Journals 100

2026 Edition

Engineering

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Rank Name Publisher Publication volume Diversity of authoring institutions Typical FWCI Median FWCI of best work Gravitas Diversity of citing institutions Open access Overall Score
1 Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews Elsevier BV 95.0 88.0 98.8 98.8 100.0 93.2 42.8 95.9
2 Journal of Cleaner Production Elsevier BV 100.0 97.0 97.5 97.4 100.0 95.9 27.0 95.5
3 Advanced Materials — 87.2 84.7 99.6 99.4 100.0 86.3 45.4 95.4
4 Advanced Functional Materials Wiley 94.6 87.8 98.9 98.0 100.0 87.0 37.9 95.2
5 Applied Energy Elsevier BV 99.6 89.1 97.8 95.6 100.0 91.6 41.0 95.1
6 Energy Policy Elsevier BV 84.0 83.2 97.3 98.2 98.6 88.1 55.4 94.2
6 Advanced Energy Materials Wiley 71.4 82.7 99.5 99.3 100.0 83.2 48.0 94.2
6 Resources Conservation and Recycling Elsevier BV 76.7 87.4 97.9 98.1 99.5 92.0 44.7 94.2
9 Energy Elsevier BV 100.0 92.6 96.4 94.6 100.0 92.9 24.0 94.1
10 Sustainable Cities and Society Elsevier BV 80.2 85.9 98.9 98.5 99.0 91.2 30.0 93.9
11 ACS Nano American Chemical Society 70.7 86.8 99.0 98.5 100.0 87.8 33.1 93.7
12 Energy Conversion and Management Elsevier BV 98.0 87.7 96.8 93.1 100.0 90.2 28.8 93.6
13 Journal of Environmental Management Elsevier BV 96.5 95.8 93.5 95.3 99.9 94.8 26.6 93.5
13 Chemical Engineering Journal Elsevier BV 100.0 91.5 96.7 92.8 100.0 90.9 20.5 93.5
15 Renewable Energy Elsevier BV 99.4 91.7 94.3 94.3 100.0 92.1 27.9 93.4
16 Additive manufacturing Elsevier BV 79.5 90.5 96.4 92.8 99.7 90.8 52.9 93.3
17 IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 91.8 90.7 94.2 96.0 99.0 90.7 33.7 93.1
17 Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing Elsevier BV 89.6 86.7 96.2 95.4 99.6 87.7 30.3 93.1
19 Automation in Construction Elsevier BV 73.0 81.4 99.6 99.1 96.7 91.0 32.5 93.0
20 Construction and Building Materials Elsevier BV 100.0 97.8 94.9 89.4 100.0 95.6 22.2 92.9
21 Applied Catalysis B Environment and Energy Elsevier BV 73.4 85.4 99.1 96.5 100.0 83.1 23.8 92.8
22 Materials & Design Elsevier BV 75.9 87.5 92.8 89.9 99.0 90.8 93.9 92.7
23 Joule Elsevier BV 38.6 60.2 99.9 100.0 99.5 80.6 84.9 92.6
24 Energy & Environmental Science Royal Society of Chemistry 49.5 75.7 100.0 99.8 100.0 82.4 41.6 92.5
24 Cement and Concrete Composites Elsevier BV 75.5 84.7 98.8 95.8 97.7 88.5 29.7 92.5
26 Journal of Building Engineering Elsevier BV 99.8 96.1 93.3 88.8 100.0 95.7 23.0 92.3
26 Building and Environment Elsevier BV 88.4 92.0 95.5 92.7 97.6 91.8 34.5 92.3
28 Journal of Energy Storage Elsevier BV 99.7 93.7 93.1 90.0 100.0 93.8 22.7 92.2
28 Nano Energy Elsevier BV 65.7 80.8 98.9 96.6 100.0 84.3 24.4 92.2
30 ACS Energy Letters American Chemical Society 49.9 78.5 99.2 98.2 99.9 84.0 38.9 92.0
31 Energy and Buildings Elsevier BV 92.3 92.5 93.2 89.8 99.4 91.9 35.6 91.9
32 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 77.9 81.5 95.7 97.3 98.5 86.9 23.4 91.7
32 Energy storage materials Elsevier BV 55.2 78.9 99.4 98.0 99.9 83.0 22.7 91.7
32 Journal of Manufacturing Systems Elsevier BV 53.1 85.1 99.7 99.8 94.1 95.0 34.2 91.7
