Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
Computational Mechanics journal rankings 2023
96 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Computational Mechanics has 96 ranked journals in 2023. The median journal has an OJR of 0.84, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.03 on 2022; Q1 starts at OJR 1.22. 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: 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
96 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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1Progress in Energy and Combustion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 9.09Q1 | 34.24 1.05 up from 2022 | 96 | 43% | $6,990 | ||
2Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.49Q1 | 7.08 0.15 down from 2022 | 2,012 | 57% | $4,830 | ||
3Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid MechanicsOATaylor & Francis · Hong Kong SAR China | 1.88Q1 | 5.87 0.37 up from 2022 | 320 | 100% | $1,993 | ||
4Combustion and FlameElsevier BV · United States | 1.83Q1 | 5.56 0.13 up from 2022 | 1,578 | 52% | $4,320 | ||
5Journal of Fluids and StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.64Q1 | 3.61 0.03 down from 2022 | 531 | 38% | $3,740 | ||
6Annual Review of Fluid MechanicsAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.56Q1 | 19.98 2.48 up from 2022 | 70 | 91% | — | ||
7Proceedings of the Combustion InstituteElsevier BV · United States | 1.52Q1 | 2.78 1.93 down from 2022 | 1,230 | 61% | $3,570 | ||
8Advances in AerodynamicsOASpringer Nature · Singapore | 1.51Q1 | 3.03 0.33 up from 2022 | 101 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
9Journal of Computational PhysicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.51Q1 | 3.58 0.37 down from 2022 | 2,110 | 62% | $3,980 | ||
10Journal of Numerical MathematicsDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.46Q1 | 4.06 1.03 up from 2022 | 55 | 60% | $2,712 | ||
11AIAA JournalAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.42Q1 | 2.51 0.26 down from 2022 | 1,379 | 16% | — | ||
12Powder TechnologyElsevier BV · Switzerland | 1.40Q1 | 4.54 0.59 down from 2022 | 3,042 | 25% | $4,610 | ||
13Applications in Energy and Combustion ScienceOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.35Q1 | 4.94 0.79 up from 2022 | 103 | 100% | $1,910 | ||
14Computer-Aided DesignElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.34Q1 | 3.30 0.31 up from 2022 | 284 | 42% | $3,140 | ||
15Graphical ModelsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.33Q1 | 3.00 0.84 up from 2022 | 64 | 100% | $2,180 | ||
16Theoretical and Computational Fluid DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.32Q1 | 2.35 1.07 down from 2022 | 122 | 33% | $3,090 | ||
17Computational Particle MechanicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.25Q1 | 2.82 0.45 down from 2022 | 224 | 100% | $3,790 | ||
18Computers & FluidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.25Q1 | 2.68 0.08 down from 2022 | 728 | 48% | $3,700 | ||
19FlowOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.25Q1 | 3.24 0.36 up from 2022 | 53 | 100% | $2,920 | ||
20Journal of Fluid MechanicsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.24Q1 | 3.49 0.17 down from 2022 | 3,356 | 74% | $3,550 | ||
21Advanced Powder TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.23Q1 | 4.68 0.52 down from 2022 | 1,250 | 26% | $3,170 | ||
22International Journal of Heat and Fluid FlowElsevier BV · United States | 1.22Q1 | 2.79 0.20 up from 2022 | 403 | 51% | $3,420 | ||
23ParticuologyElsevier BV · China | 1.22Q1 | 4.51 0.72 up from 2022 | 426 | 28% | $3,090 | ||
24SIAM Journal on Scientific ComputingSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 1.22Q1 | 2.98 0.23 up from 2022 | 728 | 35% | — | ||
25SIAM Journal on OptimizationSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 1.19Q2 | 2.34 0.30 down from 2022 | 357 | 30% | — | ||
26International Journal of Multiphase FlowElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.19Q2 | 3.65 0.01 up from 2022 | 765 | 40% | $3,900 | ||
27Flow Turbulence and CombustionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.18Q2 | 2.18 0.42 down from 2022 | 274 | 72% | $2,590 | ||
28Theoretical and Applied Mechanics LettersOAElsevier BV · China | 1.18Q2 | 3.16 0.46 down from 2022 | 199 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
29Journal of HydrodynamicsElsevier BV · Singapore | 1.18Q2 | 3.48 0.53 up from 2022 | 279 | 4% | $3,290 | ||
30Communications in Computational PhysicsCambridge University Press · Hong Kong SAR China | 1.14Q2 | 2.33 0.62 down from 2022 | 327 | 32% | — | ||
31Acta Mechanica SinicaSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 1.12Q2 | 3.75 0.42 down from 2022 | 426 | 13% | $4,190 | ||
32Experimental Thermal and Fluid ScienceElsevier BV · United States | 1.11Q2 | 2.93 0.32 down from 2022 | 560 | 29% | $3,720 | ||
33Physics of FluidsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 1.10Q2 | 4.07 0.72 down from 2022 | 5,696 | 22% | — | ||
34Experiments in FluidsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.09Q2 | 2.58 0.07 down from 2022 | 688 | 54% | $2,590 | ||
35European Journal of Mechanics - B/FluidsElsevier BV · France | 1.09Q2 | 2.77 0.14 down from 2022 | 397 | 28% | $3,380 | ||
36SIAM Journal on Numerical AnalysisSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 1.03Q2 | 2.39 0.15 up from 2022 | 375 | 35% | — | ||
37Computers & Mathematics with ApplicationsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.03Q2 | 2.48 0.34 down from 2022 | 957 | 27% | $3,170 | ||
38Journal of Scientific ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.02Q2 | 2.68 0.56 up from 2022 | 939 | 29% | $3,290 | ||
39Granular MatterSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.99Q2 | 2.38 0.07 up from 2022 | 303 | 35% | $2,590 | ||
40Journal of Computational and Applied MathematicsElsevier BV · Belgium | 0.97Q2 | 2.24 0.10 down from 2022 | 1,545 | 32% | $3,250 | ||
41Numerical Methods for Partial Differential EquationsWiley · United States | 0.97Q2 | 1.84 2.07 down from 2022 | 483 | 48% | $3,750 | ||
42Applied Numerical MathematicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.97Q2 | 2.35 0.53 down from 2022 | 761 | 27% | $2,000 | ||
43Numerische MathematikSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.96Q2 | 1.91 0.29 up from 2022 | 238 | 66% | $3,190 | ||
44Mathematics of ComputationAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 0.93Q2 | 1.86 0.40 up from 2022 | 291 | 33% | — | ||
45Physical Review FluidsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 0.93Q2 | 2.47 0.27 down from 2022 | 1,726 | 45% | — | ||
46GAMM-MitteilungenWiley · Germany | 0.87Q2 | 2.67 0.18 down from 2022 | 47 | 79% | $3,140 | ||
46Journal of TurbulenceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.87Q2 | 1.44 0.83 down from 2022 | 96 | 42% | — | ||
48IMA Journal of Numerical AnalysisOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.87Q2 | 1.91 0.11 up from 2022 | 311 | 38% | $3,718 | ||
49FluidsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.80Q3 | 2.13 0.01 down from 2022 | 1,108 | 100% | $2,172 | ||
50Journal of Computational Physics XElsevier BV · United States | 0.80Q3 | 2.15 0.40 up from 2022 | 33 | 100% | $1,690 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Computational Mechanics 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.
17 additional Computational Mechanics 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
- 96
- Window papers (baseline)
- 75,603 -0.7% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.84 -11.9% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 11
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 | 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.