Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Subfield ranking · 2024
Mechanics of Materials journal rankings 2024
126 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Mechanics of Materials has 126 ranked journals in 2024. The median OJR fell 0.06 on 2023 to 0.76, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.30. The top three are Applied Mechanics Reviews, International Journal of Mining Science and Technology, and Petroleum Exploration and Development.
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
126 ranked journals
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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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1Applied Mechanics ReviewsAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers · United States | 4.03Q1 | 15.50 3.68 up from 2023 | 38 | 17% | — | ||
2International Journal of Mining Science and TechnologyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.84Q1 | 13.06 1.47 up from 2023 | 336 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
3Petroleum Exploration and DevelopmentOAElsevier BV · China | 3.21Q1 | 8.93 0.47 up from 2023 | 357 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
4Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical EngineeringOAElsevier BV · China | 3.15Q1 | 9.14 0.36 up from 2023 | 628 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
5International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining SciencesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.95Q1 | 8.12 0.90 up from 2023 | 766 | 34% | $4,110 | ||
6International Journal of Coal Science & TechnologyOASpringer International Publishing · China | 2.37Q1 | 9.19 1.61 up from 2023 | 260 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
7Rock Mechanics BulletinOAElsevier BV | 2.25Q1 | 7.12 1.47 up from 2023 | 52 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
8Rock Mechanics and Rock EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 2.21Q1 | 6.73 1.05 up from 2023 | 1,334 | 19% | $3,990 | ||
9Composites Part A Applied Science and ManufacturingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.19Q1 | 9.27 0.77 up from 2023 | 1,405 | 37% | $4,480 | ||
10Composite StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.18Q1 | 7.35 0.67 up from 2023 | 3,584 | 32% | $4,660 | ||
11ADVANCES IN GEO-ENERGY RESEARCHOAAustralia | 2.13Q1 | 7.07 0.27 down from 2023 | 187 | 100% | — | ||
12Composites Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.11Q1 | 10.04 1.54 up from 2023 | 1,413 | 20% | $4,610 | ||
13Engineering With ComputersSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.92Q1 | 5.14 1.38 down from 2023 | 688 | 45% | $2,190 | ||
14International Journal of FatigueElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.90Q1 | 7.02 1.20 up from 2023 | 1,603 | 34% | $3,940 | ||
15Composites Part C Open AccessOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.90Q1 | 6.98 0.78 up from 2023 | 306 | 100% | $2,400 | ||
16International Journal of Coal GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.82Q1 | 5.90 0.10 up from 2023 | 372 | 44% | $4,090 | ||
17Natural Gas Industry BOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.81Q1 | 7.43 2.00 up from 2023 | 169 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
18Petroleum ScienceOAElsevier BV · China | 1.81Q1 | 5.58 0.01 down from 2023 | 776 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
19Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the EnvironmentSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.75Q1 | 4.45 0.46 up from 2023 | 1,419 | 12% | $3,990 | ||
| 1.74Q1 | 5.04 0.93 up from 2023 | 57 | 100% | $0 listed | |||
21Quantitative InfraRed Thermography JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.73Q1 | 5.27 0.09 down from 2023 | 58 | 16% | — | ||
22Theoretical and Applied Fracture MechanicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.71Q1 | 5.71 0.65 up from 2023 | 1,156 | 19% | $3,730 | ||
23Defence TechnologyOAElsevier BV · China | 1.71Q1 | 5.16 0.85 up from 2023 | 612 | 100% | — | ||
24Geohazard MechanicsOAElsevier BV | 1.71Q1 | 4.31 2.54 up from 2023 | 35 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
25Applied Mathematical ModellingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.65Q1 | 5.54 0.81 up from 2023 | 1,475 | 20% | $4,510 | ||
26Engineering Fracture MechanicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.65Q1 | 5.53 0.84 up from 2023 | 1,720 | 24% | $4,120 | ||
27FirePhysChemOAElsevier BV · China | 1.52Q1 | 3.83 0.12 down from 2023 | 144 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
28NDT & E InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.49Q1 | 4.79 0.33 up from 2023 | 443 | 38% | $4,440 | ||
29Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of SolidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.41Q1 | 6.00 1.11 up from 2023 | 791 | 52% | $4,220 | ||
30Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-ResourcesOASpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.41Q1 | 4.38 0.44 up from 2023 | 480 | 100% | $3,890 | ||
31Energetic Materials FrontiersOAElsevier BV · China | 1.33Q1 | 3.09 0.23 down from 2023 | 133 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
32Marine and Petroleum GeologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.30Q1 | 3.79 0.04 down from 2023 | 1,451 | 30% | $3,440 | ||
33UltrasonicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.27Q2 | 4.62 0.49 up from 2023 | 664 | 32% | $3,680 | ||
34Computational MechanicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.24Q2 | 4.02 0.03 up from 2023 | 477 | 65% | $3,990 | ||
35Forces in MechanicsOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.19Q2 | 4.40 0.50 up from 2023 | 206 | 100% | $2,050 | ||
36Energy GeoscienceOAElsevier BV · China | 1.19Q2 | 3.46 0.37 up from 2023 | 208 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
37European Journal of Mechanics - A/SolidsElsevier BV · France | 1.16Q2 | 4.22 0.01 down from 2023 | 742 | 32% | $4,040 | ||
38Spectrochimica Acta Part B Atomic SpectroscopyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.15Q2 | 3.88 0.63 up from 2023 | 512 | 45% | $3,530 | ||
39Engineering Analysis with Boundary ElementsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.14Q2 | 4.25 0.11 down from 2023 | 1,151 | 13% | $3,590 | ||
40International Journal of Engineering ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.13Q2 | 5.78 0.08 up from 2023 | 267 | 49% | $4,980 | ||
41Finite Elements in Analysis and DesignElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.13Q2 | 3.18 0.47 down from 2023 | 234 | 58% | $2,990 | ||
42Unconventional ResourcesOAElsevier BV · China | 1.12Q2 | 3.66 1.84 down from 2023 | 70 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
43Energy Science & EngineeringOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.08Q2 | 4.07 0.03 up from 2023 | 758 | 100% | $2,780 | ||
44International Journal of Solids and StructuresElsevier BV · United States | 1.05Q2 | 3.80 0.35 up from 2023 | 1,099 | 74% | $3,790 | ||
45International Journal of Damage MechanicsSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.05Q2 | 4.08 0.19 down from 2023 | 166 | 32% | $4,400 | ||
46Mechanics of MaterialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.04Q2 | 4.20 0.72 up from 2023 | 766 | 37% | $3,850 | ||
47International Journal of Adhesion and AdhesivesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.02Q2 | 3.76 0.03 up from 2023 | 600 | 31% | $3,760 | ||
48Journal of Peridynamics and Nonlocal ModelingSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 0.98Q2 | 2.55 0.19 down from 2023 | 66 | 36% | $2,990 | ||
49Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & StructuresWiley · United Kingdom | 0.94Q2 | 3.24 0.03 up from 2023 | 771 | 49% | $3,860 | ||
50AAPG BulletinAmerican Association of Petroleum Geologists · United States | 0.93Q2 | 2.73 0.12 down from 2023 | 271 | 7% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Mechanics of Materials 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.
9 additional Mechanics of Materials 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
- 126
- Window papers (baseline)
- 109,306 +2.8% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 0.76 -17.0% from indicator year 2021
- Rising journals (2025)
- 14
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 |
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| 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.