Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Subfield ranking · 2017
Civil and Structural Engineering journal rankings 2017
250 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Civil and Structural Engineering has 250 ranked journals in 2017. The median OJR fell 0.09 on 2016 to 0.78, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.41. The top three are Cement and Concrete Composites, Cement and Concrete Research, and Automation in Construction.
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
250 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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1Cement and Concrete CompositesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.81Q1 | 5.17 0.43 up from 2016 | 466 | 23% | $5,120 | ||
2Cement and Concrete ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.63Q1 | 6.09 0.91 up from 2016 | 551 | 36% | $5,180 | ||
3Automation in ConstructionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.20Q1 | 5.23 0.53 up from 2016 | 501 | 29% | $5,490 | ||
4Earthquake SpectraSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.12Q1 | 2.50 1.05 down from 2016 | 266 | 18% | $4,400 | ||
5Advances in Engineering SoftwareElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.75Q1 | 3.77 0.68 down from 2016 | 371 | 20% | $3,810 | ||
6Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure EngineeringWiley · United Kingdom | 3.68Q1 | 5.38 0.56 up from 2016 | 177 | 86% | $5,230 | ||
7Mechanical Systems and Signal ProcessingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.22Q1 | 4.77 0.50 up from 2016 | 1,157 | 23% | $4,730 | ||
8Earthquake Engineering & Structural DynamicsWiley · United Kingdom | 3.04Q1 | 2.86 0.26 up from 2016 | 405 | 22% | $3,760 | ||
9GéotechniqueICE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.96Q1 | 3.02 0.46 up from 2016 | 333 | 48% | — | ||
10Geotextiles and GeomembranesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.96Q1 | 4.25 1.30 up from 2016 | 202 | 19% | $3,850 | ||
11Construction and Building MaterialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.83Q1 | 4.25 0.55 up from 2016 | 4,451 | 14% | $4,540 | ||
12Computers & StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.71Q1 | 3.23 0.35 down from 2016 | 546 | 24% | $4,200 | ||
13Computers and GeotechnicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.70Q1 | 3.02 0.17 up from 2016 | 632 | 18% | $3,640 | ||
14Engineering StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.63Q1 | 3.21 0.22 up from 2016 | 1,921 | 28% | $4,620 | ||
15Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.61Q1 | 2.73 0.29 up from 2016 | 516 | 14% | — | ||
16Journal of Constructional Steel ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.58Q1 | 2.63 0.25 up from 2016 | 840 | 21% | $4,310 | ||
17Journal of Water Resources Planning and ManagementAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.56Q1 | 3.58 0.61 up from 2016 | 315 | 14% | — | ||
18Transportation GeotechnicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.50Q1 | 2.21 0.43 down from 2016 | 102 | 10% | $3,540 | ||
19Canadian Geotechnical JournalNRC Research Press · Canada | 2.50Q1 | 2.78 0.15 up from 2016 | 483 | 65% | — | ||
20Tunnelling and Underground Space TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.43Q1 | 3.08 0.80 up from 2016 | 534 | 12% | $3,820 | ||
21Structural Control and Health MonitoringOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.37Q1 | 2.75 0.04 down from 2016 | 301 | 67% | $2,490 | ||
22Materials and StructuresSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 2.36Q1 | 2.36 0.33 up from 2016 | 734 | 37% | $3,390 | ||
23Thin-Walled StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.34Q1 | 3.46 0.39 up from 2016 | 884 | 16% | $4,440 | ||
24Bulletin of Earthquake EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.33Q1 | 2.66 0.70 up from 2016 | 494 | 26% | $3,990 | ||
25SOILS AND FOUNDATIONSOAElsevier BV · Japan | 2.30Q1 | 2.20 0.32 up from 2016 | 317 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
26Structural and Multidisciplinary OptimizationSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.22Q1 | 3.47 0.71 up from 2016 | 594 | 15% | $3,990 | ||
27Structural Health MonitoringSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.20Q1 | 3.06 0.42 down from 2016 | 184 | 23% | $4,400 | ||
28Journal of Building EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.19Q1 | 3.13 0.34 up from 2016 | 208 | 19% | $3,940 | ||
29Frontiers in Built EnvironmentOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 2.17Q1 | 2.73 0.25 up from 2016 | 62 | 100% | $2,353 | ||
30Journal of Sound and VibrationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.15Q1 | 3.07 0.17 up from 2016 | 1,589 | 27% | $4,190 | ||
31Journal of Structural EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.13Q1 | 2.29 0.25 up from 2016 | 771 | 15% | — | ||
32Acta GeotechnicaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.08Q1 | 2.88 0.28 up from 2016 | 207 | 21% | $3,990 | ||
33Journal of Computing in Civil EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.05Q1 | 2.72 0.71 up from 2016 | 266 | 11% | — | ||
34International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in GeomechanicsWiley · United Kingdom | 2.05Q1 | 2.32 0.11 down from 2016 | 307 | 18% | $4,530 | ||
35Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering (English Edition)OAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.03Q1 | 1.92 0.57 up from 2016 | 160 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
36StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.96Q1 | 2.01 0.48 up from 2016 | 167 | 32% | $3,510 | ||
37Soil Dynamics and Earthquake EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.96Q1 | 2.46 0.43 up from 2016 | 712 | 17% | $3,900 | ||
38International Journal of Concrete Structures and MaterialsOASpringer Nature · South Korea | 1.96Q1 | 2.94 0.03 down from 2016 | 116 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
39Structure and Infrastructure EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 2.03 0.24 up from 2016 | 317 | 24% | — | ||
40Geosynthetics InternationalThomas Telford Ltd. · United Kingdom | 1.87Q1 | 2.06 0.28 down from 2016 | 138 | 20% | — | ||
41Materiales de ConstrucciónOASpanish National Research Council · Spain | 1.87Q1 | 2.37 0.54 up from 2016 | 104 | 100% | — | ||
42Journal of Civil Structural Health MonitoringSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.87Q1 | 2.91 1.52 up from 2016 | 129 | 22% | $3,890 | ||
43Vadose Zone JournalOASoil Science Society of America · United States | 1.83Q1 | 3.26 0.91 up from 2016 | 288 | 44% | $3,070 | ||
44Journal of Infrastructure SystemsAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.83Q1 | 1.23 0.47 down from 2016 | 158 | 19% | — | ||
45Georisk Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and GeohazardsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 1.87 0.17 up from 2016 | 81 | 16% | — | ||
46Case Studies in Construction MaterialsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.78Q1 | 1.95 0.37 up from 2016 | 72 | 100% | $2,660 | ||
47Road Materials and Pavement DesignTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.75Q1 | 1.98 0.04 up from 2016 | 368 | 11% | — | ||
48Journal of Materials in Civil EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.72Q1 | 1.84 0.17 up from 2016 | 826 | 9% | — | ||
49Journal of Engineering MechanicsAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.72Q1 | 2.09 0.17 up from 2016 | 441 | 10% | — | ||
50International Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.70Q1 | 1.75 0.80 up from 2016 | 77 | 3% | $3,890 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Civil and Structural Engineering 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.
59 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 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
- 250
- Window papers (baseline)
- 123,708 -2.1% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 0.78 -20.4% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 18
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.