Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Subfield ranking · 2015
Building and Construction journal rankings 2015
78 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Building and Construction has 78 ranked journals in 2015. The median journal has an OJR of 0.86, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.05 on 2014; Q1 starts at OJR 1.43. The top three are Building and Environment, Energy and Buildings, and International Journal of Sustainable Built Environment.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2015. 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 2012–2014, the window the 2015 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 Engineering471
- Mechanical Engineering336
- Biomedical Engineering248
- Civil and Structural Engineering227
- Aerospace Engineering175
- Control and Systems Engineering125
- Mechanics of Materials121
- Computational Mechanics99
- Building and Construction78
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering78
- Ocean Engineering68
- Media Technology29
78 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 2014. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2012–2014, the window the 2015 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2012–2014 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 2006 to 2015. | Compare |
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1Building and EnvironmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.15Q1 | 4.69 0.38 up from 2014 | 900 | 25% | $4,280 | ||
2Energy and BuildingsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.04Q1 | 4.34 0.15 up from 2014 | 2,037 | 23% | $4,260 | ||
3International Journal of Sustainable Built EnvironmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.74Q1 | 2.32 0.68 up from 2014 | 69 | 100% | — | ||
4Building Research & InformationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.61Q1 | 3.16 0.49 up from 2014 | 190 | 47% | — | ||
5Computing in Civil EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers | 2.61Q1 | 1.03 0.38 up from 2014 | 112 | — | — | ||
6Journal of Composites for ConstructionAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.51Q1 | 2.40 0.13 up from 2014 | 273 | 15% | — | ||
7Journal of Information Technology in ConstructionOAConseil International du Bâtiment · Netherlands | 2.50Q1 | 1.72 0.10 down from 2014 | 41 | 100% | — | ||
8Journal of Construction Engineering and ManagementAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.19Q1 | 1.81 0.15 down from 2014 | 431 | 12% | — | ||
9IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.19Q1 | 2.46 1.19 up from 2014 | 190 | 37% | — | ||
10Journal of Civil Engineering and ManagementOATaylor & Francis · Lithuania | 2.07Q1 | 1.99 0.13 up from 2014 | 304 | 100% | $517 | ||
11Journal of Building Performance SimulationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.94Q1 | 2.70 0.45 up from 2014 | 88 | 41% | — | ||
12The Extractive Industries and SocietyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.80Q1 | 2.33no 2014 value | 61 | 15% | $3,470 | — | |
13Architectural Engineering and Design ManagementTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.80Q1 | 1.74 0.55 up from 2014 | 74 | 31% | — | ||
14Advances in Building Energy ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 2.83 1.53 up from 2014 | 55 | 10% | — | ||
15ACI Structural JournalAmerican Concrete Institute · United States | 1.66Q1 | 1.37 0.06 down from 2014 | 351 | 10% | — | ||
16Frontiers of Architectural ResearchOAElsevier BV · China | 1.59Q1 | 1.15 0.09 up from 2014 | 135 | 100% | $1,500 | ||
17Construction Research Congress 2012Publisher not listed | 1.59Q1 | —no 2014 value | 253 | — | — | ||
18Journal of Facilities ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.51Q1 | 1.38 0.04 up from 2014 | 69 | 14% | — | ||
19Construction InnovationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.45Q1 | 1.22 0.04 down from 2014 | 84 | 26% | — | ||
20International Journal of 3-D Information ModelingIGI Global · United States | 1.43Q1 | 0.68 0.12 down from 2014 | 57 | 9% | — | ||
21Wood Science and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.41Q2 | 1.77 0.11 down from 2014 | 214 | 15% | $3,990 | ||
22Intelligent Buildings InternationalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.41Q2 | 1.67 0.28 up from 2014 | 62 | 15% | — | ||
23Smart and Sustainable Built EnvironmentEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.40Q2 | 1.78 0.84 up from 2014 | 50 | 15% | — | ||
24Journal of Sustainable Real EstateOATaylor & Francis · United States | 1.39Q2 | 0.86 0.05 up from 2014 | 31 | 67% | — | ||
25American journal of civil engineering and architectureOAUnited States | 1.24Q2 | 0.92 0.07 up from 2014 | 52 | 7% | — | ||
