Journal rankings · indicator year 2025
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Computational Mechanics journal rankings 2025
98 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Computational Mechanics has 98 ranked journals in 2025. The median OJR fell 0.07 on 2024 to 0.73, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.10. The two highest-scoring journals with stable ranks are Progress in Energy and Combustion Science and Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering: each is likely ranked within the top 3.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2025. 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 2022–2024, the window the 2025 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 Engineering595
- Mechanical Engineering366
- Biomedical Engineering349
- Civil and Structural Engineering268
- Aerospace Engineering141
- Control and Systems Engineering135
- Mechanics of Materials124
- Computational Mechanics98
- Building and Construction88
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering84
- Ocean Engineering71
- Automotive Engineering42
98 ranked journals
Filters
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. The small range under it is the likely rank range: in 95% of 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers, it ranked inside that range. Journals whose ranges overlap are not clearly different. | 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 2024. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2022–2024, the window the 2025 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2022–2024 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 2016 to 2025. A label compares the 2022→2025 change with the median change of the journal’s field or domain. Rising needs a relative change of +10% or more that is at least 2 standard errors above zero; Falling needs -9.1% or less (rounded), at least 2 standard errors below zero. Sorting uses that relative change. | Compare |
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Rank 1; likely between #1 and #1 of 98Progress in Energy and Combustion ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 9.98Q1 | 44.69 2.55 up from 2024 | 93 | 29% | $6,990 | ||
Rank 2; likely between #2 and #3 of 98Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.41Q1 | 8.04 0.54 up from 2024 | 2,235 | 54% | $4,830 | ||
Rank 3; likely between #3 and #6 of 98Combustion and FlameElsevier BV · United States | 1.83Q1 | 6.03 0.28 down from 2024 | 1,607 | 38% | $4,320 | ||
Rank 4; likely between #3 and #15 of 98Advances in AerodynamicsOASpringer Nature · Singapore | 1.67Q1 | 3.52 1.10 up from 2024 | 97 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
Rank 5; likely between #3 and #17 of 98Annual Review of Fluid MechanicsAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.63Q1 | 19.35 0.12 up from 2024 | 66 | 84% | — | ||
Rank 6; likely between #4 and #13 of 98Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid MechanicsOATaylor & Francis · Hong Kong SAR China | 1.56Q1 | 5.73 0.16 down from 2024 | 359 | 100% | $1,993 | ||
Rank 7; likely between #5 and #12 of 98Proceedings of the Combustion InstituteElsevier BV · United States | 1.51Q1 | 3.55 1.75 down from 2024 | 1,148 | 64% | $3,570 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 8; likely between #5 and #18 of 98Applications in Energy and Combustion ScienceOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.46Q1 | 4.91 0.71 down from 2024 | 250 | 100% | $1,910 | ||
Rank 9; likely between #6 and #16 of 98International Journal of Heat and Fluid FlowElsevier BV · United States | 1.45Q1 | 5.04 1.84 up from 2024 | 652 | 24% | $3,420 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 10; likely between #6 and #16 of 98Journal of Fluids and StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.43Q1 | 3.70 0.13 up from 2024 | 479 | 40% | $3,740 | ||
Rank 11; likely between #7 and #16 of 98Journal of Computational PhysicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.42Q1 | 4.00 0.11 up from 2024 | 2,206 | 46% | $3,980 | ||
Rank 12; likely between #6 and #19 of 98SIAM Journal on Numerical AnalysisSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 1.41Q1 | 3.17 0.10 up from 2024 | 342 | 15% | — | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 13; likely between #2 and #62 of 98Journal of Numerical MathematicsDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.39Q1 | 4.11 0.84 up from 2024 | 43 | 64% | $2,712 | ||
