Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering journal rankings 2018
86 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering has 86 ranked journals in 2018. The median OJR fell 0.10 on 2017 to 1.07, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.85. The top three are Journal of Industrial Information Integration, Computers in Industry, and Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review.
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
86 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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1Journal of Industrial Information IntegrationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.72Q1 | 10.17 3.51 up from 2017 | 46 | 32% | $3,810 | ||
2Computers in IndustryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.78Q1 | 7.57 2.76 up from 2017 | 244 | 35% | $4,080 | ||
3Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation ReviewElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.60Q1 | 5.72 1.31 up from 2017 | 461 | 27% | $4,240 | ||
4Journal of Manufacturing SystemsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.18Q1 | 5.35 0.35 up from 2017 | 259 | 35% | $3,850 | ||
5Journal of Industrial Integration and ManagementWorld Scientific · Singapore | 4.18Q1 | 4.03 1.46 up from 2017 | 31 | 5% | — | ||
6Advanced Engineering InformaticsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.07Q1 | 5.70 1.01 up from 2017 | 206 | 25% | $3,560 | ||
7European Journal of Operational ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.54Q1 | 4.54 0.46 up from 2017 | 2,182 | 44% | $3,290 | ||
8Computers & Industrial EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.42Q1 | 4.96 1.02 up from 2017 | 1,163 | 16% | $3,790 | ||
9Transportation ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 3.25Q1 | 3.83 0.13 up from 2017 | 204 | 31% | — | ||
10Computers & Operations ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.08Q1 | 4.17 0.65 up from 2017 | 677 | 39% | $3,570 | ||
11Robotics and Computer-Integrated ManufacturingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.07Q1 | 5.64 1.08 up from 2017 | 320 | 18% | $4,540 | ||
12EURO Journal on Transportation and LogisticsOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.01Q1 | 2.44 0.51 up from 2017 | 35 | 100% | $1,400 | ||
13International Journal of Production ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.95Q1 | 4.21 0.81 up from 2017 | 1,316 | 26% | — | ||
14IIE TransactionsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.60Q1 | 3.89 1.06 up from 2017 | 119 | — | — | ||
15The Asian Journal of Shipping and LogisticsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.52Q1 | 2.45 1.12 up from 2017 | 88 | 100% | $1,350 | ||
16Flexible Services and Manufacturing JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.19Q1 | 2.14 0.06 down from 2017 | 91 | 30% | $2,590 | ||
17Journal of Intelligent ManufacturingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.16Q1 | 2.72 0.50 up from 2017 | 340 | 19% | $3,290 | ||
18International Journal of Industrial Engineering ComputationsOAGrowing Science · Canada | 2.07Q1 | 2.38 0.03 up from 2017 | 132 | 100% | — | ||
19Journal of SchedulingSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 2.63 1.03 up from 2017 | 139 | 37% | $2,990 | ||
20Journal of Rail Transport Planning & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.94Q1 | 2.06 0.29 up from 2017 | 67 | 38% | $3,070 | ||
21Maritime Policy & ManagementTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.90Q1 | 3.57 0.19 up from 2017 | 170 | 37% | — | ||
22International Journal of Computer Integrated ManufacturingTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.85Q1 | 2.71 0.42 up from 2017 | 237 | 18% | — | ||
23International Transactions in Operational ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 1.82Q2 | 2.28 0.48 up from 2017 | 286 | 17% | $4,030 | ||
24OR SpectrumSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.80Q2 | 2.00 0.29 down from 2017 | 111 | 34% | $3,290 | ||
25IEEE Robotics & Automation MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.78Q2 | 2.08 0.01 down from 2017 | 358 | 66% | $2,045 | ||
26Journal of Industrial and Production EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.69Q2 | 2.75 0.77 up from 2017 | 159 | 3% | — | ||
