Journal rankings · indicator year 2009
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Subfield ranking · 2009
Building and Construction journal rankings 2009
48 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Building and Construction has 48 ranked journals in 2009. The median journal has an OJR of 0.67, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2008; Q1 starts at OJR 1.19. The top three are Journal of Composites for Construction, Energy and Buildings, and ACI Structural Journal.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2009. 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 2006–2008, the window the 2009 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 Engineering339
- Mechanical Engineering248
- Biomedical Engineering161
- Aerospace Engineering153
- Civil and Structural Engineering152
- Mechanics of Materials106
- Control and Systems Engineering86
- Computational Mechanics83
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering51
- Building and Construction48
- Ocean Engineering40
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality23
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48 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 2008. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2006–2008, the window the 2009 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2006–2008 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 2009. | Compare |
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1Journal of Composites for ConstructionAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.77Q1 | 1.33 0.12 up from 2008 | 207 | 6% | — | ||
2Energy and BuildingsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.60Q1 | 2.10 0.36 up from 2008 | 552 | 8% | $4,260 | ||
3ACI Structural JournalAmerican Concrete Institute · United States | 2.34Q1 | 0.90 0.04 up from 2008 | 270 | 9% | — | ||
4Building Research & InformationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.25Q1 | 1.86 0.03 up from 2008 | 153 | 31% | — | ||
5Journal of Civil Engineering and ManagementOATaylor & Francis · Lithuania | 2.15Q1 | 2.38 0.49 up from 2008 | 140 | 100% | $517 | ||
6Journal of Construction Engineering and ManagementAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.05Q1 | 1.36 0.10 up from 2008 | 380 | 8% | — | ||
7Building and EnvironmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.91Q1 | 1.64 0.26 up from 2008 | 795 | 11% | $4,280 | ||
8Journal of Information Technology in ConstructionOAConseil International du Bâtiment · Netherlands | 1.86Q1 | 1.65 0.71 up from 2008 | 64 | 100% | — | ||
9Science and Technology for the Built EnvironmentTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.43Q1 | 1.43 0.26 up from 2008 | 170 | 2% | — | ||
10Building SimulationSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 1.39Q1 | 1.06no 2008 value | 32 | 17% | $4,090 | — | |
11Wood Science and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.37Q1 | 0.98 0.54 down from 2008 | 174 | 23% | $3,990 | ||
12URBAN DESIGN InternationalPalgrave Macmillan | 1.19Q1 | 0.52 0.30 up from 2008 | 60 | 32% | $3,190 | ||
13European Journal of Wood and Wood ProductsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.16Q2 | 0.95 0.04 up from 2008 | 217 | 26% | $2,590 | ||
14Journal of Building PhysicsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.14Q2 | 1.00 0.24 up from 2008 | 47 | 7% | $4,150 | ||
15Raw materials report/Minerals & energy./Minerals & energyTaylor & Francis · Sweden | 1.02Q2 | 0.40 0.12 down from 2008 | 41 | 17% | — | ||
16Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering SustainabilityThomas Telford Ltd. · United Kingdom | 0.95Q2 | 0.61 0.03 up from 2008 | 79 | 18% | — | ||
17HolzforschungDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.90Q2 | 1.05 0.32 down from 2008 | 405 | 16% | $0 listed | ||
18Journal of Architectural EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 0.85Q2 | 0.25 0.19 down from 2008 | 83 | 21% | — | ||
19Building Services Engineering Research and TechnologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.83Q2 | 1.28 0.45 up from 2008 | 76 | 9% | $4,150 | ||
20Coloration TechnologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.80Q2 | 0.98 0.10 up from 2008 | 158 | 16% | $3,950 | ||
21BioResourcesOANorth Carolina State University · United States | 0.80Q2 | 1.26 0.60 up from 2008 | 222 | 100% | $1,452 | ||
22Construction InnovationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.79Q2 | 0.51 0.17 down from 2008 | 66 | 28% | — | ||
