Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Subfield ranking · 2021
Computational Mechanics journal rankings 2021
102 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Computational Mechanics has 102 ranked journals in 2021. The median OJR fell 0.14 on 2020 to 0.81, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.29. The top three are Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, and Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics.
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
102 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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1Progress in Energy and Combustion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 10.23Q1 | 35.32 0.13 up from 2020 | 89 | 55% | $6,990 | ||
2Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.31Q1 | 6.28 0.32 down from 2020 | 1,743 | 59% | $4,830 | ||
3Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid MechanicsOATaylor & Francis · Hong Kong SAR China | 2.20Q1 | 5.84 3.52 down from 2020 | 225 | 100% | $1,993 | ||
4Annual Review of Fluid MechanicsAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.80Q1 | 21.67 1.23 up from 2020 | 68 | 50% | — | ||
5Journal of Computational PhysicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.78Q1 | 4.27 0.35 up from 2020 | 2,086 | 72% | $3,980 | ||
6Computer-Aided DesignElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.76Q1 | 3.72 0.18 up from 2020 | 267 | 41% | $3,140 | ||
72018 AIAA Aerospace Sciences MeetingPublisher not listed | 1.70Q1 | —no 2020 value | 1,114 | — | — | ||
8AIAA JournalAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.67Q1 | 2.97 0.34 up from 2020 | 1,366 | 15% | — | ||
9Journal of Fluids and StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.67Q1 | 3.50 0.42 up from 2020 | 585 | 39% | $3,740 | ||
10Combustion and FlameElsevier BV · United States | 1.64Q1 | 4.95 0.55 down from 2020 | 1,407 | 50% | $4,320 | ||
11Proceedings of the Combustion InstituteElsevier BV · United States | 1.63Q1 | 2.71 2.89 down from 2020 | 1,360 | 91% | $3,570 | ||
12Journal of Numerical MathematicsDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.62Q1 | 3.86 2.02 down from 2020 | 47 | 73% | $2,712 | ||
13Powder TechnologyElsevier BV · Switzerland | 1.57Q1 | 5.18 0.34 up from 2020 | 3,138 | 19% | $4,610 | ||
14Journal of Fluid MechanicsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.56Q1 | 4.23 0.43 up from 2020 | 2,976 | 66% | $3,550 | ||
15Computers & FluidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.43Q1 | 2.62 0.41 down from 2020 | 936 | 44% | $3,700 | ||
16CALCOLOSpringer Science+Business Media · Italy | 1.42Q1 | 1.74 0.53 down from 2020 | 148 | 44% | $3,090 | ||
17Granular MatterSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.41Q1 | 3.42 0.59 up from 2020 | 292 | 33% | $2,590 | ||
18Experiments in FluidsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.41Q1 | 3.12 0.22 up from 2020 | 620 | 51% | $2,590 | ||
19International Journal of Heat and Fluid FlowElsevier BV · United States | 1.40Q1 | 2.66 0.49 down from 2020 | 480 | 33% | $3,420 | ||
20SIAM Journal on OptimizationSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 1.40Q1 | 2.47 0.10 down from 2020 | 380 | 45% | — | ||
21Advances in AerodynamicsOASpringer Nature · Singapore | 1.38Q1 | 2.35 0.03 down from 2020 | 48 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
22Flow Turbulence and CombustionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.36Q1 | 2.62 0.18 down from 2020 | 332 | 53% | $2,590 | ||
23Theoretical and Computational Fluid DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.31Q1 | 3.27 1.48 up from 2020 | 102 | 59% | $3,090 | ||
24Physics of FluidsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.30Q1 | 5.12 1.38 up from 2020 | 2,857 | 35% | — | ||
25Computational Particle MechanicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.30Q1 | 3.24 0.67 up from 2020 | 190 | 100% | $3,790 | ||
26Advanced Powder TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.29Q1 | 5.05 0.39 up from 2020 | 1,112 | 14% | $3,170 | ||
27International Journal of Multiphase FlowElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.26Q2 | 3.73 0.33 up from 2020 | 727 | 35% | $3,900 | ||
