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Journal of Mechanical Design is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.9), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
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ISSN 1050-0472Verify ISSN ↗1528-9001Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design | 19 / 131 | 85th | Q1 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 113 / 740 | 84th | Q1 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 79 / 408 | 80th | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 205 / 1022 | 79th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1978–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.9.
Journal of Mechanical Design is Q1 in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design (rank 19 of 131), Q1 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 113 of 740) and Q1 in Mechanics of Materials (rank 79 of 408), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Mechanical Design is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 7.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 85th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.821, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 153.
Journal of Mechanical Design is published by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Its print ISSN is 1050-0472 and its online ISSN is 1528-9001.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Mechanical Design has an h-index of 167 and a 2-year mean of 2.81 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #34 of 100 Scopus journals in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design.
Journal of Mechanical Design published 192 papers in 2025. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (34.5%), China (25.8%) and Taiwan (5.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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