Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Subfield ranking · 2024
Aerospace Engineering journal rankings 2024
150 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Aerospace Engineering has 150 ranked journals in 2024. The median OJR fell 0.07 on 2023 to 0.65, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.15. The top three are Satellite Navigation, Progress in Aerospace Sciences, and IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2024. 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 2021–2023, the window the 2024 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 Engineering604
- Mechanical Engineering372
- Biomedical Engineering346
- Civil and Structural Engineering273
- Aerospace Engineering150
- Control and Systems Engineering138
- Mechanics of Materials126
- Computational Mechanics95
- Building and Construction93
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering85
- Ocean Engineering72
- Automotive Engineering42
150 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 2023. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2021–2023, the window the 2024 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2021–2023 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 2015 to 2024. | Compare |
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1Satellite NavigationOASpringer Nature · Singapore | 7.90Q1 | 10.78 0.22 down from 2023 | 88 | 100% | $1,670 | ||
2Progress in Aerospace SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 7.74Q1 | 18.79 3.71 up from 2023 | 96 | 51% | $5,860 | ||
3IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 4.31Q1 | 9.82 0.05 up from 2023 | 198 | 26% | $2,995 | ||
4AstrodynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Singapore | 3.89Q1 | 7.40 4.74 up from 2023 | 70 | 37% | $3,990 | ||
5Wind energy scienceOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.72Q1 | 5.86 1.14 up from 2023 | 316 | 100% | $1,132 | ||
6GPS SolutionsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.59Q1 | 4.34 0.71 down from 2023 | 534 | 33% | $2,790 | ||
7Aerospace Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · France | 2.57Q1 | 6.14 0.50 up from 2023 | 2,055 | 20% | $4,360 | ||
8IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.56Q1 | 6.19 1.09 up from 2023 | 1,542 | 9% | $2,645 | ||
9Space Science & TechnologyOAAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science · United States | 2.51Q1 | 6.61 1.99 up from 2023 | 137 | 100% | — | ||
10Journal of GeodesySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.37Q1 | 4.21 0.38 up from 2023 | 341 | 48% | $3,590 | ||
11DronesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.32Q1 | 6.54 0.17 up from 2023 | 1,288 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
12Wind EnergyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.31Q1 | 3.91 1.55 down from 2023 | 244 | 100% | $3,730 | ||
13Journal of Field RoboticsWiley · United States | 2.24Q1 | 6.43 0.87 up from 2023 | 241 | 50% | $3,590 | ||
| 2.11Q1 | 1.03 0.54 down from 2023 | 264 | 5% | — | |||
15Chinese Journal of AeronauticsElsevier BV · China | 2.10Q1 | 5.19 0.07 up from 2023 | 1,079 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
| 2.10Q1 | 0.88 0.51 down from 2023 | 888 | 7% | — | |||
17IEEE Transactions on Antennas and PropagationIEEE Antennas & Propagation Society · United States | 2.04Q1 | 6.05 0.52 up from 2023 | 3,222 | 16% | $2,645 | ||
18IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation LettersIEEE Antennas & Propagation Society · United States | 1.99Q1 | 5.30 0.41 up from 2023 | 1,871 | 9% | $2,645 | ||
19IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and PropagationOAInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.86Q1 | 4.24 0.56 down from 2023 | 353 | 100% | $2,075 | ||
20Journal of Guidance Control and DynamicsAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.83Q1 | 3.24 0.47 up from 2023 | 559 | 13% | — | ||
21IEEE Transactions on Radar SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | 1.69Q1 | 3.74no 2023 value | 74 | 26% | $2,645 | — | |
22AIAA AVIATION 2021 FORUMPublisher not listed | 1.65Q1 | —no 2023 value | 981 | — | — | ||
23Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process IndustriesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.64Q1 | 4.55 0.36 up from 2023 | 695 | 23% | $4,020 | ||
24NAVIGATION Journal of the Institute of NavigationOAWiley · United States | 1.63Q1 | 2.53 1.58 down from 2023 | 170 | 100% | $3,000 | ||
25IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing LettersInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.62Q1 | 4.85 0.51 up from 2023 | 2,656 | 10% | $2,645 | ||
