Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering journal rankings 2023
86 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering has 86 ranked journals in 2023. The median journal has an OJR of 0.94, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.04 on 2022; Q1 starts at OJR 1.66. The top three are Sustainable Operations and Computers, Journal of Industrial Information Integration, and Journal of Manufacturing Systems.
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
86 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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1Sustainable Operations and ComputersOAElsevier BV · China | 8.07Q1 | 22.14 11.75 up from 2022 | 64 | 100% | $700 | ||
2Journal of Industrial Information IntegrationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.76Q1 | 15.50 0.69 down from 2022 | 180 | 45% | $3,810 | ||
3Journal of Manufacturing SystemsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.17Q1 | 15.37 1.32 up from 2022 | 605 | 34% | $3,850 | ||
4Computers in IndustryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.13Q1 | 11.89 0.86 down from 2022 | 431 | 57% | $4,080 | ||
5Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation ReviewElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.88Q1 | 9.92 2.33 down from 2022 | 797 | 26% | $4,240 | ||
6Robotics and Computer-Integrated ManufacturingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.67Q1 | 11.76 1.40 up from 2022 | 459 | 25% | $4,540 | ||
7Advanced Engineering InformaticsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.23Q1 | 10.10 0.23 up from 2022 | 669 | 18% | $3,560 | ||
8International Journal of Production ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.23Q1 | 8.81 0.87 down from 2022 | 1,266 | 34% | — | ||
9Computers & Industrial EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.07Q1 | 8.27 0.25 down from 2022 | 2,206 | 21% | $3,790 | ||
10Journal of Industrial Integration and ManagementWorld Scientific · Singapore | 2.56Q1 | 5.42 3.74 down from 2022 | 97 | 0% | — | ||
11European Journal of Operational ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.46Q1 | 6.06 0.17 up from 2022 | 2,004 | 61% | $3,290 | ||
12LogisticsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.45Q1 | 6.37 0.61 up from 2022 | 205 | 100% | $1,689 | ||
13Journal of Intelligent ManufacturingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.41Q1 | 7.55 0.15 up from 2022 | 518 | 35% | $3,290 | ||
14Applied System InnovationOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.20Q1 | 6.94 0.99 up from 2022 | 283 | 100% | $1,689 | ||
15Complex System Modeling and SimulationOAInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · China | 1.98Q1 | 6.12 5.24 down from 2022 | 50 | 100% | — | ||
16The Asian Journal of Shipping and LogisticsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.97Q1 | 4.89 0.13 down from 2022 | 74 | 100% | $1,350 | ||
17Maritime Economics & LogisticsPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 1.96Q1 | 5.97 0.11 up from 2022 | 109 | 46% | $3,390 | ||
18Computers & Operations ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.95Q1 | 4.71 0.23 down from 2022 | 807 | 47% | $3,570 | ||
19Transportation ScienceInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 1.71Q1 | 4.46 0.19 down from 2022 | 264 | 31% | — | ||
20International Journal of Management Science and Engineering ManagementTaylor & Francis | 1.69Q1 | 4.16 1.50 down from 2022 | 88 | 0% | — | ||
21Maritime Policy & ManagementTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.68Q1 | 4.34 0.06 down from 2022 | 260 | 22% | — | ||
22International Journal of Computer Integrated ManufacturingTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.66Q1 | 4.95 0.73 up from 2022 | 266 | 29% | — | ||
23Production & Manufacturing ResearchOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.65Q2 | 3.39 1.98 down from 2022 | 76 | 100% | $1,165 | ||
24Journal of Industrial and Production EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.57Q2 | 5.11 0.09 up from 2022 | 136 | 16% | — | ||
25Quality Management JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.56Q2 | 2.13 0.93 down from 2022 | 51 | 38% | — | ||
26Journal of Rail Transport Planning & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.53Q2 | 3.22 1.61 down from 2022 | 85 | 44% | $3,070 | ||
