Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Subfield ranking · 2020
Mechanical Engineering journal rankings 2020
379 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Mechanical Engineering has 379 ranked journals in 2020. The median journal has an OJR of 0.50, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2019; Q1 starts at OJR 0.91. The top three are International Materials Reviews, Additive manufacturing, and Virtual and Physical Prototyping.
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
379 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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1International Materials ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.74Q1 | 16.03 2.68 up from 2019 | 52 | 41% | $4,400 | ||
2Additive manufacturingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.79Q1 | 11.39 2.41 up from 2019 | 859 | 50% | $4,430 | ||
3Virtual and Physical PrototypingOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.58Q1 | 10.92 3.74 up from 2019 | 96 | 49% | $2,070 | ||
4Composites Part B EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.08Q1 | 9.88 2.24 up from 2019 | 2,822 | 24% | $5,210 | ||
5International Journal of Machine Tools and ManufactureElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.03Q1 | 8.66 1.86 up from 2019 | 270 | 24% | $5,610 | ||
6Critical reviews in solid state and materials sciences/CRC critical reviews in solid state and materials sciencesTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.92Q1 | 8.52 1.22 up from 2019 | 49 | 7% | — | ||
7Energy Conversion and ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.64Q1 | 10.82 1.25 up from 2019 | 3,473 | 18% | $4,600 | ||
8Design StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.58Q1 | 5.46 1.23 up from 2019 | 119 | 40% | $4,570 | ||
9Procedia EngineeringOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.57Q1 | 2.23 0.63 up from 2019 | 5,926 | — | — | ||
10CIRP AnnalsElsevier BV | 2.56Q1 | 5.98 0.18 up from 2019 | 471 | 34% | $3,190 | ||
11Materials & DesignOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.51Q1 | 8.13 0.95 up from 2019 | 2,478 | 100% | $3,650 | ||
12Materials Research LettersOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.44Q1 | 7.75 0.70 up from 2019 | 214 | 100% | $1,459 | ||
13Manufacturing LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.40Q1 | 6.32 1.70 up from 2019 | 136 | 28% | $2,000 | ||
14Sustainable materials and technologiesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.26Q1 | 8.39 3.73 up from 2019 | 115 | 31% | $4,150 | ||
152019 Advances in Science and Engineering Technology International Conferences (ASET)Publisher not listed | 2.24Q1 | 1.00no 2019 value | 230 | — | — | — | |
16Journal of Materials Processing TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.20Q1 | 5.53 0.47 up from 2019 | 1,443 | 19% | $3,980 | ||
| 2.05Q1 | 1.17 0.10 up from 2019 | 271 | — | — | |||
18Journal of Material Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · China | 1.99Q1 | 7.82 1.24 up from 2019 | 979 | 9% | $3,000 | ||
19SPE Eastern Regional MeetingPublisher not listed | 1.96Q1 | 1.00 0.38 down from 2019 | 59 | — | — | ||
20CIRP journal of manufacturing science and technologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 4.68 0.87 up from 2019 | 126 | 27% | $2,950 | ||
21Advances in ManufacturingSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 1.92Q1 | 3.58 0.79 down from 2019 | 110 | 29% | $3,990 | ||
22Journal of Manufacturing ProcessesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.92Q1 | 5.61 0.85 up from 2019 | 1,214 | 14% | $3,520 | ||
23Archives of Civil and Mechanical EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Poland | 1.92Q1 | 4.47 0.17 down from 2019 | 318 | 36% | $3,290 | ||
24International Journal of Heat and Mass TransferElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.91Q1 | 5.42 0.09 up from 2019 | 5,057 | 19% | $4,220 | ||
25International Journal of PlasticityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.90Q1 | 7.07 0.98 up from 2019 | 532 | 44% | $3,740 | ||
26International Journal of Mechanical SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.84Q1 | 5.50 0.48 up from 2019 | 1,835 | 20% | $4,740 | ||
27Applied Thermal EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 5.71 0.52 up from 2019 | 5,009 | 17% | $3,660 | ||
28FrictionOASpringer Nature · China | 1.82Q1 | 4.78 0.21 down from 2019 | 184 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
29International Communications in Heat and Mass TransferElsevier BV · United States | 1.82Q1 | 5.85 1.17 up from 2019 | 636 | 7% | $3,560 | ||
30Frontiers of Mechanical EngineeringHigher Education Press · China | 1.77Q1 | 5.25 1.16 up from 2019 | 151 | 50% | $3,090 | ||
31Research in Engineering DesignSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.75Q1 | 2.61 0.83 down from 2019 | 78 | 42% | $4,090 | ||
32Journal of Engineering DesignTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.74Q1 | 3.22 0.41 up from 2019 | 95 | 38% | — | ||
33Journal of Materials Research and TechnologyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.70Q1 | 5.70 1.96 up from 2019 | 965 | 100% | $1,640 | ||
34Journal of CO2 UtilizationOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.70Q1 | 7.41 0.37 up from 2019 | 835 | 20% | $3,360 | ||
35Materials Science and Engineering AElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.70Q1 | 5.30 0.42 up from 2019 | 4,219 | 19% | $3,430 | ||
36Tribology InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.68Q1 | 4.82 0.01 up from 2019 | 1,569 | 22% | $5,390 | ||
37Scripta MaterialiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.65Q1 | 5.39 0.24 up from 2019 | 1,627 | 37% | $3,220 | ||
| 1.64Q1 | 0.71 0.12 up from 2019 | 149 | — | — | |||
39Extreme Mechanics LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.61Q1 | 4.64 0.45 down from 2019 | 283 | 37% | $3,940 | ||
40WearElsevier BV · Switzerland | 1.59Q1 | 4.16 0.32 down from 2019 | 1,295 | 22% | $5,394 | ||
41Science and Technology of Welding & JoiningManey Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.57Q1 | 4.13 0.50 up from 2019 | 220 | 3% | $4,400 | ||
42Thermal Science and Engineering ProgressElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.55Q1 | 5.09 0.52 up from 2019 | 451 | 16% | $3,000 | ||
43Case Studies in Thermal EngineeringOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.54Q1 | 5.29 0.40 up from 2019 | 410 | 100% | $1,620 | ||
44International Journal of Thermal SciencesElsevier BV · France | 1.53Q1 | 4.06 0.40 up from 2019 | 1,259 | 12% | $3,920 | ||
45MachinesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.52Q1 | 3.44 0.35 down from 2019 | 174 | 100% | $2,896 | ||
46Design ScienceOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.52Q1 | 3.22 0.46 down from 2019 | 76 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
47International Journal of Rail TransportationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.51Q1 | 2.95 0.70 down from 2019 | 57 | 21% | — | ||
48International Journal of Technology and Design EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.51Q1 | 2.31 0.11 up from 2019 | 157 | 38% | $3,390 | ||
49International Journal of Lightweight Materials and ManufactureOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.51Q1 | 3.87 0.64 down from 2019 | 100 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
50Materials CharacterizationElsevier BV · United States | 1.47Q1 | 4.65 0.77 up from 2019 | 1,556 | 21% | $3,320 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Mechanical 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 Mechanical 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
- 379
- Window papers (baseline)
- 208,840 +9.8% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 0.5023 -7.8% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 37
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.