26Acta AstronauticaElsevier BV · United States | 1.56Q1 | 3.85 0.36 up from 2023 | 1,740 | 42% | $3,350 | ||
27AIAA Propulsion and Energy 2021 ForumPublisher not listed | 1.51Q1 | —no 2023 value | 478 | — | — | ||
28AIAA Scitech 2021 ForumPublisher not listed | 1.34Q1 | —no 2023 value | 2,028 | — | — | ||
29ASCEND 2021Publisher not listed | 1.33Q1 | —no 2023 value | 252 | — | — | ||
30Journal of Air TransportationAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.30Q1 | 2.61 0.61 up from 2023 | 48 | 8% | — | ||
31Journal of Thermal Spray TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media | 1.29Q1 | 3.25 0.08 down from 2023 | 561 | 36% | $3,190 | ||
32Shock WavesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.28Q1 | 1.69 0.19 down from 2023 | 164 | 37% | $3,890 | ||
33Journal of Intelligent & Robotic SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.26Q1 | 3.49 0.61 down from 2023 | 704 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
34IEEE Journal on Miniaturization for Air and Space SystemsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.22Q1 | 2.48 0.11 down from 2023 | 116 | 18% | $2,645 | ||
35International Journal of Satellite Communications and NetworkingWiley · United Kingdom | 1.21Q1 | 2.54 1.18 up from 2023 | 95 | 59% | $2,860 | ||
36Journal of TurbomachineryASM International · United States | 1.20Q1 | 2.36 0.46 up from 2023 | 581 | 19% | — | ||
37Progress in Nuclear EnergyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.18Q1 | 3.50 0.33 down from 2023 | 1,100 | 21% | $2,930 | ||
38Field RoboticsPublisher not listed | 1.15Q1 | 3.63 0.18 down from 2023 | 98 | 100% | — | ||
39AerospaceOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.14Q2 | 2.59 0.19 down from 2023 | 2,330 | 100% | $2,896 | ||
40Journal of Propulsion and PowerAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.13Q2 | 2.43 0.32 up from 2023 | 253 | 12% | — | ||
41International Journal of Micro Air VehiclesOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.05Q2 | 2.21 0.31 up from 2023 | 47 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
42International Journal of AeroacousticsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.05Q2 | 1.42 0.26 down from 2023 | 105 | 22% | $4,150 | ||
43Journal of Spacecraft and RocketsAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.02Q2 | 2.02 0.32 up from 2023 | 514 | 8% | — | ||
44Aerospace SystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · Singapore | 1.00Q2 | 2.39 0.92 up from 2023 | 181 | 4% | $3,390 | ||
45Journal of Systems Engineering and ElectronicsOAInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · China | 0.97Q2 | 2.42 0.15 down from 2023 | 429 | 100% | — | ||
46Annals of Nuclear EnergyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.97Q2 | 2.54 0.52 up from 2023 | 1,867 | 25% | $2,820 | ||
47IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 0.97Q2 | 1.33 0.40 down from 2023 | 504 | 25% | — | ||
48Drone Systems and ApplicationsOACanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 0.96Q2 | 2.29 0.26 up from 2023 | 54 | 100% | — | ||
49Journal of AircraftAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 0.94Q2 | 2.02 0.42 down from 2023 | 379 | 16% | — | ||
50IET Radar Sonar & NavigationOAInstitution of Engineering and Technology · United Kingdom | 0.94Q2 | 2.02 0.30 up from 2023 | 478 | 100% | $2,620 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Aerospace Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering604
- Mechanical Engineering372
- Biomedical Engineering346
- Civil and Structural Engineering273
- Aerospace Engineering150
- Control and Systems Engineering138
- Mechanics of Materials126
- Computational Mechanics95
- Building and Construction93
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering85
- Ocean Engineering72
- Automotive Engineering42
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality24
- Media Technology22
- Architecture0
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2024. Corpus-wide, 87.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
66 additional Aerospace Engineering journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2021–2023, 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: 2024. Publication window: 2021–2023. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 150
- Window papers (baseline)
- 535,389 -46.2% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 0.65 -7.5% from indicator year 2021
- Rising journals (2025)
- 10
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2021–2023 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.