Journal rankings · indicator year 2022
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Subfield ranking · 2022
Mechanical Engineering journal rankings 2022
376 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Mechanical Engineering has 376 ranked journals in 2022. The median journal has an OJR of 0.51, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2021; Q1 starts at OJR 0.96. The top three are International Materials Reviews, International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture, and Composites Part B Engineering.
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
376 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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1International Materials ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.67Q1 | 17.12 4.68 up from 2021 | 56 | 54% | $4,400 | ||
2International Journal of Machine Tools and ManufactureElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.82Q1 | 15.27 4.97 up from 2021 | 205 | 25% | $5,610 | ||
3Composites Part B EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.17Q1 | 13.32 1.86 up from 2021 | 2,611 | 21% | $5,210 | ||
4Virtual and Physical PrototypingOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.16Q1 | 11.65 0.58 down from 2021 | 102 | 67% | $2,070 | ||
5Critical reviews in solid state and materials sciences/CRC critical reviews in solid state and materials sciencesTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.93Q1 | 10.44 1.18 down from 2021 | 65 | 7% | — | ||
6Additive manufacturingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.93Q1 | 10.18 0.31 down from 2021 | 1,753 | 43% | $4,430 | ||
7Energy Conversion and ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.59Q1 | 11.16 0.47 down from 2021 | 3,586 | 25% | $4,600 | ||
8Railway Engineering ScienceOASpringer Science+Business Media | 2.52Q1 | 7.26 0.30 down from 2021 | 58 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
9Materials & DesignOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.46Q1 | 8.60 0.17 up from 2021 | 2,679 | 100% | $3,650 | ||
10Journal of Material Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · China | 2.39Q1 | 10.55 2.12 up from 2021 | 2,178 | 10% | $3,000 | ||
11Materials Research LettersOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.28Q1 | 8.75 0.70 up from 2021 | 182 | 100% | $1,459 | ||
12Sustainable materials and technologiesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.20Q1 | 8.87 1.48 down from 2021 | 284 | 32% | $4,150 | ||
13Facta Universitatis Series Mechanical EngineeringOAUniversity of Niš · Serbia | 2.16Q1 | 7.45 2.82 up from 2021 | 130 | 100% | — | ||
14Design StudiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.11Q1 | 5.25 1.21 down from 2021 | 105 | 52% | $4,570 | ||
15Journal of Materials Processing TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.06Q1 | 6.71 1.04 up from 2021 | 1,176 | 22% | $3,980 | ||
16International Journal of PlasticityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.01Q1 | 9.21 0.96 up from 2021 | 513 | 37% | $3,740 | ||
17FrictionOASpringer Nature · China | 1.99Q1 | 7.22 1.91 up from 2021 | 296 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
18International Journal of Mechanical SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.96Q1 | 7.56 1.49 up from 2021 | 1,861 | 16% | $4,740 | ||
19She jiOAElsevier BV · China | 1.95Q1 | 5.05 1.13 up from 2021 | 98 | 100% | $1,500 | ||
20Journal of Manufacturing ProcessesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.92Q1 | 6.77 0.87 up from 2021 | 2,048 | 20% | $3,520 | ||
212019 Advances in Science and Engineering Technology International Conferences (ASET)Publisher not listed | 1.90Q1 | —no 2021 value | 230 | — | — | ||
22International Communications in Heat and Mass TransferElsevier BV · United States | 1.90Q1 | 7.25 0.66 up from 2021 | 1,456 | 7% | $3,560 | ||
23Case Studies in Thermal EngineeringOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.87Q1 | 7.46 0.44 up from 2021 | 1,366 | 100% | $1,620 | ||
24Tribology InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 6.27 1.14 up from 2021 | 1,645 | 20% | $5,390 | ||
25CIRP AnnalsElsevier BV | 1.81Q1 | 5.17 0.94 down from 2021 | 431 | 51% | $3,190 | ||
26Journal of Materials Research and TechnologyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.79Q1 | 6.72 0.07 down from 2021 | 3,614 | 100% | $1,640 | ||
27Cleaner Engineering and TechnologyOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.76Q1 | 6.29 1.27 up from 2021 | 375 | 100% | $2,220 | ||
28Materials Science and Engineering AElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.72Q1 | 6.44 0.76 up from 2021 | 4,461 | 18% | $3,430 | ||
29CIRP journal of manufacturing science and technologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.71Q1 | 5.91 1.05 up from 2021 | 333 | 21% | $2,950 | ||
30International Journal of Technology and Design EducationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.71Q1 | 3.29 0.48 up from 2021 | 218 | 57% | $3,390 | ||
31Applied Thermal EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.71Q1 | 6.64 0.45 up from 2021 | 4,300 | 18% | $3,660 | ||
32Advances in ManufacturingSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 1.62Q1 | 5.72 1.25 up from 2021 | 124 | 16% | $3,990 | ||
33International Journal of Heat and Mass TransferElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.62Q1 | 5.25 0.09 up from 2021 | 4,497 | 25% | $4,220 | ||
34Energy Conversion and Management XOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.60Q1 | 7.63 0.52 down from 2021 | 149 | 100% | $3,170 | ||
35Journal of CO2 UtilizationOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.59Q1 | 7.95 0.32 down from 2021 | 934 | 40% | $3,360 | ||
36WearElsevier BV · Switzerland | 1.58Q1 | 5.15 0.43 up from 2021 | 1,412 | 23% | $5,394 | ||
37Research in Engineering DesignSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.56Q1 | 3.86 0.24 down from 2021 | 73 | 69% | $4,090 | ||
38Advances in Industrial and Manufacturing EngineeringOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.55Q1 | 4.43 1.43 up from 2021 | 42 | 100% | $2,300 | ||
39Scripta MaterialiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.53Q1 | 5.82 0.43 up from 2021 | 1,777 | 34% | $3,220 | ||
40Surface and Coatings TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.51Q1 | 5.34 0.57 up from 2021 | 3,311 | 19% | $3,880 | ||
41International Journal of Thermal SciencesElsevier BV · France | 1.49Q1 | 4.90 0.54 up from 2021 | 1,395 | 13% | $3,920 | ||
42SPE Eastern Regional MeetingPublisher not listed | 1.47Q1 | 0.50 0.32 down from 2021 | 48 | 0% | — | ||
43International Journal of Rail TransportationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.46Q1 | 4.15 1.21 up from 2021 | 90 | 18% | — | ||
44Manufacturing LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.46Q1 | 4.28 0.94 down from 2021 | 215 | 79% | $2,000 | ||
45Frontiers of Mechanical EngineeringHigher Education Press · China | 1.45Q1 | 5.02 2.29 up from 2021 | 128 | 23% | $3,090 | ||
46Multifunctional MaterialsIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.42Q1 | 6.93 0.98 up from 2021 | 58 | 89% | — | ||
47Extreme Mechanics LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.40Q1 | 4.96 0.35 up from 2021 | 570 | 50% | $3,940 | ||
48Archives of Civil and Mechanical EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Poland | 1.38Q1 | 4.39 0.09 down from 2021 | 434 | 22% | $3,290 | ||
49Chinese Journal of Mechanical EngineeringOAChina Machine Press · China | 1.37Q1 | 4.52 0.51 up from 2021 | 343 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
50Design ScienceOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.36Q1 | 3.21 0.58 down from 2021 | 91 | 100% | $3,550 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Mechanical Engineering 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.
87 additional Mechanical Engineering 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
- 376
- Window papers (baseline)
- 231,232 +17.7% from indicator year 2019
- Median OJR
- 0.5093 +1.8% from indicator year 2019
- Rising journals (2025)
- 37
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 | 153 | 165 | 174 | 181 | 189 | 197 | 200 | 216 | 239 | 248 | 253 | 259 | 279 | 297 | 318 | 336 | 349 | 360 | 367 | 371 | 379 | 380 | 376 | 376 | 372 | 366 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 62,334 | 69,348 | 76,751 | 85,480 | 91,814 | 99,066 | 105,079 | 114,255 | 121,976 | 131,580 | 138,936 | 149,595 | 164,074 | 174,982 | 184,498 | 189,752 | 192,405 | 190,265 | 188,986 | 196,408 | 208,840 | 221,656 | 231,232 | 237,955 | 243,502 | 258,806 | |
| Median OJR | 0.511 | 0.539 | 0.531 | 0.553 | 0.47 | 0.501 | 0.51157 | 0.5481 | 0.5022 | 0.5090 | 0.565 | 0.58 | 0.551 | 0.59 | 0.561 | 0.5478 | 0.57 | 0.545 | 0.51162 | 0.500 | 0.5023 | 0.492 | 0.5093 | 0.496 | 0.528 | 0.489 |
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.