Journal rankings · indicator year 2022
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Subfield ranking · 2022
Computational Mechanics journal rankings 2022
94 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Computational Mechanics has 94 ranked journals in 2022. The median OJR rose 0.05 on 2021 to 0.86, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.23. 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: 2022. 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 2019–2021, the window the 2022 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 Engineering591
- Mechanical Engineering376
- Biomedical Engineering334
- Civil and Structural Engineering276
- Aerospace Engineering178
- Control and Systems Engineering124
- Mechanics of Materials122
- Computational Mechanics94
- Building and Construction93
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering86
- Ocean Engineering74
- Automotive Engineering43
94 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 2021. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2019–2021, the window the 2022 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2019–2021 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 2013 to 2022. | Compare |
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1Progress in Energy and Combustion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 9.67Q1 | 33.20 2.12 down from 2021 | 92 | 55% | $6,990 | ||
2Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.53Q1 | 7.22 0.94 up from 2021 | 1,826 | 52% | $4,830 | ||
3Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid MechanicsOATaylor & Francis · Hong Kong SAR China | 2.00Q1 | 5.50 0.34 down from 2021 | 292 | 100% | $1,993 | ||
4Annual Review of Fluid MechanicsAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.97Q1 | 17.50 4.17 down from 2021 | 64 | 89% | — | ||
5Combustion and FlameElsevier BV · United States | 1.96Q1 | 5.44 0.49 up from 2021 | 1,553 | 48% | $4,320 | ||
6Journal of Fluids and StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 3.64 0.13 up from 2021 | 574 | 41% | $3,740 | ||
7Advances in AerodynamicsOASpringer Nature · Singapore | 1.70Q1 | 2.69 0.34 up from 2021 | 83 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
8Journal of Computational PhysicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.62Q1 | 3.95 0.32 down from 2021 | 2,087 | 69% | $3,980 | ||
9AIAA JournalAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.61Q1 | 2.78 0.20 down from 2021 | 1,452 | 18% | — | ||
10Powder TechnologyElsevier BV · Switzerland | 1.54Q1 | 5.13 0.05 down from 2021 | 3,116 | 19% | $4,610 | ||
11Computer-Aided DesignElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.50Q1 | 2.98 0.73 down from 2021 | 279 | 37% | $3,140 | ||
12Flow Turbulence and CombustionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.43Q1 | 2.60 0.02 down from 2021 | 293 | 67% | $2,590 | ||
13Journal of Numerical MathematicsDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.42Q1 | 3.03 0.83 down from 2021 | 45 | 50% | $2,712 | ||
14Proceedings of the Combustion InstituteElsevier BV · United States | 1.40Q1 | 4.70 2.00 up from 2021 | 733 | 55% | $3,570 | ||
15Journal of Fluid MechanicsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.39Q1 | 3.66 0.57 down from 2021 | 3,355 | 72% | $3,550 | ||
16Computational Particle MechanicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.37Q1 | 3.27 0.03 up from 2021 | 221 | 100% | $3,790 | ||
17Computers & FluidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.36Q1 | 2.76 0.14 up from 2021 | 771 | 40% | $3,700 | ||
18Advanced Powder TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.32Q1 | 5.19 0.14 up from 2021 | 1,224 | 15% | $3,170 | ||
19International Journal of Multiphase FlowElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.28Q1 | 3.63 0.10 down from 2021 | 737 | 33% | $3,900 | ||
20Applications in Energy and Combustion ScienceOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.28Q1 | 4.15 1.34 up from 2021 | 54 | 100% | $1,910 | ||
21Theoretical and Computational Fluid DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.28Q1 | 3.42 0.15 up from 2021 | 111 | 25% | $3,090 | ||
22International Journal of Heat and Fluid FlowElsevier BV · United States | 1.27Q1 | 2.59 0.06 down from 2021 | 431 | 35% | $3,420 | ||
23Physics of FluidsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.27Q1 | 4.78 0.34 down from 2021 | 4,184 | 30% | — | ||
24Experimental Thermal and Fluid ScienceElsevier BV · United States | 1.23Q1 | 3.25 0.08 up from 2021 | 693 | 28% | $3,720 | ||
