Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
Civil and Structural Engineering journal rankings 2023
270 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Civil and Structural Engineering has 270 ranked journals in 2023. The median journal has an OJR of 0.66, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.04 on 2022; Q1 starts at OJR 1.06. The top three are Automation in Construction, Cement and Concrete Research, and Cement and Concrete Composites.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2023. 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 2020–2022, the window the 2023 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 Engineering598
- Mechanical Engineering376
- Biomedical Engineering341
- Civil and Structural Engineering270
- Aerospace Engineering163
- Control and Systems Engineering128
- Mechanics of Materials121
- Computational Mechanics96
- Building and Construction92
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering86
- Ocean Engineering74
- Automotive Engineering44
270 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 2022. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2020–2022, the window the 2023 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2020–2022 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 2014 to 2023. | Compare |
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1Automation in ConstructionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.41Q1 | 12.23 0.11 down from 2022 | 1,401 | 34% | $5,490 | ||
2Cement and Concrete ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.09Q1 | 11.79 0.33 down from 2022 | 829 | 53% | $5,180 | ||
3Cement and Concrete CompositesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.62Q1 | 11.74 0.83 up from 2022 | 1,152 | 38% | $5,120 | ||
4Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering (English Edition)OAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.30Q1 | 10.24 0.11 up from 2022 | 145 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
5Developments in the Built EnvironmentOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.12Q1 | 7.50 3.11 down from 2022 | 106 | 100% | $3,230 | ||
6Cleaner MaterialsOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.10Q1 | 10.12 2.71 up from 2022 | 164 | 100% | $1,710 | ||
7Underground SpaceOAElsevier BV · China | 2.91Q1 | 7.52 0.87 up from 2022 | 156 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
8Mechanical Systems and Signal ProcessingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.60Q1 | 8.25 0.48 down from 2022 | 2,819 | 28% | $4,730 | ||
9Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure EngineeringWiley · United Kingdom | 2.58Q1 | 8.63 0.50 up from 2022 | 381 | 91% | $5,230 | ||
10Tunnelling and Underground Space TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.49Q1 | 6.84 0.10 up from 2022 | 1,366 | 15% | $3,820 | ||
11Journal of Computing in Civil EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.41Q1 | 4.58 2.93 down from 2022 | 192 | 17% | — | ||
12Structural Health MonitoringSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.36Q1 | 6.04 0.98 down from 2022 | 535 | 23% | $4,400 | ||
13Case Studies in Construction MaterialsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.34Q1 | 7.35 0.46 up from 2022 | 1,457 | 100% | $2,660 | ||
14Construction and Building MaterialsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.22Q1 | 8.16 0.29 up from 2022 | 10,859 | 20% | $4,540 | ||
15Journal of Building EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.21Q1 | 7.48 0.77 up from 2022 | 4,592 | 21% | $3,940 | ||
16Advances in Engineering SoftwareElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.13Q1 | 5.60 0.51 up from 2022 | 368 | 30% | $3,810 | ||
17Georisk Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and GeohazardsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.11Q1 | 6.24 2.30 up from 2022 | 95 | 35% | — | ||
18Transportation EngineeringOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.03Q1 | 6.73 0.39 up from 2022 | 149 | 100% | $2,670 | ||
19Acta GeotechnicaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.02Q1 | 5.83 0.08 up from 2022 | 858 | 17% | $3,990 | ||
20Engineering StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.89Q1 | 6.14 0.62 up from 2022 | 4,579 | 29% | $4,620 | ||
