Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Subfield ranking · 2021
Electrical and Electronic Engineering journal rankings 2021
574 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Electrical and Electronic Engineering has 574 ranked journals in 2021. The median journal has an OJR of 0.63, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.03 on 2020; Q1 starts at OJR 1.24. The top three are IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, Materials Science and Engineering R Reports, and Nature Energy.
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
574 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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1IEEE Communications Surveys & TutorialsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 14.50Q1 | 45.63 9.88 up from 2020 | 317 | 60% | $2,645 | ||
2Materials Science and Engineering R ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 9.06Q1 | 30.11 4.51 down from 2020 | 59 | 49% | $6,150 | ||
3Nature EnergyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 8.48Q1 | 35.27 4.23 up from 2020 | 609 | 34% | $12,690 | ||
4Energy & Environmental ScienceRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 7.69Q1 | 34.30 3.38 down from 2020 | 965 | 33% | — | ||
5EnergyChemElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.43Q1 | 37.47 9.83 down from 2020 | 45 | 12% | $3,550 | ||
6JouleElsevier BV · United States | 6.94Q1 | 28.97 0.37 up from 2020 | 770 | 100% | $9,350 | ||
7Electrochemical Energy ReviewsSpringer Science+Business Media · Singapore | 6.57Q1 | 30.19 0.31 up from 2020 | 72 | 12% | $3,390 | ||
8Advanced MaterialsGermany | 5.87Q1 | 25.64 0.11 up from 2020 | 5,218 | 35% | $6,070 | ||
9Applied Physics ReviewsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 5.76Q1 | 19.48 1.52 down from 2020 | 213 | 52% | — | ||
10InfoMatOAWiley · China | 5.42Q1 | 23.62 1.64 up from 2020 | 129 | 100% | $3,000 | ||
11Advanced Energy MaterialsWiley · Germany | 4.93Q1 | 23.12 0.43 up from 2020 | 2,546 | 35% | $5,790 | ||
12Nano-Micro LettersOASpringer Science+Business Media · Hong Kong SAR China | 4.93Q1 | 24.43 6.11 up from 2020 | 349 | 100% | $1,690 | ||
13Proceedings of the IEEEInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.84Q1 | 14.98 3.85 up from 2020 | 532 | 74% | $2,645 | ||
14ACS Energy LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 4.72Q1 | 22.34 0.31 up from 2020 | 1,149 | 33% | $4,500 | ||
15Renewable and Sustainable Energy ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.64Q1 | 17.04 0.25 up from 2020 | 2,265 | 36% | $5,220 | ||
16Energy ProcediaOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.58Q1 | 3.04 0.70 up from 2020 | 2,465 | — | — | ||
17Nature ElectronicsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 4.52Q1 | 15.80 3.23 up from 2020 | 484 | 33% | $12,690 | ||
18IEEE Wireless CommunicationsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.45Q1 | 11.73 0.20 up from 2020 | 524 | 49% | $2,995 | ||
19IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in CommunicationsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.42Q1 | 14.33 3.84 up from 2020 | 780 | 50% | $2,645 | ||
20Energy storage materialsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.27Q1 | 19.33 2.92 up from 2020 | 1,174 | 21% | $5,400 | ||
212019 IEEE 2nd 5G World Forum (5GWF)Publisher not listed | 4.25Q1 | 2.70 0.84 up from 2020 | 128 | — | — | ||
22Energy and AIOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.01Q1 | 14.56no 2020 value | 39 | 100% | $3,630 | — | |
| 3.88Q1 | 2.38no 2020 value | 119 | — | — | — | ||
24Advanced Functional MaterialsWiley · Germany | 3.80Q1 | 16.76 1.60 up from 2020 | 5,723 | 28% | $5,790 | ||
25IEEE Internet of Things JournalInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.76Q1 | 10.92 1.43 down from 2020 | 2,981 | 23% | $2,645 | ||
26IEEE Communications MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.65Q1 | 6.39 2.57 down from 2020 | 1,118 | 71% | $2,995 | ||
