Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Subfield ranking · 2019
Computational Mechanics journal rankings 2019
102 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Computational Mechanics has 102 ranked journals in 2019. The median journal has an OJR of 1.00, level with the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2018; Q1 starts at OJR 1.43. The top three are Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, and 2018 AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting.
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
102 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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1Progress in Energy and Combustion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 11.17Q1 | 29.40 8.33 up from 2018 | 105 | 38% | $6,990 | ||
2Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.85Q1 | 6.52 0.71 up from 2018 | 1,415 | 52% | $4,830 | ||
32018 AIAA Aerospace Sciences MeetingPublisher not listed | 2.56Q1 | 0.99no 2018 value | 1,114 | — | — | — | |
4Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid MechanicsOATaylor & Francis · Hong Kong SAR China | 2.51Q1 | 8.45 6.04 up from 2018 | 130 | 100% | $1,993 | ||
5Computer-Aided DesignElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.25Q1 | 3.13 0.10 down from 2018 | 252 | 38% | $3,140 | ||
6SIAM Journal on OptimizationSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 2.23Q1 | 3.06 0.72 down from 2018 | 349 | 54% | — | ||
7Combustion and FlameElsevier BV · United States | 2.19Q1 | 4.63 0.86 down from 2018 | 1,194 | 47% | $4,320 | ||
8Journal of Fluids and StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.01Q1 | 3.16 0.07 up from 2018 | 527 | 36% | $3,740 | ||
955th AIAA Aerospace Sciences MeetingPublisher not listed | 1.93Q1 | 1.03 0.10 down from 2018 | 1,113 | — | — | ||
10AIAA JournalAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.93Q1 | 2.87 0.32 up from 2018 | 1,188 | 17% | — | ||
11Proceedings of the Combustion InstituteElsevier BV · United States | 1.92Q1 | 1.79 0.88 down from 2018 | 1,617 | 4% | $3,570 | ||
1254th AIAA Aerospace Sciences MeetingPublisher not listed | 1.90Q1 | —no 2018 value | 1,169 | — | — | ||
13Experimental Thermal and Fluid ScienceElsevier BV · United States | 1.88Q1 | 3.60 0.01 down from 2018 | 1,026 | 21% | $3,720 | ||
14Journal of Fluid MechanicsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.79Q1 | 3.77 0.44 up from 2018 | 2,653 | 54% | $3,550 | ||
15Journal of Computational PhysicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.74Q1 | 3.61 0.27 up from 2018 | 2,062 | 70% | $3,980 | ||
16Experiments in FluidsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.72Q1 | 2.82 0.19 down from 2018 | 556 | 40% | $2,590 | ||
17Journal of Numerical MathematicsDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.70Q1 | 3.25 0.27 down from 2018 | 52 | 50% | $2,712 | ||
18SIAM Journal on Numerical AnalysisSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 1.69Q1 | 3.00 0.33 up from 2018 | 421 | 48% | — | ||
19Computers & FluidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.69Q1 | 2.67 0.07 up from 2018 | 1,020 | 41% | $3,700 | ||
20Flow Turbulence and CombustionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.67Q1 | 2.77 0.17 up from 2018 | 290 | 45% | $2,590 | ||
21Annual Review of Fluid MechanicsAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.65Q1 | 14.96 1.76 up from 2018 | 77 | 55% | — | ||
22Granular MatterSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.64Q1 | 2.95 0.11 up from 2018 | 262 | 35% | $2,590 | ||
23Powder TechnologyElsevier BV · Switzerland | 1.63Q1 | 4.51 0.51 up from 2018 | 2,639 | 14% | $4,610 | ||
24Computers & Mathematics with ApplicationsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.58Q1 | 3.03 0.10 up from 2018 | 1,493 | 100% | $3,170 | ||
25International Journal of Heat and Fluid FlowElsevier BV · United States | 1.52Q1 | 2.46 0.23 up from 2018 | 461 | 33% | $3,420 | ||
26International Journal of Multiphase FlowElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.43Q1 | 3.29 0.18 up from 2018 | 625 | 34% | $3,900 | ||
27Advanced Powder TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.42Q2 | 4.51 0.73 up from 2018 | 1,065 | 13% | $3,170 | ||
28Theoretical and Computational Fluid DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.40Q2 | 2.47 0.92 up from 2018 | 97 | 29% | $3,090 | ||
29Mathematics of ComputationAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 1.37Q2 | 1.92 0.45 up from 2018 | 298 | 62% | — | ||
30Physics of FluidsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.36Q2 | 3.84 0.88 up from 2018 | 1,907 | 26% | — | ||
31SIAM Journal on Scientific ComputingSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 1.35Q2 | 2.29 0.41 down from 2018 | 762 | 58% | — | ||
32Journal of Computational and Applied MathematicsElsevier BV · Belgium | 1.31Q2 | 2.28 0.19 up from 2018 | 1,649 | 100% | $3,250 | ||
33Journal of TurbulenceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.30Q2 | 1.79 0.40 down from 2018 | 136 | 39% | — | ||
34Physical Review FluidsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 1.28Q2 | 2.71 0.07 up from 2018 | 1,240 | 49% | — | ||
35Numerical Methods for Partial Differential EquationsWiley · United States | 1.26Q2 | 2.62 0.62 up from 2018 | 270 | 23% | $3,750 | ||
36International Journal for Numerical Methods in FluidsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.21Q2 | 2.04 0.20 up from 2018 | 273 | 36% | $4,220 | ||
37Journal of Scientific ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.20Q2 | 2.11 0.01 up from 2018 | 713 | 36% | $3,290 | ||
38Numerische MathematikSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.19Q2 | 1.60 0.30 down from 2018 | 225 | 57% | $3,190 | ||
39CALCOLOSpringer Science+Business Media · Italy | 1.19Q2 | 2.01 0.19 up from 2018 | 123 | 25% | $3,090 | ||
40ParticuologyElsevier BV · China | 1.18Q2 | 2.63 0.40 up from 2018 | 372 | 9% | $3,090 | ||
41Combustion Theory and ModellingTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.15Q2 | 1.94 0.16 down from 2018 | 181 | 28% | — | ||
42Applied Numerical MathematicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.13Q2 | 2.00 0.15 up from 2018 | 491 | 19% | $2,000 | ||
43European Journal of Mechanics - B/FluidsElsevier BV · France | 1.12Q2 | 2.09 0.20 up from 2018 | 435 | 27% | $3,380 | ||
44Optimization methods & softwareTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.09Q2 | 1.73 0.17 up from 2018 | 232 | 43% | — | ||
45Computing and Visualization in ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.07Q2 | 2.32 1.82 up from 2018 | 35 | 50% | $2,780 | ||
46International Journal of Spray and Combustion DynamicsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.06Q2 | 1.78 0.28 up from 2018 | 79 | 100% | $4,150 | ||
47Information and Inference A Journal of the IMAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.05Q2 | 1.63 0.01 up from 2018 | 69 | 72% | $3,718 | ||
48Journal of HydrodynamicsElsevier BV · Singapore | 1.04Q2 | 2.14 0.09 down from 2018 | 403 | 4% | $3,290 | ||
49Computer Aided Geometric DesignElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.03Q2 | 1.59 0.22 up from 2018 | 194 | 48% | $2,930 | ||
50KONA Powder and Particle JournalOAJapan | 1.03Q2 | 2.05 0.45 up from 2018 | 84 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Computational Mechanics 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.
18 additional Computational Mechanics 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
- 102
- Window papers (baseline)
- 73,849 +1.0% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 1.0039 -9.9% from indicator year 2016
- Rising journals (2025)
- 11
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.