Journal rankings · indicator year 2013
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Subfield ranking · 2013
Building and Construction journal rankings 2013
63 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Building and Construction has 63 ranked journals in 2013. The median journal has an OJR of 0.88, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.03 on 2012; Q1 starts at OJR 1.60. The top three are Energy and Buildings, Building Research & Information, and Building and Environment.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2013. 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 2010–2012, the window the 2013 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 Engineering427
- Mechanical Engineering297
- Biomedical Engineering220
- Civil and Structural Engineering206
- Aerospace Engineering169
- Mechanics of Materials115
- Control and Systems Engineering109
- Computational Mechanics97
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering66
- Building and Construction63
- Ocean Engineering56
- Media Technology26
63 ranked journals
Filters
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 2012. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2010–2012, the window the 2013 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2010–2012 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 2004 to 2013. | Compare |
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1Energy and BuildingsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.36Q1 | 4.09 0.54 up from 2012 | 1,279 | 13% | $4,260 | ||
2Building Research & InformationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.15Q1 | 2.39 0.94 down from 2012 | 157 | 36% | — | ||
3Building and EnvironmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.89Q1 | 3.94 1.07 up from 2012 | 859 | 21% | $4,280 | ||
4Journal of Composites for ConstructionAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.76Q1 | 2.15 0.18 up from 2012 | 284 | 12% | — | ||
5Journal of Information Technology in ConstructionOAConseil International du Bâtiment · Netherlands | 2.59Q1 | 1.70 0.08 down from 2012 | 40 | 100% | — | ||
6Journal of Building Performance SimulationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.59Q1 | 2.51 0.21 up from 2012 | 85 | 41% | — | ||
7Journal of Construction Engineering and ManagementAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.41Q1 | 1.62 0.02 down from 2012 | 472 | 10% | — | ||
8Journal of Civil Engineering and ManagementOATaylor & Francis · Lithuania | 2.35Q1 | 1.75 0.67 down from 2012 | 221 | 100% | $517 | ||
9International Journal of Architectural ComputingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.25Q1 | 1.24 0.50 up from 2012 | 93 | 10% | $4,150 | ||
10Journal of Sustainable Real EstateOATaylor & Francis · United States | 2.12Q1 | 1.37 0.54 up from 2012 | 46 | 85% | — | ||
11ACI Structural JournalAmerican Concrete Institute · United States | 2.10Q1 | 1.27 0.30 up from 2012 | 245 | 13% | — | ||
12URBAN DESIGN InternationalPalgrave Macmillan | 2.00Q1 | 0.97 0.15 up from 2012 | 87 | 24% | $3,190 | ||
13Construction Research Congress 2012Publisher not listed | 1.85Q1 | 0.64no 2012 value | 253 | — | — | — | |
14Construction InnovationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.73Q1 | 1.61 0.76 up from 2012 | 84 | 15% | — | ||
15Wood Science and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.61Q1 | 2.02 0.32 up from 2012 | 210 | 20% | $3,990 | ||
16Journal of Building PhysicsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.60Q1 | 1.64 0.01 up from 2012 | 60 | 35% | $4,150 | ||
17Architectural Engineering and Design ManagementTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.58Q2 | 0.94 0.17 up from 2012 | 75 | 31% | — | ||
18Journal of Architectural EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.53Q2 | 1.00 0.31 up from 2012 | 101 | 6% | — | ||
19ACADIA quarterlyPublisher not listed | 1.35Q2 | 0.46 0.02 up from 2012 | 194 | 88% | — | ||
20Architectural Science ReviewTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.30Q2 | 1.15 0.26 up from 2012 | 134 | 26% | — | ||
21Advances in Building Energy ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.22Q2 | 1.41 0.72 down from 2012 | 30 | 12% | — | ||
22Frontiers of Architectural ResearchOAElsevier BV · China | 1.13Q2 | 1.00no 2012 value | 41 | 100% | $1,500 | — | |
23Building Services Engineering Research and TechnologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.10Q2 | 0.96 0.32 down from 2012 | 104 | 13% | $4,150 | ||
24European Journal of Wood and Wood ProductsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.09Q2 | 1.21 0.33 up from 2012 | 281 | 17% | $2,590 | ||
