Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Subfield ranking · 2017
Building and Construction journal rankings 2017
81 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Building and Construction has 81 ranked journals in 2017. The median OJR fell 0.09 on 2016 to 0.70, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.21. The top three are International Journal of Sustainable Built Environment, Energy and Buildings, and Building and Environment.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2017. 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 2014–2016, the window the 2017 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 Engineering506
- Mechanical Engineering360
- Biomedical Engineering272
- Civil and Structural Engineering250
- Aerospace Engineering181
- Control and Systems Engineering128
- Mechanics of Materials126
- Computational Mechanics103
- Building and Construction81
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering79
- Ocean Engineering71
- Automotive Engineering27
81 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 2016. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2014–2016, the window the 2017 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2014–2016 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 2008 to 2017. | Compare |
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1International Journal of Sustainable Built EnvironmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.36Q1 | 3.60 0.39 up from 2016 | 109 | 100% | — | ||
2Energy and BuildingsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.81Q1 | 5.50 0.64 up from 2016 | 2,544 | 24% | $4,260 | ||
3Building and EnvironmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.73Q1 | 5.12 0.40 up from 2016 | 1,187 | 25% | $4,280 | ||
4Building Research & InformationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.63Q1 | 3.34 0.09 down from 2016 | 200 | 62% | — | ||
5Visualization in EngineeringSpringer Nature · Germany | 2.27Q1 | 3.58 2.11 up from 2016 | 37 | 100% | $1,350 | ||
6Journal of Construction Engineering and ManagementAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.18Q1 | 2.63 0.39 up from 2016 | 456 | 20% | — | ||
7IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.17Q1 | 2.27 0.30 down from 2016 | 187 | 9% | — | ||
8Journal of Composites for ConstructionAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.96Q1 | 2.36 0.10 up from 2016 | 315 | 15% | — | ||
9The Extractive Industries and SocietyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.91Q1 | 2.52 0.19 down from 2016 | 261 | 21% | $3,470 | ||
10Construction InnovationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.73Q1 | 2.43 0.68 up from 2016 | 71 | 47% | — | ||
11Journal of Building Performance SimulationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.71Q1 | 2.92 0.66 up from 2016 | 115 | 42% | — | ||
12Journal of Civil Engineering and ManagementOATaylor & Francis · Lithuania | 1.56Q1 | 1.97 0.53 up from 2016 | 355 | 100% | $517 | ||
13Frontiers of Architectural ResearchOAElsevier BV · China | 1.56Q1 | 1.12 0.24 down from 2016 | 121 | 100% | $1,500 | ||
14Architectural Engineering and Design ManagementTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.54Q1 | 2.21 0.58 up from 2016 | 60 | 44% | — | ||
15International Journal of Construction ManagementTaylor & Francis · Hong Kong SAR China | 1.53Q1 | 1.67 0.24 up from 2016 | 106 | 15% | — | ||
16Journal of Facilities ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.35Q1 | 1.16 0.08 down from 2016 | 68 | 31% | — | ||
17Journal of Information Technology in ConstructionOAConseil International du Bâtiment · Netherlands | 1.32Q1 | 1.37 0.03 down from 2016 | 53 | 100% | — | ||
18Architectural Science ReviewTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.27Q1 | 1.32 0.15 up from 2016 | 103 | 44% | — | ||
19International Journal of Building Pathology and AdaptationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.21Q1 | 1.32 0.19 up from 2016 | 80 | 30% | — | ||
20Building SimulationSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 1.21Q1 | 1.95 0.38 up from 2016 | 177 | 29% | $4,090 | ||
21ACI Structural JournalAmerican Concrete Institute · United States | 1.21Q1 | 1.40 0.09 down from 2016 | 370 | 9% | — | ||
22URBAN DESIGN InternationalPalgrave Macmillan | 1.08Q2 | 0.84 0.40 up from 2016 | 66 | 18% | $3,190 | ||
23Intelligent Buildings InternationalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.05Q2 | 1.47 0.45 up from 2016 | 55 | 59% | — | ||
24Construction Research Congress 2016Publisher not listed | 1.04Q2 | 0.43no 2016 value | 299 | — | — | — | |
25Journal of Building PhysicsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.96Q2 | 1.33 0.07 down from 2016 | 76 | 16% | $4,150 | ||
