Mechanical Engineering is a broad branch of engineering that deals with Men, Machines, and materials. Researchers who carry out research works on this branch of study can consider the following journals to publish their research findings. In this article, iLovePhD presented the top 20 Scopus indexed journals in Mechanical Engineering with impact factor based on Google Scholar citation score.
Journals in Mechanical Engineering High Impact Factor Journals
| Rank | Journal name | Scope of the journal | Impact factor | Link |
| 1 | Composite Structures | Composite Structures, an International Journal, disseminates knowledge between users, manufacturers, designers, and researchers involved in structures or structural components manufactured using composite materials. The journal publishes papers that contribute to knowledge in the use of composite materials in engineering structures. Papers deal with design, research, and development studies, experimental investigations, theoretical analysis, and fabrication techniques relevant to the application of composites in load-bearing components for assemblies, ranging from individual components such as plates and shells to complete composite structures. | 5.407 | View |
| 2 | International Journal of Mechanical Sciences | The International Journal of Mechanical Sciences is an international forum for the publication and dissemination of original work which contributes to the greater scientific understanding of the main disciplines underpinning the mechanical, civil, and material engineering sciences. | 5.329 | View |
| 3 | Tribology International | Tribology is the science of rubbing surfaces and contributes to every facet of our everyday life, from live-cell friction to engine lubrication and seismology. As such tribology is truly multidisciplinary and this extraordinary breadth of scientific interest is reflected in the scope of Tribology International. Scientific topics include the physics or chemistry of tribo-surfaces, bio-tribology, surface engineering and materials, contact mechanics, nano-tribology, lubricants, and hydrodynamic lubrication. | 4.872 | View |
| 4 | International Journal of Engineering Science | The International Journal of Engineering Science is not limited to a specific aspect of science and engineering but is instead devoted to a wide range of subfields in the engineering sciences. While it encourages a broad spectrum of contributions in the engineering sciences, its core interest lies in issues concerning material modeling and response. Articles of interdisciplinary nature are particularly welcome. | 8.843 | View |
| 5 | Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids | The aim is to publish research of the highest quality and of lasting significance on the mechanics of solids. The scope is broad, from fundamental concepts in mechanics to the analysis of novel phenomena and applications. The approach can be theoretical, experimental, or computational. This research activity sits within engineering science and the allied areas of applied mathematics, materials science, biomechanics, applied physics, and geophysics. | 5.471 | View |
| 6 | Wear | Wear journal is dedicated to the advancement of basic and applied knowledge concerning the nature of the wear of materials. Broadly, topics of interest range from the development of a fundamental understanding of the mechanisms of wear to innovative solutions to practical engineering problems. Authors of experimental studies are expected to comment on the repeatability of the data, and whenever possible, conduct multiple measurements under similar testing conditions. | 3.892 | View |
| 7 | International Journal of Solids and Structures | The International Journal of Solids and Structures has as its objective the publication and dissemination of original research in Mechanics of Solids and Structures as a field of Applied Science and Engineering. It fosters thus the exchange of ideas among workers in different parts of the world and also among workers who emphasize different aspects of the foundations and applications of the field. | 3.900 | View |
| 8 | Mechanism and Machine Theory | Mechanism and Machine Theory provides a medium of communication between engineers and scientists engaged in research and development. The main research topics include: The main topics are: Design Theory and Methodology; Haptics and Human-Machine-Interfaces; Robotics, Mechatronics, and Micro-Machines; Mechanisms, Mechanical Transmissions, and Machines; Kinematics, Dynamics, and Control of Mechanical Systems; Applications to Bioengineering and Molecular Chemistry | 3.866 | View |
| 9 | Journal of Vibration and Control | The Journal of Vibration and Control is a peer-reviewed journal of analytical, computational, and experimental studies of vibration phenomena and their control. The scope encompasses all linear and nonlinear vibration phenomena and covers topics such as vibration and control of structures and machinery, signal analysis, aero-elasticity, neural networks, structural control and acoustics, noise and noise control, waves in solids and fluids, and shock waves. | 3.095 | View |
| 10 | Engineering Failure Analysis | Engineering Failure Analysis publishes critical reviews on specific mechanisms of failure analysis and original research papers describing failure analysis based on case studies, experimentally validated numerical simulations, and material characterization methods, including fractographic analysis and in-depth investigation of the failures mechanisms on a microscopic scale. | 3.114 | View |
