Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Subfield ranking · 2020
Civil and Structural Engineering journal rankings 2020
264 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Civil and Structural Engineering has 264 ranked journals in 2020. The median journal has an OJR of 0.70, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2019; Q1 starts at OJR 1.26. The top three are Cement and Concrete Research, Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, and Automation in Construction.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2020. 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 2017–2019, the window the 2020 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 Engineering563
- Mechanical Engineering379
- Biomedical Engineering312
- Civil and Structural Engineering264
- Aerospace Engineering174
- Control and Systems Engineering122
- Mechanics of Materials121
- Computational Mechanics103
- Building and Construction97
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering87
- Ocean Engineering74
- Automotive Engineering36
264 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 2019. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2017–2019, the window the 2020 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2017–2019 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 2011 to 2020. | Compare |
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1Cement and Concrete ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.20Q1 | 12.24 2.61 up from 2019 | 652 | 52% | $5,180 | ||
2Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure EngineeringWiley · United Kingdom | 5.15Q1 | 9.92 0.31 down from 2019 | 225 | 91% | $5,230 | ||
3Automation in ConstructionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.49Q1 | 10.02 2.12 up from 2019 | 825 | 33% | $5,490 | ||
4Cement and Concrete CompositesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.62Q1 | 8.26 1.76 up from 2019 | 774 | 26% | $5,120 | ||
5Advances in Engineering SoftwareElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.26Q1 | 4.41 1.32 down from 2019 | 354 | 21% | $3,810 | ||
6Mechanical Systems and Signal ProcessingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.94Q1 | 7.64 0.42 up from 2019 | 1,887 | 27% | $4,730 | ||
7Tunnelling and Underground Space TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.64Q1 | 6.00 1.09 up from 2019 | 992 | 16% | $3,820 | ||
8Journal of Computing in Civil EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.55Q1 | 5.61 1.90 up from 2019 | 230 | 12% | — | ||
9Construction and Building MaterialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.41Q1 | 6.86 1.21 up from 2019 | 8,359 | 18% | $4,540 | ||
10Journal of Building EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.29Q1 | 6.22 1.38 up from 2019 | 937 | 20% | $3,940 | ||
11Case Studies in Construction MaterialsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.28Q1 | 4.83 1.12 up from 2019 | 253 | 100% | $2,660 | ||
12Structural Control and Health MonitoringOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.11Q1 | 5.09 1.34 up from 2019 | 472 | 46% | $2,490 | ||
13Computers and GeotechnicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 4.61 0.48 up from 2019 | 871 | 16% | $3,640 | ||
14GéotechniqueICE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.03Q1 | 3.71 0.21 down from 2019 | 356 | 40% | — | ||
15Engineering StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.03Q1 | 4.79 0.73 up from 2019 | 3,343 | 25% | $4,620 | ||
16Structural Health MonitoringSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.02Q1 | 5.27 1.72 up from 2019 | 351 | 19% | $4,400 | ||
17Geotextiles and GeomembranesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.01Q1 | 5.06 0.44 up from 2019 | 257 | 8% | $3,850 | ||
18Materials and StructuresSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 2.01Q1 | 4.12 0.72 up from 2019 | 427 | 43% | $3,390 | ||
19Earthquake Engineering & Structural DynamicsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.98Q1 | 4.14 0.78 up from 2019 | 360 | 32% | $3,760 | ||
20Computers & StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.94Q1 | 4.32 0.30 up from 2019 | 451 | 29% | $4,200 | ||
21Acta GeotechnicaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.93Q1 | 4.71 1.01 up from 2019 | 375 | 22% | $3,990 | ||
22Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering (English Edition)OAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.90Q1 | 3.84 1.02 up from 2019 | 175 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
23Sustainable and Resilient InfrastructureTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.90Q1 | 4.80 1.24 up from 2019 | 79 | 8% | — | ||
24Journal of Sustainable Cement-Based MaterialsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.90Q1 | 4.74 1.50 up from 2019 | 56 | 17% | — | ||
