Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Subfield ranking · 2003
Civil and Structural Engineering journal rankings 2003
110 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Civil and Structural Engineering has 110 ranked journals in 2003. The median OJR rose 0.15 on 2002 to 0.85, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.71. The top three are National Cooperative Highway Research Program report, ACI Materials Journal, and Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2003. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Engineering (16)
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering232
- Mechanical Engineering181
- Aerospace Engineering118
- Civil and Structural Engineering110
- Biomedical Engineering107
- Mechanics of Materials90
- Computational Mechanics74
- Control and Systems Engineering70
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering37
- Building and Construction33
- Ocean Engineering30
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality16
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110 ranked journals
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Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2002. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2000–2002 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2003. | Compare |
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1National Cooperative Highway Research Program reportUnited States | 4.25Q1 | 1.33 0.62 up from 2002 | 33 | 0% | — | ||
2ACI Materials JournalAmerican Concrete Institute · United States | 3.19Q1 | 0.83 0.30 up from 2002 | 208 | 2% | — | ||
3Journal of Computing in Civil EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.87Q1 | 1.33 0.20 up from 2002 | 115 | 5% | — | ||
4Earthquake SpectraSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.87Q1 | 0.79 0.40 down from 2002 | 166 | 5% | $4,400 | ||
5Automation in ConstructionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.78Q1 | 0.98 0.26 down from 2002 | 173 | 5% | $5,490 | ||
6Thin-Walled StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.63Q1 | 0.93 0.05 up from 2002 | 165 | 5% | $4,440 | ||
7Journal of Constructional Steel ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.51Q1 | 0.94 0.19 up from 2002 | 229 | 9% | $4,310 | ||
8Geotextiles and GeomembranesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.49Q1 | 0.96 0.52 up from 2002 | 81 | 0% | $3,850 | ||
9Marine StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.45Q1 | 1.20 0.79 up from 2002 | 105 | 7% | $4,320 | ||
10Journal of Structural EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.44Q1 | 0.77 0.17 down from 2002 | 682 | 3% | — | ||
11Cement and Concrete CompositesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.29Q1 | 0.86 0.33 up from 2002 | 203 | 6% | $5,120 | ||
12Journal of Transportation EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.28Q1 | 0.82 0.18 up from 2002 | 240 | 7% | — | ||
13Structural and Multidisciplinary OptimizationSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.28Q1 | 1.17 0.24 down from 2002 | 247 | 13% | $3,990 | ||
14Engineering StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.21Q1 | 0.94 0.15 up from 2002 | 503 | 6% | $4,620 | ||
15Computers & StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.18Q1 | 1.12 0.01 up from 2002 | 750 | 7% | $4,200 | ||
16Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.15Q1 | 0.89 0.23 up from 2002 | 509 | 2% | — | ||
17Earthquake Engineering & Structural DynamicsWiley · United Kingdom | 2.15Q1 | 0.95 0.19 up from 2002 | 411 | 9% | $3,760 | ||
18SOILS AND FOUNDATIONSOAElsevier BV · Japan | 2.14Q1 | 0.96 0.03 down from 2002 | 181 | 8% | $1,200 | ||
19Journal of Water Resources Planning and ManagementAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.13Q1 | 1.23 0.26 up from 2002 | 183 | 3% | — | ||
20Journal of Engineering MechanicsAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.07Q1 | 0.92 0.11 down from 2002 | 556 | 3% | — | ||
21Mechanical Systems and Signal ProcessingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.05Q1 | 1.18 0.50 up from 2002 | 204 | 3% | $4,730 | ||
22Cement and Concrete ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.00Q1 | 1.04 0.06 up from 2002 | 819 | 6% | $5,180 | ||
23Journal of Materials in Civil EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.97Q1 | 0.54 0.06 up from 2002 | 193 | 5% | — | ||
24Engineering OptimizationTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 1.91Q1 | 0.94 0.03 down from 2002 | 96 | 0% | — | ||
25Construction and Building MaterialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.81Q1 | 0.65 0.30 up from 2002 | 168 | 9% | $4,540 | ||
26Journal of Infrastructure SystemsAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.77Q1 | 0.52 0.42 down from 2002 | 72 | 0% | — | ||
27Geosynthetics InternationalThomas Telford Ltd. · United Kingdom | 1.76Q1 | 0.87 0.49 up from 2002 | 66 | 0% | — | ||
28Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure EngineeringWiley · United Kingdom | 1.71Q1 | 0.55 0.01 up from 2002 | 125 | 85% | $5,230 | ||
