Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Mechanical Engineering journal rankings 2018
367 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Mechanical Engineering has 367 ranked journals in 2018. The median journal has an OJR of 0.51, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.03 on 2017; Q1 starts at OJR 1.00. The top three are International Materials Reviews, Additive manufacturing, and Sustainable materials and technologies.
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
367 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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1International Materials ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 6.73Q1 | 19.67 6.33 up from 2017 | 60 | 26% | $4,400 | ||
2Additive manufacturingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.81Q1 | 9.78 2.43 up from 2017 | 235 | 45% | $4,430 | ||
3Sustainable materials and technologiesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.45Q1 | 9.15 0.10 up from 2017 | 44 | 36% | $4,150 | ||
4Virtual and Physical PrototypingOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.03Q1 | 7.76 0.31 down from 2017 | 87 | 27% | $2,070 | ||
5International Journal of Machine Tools and ManufactureElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.44Q1 | 5.97 0.46 up from 2017 | 315 | 28% | $5,610 | ||
6Materials & Design (1980-2015)Elsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.28Q1 | —no 2017 value | 198 | — | — | ||
7CIRP AnnalsElsevier BV | 2.90Q1 | 6.35 1.76 up from 2017 | 449 | 33% | $3,190 | ||
8Composites Part B EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.81Q1 | 7.27 0.98 up from 2017 | 2,128 | 18% | $5,210 | ||
9SPE Eastern Regional MeetingPublisher not listed | 2.78Q1 | 1.71 0.64 up from 2017 | 87 | — | — | ||
10Design StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.69Q1 | 3.72 0.67 up from 2017 | 142 | 27% | $4,570 | ||
11Materials Research LettersOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.65Q1 | 7.52 2.29 up from 2017 | 141 | 100% | $1,459 | ||
12Critical reviews in solid state and materials sciences/CRC critical reviews in solid state and materials sciencesTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.62Q1 | 5.72 0.29 up from 2017 | 58 | 33% | — | ||
13Materials & DesignOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.61Q1 | 6.55 1.46 up from 2017 | 3,587 | 50% | $3,650 | ||
14Energy Conversion and ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.57Q1 | 8.46 1.11 up from 2017 | 3,137 | 17% | $4,600 | ||
15Journal of Materials Processing TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.48Q1 | 4.85 0.78 up from 2017 | 1,340 | 17% | $3,980 | ||
16Procedia EngineeringOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.35Q1 | 1.20 0.18 up from 2017 | 13,971 | 100% | — | ||
17She jiOAElsevier BV · China | 2.19Q1 | 2.09 0.48 up from 2017 | 80 | 100% | $1,500 | ||
18Journal of Unconventional Oil and Gas ResourcesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.19Q1 | 3.16 0.46 down from 2017 | 66 | — | — | ||
19International Journal of Mechanical SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.13Q1 | 4.69 0.64 up from 2017 | 1,217 | 18% | $4,740 | ||
20International Journal of PlasticityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.10Q1 | 6.16 0.46 up from 2017 | 431 | 41% | $3,740 | ||
21International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing-Green TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 2.04Q1 | 5.82 1.10 up from 2017 | 144 | 3% | $3,890 | ||
22Research in Engineering DesignSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 2.87 0.67 up from 2017 | 89 | 35% | $4,090 | ||
23CIRP journal of manufacturing science and technologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.03Q1 | 3.81 1.30 up from 2017 | 148 | 29% | $2,950 | ||
24International Communications in Heat and Mass TransferElsevier BV · United States | 2.02Q1 | 4.55 0.93 down from 2017 | 659 | 14% | $3,560 | ||
25International Journal of Heat and Mass TransferElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.01Q1 | 5.07 0.81 up from 2017 | 4,117 | 17% | $4,220 | ||
26Integrating materials and manufacturing innovationSpringer Nature · Germany | 1.94Q1 | 4.57 0.15 up from 2017 | 51 | 100% | $3,790 | ||
