Yale University
Engineering & Applied Science Library

Engineering journals with the highest inflation rates

Subscriptions and package plans that have had price increases of 14% or greater between 1996 and 1997.

Please note: the quotaton marks surrounding some figures are a product of the data conversion process.


Title						1996		% 	1997

Combustion science and technology		"$4,922.00 "	176%	"$13,577.68 "
Engineering					$77.04 		139%	$184.04 
Progress in materials science			$629.00 	101%	"$1,263.00 "
Advances in applied mathematics			$243.96 	74%	$425.00 
Fluid dynamics research				$607.00 	62%	$983.00 
Catalysis today					"$1,845.00 "	51%	"$2,778.00 "
Materials letters				$863.00 	44%	"$1,242.00 "
Aerospace America				$101.65 	37%	$139.10 
Energy sources					$475.00 	36%	$644.89 
AIP All society periodicals plan 
	(Engineering Library titles)		"$13,759.00 "	35%	"$18,608.00 "
International journal of computer vision	$838.00 	35%	"$1,130.00 "
Mechanical engineering				$75.00 	33%	$100.00 
Microelectronic engineering			"$1,135.27 "	32%	"$1,502.28 "
Atomization and sprays				$240.75 	32%	$317.79 
Image and vision computing			$681.59 	31%	$893.45 
Strain						$130.50 	29%	$167.99 
Journal of electron spectroscopy and 
	related phenomena			"$1,793.00 "	27%	"$2,272.00 "
"Applied catalysis A: general  
	(Includes Applied Catalysis, B)"	"$3,970.00 "	27%	"$5,027.00 "
Journal of engineering mathematics		$484.00 	25%	$607.00 
Bioprocess engineering				"$1,174.00 "	25%	"$1,469.00 "
Algorithmica					$299.00 	23%	$369.00 
Journal of chemical technology and 
	biotechnology				$773.68 	23%	$950.00 
Surface science  
	(Includes Surface Science Reports and 
	Applied Surface Science)		"$10,460.00 "	21%	"$12,704.00 "
Random structures and algorithms		$419.44 	21%	$509.32 
Metallurgical and materials transactions.  A, 
	Physical metallurgy and materials science  
	(Includes B)				"$1,428.45 "	21%	"$1,733.40 "
Materials science and engineering.  A, 
	Structural materials:  Properties, 
	microstructure and processing  
	(Includes 
	Materials science and engineering 
	B, C, R)"				"$7,042.00 "	21%	"$8,523.00 "
Mathematical systems theory			$239.00 	21%	$289.00 
Philips journal of research			$183.00 	21%	$221.00 
Journal of biomechanics				"$1,233.00 "	20%	"$1,485.00 "
International journal of heat and mass transfer	"$2,425.00 "	20%	"$2,918.00 "
Acta materialia					$1,135.00 "	20%	"$1,365.00 "
Software: practice and experience		"$1,064.65 "	20%	"$1,278.65 "
Zeitschrift fur angewandte mathematik und 
	physik					$683.00 	19%	$813.82 
Journal of materials science  
	(Includes Journal of materials science letters, 
	Journal of materials science:  materials in electronics, 
	and Journal of materials science:  
	materials in medicine)			"$3,846.65 "	19%	"$4,579.60 "
Optical and quantum electronics			$786.45 	19%	$936.25 
Superlattices and microstructures     		$357.35 	19%	$425.00 
International journal of parallel programming	$475.00 	18%	$561.75 
Optics communications				"$3,146.00 "	18%	"$3,704.00 "
Experiments in fluids				$950.00 	18%	"$1,117.00 "
Materials research bulletin			$939.00 	18%	"$1,104.00 "
Journal of environmental engineering		$250.38 	18%	$294.25 
Scripta materialia				$732.95 	18%	$861.35 
Chemical engineering research & design		$454.75 	17%	$533.93 
Process biochemistry				$492.20 	17%	$576.73 
Applied physics.  A, Materials science and processing  
	(Includes Applied Physics. B)		"$3,021.00 "	17%	"$3,536.00 "
Heat transfer:  Japanese research		"$1,455.20 "	17%	"$1,699.16 "
Optics and laser technology			$595.99 	17%	$695.50 
Journal of applied mathematics and mechanics	"$1,742.00 "	17%	"$2,030.00 "
Chemical engineering science			"$2,537.00 "	17%	"$2,956.00 "
Thin solid films				"$6,384.00 "	16%	"$7,411.00 "
Communications in numerical methods in engineering  
	(Includes International journal for numerical 
	methods in engineering)			"$2,937.15 "	16%	"$3,407.95 "
Aerosol science and technology			$766.12 	16%	$888.10 
Zeitschrift fur physik. B: Condensed matter	"$2,050.00 "	16%	"$2,376.00 "
Circuits, systems, and signal processing	$379.85 	15%	$438.70 
Zeitschrift fur angewandte mathematik und 
	mechanik				"$1,295.00 "	15%	"$1,495.00 "
Journal of the mechanics and physics of solids	"$1,710.00 "	15%	"$1,974.00 "
Ultrasonics  
	(Includes Ulstrasonics sonochemistry)	$830.32 	15%	$956.58 
Progress in energy and combustion science	$700.00 	15%	$806.00 
Linear algebra and its applications		"$2,298.00 "	15%	"$2,645.00 "
International journal of neural systems		$294.25 	15%	$338.12 
Computer vision and image understanding		$456.89 	15%	$525.00 
Journal of non-crystalline solids		"$4,654.00 "	15%	"$5,341.00 "
Acta informatica				$852.00 	15%	$977.00 
Neural Networks					$786.45 	14%	$899.87 
Zeolites:  the international journal of 
	molecular sieves			"$1,063.58 "	14%	"$1,214.45 "
Solid state electronics				"$1,376.00 "	14%	"$1,570.00 "
Journal of crystal growth			"$6,207.00 "	14%	"$7,081.00 "

 

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