Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
Aerospace Engineering journal rankings 2023
163 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Aerospace Engineering has 163 ranked journals in 2023. The median journal has an OJR of 0.72, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2022; Q1 starts at OJR 1.24. The top three are Satellite Navigation, Progress in Aerospace Sciences, and IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2023. 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 2020–2022, the window the 2023 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 Engineering598
- Mechanical Engineering376
- Biomedical Engineering341
- Civil and Structural Engineering270
- Aerospace Engineering163
- Control and Systems Engineering128
- Mechanics of Materials121
- Computational Mechanics96
- Building and Construction92
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering86
- Ocean Engineering74
- Automotive Engineering44
163 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 2022. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2020–2022, the window the 2023 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2020–2022 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 2014 to 2023. | Compare |
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1Satellite NavigationOASpringer Nature · Singapore | 10.19Q1 | 11.00 1.45 down from 2022 | 87 | 100% | $1,670 | ||
2Progress in Aerospace SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.50Q1 | 15.08 3.78 up from 2022 | 93 | 42% | $5,860 | ||
3IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.11Q1 | 9.77 1.62 up from 2022 | 210 | 67% | $2,995 | ||
4BuR - Business ResearchOASpringer Nature · Germany | 3.88Q1 | —no 2022 value | 32 | — | $1,535 | ||
5GPS SolutionsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.29Q1 | 5.05 0.02 up from 2022 | 431 | 25% | $2,790 | ||
| 2.95Q1 | 1.57 1.05 up from 2022 | 250 | 6% | — | |||
7Wind EnergyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.92Q1 | 5.46 0.04 up from 2022 | 308 | 100% | $3,730 | ||
8Journal of Field RoboticsWiley · United States | 2.81Q1 | 5.56 1.46 down from 2022 | 182 | 56% | $3,590 | ||
9Journal of GeodesySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.73Q1 | 3.82 0.89 down from 2022 | 347 | 46% | $3,590 | ||
10DronesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.59Q1 | 6.37 0.40 down from 2022 | 684 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
11Aerospace Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · France | 2.55Q1 | 5.65 0.17 down from 2022 | 2,113 | 18% | $4,360 | ||
12Wind energy scienceOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.52Q1 | 4.73 2.24 down from 2022 | 322 | 100% | $1,132 | ||
13IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.49Q1 | 5.10 0.74 up from 2022 | 1,218 | 16% | $2,645 | ||
14NAVIGATION Journal of the Institute of NavigationOAWiley · United States | 2.39Q1 | 4.11 1.57 up from 2022 | 154 | 100% | $3,000 | ||
15IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation LettersIEEE Antennas & Propagation Society · United States | 2.21Q1 | 4.89 0.09 up from 2022 | 1,729 | 14% | $2,645 | ||
16Chinese Journal of AeronauticsElsevier BV · China | 2.16Q1 | 5.12 0.27 up from 2022 | 1,079 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
17IEEE Transactions on Antennas and PropagationIEEE Antennas & Propagation Society · United States | 2.09Q1 | 5.52 0.06 up from 2022 | 3,206 | 22% | $2,645 | ||
| 2.08Q1 | 1.39 0.65 up from 2022 | 834 | 7% | — | |||
19Space Science & TechnologyOAAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science · United States | 1.98Q1 | 4.62 0.75 up from 2022 | 68 | 100% | — | ||
20IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and PropagationOAInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.92Q1 | 4.80 0.58 up from 2022 | 300 | 100% | $2,075 | ||
21AIAA AVIATION 2020 FORUMPublisher not listed | 1.91Q1 | —no 2022 value | 797 | — | — | ||
22AIAA AVIATION 2021 FORUMPublisher not listed | 1.91Q1 | 0.92 0.13 up from 2022 | 981 | — | — | ||
23Journal of Guidance Control and DynamicsAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.83Q1 | 2.77 0.09 down from 2022 | 590 | 19% | — | ||
24Acta AstronauticaElsevier BV · United States | 1.68Q1 | 3.49 0.39 down from 2022 | 1,797 | 44% | $3,350 | ||
25Journal of Air TransportationAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.65Q1 | 2.00 0.22 up from 2022 | 52 | 30% | — | ||
26AIAA Propulsion and Energy 2021 ForumPublisher not listed | 1.59Q1 | 0.72 0.15 up from 2022 | 478 | — | — | ||
27Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process IndustriesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.58Q1 | 4.19 0.19 up from 2022 | 766 | 20% | $4,020 | ||
28IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing LettersInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.57Q1 | 4.34 0.41 up from 2022 | 2,508 | 9% | $2,645 | ||
29AstrodynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Singapore | 1.56Q1 | 2.66 2.59 down from 2022 | 81 | 47% | $3,990 | ||
30AIAA Scitech 2020 ForumPublisher not listed | 1.55Q1 | —no 2022 value | 2,313 | — | — | ||
31Journal of Thermal Spray TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media | 1.55Q1 | 3.33 0.10 up from 2022 | 529 | 33% | $3,190 | ||
32AIAA Propulsion and Energy 2020 ForumPublisher not listed | 1.51Q1 | —no 2022 value | 461 | — | — | ||
33AIAA Scitech 2021 ForumPublisher not listed | 1.51Q1 | 0.75 0.08 down from 2022 | 2,028 | — | — | ||
34Journal of Intelligent & Robotic SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.50Q1 | 4.11 0.07 up from 2022 | 614 | 31% | $3,090 | ||
35Field RoboticsPublisher not listed | 1.48Q1 | 3.81 3.11 up from 2022 | 72 | 96% | — | ||
36Progress in Nuclear EnergyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.39Q1 | 3.84 0.92 up from 2022 | 988 | 26% | $2,930 | ||
37AerospaceOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.37Q1 | 2.79 0.64 down from 2022 | 1,468 | 100% | $2,896 | ||
38Shock WavesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.33Q1 | 1.88 0.36 down from 2022 | 168 | 33% | $3,890 | ||
39ASCEND 2020Publisher not listed | 1.32Q1 | —no 2022 value | 239 | — | — | ||
40ASCEND 2021Publisher not listed | 1.26Q1 | 0.58 0.18 up from 2022 | 252 | — | — | ||
41IEEE Journal on Miniaturization for Air and Space SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.24Q1 | 2.59no change | 105 | 27% | $2,645 | ||
42Unmanned SystemsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.22Q2 | 2.86 1.44 down from 2022 | 103 | 11% | — | ||
43Journal of TurbomachineryASM International · United States | 1.21Q2 | 1.90no change | 533 | 28% | — | ||
44International Journal of AeroacousticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.20Q2 | 1.68 0.13 up from 2022 | 89 | 26% | $4,150 | ||
45Journal of AircraftAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.19Q2 | 2.44 0.02 down from 2022 | 364 | 32% | — | ||
46Journal of Aerospace Information SystemsAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.13Q2 | 2.01 0.12 up from 2022 | 191 | 22% | — | ||
47International Journal of Micro Air VehiclesOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.09Q2 | 1.91 0.04 up from 2022 | 47 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
48IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.08Q2 | 1.73 0.33 up from 2022 | 529 | 73% | — | ||
49Journal of Spacecraft and RocketsAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.07Q2 | 1.70 0.20 down from 2022 | 490 | 15% | — | ||
50Journal of Systems Engineering and ElectronicsOAInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · China | 1.05Q2 | 2.57 0.37 up from 2022 | 417 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Aerospace Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering598
- Mechanical Engineering376
- Biomedical Engineering341
- Civil and Structural Engineering270
- Aerospace Engineering163
- Control and Systems Engineering128
- Mechanics of Materials121
- Computational Mechanics96
- Building and Construction92
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering86
- Ocean Engineering74
- Automotive Engineering44
- Media Technology24
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality23
- Architecture1
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2023. Corpus-wide, 88.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
80 additional Aerospace Engineering journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2020–2022, 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: 2023. Publication window: 2020–2022. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 163
- Window papers (baseline)
- 734,756 -30.7% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.72 +16.0% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 10
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2020–2022 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 | 97 | 106 | 115 | 118 | 126 | 125 | 121 | 126 | 139 | 153 | 156 | 158 | 163 | 169 | 178 | 175 | 177 | 181 | 180 | 184 | 174 | 175 | 178 | 163 | 150 | 141 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 864,282 | 944,257 | 1,049,316 | 1,146,256 | 1,238,710 | 1,330,720 | 1,430,174 | 1,523,455 | 1,603,059 | 1,689,594 | 1,781,855 | 1,873,600 | 1,952,796 | 2,021,396 | 2,079,722 | 2,144,639 | 2,193,289 | 2,119,832 | 1,792,733 | 1,361,403 | 1,060,974 | 995,192 | 933,116 | 734,756 | 535,389 | 464,917 | |
| Median OJR | 0.3535 | 0.29 | 0.24 | 0.26 | 0.32 | 0.23 | 0.38 | 0.349 | 0.3531 | 0.39 | 0.463 | 0.50 | 0.55 | 0.561 | 0.48 | 0.464 | 0.485 | 0.47 | 0.488 | 0.560 | 0.62 | 0.70 | 0.73 | 0.72 | 0.65 | 0.66 |
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.