Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Subfield ranking · 2021
Aerospace Engineering journal rankings 2021
175 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Aerospace Engineering has 175 ranked journals in 2021. The median OJR rose 0.08 on 2020 to 0.70, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.26. The top three are Satellite Navigation, Progress in Aerospace Sciences, and Wind energy science.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2021. 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 2018–2020, the window the 2021 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 Engineering574
- Mechanical Engineering380
- Biomedical Engineering327
- Civil and Structural Engineering272
- Aerospace Engineering175
- Mechanics of Materials123
- Control and Systems Engineering121
- Computational Mechanics102
- Building and Construction97
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering90
- Ocean Engineering74
- Automotive Engineering38
175 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 2020. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2018–2020, the window the 2021 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2018–2020 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 2012 to 2021. | Compare |
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1Satellite NavigationOASpringer Nature · Singapore | 18.14Q1 | 14.47no 2020 value | 30 | 100% | $1,670 | — | |
2Progress in Aerospace SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.34Q1 | 10.08 1.74 down from 2020 | 113 | 44% | $5,860 | ||
3Wind energy scienceOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 4.85Q1 | 6.97 1.06 up from 2020 | 209 | 100% | $1,132 | ||
4GPS SolutionsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 4.45Q1 | 4.94 0.02 up from 2020 | 363 | 29% | $2,790 | ||
5Journal of Field RoboticsWiley · United States | 4.15Q1 | 8.52 2.18 up from 2020 | 191 | 19% | $3,590 | ||
6BuR - Business ResearchOASpringer Nature · Germany | 3.97Q1 | 6.11 2.75 up from 2020 | 95 | — | $1,535 | ||
7DronesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 3.78Q1 | 8.42 2.27 up from 2020 | 204 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
8IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.61Q1 | 7.72 3.38 up from 2020 | 182 | 63% | $2,995 | ||
9Journal of GeodesySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.48Q1 | 4.68 0.58 up from 2020 | 338 | 53% | $3,590 | ||
10IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation LettersIEEE Antennas & Propagation Society · United States | 2.69Q1 | 5.28 0.58 up from 2020 | 1,660 | 19% | $2,645 | ||
11Aerospace Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · France | 2.60Q1 | 5.72 0.07 up from 2020 | 2,003 | 17% | $4,360 | ||
12Wind EnergyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.51Q1 | 4.71 1.23 up from 2020 | 393 | 100% | $3,730 | ||
13International Journal of AeroacousticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.50Q1 | 2.88 1.11 up from 2020 | 81 | 28% | $4,150 | ||
14IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.36Q1 | 3.91 0.36 up from 2020 | 921 | 21% | $2,645 | ||
15AstrodynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Singapore | 2.21Q1 | 3.80 1.01 up from 2020 | 78 | 43% | $3,990 | ||
16IEEE Transactions on Antennas and PropagationIEEE Antennas & Propagation Society · United States | 2.21Q1 | 5.56 0.57 up from 2020 | 3,138 | 27% | $2,645 | ||
17Journal of Guidance Control and DynamicsAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 2.19Q1 | 2.69 0.01 down from 2020 | 668 | 21% | — | ||
18AIAA AVIATION 2020 FORUMPublisher not listed | 2.11Q1 | 0.96no 2020 value | 797 | — | — | — | |
19AIAA Propulsion and Energy 2020 ForumPublisher not listed | 2.01Q1 | 0.91no 2020 value | 461 | — | — | — | |
20Journal of TurbomachineryASM International · United States | 2.00Q1 | 2.09 0.13 down from 2020 | 347 | 22% | — | ||
21NAVIGATION Journal of the Institute of NavigationOAWiley · United States | 1.96Q1 | 2.85 0.32 down from 2020 | 158 | 73% | $3,000 | ||
22AIAA Scitech 2020 ForumPublisher not listed | 1.96Q1 | 0.91no 2020 value | 2,313 | — | — | — | |
23Volume 9: Oil and Gas Applications; Supercritical CO2 Power Cycles; Wind EnergyPublisher not listed | 1.89Q1 | 1.13 0.24 up from 2020 | 147 | — | — | ||
24IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing LettersInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.86Q1 | 4.18 0.07 up from 2020 | 1,920 | 17% | $2,645 | ||
25AIAA Aviation 2019 ForumPublisher not listed | 1.82Q1 | 0.94 0.20 up from 2020 | 927 | — | — | ||