27Journal of HeuristicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.63Q2 | 1.58 0.52 down from 2017 | 86 | 35% | $3,190 | ||
28Journal of Industrial Engineering and ManagementOAOmniaScience · Spain | 1.62Q2 | 2.52 1.51 up from 2017 | 182 | 100% | $533 | ||
29International Journal of Management Science and Engineering ManagementTaylor & Francis | 1.60Q2 | 2.15 0.43 up from 2017 | 79 | 6% | — | ||
30Production & Manufacturing ResearchOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.55Q2 | 2.81 0.95 up from 2017 | 54 | 100% | $1,165 | ||
31Management and Production Engineering ReviewOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 1.52Q2 | 2.33 0.61 up from 2017 | 121 | 100% | — | ||
32Advances in Production Engineering & ManagementUniversity of Maribor · Slovenia | 1.43Q2 | 2.52 0.32 up from 2017 | 81 | 100% | — | ||
33IISE TransactionsTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.39Q2 | 1.93 0.64 up from 2017 | 130 | 35% | — | ||
34Maritime Economics & LogisticsPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 1.37Q2 | 1.55 0.36 up from 2017 | 112 | 50% | $3,390 | ||
35Concurrent EngineeringSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.27Q2 | 1.31 0.46 down from 2017 | 96 | 19% | $4,150 | ||
36Serbian Journal of ManagementOAUniversity of Belgrade · Serbia | 1.27Q2 | 1.34 0.43 up from 2017 | 65 | 100% | — | ||
374ORSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.24Q2 | 1.50 0.21 up from 2017 | 85 | 48% | $3,090 | ||
38Central European Journal of Operations ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.16Q2 | 2.34 0.72 up from 2017 | 131 | 31% | $2,990 | ||
39TransportOAVilnius Gediminas Technical University · Lithuania | 1.16Q2 | 1.83 0.11 up from 2017 | 180 | 100% | $431 | ||
40Maritime Business ReviewOAEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.15Q2 | 1.33 0.07 down from 2017 | 40 | 100% | — | ||
41EURO Journal on Computational OptimizationOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.13Q2 | 1.45 0.22 down from 2017 | 53 | 100% | $1,400 | ||
42Journal of SensorsHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.13Q2 | 2.24 0.32 up from 2017 | 843 | 100% | $2,830 | ||
43Journal of Computing and Information Science in EngineeringASM International · United States | 1.10Q2 | 2.02 0.74 up from 2017 | 131 | 11% | — | ||
| 1.05Q3 | 2.11 0.09 up from 2017 | 180 | 100% | — | |||
45NetworksWiley · United States | 1.02Q3 | 1.26 0.28 down from 2017 | 176 | 28% | $3,750 | ||
46Quality Management JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.99Q3 | 0.88 0.06 up from 2017 | 75 | 12% | — | ||
47International Journal of Shipping and Transport LogisticsInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.96Q3 | 1.05 0.01 up from 2017 | 144 | 13% | — | ||
48International Journal of Analytical ChemistryOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.95Q3 | 2.23 0.57 up from 2017 | 150 | 100% | $1,630 | ||
49European J of Industrial EngineeringInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.94Q3 | 1.36 0.39 up from 2017 | 113 | 10% | — | ||
50ProductionOAAssociação Brasileira de Engenharia de Produção · Brazil | 0.84Q3 | 0.90 0.23 up from 2017 | 163 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Industrial and Manufacturing 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.
16 additional Industrial and Manufacturing 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
- 86
- Window papers (baseline)
- 41,220 -6.4% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 1.07 -1.8% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
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 | 31 | 34 | 36 | 37 | 40 | 44 | 44 | 44 | 50 | 51 | 55 | 65 | 68 | 66 | 74 | 78 | 81 | 79 | 86 | 87 | 87 | 90 | 86 | 86 | 85 | 84 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 15,320 | 16,693 | 17,936 | 19,688 | 20,825 | 22,675 | 24,599 | 27,617 | 29,952 | 32,271 | 34,386 | 37,027 | 40,419 | 42,136 | 43,935 | 44,016 | 43,986 | 42,172 | 41,220 | 43,326 | 47,952 | 53,290 | 57,318 | 59,343 | 62,188 | 68,148 | |
| Median OJR | 1.04 | 0.960 | 1.31 | 1.52 | 1.54 | 1.51 | 1.72 | 1.56 | 1.34 | 1.48 | 1.25 | 1.36 | 1.275 | 1.279 | 1.167 | 1.09 | 0.961 | 1.172 | 1.07 | 1.02 | 1.002 | 0.95 | 0.97 | 0.9364 | 0.9356 | 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.