Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Field ranking · 2018
Engineering journal rankings 2018
2,290 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Engineering has 2,290 ranked journals in 2018. The median journal has an OJR of 0.67, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.02 on 2017; Q1 starts at OJR 1.28. The top three are IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, and Materials Science and Engineering R Reports.
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 in Engineering (16)
Up to Physical Sciences- 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
2,290 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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1IEEE Communications Surveys & TutorialsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 16.57Q1 | 26.03 1.48 down from 2017 | 341 | 44% | $2,645 | ||
2Progress in Energy and Combustion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 12.65Q1 | 21.07 2.96 up from 2017 | 91 | 41% | $6,990 | ||
3Materials Science and Engineering R ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 10.08Q1 | 26.83 3.27 up from 2017 | 36 | 30% | $6,150 | ||
4Nature EnergyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 9.55Q1 | 27.14 2.63 up from 2017 | 436 | 32% | $12,690 | ||
5Energy & Environmental ScienceRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 9.38Q1 | 27.59 1.67 down from 2017 | 995 | 34% | — | ||
6Science RoboticsAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science · United States | 7.70Q1 | 16.05 2.95 down from 2017 | 58 | 30% | — | ||
7Progress in Aerospace SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.35Q1 | 4.95 0.94 up from 2017 | 149 | 17% | $5,860 | ||
8Journal of Urban TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 7.19Q1 | 3.21 2.18 down from 2017 | 87 | 42% | — | ||
9Advanced MaterialsGermany | 6.94Q1 | 22.78 4.02 up from 2017 | 4,249 | 36% | $6,070 | ||
10International Materials ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 6.73Q1 | 19.67 6.33 up from 2017 | 60 | 26% | $4,400 | ||
11Analytic Methods in Accident ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.60Q1 | 11.83 2.60 up from 2017 | 50 | 78% | $5,310 | ||
12Wind energy scienceOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 6.41Q1 | 4.45 0.61 up from 2017 | 62 | 100% | $1,132 | ||
13IEEE Communications MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.85Q1 | 8.94 0.24 up from 2017 | 1,481 | 30% | $2,995 | ||
14IEEE Internet of Things JournalInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.78Q1 | 13.00 4.02 up from 2017 | 583 | 21% | $2,645 | ||
15Applied Physics ReviewsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 5.73Q1 | 14.29 0.17 up from 2017 | 113 | 48% | — | ||
16Journal of Industrial Information IntegrationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.72Q1 | 10.17 3.51 up from 2017 | 46 | 32% | $3,810 | ||
17Advanced Energy MaterialsWiley · Germany | 5.71Q1 | 19.69 2.52 up from 2017 | 1,722 | 32% | $5,790 | ||
18IEEE Transactions on CyberneticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.41Q1 | 9.94 0.49 up from 2017 | 1,091 | 21% | $2,645 | ||
19IEEE Wireless CommunicationsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.22Q1 | 10.88 0.33 up from 2017 | 423 | 31% | $2,995 | ||
20JouleElsevier BV · United States | 4.89Q1 | 16.90no 2017 value | 105 | 99% | $9,350 | ||
21IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.86Q1 | 7.52 1.04 up from 2017 | 645 | 21% | $2,645 | ||
22GPS SolutionsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 4.85Q1 | 3.57 0.54 up from 2017 | 253 | 21% | $2,790 | ||
23The International Journal of Robotics ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.84Q1 | 7.22 0.49 down from 2017 | 251 | 43% | $4,400 | ||
24Additive manufacturingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.81Q1 | 9.78 2.43 up from 2017 | 235 | 45% | $4,430 | ||
25Computers in IndustryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.78Q1 | 7.57 2.76 up from 2017 | 244 | 35% | $4,080 | ||
26Renewable and Sustainable Energy ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.76Q1 | 12.26 2.04 up from 2017 | 4,175 | 28% | $5,220 | ||
27Journal of GeodesySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.64Q1 | 4.00 0.03 up from 2017 | 306 | 40% | $3,590 | ||
28IEEE Transactions on RoboticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.63Q1 | 7.07 0.16 up from 2017 | 435 | 50% | $2,645 | ||
29Materials HorizonsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 4.63Q1 | 11.30 2.59 down from 2017 | 279 | 29% | — | ||
