Journal rankings · indicator year 2008
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Subfield ranking · 2008
Building and Construction journal rankings 2008
44 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Building and Construction has 44 ranked journals in 2008. The median OJR rose 0.10 on 2007 to 0.68, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.23. The top three are Journal of Composites for Construction, Building Research & Information, and ACI Structural Journal.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2008. 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 2005–2007, the window the 2008 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 Engineering313
- Mechanical Engineering239
- Biomedical Engineering148
- Civil and Structural Engineering144
- Aerospace Engineering139
- Mechanics of Materials105
- Control and Systems Engineering84
- Computational Mechanics83
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering50
- Building and Construction44
- Ocean Engineering41
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality23
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44 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 2007. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2005–2007, the window the 2008 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2005–2007 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 2008. | Compare |
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1Journal of Composites for ConstructionAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.75Q1 | 1.21 0.01 up from 2007 | 196 | 16% | — | ||
2Building Research & InformationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.48Q1 | 1.83 0.27 up from 2007 | 166 | 18% | — | ||
3ACI Structural JournalAmerican Concrete Institute · United States | 2.44Q1 | 0.86 0.02 down from 2007 | 288 | 5% | — | ||
4Energy and BuildingsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.25Q1 | 1.74 0.45 up from 2007 | 510 | 10% | $4,260 | ||
5Journal of Construction Engineering and ManagementAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.89Q1 | 1.25 0.06 up from 2007 | 425 | 12% | — | ||
6Journal of Civil Engineering and ManagementOATaylor & Francis · Lithuania | 1.87Q1 | 1.89 1.63 up from 2007 | 173 | 100% | $517 | ||
7Journal of Information Technology in ConstructionOAConseil International du Bâtiment · Netherlands | 1.58Q1 | 0.94 0.10 up from 2007 | 57 | 100% | — | ||
8Building and EnvironmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.53Q1 | 1.38 0.36 up from 2007 | 909 | 9% | $4,280 | ||
9Wood Science and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.30Q1 | 1.53 0.58 up from 2007 | 191 | 24% | $3,990 | ||
10Science and Technology for the Built EnvironmentTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.24Q1 | 1.17 0.29 up from 2007 | 151 | 5% | — | ||
11Construction InnovationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.23Q1 | 0.68no change | 78 | 14% | — | ||
12Proceedings of the ... ISARCPublisher not listed | 1.19Q2 | 0.32 0.16 up from 2007 | 350 | 27% | — | ||
13Wood Material Science and EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.16Q2 | 0.94 0.27 up from 2007 | 34 | 6% | — | ||
14Journal of Building PhysicsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.10Q2 | 0.76 0.41 down from 2007 | 47 | 5% | $4,150 | ||
15HolzforschungDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.96Q2 | 1.37 0.22 up from 2007 | 362 | 13% | $0 listed | ||
16Journal of Architectural EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 0.91Q2 | 0.44 0.09 up from 2007 | 82 | 12% | — | ||
17European Journal of Wood and Wood ProductsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.85Q2 | 0.90 0.29 up from 2007 | 259 | 27% | $2,590 | ||
18Journal of Facilities ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.79Q2 | 0.57no change | 60 | 15% | — | ||
19Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering SustainabilityThomas Telford Ltd. · United Kingdom | 0.79Q2 | 0.58 0.04 up from 2007 | 90 | 9% | — | ||
20International Journal of Architectural ComputingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.73Q2 | 0.34 0.11 up from 2007 | 125 | 5% | $4,150 | ||
21Building Services Engineering Research and TechnologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.71Q2 | 0.83 0.32 up from 2007 | 78 | 4% | $4,150 | ||
22Coloration TechnologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.70Q2 | 0.89 0.22 up from 2007 | 163 | 15% | $3,950 | ||
23Journal of Wood ScienceOASpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.66Q3 | 0.77 0.01 down from 2007 | 317 | 99% | $1,990 | ||