25Journal of Facilities ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.08Q2 | 1.07 0.11 up from 2012 | 71 | 22% | — | ||
26Building SimulationSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 1.01Q2 | 1.33 0.57 up from 2012 | 104 | 18% | $4,090 | ||
27Intelligent Buildings InternationalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.96Q2 | 1.16 0.40 up from 2012 | 52 | 16% | — | ||
28BioResourcesOANorth Carolina State University · United States | 0.92Q2 | 1.69 0.23 up from 2012 | 1,109 | 100% | $1,452 | ||
29Proceedings of the ... ISARCPublisher not listed | 0.92Q2 | 0.36 0.08 up from 2012 | 477 | 28% | — | ||
30Coloration TechnologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.92Q2 | 1.36 0.18 up from 2012 | 194 | 7% | $3,950 | ||
31International Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.90Q2 | 0.96 0.22 up from 2012 | 48 | 28% | $3,290 | ||
32Indoor and Built EnvironmentSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.88Q2 | 1.39 0.24 down from 2012 | 293 | 6% | $4,400 | ||
33HolzforschungDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.85Q3 | 1.58 0.02 down from 2012 | 423 | 18% | $0 listed | ||
34eCAADe proceedingsPublisher not listed | 0.80Q3 | 0.35 0.08 up from 2012 | 363 | 87% | — | ||
35Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering SustainabilityThomas Telford Ltd. · United Kingdom | 0.78Q3 | 1.11 0.30 up from 2012 | 100 | 11% | — | ||
36Science and Technology for the Built EnvironmentTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.75Q3 | 1.03 0.04 down from 2012 | 204 | 17% | — | ||
37SIGSPATIAL SpecialAssociation for Computing Machinery | 0.74Q3 | 0.76 0.03 up from 2012 | 71 | 0% | — | ||
38Energy Research JournalOAUnited Arab Emirates | 0.73Q3 | 0.00 0.91 down from 2012 | 49 | 100% | — | ||
39Journal of Green BuildingUnited States | 0.69Q3 | 0.59 0.15 up from 2012 | 142 | 100% | — | ||
40WIT transactions on ecology and the environmentWIT Press · United Kingdom | 0.68Q3 | 0.23 0.03 up from 2012 | 1,557 | 69% | — | ||
41PROMET - Traffic&TransportationOAUniversity of Zagreb, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences · Croatia | 0.66Q3 | 0.42 0.20 up from 2012 | 134 | 100% | $970 | ||
42Journal of Engineering Design and TechnologyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.63Q3 | 0.49 0.03 up from 2012 | 67 | 8% | — | ||
43Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Waste and Resource ManagementThomas Telford Ltd. · United Kingdom | 0.59Q3 | 0.52 0.11 down from 2012 | 76 | 11% | — | ||
44Journal of Wood ScienceOASpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.59Q3 | 1.01 0.19 up from 2012 | 235 | 93% | $1,990 | ||
45Open House InternationalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.59Q3 | 0.27no change | 105 | 24% | — | ||
46Maderas Ciencia y tecnologíaOAUniversity of the Bío-Bío · Chile | 0.59Q3 | 0.55 0.24 down from 2012 | 78 | 100% | — | ||
47International Journal of Building Pathology and AdaptationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.56Q3 | 0.47 0.14 up from 2012 | 202 | 23% | — | ||
48International Journal of Energy and EngineeringOAUnited States | 0.56Q3 | 0.70no 2012 value | 54 | 100% | — | — | |
49Wood Material Science and EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.54Q4 | 0.52 0.18 down from 2012 | 99 | 0% | — | ||
50Forest Products JournalForest Products Society · United States | 0.51Q4 | 0.72 0.13 up from 2012 | 275 | 8% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Building and Construction highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering427
- Mechanical Engineering297
- Biomedical Engineering220
- Civil and Structural Engineering206
- Aerospace Engineering169
- Mechanics of Materials115
- Control and Systems Engineering109
- Computational Mechanics97
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering66
- Building and Construction63
- Ocean Engineering56
- Media Technology26
- Automotive Engineering24
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality24
- Architecture0
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2013. Corpus-wide, 76.9% 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 2010–2012, 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: 2013. Publication window: 2010–2012. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 63
- Window papers (baseline)
- 46,315 +31.6% from indicator year 2010
- Median OJR
- 0.884 +2.5% from indicator year 2010
- Rising journals (2025)
- 11
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2010–2012 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.