Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Subfield ranking · 2015
Civil and Structural Engineering journal rankings 2015
227 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Civil and Structural Engineering has 227 ranked journals in 2015. The median OJR fell 0.14 on 2014 to 0.84, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.60. The top three are Cement and Concrete Composites, Automation in Construction, and Cement and Concrete Research.
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
227 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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1Cement and Concrete CompositesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.63Q1 | 4.38 0.21 up from 2014 | 456 | 28% | $5,120 | ||
2Automation in ConstructionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.27Q1 | 5.12 0.48 up from 2014 | 490 | 22% | $5,490 | ||
3Cement and Concrete ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.41Q1 | 4.34 0.76 up from 2014 | 481 | 29% | $5,180 | ||
4Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure EngineeringWiley · United Kingdom | 4.40Q1 | 4.71 0.05 down from 2014 | 170 | 85% | $5,230 | ||
5Mechanical Systems and Signal ProcessingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.33Q1 | 3.89 0.81 up from 2014 | 761 | 19% | $4,730 | ||
6Earthquake Engineering & Structural DynamicsWiley · United Kingdom | 3.67Q1 | 2.46 0.58 down from 2014 | 385 | 18% | $3,760 | ||
7GéotechniqueICE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.56Q1 | 2.70 0.03 down from 2014 | 322 | 26% | — | ||
8Construction and Building MaterialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.44Q1 | 3.41 0.34 up from 2014 | 3,046 | 17% | $4,540 | ||
9Computers and GeotechnicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.33Q1 | 2.32 0.01 up from 2014 | 442 | 17% | $3,640 | ||
10Geotextiles and GeomembranesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.27Q1 | 3.07 0.14 down from 2014 | 166 | 10% | $3,850 | ||
11Tunnelling and Underground Space TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.25Q1 | 2.49 0.25 up from 2014 | 406 | 14% | $3,820 | ||
12Advances in Engineering SoftwareElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.24Q1 | 3.20 1.17 up from 2014 | 321 | 18% | $3,810 | ||
13Computers & StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.17Q1 | 3.06 0.37 up from 2014 | 552 | 22% | $4,200 | ||
14Earthquake SpectraSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.14Q1 | 2.55 0.71 up from 2014 | 404 | 9% | $4,400 | ||
15Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 3.09Q1 | 2.15 0.08 up from 2014 | 554 | 15% | — | ||
16Structural Control and Health MonitoringOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.09Q1 | 2.02 0.74 down from 2014 | 203 | 63% | $2,490 | ||
17Engineering StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.97Q1 | 2.49 0.17 down from 2014 | 1,621 | 22% | $4,620 | ||
18Canadian Geotechnical JournalNRC Research Press · Canada | 2.97Q1 | 2.18 0.11 up from 2014 | 401 | 32% | — | ||
19Structural Health MonitoringSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.94Q1 | 2.62 0.31 up from 2014 | 154 | 21% | $4,400 | ||
20Journal of Constructional Steel ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.81Q1 | 2.12 0.35 up from 2014 | 672 | 16% | $4,310 | ||
21Journal of Sound and VibrationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.73Q1 | 2.78 0.19 up from 2014 | 1,420 | 18% | $4,190 | ||
22Thin-Walled StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.68Q1 | 2.80 0.60 up from 2014 | 657 | 14% | $4,440 | ||
23International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in GeomechanicsWiley · United Kingdom | 2.57Q1 | 2.26 0.33 up from 2014 | 280 | 20% | $4,530 | ||
24SOILS AND FOUNDATIONSOAElsevier BV · Japan | 2.56Q1 | 1.79 0.62 down from 2014 | 259 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
25Acta GeotechnicaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.56Q1 | 2.61 0.85 up from 2014 | 203 | 21% | $3,990 | ||
26Geosynthetics InternationalThomas Telford Ltd. · United Kingdom | 2.55Q1 | 2.83 0.24 up from 2014 | 103 | 15% | — | ||
27Georisk Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and GeohazardsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.55Q1 | 2.14 0.88 up from 2014 | 55 | 24% | — | ||
