Journal rankings · indicator year 2022
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Subfield ranking · 2022
Building and Construction journal rankings 2022
93 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Building and Construction has 93 ranked journals in 2022. The median journal has an OJR of 0.67, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2021; Q1 starts at OJR 1.13. The top three are Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, Proceedings of the ... ISARC, and Energy and Built Environment.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2022. 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 2019–2021, the window the 2022 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 Engineering591
- Mechanical Engineering376
- Biomedical Engineering334
- Civil and Structural Engineering276
- Aerospace Engineering178
- Control and Systems Engineering124
- Mechanics of Materials122
- Computational Mechanics94
- Building and Construction93
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering86
- Ocean Engineering74
- Automotive Engineering43
93 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 2021. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2019–2021, the window the 2022 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2019–2021 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 2013 to 2022. | Compare |
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1Journal of Construction Engineering and ManagementAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.42Q1 | 5.42 0.28 down from 2021 | 612 | 21% | — | ||
2Proceedings of the ... ISARCPublisher not listed | 2.04Q1 | 0.85 0.30 down from 2021 | 540 | 16% | — | ||
3Energy and Built EnvironmentOAElsevier BV · China | 2.00Q1 | 7.44 0.68 up from 2021 | 141 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
4Building and EnvironmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.98Q1 | 7.73 0.30 up from 2021 | 2,367 | 33% | $4,280 | ||
5Energy and BuildingsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.94Q1 | 7.35 0.41 down from 2021 | 2,369 | 36% | $4,260 | ||
6Frontiers of Architectural ResearchOAElsevier BV · China | 1.94Q1 | 4.40 0.49 up from 2021 | 187 | 100% | $1,500 | ||
7Computing in constructionUniversity College Dublin · Belgium | 1.91Q1 | 1.14 0.08 down from 2021 | 112 | 79% | — | ||
8International Journal of Architectural Research Archnet-IJAREmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.84Q1 | 5.56 3.22 up from 2021 | 148 | 29% | — | ||
9Construction Research Congress 2020Publisher not listed | 1.82Q1 | 1.15 0.48 up from 2021 | 482 | — | — | ||
10URBAN DESIGN InternationalPalgrave Macmillan | 1.74Q1 | 3.24 1.10 up from 2021 | 86 | 60% | $3,190 | ||
11Journal of Civil Engineering and ManagementOATaylor & Francis · Lithuania | 1.71Q1 | 4.59 0.48 up from 2021 | 173 | 100% | $517 | ||
12Journal of Information Technology in ConstructionOAConseil International du Bâtiment · Netherlands | 1.71Q1 | 4.94 0.11 down from 2021 | 111 | 100% | — | ||
13Construction InnovationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.67Q1 | 4.38 1.04 down from 2021 | 172 | 36% | — | ||
14International Journal of Construction ManagementTaylor & Francis · Hong Kong SAR China | 1.57Q1 | 4.13 0.47 up from 2021 | 499 | 18% | — | ||
15Building Research & InformationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.56Q1 | 4.50 0.22 down from 2021 | 157 | 42% | — | ||
16Smart and Sustainable Built EnvironmentEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.55Q1 | 5.40 0.54 up from 2021 | 173 | 35% | — | ||
17The Extractive Industries and SocietyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.42Q1 | 4.30 0.06 up from 2021 | 486 | 37% | $3,470 | ||
18Journal of Composites for ConstructionAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.41Q1 | 4.89 0.95 up from 2021 | 257 | 11% | — | ||
19Building SimulationSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 1.37Q1 | 5.80 1.25 up from 2021 | 373 | 37% | $4,090 | ||
20Architectural Engineering and Design ManagementTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.34Q1 | 3.67 1.05 up from 2021 | 116 | 20% | — | ||
21Journal of Facilities ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.30Q1 | 2.97 0.41 up from 2021 | 129 | 15% | — | ||
22Buildings and CitiesOAUbiquity Press · United Kingdom | 1.26Q1 | 4.19 0.13 down from 2021 | 95 | 100% | $1,165 | ||
23IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.24Q1 | 2.73 0.54 down from 2021 | 317 | 57% | — | ||
24Journal of Engineering Design and TechnologyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.13Q1 | 3.51 0.43 up from 2021 | 423 | 26% | — | ||
25WIT transactions on ecology and the environmentWIT Press · United Kingdom | 1.11Q2 | 0.72 0.15 up from 2021 | 495 | 96% | — | ||
