Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Subfield ranking · 2020
Mechanics of Materials journal rankings 2020
121 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Mechanics of Materials has 121 ranked journals in 2020. The median journal has an OJR of 0.91, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2019; Q1 starts at OJR 1.48. The top three are International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, and Applied Mechanics Reviews.
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
121 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 Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining SciencesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.00Q1 | 6.88 2.06 up from 2019 | 636 | 22% | $4,110 | ||
2Rock Mechanics and Rock EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 2.84Q1 | 6.10 1.77 up from 2019 | 853 | 20% | $3,990 | ||
3Applied Mechanics ReviewsAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers · United States | 2.81Q1 | 6.44 0.02 up from 2019 | 63 | 17% | — | ||
4International Journal of Coal GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.80Q1 | 6.27 0.54 down from 2019 | 545 | 22% | $4,090 | ||
5Composites Part A Applied Science and ManufacturingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.62Q1 | 8.37 1.20 up from 2019 | 1,166 | 32% | $4,480 | ||
6Engineering With ComputersSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 2.43Q1 | 7.21 2.01 up from 2019 | 398 | 7% | $2,190 | ||
7Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical EngineeringOAElsevier BV · China | 2.38Q1 | 4.56 0.98 up from 2019 | 305 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
8Composites Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.28Q1 | 8.52 0.77 up from 2019 | 1,305 | 24% | $4,610 | ||
9Composite StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.09Q1 | 5.75 0.66 up from 2019 | 3,532 | 22% | $4,660 | ||
10Egyptian Journal of PetroleumOAElsevier BV · Egypt | 2.04Q1 | 6.54 2.06 up from 2019 | 208 | 100% | — | ||
11Applied Mathematical ModellingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.01Q1 | 5.15 0.93 up from 2019 | 1,709 | 100% | $4,510 | ||
12International Journal of Engineering ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.99Q1 | 7.79 0.47 down from 2019 | 346 | 30% | $4,980 | ||
13Petroleum Exploration and DevelopmentOAElsevier BV · China | 1.98Q1 | 4.76 0.77 up from 2019 | 346 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
14Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the EnvironmentSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.97Q1 | 3.58 0.86 up from 2019 | 689 | 9% | $3,990 | ||
15International Journal of FatigueElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.96Q1 | 5.49 0.53 up from 2019 | 1,213 | 32% | $3,940 | ||
16Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex SystemsOAMathematical Sciences Publishers · United States | 1.93Q1 | 5.18 0.28 down from 2019 | 45 | 100% | — | ||
17International Journal of Mining Science and TechnologyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.86Q1 | 4.24 0.52 up from 2019 | 385 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
18Journal of Sustainable MiningOAPoland | 1.79Q1 | 3.70 0.77 up from 2019 | 86 | 100% | — | ||
19NDT & E InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 4.42 0.64 up from 2019 | 354 | 30% | $4,440 | ||
20Engineering Fracture MechanicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.76Q1 | 4.27 0.33 up from 2019 | 1,412 | 19% | $4,120 | ||
21AAPG BulletinAmerican Association of Petroleum Geologists · United States | 1.75Q1 | 3.83 0.26 down from 2019 | 300 | 11% | — | ||
22Computational MechanicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.71Q1 | 4.30 0.76 up from 2019 | 427 | 62% | $3,990 | ||
23Marine and Petroleum GeologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.71Q1 | 4.27 0.01 up from 2019 | 1,385 | 21% | $3,440 | ||
24Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of SolidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.71Q1 | 5.29 0.50 up from 2019 | 823 | 59% | $4,220 | ||
25ADVANCES IN GEO-ENERGY RESEARCHOAAustralia | 1.62Q1 | 4.51 1.41 up from 2019 | 97 | 100% | — | ||
26Theoretical and Applied Fracture MechanicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.61Q1 | 4.26 0.96 up from 2019 | 635 | 19% | $3,730 | ||
27LithosphereOAGeological Society of America · United States | 1.59Q1 | 3.32 0.63 down from 2019 | 149 | 100% | $2,100 | ||