Rank 14; likely between #3 and #36 of 98Journal of Scientific ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.37Q1 | 2.60 0.84 down from 2024 | 973 | 29% | $3,290 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 15; likely between #10 and #17 of 98Powder TechnologyElsevier BV · Switzerland | 1.35Q1 | 5.33 0.78 up from 2024 | 3,078 | 20% | $4,610 | ||
Rank 16; likely between #11 and #22 of 98Computers & FluidsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.29Q1 | 3.21 0.02 up from 2024 | 722 | 45% | $3,700 | ||
Rank 17; likely between #12 and #23 of 98ParticuologyElsevier BV · China | 1.25Q1 | 5.07 0.66 up from 2024 | 586 | 17% | $3,090 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 18; likely between #5 and #43 of 98Theoretical and Computational Fluid DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.23Q1 | 3.36 0.65 up from 2024 | 137 | 54% | $3,090 | ||
Rank 19; likely between #15 and #23 of 98Journal of Fluid MechanicsCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.22Q1 | 4.17 0.25 up from 2024 | 3,364 | 71% | $3,550 | ||
Rank 20; likely between #15 and #24 of 98AIAA JournalAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States | 1.22Q1 | 3.13 0.26 up from 2024 | 1,268 | 8% | — | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 21; likely between #12 and #31 of 98Computer-Aided DesignElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.19Q1 | 3.19 0.29 down from 2024 | 292 | 27% | $3,140 | ||
Rank 22; likely between #12 and #34 of 98Journal of HydrodynamicsElsevier BV · Singapore | 1.17Q1 | 3.81 0.31 up from 2024 | 265 | 3% | $3,290 | ||
Rank 23; likely between #17 and #29 of 98International Journal of Multiphase FlowElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.15Q1 | 4.05 0.22 up from 2024 | 798 | 39% | $3,900 | ||
Rank 24; likely between #17 and #33 of 98SIAM Journal on Scientific ComputingSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 1.11Q1 | 3.04 0.29 up from 2024 | 663 | 22% | — | ||
Rank 25; likely between #19 and #33 of 98Experimental Thermal and Fluid ScienceElsevier BV · United States | 1.10Q1 | 3.66 0.19 up from 2024 | 569 | 29% | $3,720 | ||
Rank 26; likely between #19 and #36 of 98Applied Numerical MathematicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.09Q2 | 2.35 0.03 down from 2024 | 699 | 23% | $2,000 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 27; likely between #21 and #33 of 98Advanced Powder TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.08Q2 | 4.66 0.15 up from 2024 | 951 | 23% | $3,170 | ||
Rank 28; likely between #18 and #40 of 98SIAM Journal on OptimizationSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States | 1.07Q2 | 2.43 0.15 up from 2024 | 362 | 11% | — | ||
Rank 29; likely between #20 and #36 of 98Granular MatterSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.07Q2 | 3.16 0.27 up from 2024 | 294 | 28% | $2,590 | ||
Rank 30; likely between #21 and #40 of 98Computational Particle MechanicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.04Q2 | 3.48 0.65 up from 2024 | 418 | 100% | $3,790 | ||
Rank 31; likely between #3 and #81 of 98Advances in Computational Science and EngineeringAmerican Institute of Mathematical Sciences | 1.00Q2 | 2.95 0.46 down from 2024 | 38 | 96% | — | ||
Rank 32; likely between #26 and #43 of 98European Journal of Mechanics - B/FluidsElsevier BV · France | 0.98Q2 | 2.53 0.22 down from 2024 | 360 | 20% | $3,380 | ||
Rank 33; likely between #27 and #41 of 98Computers & Mathematics with ApplicationsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.98Q2 | 2.80 0.12 up from 2024 | 1,243 | 22% | $3,170 | ||
Rank 34; likely between #23 and #45 of 98Mathematics of ComputationAmerican Mathematical Society · United States | 0.97Q2 | 1.90 0.08 down from 2024 | 308 | 17% | — | ||
Rank 35; likely between #29 and #42 of 98Journal of Computational and Applied MathematicsElsevier BV · Belgium | 0.97Q2 | 2.50 0.18 down from 2024 | 1,641 | 25% | $3,250 | ||
Rank 36; likely between #22 and #45 of 98Numerische MathematikSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.97Q2 | 2.23 0.16 up from 2024 | 186 | 55% | $3,190 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 37; likely between #25 and #44 of 98Flow Turbulence and CombustionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.97Q2 | 2.32 0.11 down from 2024 | 301 | 61% | $2,590 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 38; likely between #23 and #47 of 98Theoretical and Applied Mechanics LettersOAElsevier BV · China | 0.96Q2 | 3.02 0.68 down from 2024 | 194 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
