Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Civil and Structural Engineering journal rankings 2018
252 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Civil and Structural Engineering has 252 ranked journals in 2018. The median journal has an OJR of 0.74, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.04 on 2017; Q1 starts at OJR 1.38. The top three are Cement and Concrete Research, Cement and Concrete Composites, and Automation in Construction.
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
252 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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1Cement and Concrete ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.56Q1 | 6.45 0.36 up from 2017 | 588 | 39% | $5,180 | ||
2Cement and Concrete CompositesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.05Q1 | 5.29 0.12 up from 2017 | 564 | 29% | $5,120 | ||
3Automation in ConstructionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.89Q1 | 6.33 1.10 up from 2017 | 552 | 26% | $5,490 | ||
4Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure EngineeringWiley · United Kingdom | 3.78Q1 | 7.45 2.08 up from 2017 | 192 | 87% | $5,230 | ||
5Advances in Engineering SoftwareElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.37Q1 | 5.47 1.71 up from 2017 | 411 | 18% | $3,810 | ||
6Mechanical Systems and Signal ProcessingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.09Q1 | 5.49 0.71 up from 2017 | 1,476 | 24% | $4,730 | ||
7RILEM Technical LettersOAPublisher not listed | 2.87Q1 | 4.02 1.24 up from 2017 | 47 | 100% | — | ||
8GéotechniqueICE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.81Q1 | 3.53 0.51 up from 2017 | 374 | 44% | — | ||
9Tunnelling and Underground Space TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.75Q1 | 4.35 1.27 up from 2017 | 661 | 13% | $3,820 | ||
10Earthquake Engineering & Structural DynamicsWiley · United Kingdom | 2.66Q1 | 3.12 0.25 up from 2017 | 439 | 29% | $3,760 | ||
11Construction and Building MaterialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.60Q1 | 4.88 0.63 up from 2017 | 5,626 | 18% | $4,540 | ||
12Acta GeotechnicaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.60Q1 | 4.13 1.25 up from 2017 | 241 | 11% | $3,990 | ||
13Journal of Computing in Civil EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.51Q1 | 3.38 0.66 up from 2017 | 266 | 12% | — | ||
14Geotextiles and GeomembranesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.49Q1 | 4.12 0.13 down from 2017 | 219 | 15% | $3,850 | ||
15Computers and GeotechnicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.42Q1 | 3.63 0.62 up from 2017 | 710 | 15% | $3,640 | ||
16Transportation GeotechnicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.42Q1 | 3.49 1.29 up from 2017 | 118 | 22% | $3,540 | ||
17Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.34Q1 | 2.95 0.22 up from 2017 | 520 | 26% | — | ||
18Engineering StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.31Q1 | 3.71 0.51 up from 2017 | 2,213 | 28% | $4,620 | ||
19Materials and StructuresSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 2.31Q1 | 3.13 0.77 up from 2017 | 613 | 41% | $3,390 | ||
20Canadian Geotechnical JournalNRC Research Press · Canada | 2.27Q1 | 2.71 0.07 down from 2017 | 505 | 72% | — | ||
21Structural and Multidisciplinary OptimizationSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.26Q1 | 3.85 0.38 up from 2017 | 662 | 27% | $3,990 | ||
22Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering (English Edition)OAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.22Q1 | 2.67 0.75 up from 2017 | 155 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
23Computers & StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.20Q1 | 3.65 0.41 up from 2017 | 573 | 23% | $4,200 | ||
24Structural Health MonitoringSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.13Q1 | 3.48 0.42 up from 2017 | 228 | 23% | $4,400 | ||
25Structural Control and Health MonitoringOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.12Q1 | 3.46 0.71 up from 2017 | 365 | 73% | $2,490 | ||
26Thin-Walled StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.07Q1 | 3.72 0.26 up from 2017 | 1,085 | 13% | $4,440 | ||
27Journal of Constructional Steel ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.05Q1 | 2.96 0.33 up from 2017 | 912 | 21% | $4,310 | ||
28Journal of Water Resources Planning and ManagementAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.03Q1 | 3.50 0.08 down from 2017 | 373 | 23% | — | ||
29SOILS AND FOUNDATIONSOAElsevier BV · Japan | 2.02Q1 | 2.30 0.10 up from 2017 | 302 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
30Case Studies in Construction MaterialsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.01Q1 | 3.01 1.07 up from 2017 | 112 | 100% | $2,660 | ||
31Journal of Sound and VibrationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.01Q1 | 3.58 0.51 up from 2017 | 1,623 | 30% | $4,190 | ||
32Journal of Building EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.99Q1 | 3.35 0.22 up from 2017 | 385 | 22% | $3,940 | ||
33Earthquake SpectraSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.96Q1 | 2.23 0.27 down from 2017 | 278 | 19% | $4,400 | ||
34International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in GeomechanicsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.92Q1 | 2.90 0.58 up from 2017 | 297 | 33% | $4,530 | ||
35Journal of Structural EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.92Q1 | 2.60 0.30 up from 2017 | 740 | 12% | — | ||
36Bulletin of Earthquake EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.92Q1 | 2.78 0.11 up from 2017 | 559 | 21% | $3,990 | ||
37Soil Dynamics and Earthquake EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.91Q1 | 2.98 0.52 up from 2017 | 838 | 19% | $3,900 | ||
38Journal of Infrastructure SystemsAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.88Q1 | 2.87 1.64 up from 2017 | 165 | 9% | — | ||
39Frontiers in Built EnvironmentOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.84Q1 | 2.70 0.02 down from 2017 | 137 | 100% | $2,353 | ||
40Structure and Infrastructure EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 2.37 0.35 up from 2017 | 307 | 33% | — | ||
41Geosynthetics InternationalThomas Telford Ltd. · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 2.71 0.64 up from 2017 | 148 | 23% | — | ||
42International Journal of GeomechanicsAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.76Q1 | 2.86 0.94 up from 2017 | 594 | 7% | — | ||
43Road Materials and Pavement DesignTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.73Q1 | 2.33 0.35 up from 2017 | 496 | 11% | — | ||
44International Journal of Concrete Structures and MaterialsOASpringer Nature · South Korea | 1.73Q1 | 2.41 0.52 down from 2017 | 124 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
45Georisk Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and GeohazardsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.73Q1 | 2.48 0.61 up from 2017 | 84 | 20% | — | ||
46Marine StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.66Q1 | 3.02 0.76 up from 2017 | 212 | 38% | $4,320 | ||
47Journal of Sustainable Cement-Based MaterialsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.63Q1 | 2.27 1.09 up from 2017 | 59 | 5% | — | ||
48HBRC JournalOATaylor & Francis · Egypt | 1.61Q1 | 1.64 0.67 up from 2017 | 104 | 100% | — | ||
49Underground SpaceOAElsevier BV · China | 1.59Q1 | 2.00 0.50 up from 2017 | 37 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
50BuildingsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.57Q1 | 2.74 0.93 up from 2017 | 246 | 100% | $3,137 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Civil and Structural Engineering 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.
70 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 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
- 252
- Window papers (baseline)
- 123,691 -2.4% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.74 -11.8% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 18
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.