28Structural and Multidisciplinary OptimizationSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.53Q1 | 2.61 0.38 down from 2014 | 454 | 12% | $3,990 | ||
29Marine StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.53Q1 | 2.61 0.66 up from 2014 | 131 | 13% | $4,320 | ||
30Materials and StructuresSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 2.53Q1 | 1.91 0.10 up from 2014 | 677 | 23% | $3,390 | ||
31Journal of Water Resources Planning and ManagementAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.44Q1 | 2.64 0.21 up from 2014 | 287 | 16% | — | ||
32Bulletin of Earthquake EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.38Q1 | 2.09 0.19 down from 2014 | 373 | 18% | $3,990 | ||
33Road Materials and Pavement DesignTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.37Q1 | 2.13 0.37 up from 2014 | 262 | 6% | — | ||
34Journal of Computing in Civil EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.36Q1 | 2.00 0.06 down from 2014 | 287 | 13% | — | ||
35International Journal of Physical Modelling in GeotechnicsThomas Telford Ltd. · United Kingdom | 2.30Q1 | 1.61 0.77 up from 2014 | 37 | 21% | — | ||
36Journal of Structural EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.29Q1 | 1.59 0.30 down from 2014 | 676 | 8% | — | ||
37Soil Dynamics and Earthquake EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.26Q1 | 2.01 0.20 up from 2014 | 538 | 16% | $3,900 | ||
38International Journal of Concrete Structures and MaterialsOASpringer Nature · South Korea | 2.19Q1 | 1.89 0.15 down from 2014 | 89 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
39Advances in concrete constructionPublisher not listed | 2.10Q1 | 1.51 0.22 up from 2014 | 47 | 0% | — | ||
40Journal of Earthquake EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.08Q1 | 1.46 0.39 down from 2014 | 195 | 5% | — | ||
41Transportation GeotechnicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.05Q1 | 1.41no 2014 value | 34 | 9% | $3,540 | — | |
42Journal of TerramechanicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 2.29 0.64 up from 2014 | 104 | 8% | $3,190 | ||
43Engineering OptimizationTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 1.96Q1 | 1.81 0.04 up from 2014 | 289 | 15% | — | ||
44The Structural Design of Tall and Special BuildingsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.87Q1 | 1.43 0.32 up from 2014 | 145 | 13% | $3,720 | ||
45ACI Materials JournalAmerican Concrete Institute · United States | 1.86Q1 | 1.35no change | 245 | 9% | — | ||
46Journal of Materials in Civil EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.80Q1 | 1.26 0.06 up from 2014 | 780 | 10% | — | ||
47Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and StructuresSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.80Q1 | 2.06 0.28 down from 2014 | 686 | 15% | $4,150 | ||
48Journal of Transportation EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.78Q1 | 1.12 0.28 down from 2014 | 366 | 7% | — | ||
49Journal of Bridge EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.74Q1 | 1.25 0.14 up from 2014 | 371 | 6% | — | ||
50International Journal of GeomechanicsAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.72Q1 | 1.54 0.36 up from 2014 | 270 | 5% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Civil and Structural Engineering 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.
61 additional Civil and Structural Engineering 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
- 227
- Window papers (baseline)
- 126,756 +8.6% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 0.84 -14.1% from indicator year 2012
- Rising journals (2025)
- 18
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 | 93 | 98 | 109 | 110 | 114 | 121 | 125 | 137 | 144 | 152 | 152 | 167 | 182 | 206 | 214 | 227 | 232 | 250 | 252 | 265 | 264 | 272 | 276 | 270 | 273 | 268 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 36,827 | 41,941 | 46,402 | 51,583 | 56,781 | 63,168 | 69,794 | 78,239 | 85,369 | 92,947 | 99,637 | 107,834 | 116,706 | 121,981 | 126,351 | 126,756 | 126,030 | 123,708 | 123,691 | 127,144 | 133,854 | 143,029 | 153,935 | 161,425 | 171,082 | 181,235 | |
| Median OJR | 0.83 | 0.88 | 0.71 | 0.85 | 0.91 | 0.86 | 0.81 | 0.9236 | 0.93 | 0.982 | 1.01 | 0.96 | 0.97 | 0.9235 | 0.977 | 0.84 | 0.87 | 0.78 | 0.74 | 0.702 | 0.699 | 0.703 | 0.700 | 0.657 | 0.63 | 0.661 |
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.