26Chinese Journal of AeronauticsElsevier BV · China | 1.75Q1 | 4.60 1.36 up from 2020 | 881 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
27Journal of Unmanned Vehicle SystemsCanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 1.72Q1 | 2.88 0.03 up from 2020 | 63 | 100% | — | ||
28Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process IndustriesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.72Q1 | 3.72 0.43 down from 2020 | 679 | 23% | $4,020 | ||
29AIAA Propulsion and Energy 2019 ForumPublisher not listed | 1.66Q1 | 0.85 0.17 up from 2020 | 726 | — | — | ||
30AIAA Scitech 2019 ForumPublisher not listed | 1.65Q1 | 0.85 0.01 up from 2020 | 2,450 | — | — | ||
31AerospaceOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.65Q1 | 3.61 0.98 up from 2020 | 452 | 100% | $2,896 | ||
32Journal of Intelligent & Robotic SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.65Q1 | 4.10 0.48 up from 2020 | 475 | 37% | $3,090 | ||
33Journal of Thermal Spray TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media | 1.61Q1 | 3.02 0.28 up from 2020 | 443 | 38% | $3,190 | ||
34Journal of Air TransportationAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.59Q1 | 0.93 0.55 down from 2020 | 65 | 7% | — | ||
35IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and PropagationOAInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.57Q1 | 3.59 1.66 down from 2020 | 86 | 100% | $2,075 | ||
36International management reviewUnited States | 1.57Q1 | 2.33 0.99 up from 2020 | 37 | 0% | — | ||
37Unmanned SystemsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.57Q1 | 3.86 0.76 up from 2020 | 79 | 11% | — | ||
38International Journal of Micro Air VehiclesOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.53Q1 | 1.49 0.11 up from 2020 | 63 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
39Acta AstronauticaElsevier BV · United States | 1.50Q1 | 3.40 0.45 up from 2020 | 1,819 | 29% | $3,350 | ||
| 1.38Q1 | 0.76 0.16 down from 2020 | 824 | 7% | — | |||
| 1.32Q1 | 0.74 0.11 down from 2020 | 221 | 13% | — | |||
42IET Radar Sonar & NavigationOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United Kingdom | 1.29Q1 | 1.86 0.24 down from 2020 | 638 | 100% | $2,620 | ||
43International Journal of Turbomachinery Propulsion and PowerOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.28Q1 | 1.70 0.67 up from 2020 | 94 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
442018 AIAA SPACE and Astronautics Forum and ExpositionPublisher not listed | 1.26Q1 | —no 2020 value | 236 | — | — | ||
45Journal of Propulsion and PowerAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.23Q2 | 2.10 0.16 down from 2020 | 323 | 16% | — | ||
46Journal of Spacecraft and RocketsAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.23Q2 | 1.99 0.23 up from 2020 | 434 | 15% | — | ||
47Journal of AircraftAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.22Q2 | 2.22 0.27 up from 2020 | 467 | 15% | — | ||
48Shock WavesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.21Q2 | 2.03 0.03 up from 2020 | 182 | 27% | $3,890 | ||
49Progress in Nuclear EnergyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.17Q2 | 2.54 0.09 up from 2020 | 778 | 15% | $2,930 | ||
50IET Microwaves Antennas & PropagationOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United Kingdom | 1.13Q2 | 2.23 0.34 down from 2020 | 936 | 100% | $2,520 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Aerospace Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering574
- Mechanical Engineering380
- Biomedical Engineering327
- Civil and Structural Engineering272
- Aerospace Engineering175
- Mechanics of Materials123
- Control and Systems Engineering121
- Computational Mechanics102
- Building and Construction97
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering90
- Ocean Engineering74
- Automotive Engineering38
- Media Technology27
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality26
- Architecture2
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2021. Corpus-wide, 87.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
89 additional Aerospace Engineering journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2018–2020, 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: 2021. Publication window: 2018–2020. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 175
- Window papers (baseline)
- 995,192 -44.5% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.70 +43.9% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 10
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2018–2020 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 | 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.