Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Field ranking · 2019
Engineering journal rankings 2019
2,358 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Engineering has 2,358 ranked journals in 2019. The median journal has an OJR of 0.67, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2018; Q1 starts at OJR 1.24. The top three are IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, and Nature Energy.
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 in Engineering (16)
Up to Physical Sciences- 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
2,358 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 Communications Surveys & TutorialsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 13.39Q1 | 26.13 0.10 up from 2018 | 388 | 43% | $2,645 | ||
2Progress in Energy and Combustion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 11.17Q1 | 29.40 8.33 up from 2018 | 105 | 38% | $6,990 | ||
3Nature EnergyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 9.50Q1 | 25.55 1.59 down from 2018 | 658 | 36% | $12,690 | ||
4Materials Science and Engineering R ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 9.41Q1 | 30.47 3.64 up from 2018 | 45 | 30% | $6,150 | ||
5Energy & Environmental ScienceRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 8.40Q1 | 27.97 0.38 up from 2018 | 985 | 33% | — | ||
6Science RoboticsAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science · United States | 8.02Q1 | 17.30 1.25 up from 2018 | 137 | 43% | — | ||
7Progress in Aerospace SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.99Q1 | 8.96 4.01 up from 2018 | 142 | 29% | $5,860 | ||
8International Materials ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 7.09Q1 | 13.35 6.32 down from 2018 | 67 | 47% | $4,400 | ||
9Journal of Industrial Information IntegrationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 7.04Q1 | 15.77 5.60 up from 2018 | 82 | 30% | $3,810 | ||
10Advanced MaterialsGermany | 6.80Q1 | 24.09 1.31 up from 2018 | 4,876 | 40% | $6,070 | ||
11Analytic Methods in Accident ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.37Q1 | 11.08 0.75 down from 2018 | 53 | 33% | $5,310 | ||
12JouleElsevier BV · United States | 5.90Q1 | 21.93 5.04 up from 2018 | 378 | 100% | $9,350 | ||
13Advanced Energy MaterialsWiley · Germany | 5.70Q1 | 22.69 2.99 up from 2018 | 2,146 | 35% | $5,790 | ||
14IEEE Communications MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.50Q1 | 10.02 1.08 up from 2018 | 1,520 | 62% | $2,995 | ||
15Applied Physics ReviewsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 5.31Q1 | 19.30 5.01 up from 2018 | 131 | 51% | — | ||
16IEEE Internet of Things JournalInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.29Q1 | 12.22 0.78 down from 2018 | 1,192 | 25% | $2,645 | ||
17Renewable and Sustainable Energy ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.11Q1 | 16.16 3.90 up from 2018 | 3,595 | 34% | $5,220 | ||
18IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.08Q1 | 11.13 3.61 up from 2018 | 741 | 28% | $2,645 | ||
19IEEE Wireless CommunicationsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.04Q1 | 9.28 1.61 down from 2018 | 461 | 39% | $2,995 | ||
20IEEE Transactions on CyberneticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.96Q1 | 10.17 0.23 up from 2018 | 1,322 | 24% | $2,645 | ||
21GPS SolutionsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 4.85Q1 | 3.94 0.37 up from 2018 | 303 | 16% | $2,790 | ||
22ACS Energy LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 4.77Q1 | 20.27 3.71 up from 2018 | 975 | 34% | $4,500 | ||
23Nature ElectronicsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 4.76Q1 | 12.99 0.64 down from 2018 | 175 | 28% | $12,690 | ||
24Proceedings of the IEEEInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.68Q1 | 9.62 1.01 up from 2018 | 622 | 65% | $2,645 | ||
25Computers in IndustryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.64Q1 | 7.05 0.53 down from 2018 | 278 | 32% | $4,080 | ||
26IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in CommunicationsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.59Q1 | 12.30 1.85 up from 2018 | 869 | 46% | $2,645 | ||
27Cement and Concrete ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.57Q1 | 9.63 3.18 up from 2018 | 620 | 49% | $5,180 | ||
28Annual Reviews in ControlElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.50Q1 | 9.23 2.57 up from 2018 | 135 | 41% | $3,940 | ||
29Journal of Manufacturing SystemsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.44Q1 | 8.24 2.89 up from 2018 | 278 | 34% | $3,850 | ||
30Transportation Research Part C Emerging TechnologiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.43Q1 | 9.09 1.58 up from 2018 | 763 | 40% | $4,040 | ||
31Journal of GeodesySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.15Q1 | 4.21 0.21 up from 2018 | 329 | 25% | $3,590 | ||
32Nano EnergyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.14Q1 | 17.50 0.67 up from 2018 | 2,265 | 20% | $5,210 | ||
33Automation in ConstructionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.12Q1 | 7.90 1.57 up from 2018 | 716 | 27% | $5,490 | ||
34Advanced Functional MaterialsWiley · Germany | 4.11Q1 | 14.56 1.38 up from 2018 | 3,954 | 34% | $5,790 | ||
35Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation ReviewElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.10Q1 | 6.04 0.31 up from 2018 | 473 | 28% | $4,240 | ||
36Advanced ScienceOAWiley · Germany | 4.07Q1 | 13.63 0.64 up from 2018 | 915 | 100% | $6,730 | ||
37IEEE Transactions on Industrial InformaticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.02Q1 | 10.67 2.30 up from 2018 | 1,466 | 24% | $2,645 | ||
38IEEE Transactions on RoboticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.01Q1 | 8.48 1.41 up from 2018 | 450 | 53% | $2,645 | ||
39The International Journal of Robotics ResearchSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.99Q1 | 6.38 0.84 down from 2018 | 224 | 43% | $4,400 | ||
40Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure EngineeringWiley · United Kingdom | 3.99Q1 | 10.23 2.78 up from 2018 | 193 | 89% | $5,230 | ||
41IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.97Q1 | 9.15 0.24 up from 2018 | 1,214 | 20% | $2,645 | ||
42Wind energy scienceOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 3.93Q1 | 3.59 0.87 down from 2018 | 123 | 100% | $1,132 | ||
43Journal of Urban TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.90Q1 | 6.45 3.24 up from 2018 | 81 | 17% | — | ||
44Nano TodayElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.90Q1 | 12.29 0.91 up from 2018 | 222 | 20% | $4,830 | ||
45Materials HorizonsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 3.76Q1 | 10.21 1.09 down from 2018 | 388 | 28% | — | ||
46Additive manufacturingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.74Q1 | 8.99 0.79 down from 2018 | 559 | 43% | $4,430 | ||
47Energy storage materialsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.72Q1 | 14.87 0.79 up from 2018 | 574 | 26% | $5,400 | ||
48npj Flexible ElectronicsOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 3.72Q1 | 11.93 4.93 up from 2018 | 46 | 100% | $4,090 | ||
49Cement and Concrete CompositesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.69Q1 | 6.51 1.22 up from 2018 | 680 | 28% | $5,120 | ||
50Advances in Engineering SoftwareElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.68Q1 | 5.73 0.26 up from 2018 | 418 | 27% | $3,810 |
Subfields of Engineering, compared.
- 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.
681 additional 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
- 2,358
- Window papers (baseline)
- 2,758,725 -23.6% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 0.6705 -8.5% from indicator year 2016
- Rising journals (2025)
- 211Comparison-group list (211)
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 | 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.