Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Field ranking · 2023
Engineering journal rankings 2023
2,437 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Engineering has 2,437 ranked journals in 2023. The median journal has an OJR of 0.69, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2022; Q1 starts at OJR 1.22. The top three are IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, Satellite Navigation, and Progress in Energy and Combustion Science.
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 in Engineering (16)
Up to Physical Sciences- 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
2,437 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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1IEEE Communications Surveys & TutorialsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 15.92Q1 | 48.52 5.17 up from 2022 | 236 | 45% | $2,645 | ||
2Satellite NavigationOASpringer Nature · Singapore | 10.19Q1 | 11.00 1.45 down from 2022 | 87 | 100% | $1,670 | ||
3Progress in Energy and Combustion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 9.09Q1 | 34.24 1.05 up from 2022 | 96 | 43% | $6,990 | ||
4Materials Science and Engineering R ReportsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 8.67Q1 | 33.76 0.87 up from 2022 | 73 | 48% | $6,150 | ||
5eScienceOAElsevier BV · China | 8.49Q1 | 40.93 3.41 up from 2022 | 89 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
6Sustainable Operations and ComputersOAElsevier BV · China | 8.07Q1 | 22.14 11.75 up from 2022 | 64 | 100% | $700 | ||
7Nature EnergyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 7.62Q1 | 29.80 5.00 down from 2022 | 597 | 33% | $12,690 | ||
8Science RoboticsAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science · United States | 6.91Q1 | 20.94 3.41 up from 2022 | 295 | 33% | — | ||
9Progress in Aerospace SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.50Q1 | 15.08 3.78 up from 2022 | 93 | 42% | $5,860 | ||
10Energy & Environmental ScienceRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 6.37Q1 | 32.03 0.15 up from 2022 | 1,110 | 39% | — | ||
11JouleElsevier BV · United States | 6.11Q1 | 26.91 0.55 down from 2022 | 696 | 100% | $9,350 | ||
12Journal of Industrial Information IntegrationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.76Q1 | 15.50 0.69 down from 2022 | 180 | 45% | $3,810 | ||
13Nano-Micro LettersOASpringer Science+Business Media · Hong Kong SAR China | 5.73Q1 | 30.95 4.32 up from 2022 | 615 | 100% | $1,690 | ||
14Proceedings of the IEEEInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.68Q1 | 17.02 1.05 up from 2022 | 408 | 73% | $2,645 | ||
15Electrochemical Energy ReviewsSpringer Science+Business Media · Singapore | 5.35Q1 | 28.66 0.73 down from 2022 | 87 | 47% | $3,390 | ||
16Nature ElectronicsNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 5.26Q1 | 18.27 0.80 down from 2022 | 525 | 26% | $12,690 | ||
17Journal of Manufacturing SystemsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.17Q1 | 15.37 1.32 up from 2022 | 605 | 34% | $3,850 | ||
18IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in CommunicationsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 5.09Q1 | 15.15 0.30 up from 2022 | 789 | 31% | $2,645 | ||
19Advanced MaterialsGermany | 5.05Q1 | 22.98 0.27 down from 2022 | 6,060 | 60% | $6,070 | ||
20Journal of Bioresources and BioproductsOAElsevier BV · Canada | 4.86Q1 | 22.04 10.91 down from 2022 | 100 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
21International Materials ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.85Q1 | 18.61 1.49 up from 2022 | 65 | 64% | $4,400 | ||
22Analytic Methods in Accident ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.75Q1 | 12.42 1.46 down from 2022 | 98 | 48% | $5,310 | ||
23Advanced Powder MaterialsOAElsevier BV · China | 4.74Q1 | 23.33 13.45 down from 2022 | 64 | 100% | $840 | ||
24InfoMatOAWiley · China | 4.70Q1 | 22.22 0.16 up from 2022 | 226 | 100% | $3,000 | ||
25ECS Sensors PlusOAElectrochemical Society · United Kingdom | 4.55Q1 | 16.82no 2022 value | 50 | 100% | $1,500 | — | |
26Automation in ConstructionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.41Q1 | 12.23 0.11 down from 2022 | 1,401 | 34% | $5,490 | ||
27Renewable and Sustainable Energy ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.38Q1 | 19.20 1.49 up from 2022 | 2,890 | 42% | $5,220 | ||
28Applied Mechanics ReviewsAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers · United States | 4.30Q1 | 11.82 3.73 down from 2022 | 34 | 50% | — | ||
29ExplorationOAWiley · China | 4.29Q1 | 18.29 10.71 down from 2022 | 95 | 100% | $3,500 | ||