23Wood Material Science and EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.74Q2 | 0.44 0.50 down from 2008 | 50 | 4% | — | ||
24Architectural Science ReviewTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.68Q2 | 0.51 0.07 up from 2008 | 136 | 18% | — | ||
25Forest Products JournalForest Products Society · United States | 0.66Q3 | 0.69 0.07 up from 2008 | 203 | 3% | — | ||
26Journal of Facilities ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.66Q3 | 0.71 0.14 up from 2008 | 65 | 8% | — | ||
27Proceedings of the ... ISARCPublisher not listed | 0.65Q3 | 0.17 0.15 down from 2008 | 380 | 25% | — | ||
28Indoor and Built EnvironmentSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.61Q3 | 0.78 0.06 up from 2008 | 186 | 12% | $4,400 | ||
29International Journal of Architectural ComputingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.60Q3 | 0.31 0.03 down from 2008 | 127 | 18% | $4,150 | ||
30ACADIA quarterlyPublisher not listed | 0.58Q3 | 0.14 0.03 up from 2008 | 160 | 93% | — | ||
31WIT transactions on ecology and the environmentWIT Press · United Kingdom | 0.57Q3 | 0.13 0.04 down from 2008 | 1,637 | 77% | — | ||
32International Journal of Architectural Research Archnet-IJAREmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.54Q3 | 0.25 0.01 up from 2008 | 40 | 0% | — | ||
33Journal of Wood ScienceOASpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.50Q3 | 0.76 0.01 down from 2008 | 282 | 100% | $1,990 | ||
34ASHRAE journalElsevier BV · United States | 0.47Q3 | 0.36 0.23 up from 2008 | 54 | 0% | — | ||
35Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Waste and Resource ManagementThomas Telford Ltd. · United Kingdom | 0.46Q3 | 0.24 0.13 down from 2008 | 68 | 20% | — | ||
36Open House InternationalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.42Q3 | 0.11 0.02 down from 2008 | 119 | 9% | — | ||
37eCAADe proceedingsPublisher not listed | 0.39Q4 | 0.16 0.01 down from 2008 | 363 | 86% | — | ||
38Journal of Engineering Design and TechnologyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.37Q4 | 0.24 0.07 up from 2008 | 35 | 14% | — | ||
39International Journal of Construction ManagementTaylor & Francis · Hong Kong SAR China | 0.36Q4 | 0.11 0.03 down from 2008 | 40 | 0% | — | ||
40Pigment & Resin TechnologyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.36Q4 | 0.84 0.53 up from 2008 | 288 | 0% | — | ||
41Journal of Green BuildingUnited States | 0.32Q4 | 0.25 0.02 down from 2008 | 156 | 100% | — | ||
42Architectural Engineering and Design ManagementTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.31Q4 | 0.28 0.15 up from 2008 | 61 | 5% | — | ||
43International Journal of Building Pathology and AdaptationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.27Q4 | 0.19 0.06 up from 2008 | 193 | 4% | — | ||
44Journal of Asian Architecture and Building EngineeringOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.27Q4 | 0.19 0.01 down from 2008 | 186 | 100% | $1,165 | ||
| 0.20Q4 | 0.09 0.09 up from 2008 | 674 | — | — | |||
46The Journal of Engineering Research [TJER]OASultan Qaboos University · Oman | 0.13Q4 | 0.05 0.08 down from 2008 | 34 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.13Q4 | 0.28 0.09 up from 2008 | 31 | 100% | — | |||
48PROCEEDINGS OF THE 13th ITS WORLD CONGRESS, LONDON, 8-12 OCTOBER 2006Publisher not listed | 0.10Q4 | —no 2008 value | 535 | — | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Building and Construction highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering339
- Mechanical Engineering248
- Biomedical Engineering161
- Aerospace Engineering153
- Civil and Structural Engineering152
- Mechanics of Materials106
- Control and Systems Engineering86
- Computational Mechanics83
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering51
- Building and Construction48
- Ocean Engineering40
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality23
- Automotive Engineering21
- Media Technology18
- Architecture0
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2009. Corpus-wide, 71.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
23 additional Building and Construction journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2006–2008, 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: 2009. Publication window: 2006–2008. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 48
- Window papers (baseline)
- 32,294 +35.7% from indicator year 2006
- Median OJR
- 0.6698 +2.4% from indicator year 2006
- Rising journals (2025)
- 11
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2006–2008 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.