Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Subfield ranking · 2012
Building and Construction journal rankings 2012
58 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Building and Construction has 58 ranked journals in 2012. The median journal has an OJR of 0.91, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.04 on 2011; Q1 starts at OJR 1.51. The top three are Journal of Information Technology in Construction, Energy and Buildings, and Building Research & Information.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2012. 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 2009–2011, the window the 2012 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 Engineering395
- Mechanical Engineering279
- Biomedical Engineering201
- Civil and Structural Engineering182
- Aerospace Engineering163
- Mechanics of Materials108
- Control and Systems Engineering102
- Computational Mechanics95
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering68
- Building and Construction58
- Ocean Engineering50
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality26
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58 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 2011. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2009–2011, the window the 2012 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2009–2011 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 2003 to 2012. | Compare |
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1Journal of Information Technology in ConstructionOAConseil International du Bâtiment · Netherlands | 3.96Q1 | 1.79 0.42 down from 2011 | 44 | 100% | — | ||
2Energy and BuildingsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.19Q1 | 3.56 0.10 up from 2011 | 979 | 14% | $4,260 | ||
3Building Research & InformationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.11Q1 | 3.33 1.12 up from 2011 | 159 | 37% | — | ||
4Construction Research Congress 2009Publisher not listed | 2.88Q1 | —no 2011 value | 152 | — | — | ||
5Journal of Civil Engineering and ManagementOATaylor & Francis · Lithuania | 2.83Q1 | 2.42 0.35 down from 2011 | 174 | 100% | $517 | ||
6Journal of Composites for ConstructionAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.73Q1 | 1.97 0.67 up from 2011 | 289 | 14% | — | ||
7Journal of Construction Engineering and ManagementAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.59Q1 | 1.64 0.42 down from 2011 | 538 | 13% | — | ||
8Building and EnvironmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.47Q1 | 2.87 0.06 up from 2011 | 842 | 18% | $4,280 | ||
9Journal of Building Performance SimulationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.40Q1 | 2.30 0.67 up from 2011 | 86 | 12% | — | ||
10ACI Structural JournalAmerican Concrete Institute · United States | 2.39Q1 | 0.97 0.07 down from 2011 | 249 | 6% | — | ||
11International Journal of Architectural ComputingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.96Q1 | 0.73 0.08 up from 2011 | 103 | 22% | $4,150 | ||
12URBAN DESIGN InternationalPalgrave Macmillan | 1.92Q1 | 0.82 0.13 up from 2011 | 69 | 15% | $3,190 | ||
13Journal of Sustainable Real EstateOATaylor & Francis · United States | 1.66Q1 | 0.83 1.62 down from 2011 | 50 | 58% | — | ||
14Journal of Building PhysicsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.64Q1 | 1.63 0.20 up from 2011 | 61 | 24% | $4,150 | ||
15Construction InnovationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.51Q1 | 0.85 0.24 down from 2011 | 80 | 21% | — | ||
16ACADIA quarterlyPublisher not listed | 1.44Q2 | 0.44 0.16 up from 2011 | 182 | 88% | — | ||
17Wood Science and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.35Q2 | 1.69 0.30 up from 2011 | 214 | 22% | $3,990 | ||
18IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.29Q2 | 0.69 0.09 up from 2011 | 158 | 8% | — | ||
19SIGSPATIAL SpecialAssociation for Computing Machinery | 1.26Q2 | 0.73 0.06 up from 2011 | 68 | 0% | — | ||
20Proceedings of the ... ISARCPublisher not listed | 1.24Q2 | 0.28 0.09 down from 2011 | 451 | 33% | — | ||
21Journal of Facilities ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.16Q2 | 0.96 0.25 up from 2011 | 70 | 20% | — | ||
22Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering SustainabilityThomas Telford Ltd. · United Kingdom | 1.11Q2 | 0.82 0.11 down from 2011 | 88 | 22% | — | ||
23Journal of Architectural EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.09Q2 | 0.69 0.04 up from 2011 | 82 | 10% | — | ||
24Architectural Engineering and Design ManagementTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.03Q2 | 0.77 0.07 up from 2011 | 64 | 19% | — | ||
25HolzforschungDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.00Q2 | 1.60 0.78 down from 2011 | 381 | 17% | $0 listed | ||