28Petroleum ScienceOAElsevier BV · China | 1.58Q1 | 4.28 1.37 up from 2019 | 262 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
29Mechanics Based Design of Structures and MachinesTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.50Q1 | 8.45 5.49 up from 2019 | 170 | 2% | — | ||
30International Journal for Numerical Methods in EngineeringWiley · United Kingdom | 1.49Q1 | 3.07 0.02 down from 2019 | 655 | 44% | $4,250 | ||
31European Journal of Mechanics - A/SolidsElsevier BV · France | 1.48Q1 | 4.19 0.03 down from 2019 | 518 | 23% | $4,040 | ||
32Defence TechnologyOAElsevier BV · China | 1.43Q2 | 3.48 0.76 up from 2019 | 363 | 100% | — | ||
33GEM - International Journal on GeomathematicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.43Q2 | 2.85 1.25 up from 2019 | 46 | 59% | $2,490 | ||
34International Journal of Solids and StructuresElsevier BV · United States | 1.42Q2 | 3.55 0.17 up from 2019 | 1,158 | 98% | $3,790 | ||
35Finite Elements in Analysis and DesignElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.42Q2 | 3.01 0.22 down from 2019 | 214 | 43% | $2,990 | ||
36Energy Science & EngineeringOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.40Q2 | 4.28 0.82 up from 2019 | 409 | 100% | $2,780 | ||
37Organic GeochemistryElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.34Q2 | 3.52 0.08 up from 2019 | 443 | 34% | $3,270 | ||
38Spectrochimica Acta Part B Atomic SpectroscopyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.30Q2 | 3.64 0.53 up from 2019 | 535 | 26% | $3,530 | ||
39Journal of Reinforced Plastics and CompositesSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.29Q2 | 3.79 1.39 up from 2019 | 292 | 10% | $4,400 | ||
40International Journal of Damage MechanicsSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.28Q2 | 3.73 0.24 down from 2019 | 176 | 13% | $4,400 | ||
41Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & StructuresWiley · United Kingdom | 1.27Q2 | 3.56 0.39 up from 2019 | 560 | 24% | $3,860 | ||
42International Journal of FractureSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.23Q2 | 2.54 0.37 down from 2019 | 240 | 42% | $3,790 | ||
43Journal of Thermal StressesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.23Q2 | 2.87 0.06 up from 2019 | 259 | 8% | — | ||
44International Journal of Coal Science & TechnologyOASpringer International Publishing · China | 1.23Q2 | 3.23 1.30 up from 2019 | 132 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
45Continuum Mechanics and ThermodynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.19Q2 | 4.10 0.45 up from 2019 | 304 | 51% | $2,990 | ||
46UltrasonicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.15Q2 | 3.43 0.40 up from 2019 | 569 | 27% | $3,680 | ||
47Journal of Analytical Atomic SpectrometryRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.15Q2 | 4.05 0.96 up from 2019 | 749 | 25% | — | ||
48Engineering Analysis with Boundary ElementsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.15Q2 | 2.90 0.24 down from 2019 | 686 | 12% | $3,590 | ||
49International Journal of Adhesion and AdhesivesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.14Q2 | 3.10 0.04 up from 2019 | 562 | 22% | $3,760 | ||
50Mechanics of MaterialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.10Q2 | 3.36 0.31 up from 2019 | 559 | 30% | $3,850 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Mechanics of Materials 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.
23 additional Mechanics of Materials 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
- 121
- Window papers (baseline)
- 101,761 +1.9% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 0.910 -5.7% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 14
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 | 78 | 81 | 85 | 90 | 89 | 91 | 96 | 101 | 105 | 106 | 106 | 110 | 108 | 115 | 117 | 121 | 124 | 126 | 123 | 123 | 121 | 123 | 122 | 121 | 126 | 124 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 41,039 | 46,235 | 51,243 | 57,208 | 61,654 | 67,090 | 72,297 | 77,433 | 83,476 | 89,782 | 95,236 | 100,355 | 106,668 | 110,219 | 112,431 | 110,199 | 106,266 | 99,874 | 95,912 | 96,897 | 101,761 | 106,369 | 109,525 | 109,615 | 109,306 | 111,140 | |
| Median OJR | 0.70 | 0.83 | 0.964 | 0.97 | 0.986 | 0.977 | 1.01 | 0.985 | 0.978 | 0.895 | 1.03 | 1.12 | 1.061 | 1.05 | 1.060 | 1.09 | 1.04 | 0.965 | 0.93 | 0.8976 | 0.910 | 0.912 | 0.8984 | 0.82 | 0.76 | 0.80 |
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.