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Best Mechanical Engineering journals

707 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Mechanical Engineering. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 100 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Nature Materials 56.9 99th Q1 SCIE No
2 International Materials Reviews 47.3 99th Q1 SCIE No
3 Advanced Materials 42 99th Q1 SCIE No
4 International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture 35.3 99th Q1 SCIE No
5 Progress in Aerospace Sciences 34.8 99th Q1 SCIE No
6 Science Robotics 32.1 99th Q1 SCIE No
7 Journal of Materials Science and Technology 29.9 99th Q1 SCIE No
8 Applied Mechanics Reviews 28.3 98th Q1 SCIE No
9 Materials Today 27 98th Q1 SCIE No
10 Advances in Applied Energy 26.6 98th Q1 ESCI Yes
11 Composites Part B: Engineering 24.2 98th Q1 SCIE No
12 Applied Energy 22.1 98th Q1 SCIE A No
13 International Journal of Plasticity 21.9 98th Q1 SCIE No
14 Cyborg and Bionic Systems 21.8 98th Q1 SCIE Yes
15 Materials Science and Engineering R: Reports 21.3 98th Q1 SCIE No
16 IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 20.5 97th Q1 SCIE A No
17 Facta Universitatis, Series: Mechanical Engineering 18.3 97th Q1 SCIE Yes
18 Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing 17.6 97th Q1 SCIE No
19 Energy 17.1 97th Q1 SCIE No
20 Desalination 16.1 97th Q1 SCIE No
21 International Journal of Mechanical Sciences 16.1 97th Q1 SCIE No
22 Energy Reports 15.3 97th Q1 SCIE Yes
23 ASEAN Journal of Science and Engineering 15.1 96th Q1 No
24 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine 14.8 96th Q1 SCIE No
25 Materials Today Advances 14.8 96th Q1 SCIE Yes
26 Structural Health Monitoring 14.4 96th Q1 SCIE No
27 Friction 14.2 96th Q1 SCIE Yes
28 International Journal of Minerals, Metallurgy and Materials 13.8 96th Q1 SCIE No
29 Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 13.7 96th Q1 SCIE No
30 Journal of Dynamics, Monitoring and Diagnostics 13.6 96th Q1 ESCI No
31 International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing - Green Technology 13.6 95th Q1 SCIE No
32 npj 2D Materials and Applications 13.6 95th Q1 SCIE Yes
33 Nano Letters 13.5 95th Q1 SCIE No
34 Materials Science and Engineering: A 13.4 95th Q1 SCIE No
35 Journal of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles 13.3 95th Q1 ESCI Yes
36 International Journal of Fatigue 13.2 95th Q1 SCIE No
37 Energy and Buildings 13.1 95th Q1 SCIE No
38 Tribology International 13.1 94th Q1 SCIE No
39 Advances in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 13 94th Q1 ESCI Yes
40 Materials and Design 12.6 94th Q1 SCIE Yes
41 Composites Part C: Open Access 12.2 94th Q1 ESCI Yes
42 International Journal of Robotics Research 12.2 94th Q1 SCIE No
43 Reports in Mechanical Engineering 12.2 94th Q1 No
44 Chinese Journal of Aeronautics 12.1 94th Q1 SCIE No
45 Mechanism and Machine Theory 12 93th Q1 SCIE No
46 Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review 12 93th Q1 SCIE No
47 Thin-Walled Structures 12 93th Q1 SCIE No
48 International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 11.6 93th Q1 SCIE No
49 SAE International Journal of Vehicle Dynamics, Stability, and NVH 11.6 93th Q1 ESCI No
50 Scripta Materialia 11.6 93th Q1 SCIE No
51 International Journal of Impact Engineering 11.4 93th Q1 SCIE No
52 Vehicle System Dynamics 11.3 93th Q1 SCIE No
53 Quantitative InfraRed Thermography Journal 11.3 92th Q1 SCIE No
54 Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal 11.2 92th Q1 SCIE Yes
55 Propulsion and Power Research 11.2 92th Q1 SCIE Yes
56 Defence Technology 11 92th Q1 SCIE Yes
57 International Journal of Thermofluids 11 92th Q1 Yes
58 Applied Thermal Engineering 10.9 92th Q1 SCIE No
59 Materials Research Bulletin 10.7 92th Q1 SCIE No
60 Journal of Alloys and Compounds 10.7 91th Q1 SCIE No
61 IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 10.5 91th Q1 SCIE No
62 Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics 10.4 91th Q1 SCIE No
63 Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics 10.4 91th Q1 SCIE No
64 IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems 10.3 91th Q1 ESCI Yes
65 Experimental and Computational Multiphase Flow 10.2 91th Q1 ESCI No
66 Journal of Sound and Vibration 10.2 91th Q1 SCIE No
67 Marine Structures 10.2 91th Q1 SCIE No
68 Journal of King Saud University - Engineering Sciences 10.2 90th Q1 Yes
69 Dianwang Jishu/Power System Technology 10 90th Q1 No
70 Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 10 90th Q1 SCIE No
71 Smart Energy 10 90th Q1 ESCI Yes
72 Railway Engineering Science 9.8 90th Q1 ESCI Yes
73 International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow 9.7 90th Q1 SCIE No
74 International Journal of Hydromechatronics 9.6 90th Q1 ESCI No
75 Advanced Materials Interfaces 9.6 89th Q1 SCIE Yes
76 Minerals Engineering 9.6 89th Q1 SCIE No
77 ENGINEERING Mechanical Engineering 9.5 89th Q1 SCIE No
78 Materials Technology 9.5 89th Q1 SCIE No
79 International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing 9.4 89th Q1 SCIE No
80 Journal of Pipeline Science and Engineering 9.4 89th Q1 SCIE Yes
81 Nonlinear Dynamics 9.4 89th Q1 SCIE No
82 Materials and Manufacturing Processes 9.2 88th Q1 SCIE No
83 IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering 9.1 88th Q1 ESCI Yes
84 Materials Characterization 9.1 88th Q1 SCIE No
85 European Transport Research Review 9 88th Q1 SCIE, SSCI Yes
86 Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures 9 88th Q1 No
87 Advanced Intelligent Systems 8.9 88th Q1 SCIE Yes
88 International Journal of Engineering Science 8.9 88th Q1 SCIE No
89 NDT and E International 8.9 88th Q1 SCIE No
90 Advances in Manufacturing 8.8 87th Q1 SCIE No
91 Engineering Fracture Mechanics 8.8 87th Q1 SCIE No
92 Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 8.7 87th Q1 SCIE No
93 Structure and Infrastructure Engineering 8.7 87th Q1 SCIE No
94 IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering 8.6 87th Q1 SCIE No
95 Synthetic Metals 8.6 87th Q1 SCIE No
96 Intermetallics 8.5 87th Q1 SCIE No
97 Forces in Mechanics 8.5 86th Q1 ESCI Yes
98 International Journal of Damage Mechanics 8.5 86th Q1 SCIE No
99 Nanomanufacturing and Metrology 8.5 86th Q1 ESCI No
100 European Journal of Mechanics, A/Solids 8.4 86th Q1 SCIE No

Rank and percentile are within the Mechanical Engineering Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-06-09). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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