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).

  1. 1
    Chemical Society Reviews
    38.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of Chemistry
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  2. 2
    Progress in Materials Science
    31.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  3. 3
    Nature Reviews Materials
    31.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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  4. 4
    Progress in Energy and Combustion Science
    30.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  5. 5
    Nano-Micro Letters
    29.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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  6. 6
    Nature Energy
    28.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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  7. 7
    Energy & Environmental Science
    28.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of Chemistry
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  8. 8
    Joule
    25.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  9. 9
    Nature Nanotechnology
    25.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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  10. 10
    Nature Catalysis
    25.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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  11. 11
    Progress in Polymer Science
    22.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  12. 12
    Nature Materials
    21.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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  13. 13
    Advanced Materials
    20.9 cites/paper · Q1
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  14. 14
    Nature Reviews Chemistry
    20.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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  15. 15
    Advances in Colloid and Interface Science
    18.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  16. 16
    Coordination Chemistry Reviews
    18.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  17. 17
    Advanced Energy Materials
    17.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
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  18. 18
    Materials Science and Engineering R Reports
    17.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  19. 19
    Nano Energy
    17.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  20. 20
    Journal of Material Science and Technology
    17.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  21. 21
    Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
    15.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  22. 22
    Light Science & Applications
    15.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Nature
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  23. 23
    International Journal of Plasticity
    15.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  24. 24
    Progress in Aerospace Sciences
    15.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  25. 25
    Carbon Energy
    15.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
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  26. 26
    International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture
    15.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  27. 27
    Nature Electronics
    15.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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  28. 28
    ACS Nano
    15.3 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical Society
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  29. 29
    ACS Energy Letters
    15.1 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical Society
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  30. 30
    Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
    15.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  31. 31
    Journal of Energy Chemistry
    15.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  32. 32
    CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS (CHINESE VERSION)
    14.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  33. 33
    Advanced Functional Materials
    14.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
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  34. 34
    Applied Energy
    13.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  35. 35
    International Materials Reviews
    13.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & Francis
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  36. 36
    Cement and Concrete Composites
    13.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  37. 37
    Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews
    13.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  38. 38
    ACS Catalysis
    13.2 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical Society
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  39. 39
    Journal of Manufacturing Systems
    13.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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  40. 40
    Energy storage materials
    12.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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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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From a 17,786-venue index, the highest-ranked Engineering journals (by Scimago quartile then OpenAlex cites/paper) include Chemical Society Reviews, Progress in Materials Science, Nature Reviews Materials, Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, Nano-Micro Letters. Predatory venues are excluded. The full ranked list with open-access and indexing details is on this page; for a shortlist matched to your specific paper, use the Journal Finder (15 credits; free account starts with 25).

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