Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Subfield ranking · 2021
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering journal rankings 2021
90 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering has 90 ranked journals in 2021. The median journal has an OJR of 0.95, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.05 on 2020; Q1 starts at OJR 1.66. The top three are Journal of Industrial Information Integration, Computers in Industry, and Journal of Manufacturing Systems.
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
90 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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1Journal of Industrial Information IntegrationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.69Q1 | 19.50 6.37 up from 2020 | 96 | 33% | $3,810 | ||
2Computers in IndustryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.50Q1 | 14.64 3.35 up from 2020 | 396 | 51% | $4,080 | ||
3Journal of Manufacturing SystemsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.33Q1 | 12.68 0.04 down from 2020 | 372 | 33% | $3,850 | ||
4Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation ReviewElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.81Q1 | 11.81 3.70 up from 2020 | 589 | 34% | $4,240 | ||
5International Journal of Production ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.56Q1 | 10.08 1.63 up from 2020 | 1,363 | 26% | — | ||
6Journal of Intelligent ManufacturingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.83Q1 | 8.81 0.07 up from 2020 | 306 | 33% | $3,290 | ||
7Robotics and Computer-Integrated ManufacturingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.65Q1 | 12.22 3.74 up from 2020 | 420 | 29% | $4,540 | ||
8Advanced Engineering InformaticsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.58Q1 | 9.59 2.24 up from 2020 | 387 | 24% | $3,560 | ||
9LogisticsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 3.54Q1 | 6.28 1.56 down from 2020 | 79 | 100% | $1,689 | ||
10Computers & Industrial EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.39Q1 | 8.00 1.49 up from 2020 | 1,847 | 20% | $3,790 | ||
11Journal of Industrial Integration and ManagementWorld Scientific · Singapore | 3.30Q1 | 11.06 6.03 up from 2020 | 72 | 3% | — | ||
12European Journal of Operational ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.71Q1 | 5.77 0.37 up from 2020 | 2,047 | 51% | $3,290 | ||
13Production & Manufacturing ResearchOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.62Q1 | 5.73 1.86 up from 2020 | 71 | 100% | $1,165 | ||
14The Asian Journal of Shipping and LogisticsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.51Q1 | 5.67 2.58 up from 2020 | 97 | 100% | $1,350 | ||
15Computers & Operations ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.26Q1 | 5.03 0.47 up from 2020 | 688 | 40% | $3,570 | ||
16International Journal of Computer Integrated ManufacturingTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.10Q1 | 5.91 1.41 up from 2020 | 225 | 22% | — | ||
17Quality Management JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.08Q1 | 3.45 1.96 up from 2020 | 57 | 14% | — | ||
18Transportation ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 1.94Q1 | 4.36 0.47 up from 2020 | 236 | 35% | — | ||
19Maritime Economics & LogisticsPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 1.85Q1 | 4.52 1.21 up from 2020 | 76 | 71% | $3,390 | ||
20Maritime Policy & ManagementTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.78Q1 | 3.88 0.43 up from 2020 | 217 | 27% | — | ||
21Journal of Rail Transport Planning & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.75Q1 | 3.94 1.83 up from 2020 | 68 | 25% | $3,070 | ||
22International Journal of Industrial Engineering ComputationsOAGrowing Science · Canada | 1.74Q1 | 3.72 0.74 up from 2020 | 89 | 100% | — | ||
23Journal of Industrial Engineering and ManagementOAOmniaScience · Spain | 1.66Q1 | 3.52 1.20 up from 2020 | 110 | 100% | $533 | ||
24International Journal of Management Science and Engineering ManagementTaylor & Francis | 1.62Q2 | 4.95 2.85 up from 2020 | 72 | 6% | — | ||
25International Transactions in Operational ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 1.50Q2 | 3.56 0.33 up from 2020 | 333 | 26% | $4,030 | ||
26IISE TransactionsTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.47Q2 | 3.17 0.26 up from 2020 | 294 | 45% | — | ||