24Forest Products JournalForest Products Society · United States | 0.65Q3 | 0.62 0.25 up from 2007 | 227 | 0% | — | ||
25Raw materials report/Minerals & energy./Minerals & energyTaylor & Francis · Sweden | 0.64Q3 | 0.52 0.16 up from 2007 | 38 | 21% | — | ||
26URBAN DESIGN InternationalPalgrave Macmillan | 0.64Q3 | 0.22no change | 53 | 22% | $3,190 | ||
27Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Waste and Resource ManagementThomas Telford Ltd. · United Kingdom | 0.60Q3 | 0.38 0.27 up from 2007 | 45 | 0% | — | ||
28ACADIA quarterlyPublisher not listed | 0.54Q3 | 0.11 0.02 down from 2007 | 121 | 87% | — | ||
29eCAADe proceedingsPublisher not listed | 0.52Q3 | 0.16 0.04 down from 2007 | 347 | 92% | — | ||
30International Journal of Construction ManagementTaylor & Francis · Hong Kong SAR China | 0.51Q3 | 0.14 0.19 down from 2007 | 42 | 17% | — | ||
31BioResourcesOANorth Carolina State University · United States | 0.43Q3 | 0.65 0.14 down from 2007 | 110 | 100% | $1,452 | ||
32Architectural Science ReviewTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.43Q3 | 0.44 0.12 up from 2007 | 137 | 11% | — | ||
33Journal of Green BuildingUnited States | 0.40Q3 | 0.26 0.01 down from 2007 | 106 | 100% | — | ||
34Indoor and Built EnvironmentSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.35Q4 | 0.72 0.13 up from 2007 | 192 | 3% | $4,400 | ||
35WIT transactions on ecology and the environmentWIT Press · United Kingdom | 0.31Q4 | 0.17 0.07 up from 2007 | 1,345 | 95% | — | ||
36Pigment & Resin TechnologyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.29Q4 | 0.31 0.09 up from 2007 | 281 | 0% | — | ||
37ASHRAE journalElsevier BV · United States | 0.29Q4 | 0.13 0.03 down from 2007 | 139 | 0% | — | ||
38International Journal of Building Pathology and AdaptationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.28Q4 | 0.13 0.03 up from 2007 | 243 | 8% | — | ||
39Architectural Engineering and Design ManagementTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.24Q4 | 0.14 0.12 down from 2007 | 65 | 15% | — | ||
40Journal of Engineering Design and TechnologyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.24Q4 | 0.17 0.06 up from 2007 | 30 | 9% | — | ||
41Journal of Asian Architecture and Building EngineeringOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.22Q4 | 0.20 0.07 up from 2007 | 203 | 100% | $1,165 | ||
42Open House InternationalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.20Q4 | 0.13 0.06 up from 2007 | 132 | 3% | — | ||
43PROCEEDINGS OF THE 13th ITS WORLD CONGRESS, LONDON, 8-12 OCTOBER 2006Publisher not listed | 0.17Q4 | 0.11 0.03 up from 2007 | 535 | — | — | ||
44The Journal of Engineering Research [TJER]OASultan Qaboos University · Oman | 0.15Q4 | 0.13 0.02 up from 2007 | 32 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Building and Construction highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering313
- Mechanical Engineering239
- Biomedical Engineering148
- Civil and Structural Engineering144
- Aerospace Engineering139
- Mechanics of Materials105
- Control and Systems Engineering84
- Computational Mechanics83
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering50
- Building and Construction44
- Ocean Engineering41
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality23
- Automotive Engineering16
- Media Technology16
- Architecture0
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2008. Corpus-wide, 71.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
22 additional Building and Construction journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2005–2007, 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: 2008. Publication window: 2005–2007. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 44
- Window papers (baseline)
- 29,116 +33.2% from indicator year 2005
- Median OJR
- 0.68 +0.9% from indicator year 2005
- Rising journals (2025)
- 11
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2005–2007 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 | 29 | 30 | 29 | 33 | 35 | 37 | 37 | 41 | 44 | 48 | 52 | 55 | 58 | 63 | 69 | 78 | 82 | 81 | 89 | 91 | 97 | 97 | 93 | 92 | 93 | 88 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 13,123 | 14,694 | 16,252 | 18,200 | 19,800 | 21,852 | 23,801 | 26,688 | 29,116 | 32,294 | 35,190 | 38,652 | 42,757 | 46,315 | 50,141 | 52,962 | 55,108 | 56,320 | 58,104 | 61,397 | 66,299 | 72,078 | 78,281 | 82,464 | 87,016 | 92,857 | |
| Median OJR | 0.38 | 0.39 | 0.64 | 0.576 | 0.63 | 0.672 | 0.65 | 0.575 | 0.68 | 0.6698 | 0.862 | 0.879 | 0.914 | 0.884 | 0.905 | 0.858 | 0.80 | 0.70 | 0.6704 | 0.618 | 0.620 | 0.667 | 0.671 | 0.73 | 0.66 | 0.74 |
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.