1.65Q1 | 2.70 0.01 up from 2017 | 723 | 51% | — | ||
21CALCOLOSpringer Science+Business Media · Italy | 1.64Q1 | 1.82 0.08 up from 2017 | 106 | 28% | $3,090 | ||
22Powder TechnologyElsevier BV · Switzerland | 1.61Q1 | 4.00 0.75 up from 2017 | 2,350 | 16% | $4,610 | ||
23International Journal of Multiphase FlowElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.60Q1 | 3.11 0.31 up from 2017 | 566 | 38% | $3,900 | ||
24Computers & Mathematics with ApplicationsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.59Q1 | 2.93 0.49 up from 2017 | 1,251 | 97% | $3,170 | ||
2553rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences MeetingPublisher not listed | 1.59Q1 | —no 2017 value | 1,042 | — | — | ||
26Journal of Numerical MathematicsDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.59Q1 | 3.52 1.70 up from 2017 | 59 | 57% | $2,712 | ||
27Annual Review of Fluid MechanicsAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.53Q2 | 13.20 0.51 down from 2017 | 64 | 70% | — | ||
28Physics of FluidsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.49Q2 | 2.96 0.36 up from 2017 | 1,783 | 26% | — | ||
29Journal of TurbulenceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.46Q2 | 2.20 0.52 up from 2017 | 160 | 45% | — | ||
30Mathematics of ComputationAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 1.40Q2 | 1.48 0.22 down from 2017 | 426 | 80% | — | ||
31Numerische MathematikSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.39Q2 | 1.90 0.27 down from 2017 | 245 | 62% | $3,190 | ||
32Physical Review FluidsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 1.38Q2 | 2.64 0.39 up from 2017 | 723 | 52% | — | ||
33Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid MechanicsOATaylor & Francis · Hong Kong SAR China | 1.36Q2 | 2.41 0.55 up from 2017 | 138 | 100% | $1,993 | ||
34Advanced Powder TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.36Q2 | 3.78 0.63 up from 2017 | 900 | 12% | $3,170 | ||
35Journal of Computational and Applied MathematicsElsevier BV · Belgium | 1.34Q2 | 2.09 0.38 up from 2017 | 1,510 | 96% | $3,250 | ||
36Journal of Scientific ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.31Q2 | 2.10 0.04 down from 2017 | 630 | 37% | $3,290 | ||
37International Journal for Numerical Methods in FluidsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.25Q2 | 1.84 0.11 down from 2017 | 358 | 44% | $4,220 | ||
38Combustion Theory and ModellingTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.24Q2 | 2.09 0.54 up from 2017 | 155 | 26% | — | ||
39Computational Particle MechanicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.24Q2 | 1.65 0.38 down from 2017 | 137 | 100% | $3,790 | ||
40Physical Review EAmerican Physical Society · United States | 1.23Q2 | 0.00 2.73 down from 2017 | 2,498 | 0% | — | ||
41ParticuologyElsevier BV · China | 1.22Q2 | 2.22no change | 376 | 13% | $3,090 | ||
42ESAIM Mathematical Modelling and Numerical AnalysisEDP Sciences · France | 1.22Q2 | 1.40 0.35 down from 2017 | 234 | 70% | $0 listed | ||
43Applied Numerical MathematicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.19Q2 | 1.86 0.57 up from 2017 | 400 | 26% | $2,000 | ||
44Numerical Methods for Partial Differential EquationsWiley · United States | 1.17Q2 | 2.00 0.87 up from 2017 | 253 | 24% | $3,750 | ||
45IMA Journal of Numerical AnalysisOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.15Q2 | 1.60 0.15 down from 2017 | 233 | 58% | $3,718 | ||
46European Journal of Mechanics - B/FluidsElsevier BV · France | 1.13Q2 | 1.90 0.03 down from 2017 | 394 | 30% | $3,380 | ||
47Optimization methods & softwareTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.12Q2 | 1.56 0.38 up from 2017 | 209 | 30% | — | ||
48Journal of Fluids EngineeringASM International · United States | 1.10Q2 | 1.80 0.10 down from 2017 | 510 | 13% | — | ||
49Advances in Computational MathematicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.07Q2 | 1.33 0.23 down from 2017 | 178 | 43% | $3,190 | ||
50Theoretical and Computational Fluid DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.07Q2 | 1.54 0.03 down from 2017 | 107 | 50% | $3,090 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Computational Mechanics 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.
16 additional Computational Mechanics 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
- 103
- Window papers (baseline)
- 72,858 +1.0% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 1.0036 -16.0% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 11
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 | 60 | 65 | 69 | 74 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 80 | 83 | 83 | 83 | 90 | 95 | 97 | 97 | 99 | 105 | 103 | 103 | 102 | 103 | 102 | 94 | 96 | 95 | 98 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 36,165 | 38,765 | 40,500 | 43,030 | 44,729 | 47,165 | 50,494 | 53,211 | 56,063 | 58,071 | 59,829 | 62,248 | 65,214 | 67,674 | 70,379 | 72,114 | 73,090 | 72,766 | 72,858 | 73,849 | 76,122 | 77,791 | 78,271 | 75,603 | 72,795 | 73,468 | |
| Median OJR | 1.14 | 1.36 | 1.31 | 1.39 | 1.33 | 1.51 | 1.41 | 1.25 | 1.24 | 1.23 | 1.27 | 1.28 | 1.19 | 1.17 | 1.16 | 1.20 | 1.11 | 1.18 | 1.0036 | 1.0039 | 0.95 | 0.81 | 0.86 | 0.84 | 0.80 | 0.73 |
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.