The ASME Journal of Heat Transfer is abstracted and indexed in the following:

• Applied Science and Technology Index
• AMR Abstracts Database
• Chemical Abstracts
• Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Abstracts (electronic equivalent of Process and Chemical Engineering)
• Civil Engineering Abstracts
• Compendex (electronic equivalent of Engineering Index)
• Corrosion Abstracts
• Current Contents
• E&P Health, Safety, and Environment
• Ei EncompassLit
• Engineered Materials Abstracts
• Engineering Index
• Enviroline (electronic equivalent of Environment Abstracts)
• Environment Abstracts
• Environmental Engineering Abstracts
• Environmental Science and Pollution Management
• Fluidex
• Fuel and Energy Abstracts
• Index to Scientific Reviews
• INSPEC
• International Building Services Abstracts
• Mechanical and Transportation Engineering Abstracts
• Mechanical Engineering Abstracts
• METADEX (electronic equivalent of Metals Abstracts and Alloys Index)
• Petroleum Abstracts
• Process and Chemical Engineering
• Referativnyi Zhurnal
• Science Citation Index
• SciSearch (electronic equivalent of Science Citation Index)
• Theoretical Chemical Engineering