26Construction RoboticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.09Q2 | 3.40 0.62 up from 2021 | 50 | 72% | $3,190 | ||
27Intelligent Buildings InternationalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.08Q2 | 2.51 0.55 down from 2021 | 83 | 75% | — | ||
28Journal of Big Data Analytics in TransportationSpringer Science+Business Media · Singapore | 0.99Q2 | 3.41 0.67 up from 2021 | 46 | 36% | $2,890 | ||
29Architectural Science ReviewTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.97Q2 | 3.03 0.07 up from 2021 | 131 | 29% | — | ||
30International Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.96Q2 | 1.90 0.65 down from 2021 | 96 | 30% | $3,290 | ||
31EPiC series in built environmentUnited Kingdom | 0.96Q2 | 0.66 0.26 up from 2021 | 128 | 44% | — | ||
32International Journal of Building Pathology and AdaptationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.92Q2 | 2.79 0.33 up from 2021 | 190 | 29% | — | ||
33Wood Science and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.91Q2 | 3.65 0.97 up from 2021 | 266 | 26% | $3,990 | ||
34SIGSPATIAL SpecialAssociation for Computing Machinery | 0.85Q2 | 2.89 1.50 down from 2021 | 80 | 79% | — | ||
35European Journal of Wood and Wood ProductsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.84Q2 | 2.76 0.08 up from 2021 | 383 | 24% | $2,590 | ||
36Journal of Architectural EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 0.84Q2 | 2.56 0.74 up from 2021 | 182 | 10% | — | ||
37Journal of Wood ScienceOASpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.82Q2 | 3.02 0.15 down from 2021 | 223 | 100% | $1,990 | ||
38Journal of Building Performance SimulationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.82Q2 | 2.87 0.37 down from 2021 | 119 | 28% | — | ||
39eCAADe proceedingsPublisher not listed | 0.80Q2 | 0.63 0.37 up from 2021 | 481 | 99% | — | ||
40International Journal of Architectural ComputingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.79Q2 | 2.29 0.81 up from 2021 | 84 | 18% | $4,150 | ||
41Indoor and Built EnvironmentSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.79Q2 | 3.21 0.51 up from 2021 | 331 | 23% | $4,400 | ||
42Wood Material Science and EngineeringTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.79Q2 | 2.42 0.03 down from 2021 | 199 | 32% | — | ||
43ACADIA quarterlyPublisher not listed | 0.75Q2 | 0.19 0.12 down from 2021 | 213 | 1% | — | ||
44Open House InternationalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.70Q2 | 1.72 1.03 up from 2021 | 149 | 11% | — | ||
45HolzforschungDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.67Q2 | 2.63 0.52 up from 2021 | 322 | 34% | $0 listed | ||
46Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Smart Infrastructure and ConstructionOAThomas Telford Ltd. · United Kingdom | 0.67Q2 | 2.76 1.40 up from 2021 | 37 | 100% | — | ||
47Journal of Building PhysicsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.67Q2 | 2.11 1.37 down from 2021 | 80 | 40% | $4,150 | ||
48Journal of Asian Architecture and Building EngineeringOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.63Q3 | 1.55 0.19 up from 2021 | 344 | 100% | $1,165 | ||
49Advances in Building Energy ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.62Q3 | 2.60 0.68 up from 2021 | 71 | 14% | — | ||
50VITRUVIO - International Journal of Architectural Technology and SustainabilityOATechnical University of Valencia · Spain | 0.61Q3 | 1.31 0.77 up from 2021 | 43 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Building and Construction highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering591
- Mechanical Engineering376
- Biomedical Engineering334
- Civil and Structural Engineering276
- Aerospace Engineering178
- Control and Systems Engineering124
- Mechanics of Materials122
- Computational Mechanics94
- Building and Construction93
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering86
- Ocean Engineering74
- Automotive Engineering43
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality27
- Media Technology24
- Architecture2
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2022. Corpus-wide, 89.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
29 additional Building and Construction journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2019–2021, 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: 2022. Publication window: 2019–2021. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 93
- Window papers (baseline)
- 78,281 +27.5% from indicator year 2019
- Median OJR
- 0.671 +8.5% from indicator year 2019
- Rising journals (2025)
- 11
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2019–2021 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.