Journal profile · Medicine-Rehabilitation

Biomechanics

ISSN 2673-7078 · MDPI AG · Switzerland

Biomechanics: CAS Zone 3 · Engineering (2026 Xinrui edition); impact factor 1.4 (journal website); fully open access; APC charged, amount not published; review about 6 weeks (community reports); 108 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.

Impact factor1.4From the journal's website, 2025 value
CAS zoneZone 3 · Engineering2026 Xinrui edition, major category
Review timeabout 6 weeksCommunity average
APCCharged, amount not publishedFully open access
Acceptance—No reports yet
Articles per year1082025 · OpenAlex count

Scope

Aims, scope and focus

Biomechanics is published by MDPI AG and is classed under Engineering in the CAS Journal Ranking. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Sports Performance and Training, Sports injuries and prevention and Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention, together about 32.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Biomedical Engineering. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Motion and Sports Biomechanics, Posture and Gait Analysis; Injury Biomechanics, Kinesiology and Rehabilitation; Cardiovascular, Musculoskeletal and Orthopedic Biomechanics; Tissue Biomechanics; Implant (Medicine), Orthotics, and Prosthesis; Computational Biomechanics; Biomechanical Modelling; Animal Locomotion.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Medicine-Rehabilitation

Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate

  1. Sports Performance and TrainingMedicine12.9%
  2. Sports injuries and preventionMedicine11.1%
  3. Balance, Gait, and Falls PreventionHealth Professions8.4%
  4. Muscle activation and electromyography studiesEngineering8.4%
  5. Lower Extremity Biomechanics and PathologiesEngineering7.9%
  6. Knee injuries and reconstruction techniquesMedicine5.6%
  7. Elasticity and Material ModelingEngineering5.1%
  8. Cerebral Palsy and Movement DisordersMedicine4.4%

Rankings & indexing

CAS ranking and database indexing

CAS Journal Ranking

CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered

Not covered by this edition.

CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Engineering Zone 3
LevelCategoryZone
MajorEngineeringZone 3
MinorBiophysicsZone 4
MinorEngineering, BiomedicalZone 4
MinorSport SciencesZone 4

Top journal: noReview journal: not marked

CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered

Not covered by this edition.

Database indexing

ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

Web of SciencePublisher website

Other: EBSCO

As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.

Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.

Metrics

Impact metrics and publication volume

Impact

Impact factor (publisher) 2025
1.4Publisher website ·
5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
1.7Publisher website ·
CiteScore 2026-06
1.9LetPub ·
CiteScore (publisher)
1.9Publisher website ·
SJR 2026-06
0.33LetPub ·
SNIP 2026-06
0.69LetPub ·
h-index
23OpenAlex ·
i10-index
58OpenAlex ·
2-year mean citedness
1.38OpenAlex ·
Self-citation rate
7.1%LetPub ·
Share of gold OA articles
100%LetPub ·

Volume

Articles per year
107LetPub ·

Articles by year OpenAlex count · 625 in total · the current year is incomplete

YearArticlesOpen accessCitations
2026888828
2025108108163
20246060161
20234747281
20224848268
20212929397

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Review & acceptance

Review time and acceptance

Average review time (community reports)
about 6 weeksLetPub ·
Submission to first decision
20.7 daysPublisher website ·
Acceptance to publication
8.2 daysPublisher website ·
Submission to publication (journal-reported)
about 6 weeksDOAJ ·
Peer review
Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

Fees & open access

APC and open-access policy

Fully open accessDOAJ

Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).

SourceAPCFee waiverLicenseObserved
DOAJCHF 1,000YesCC BY
OpenAlexCHF 1,000——
LetPubCHF 1,000Yes—
Publisher websiteYes, amount not published——

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Submission

Article types and submission policies (journal website)

What to prepare7 items from the author guidelines
Reference style
Author–date
Templates
LaTeX and Word
First submission
Free format: the journal's layout is not required
Suggested reviewers
Required, 3
Graphical abstract
Optional
Cover letter
Required
Not considered
Narrative review
Publisher website · model-extracted, each line checked against the text
Article types accepted19
  1. articleArticle: These are original research manuscripts. The work should report scientifically sound experiments and provide a substantial amount of new information. T…Length not stated
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Publisher website
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Preprints
Authorship Authorship

MDPI follows the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) guidelines which state that, in order to qualify for authorship of a manuscript, the following criteria should be observed: Make substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work, or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; Draft the work or review it critically for important intel…

Source ↗Publisher website ·
Conflicts of interest Conflicts of Interest

According to The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, “Authors should avoid entering into agreements with study sponsors, both for-profit and non-profit, that interfere with authors’ access to all of the study’s data or that interfere with their ability to analyze and interpret the data and to prepare and publish manuscripts independently when and where they choose.” All authors mus…

Source ↗Publisher website ·
Data availability Data availability statements

Data availability statements are required for all articles published with MDPI. During the peer review and editorial decision process, authors can be asked to share existing datasets or raw data that have been analyzed in the manuscript, and whether they will be made available to other researchers following publication. Authors will also be asked for the details of any existing datasets that have …

Source ↗Publisher website ·
Publication ethics Publication Ethics Statement

MDPI is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). We fully adhere to its Code of Conduct and to its Best Practice Guidelines. The editors of this journal enforce a rigorous peer review process together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification,…

Source ↗Publisher website ·
License & copyright Copyright / Open Access

Articles published in Biomechanics will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text: © 2026 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms a…

Source ↗Publisher website ·
Open access Open access publication fees

If you transfer your manuscript to another open access (OA) journal, you will be charged an Article Processing Charge (APC) if your article is accepted for publication. The APC for each journal can be found on the individual journal’s website. For more information about APCs, please see here.

Source ↗Publisher website ·
Peer review Editorial Process and Peer Review

All submissions are thoroughly peer-reviewed by experts within the field and undergo a structured editorial workflow designed to ensure quality, transparency, and scientific integrity. The full editorial procedure is available on the Editorial Process page and is also provided below. Pre-check Pre-check consists of a technical pre-check performed by the Editorial Office and an editorial pre-check …

Source ↗Publisher website ·
Preprints Preprints and Conference Papers

Biomechanics accepts submissions that have previously been made available as preprints provided that they have not undergone peer review. A preprint is a draft version of a paper made available online before submission to a journal. MDPI operates Preprints, a preprint server to which submitted papers can be uploaded directly after completing journal submission. Note that Preprints operates indepen…

Source ↗Publisher website ·

Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.

Profile

Publication details and official links

Publisher
MDPI AG
Country or region
Switzerland
Language
English
ISSN
2673-7078
Latest issue on the website
Volume 6 (2026)
Official links

FAQ

Frequently asked questions about Biomechanics

What CAS zone is Biomechanics in?

In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Engineering. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.

What is the impact factor of Biomechanics?

The journal's website gives an impact factor of 1.4 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 1.9, h-index 23.

How long does peer review take at Biomechanics?

Authors report an average review time of about 6 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.

What are the manuscript requirements of Biomechanics?

According to the journal's author guidelines: Reference style: Author–date; Templates: LaTeX and Word; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Required, 3; Graphical abstract: Optional; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.

Which databases index Biomechanics?

According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Biomechanics is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists Web of Science; that list has not been checked against each database.

Is Biomechanics open access, and what is the APC?

Biomechanics is a fully open-access journal. APC charged, amount not published.

Sources and updates

The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .