Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Field ranking · 2021
Engineering journal rankings 2021
2,428 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Engineering has 2,428 ranked journals in 2021. The median journal has an OJR of 0.70, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.03 on 2020; Q1 starts at OJR 1.24. The top three are Satellite Navigation, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, and Progress in Energy and Combustion 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 in Engineering (16)
Up to Physical Sciences- 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
2,428 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 | — | |
2IEEE Communications Surveys & TutorialsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 14.50Q1 | 45.63 9.88 up from 2020 | 317 | 60% | $2,645 | ||
3Progress in Energy and Combustion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 10.23Q1 | 35.32 0.13 up from 2020 | 89 | 55% | $6,990 | ||
4Materials Science and Engineering R ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 9.06Q1 | 30.11 4.51 down from 2020 | 59 | 49% | $6,150 | ||
5Nature EnergyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 8.48Q1 | 35.27 4.23 up from 2020 | 609 | 34% | $12,690 | ||
6Science RoboticsAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science · United States | 8.30Q1 | 23.54 1.19 up from 2020 | 246 | 20% | — | ||
7Energy & Environmental ScienceRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 7.69Q1 | 34.30 3.38 down from 2020 | 965 | 33% | — | ||
8EnergyChemElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.43Q1 | 37.47 9.83 down from 2020 | 45 | 12% | $3,550 | ||
9Progress in Aerospace SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.34Q1 | 10.08 1.74 down from 2020 | 113 | 44% | $5,860 | ||
10JouleElsevier BV · United States | 6.94Q1 | 28.97 0.37 up from 2020 | 770 | 100% | $9,350 | ||
11Journal of Industrial Information IntegrationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.69Q1 | 19.50 6.37 up from 2020 | 96 | 33% | $3,810 | ||
12Electrochemical Energy ReviewsSpringer Science+Business Media · Singapore | 6.57Q1 | 30.19 0.31 up from 2020 | 72 | 12% | $3,390 | ||
13Advanced MaterialsGermany | 5.87Q1 | 25.64 0.11 up from 2020 | 5,218 | 35% | $6,070 | ||
14Applied Physics ReviewsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 5.76Q1 | 19.48 1.52 down from 2020 | 213 | 52% | — | ||
15Computers in IndustryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.50Q1 | 14.64 3.35 up from 2020 | 396 | 51% | $4,080 | ||
16Procedia EngineeringOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.45Q1 | —no 2020 value | 397 | — | — | ||
17InfoMatOAWiley · China | 5.42Q1 | 23.62 1.64 up from 2020 | 129 | 100% | $3,000 | ||
18Journal of Manufacturing SystemsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.33Q1 | 12.68 0.04 down from 2020 | 372 | 33% | $3,850 | ||
19Analytic Methods in Accident ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.08Q1 | 14.37 1.97 up from 2020 | 69 | 39% | $5,310 | ||
20Advanced Energy MaterialsWiley · Germany | 4.93Q1 | 23.12 0.43 up from 2020 | 2,546 | 35% | $5,790 | ||
21Nano-Micro LettersOASpringer Science+Business Media · Hong Kong SAR China | 4.93Q1 | 24.43 6.11 up from 2020 | 349 | 100% | $1,690 | ||
22Wind energy scienceOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 4.85Q1 | 6.97 1.06 up from 2020 | 209 | 100% | $1,132 | ||
23Proceedings of the IEEEInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.84Q1 | 14.98 3.85 up from 2020 | 532 | 74% | $2,645 | ||
24Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation ReviewElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.81Q1 | 11.81 3.70 up from 2020 | 589 | 34% | $4,240 | ||
25Biomaterials ResearchOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 4.73Q1 | 19.29 6.12 up from 2020 | 88 | 100% | $2,700 | ||
26ACS Energy LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 4.72Q1 | 22.34 0.31 up from 2020 | 1,149 | 33% | $4,500 | ||
27Renewable and Sustainable Energy ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.64Q1 | 17.04 0.25 up from 2020 | 2,265 | 36% | $5,220 | ||
28Energy ProcediaOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.58Q1 | 3.04 0.70 up from 2020 | 2,465 | — | — | ||
29International Journal of Production ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.56Q1 | 10.08 1.63 up from 2020 | 1,363 | 26% | — | ||
30Cement and Concrete ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.54Q1 | 10.84 1.40 down from 2020 | 730 | 56% | $5,180 | ||