32 Composites Part B Engineering Elsevier BV 65.3 79.9 98.6 96.3 97.3 88.4 32.8 91.7
36 Engineering Structures Elsevier BV 99.5 95.4 91.9 87.7 99.9 92.1 29.4 91.6
36 Case Studies in Thermal Engineering Elsevier BV 90.7 87.9 90.1 88.7 95.7 89.9 94.1 91.6
38 Energy Reports Elsevier BV 99.4 88.4 84.1 87.4 99.8 92.5 92.4 91.4
38 Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering Elsevier BV 76.7 89.1 93.1 93.1 96.0 90.2 62.4 91.4
40 Reliability Engineering & System Safety Elsevier BV 82.4 87.8 99.2 98.0 89.7 91.3 28.7 91.3
41 Journal of Materials Research and Technology Elsevier BV 95.5 90.6 87.3 82.1 99.4 93.5 94.4 91.1
42 Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies Elsevier BV 64.3 81.4 97.6 94.5 95.3 85.2 50.2 91.0
43 Fuel Elsevier BV 99.9 92.7 91.2 85.9 100.0 91.2 23.3 90.7
43 Composite Structures Elsevier BV 93.9 93.9 92.1 85.6 99.4 92.7 30.0 90.7
45 IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 63.8 79.5 95.6 93.5 98.6 82.7 42.8 90.6
45 Journal of Materials Chemistry A Royal Society of Chemistry 93.2 89.9 91.6 87.8 100.0 86.1 27.9 90.6
45 Ocean Engineering Elsevier BV 99.8 92.3 90.7 86.5 99.3 92.4 25.8 90.6
48 Case Studies in Construction Materials Elsevier BV 91.1 94.9 89.0 86.1 93.3 94.7 90.1 90.5
48 Accident Analysis & Prevention Elsevier BV 74.2 95.2 96.5 92.4 93.1 93.0 30.7 90.5
48 International Journal of Hydrogen Energy Elsevier BV 100.0 94.9 89.0 87.3 100.0 93.1 22.7 90.5
48 International Journal of Mechanical Sciences Elsevier BV 74.6 81.7 96.7 93.3 96.5 86.6 25.0 90.5
48 Journal of Material Science and Technology Elsevier BV 66.1 73.0 97.8 96.1 97.6 84.9 18.8 90.5
48 Nature Energy Springer Nature 40.0 53.0 100.0 100.0 99.8 80.1 37.5 90.5
54 Small Wiley 90.1 87.6 91.0 87.7 100.0 87.4 35.7 90.4
55 IEEE Internet of Things Journal Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 79.8 86.3 90.1 94.3 98.8 89.0 30.6 90.3
56 Cement and Concrete Research Elsevier BV 45.1 79.4 98.9 97.2 93.3 84.9 54.1 90.2
57 ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces American Chemical Society 99.6 93.1 90.6 84.2 100.0 89.9 24.5 90.1
58 Sensors and Actuators B Chemical Elsevier BV 99.3 92.6 91.5 84.5 98.7 90.3 22.0 89.9
58 Journal of Colloid and Interface Science Elsevier BV 88.8 84.6 92.9 87.3 99.6 86.8 19.3 89.9
58 Energy Research & Social Science Elsevier BV 64.5 70.0 97.4 97.4 89.2 82.9 73.8 89.9
61 Bioresource Technology Elsevier BV 92.4 92.1 92.2 82.5 100.0 90.2 23.5 89.7
62 Journal of Energy Chemistry Elsevier BV 59.6 77.2 96.9 93.1 98.5 83.0 19.5 89.6
63 Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment Elsevier BV 57.3 77.2 96.7 93.6 94.6 84.2 47.7 89.5
63 Applied Thermal Engineering Elsevier BV 98.4 89.6 89.8 83.7 99.9 90.7 23.6 89.5
63 Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology Elsevier BV 97.0 87.5 96.5 92.4 89.1 86.6 21.0 89.5
66 IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 56.3 81.2 87.9 94.1 99.8 82.6 66.1 89.4
67 Nano-Micro Letters Springer Nature 22.0 59.4 99.9 99.7 90.4 82.5 95.7 89.3
