Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
Mechanics of Materials journal rankings 2023
121 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Mechanics of Materials has 121 ranked journals in 2023. The median OJR fell 0.08 on 2022 to 0.82, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.41. The top three are Applied Mechanics Reviews, International Journal of Mining Science and Technology, and Petroleum Exploration and Development.
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
121 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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1Applied Mechanics ReviewsAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers · United States | 4.30Q1 | 11.82 3.73 down from 2022 | 34 | 50% | — | ||
2International Journal of Mining Science and TechnologyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.46Q1 | 11.59 0.84 up from 2022 | 357 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
3Petroleum Exploration and DevelopmentOAElsevier BV · China | 3.14Q1 | 8.46 0.05 up from 2022 | 360 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
4Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical EngineeringOAElsevier BV · China | 3.02Q1 | 8.77 1.57 up from 2022 | 478 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
5International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining SciencesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.86Q1 | 7.22 0.13 down from 2022 | 839 | 28% | $4,110 | ||
6ADVANCES IN GEO-ENERGY RESEARCHOAAustralia | 2.31Q1 | 7.34 0.44 down from 2022 | 157 | 100% | — | ||
7Rock Mechanics and Rock EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 2.22Q1 | 5.68 0.51 down from 2022 | 1,128 | 18% | $3,990 | ||
8Composites Part A Applied Science and ManufacturingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.15Q1 | 8.50 0.23 down from 2022 | 1,321 | 31% | $4,480 | ||
9Engineering With ComputersSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 2.11Q1 | 6.52 1.03 down from 2022 | 850 | 36% | $2,190 | ||
10Composites Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.09Q1 | 8.50 0.73 down from 2022 | 1,531 | 25% | $4,610 | ||
11Quantitative InfraRed Thermography JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 5.36 2.22 up from 2022 | 55 | 36% | — | ||
12Composite StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.02Q1 | 6.68 0.33 up from 2022 | 4,038 | 26% | $4,660 | ||
13International Journal of Coal Science & TechnologyOASpringer International Publishing · China | 2.02Q1 | 7.58 1.24 down from 2022 | 257 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
14International Journal of Coal GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.85Q1 | 5.79 0.37 up from 2022 | 383 | 36% | $4,090 | ||
15Petroleum ScienceOAElsevier BV · China | 1.85Q1 | 5.59 0.46 up from 2022 | 602 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
16Unconventional ResourcesOAElsevier BV · China | 1.83Q1 | 5.50 2.17 down from 2022 | 34 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
17FirePhysChemOAElsevier BV · China | 1.80Q1 | 3.95 0.66 up from 2022 | 98 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
18International Journal of FatigueElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.78Q1 | 5.82 0.29 down from 2022 | 1,628 | 29% | $3,940 | ||
19Composites Part C Open AccessOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.75Q1 | 6.20 1.29 up from 2022 | 322 | 100% | $2,400 | ||
20Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the EnvironmentSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.70Q1 | 3.99 0.45 down from 2022 | 1,294 | 10% | $3,990 | ||
21Engineering Fracture MechanicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.65Q1 | 4.69 0.85 down from 2022 | 1,591 | 25% | $4,120 | ||
22Defence TechnologyOAElsevier BV · China | 1.62Q1 | 4.31 0.04 up from 2022 | 555 | 100% | — | ||
23Theoretical and Applied Fracture MechanicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.60Q1 | 5.06 0.05 down from 2022 | 1,087 | 20% | $3,730 | ||
24Applied Mathematical ModellingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.57Q1 | 4.73 0.41 down from 2022 | 1,625 | 19% | $4,510 | ||
25NDT & E InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.50Q1 | 4.46 0.18 down from 2022 | 365 | 36% | $4,440 | ||
26Natural Gas Industry BOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.48Q1 | 5.43 1.36 up from 2022 | 192 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
27Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of SolidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.47Q1 | 4.89 0.57 down from 2022 | 826 | 57% | $4,220 | ||
28Energy GeoscienceOAElsevier BV · China | 1.45Q1 | 3.09 2.58 down from 2022 | 154 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
29Marine and Petroleum GeologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.44Q1 | 3.83 0.50 down from 2022 | 1,557 | 26% | $3,440 | ||
30Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-ResourcesOASpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.43Q1 | 3.94 0.69 down from 2022 | 375 | 100% | $3,890 | ||
31Computational MechanicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.41Q1 | 3.99 0.26 down from 2022 | 444 | 58% | $3,990 | ||
32Energetic Materials FrontiersOAElsevier BV · China | 1.36Q2 | 3.32 0.94 down from 2022 | 116 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
33International Journal of Engineering ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.32Q2 | 5.71 0.90 down from 2022 | 303 | 34% | $4,980 | ||
34European Journal of Mechanics - A/SolidsElsevier BV · France | 1.31Q2 | 4.23 0.09 down from 2022 | 683 | 42% | $4,040 | ||
35UltrasonicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.27Q2 | 4.14 0.20 down from 2022 | 593 | 34% | $3,680 | ||
36WIT transactions on engineering sciencesWIT Press · United Kingdom | 1.27Q2 | 0.40 0.21 down from 2022 | 106 | 94% | — | ||
37Finite Elements in Analysis and DesignElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.26Q2 | 3.65 0.42 up from 2022 | 184 | 48% | $2,990 | ||
38Forces in MechanicsOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.22Q2 | 3.91 1.01 up from 2022 | 135 | 100% | $2,050 | ||
39International Journal of Adhesion and AdhesivesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.17Q2 | 3.73 0.31 up from 2022 | 582 | 25% | $3,760 | ||
40Engineering Analysis with Boundary ElementsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.16Q2 | 4.36 0.72 up from 2022 | 904 | 15% | $3,590 | ||
41Spectrochimica Acta Part B Atomic SpectroscopyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.15Q2 | 3.25 0.31 down from 2022 | 563 | 33% | $3,530 | ||
42International Journal of Damage MechanicsSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.13Q2 | 4.27 0.09 up from 2022 | 181 | 39% | $4,400 | ||
43Energy Science & EngineeringOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.10Q2 | 4.04 0.08 down from 2022 | 739 | 100% | $2,780 | ||
44AAPG BulletinAmerican Association of Petroleum Geologists · United States | 1.09Q2 | 2.85 0.77 down from 2022 | 297 | 14% | — | ||
45International Journal of Solids and StructuresElsevier BV · United States | 1.08Q2 | 3.45 0.22 down from 2022 | 1,123 | 100% | $3,790 | ||
46Mechanics of MaterialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.07Q2 | 3.48 0.33 down from 2022 | 833 | 41% | $3,850 | ||
47Journal of Peridynamics and Nonlocal ModelingSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.05Q2 | 2.74 0.58 down from 2022 | 74 | 45% | $2,990 | ||
48International Journal for Numerical Methods in EngineeringWiley · United Kingdom | 1.04Q2 | 2.60 0.19 down from 2022 | 789 | 65% | $4,250 | ||
49Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & StructuresWiley · United Kingdom | 0.97Q2 | 3.21 0.70 down from 2022 | 723 | 58% | $3,860 | ||
50Journal of Nondestructive EvaluationSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.94Q2 | 2.90 0.12 up from 2022 | 266 | 26% | $3,290 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Mechanics of Materials 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.
19 additional Mechanics of Materials 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
- 121
- Window papers (baseline)
- 109,615 +7.7% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.82 -10.0% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 14
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 | 78 | 81 | 85 | 90 | 89 | 91 | 96 | 101 | 105 | 106 | 106 | 110 | 108 | 115 | 117 | 121 | 124 | 126 | 123 | 123 | 121 | 123 | 122 | 121 | 126 | 124 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 41,039 | 46,235 | 51,243 | 57,208 | 61,654 | 67,090 | 72,297 | 77,433 | 83,476 | 89,782 | 95,236 | 100,355 | 106,668 | 110,219 | 112,431 | 110,199 | 106,266 | 99,874 | 95,912 | 96,897 | 101,761 | 106,369 | 109,525 | 109,615 | 109,306 | 111,140 | |
| Median OJR | 0.70 | 0.83 | 0.964 | 0.97 | 0.986 | 0.977 | 1.01 | 0.985 | 0.978 | 0.895 | 1.03 | 1.12 | 1.061 | 1.05 | 1.060 | 1.09 | 1.04 | 0.965 | 0.93 | 0.8976 | 0.910 | 0.912 | 0.8984 | 0.82 | 0.76 | 0.80 |
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.