29Computers and GeotechnicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.71Q2 | 0.60 0.01 up from 2002 | 99 | 7% | $3,640 | ||
30Applied RheologyOADe Gruyter · Germany | 1.63Q2 | 0.65 0.72 down from 2002 | 113 | 100% | $1,187 | ||
31Canadian Geotechnical JournalNRC Research Press · Canada | 1.63Q2 | 0.67 0.19 up from 2002 | 391 | 8% | — | ||
32Soil Dynamics and Earthquake EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.58Q2 | 0.88 0.29 up from 2002 | 257 | 8% | $3,900 | ||
33Geotechnical Testing JournalASM International · United States | 1.57Q2 | 0.54 0.04 up from 2002 | 146 | 2% | — | ||
34Journal of Bridge EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.48Q2 | 0.47 0.17 up from 2002 | 199 | 5% | — | ||
35GéotechniqueICE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.47Q2 | 0.50 0.23 down from 2002 | 488 | 7% | — | ||
36International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in GeomechanicsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.46Q2 | 0.77 0.17 up from 2002 | 249 | 9% | $4,530 | ||
37Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and StructuresSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.45Q2 | 0.74 0.25 up from 2002 | 373 | 3% | $4,150 | ||
38Steel and Composite StructuresTechnopress · South Korea | 1.43Q2 | 0.42 0.31 down from 2002 | 74 | 3% | — | ||
39Optimization and EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.40Q2 | 0.95 0.11 up from 2002 | 61 | 7% | $3,190 | ||
40International Journal of Non-Linear MechanicsElsevier BV · United States | 1.40Q2 | 1.12 0.31 up from 2002 | 368 | 6% | $3,750 | ||
41Journal of Sound and VibrationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.38Q2 | 1.09 0.10 up from 2002 | 1,521 | 4% | $4,190 | ||
42Journal of HydroinformaticsOAIWA Publishing | 1.33Q2 | 0.91 0.43 up from 2002 | 69 | 41% | — | ||
43International Journal of Structural Stability and DynamicsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.33Q2 | 0.55 0.07 up from 2002 | 66 | 0% | — | ||
44International Journal of GeomechanicsAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.33Q2 | 0.43 0.16 down from 2002 | 47 | 7% | — | ||
45Vadose Zone JournalOASoil Science Society of America · United States | 1.30Q2 | 1.04no 2002 value | 114 | 6% | $3,070 | — | |
46Journal of Hydraulic ResearchTaylor & Francis | 1.29Q2 | 1.01 0.06 up from 2002 | 197 | 5% | — | ||
47STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING AND MECHANICSTechnopress · South Korea | 1.25Q2 | 0.60 0.22 up from 2002 | 260 | 4% | — | ||
48Civil Engineering and Environmental SystemsTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 1.23Q2 | 0.55 0.26 up from 2002 | 38 | 10% | — | ||
49Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research BoardSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.17Q2 | 0.54 0.03 up from 2002 | 2,090 | 3% | $3,650 | ||
50Advances in Structural EngineeringSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.11Q2 | 0.31 0.13 up from 2002 | 82 | 8% | $4,150 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Civil and Structural Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering232
- Mechanical Engineering181
- Aerospace Engineering118
- Civil and Structural Engineering110
- Biomedical Engineering107
- Mechanics of Materials90
- Computational Mechanics74
- Control and Systems Engineering70
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering37
- Building and Construction33
- Ocean Engineering30
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality16
- Media Technology11
- Automotive Engineering10
- Architecture0
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2003. Corpus-wide, 70.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
51 additional Civil and Structural Engineering journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2000–2002, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2003. Publication window: 2000–2002. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 110
- Window papers (baseline)
- 51,583 +40.1% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 0.85 +2.7% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 18
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2000–2002 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 93 | 98 | 109 | 110 | 114 | 121 | 125 | 137 | 144 | 152 | 152 | 167 | 182 | 206 | 214 | 227 | 232 | 250 | 252 | 265 | 264 | 272 | 276 | 270 | 273 | 268 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 36,827 | 41,941 | 46,402 | 51,583 | 56,781 | 63,168 | 69,794 | 78,239 | 85,369 | 92,947 | 99,637 | 107,834 | 116,706 | 121,981 | 126,351 | 126,756 | 126,030 | 123,708 | 123,691 | 127,144 | 133,854 | 143,029 | 153,935 | 161,425 | 171,082 | 181,235 | |
| Median OJR | 0.83 | 0.88 | 0.71 | 0.85 | 0.91 | 0.86 | 0.81 | 0.9236 | 0.93 | 0.982 | 1.01 | 0.96 | 0.97 | 0.9235 | 0.977 | 0.84 | 0.87 | 0.78 | 0.74 | 0.702 | 0.699 | 0.703 | 0.700 | 0.657 | 0.63 | 0.661 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.