Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Subfield ranking · 2020
Aerospace Engineering journal rankings 2020
174 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Aerospace Engineering has 174 ranked journals in 2020. The median OJR rose 0.06 on 2019 to 0.62, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.22. The top three are Progress in Aerospace Sciences, GPS Solutions, and Wind energy science.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2020. 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 2017–2019, the window the 2020 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 Engineering563
- Mechanical Engineering379
- Biomedical Engineering312
- Civil and Structural Engineering264
- Aerospace Engineering174
- Control and Systems Engineering122
- Mechanics of Materials121
- Computational Mechanics103
- Building and Construction97
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering87
- Ocean Engineering74
- Automotive Engineering36
174 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 2019. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2017–2019, the window the 2020 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2017–2019 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 2011 to 2020. | Compare |
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1Progress in Aerospace SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 9.34Q1 | 11.82 2.86 up from 2019 | 124 | 35% | $5,860 | ||
2GPS SolutionsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 5.62Q1 | 4.92 0.98 up from 2019 | 350 | 27% | $2,790 | ||
3Wind energy scienceOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 4.16Q1 | 5.91 2.33 up from 2019 | 146 | 100% | $1,132 | ||
4Journal of GeodesySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.81Q1 | 4.09 0.12 down from 2019 | 335 | 54% | $3,590 | ||
5Journal of Field RoboticsWiley · United States | 3.69Q1 | 6.34 1.54 up from 2019 | 220 | 48% | $3,590 | ||
6DronesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 3.63Q1 | 6.15 1.48 up from 2019 | 131 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
7BuR - Business ResearchOASpringer Nature · Germany | 3.38Q1 | 3.37 2.15 up from 2019 | 108 | 100% | $1,535 | ||
8International Journal of AeroacousticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.12Q1 | 1.77 0.11 down from 2019 | 89 | 46% | $4,150 | ||
9NAVIGATION Journal of the Institute of NavigationOAWiley · United States | 2.83Q1 | 3.17 0.85 up from 2019 | 137 | 59% | $3,000 | ||
10IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation LettersIEEE Antennas & Propagation Society · United States | 2.77Q1 | 4.70 0.18 down from 2019 | 1,703 | 20% | $2,645 | ||
11IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.67Q1 | 3.55 0.72 down from 2019 | 1,025 | 31% | $2,645 | ||
12Aerospace Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · France | 2.67Q1 | 5.65 0.39 up from 2019 | 1,747 | 13% | $4,360 | ||
13AstrodynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Singapore | 2.61Q1 | 2.79 0.40 up from 2019 | 66 | 19% | $3,990 | ||
14International Journal of Micro Air VehiclesOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.37Q1 | 1.38 1.02 down from 2019 | 76 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
15Journal of Guidance Control and DynamicsAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 2.35Q1 | 2.70 0.31 down from 2019 | 762 | 23% | — | ||
16Journal of TurbomachineryASM International · United States | 2.30Q1 | 2.22 0.15 up from 2019 | 326 | 13% | — | ||
17IEEE Transactions on Antennas and PropagationIEEE Antennas & Propagation Society · United States | 2.28Q1 | 4.99 0.47 down from 2019 | 2,998 | 26% | $2,645 | ||
18Volume 9: Oil and Gas Applications; Supercritical CO2 Power Cycles; Wind EnergyPublisher not listed | 2.26Q1 | 0.88 0.12 down from 2019 | 227 | — | — | ||
19IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing LettersInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.23Q1 | 4.11 0.66 down from 2019 | 1,662 | 17% | $2,645 | ||
20Wind EnergyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.12Q1 | 3.48 0.39 up from 2019 | 339 | 63% | $3,730 | ||
21Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process IndustriesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 4.15 0.66 up from 2019 | 640 | 13% | $4,020 | ||
22Journal of Thermal Spray TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media | 2.04Q1 | 2.73 0.10 up from 2019 | 452 | 30% | $3,190 | ||
23AIAA Scitech 2019 ForumPublisher not listed | 2.02Q1 | 0.84 0.84 up from 2019 | 2,451 | — | — | ||
24AIAA Aviation 2019 ForumPublisher not listed | 1.76Q1 | 0.74no 2019 value | 927 | — | — | — | |
| 1.72Q1 | 0.92 0.29 up from 2019 | 875 | 10% | — | |||
26IET Radar Sonar & NavigationOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United Kingdom | 1.68Q1 | 2.10 0.26 down from 2019 | 631 | 40% | $2,620 | ||
| 1.64Q1 | 0.84 0.27 up from 2019 | 242 | 10% | — | |||
28AIAA Propulsion and Energy 2019 ForumPublisher not listed | 1.62Q1 | 0.68no 2019 value | 726 | — | — | — | |