28Journal of TurbulenceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.26Q2 | 2.62 0.97 up from 2020 | 115 | 43% | — | ||
29Journal of HydrodynamicsElsevier BV · Singapore | 1.24Q2 | 4.34 1.68 up from 2020 | 346 | 5% | $3,290 | ||
30Experimental Thermal and Fluid ScienceElsevier BV · United States | 1.24Q2 | 3.17 0.07 down from 2020 | 907 | 26% | $3,720 | ||
31Computers & Mathematics with ApplicationsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.22Q2 | 3.19 0.02 down from 2020 | 1,286 | 100% | $3,170 | ||
32SIAM Journal on Numerical AnalysisSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 1.20Q2 | 2.45 0.60 down from 2020 | 401 | 48% | — | ||
33Journal of Computational Physics XElsevier BV · United States | 1.13Q2 | 2.89 0.42 up from 2020 | 56 | 100% | $1,690 | ||
34Physical Review FluidsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 1.13Q2 | 2.88 0.20 up from 2020 | 1,682 | 59% | — | ||
35SIAM Journal on Scientific ComputingSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 1.10Q2 | 2.52 0.07 up from 2020 | 763 | 54% | — | ||
36Journal of Computational and Applied MathematicsElsevier BV · Belgium | 1.04Q2 | 2.66 0.15 up from 2020 | 1,723 | 98% | $3,250 | ||
37Information and Inference A Journal of the IMAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.04Q2 | 2.50 0.89 up from 2020 | 97 | 75% | $3,718 | ||
38European Journal of Mechanics - B/FluidsElsevier BV · France | 1.00Q2 | 2.65 0.24 up from 2020 | 470 | 28% | $3,380 | ||
39Journal of Scientific ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.00Q2 | 2.59 0.16 down from 2020 | 707 | 32% | $3,290 | ||
40International Journal of Spray and Combustion DynamicsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.98Q2 | 1.63 0.80 down from 2020 | 33 | 60% | $4,150 | ||
41ParticuologyElsevier BV · China | 0.94Q2 | 2.85 0.29 up from 2020 | 331 | 25% | $3,090 | ||
42Computing and Visualization in ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.93Q2 | 1.07 1.93 down from 2020 | 44 | — | $2,780 | ||
43Numerical Methods for Partial Differential EquationsWiley · United States | 0.89Q2 | 4.05 2.25 up from 2020 | 475 | 14% | $3,750 | ||
44International Journal for Numerical Methods in FluidsWiley · United Kingdom | 0.88Q2 | 1.80 0.43 down from 2020 | 306 | 39% | $4,220 | ||
45Numerische MathematikSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.87Q2 | 1.92 0.21 up from 2020 | 217 | 66% | $3,190 | ||
46Mathematics of ComputationAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 0.87Q2 | 1.49 0.05 up from 2020 | 271 | 55% | — | ||
47Optimization methods & softwareTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.83Q2 | 1.60 0.12 up from 2020 | 218 | 41% | — | ||
48Combustion Theory and ModellingTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.83Q2 | 1.60 0.34 down from 2020 | 156 | 27% | — | ||
49IMA Journal of Numerical AnalysisOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.83Q2 | 1.50 0.23 down from 2020 | 268 | 58% | $3,718 | ||
49Advances in Computational MathematicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.83Q2 | 1.85 0.10 down from 2020 | 232 | 50% | $3,190 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Computational Mechanics 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.
17 additional Computational Mechanics 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
- 102
- Window papers (baseline)
- 77,791 +6.8% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.81 -19.1% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 11
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 | 60 | 65 | 69 | 74 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 80 | 83 | 83 | 83 | 90 | 95 | 97 | 97 | 99 | 105 | 103 | 103 | 102 | 103 | 102 | 94 | 96 | 95 | 98 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 36,165 | 38,765 | 40,500 | 43,030 | 44,729 | 47,165 | 50,494 | 53,211 | 56,063 | 58,071 | 59,829 | 62,248 | 65,214 | 67,674 | 70,379 | 72,114 | 73,090 | 72,766 | 72,858 | 73,849 | 76,122 | 77,791 | 78,271 | 75,603 | 72,795 | 73,468 | |
| Median OJR | 1.14 | 1.36 | 1.31 | 1.39 | 1.33 | 1.51 | 1.41 | 1.25 | 1.24 | 1.23 | 1.27 | 1.28 | 1.19 | 1.17 | 1.16 | 1.20 | 1.11 | 1.18 | 1.0036 | 1.0039 | 0.95 | 0.81 | 0.86 | 0.84 | 0.80 | 0.73 |
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.