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Best open-access journals for Engineering

The top Engineering journals open-access only, ranked by Scimago quartile then cites/paper, drawn from an 88,000-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 free Journal Finder.

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  1. 1
    Nano-Micro Letters
    26.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  2. 2
    Nature Communications
    14.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  3. 3
    Light Science & Applications
    14.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Nature
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  4. 4
    Transactions of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Machinery
    12.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Chinese Society of Agricultural Machinery
    Open AccessScopus
  5. 5
    Journal of Nanobiotechnology
    10.9 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed Central
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  6. 6
    International Journal of Mining Science and Technology
    10.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  7. 7
    Journal of Magnesium and Alloys
    10.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  8. 8
    Science Advances
    10.4 cites/paper · Q1 · American Association for the Advancement of Science
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  9. 9
    Energy Strategy Reviews
    10.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  10. 10
    Journal of Advanced Ceramics
    9.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  11. 11
    Bioactive Materials
    9.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  12. 12
    Petroleum Exploration and Development
    9.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  13. 13
    Virtual and Physical Prototyping
    8.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & Francis
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  14. 14
    npj Computational Materials
    8.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  15. 15
    NPG Asia Materials
    8.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  16. 16
    Aggregate
    8.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  17. 17
    Energy Reports
    7.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  18. 18
    National Science Review
    7.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Oxford University Press
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  19. 19
    Ultrasonics Sonochemistry
    7.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  20. 20
    Materials Today Sustainability
    7.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  21. 21
    International Journal of Thermofluids
    7.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopus
  22. 22
    International Journal of Nanomedicine
    7.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Dove Medical Press
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  23. 23
    Microsystems & Nanoengineering
    7.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Nature
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  24. 24
    Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B
    7.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  25. 25
    Advanced Science
    7.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  26. 26
    Case Studies in Chemical and Environmental Engineering
    7.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusPubMed
  27. 27
    Smart Cities
    7.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  28. 28
    Journal of CO2 Utilization
    7.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  29. 29
    ACS Central Science
    7.0 cites/paper · Q1 · American Chemical Society
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  30. 30
    Communications Materials
    6.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  31. 31
    Alexandria Engineering Journal
    6.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  32. 32
    Optica
    6.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Optica Publishing Group
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  33. 33
    Chemical Physics Impact
    6.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  34. 34
    Chemical Science
    6.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Royal Society of Chemistry
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  35. 35
    Batteries
    6.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  36. 36
    Research
    6.4 cites/paper · Q1 · American Association for the Advancement of Science
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  37. 37
    Green Energy & Environment
    6.4 cites/paper · Q1 · KeAi
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  38. 38
    Journal of Materials Research and Technology
    6.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  39. 39
    Underground Space
    6.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  40. 40
    Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
    6.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science

“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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