| 11 | European Journal of Mechanics-A/Solids | The European Journal of Mechanics -A/Solids continues to publish articles in English in all areas of Solid Mechanics from the physical and mathematical basis to materials engineering, technological applications, and methods of modern computational mechanics, both pure and applied research. The topics are covered: Mechanics of materials; thermodynamics; elasticity; plasticity; creep damage; fracture; composites and multiphase materials; micromechanics; structural mechanics; stability vibrations; wave propagation; robotics; contact; friction and wear; optimization, identification; the mechanics of rigid bodies; biomechanics. | 4.220 | View |
| 12 | Journal of Mechanical Design | The Journal of Mechanical Design (JMD) serves the broad design community as the venue for scholarly, archival research in all aspects of the design activity with an emphasis on design synthesis. JMD communicates original contributions, primarily in the form of research articles of considerable depth, but also technical briefs, design innovation papers, book reviews, and editorials. JMD serves the broad design community as the venue for scholarly, archival research in all aspects of the design activity with an emphasis on design synthesis. | 3.251 | View |
| 13 | Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures | The central aim of Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures is to promote the dissemination of significant developments and to publish state-of-the-art reviews and technical discussions of previously published papers dealing with the mechanics aspects of advanced materials and structures. Refereed contributions describing new ideas by analytical, numerical, and experimental methods and hybrid approaches that combine theoretical and empirical techniques in the study of advanced materials and structures are published, along with critical surveys of the literature and discussions of papers in the field. | 4.030 | View |
| 14 | Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics | Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics’ aims & scopes have been re-designed to cover both the theoretical, applied, and numerical aspects associated with those cracking-related phenomena taking place, at a micro-, meso-, and macroscopic level, in materials/structures of any kind. The journal aims to cover the cracking/mechanical behavior of materials/components/structures in those situations involving both time-independent and time-dependent systems of external forces/moments. | 4.017 | View |
| 15 | Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering | The Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering publishes manuscripts on research, development, and design related to science and technology in Mechanical Engineering. It is an interdisciplinary journal with interfaces to other branches of Engineering, such as Aerospace, Automotive, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, as well as Physics and Applied Mathematics. | 2.220 | View |
| 16 | Advances in Mechanical Engineering | Advances in Mechanical Engineering is a JCR-ranked, peer-reviewed, open-access journal that publishes a wide range of original research and review articles. The journal Editorial Board welcomes manuscripts in both fundamental and applied research areas and encourages submissions that contribute novel and innovative insights to the field of mechanical engineering. | 1.316 | View |
| 17 | Acta Mechanica | Since 1965, the international journal Acta Mechanica has been among the leading venues in theoretical and applied mechanics. Acta Mechanica gives attention to research in all fields of solid and fluid mechanics with emphasis on concise mechanical and thermodynamical material modeling and related stochastic, computational as well as experimental methods. | 2.698 | View |
| 18 | Vehicle System Dynamics | Vehicle System Dynamics is an international journal, providing a source of information for the vehicle engineer and the applied scientist. The journal emphasizes the theoretical background of research and development problems of all kinds of road, rail and other ground-based vehicles. | 4.665 | View |
| 19 | Meccanica | Meccanica focuses on the methodological framework shared by mechanical scientists when addressing theoretical or applied problems. Original papers address various aspects of mechanical and mathematical modeling, of the solution, as well as of analysis of system behavior. The journal explores fundamental and applications issues in established areas of mechanics research as well as in emerging fields; contemporary research on general mechanics, solid and structural mechanics, fluid mechanics, and mechanics of machines; interdisciplinary fields between mechanics and other mathematical and engineering sciences; interaction of mechanics with dynamical systems, advanced materials, control and computation; electro-mechanics; bio-mechanics. | 2.258 | View |
| 20 | International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics | The International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics provides a specific medium for dissemination of high-quality research results in the various areas of theoretical, applied, and experimental mechanics of solids, fluids, structures, and systems where the phenomena are inherently non-linear. The journal brings together original results in elasticity, plasticity, dynamics, vibrations, wave-propagation, rheology, fluid-structure interaction systems, stability, biomechanics, micro-and nano-structures, materials, meta-materials, and other diverse areas. | 2.985 | View |
I want to submit my research paper for publishing in your esteemed journal. I want to know conditions price etc.