27Advances in Production Engineering & ManagementUniversity of Maribor · Slovenia | 1.46Q2 | 4.16 0.71 up from 2020 | 113 | 97% | — | ||
28Journal of Shipping and TradeOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 1.46Q2 | 2.85 0.35 down from 2020 | 54 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
29IET Collaborative Intelligent ManufacturingOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United States | 1.41Q2 | 3.21 0.37 down from 2020 | 39 | 100% | $2,520 | ||
30IEEE Robotics & Automation MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.34Q2 | 2.53 0.02 down from 2020 | 316 | 84% | $2,045 | ||
31EURO Journal on Transportation and LogisticsOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.33Q2 | 2.88 0.69 up from 2020 | 46 | 100% | $1,400 | ||
32OR SpectrumSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.32Q2 | 2.86 1.09 up from 2020 | 103 | 65% | $3,290 | ||
33Maritime Business ReviewOAEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.29Q2 | 2.80 0.82 up from 2020 | 79 | 100% | — | ||
33NetworksWiley · United States | 1.29Q2 | 1.77 1.85 down from 2020 | 178 | 46% | $3,750 | ||
35ProductionOAAssociação Brasileira de Engenharia de Produção · Brazil | 1.28Q2 | 2.12 0.53 down from 2020 | 94 | 100% | — | ||
36Journal of Industrial and Production EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.27Q2 | 2.86 0.98 up from 2020 | 132 | 9% | — | ||
| 1.25Q2 | 3.65 0.12 up from 2020 | 181 | 100% | — | |||
38Flexible Services and Manufacturing JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.23Q2 | 2.56 0.17 up from 2020 | 90 | 35% | $2,590 | ||
39Applied System InnovationOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.17Q2 | 3.77 1.61 up from 2020 | 141 | 100% | $1,689 | ||
40Journal of SensorsHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.15Q2 | 3.42 0.59 up from 2020 | 665 | 100% | $2,830 | ||
41Journal of HeuristicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.11Q2 | 2.45 0.06 up from 2020 | 96 | 43% | $3,190 | ||
42Central European Journal of Operations ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.08Q2 | 2.83 0.85 up from 2020 | 183 | 59% | $2,990 | ||
43Journal of Computing and Information Science in EngineeringASM International · United States | 1.04Q2 | 2.89 0.54 up from 2020 | 227 | 9% | — | ||
44IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor ManufacturingIEEE Computer Society · United States | 0.97Q2 | 3.29 0.23 up from 2020 | 241 | 39% | $2,645 | ||
45Concurrent EngineeringSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.96Q2 | 2.72 1.33 up from 2020 | 65 | 19% | $4,150 | ||
46Journal of SchedulingSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 0.95Q3 | 1.96 0.55 up from 2020 | 116 | 46% | $2,990 | ||
47Serbian Journal of ManagementOAUniversity of Belgrade · Serbia | 0.94Q3 | 1.39 0.10 down from 2020 | 76 | 100% | — | ||
48TransportOAVilnius Gediminas Technical University · Lithuania | 0.84Q3 | 2.15 0.59 up from 2020 | 162 | 100% | $431 | ||
49International journal of production management and engineeringOATechnical University of Valencia · Spain | 0.84Q3 | 0.86 0.22 up from 2020 | 37 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.83Q3 | 1.92 0.43 up from 2020 | 75 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Industrial and Manufacturing 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.
16 additional Industrial and Manufacturing 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
- 90
- Window papers (baseline)
- 53,290 +29.3% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.95 -11.1% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
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 | 31 | 34 | 36 | 37 | 40 | 44 | 44 | 44 | 50 | 51 | 55 | 65 | 68 | 66 | 74 | 78 | 81 | 79 | 86 | 87 | 87 | 90 | 86 | 86 | 85 | 84 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 15,320 | 16,693 | 17,936 | 19,688 | 20,825 | 22,675 | 24,599 | 27,617 | 29,952 | 32,271 | 34,386 | 37,027 | 40,419 | 42,136 | 43,935 | 44,016 | 43,986 | 42,172 | 41,220 | 43,326 | 47,952 | 53,290 | 57,318 | 59,343 | 62,188 | 68,148 | |
| Median OJR | 1.04 | 0.960 | 1.31 | 1.52 | 1.54 | 1.51 | 1.72 | 1.56 | 1.34 | 1.48 | 1.25 | 1.36 | 1.275 | 1.279 | 1.167 | 1.09 | 0.961 | 1.172 | 1.07 | 1.02 | 1.002 | 0.95 | 0.97 | 0.9364 | 0.9356 | 0.89 |
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.