25Journal of HydrodynamicsElsevier BV · Singapore | 1.22Q2 | 2.95 1.39 down from 2021 | 284 | 6% | $3,290 | ||
26Experiments in FluidsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.18Q2 | 2.64 0.48 down from 2021 | 701 | 44% | $2,590 | ||
27Journal of TurbulenceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.18Q2 | 2.28 0.34 down from 2021 | 103 | 11% | — | ||
28SIAM Journal on OptimizationSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 1.16Q2 | 2.64 0.17 up from 2021 | 369 | 29% | — | ||
29Acta Mechanica SinicaSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 1.14Q2 | 4.17 1.36 up from 2021 | 323 | 5% | $4,190 | ||
30ParticuologyElsevier BV · China | 1.13Q2 | 3.78 0.93 up from 2021 | 389 | 21% | $3,090 | ||
31SIAM Journal on Scientific ComputingSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 1.13Q2 | 2.75 0.22 up from 2021 | 760 | 43% | — | ||
32SIAM Journal on Numerical AnalysisSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 1.11Q2 | 2.24 0.21 down from 2021 | 372 | 31% | — | ||
33Granular MatterSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.11Q2 | 2.31 1.11 down from 2021 | 331 | 35% | $2,590 | ||
34European Journal of Mechanics - B/FluidsElsevier BV · France | 1.05Q2 | 2.91 0.27 up from 2021 | 444 | 30% | $3,380 | ||
35Communications in Computational PhysicsCambridge University Press · Hong Kong SAR China | 1.05Q2 | 2.95 0.86 up from 2021 | 349 | 46% | — | ||
36Theoretical and Applied Mechanics LettersOAElsevier BV · China | 1.04Q2 | 3.62 1.24 up from 2021 | 186 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
37Computers & Mathematics with ApplicationsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.03Q2 | 2.82 0.37 down from 2021 | 1,010 | 69% | $3,170 | ||
38Physical Review FluidsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 1.00Q2 | 2.73 0.14 down from 2021 | 1,749 | 40% | — | ||
39Journal of Computational and Applied MathematicsElsevier BV · Belgium | 0.99Q2 | 2.34 0.32 down from 2021 | 1,594 | 45% | $3,250 | ||
40Numerical Methods for Partial Differential EquationsWiley · United States | 0.98Q2 | 3.91 0.14 down from 2021 | 478 | 18% | $3,750 | ||
41Journal of Computational Physics XElsevier BV · United States | 0.94Q2 | 1.75 1.14 down from 2021 | 64 | 100% | $1,690 | ||
42GAMM-MitteilungenWiley · Germany | 0.93Q2 | 2.85 0.49 up from 2021 | 61 | 65% | $3,140 | ||
43Optimization methods & softwareTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.91Q2 | 1.85 0.25 up from 2021 | 173 | 26% | — | ||
44Applied Numerical MathematicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.89Q2 | 2.88no change | 788 | 24% | $2,000 | ||
45Graphical ModelsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.88Q2 | 2.16 0.71 up from 2021 | 83 | 13% | $2,180 | ||
46Mathematics of ComputationAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 0.88Q2 | 1.45 0.04 down from 2021 | 303 | 41% | — | ||
47Journal of Scientific ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.87Q2 | 2.12 0.47 down from 2021 | 806 | 32% | $3,290 | ||
48International Journal for Numerical Methods in FluidsWiley · United Kingdom | 0.86Q3 | 1.84 0.05 up from 2021 | 325 | 40% | $4,220 | ||
49KONA Powder and Particle JournalOAJapan | 0.85Q3 | 1.68 0.74 down from 2021 | 66 | 100% | — | ||
50IMA Journal of Numerical AnalysisOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.85Q3 | 1.80 0.30 up from 2021 | 291 | 45% | $3,718 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Computational Mechanics highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering591
- Mechanical Engineering376
- Biomedical Engineering334
- Civil and Structural Engineering276
- Aerospace Engineering178
- Control and Systems Engineering124
- Mechanics of Materials122
- Computational Mechanics94
- Building and Construction93
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering86
- Ocean Engineering74
- Automotive Engineering43
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality27
- Media Technology24
- Architecture2
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2022. Corpus-wide, 89.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
21 additional Computational Mechanics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2019–2021, 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: 2022. Publication window: 2019–2021. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 94
- Window papers (baseline)
- 78,271 +6.0% from indicator year 2019
- Median OJR
- 0.86 -14.1% from indicator year 2019
- Rising journals (2025)
- 11
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2019–2021 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.