27Journal of Industrial Engineering and ManagementOAOmniaScience · Spain | 1.44Q2 | 3.79 0.42 up from 2022 | 119 | 100% | $533 | ||
| 1.44Q2 | 4.02 0.49 up from 2022 | 73 | 100% | — | |||
29International journal of production management and engineeringOATechnical University of Valencia · Spain | 1.36Q2 | 4.43 1.85 up from 2022 | 42 | 100% | — | ||
30Concurrent EngineeringSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.34Q2 | 3.55 0.35 down from 2022 | 98 | 22% | $4,150 | ||
31Advances in Production Engineering & ManagementUniversity of Maribor · Slovenia | 1.27Q2 | 3.82 0.68 down from 2022 | 108 | 100% | — | ||
32International Transactions in Operational ResearchWiley · United Kingdom | 1.27Q2 | 3.79 0.64 up from 2022 | 400 | 57% | $4,030 | ||
33IET Collaborative Intelligent ManufacturingOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United States | 1.24Q2 | 3.70 4.76 down from 2022 | 91 | 100% | $2,520 | ||
34Journal of Shipping and TradeOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 1.21Q2 | 3.57 0.95 up from 2022 | 71 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
35Flexible Services and Manufacturing JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.16Q2 | 2.71 0.05 down from 2022 | 102 | 65% | $2,590 | ||
36Maritime Business ReviewOAEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.15Q2 | 2.39 0.45 down from 2022 | 72 | 100% | — | ||
37EURO Journal on Transportation and LogisticsOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.14Q2 | 2.98 0.13 up from 2022 | 65 | 100% | $1,400 | ||
38OR SpectrumSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.09Q2 | 1.56 1.52 down from 2022 | 127 | 64% | $3,290 | ||
39EURO Journal on Computational OptimizationOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.07Q2 | 2.84 0.61 up from 2022 | 58 | 100% | $1,400 | ||
40IEEE Robotics & Automation MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.01Q2 | 2.58 0.15 up from 2022 | 312 | 81% | $2,045 | ||
41Journal of SchedulingSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.01Q2 | 2.11 0.12 up from 2022 | 131 | 52% | $2,990 | ||
42Journal of Computing and Information Science in EngineeringASM International · United States | 0.94Q2 | 3.22 0.48 up from 2022 | 286 | 36% | — | ||
43AutomationOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.94Q2 | 2.90 0.78 up from 2022 | 58 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
| 0.93Q3 | 3.45 0.12 up from 2022 | 189 | 100% | — | |||
45Central European Journal of Operations ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.93Q3 | 2.17 0.37 up from 2022 | 157 | 70% | $2,990 | ||
46IISE TransactionsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.92Q3 | 2.26 0.24 down from 2022 | 272 | 16% | — | ||
47ProductionOAAssociação Brasileira de Engenharia de Produção · Brazil | 0.88Q3 | 2.20 0.33 down from 2022 | 106 | 100% | — | ||
48IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor ManufacturingIEEE Computer Society · United States | 0.87Q3 | 2.50 0.64 down from 2022 | 235 | 33% | $2,645 | ||
49SciOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.79Q3 | 3.77 1.72 up from 2022 | 190 | 100% | $1,448 | ||
50ScanningWiley · United Kingdom | 0.78Q3 | 2.74 0.59 up from 2022 | 215 | 100% | $1,500 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Industrial and Manufacturing 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.
26 additional Industrial and Manufacturing 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
- 86
- Window papers (baseline)
- 59,343 +23.8% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.9364 -6.6% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
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 | 31 | 34 | 36 | 37 | 40 | 44 | 44 | 44 | 50 | 51 | 55 | 65 | 68 | 66 | 74 | 78 | 81 | 79 | 86 | 87 | 87 | 90 | 86 | 86 | 85 | 84 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 15,320 | 16,693 | 17,936 | 19,688 | 20,825 | 22,675 | 24,599 | 27,617 | 29,952 | 32,271 | 34,386 | 37,027 | 40,419 | 42,136 | 43,935 | 44,016 | 43,986 | 42,172 | 41,220 | 43,326 | 47,952 | 53,290 | 57,318 | 59,343 | 62,188 | 68,148 | |
| Median OJR | 1.04 | 0.960 | 1.31 | 1.52 | 1.54 | 1.51 | 1.72 | 1.56 | 1.34 | 1.48 | 1.25 | 1.36 | 1.275 | 1.279 | 1.167 | 1.09 | 0.961 | 1.172 | 1.07 | 1.02 | 1.002 | 0.95 | 0.97 | 0.9364 | 0.9356 | 0.89 |
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.