26URBAN DESIGN InternationalPalgrave Macmillan | 1.21Q2 | 0.56 0.20 down from 2014 | 80 | 24% | $3,190 | ||
27Building SimulationSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 1.17Q2 | 1.83 0.42 up from 2014 | 148 | 14% | $4,090 | ||
28Journal of Architectural EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.07Q2 | 0.85 0.01 down from 2014 | 100 | 4% | — | ||
| 1.06Q2 | 0.77 0.06 up from 2014 | 129 | 76% | — | |||
30International Journal of Architectural ComputingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.03Q2 | 0.29 0.75 down from 2014 | 85 | 14% | $4,150 | ||
31Architectural Science ReviewTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.98Q2 | 0.85 0.31 down from 2014 | 136 | 14% | — | ||
32Journal of Building Construction and Planning ResearchOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.94Q2 | 0.63 0.24 down from 2014 | 38 | 100% | — | ||
33Coloration TechnologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.93Q2 | 1.59 0.16 up from 2014 | 181 | 6% | $3,950 | ||
34ACADIA quarterlyPublisher not listed | 0.92Q2 | 0.25 0.16 down from 2014 | 271 | — | — | ||
35Science and Technology for the Built EnvironmentTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.91Q2 | 1.22 0.25 up from 2014 | 265 | 20% | — | ||
36Wood Material Science and EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.90Q2 | 1.00 0.24 up from 2014 | 121 | 17% | — | ||
37Journal of Building PhysicsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.90Q2 | 1.11 0.11 down from 2014 | 78 | 26% | $4,150 | ||
38Journal of Engineering Design and TechnologyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.88Q2 | 0.74 0.11 down from 2014 | 80 | 6% | — | ||
39International Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.87Q2 | 0.94 0.28 up from 2014 | 62 | 9% | $3,290 | ||
40European Journal of Wood and Wood ProductsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.84Q3 | 1.12 0.03 up from 2014 | 308 | 15% | $2,590 | ||
41WIT transactions on ecology and the environmentWIT Press · United Kingdom | 0.83Q3 | 0.33 0.04 up from 2014 | 1,521 | 81% | — | ||
42BioResourcesOANorth Carolina State University · United States | 0.78Q3 | 1.44 0.10 down from 2014 | 1,604 | 100% | $1,452 | ||
43International Journal of Building Pathology and AdaptationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.77Q3 | 0.83 0.16 up from 2014 | 102 | 35% | — | ||
44Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Waste and Resource ManagementThomas Telford Ltd. · United Kingdom | 0.74Q3 | 0.94 0.15 up from 2014 | 76 | 38% | — | ||
45HolzforschungDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.72Q3 | 1.57 0.37 up from 2014 | 410 | 24% | $0 listed | ||
46International Journal of Construction ManagementTaylor & Francis · Hong Kong SAR China | 0.71Q3 | 0.84 0.55 up from 2014 | 71 | 15% | — | ||
47Journal of Asian Architecture and Building EngineeringOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.71Q3 | 0.97 0.29 up from 2014 | 183 | 100% | $1,165 | ||
48Indoor and Built EnvironmentSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.69Q3 | 0.90 0.08 up from 2014 | 285 | 12% | $4,400 | ||
49Journal of Wood ScienceOASpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.68Q3 | 1.21 0.21 up from 2014 | 218 | 94% | $1,990 | ||
50Proceedings of the ... ISARCPublisher not listed | 0.67Q3 | 0.44 0.17 up from 2014 | 416 | 34% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Building and Construction highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering471
- Mechanical Engineering336
- Biomedical Engineering248
- Civil and Structural Engineering227
- Aerospace Engineering175
- Control and Systems Engineering125
- Mechanics of Materials121
- Computational Mechanics99
- Building and Construction78
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering78
- Ocean Engineering68
- Media Technology29
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality26
- Automotive Engineering24
- Architecture1
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2015. Corpus-wide, 78.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
25 additional Building and Construction journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2012–2014, 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: 2015. Publication window: 2012–2014. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 78
- Window papers (baseline)
- 52,962 +23.9% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 0.858 -6.1% from indicator year 2012
- Rising journals (2025)
- 11
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2012–2014 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.