Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Building and Construction journal rankings 2018
89 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Building and Construction has 89 ranked journals in 2018. The median journal has an OJR of 0.67, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.03 on 2017; Q1 starts at OJR 1.00. The top three are International Journal of Sustainable Built Environment, Energy and Buildings, and Journal of Construction Engineering and Management.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2018. 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 2015–2017, the window the 2018 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 Engineering518
- Mechanical Engineering367
- Biomedical Engineering281
- Civil and Structural Engineering252
- Aerospace Engineering180
- Control and Systems Engineering131
- Mechanics of Materials123
- Computational Mechanics103
- Building and Construction89
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering86
- Ocean Engineering75
- Automotive Engineering30
89 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 2017. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2015–2017, the window the 2018 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2015–2017 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 2009 to 2018. | Compare |
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1International Journal of Sustainable Built EnvironmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.02Q1 | 4.47 0.87 up from 2017 | 140 | — | — | ||
2Energy and BuildingsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.46Q1 | 5.37 0.13 down from 2017 | 2,646 | 33% | $4,260 | ||
3Journal of Construction Engineering and ManagementAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.43Q1 | 3.49 0.87 up from 2017 | 470 | 20% | — | ||
4Building and EnvironmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.38Q1 | 5.53 0.41 up from 2017 | 1,307 | 33% | $4,280 | ||
5Building Research & InformationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.29Q1 | 3.54 0.20 up from 2017 | 207 | 64% | — | ||
6Visualization in EngineeringSpringer Nature · Germany | 2.22Q1 | 3.42 0.16 down from 2017 | 48 | 100% | $1,350 | ||
7IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.02Q1 | 2.69 0.42 up from 2017 | 214 | 22% | — | ||
8Open Geospatial Data Software and StandardsSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 2.68 1.60 up from 2017 | 38 | 100% | $990 | ||
9Journal of Composites for ConstructionAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.88Q1 | 3.06 0.70 up from 2017 | 276 | 12% | — | ||
10The Extractive Industries and SocietyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.84Q1 | 3.01 0.50 up from 2017 | 300 | 30% | $3,470 | ||
11Construction InnovationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.72Q1 | 2.40 0.03 down from 2017 | 80 | 21% | — | ||
12Frontiers of Architectural ResearchOAElsevier BV · China | 1.63Q1 | 1.76 0.64 up from 2017 | 118 | 100% | $1,500 | ||
13Journal of Building Performance SimulationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.63Q1 | 2.72 0.20 down from 2017 | 120 | 48% | — | ||
14Journal of Information Technology in ConstructionOAConseil International du Bâtiment · Netherlands | 1.60Q1 | 2.64 1.26 up from 2017 | 41 | 100% | — | ||
15Journal of Civil Engineering and ManagementOATaylor & Francis · Lithuania | 1.56Q1 | 2.49 0.51 up from 2017 | 297 | 100% | $517 | ||
16International Journal of Construction ManagementTaylor & Francis · Hong Kong SAR China | 1.49Q1 | 2.08 0.41 up from 2017 | 135 | 16% | — | ||
17Journal of Facilities ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.31Q1 | 1.47 0.31 up from 2017 | 75 | 35% | — | ||
18International Journal of Building Pathology and AdaptationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.30Q1 | 1.28 0.04 down from 2017 | 80 | 33% | — | ||
19Architectural Engineering and Design ManagementTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.27Q1 | 1.88 0.34 down from 2017 | 76 | 35% | — | ||
20Proceedings of the ... ISARCPublisher not listed | 1.19Q1 | 0.79 0.25 up from 2017 | 410 | 17% | — | ||
21Building SimulationSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 1.19Q1 | 2.48 0.54 up from 2017 | 212 | 26% | $4,090 | ||
22URBAN DESIGN InternationalPalgrave Macmillan | 1.18Q1 | 1.00 0.16 up from 2017 | 68 | 32% | $3,190 | ||
23ACADIA quarterlyPublisher not listed | 1.00Q1 | 0.61 0.33 up from 2017 | 128 | 75% | — | ||
24Wood Science and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.94Q2 | 1.90 0.33 up from 2017 | 279 | 28% | $3,990 | ||
25Construction Research Congress 2016Publisher not listed | 0.90Q2 | 0.64 0.20 up from 2017 | 299 | — | — | ||