Rank 39; likely between #33 and #44 of 98Physical Review FluidsAmerican Physical Society · United States | 0.92Q2 | 3.02 0.29 up from 2024 | 1,539 | 37% | — | ||
Rank 40; likely between #35 and #43 of 98Physics of FluidsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States | 0.92Q2 | 3.72 0.59 down from 2024 | 10,249 | 11% | — | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 41; likely between #16 and #55 of 98Advances in Computational MathematicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.90Q2 | 2.60 0.57 up from 2024 | 292 | 40% | $3,190 | ||
Rank 42; likely between #33 and #46 of 98Acta Mechanica SinicaSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.90Q2 | 3.48 0.21 down from 2024 | 621 | 5% | $4,190 | ||
Rank 43; likely between #35 and #46 of 98Experiments in FluidsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.88Q2 | 2.69 0.06 up from 2024 | 565 | 52% | $2,590 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 44; likely between #27 and #52 of 98FlowOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.86Q2 | 2.17 0.44 down from 2024 | 111 | 100% | $2,920 | ||
Rank 45; likely between #21 and #64 of 98Graphical ModelsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.84Q2 | 2.15 0.59 down from 2024 | 77 | 100% | $2,180 | ||
Rank 46; likely between #35 and #57 of 98Computer Aided Geometric DesignElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.79Q2 | 1.86 0.16 down from 2024 | 173 | 29% | $2,930 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 47; likely between #30 and #58 of 98BIT Numerical MathematicsSpringer Science+Business Media | 0.79Q2 | 1.63 0.04 up from 2024 | 139 | 59% | $3,190 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 48; likely between #35 and #56 of 98International Journal for Numerical Methods in FluidsWiley · United Kingdom | 0.78Q2 | 2.23 0.29 up from 2024 | 267 | 51% | $4,220 | ||
Rank 49; likely between #42 and #56 of 98IMA Journal of Numerical AnalysisOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.76Q2 | 1.62 0.05 down from 2024 | 299 | 37% | $3,718 | ||
Rank 50; likely between #40 and #64 of 98Optimization methods & softwareTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.71Q3 | 1.58 0.10 up from 2024 | 180 | 38% | — |
11 Computational Mechanics journals are labelled rising: their OJR moved up between 2022 and 2025 clearly faster than the median journal of their field or domain.
A journal is rising when its OJR grew from 2022 to 2025 faster than the median journal of its field (or domain, when the field is small), by two tests: the relative change is +10% or more, and it is at least 2 standard errors above zero. So the range of the change at 2 standard errors stays above zero, though not necessarily above +10%.
The bar is that range on a ratio scale; the shaded band, -9.1% to +10%, holds changes too small for a label. The list is ordered by the low end of the range, so the surest rises come first.
- 1BIT Numerical MathematicsSpringer Science+Business Media+95% vs groupOJR 0.46 → 0.79range +35% to +182%
- 2Applied Numerical MathematicsElsevier BV · Netherlands+39% vs groupOJR 0.89 → 1.09range +19% to +62%
- 3SIAM Journal on Numerical AnalysisSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics · United States+44% vs groupOJR 1.11 → 1.41range +14% to +82%
- 4Communications on Applied Mathematics and ComputationSpringer Science+Business Media · Singapore+61% vs groupOJR 0.45 → 0.64range +13% to +130%
- 5International Journal of Heat and Fluid FlowElsevier BV · United States+29% vs groupOJR 1.27 → 1.45range +11% to +50%
- 6Numerische MathematikSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany+44% vs groupOJR 0.76 → 0.97range +8.4% to +91%
- 7Proceedings of the Combustion InstituteElsevier BV · United States+22% vs groupOJR 1.40 → 1.51range +8.4% to +37%
- 8Journal of Scientific ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands+80% vs groupOJR 0.87 → 1.37range +7.0% to +201%
- 9ESAIM Mathematical Modelling and Numerical AnalysisEDP Sciences · France+37% vs groupOJR 0.59 → 0.71range +5.9% to +78%
- 10ParticuologyElsevier BV · China+26% vs groupOJR 1.13 → 1.25range +5.2% to +50%
- 11Computer Aided Geometric DesignElsevier BV · Netherlands+34% vs groupOJR 0.67 → 0.79range +0.8% to +78%
No-label zone, -9.1% to +10%Group median changeBar scale -69% to +218% (ratio scale)
11 Computational Mechanics journals are labelled falling: their OJR moved between 2022 and 2025 clearly behind the median journal of their field or domain.