27Small StructuresOAWiley · Germany | 3.40Q1 | 14.48no 2020 value | 86 | 27% | $4,110 | — | |
28Advanced ScienceOAWiley · Germany | 3.39Q1 | 14.45 0.85 up from 2020 | 1,937 | 100% | $6,730 | ||
29IEEE Vehicular Technology MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.37Q1 | 9.31 0.48 up from 2020 | 271 | 74% | $2,645 | ||
30Materials HorizonsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 3.18Q1 | 13.21 1.00 up from 2020 | 686 | 31% | — | ||
31MatterElsevier BV · United States | 3.16Q1 | 12.72 1.47 up from 2020 | 515 | 99% | $9,350 | ||
32Nature Reviews MaterialsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 3.15Q1 | 46.23 9.83 up from 2020 | 280 | 46% | — | ||
33Carbon EnergyOAWiley · China | 3.10Q1 | 16.39 10.74 down from 2020 | 74 | 100% | $3,200 | ||
34IEEE Transactions on Smart GridInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.10Q1 | 9.90 0.48 down from 2020 | 1,192 | 36% | $2,645 | ||
35Applied EnergyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.02Q1 | 11.96 0.88 up from 2020 | 5,255 | 42% | $4,430 | ||
36Protection and Control of Modern Power SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Singapore | 2.90Q1 | 13.18 1.44 up from 2020 | 101 | 100% | — | ||
37National Science ReviewOAOxford University Press · China | 2.87Q1 | 12.19 4.90 up from 2020 | 672 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
38Chemical Engineering JournalElsevier BV · Switzerland | 2.85Q1 | 14.34 1.76 up from 2020 | 9,573 | 12% | $4,830 | ||
39ICT ExpressOAElsevier BV · China | 2.83Q1 | 7.19 0.28 down from 2020 | 178 | 100% | $1,500 | ||
40EcoMatOAWiley · China | 2.76Q1 | 11.96 2.46 up from 2020 | 57 | 100% | $3,000 | ||
41Materials TodayElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.65Q1 | 9.44 0.27 up from 2020 | 743 | 25% | $6,070 | ||
42Energy & environment materialsWiley · United States | 2.62Q1 | 12.68 3.32 down from 2020 | 150 | 67% | $3,000 | ||
43Vehicular CommunicationsElsevier BV · United States | 2.61Q1 | 9.73 1.11 up from 2020 | 141 | 27% | $2,890 | ||
44SmallWiley · Germany | 2.55Q1 | 11.85 0.94 up from 2020 | 3,874 | 28% | $5,790 | ||
45Small MethodsWiley · Germany | 2.55Q1 | 11.13 0.14 down from 2020 | 709 | 31% | $4,640 | ||
46Journal of Materials Chemistry ARoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 2.54Q1 | 12.86 0.49 up from 2020 | 7,963 | 19% | — | ||
47Advanced PhotonicsOAUnited States | 2.52Q1 | 8.91no change | 99 | 100% | — | ||
482020 IEEE 3rd 5G World Forum (5GWF)Publisher not listed | 2.52Q1 | 1.50no 2020 value | 115 | — | — | — | |
49ACS Materials LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.43Q1 | 10.90 1.79 up from 2020 | 297 | 17% | $4,500 | ||
50Sustainable Computing Informatics and SystemsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.41Q1 | 5.54 0.49 up from 2020 | 230 | 12% | $3,290 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Electrical and Electronic 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.
150 additional Electrical and Electronic 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
- 574
- Window papers (baseline)
- 378,133 +13.6% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.634 +5.8% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 53
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 | 192 | 202 | 215 | 232 | 235 | 258 | 270 | 291 | 313 | 339 | 352 | 367 | 395 | 427 | 445 | 471 | 498 | 506 | 518 | 542 | 563 | 574 | 591 | 598 | 604 | 595 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 105,443 | 112,328 | 121,252 | 132,099 | 146,142 | 162,633 | 182,642 | 203,828 | 223,437 | 239,449 | 250,153 | 261,986 | 277,806 | 294,888 | 313,067 | 327,655 | 334,807 | 334,124 | 332,970 | 342,087 | 360,164 | 378,133 | 393,452 | 397,855 | 403,017 | 417,406 | |
| Median OJR | 0.56 | 0.52 | 0.73 | 0.774 | 0.75 | 0.74 | 0.710 | 0.669 | 0.707 | 0.76 | 0.768 | 0.70 | 0.672 | 0.655 | 0.668 | 0.626 | 0.6043 | 0.580 | 0.599 | 0.581 | 0.6037 | 0.634 | 0.647 | 0.652 | 0.64 | 0.649 |
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.