26PROMET - Traffic&TransportationOAUniversity of Zagreb, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences · Croatia | 0.90Q2 | 1.09 0.32 up from 2017 | 177 | 100% | $970 | ||
27Smart and Sustainable Built EnvironmentEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.88Q2 | 1.58 0.65 up from 2017 | 48 | 22% | — | ||
28Architectural Science ReviewTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.88Q2 | 1.12 0.20 down from 2017 | 100 | 35% | — | ||
29Journal of Facade Design and EngineeringOAIOS Press · Netherlands | 0.87Q2 | 0.81 0.19 down from 2017 | 38 | — | $539 | ||
30ACI Structural JournalAmerican Concrete Institute · United States | 0.84Q2 | 1.33 0.06 down from 2017 | 361 | 8% | — | ||
31International Journal of Architectural Research Archnet-IJAREmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.84Q2 | 1.04 0.02 down from 2017 | 132 | 100% | — | ||
32Advances in Building Energy ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.83Q2 | 1.50 0.06 up from 2017 | 65 | 27% | — | ||
33European Journal of Wood and Wood ProductsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.79Q2 | 1.47 0.26 up from 2017 | 424 | 16% | $2,590 | ||
34SIGSPATIAL SpecialAssociation for Computing Machinery | 0.79Q2 | 0.73 0.17 down from 2017 | 81 | 3% | — | ||
| 0.76Q2 | 0.62 0.75 down from 2017 | 74 | 0% | — | |||
36Technology|Architecture + DesignTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.74Q2 | 0.92no 2017 value | 37 | 29% | — | — | |
37Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering SustainabilityThomas Telford Ltd. · United Kingdom | 0.73Q2 | 1.77 0.43 up from 2017 | 126 | 46% | — | ||
38Journal of Building PhysicsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.72Q2 | 1.21 0.12 down from 2017 | 83 | 21% | $4,150 | ||
39Journal of Wood ScienceOASpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.71Q2 | 1.39 0.15 down from 2017 | 222 | 97% | $1,990 | ||
40Indoor and Built EnvironmentSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.69Q2 | 1.40 0.50 up from 2017 | 297 | 18% | $4,400 | ||
41International Journal of Architectural ComputingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.69Q2 | 0.89 0.12 up from 2017 | 69 | 50% | $4,150 | ||
42HolzforschungDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.68Q2 | 1.97 0.25 down from 2017 | 352 | 17% | $0 listed | ||
43Science and Technology for the Built EnvironmentTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.68Q2 | 1.49 0.25 up from 2017 | 373 | 25% | — | ||
44Intelligent Buildings InternationalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.67Q2 | 0.95 0.52 down from 2017 | 43 | 50% | — | ||
45International Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.67Q2 | 0.81 0.06 down from 2017 | 37 | 20% | $3,290 | ||
46Journal of Engineering Design and TechnologyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.66Q3 | 0.88 0.06 up from 2017 | 136 | 11% | — | ||
47Journal of Building Construction and Planning ResearchOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.66Q3 | 0.52 0.04 down from 2017 | 47 | 100% | — | ||
48Building Services Engineering Research and TechnologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.65Q3 | 1.19 0.01 down from 2017 | 153 | 25% | $4,150 | ||
49Journal of Architectural EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 0.61Q3 | 0.91 0.07 down from 2017 | 126 | 27% | — | ||
50Maderas Ciencia y tecnologíaOAUniversity of the Bío-Bío · Chile | 0.59Q3 | 1.50 0.53 up from 2017 | 172 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Building and Construction highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering518
- Mechanical Engineering367
- Biomedical Engineering281
- Civil and Structural Engineering252
- Aerospace Engineering180
- Control and Systems Engineering131
- Mechanics of Materials123
- Computational Mechanics103
- Building and Construction89
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering86
- Ocean Engineering75
- Automotive Engineering30
- Media Technology29
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality25
- Architecture1
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2018. Corpus-wide, 81.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
28 additional Building and Construction journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2015–2017, 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: 2018. Publication window: 2015–2017. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 89
- Window papers (baseline)
- 58,104 +9.7% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.6704 -21.9% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 11
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2015–2017 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.