68 Alexandria Engineering Journal Elsevier BV 73.5 75.7 92.4 91.7 89.8 86.7 91.7 89.2
68 Waste Management Elsevier BV 76.0 91.5 93.1 87.4 95.9 91.0 32.6 89.2
70 IEEE Access Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 100.0 97.9 75.9 83.4 100.0 96.2 94.2 88.9
70 Journal of Power Sources Elsevier BV 91.8 90.1 88.6 83.3 99.9 88.5 31.1 88.9
72 Carbon Elsevier BV 69.0 78.8 94.0 95.0 93.9 84.0 28.8 88.8
72 Measurement Elsevier BV 96.3 87.3 86.8 87.9 98.9 89.9 21.6 88.8
74 Biosensors and Bioelectronics Elsevier BV 66.2 89.0 94.5 89.0 94.5 90.3 32.4 88.7
75 Environmental Science and Pollution Research Springer Nature 99.8 96.5 81.4 87.3 100.0 94.0 27.5 88.5
76 Computers and Geotechnics Elsevier BV 91.5 87.9 93.7 91.3 89.0 88.8 26.4 88.4
77 Thin-Walled Structures Elsevier BV 87.7 88.6 91.9 86.7 94.1 88.9 23.3 88.2
78 Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments Elsevier BV 86.5 83.0 89.7 87.5 96.9 88.1 22.2 88.1
79 IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 87.0 85.9 84.4 87.7 99.8 86.5 35.0 88.0
79 Applied Soft Computing Elsevier BV 64.1 79.0 97.1 96.6 88.1 89.8 21.5 88.0
79 Process Safety and Environmental Protection Elsevier BV 94.8 87.6 87.9 86.5 96.0 89.8 23.8 88.0
82 Materials Science and Engineering A Elsevier BV 86.8 90.6 89.8 80.2 98.8 88.3 26.5 87.8
82 International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems Elsevier BV 89.8 84.8 85.8 82.3 98.6 88.0 50.0 87.8
84 Journal of Manufacturing Processes Elsevier BV 80.9 86.3 90.4 83.5 97.4 90.2 24.6 87.7
85 International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer Elsevier BV 93.4 89.4 86.9 80.1 99.3 88.6 29.6 87.6
86 IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 44.4 74.4 98.5 98.3 89.3 80.8 21.2 87.3
86 IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 60.6 89.1 90.3 94.2 89.6 85.4 53.1 87.3
88 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 91.0 80.8 84.7 85.9 99.9 82.2 21.3 87.0
89 Journal of environmental chemical engineering Elsevier BV 95.1 92.8 85.5 78.6 99.0 92.6 21.0 86.9
90 IEEE Transactions on Power Systems Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 78.9 78.5 88.2 82.9 97.4 80.6 43.7 86.7
90 Solar Energy Elsevier BV 79.1 86.5 86.5 83.0 98.6 87.6 28.4 86.7
92 Automatica Elsevier BV 56.8 87.5 90.6 94.8 86.3 86.0 55.4 86.4
92 Sensors Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 100.0 97.6 72.8 75.5 100.0 96.5 93.8 86.4
94 Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence Elsevier BV 73.7 82.6 96.5 96.6 79.5 92.2 24.4 86.3
95 Engineering Geology Elsevier BV 56.7 84.0 98.6 96.5 80.4 86.0 27.8 86.0
95 Journal of Alloys and Compounds Elsevier BV 99.4 92.4 83.8 75.1 100.0 90.1 18.8 86.0
97 International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer Elsevier BV 76.7 86.5 88.4 86.5 93.5 87.4 18.4 85.9
97 IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 85.6 86.5 81.1 81.1 97.6 86.6 56.1 85.9
99 IEEE Transactions on Communications Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 41.9 77.6 83.1 91.5 99.2 79.4 60.5 85.8
100 Physics of Fluids American Institute of Physics 99.9 95.3 80.6 75.8 97.8 93.4 37.7 85.6