Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Subfield ranking · 2019
Automotive Engineering journal rankings 2019
34 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Automotive Engineering has 34 ranked journals in 2019. The median OJR fell 0.12 on 2018 to 0.41, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 0.70. The top three are IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, and 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2019. 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 2016–2018, the window the 2019 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 Engineering542
- Mechanical Engineering371
- Biomedical Engineering303
- Civil and Structural Engineering265
- Aerospace Engineering184
- Control and Systems Engineering128
- Mechanics of Materials123
- Computational Mechanics102
- Building and Construction91
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering87
- Ocean Engineering75
- Automotive Engineering34
34 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 2018. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2016–2018, the window the 2019 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2016–2018 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 2010 to 2019. | Compare |
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1IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.37Q1 | 7.11 0.27 up from 2018 | 1,207 | 32% | $2,645 | ||
2IEEE Transactions on Intelligent VehiclesInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.93Q1 | 4.48 0.34 down from 2018 | 187 | 50% | $2,645 | ||
33D Printing and Additive ManufacturingMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 1.52Q1 | 4.09 0.13 up from 2018 | 109 | 34% | — | ||
4Rapid Prototyping JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.51Q1 | 3.91 0.14 up from 2018 | 424 | 14% | — | ||
5Progress in Additive ManufacturingSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.30Q1 | 3.18 0.09 up from 2018 | 68 | 36% | $3,590 | ||
6Spatial Cognition and ComputationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.19Q1 | 2.25 0.09 up from 2018 | 49 | 42% | — | ||
| 0.95Q1 | 0.90 0.10 up from 2018 | 6,106 | 5% | — | |||
8International Journal of Automotive TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 0.76Q1 | 1.86 0.16 down from 2018 | 322 | 5% | $3,190 | ||
9Automotive InnovationSpringer Nature · Singapore | 0.70Q1 | 1.65no 2018 value | 37 | 29% | $3,190 | — | |
10DesignsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.68Q2 | 1.60 0.14 up from 2018 | 67 | 100% | $1,930 | ||
11Emission Control Science and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 0.66Q2 | 1.81 0.68 down from 2018 | 74 | 34% | $3,390 | ||
12Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part D Journal of Automobile EngineeringSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.59Q2 | 1.37 0.21 up from 2018 | 524 | 12% | $4,150 | ||
13SAE International journal of commercial vehiclesUnited States | 0.55Q2 | 1.25 0.23 up from 2018 | 130 | 10% | — | ||
14International Journal of Vehicle DesignOAInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.54Q2 | 1.28 0.39 down from 2018 | 208 | 1% | — | ||
15Journal of Electrochemical Energy Conversion and StorageASM International · United States | 0.54Q2 | 2.01 0.04 up from 2018 | 134 | 15% | — | ||
16SAE International journal of alternative powertrainsUnited States | 0.49Q2 | 1.30 0.02 up from 2018 | 100 | 8% | — | ||
17SAE International journal of passenger cars. Electronic and electrical systemsSAE International · United States | 0.42Q2 | 0.76 0.17 down from 2018 | 115 | 0% | — | ||
18Automotive and Engine TechnologyOASpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 0.39Q3 | 0.90 0.43 up from 2018 | 33 | 26% | $2,990 | ||
19World Electric Vehicle JournalOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.38Q3 | 2.04 1.60 up from 2018 | 154 | 100% | $1,689 | ||
| 0.37Q3 | 0.69 0.18 down from 2018 | 271 | 7% | — | |||
| 0.34Q3 | 0.89 0.10 up from 2018 | 79 | 6% | — | |||
22International Journal of Heavy Vehicle SystemsInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.30Q3 | 0.69 0.25 up from 2018 | 129 | 4% | — | ||
23Tire Science and TechnologyUnited States | 0.28Q3 | 0.52 0.36 down from 2018 | 60 | 0% | — | ||
24International Journal of Rapid ManufacturingInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.27Q3 | 0.57 0.09 up from 2018 | 85 | 3% | — | ||
25Incertitudes et fiabilité des systèmes multiphysiquesOAUnited Kingdom | 0.24Q3 | 0.50 0.29 up from 2018 | 42 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.23Q3 | 0.45 0.09 down from 2018 | 162 | 100% | $207 | |||
| 0.19Q4 | 0.75 0.29 up from 2018 | 212 | 100% | — | |||
28International Journal of Vehicle Systems Modelling and TestingInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.19Q4 | 0.48 0.27 up from 2018 | 73 | 5% | — | ||
29International Journal of Vehicle PerformanceInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.14Q4 | 0.31 0.01 down from 2018 | 106 | 0% | — | ||
30Interceram - International Ceramic ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.12Q4 | 0.19 0.04 down from 2018 | 129 | 0% | — | ||
31Metal Powder ReportElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.10Q4 | 0.18no change | 1,068 | 1% | $3,000 | ||
32International Journal of Vehicle SafetyInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.09Q4 | 0.21 0.01 up from 2018 | 73 | 13% | — | ||
33Reinforced PlasticsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.08Q4 | 0.22 0.13 up from 2018 | 773 | 0% | $3,000 | ||
34International Journal of Experimental Design and Process OptimisationInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.02Q4 | 0.00 0.20 down from 2018 | 31 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Automotive Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering542
- Mechanical Engineering371
- Biomedical Engineering303
- Civil and Structural Engineering265
- Aerospace Engineering184
- Control and Systems Engineering128
- Mechanics of Materials123
- Computational Mechanics102
- Building and Construction91
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering87
- Ocean Engineering75
- Automotive Engineering34
- Media Technology26
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality26
- Architecture1
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2019. Corpus-wide, 83.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
11 additional Automotive Engineering journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2016–2018, 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: 2019. Publication window: 2016–2018. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 34
- Window papers (baseline)
- 33,469 +13.4% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 0.405 -14.8% from indicator year 2016
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2016–2018 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 |
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| Ranked journals | 7 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 14 | 16 | 21 | 20 | 21 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 24 | 25 | 27 | 30 | 34 | 36 | 38 | 43 | 44 | 42 | 42 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 9,304 | 10,537 | 11,367 | 12,178 | 13,008 | 13,901 | 14,737 | 15,538 | 16,415 | 17,511 | 18,718 | 20,216 | 21,879 | 23,571 | 25,526 | 27,965 | 29,514 | 29,929 | 30,697 | 33,469 | 37,929 | 42,344 | 47,177 | 51,087 | 55,634 | 62,840 | |
| Median OJR | 0.72 | 0.63 | 0.62 | 0.71 | 1.01 | 1.11 | 0.749 | 0.68 | 0.84 | 0.755 | 0.87 | 0.80 | 0.59 | 0.66 | 0.61 | 0.58 | 0.476 | 0.484 | 0.53 | 0.405 | 0.45 | 0.483 | 0.39 | 0.35 | 0.38 | 0.410 |
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.