Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Subfield ranking · 2020
Automotive Engineering journal rankings 2020
36 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Automotive Engineering has 36 ranked journals in 2020. The median journal has an OJR of 0.45, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.05 on 2019; Q1 starts at OJR 0.73. The top three are IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, and Progress in Additive Manufacturing.
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
36 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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1IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.01Q1 | 7.82 0.70 up from 2019 | 1,361 | 27% | $2,645 | ||
2IEEE Transactions on Intelligent VehiclesInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.00Q1 | 5.02 0.54 up from 2019 | 219 | 38% | $2,645 | ||
3Progress in Additive ManufacturingSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.81Q1 | 4.73 1.55 up from 2019 | 86 | 44% | $3,590 | ||
43D Printing and Additive ManufacturingMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 1.48Q1 | 5.06 0.96 up from 2019 | 102 | 98% | — | ||
5Rapid Prototyping JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.46Q1 | 3.70 0.21 down from 2019 | 479 | 15% | — | ||
| 1.03Q1 | 0.98 0.08 up from 2019 | 6,530 | 4% | — | |||
7Spatial Cognition and ComputationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.03Q1 | 2.91 0.66 up from 2019 | 39 | 67% | — | ||
8DesignsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.84Q1 | 2.27 0.67 up from 2019 | 118 | 100% | $1,930 | ||
9World Electric Vehicle JournalOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.73Q1 | 2.56 0.52 up from 2019 | 152 | 100% | $1,689 | ||
10International Journal of Automotive TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 0.71Q2 | 1.83 0.03 down from 2019 | 323 | 1% | $3,190 | ||
11SAE International Journal of Advances and Current Practices in MobilityPublisher not listed | 0.61Q2 | 1.43 1.43 up from 2019 | 258 | 6% | — | ||
12Automotive InnovationSpringer Nature · Singapore | 0.58Q2 | 1.61 0.04 down from 2019 | 69 | 46% | $3,190 | ||
13Emission Control Science and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 0.56Q2 | 2.00 0.19 up from 2019 | 90 | 38% | $3,390 | ||
14Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part D Journal of Automobile EngineeringSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.55Q2 | 1.48 0.11 up from 2019 | 611 | 7% | $4,150 | ||
15Journal of Electrochemical Energy Conversion and StorageASM International · United States | 0.52Q2 | 1.88 0.13 down from 2019 | 151 | 15% | — | ||
16SAE International journal of commercial vehiclesUnited States | 0.51Q2 | 1.41 0.17 up from 2019 | 109 | 6% | — | ||
| 0.50Q2 | 1.04 0.35 up from 2019 | 140 | 5% | — | |||
18Automotive and Engine TechnologyOASpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 0.46Q2 | 1.27 0.37 up from 2019 | 40 | 47% | $2,990 | ||
19SAE International journal of alternative powertrainsUnited States | 0.44Q3 | 1.65 0.35 up from 2019 | 69 | 17% | — | ||
20International Journal of Vehicle DesignOAInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.38Q3 | 0.36 0.92 down from 2019 | 229 | 100% | — | ||
21International Journal of Rapid ManufacturingInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.32Q3 | 0.88 0.30 up from 2019 | 115 | 8% | — | ||
22SAE International journal of passenger cars. Electronic and electrical systemsSAE International · United States | 0.31Q3 | 0.74 0.02 down from 2019 | 75 | 0% | — | ||
| 0.31Q3 | 1.00 0.11 up from 2019 | 89 | 0% | — | |||
24Tire Science and TechnologyUnited States | 0.31Q3 | 1.13 0.61 up from 2019 | 62 | 10% | — | ||
25International Journal of Vehicle PerformanceInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.30Q3 | 0.93 0.62 up from 2019 | 105 | 9% | — | ||
26International Journal of Heavy Vehicle SystemsInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.24Q3 | 0.63 0.06 down from 2019 | 178 | 0% | — | ||
27Interdisciplinary Journal of Signage and WayfindingOAUnited States | 0.21Q3 | 0.30 0.03 down from 2019 | 35 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.19Q4 | 0.55 0.10 up from 2019 | 189 | 100% | $207 | |||
29International Journal of Vehicle SafetyInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.17Q4 | 0.57 0.36 up from 2019 | 78 | 18% | — | ||
30Interceram - International Ceramic ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.17Q4 | 0.31 0.12 up from 2019 | 148 | 44% | — | ||
| 0.15Q4 | 0.73 0.02 down from 2019 | 318 | 100% | — | |||
32International Journal of Vehicle Systems Modelling and TestingInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.12Q4 | 0.25 0.23 down from 2019 | 66 | 6% | — | ||
33International Journal of Experimental Design and Process OptimisationInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.10Q4 | 0.25 0.25 up from 2019 | 36 | 0% | — | ||
34Metal Powder ReportElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.10Q4 | 0.18no change | 817 | 1% | $3,000 | ||
35Reinforced PlasticsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.09Q4 | 0.11 0.12 down from 2019 | 587 | 2% | $3,000 | ||
36Incertitudes et fiabilité des systèmes multiphysiquesOAUnited Kingdom | 0.08Q4 | 0.29 0.21 down from 2019 | 52 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Automotive 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.
12 additional Automotive 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
- 36
- Window papers (baseline)
- 37,929 +26.7% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 0.45 -6.5% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1
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 | 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.