Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Subfield ranking · 2019
Mechanical Engineering journal rankings 2019
371 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Mechanical Engineering has 371 ranked journals in 2019. The median journal has an OJR of 0.50, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2018; Q1 starts at OJR 1.00. The top three are International Materials Reviews, Additive manufacturing, and Virtual and Physical Prototyping.
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
371 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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1International Materials ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 7.09Q1 | 13.35 6.32 down from 2018 | 67 | 47% | $4,400 | ||
2Additive manufacturingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.74Q1 | 8.99 0.79 down from 2018 | 559 | 43% | $4,430 | ||
3Virtual and Physical PrototypingOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.32Q1 | 7.18 0.58 down from 2018 | 108 | 38% | $2,070 | ||
4International Journal of Machine Tools and ManufactureElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.12Q1 | 6.80 0.83 up from 2018 | 286 | 21% | $5,610 | ||
5Sustainable materials and technologiesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.81Q1 | 4.66 4.49 down from 2018 | 73 | 37% | $4,150 | ||
6Composites Part B EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.76Q1 | 7.64 0.37 up from 2018 | 2,533 | 16% | $5,210 | ||
7CIRP AnnalsElsevier BV | 2.67Q1 | 5.79 0.56 down from 2018 | 459 | 35% | $3,190 | ||
8SPE Eastern Regional MeetingPublisher not listed | 2.65Q1 | 1.38 0.33 down from 2018 | 52 | 0% | — | ||
9She jiOAElsevier BV · China | 2.63Q1 | 2.09no change | 89 | 100% | $1,500 | ||
10Energy Conversion and ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.58Q1 | 9.57 1.12 up from 2018 | 3,286 | 16% | $4,600 | ||
11Critical reviews in solid state and materials sciences/CRC critical reviews in solid state and materials sciencesTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.55Q1 | 7.30 1.58 up from 2018 | 54 | 14% | — | ||
12Materials Research LettersOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.54Q1 | 7.06 0.47 down from 2018 | 197 | 100% | $1,459 | ||
13Procedia EngineeringOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.52Q1 | 1.60 0.39 up from 2018 | 10,157 | — | — | ||
14Design StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.49Q1 | 4.23 0.52 up from 2018 | 131 | 57% | $4,570 | ||
15Materials & DesignOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.46Q1 | 7.18 0.64 up from 2018 | 3,138 | 100% | $3,650 | ||
| 2.42Q1 | 1.07no 2018 value | 271 | — | — | — | ||
| 2.42Q1 | —no 2018 value | 92 | — | — | |||
18Manufacturing LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.29Q1 | 4.61 1.69 up from 2018 | 98 | 18% | $2,000 | ||
19Journal of Materials Processing TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.26Q1 | 5.06 0.20 up from 2018 | 1,392 | 18% | $3,980 | ||
20International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing-Green TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 2.15Q1 | 6.39 0.57 up from 2018 | 167 | 11% | $3,890 | ||
21Archives of Civil and Mechanical EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Poland | 2.05Q1 | 4.64 1.10 up from 2018 | 332 | 7% | $3,290 | ||
22FrictionOASpringer Nature · China | 2.04Q1 | 4.99 1.34 up from 2018 | 147 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
23CIRP journal of manufacturing science and technologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.03Q1 | 3.81no change | 150 | 20% | $2,950 | ||
24International Communications in Heat and Mass TransferElsevier BV · United States | 2.02Q1 | 4.69 0.13 up from 2018 | 619 | 8% | $3,560 | ||
25International Journal of Heat and Mass TransferElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.02Q1 | 5.33 0.25 up from 2018 | 4,714 | 16% | $4,220 | ||
26Research in Engineering DesignSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 2.00Q1 | 3.44 0.57 up from 2018 | 90 | 42% | $4,090 | ||
27International Journal of Mechanical SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.99Q1 | 5.02 0.33 up from 2018 | 1,529 | 17% | $4,740 | ||
28International Journal of Rail TransportationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.97Q1 | 3.66 0.27 up from 2018 | 49 | 20% | — | ||
29Journal of Manufacturing ProcessesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.94Q1 | 4.76 0.41 up from 2018 | 864 | 11% | $3,520 | ||
30Journal of Material Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · China | 1.94Q1 | 6.57 1.77 up from 2018 | 803 | 8% | $3,000 | ||
31International Journal of PlasticityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.92Q1 | 6.10 0.07 down from 2018 | 487 | 41% | $3,740 | ||
32Tribology InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.91Q1 | 4.81 0.78 up from 2018 | 1,552 | 25% | $5,390 | ||
33Applied Thermal EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.87Q1 | 5.20 0.67 up from 2018 | 5,675 | 13% | $3,660 | ||
34Design ScienceOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 3.68 1.93 up from 2018 | 60 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
35Journal of CO2 UtilizationOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.75Q1 | 7.04 1.32 up from 2018 | 657 | 20% | $3,360 | ||
35Extreme Mechanics LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.75Q1 | 5.09 0.50 up from 2018 | 313 | 38% | $3,940 | ||
37Integrating materials and manufacturing innovationSpringer Nature · Germany | 1.75Q1 | 3.20 1.37 down from 2018 | 56 | 44% | $3,790 | ||
38Scripta MaterialiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.75Q1 | 5.15 0.39 up from 2018 | 1,586 | 33% | $3,220 | ||
39Advances in ManufacturingSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 1.74Q1 | 4.37 1.64 up from 2018 | 106 | 42% | $3,990 | ||
40Case Studies in Thermal EngineeringOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.72Q1 | 4.89 1.11 up from 2018 | 278 | 100% | $1,620 | ||
41Materials Science and Engineering AElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.70Q1 | 4.88 0.25 up from 2018 | 4,173 | 18% | $3,430 | ||
42Thermal Science and Engineering ProgressElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.68Q1 | 4.57 0.27 up from 2018 | 281 | 15% | $3,000 | ||
43WearElsevier BV · Switzerland | 1.68Q1 | 4.48 1.00 up from 2018 | 1,020 | 23% | $5,394 | ||
44Journal of Unconventional Oil and Gas ResourcesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.65Q1 | —no 2018 value | 37 | — | — | ||
45International Journal of Thermal SciencesElsevier BV · France | 1.61Q1 | 3.67 0.23 down from 2018 | 1,147 | 16% | $3,920 | ||
46International Journal of Lightweight Materials and ManufactureOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.60Q1 | 4.51no 2018 value | 37 | 100% | $0 listed | — | |
| 1.57Q1 | 0.59no 2018 value | 78 | 8% | — | — | ||
48International Journal of Technology and Design EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.55Q1 | 2.20 0.85 up from 2018 | 130 | 48% | $3,390 | ||
49Journal of Engineering DesignTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.54Q1 | 2.81 0.27 up from 2018 | 98 | 39% | — | ||
50Materials CharacterizationElsevier BV · United States | 1.50Q1 | 3.88 0.29 up from 2018 | 1,394 | 18% | $3,320 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Mechanical 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.
91 additional Mechanical 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
- 371
- Window papers (baseline)
- 196,408 +2.1% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 0.500 -12.2% from indicator year 2016
- Rising journals (2025)
- 37
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 | 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.