A journal is falling when its OJR changed from 2022 to 2025 by less than the median journal of its field (or domain, when the field is small), by two tests: the relative change is -9.1% or less (rounded), and it is at least 2 standard errors below zero. So the range of the change at 2 standard errors stays below zero, though not necessarily below -9.1%.
The bar is that range on a ratio scale; the shaded band, -9.1% to +10%, holds changes too small for a label. The list is ordered by the high end of the range, so the surest falls come first.
- 1Comptes Rendus MécaniqueOAAcadémie des sciences · France-48% vs groupOJR 0.67 → 0.31range -68% to -16%
- 2International journal of computational fluid dynamicsTaylor & Francis · Netherlands-43% vs groupOJR 0.77 → 0.39range -63% to -13%
- 3Physics of FluidsAmerican Institute of Physics · United States-18% vs groupOJR 1.27 → 0.92range -22% to -13%
- 4Numerical Methods for Partial Differential EquationsWiley · United States-29% vs groupOJR 0.98 → 0.61range -42% to -13%
- 5Combustion Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom-23% vs groupOJR 0.78 → 0.53range -34% to -9.9%
- 6Communications in Computational PhysicsCambridge University Press · Hong Kong SAR China-36% vs groupOJR 1.05 → 0.59range -55% to -9.7%
- 7Flow Turbulence and CombustionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands-23% vs groupOJR 1.43 → 0.97range -38% to -4.6%
- 8Experiments in FluidsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany-15% vs groupOJR 1.18 → 0.88range -26% to -3.4%
- 9AIAA JournalAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics · United States-14% vs groupOJR 1.61 → 1.22range -24% to -3.1%
- 10Fluid Dynamics ResearchIOP Publishing · Netherlands-34% vs groupOJR 0.65 → 0.38range -56% to -1.1%
- 11Atomization and SpraysBegell House · United States-30% vs groupOJR 0.49 → 0.30range -51% to -1.1%
No-label zone, -9.1% to +10%Group median changeBar scale -70% to +231% (ratio scale)
Subfields of Engineering, with Computational Mechanics highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering595
- Mechanical Engineering366
- Biomedical Engineering349
- Civil and Structural Engineering268
- Aerospace Engineering141
- Control and Systems Engineering135
- Mechanics of Materials124
- Computational Mechanics98
- Building and Construction88
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering84
- Ocean Engineering71
- Automotive Engineering42
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality23
- Media Technology21
- Architecture0
- General Engineering0
Journals
The endpoints below each rank show its likely range. How rank ranges are calculated
Citations made in 2025. Corpus-wide, 84.3% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
12 additional Computational Mechanics journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2022–2024, 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: 2025. Publication window: 2022–2024. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 98
- Window papers (baseline)
- 73,468 -6.1% from indicator year 2022
- Median OJR
- 0.73 -14.8% from indicator year 2022
- Rising journals (2025)
- 11
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2022–2024 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 | 60 | 65 | 69 | 74 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 80 | 83 | 83 | 83 | 90 | 95 | 97 | 97 | 99 | 105 | 103 | 103 | 102 | 103 | 102 | 94 | 96 | 95 | 98 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 36,165 | 38,765 | 40,500 | 43,030 | 44,729 | 47,165 | 50,494 | 53,211 | 56,063 | 58,071 | 59,829 | 62,248 | 65,214 | 67,674 | 70,379 | 72,114 | 73,090 | 72,766 | 72,858 | 73,849 | 76,122 | 77,791 | 78,271 | 75,603 | 72,795 | 73,468 | |
| Median OJR | 1.14 | 1.36 | 1.31 | 1.39 | 1.33 | 1.51 | 1.41 | 1.25 | 1.24 | 1.23 | 1.27 | 1.28 | 1.19 | 1.17 | 1.16 | 1.20 | 1.11 | 1.18 | 1.0036 | 1.0039 | 0.95 | 0.81 | 0.86 | 0.84 | 0.80 | 0.73 |
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.