30Bioactive MaterialsOAElsevier BV · China | 4.28Q1 | 16.38 0.35 down from 2022 | 1,132 | 100% | $2,200 | ||
31Advanced Energy MaterialsWiley · Germany | 4.28Q1 | 19.79 2.29 down from 2022 | 2,723 | 58% | $5,790 | ||
32EnergyChemElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.23Q1 | 21.77 1.71 down from 2022 | 68 | 24% | $3,550 | ||
33Engineered RegenerationOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.17Q1 | 12.89 8.78 down from 2022 | 87 | 100% | $700 | ||
34Energy storage materialsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.16Q1 | 18.34 1.62 down from 2022 | 1,565 | 18% | $5,400 | ||
35Computers in IndustryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.13Q1 | 11.89 0.86 down from 2022 | 431 | 57% | $4,080 | ||
36ACS Energy LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 4.13Q1 | 19.50 2.66 down from 2022 | 1,365 | 38% | $4,500 | ||
37IEEE 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 | ||
38Cement and Concrete ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.09Q1 | 11.79 0.33 down from 2022 | 829 | 53% | $5,180 | ||
39IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica SinicaInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.08Q1 | 13.72 0.22 down from 2022 | 543 | 53% | — | ||
40International Journal of Machine Tools and ManufactureElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.01Q1 | 15.17 0.10 down from 2022 | 176 | 31% | $5,610 | ||
41Current Robotics ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 4.00Q1 | 10.13 1.16 up from 2022 | 94 | 75% | $3,090 | ||
42Communications in Transportation ResearchOAElsevier BV · China | 3.92Q1 | 12.04 6.38 down from 2022 | 55 | 100% | $1,250 | ||
43Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation ReviewElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.88Q1 | 9.92 2.33 down from 2022 | 797 | 26% | $4,240 | ||
44BuR - Business ResearchOASpringer Nature · Germany | 3.88Q1 | —no 2022 value | 32 | — | $1,535 | ||
45Interdisciplinary materialsOAWiley · China | 3.81Q1 | 16.49no 2022 value | 47 | 100% | $3,000 | — | |
46Information Technology for DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.68Q1 | 7.00 0.64 up from 2022 | 106 | 31% | — | ||
47Robotics and Computer-Integrated ManufacturingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.67Q1 | 11.76 1.40 up from 2022 | 459 | 25% | $4,540 | ||
48Carbon EnergyOAWiley · China | 3.65Q1 | 19.27 0.65 down from 2022 | 209 | 100% | $3,200 | ||
49Green Energy and Intelligent TransportationOAElsevier BV | 3.64Q1 | 13.79no 2022 value | 39 | 100% | $1,950 | — | |
50Cement and Concrete CompositesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.62Q1 | 11.74 0.83 up from 2022 | 1,152 | 38% | $5,120 |
Subfields of Engineering, compared.
- 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.
622 additional 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
- 2,437
- Window papers (baseline)
- 2,422,273 -4.6% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.688 +1.8% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 211Comparison-group list (211)
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 | 945 | 1,010 | 1,072 | 1,119 | 1,159 | 1,217 | 1,256 | 1,342 | 1,445 | 1,529 | 1,578 | 1,672 | 1,774 | 1,899 | 2,001 | 2,106 | 2,188 | 2,239 | 2,290 | 2,358 | 2,389 | 2,428 | 2,444 | 2,437 | 2,442 | 2,405 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 1,301,932 | 1,430,070 | 1,586,509 | 1,745,451 | 1,896,138 | 2,058,422 | 2,234,640 | 2,416,744 | 2,583,093 | 2,754,522 | 2,914,777 | 3,076,735 | 3,239,027 | 3,369,091 | 3,484,492 | 3,569,888 | 3,612,080 | 3,500,235 | 3,153,056 | 2,758,725 | 2,539,069 | 2,563,396 | 2,580,513 | 2,422,273 | 2,259,750 | 2,274,258 | |
| Median OJR | 0.63 | 0.65 | 0.694 | 0.758 | 0.75 | 0.7777 | 0.7782 | 0.77 | 0.7930 | 0.80 | 0.820 | 0.822 | 0.7933 | 0.765 | 0.756 | 0.72 | 0.73 | 0.692 | 0.670 | 0.6705 | 0.68 | 0.70 | 0.689 | 0.688 | 0.669 | 0.6714 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 4.9% | 1,952 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 1.935 per 1,000 | 1,719 journals |
| Output growth | Median: +3.7% | 2,142 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 53.0% | 2,405 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $2,890 | 1,349 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 22.2% | 2,312 journals |
| Review share | Median: 0.0% | 2,405 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.67 | 2,362 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 29.8% | 2,405 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 43.9% | 2,402 journals |
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.