26Advances in Building Energy ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.95Q2 | 1.44 0.21 up from 2016 | 68 | 21% | — | ||
27Wood Science and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.90Q2 | 1.57 0.12 up from 2016 | 260 | 31% | $3,990 | ||
28Proceedings of the ... ISARCPublisher not listed | 0.89Q2 | 0.53 0.01 up from 2016 | 396 | 11% | — | ||
| 0.89Q2 | 1.37 0.60 up from 2016 | 74 | 93% | — | |||
30International Journal of Architectural Research Archnet-IJAREmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.87Q2 | 1.05 0.27 up from 2016 | 135 | 60% | — | ||
31Smart and Sustainable Built EnvironmentEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.85Q2 | 0.93 0.19 down from 2016 | 57 | 14% | — | ||
32Journal of Building Construction and Planning ResearchOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.79Q2 | 0.56 0.12 up from 2016 | 58 | 100% | — | ||
33International Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.79Q2 | 0.88 0.30 down from 2016 | 59 | 8% | $3,290 | ||
34International Journal of Architectural ComputingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.77Q2 | 0.77 0.32 up from 2016 | 74 | 24% | $4,150 | ||
35European Journal of Wood and Wood ProductsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.75Q2 | 1.21 0.08 down from 2016 | 384 | 19% | $2,590 | ||
36SIGSPATIAL SpecialAssociation for Computing Machinery | 0.73Q2 | 0.90 0.08 down from 2016 | 72 | 21% | — | ||
37Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering SustainabilityThomas Telford Ltd. · United Kingdom | 0.72Q2 | 1.35 0.30 up from 2016 | 120 | 44% | — | ||
38ACADIA quarterlyPublisher not listed | 0.72Q2 | 0.28 0.01 down from 2016 | 200 | 70% | — | ||
39International Journal of Construction Engineering and ManagementOAUnited States | 0.71Q2 | 0.45 0.07 down from 2016 | 51 | 100% | — | ||
40PROMET - Traffic&TransportationOAUniversity of Zagreb, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences · Croatia | 0.70Q2 | 0.76 0.11 up from 2016 | 160 | 100% | $970 | ||
41Science and Technology for the Built EnvironmentTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.70Q2 | 1.24 0.02 up from 2016 | 365 | 32% | — | ||
42Journal of Wood ScienceOASpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.69Q3 | 1.53 0.28 up from 2016 | 215 | 89% | $1,990 | ||
43Journal of Facade Design and EngineeringOAIOS Press · Netherlands | 0.67Q3 | 1.00 0.13 up from 2016 | 43 | 100% | $539 | ||
44Journal of Engineering Design and TechnologyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.67Q3 | 0.81 0.06 up from 2016 | 115 | 13% | — | ||
45Building Services Engineering Research and TechnologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.66Q3 | 1.21 0.49 up from 2016 | 140 | 33% | $4,150 | ||
46Future Cities and EnvironmentOAUbiquity Press · United Kingdom | 0.65Q3 | 1.14 0.71 up from 2016 | 44 | 100% | $613 | ||
47Indoor and Built EnvironmentSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.64Q3 | 0.90 0.24 down from 2016 | 310 | 20% | $4,400 | ||
48Coloration TechnologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.61Q3 | 1.01 0.35 down from 2016 | 204 | 5% | $3,950 | ||
49WIT transactions on ecology and the environmentWIT Press · United Kingdom | 0.60Q3 | 0.22 0.16 down from 2016 | 1,341 | 94% | — | ||
50HolzforschungDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.59Q3 | 2.22 0.47 up from 2016 | 350 | 10% | $0 listed |
Subfields of Engineering, with Building and Construction highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering506
- Mechanical Engineering360
- Biomedical Engineering272
- Civil and Structural Engineering250
- Aerospace Engineering181
- Control and Systems Engineering128
- Mechanics of Materials126
- Computational Mechanics103
- Building and Construction81
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering79
- Ocean Engineering71
- Automotive Engineering27
- Media Technology27
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality26
- Architecture2
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2017. Corpus-wide, 77.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
32 additional Building and Construction journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2014–2016, 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: 2017. Publication window: 2014–2016. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 81
- Window papers (baseline)
- 56,320 +12.3% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 0.70 -22.5% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 11
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2014–2016 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.