30Applied Mechanics ReviewsAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers · United States | 4.60Q1 | 6.11 1.39 down from 2017 | 50 | 26% | — | ||
31Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation ReviewElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.60Q1 | 5.72 1.31 up from 2017 | 461 | 27% | $4,240 | ||
32Proceedings of the IEEEInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.58Q1 | 8.61 1.91 up from 2017 | 642 | 45% | $2,645 | ||
33Cement and Concrete ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.56Q1 | 6.45 0.36 up from 2017 | 588 | 39% | $5,180 | ||
34Transportation Research Part C Emerging TechnologiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.56Q1 | 7.51 1.53 up from 2017 | 765 | 33% | $4,040 | ||
35AutomaticaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.51Q1 | 7.74 0.18 down from 2017 | 1,408 | 37% | $3,760 | ||
36IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in CommunicationsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.50Q1 | 10.46 1.76 up from 2017 | 842 | 34% | $2,645 | ||
37ACS Energy LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 4.49Q1 | 16.57 3.95 up from 2017 | 582 | 32% | $4,500 | ||
38Sustainable materials and technologiesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.45Q1 | 9.15 0.10 up from 2017 | 44 | 36% | $4,150 | ||
39Nano EnergyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.38Q1 | 16.82 3.44 up from 2017 | 1,790 | 25% | $5,210 | ||
40Journal of Field RoboticsWiley · United States | 4.27Q1 | 3.74 0.58 down from 2017 | 222 | 43% | $3,590 | ||
41IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.21Q1 | 8.91 1.63 up from 2017 | 942 | 15% | $2,645 | ||
42Journal of Manufacturing SystemsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.18Q1 | 5.35 0.35 up from 2017 | 259 | 35% | $3,850 | ||
43Journal of Industrial Integration and ManagementWorld Scientific · Singapore | 4.18Q1 | 4.03 1.46 up from 2017 | 31 | 5% | — | ||
44Nano TodayElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.18Q1 | 11.39 0.81 down from 2017 | 210 | 14% | $4,830 | ||
45Advanced Engineering InformaticsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.07Q1 | 5.70 1.01 up from 2017 | 206 | 25% | $3,560 | ||
46Cement and Concrete CompositesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.05Q1 | 5.29 0.12 up from 2017 | 564 | 29% | $5,120 | ||
47Virtual and Physical PrototypingOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.03Q1 | 7.76 0.31 down from 2017 | 87 | 27% | $2,070 | ||
48IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.03Q1 | 6.84 1.39 up from 2017 | 1,064 | 27% | $2,645 | ||
49Advanced Functional MaterialsWiley · Germany | 4.01Q1 | 13.18 2.12 up from 2017 | 3,198 | 33% | $5,790 | ||
50Advanced ScienceOAWiley · Germany | 3.95Q1 | 12.99 2.51 up from 2017 | 640 | 100% | $6,730 |
Subfields of Engineering, compared.
- 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.
707 additional 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
- 2,290
- Window papers (baseline)
- 3,153,056 -11.7% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.670 -7.4% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 211Comparison-group list (211)
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 | 945 | 1,010 | 1,072 | 1,119 | 1,159 | 1,217 | 1,256 | 1,342 | 1,445 | 1,529 | 1,578 | 1,672 | 1,774 | 1,899 | 2,001 | 2,106 | 2,188 | 2,239 | 2,290 | 2,358 | 2,389 | 2,428 | 2,444 | 2,437 | 2,442 | 2,405 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 1,301,932 | 1,430,070 | 1,586,509 | 1,745,451 | 1,896,138 | 2,058,422 | 2,234,640 | 2,416,744 | 2,583,093 | 2,754,522 | 2,914,777 | 3,076,735 | 3,239,027 | 3,369,091 | 3,484,492 | 3,569,888 | 3,612,080 | 3,500,235 | 3,153,056 | 2,758,725 | 2,539,069 | 2,563,396 | 2,580,513 | 2,422,273 | 2,259,750 | 2,274,258 | |
| Median OJR | 0.63 | 0.65 | 0.694 | 0.758 | 0.75 | 0.7777 | 0.7782 | 0.77 | 0.7930 | 0.80 | 0.820 | 0.822 | 0.7933 | 0.765 | 0.756 | 0.72 | 0.73 | 0.692 | 0.670 | 0.6705 | 0.68 | 0.70 | 0.689 | 0.688 | 0.669 | 0.6714 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 4.9% | 1,952 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 1.935 per 1,000 | 1,719 journals |
| Output growth | Median: +3.7% | 2,142 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 53.0% | 2,405 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $2,890 | 1,349 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 22.2% | 2,312 journals |
| Review share | Median: 0.0% | 2,405 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.67 | 2,362 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 29.8% | 2,405 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 43.9% | 2,402 journals |
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.