27Archives of Civil and Mechanical EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Poland | 1.94Q1 | 3.54 0.60 up from 2017 | 302 | 4% | $3,290 | ||
28Journal of Manufacturing ProcessesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 4.35 0.67 up from 2017 | 561 | 12% | $3,520 | ||
29International Journal of Rail TransportationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.91Q1 | 3.39 0.72 up from 2017 | 50 | 32% | — | ||
30Scripta MaterialiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.91Q1 | 4.76 0.58 up from 2017 | 1,463 | 36% | $3,220 | ||
31Applied Thermal EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.89Q1 | 4.53 0.33 up from 2017 | 5,371 | 16% | $3,660 | ||
| 1.88Q1 | 1.22 0.50 up from 2017 | 157 | — | — | |||
33Journal of Engineering DesignTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 2.54 0.23 up from 2017 | 93 | 41% | — | ||
34Extreme Mechanics LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.85Q1 | 4.58 0.93 up from 2017 | 305 | 44% | $3,940 | ||
35Materials Science and Engineering AElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.85Q1 | 4.63 0.87 up from 2017 | 4,002 | 17% | $3,430 | ||
36International Journal of Thermal SciencesElsevier BV · France | 1.83Q1 | 3.90 0.06 up from 2017 | 946 | 17% | $3,920 | ||
37Tribology InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.83Q1 | 4.03 0.51 up from 2017 | 1,505 | 21% | $5,390 | ||
38WearElsevier BV · Switzerland | 1.78Q1 | 3.48 0.08 up from 2017 | 1,127 | 21% | $5,394 | ||
39Journal of Materials Research and TechnologyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.75Q1 | 2.79 0.77 down from 2017 | 197 | 100% | $1,640 | ||
40Journal of Mechanical DesignAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers · United States | 1.73Q1 | 3.03 0.44 up from 2017 | 426 | 18% | — | ||
41Manufacturing LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.71Q1 | 2.92 1.05 down from 2017 | 70 | 25% | $2,000 | ||
42Vehicle System DynamicsTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 1.69Q1 | 2.93 0.45 down from 2017 | 313 | 30% | — | ||
43FrictionOASpringer Nature · China | 1.68Q1 | 3.65 1.04 up from 2017 | 115 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
44Advances in ManufacturingSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 1.68Q1 | 2.72 0.33 up from 2017 | 104 | 31% | $3,990 | ||
45Case Studies in Thermal EngineeringOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.63Q1 | 3.77 0.06 down from 2017 | 178 | 100% | $1,620 | ||
46Journal of CO2 UtilizationOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.63Q1 | 5.72no change | 438 | 13% | $3,360 | ||
47Thermal Science and Engineering ProgressElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.62Q1 | 4.30no 2017 value | 108 | 9% | $3,000 | — | |
48Journal of Material Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · China | 1.61Q1 | 4.81 0.99 up from 2017 | 712 | 5% | $3,000 | ||
49International Journal of Technology and Design EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.60Q1 | 1.35 0.60 down from 2017 | 123 | 41% | $3,390 | ||
50Materials CharacterizationElsevier BV · United States | 1.57Q1 | 3.59 0.38 up from 2017 | 1,208 | 20% | $3,320 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Mechanical 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.
98 additional Mechanical 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
- 367
- Window papers (baseline)
- 188,986 -0.4% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.51162 -6.6% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 37
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 | 153 | 165 | 174 | 181 | 189 | 197 | 200 | 216 | 239 | 248 | 253 | 259 | 279 | 297 | 318 | 336 | 349 | 360 | 367 | 371 | 379 | 380 | 376 | 376 | 372 | 366 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 62,334 | 69,348 | 76,751 | 85,480 | 91,814 | 99,066 | 105,079 | 114,255 | 121,976 | 131,580 | 138,936 | 149,595 | 164,074 | 174,982 | 184,498 | 189,752 | 192,405 | 190,265 | 188,986 | 196,408 | 208,840 | 221,656 | 231,232 | 237,955 | 243,502 | 258,806 | |
| Median OJR | 0.511 | 0.539 | 0.531 | 0.553 | 0.47 | 0.501 | 0.51157 | 0.5481 | 0.5022 | 0.5090 | 0.565 | 0.58 | 0.551 | 0.59 | 0.561 | 0.5478 | 0.57 | 0.545 | 0.51162 | 0.500 | 0.5023 | 0.492 | 0.5093 | 0.496 | 0.528 | 0.489 |
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.