Engineering · 3,551 journals indexed
Best journals for Engineering
The top Engineering journals ranked by Scimago quartile, then cites/paper (OpenAlex, 2-year window), drawn from a 17,786-venue index. Predatory venues are excluded. These are field-wide rankings — for a shortlist matched to your specific paper, paste your title and abstract into the Journal Finder (a free account starts with 25 welcome credits).
- 1Chemical Society Reviews38.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of ChemistryScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 4Progress in Energy and Combustion Science30.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 5Nano-Micro Letters29.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business MediaOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 7Energy & Environmental Science28.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of ChemistryScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 15Advances in Colloid and Interface Science18.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 18Materials Science and Engineering R Reports17.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 20Journal of Material Science and Technology17.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 21Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews15.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 22Light Science & Applications15.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer NatureOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 26International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture15.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 32CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS (CHINESE VERSION)14.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVScopusWeb of Science
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“Cites/paper” is the OpenAlex 2-year citation rate — a transparent signal, not a licensed Impact Factor. Many regional and open-access journals are strong but aren’t covered by Scimago, so they show “no Scimago quartile”; that’s a coverage gap, not a quality judgement.
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