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Journal rankings · indicator year 2024

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Subfield ranking · 2024

Biomedical Engineering journal rankings 2024

346 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering

Biomedical Engineering has 346 ranked journals in 2024. The median journal has an OJR of 0.86, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.05 on 2023; Q1 starts at OJR 1.44. The top three are Science Robotics, Biomedical Technology, and Exploration.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2024. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

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.

346
14% of Engineering
Median OJR

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.

0.86+0.05 vs 2023
This subfieldAll 0.77World 1.00
Open-access journals

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.

47%
All fields: 38%
Median listed APC

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.

$2,890
Median positive listed APC: $2,890 among 223 journals. Another 12 list $0; 111 have no known price. All fields: $3,220.

Subfields of Engineering (16)

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346 ranked journals

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Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

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Biomedical Engineering ranking, 2024

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.

OJR

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.

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1Science RoboticsAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science · United States
6.18Q120.98 0.03 up from 202330623%—
2Biomedical TechnologyOAElsevier BV
5.00Q117.42 10.89 up from 202345100%$0 listed
3ExplorationOAWiley · China
4.96Q122.23 3.94 up from 2023197100%$3,500
4Bioactive MaterialsOAElsevier BV · China
4.49Q118.30 1.92 up from 20231,181100%$2,200
5International Journal of Extreme ManufacturingOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom
4.30Q121.70 7.87 up from 2023177100%$3,750
6Green Technologies and SustainabilityOAElsevier BV
4.12Q114.34 4.63 up from 202332100%$400
7Advanced Fiber MaterialsSpringer Science+Business Media · Singapore
3.76Q121.70 4.59 up from 202328510%$3,390
8Current Robotics ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland
3.75Q19.03 1.10 down from 20237450%$3,090
9BMEMatOAWiley
3.71Q113.64no 2023 value50100%$0 listed—
10Cyborg and Bionic SystemsOAAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science · China
3.68Q116.15 5.42 up from 2023114100%—
11IEEE Transactions on RoboticsInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States
3.62Q111.19 0.46 up from 202372931%$2,645
12npj Flexible ElectronicsOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom
3.58Q116.34 2.91 up from 2023185100%$4,090
13BiomaterialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom
3.38Q113.23 0.40 up from 20231,47832%$4,640
14IEEE Reviews in Biomedical EngineeringInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States
3.35Q113.47 4.29 up from 20238368%$2,645
15Nano EnergyElsevier BV · Netherlands
3.29Q117.38 1.07 up from 20233,06717%$5,210
16Nano ConvergenceOASpringer Nature · Germany
3.22Q112.21 2.35 down from 2023150100%$3,990
17Journal of Bioresources and BioproductsOAElsevier BV · Canada
3.18Q113.27 8.77 down from 2023109100%$0 listed
18Biomaterials ResearchOABioMed Central · United Kingdom
2.97Q110.75 1.50 up from 2023264100%$2,700
19Materials Today BioOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom
2.72Q110.80 1.48 up from 2023803100%$3,400
20Smart MedicineOAWiley
2.69Q110.37 4.46 down from 202373100%$3,200
21Nature Reviews BioengineeringSpringer Science+Business Media
2.66Q117.08no 2023 value14026%——
22Acta BiomaterialiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom
2.64Q19.84 0.34 up from 20231,96748%$3,810
23Nano TodayElsevier BV · United Kingdom
2.61Q110.16 1.81 down from 202390318%$4,830
24Engineered RegenerationOAElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.57Q19.17 3.72 down from 2023114100%$700
25Microsystems & NanoengineeringOASpringer Nature · United Kingdom
2.48Q111.01 2.44 up from 2023393100%$3,790
26Alexandria Engineering JournalOAElsevier BV · Egypt
2.34Q18.68 0.79 up from 20232,496100%$1,900
27Biofuel Research JournalOAGreen Wave Publishing of Canada · Canada
2.26Q113.38 2.75 down from 202347100%—
28EngineeringOAElsevier BV · China
2.26Q18.34 1.07 up from 2023806100%$1,300
29Fuel CommunicationsOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom
2.23Q113.04 5.57 up from 202388100%$1,810
30ACS SensorsAmerican Chemical Society · United States
2.20Q19.72 0.65 up from 20231,29624%$4,500
31Advanced Healthcare MaterialsWiley · Germany
2.20Q18.69 0.30 down from 20232,38355%$4,880
32IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and MedicineOAInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States
2.19Q16.10 0.67 up from 2023181100%$2,075
33BME FrontiersOAAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science · United States
2.05Q18.20 2.80 up from 202372100%—
34Biomedical Engineering AdvancesOAElsevier BV · United States
2.00Q17.76 2.23 up from 2023108100%$2,020
35Bioengineering & Translational MedicineOAWiley · United States
2.00Q16.29 0.28 down from 2023409100%$2,890
36Smart Materials in MedicineOAElsevier BV · China
1.96Q19.76 2.43 up from 2023127100%$700
37Biomimetic Intelligence and RoboticsOAElsevier BV · China
1.96Q16.36 2.27 up from 202366100%$1,800
38Bio-Design and ManufacturingSpringer Science+Business Media · Singapore
1.96Q17.12 1.41 down from 202315744%$3,190
39Propulsion and Power ResearchOAElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.95Q16.81 0.85 up from 2023107100%$1,000
40Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Nanomedicine and NanobiotechnologyWiley · United States
1.94Q18.95 1.56 up from 202322157%$4,730
41International Journal of ThermofluidsOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.91Q18.91 0.04 down from 2023473100%$2,520
42Soft ScienceUnited States
1.89Q110.45 6.93 up from 202380100%—
43Materials Science and Engineering CElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.89Q1—no 2023 value611—$3,560
44Progress in Biomedical EngineeringIOP Publishing
1.87Q17.30 1.32 up from 20236662%$4,680
45BiofabricationIOP Publishing · United Kingdom
1.83Q17.58 0.46 down from 202336570%$3,895
46International Journal of NanomedicineOADove Medical Press · New Zealand
1.81Q17.00 0.18 down from 20231,354100%$2,836
47FuelElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.81Q18.23 1.09 up from 20239,83720%$4,330
48Cleaner and Circular BioeconomyOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.77Q15.76 0.51 up from 202366100%$1,270
49NanotheranosticsOAIvyspring International Publisher · Australia
1.76Q19.20 2.41 up from 2023102100%$668
50Fuel Processing TechnologyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.76Q18.33 0.58 up from 2023992100%$3,180

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.

72 additional Biomedical 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2024. Publication window: 2021–2023. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
346
Window papers (baseline)
278,139 +11.3% from indicator year 2021
Median OJR
0.86 +6.4% from indicator year 2021
Rising journals (2025)
33

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.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals94102105107114120130140148161173194201220230248257272281303312327334341346349
Window papers (baseline)55,77559,86064,09169,01774,96382,84091,889103,123114,335126,039136,464148,180161,587174,502188,850200,371208,275213,015217,166225,393235,887249,917263,157272,415278,139288,254
Median OJR0.650.660.7070.7310.670.790.7660.7180.8280.870.8310.8260.7200.7760.7090.740.750.7680.7260.760.7810.810.800.820.860.89

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.