31Nature ElectronicsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 4.52Q1 | 15.80 3.23 up from 2020 | 484 | 33% | $12,690 | ||
32IEEE Wireless CommunicationsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.45Q1 | 11.73 0.20 up from 2020 | 524 | 49% | $2,995 | ||
33GPS SolutionsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 4.45Q1 | 4.94 0.02 up from 2020 | 363 | 29% | $2,790 | ||
34IEEE 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 | ||
35Automation in ConstructionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.35Q1 | 11.56 1.54 up from 2020 | 1,004 | 33% | $5,490 | ||
36Energy storage materialsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.27Q1 | 19.33 2.92 up from 2020 | 1,174 | 21% | $5,400 | ||
372019 IEEE 2nd 5G World Forum (5GWF)Publisher not listed | 4.25Q1 | 2.70 0.84 up from 2020 | 128 | — | — | ||
38Transportation Research Part C Emerging TechnologiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.16Q1 | 10.45 0.36 up from 2020 | 883 | 46% | $4,040 | ||
39Journal of Field RoboticsWiley · United States | 4.15Q1 | 8.52 2.18 up from 2020 | 191 | 19% | $3,590 | ||
40International Materials ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.13Q1 | 12.44 3.58 down from 2020 | 55 | 52% | $4,400 | ||
41Energy and AIOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.01Q1 | 14.56no 2020 value | 39 | 100% | $3,630 | — | |
42eTransportationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.99Q1 | 15.45 3.79 down from 2020 | 73 | 24% | $3,580 | ||
43BuR - Business ResearchOASpringer Nature · Germany | 3.97Q1 | 6.11 2.75 up from 2020 | 95 | — | $1,535 | ||
44IEEE Transactions on Industrial InformaticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.93Q1 | 11.97 0.17 up from 2020 | 2,418 | 24% | $2,645 | ||
| 3.88Q1 | 2.38no 2020 value | 119 | — | — | — | ||
46Annual Reviews in ControlElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.85Q1 | 13.47 3.07 up from 2020 | 160 | 71% | $3,940 | ||
47Journal of Intelligent ManufacturingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.83Q1 | 8.81 0.07 up from 2020 | 306 | 33% | $3,290 | ||
48Advanced Functional MaterialsWiley · Germany | 3.80Q1 | 16.76 1.60 up from 2020 | 5,723 | 28% | $5,790 | ||
49DronesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 3.78Q1 | 8.42 2.27 up from 2020 | 204 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
50Information Technology for DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.77Q1 | 5.77 1.86 up from 2020 | 96 | 29% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, compared.
- 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.
677 additional 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
- 2,428
- Window papers (baseline)
- 2,563,396 -18.7% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.70 +4.8% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 211Comparison-group list (211)
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 | 945 | 1,010 | 1,072 | 1,119 | 1,159 | 1,217 | 1,256 | 1,342 | 1,445 | 1,529 | 1,578 | 1,672 | 1,774 | 1,899 | 2,001 | 2,106 | 2,188 | 2,239 | 2,290 | 2,358 | 2,389 | 2,428 | 2,444 | 2,437 | 2,442 | 2,405 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 1,301,932 | 1,430,070 | 1,586,509 | 1,745,451 | 1,896,138 | 2,058,422 | 2,234,640 | 2,416,744 | 2,583,093 | 2,754,522 | 2,914,777 | 3,076,735 | 3,239,027 | 3,369,091 | 3,484,492 | 3,569,888 | 3,612,080 | 3,500,235 | 3,153,056 | 2,758,725 | 2,539,069 | 2,563,396 | 2,580,513 | 2,422,273 | 2,259,750 | 2,274,258 | |
| Median OJR | 0.63 | 0.65 | 0.694 | 0.758 | 0.75 | 0.7777 | 0.7782 | 0.77 | 0.7930 | 0.80 | 0.820 | 0.822 | 0.7933 | 0.765 | 0.756 | 0.72 | 0.73 | 0.692 | 0.670 | 0.6705 | 0.68 | 0.70 | 0.689 | 0.688 | 0.669 | 0.6714 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 4.9% | 1,952 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 1.935 per 1,000 | 1,719 journals |
| Output growth | Median: +3.7% | 2,142 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 53.0% | 2,405 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $2,890 | 1,349 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 22.2% | 2,312 journals |
| Review share | Median: 0.0% | 2,405 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.67 | 2,362 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 29.8% | 2,405 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 43.9% | 2,402 journals |
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.