29Journal of Intelligent & Robotic SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.60Q1 | 3.63 0.48 up from 2019 | 535 | 24% | $3,090 | ||
30Acta AstronauticaElsevier BV · United States | 1.59Q1 | 2.95 0.05 up from 2019 | 1,656 | 26% | $3,350 | ||
31Journal of Propulsion and PowerAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.53Q1 | 2.26 0.07 up from 2019 | 380 | 17% | — | ||
32AerospaceOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.53Q1 | 2.63 0.45 up from 2019 | 322 | 100% | $2,896 | ||
33Chinese Journal of AeronauticsElsevier BV · China | 1.52Q1 | 3.24 0.55 up from 2019 | 682 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
342018 AIAA Information Systems-AIAA Infotech @ AerospacePublisher not listed | 1.50Q1 | 0.91 0.01 up from 2019 | 137 | — | — | ||
35International Journal of Turbomachinery Propulsion and PowerOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.46Q1 | 1.03 0.90 down from 2019 | 85 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
36Journal of the Global Power and Propulsion SocietyOAVeruscript · Switzerland | 1.37Q1 | 1.81 0.66 up from 2019 | 49 | 100% | $812 | ||
37IET Microwaves Antennas & PropagationOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United Kingdom | 1.33Q1 | 2.58 0.12 down from 2019 | 1,017 | 48% | $2,520 | ||
38Journal of Air TransportationAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.32Q1 | 1.49 0.22 up from 2019 | 54 | 35% | — | ||
39Oxidation of MetalsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.31Q1 | 2.01 0.48 up from 2019 | 272 | 20% | $3,590 | ||
40Journal of Unmanned Vehicle SystemsCanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 1.31Q1 | 2.85 0.14 up from 2019 | 59 | 74% | — | ||
41Progress in Nuclear EnergyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.30Q1 | 2.45 0.46 up from 2019 | 719 | 20% | $2,930 | ||
42Journal of Surveying EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.28Q1 | 2.10 0.15 up from 2019 | 86 | 18% | — | ||
43Volume 8: Microturbines, Turbochargers and Small Turbomachines; Steam TurbinesPublisher not listed | 1.25Q1 | 0.60 0.06 down from 2019 | 182 | — | — | ||
44Shock WavesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.22Q1 | 2.00 0.41 up from 2019 | 221 | 23% | $3,890 | ||
45IEEE Antennas and Propagation MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.21Q2 | 1.36 0.31 down from 2019 | 549 | 62% | $2,995 | ||
46Journal of AircraftAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.19Q2 | 1.94 0.31 up from 2019 | 536 | 16% | — | ||
47AviationOAVilnius Gediminas Technical University · Lithuania | 1.19Q2 | 2.40 1.13 up from 2019 | 51 | 100% | — | ||
48Unmanned SystemsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.18Q2 | 3.10 0.91 up from 2019 | 67 | 15% | — | ||
49Nuclear Science and EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.16Q2 | 1.36 0.20 down from 2019 | 261 | 27% | — | ||
50Journal of Spacecraft and RocketsAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.16Q2 | 1.76 0.18 up from 2019 | 432 | 11% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Aerospace Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering563
- Mechanical Engineering379
- Biomedical Engineering312
- Civil and Structural Engineering264
- Aerospace Engineering174
- Control and Systems Engineering122
- Mechanics of Materials121
- Computational Mechanics103
- Building and Construction97
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering87
- Ocean Engineering74
- Automotive Engineering36
- Media Technology29
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality26
- Architecture2
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2020. Corpus-wide, 86.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
94 additional Aerospace Engineering journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2017–2019, 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: 2020. Publication window: 2017–2019. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 174
- Window papers (baseline)
- 1,060,974 -50.0% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 0.62 +31.4% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 10
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2017–2019 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 | 97 | 106 | 115 | 118 | 126 | 125 | 121 | 126 | 139 | 153 | 156 | 158 | 163 | 169 | 178 | 175 | 177 | 181 | 180 | 184 | 174 | 175 | 178 | 163 | 150 | 141 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 864,282 | 944,257 | 1,049,316 | 1,146,256 | 1,238,710 | 1,330,720 | 1,430,174 | 1,523,455 | 1,603,059 | 1,689,594 | 1,781,855 | 1,873,600 | 1,952,796 | 2,021,396 | 2,079,722 | 2,144,639 | 2,193,289 | 2,119,832 | 1,792,733 | 1,361,403 | 1,060,974 | 995,192 | 933,116 | 734,756 | 535,389 | 464,917 | |
| Median OJR | 0.3535 | 0.29 | 0.24 | 0.26 | 0.32 | 0.23 | 0.38 | 0.349 | 0.3531 | 0.39 | 0.463 | 0.50 | 0.55 | 0.561 | 0.48 | 0.464 | 0.485 | 0.47 | 0.488 | 0.560 | 0.62 | 0.70 | 0.73 | 0.72 | 0.65 | 0.66 |
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.