26Science and Technology for the Built EnvironmentTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.96Q2 | 1.08 0.17 up from 2011 | 179 | 15% | — | ||
27International Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.94Q2 | 0.74 0.28 up from 2011 | 38 | 0% | $3,290 | ||
28Architectural Science ReviewTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.92Q2 | 0.89 0.40 up from 2011 | 111 | 23% | — | ||
29Building Services Engineering Research and TechnologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.92Q2 | 1.28 0.23 up from 2011 | 100 | 22% | $4,150 | ||
30Journal of Engineering Design and TechnologyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.91Q3 | 0.45 0.05 down from 2011 | 62 | 8% | — | ||
31eCAADe proceedingsPublisher not listed | 0.88Q3 | 0.27 0.05 down from 2011 | 311 | 78% | — | ||
32BioResourcesOANorth Carolina State University · United States | 0.85Q3 | 1.46 0.07 up from 2011 | 755 | 100% | $1,452 | ||
33Intelligent Buildings InternationalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.82Q3 | 0.76 0.03 down from 2011 | 61 | 44% | — | ||
34Maderas Ciencia y tecnologíaOAUniversity of the Bío-Bío · Chile | 0.82Q3 | 0.79 0.07 down from 2011 | 111 | 100% | — | ||
35European Journal of Wood and Wood ProductsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.81Q3 | 0.87 0.03 up from 2011 | 298 | 16% | $2,590 | ||
36Wood Material Science and EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.77Q3 | 0.70 0.19 up from 2011 | 80 | 7% | — | ||
37Coloration TechnologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.74Q3 | 1.18no change | 172 | 14% | $3,950 | ||
38Energy Research JournalOAUnited Arab Emirates | 0.71Q3 | 0.91 0.73 down from 2011 | 44 | 100% | — | ||
39Building SimulationSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.68Q3 | 0.77 0.18 down from 2011 | 93 | 22% | $4,090 | ||
40Journal of Wood ScienceOASpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.68Q3 | 0.82 0.42 down from 2011 | 228 | 93% | $1,990 | ||
41Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Waste and Resource ManagementThomas Telford Ltd. · United Kingdom | 0.64Q3 | 0.63 0.19 up from 2011 | 74 | 9% | — | ||
42International Journal of Architectural Research Archnet-IJAREmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.62Q3 | 0.20 0.12 up from 2011 | 67 | 0% | — | ||
43Open House InternationalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.61Q3 | 0.27no change | 111 | 10% | — | ||
44Indoor and Built EnvironmentSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.60Q3 | 1.63 0.74 down from 2011 | 275 | 6% | $4,400 | ||
45WIT transactions on ecology and the environmentWIT Press · United Kingdom | 0.57Q4 | 0.20 0.01 down from 2011 | 1,500 | 94% | — | ||
46Journal of Green BuildingUnited States | 0.56Q4 | 0.43 0.14 up from 2011 | 144 | 100% | — | ||
47International Journal of Building Pathology and AdaptationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.52Q4 | 0.33 0.06 up from 2011 | 242 | 9% | — | ||
48Forest Products JournalForest Products Society · United States | 0.45Q4 | 0.59 0.04 up from 2011 | 290 | 6% | — | ||
49Journal of Asian Architecture and Building EngineeringOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.36Q4 | 0.19 0.01 down from 2011 | 213 | 100% | $1,165 | ||
50Drvna industrijaOACroatia | 0.31Q4 | 0.24 0.26 down from 2011 | 35 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Building and Construction highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering395
- Mechanical Engineering279
- Biomedical Engineering201
- Civil and Structural Engineering182
- Aerospace Engineering163
- Mechanics of Materials108
- Control and Systems Engineering102
- Computational Mechanics95
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering68
- Building and Construction58
- Ocean Engineering50
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality26
- Automotive Engineering23
- Media Technology23
- Architecture1
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2012. Corpus-wide, 75.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
30 additional Building and Construction journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2009–2011, 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: 2012. Publication window: 2009–2011. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 58
- Window papers (baseline)
- 42,757 +32.4% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 0.914 +36.5% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 11
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2009–2011 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 |
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| 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.