25International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in GeomechanicsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.88Q1 | 3.96 0.75 up from 2019 | 310 | 36% | $4,530 | ||
26Thin-Walled StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 4.80 0.72 up from 2019 | 1,490 | 18% | $4,440 | ||
27Marine StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 4.22 1.40 up from 2019 | 324 | 28% | $4,320 | ||
28Structural and Multidisciplinary OptimizationSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.76Q1 | 4.48 0.84 up from 2019 | 785 | 27% | $3,990 | ||
29Geosynthetics InternationalThomas Telford Ltd. · United Kingdom | 1.74Q1 | 3.88 0.76 up from 2019 | 144 | 19% | — | ||
30Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.74Q1 | 3.98 0.77 up from 2019 | 514 | 24% | — | ||
31Canadian Geotechnical JournalNRC Research Press · Canada | 1.72Q1 | 3.23 0.39 up from 2019 | 498 | 81% | — | ||
32Soil Dynamics and Earthquake EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.67Q1 | 3.60 0.64 up from 2019 | 1,284 | 15% | $3,900 | ||
| 1.66Q1 | 0.76 0.30 up from 2019 | 120 | — | — | |||
34Airfield and Highway Pavements 2019Publisher not listed | 1.65Q1 | 0.55no 2019 value | 147 | — | — | — | |
35Journal of Sound and VibrationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.65Q1 | 4.17 0.42 up from 2019 | 1,731 | 35% | $4,190 | ||
36BuildingsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.65Q1 | 3.67 0.70 up from 2019 | 548 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
37Bulletin of Earthquake EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.64Q1 | 3.73 0.79 up from 2019 | 658 | 32% | $3,990 | ||
38Journal of Materials in Civil EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.62Q1 | 3.65 0.82 up from 2019 | 1,198 | 9% | — | ||
39SOILS AND FOUNDATIONSOAElsevier BV · Japan | 1.61Q1 | 2.96 0.58 up from 2019 | 373 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
40Structure and Infrastructure EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.58Q1 | 3.28 0.39 up from 2019 | 341 | 18% | — | ||
41Georisk Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and GeohazardsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.56Q1 | 3.45 1.03 up from 2019 | 82 | 21% | — | ||
42Journal of Constructional Steel ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.56Q1 | 3.72 0.51 up from 2019 | 1,151 | 16% | $4,310 | ||
43International Journal of Geo-EngineeringOASpringer Nature · South Korea | 1.56Q1 | 2.64 1.01 up from 2019 | 68 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
44Journal of Infrastructure SystemsAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.55Q1 | 2.86 0.34 up from 2019 | 172 | 13% | — | ||
45RILEM Technical LettersOAPublisher not listed | 1.55Q1 | 2.91 0.57 down from 2019 | 53 | 100% | — | ||
46Journal of King Saud University - Engineering SciencesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.55Q1 | 4.64 1.81 up from 2019 | 141 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
47Road Materials and Pavement DesignTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.53Q1 | 2.88 0.07 up from 2019 | 553 | 12% | — | ||
48International Journal of Pavement Research and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Taiwan | 1.53Q1 | 2.38 1.00 down from 2019 | 233 | 15% | $3,190 | ||
49International Journal of GeomechanicsAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.52Q1 | 3.26 0.35 up from 2019 | 700 | 4% | — | ||
50Transportation GeotechnicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.52Q1 | 3.66 0.46 up from 2019 | 202 | 20% | $3,540 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Civil and Structural Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering563
- Mechanical Engineering379
- Biomedical Engineering312
- Civil and Structural Engineering264
- Aerospace Engineering174
- Control and Systems Engineering122
- Mechanics of Materials121
- Computational Mechanics103
- Building and Construction97
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering87
- Ocean Engineering74
- Automotive Engineering36
- Media Technology29
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality26
- Architecture2
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2020. Corpus-wide, 86.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
68 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 2017–2019, 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: 2020. Publication window: 2017–2019. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 264
- Window papers (baseline)
- 133,854 +8.2% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 0.699 -10.1% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 18
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2017–2019 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.