21Computers and GeotechnicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.87Q1 | 5.47 0.30 up from 2022 | 1,409 | 23% | $3,640 | ||
22Transportation GeotechnicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.84Q1 | 5.25 0.41 down from 2022 | 579 | 26% | $3,540 | ||
23Thin-Walled StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.84Q1 | 6.01 0.17 down from 2022 | 2,367 | 19% | $4,440 | ||
24Computers & StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.78Q1 | 4.68 0.45 down from 2022 | 408 | 33% | $4,200 | ||
25Structural Control and Health MonitoringOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.74Q1 | 4.79 0.54 down from 2022 | 607 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
26Earthquake SpectraSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.68Q1 | 3.78 1.01 down from 2022 | 367 | 36% | $4,400 | ||
27Bulletin of Earthquake EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.64Q1 | 4.55 0.28 down from 2022 | 762 | 51% | $3,990 | ||
28Journal of Pipeline Science and EngineeringOAKeAi · China | 1.58Q1 | 5.38 0.49 down from 2022 | 78 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
29Geotextiles and GeomembranesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.58Q1 | 5.34 0.49 up from 2022 | 300 | 13% | $3,850 | ||
30Earthquake Engineering & Structural DynamicsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.55Q1 | 4.87 0.30 up from 2022 | 515 | 62% | $3,760 | ||
31Journal of Civil Structural Health MonitoringSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.52Q1 | 4.00 1.13 down from 2022 | 283 | 20% | $3,890 | ||
32Marine StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.51Q1 | 4.37 0.09 up from 2022 | 481 | 35% | $4,320 | ||
33Civil Engineering JournalOASalehan Institute of Higher Education · Iran | 1.50Q1 | 5.08 0.83 up from 2022 | 602 | 100% | — | ||
34Soil Dynamics and Earthquake EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.50Q1 | 4.50 0.37 up from 2022 | 1,413 | 20% | $3,900 | ||
35RILEM Technical LettersOAPublisher not listed | 1.48Q1 | 5.14 2.09 up from 2022 | 61 | 100% | — | ||
36Journal of Sound and VibrationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.45Q1 | 4.32 0.61 down from 2022 | 1,586 | 33% | $4,190 | ||
37GéotechniqueICE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.45Q1 | 3.50 0.04 down from 2022 | 318 | 30% | — | ||
38International Journal of Concrete Structures and MaterialsOASpringer Nature · South Korea | 1.45Q1 | 4.20 0.25 up from 2022 | 179 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
38SOILS AND FOUNDATIONSOAElsevier BV · Japan | 1.45Q1 | 3.77 0.30 down from 2022 | 339 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
40Structural and Multidisciplinary OptimizationSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.40Q1 | 4.09 0.03 up from 2022 | 1,002 | 30% | $3,990 | ||
41Materials and StructuresSpringer Science+Business Media · France | 1.40Q1 | 3.67 0.15 down from 2022 | 623 | 47% | $3,390 | ||
42Geo-Congress 2020Publisher not listed | 1.39Q1 | —no 2022 value | 419 | — | — | ||
43Journal of Constructional Steel ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.38Q1 | 4.51 0.38 up from 2022 | 1,565 | 20% | $4,310 | ||
44Applied RheologyOADe Gruyter · Germany | 1.33Q1 | 6.25 4.09 up from 2022 | 33 | 100% | $1,187 | ||
45Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.32Q1 | 3.91 0.25 up from 2022 | 677 | 37% | — | ||
46Journal of King Saud University - Engineering SciencesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.32Q1 | 4.08 0.37 up from 2022 | 258 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
47Journal of Structural EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.31Q1 | 3.90 0.12 down from 2022 | 1,027 | 14% | — | ||
48StructuresElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.30Q1 | 4.27 0.02 down from 2022 | 3,270 | 17% | $3,510 | ||
49BuildingsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.29Q1 | 4.15 0.69 down from 2022 | 3,290 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
50Journal of Infrastructure Preservation and ResilienceOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 1.28Q1 | 4.06 0.49 up from 2022 | 64 | 100% | $1,590 |
Subfields of Engineering, with Civil and Structural Engineering highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering598
- Mechanical Engineering376
- Biomedical Engineering341
- Civil and Structural Engineering270
- Aerospace Engineering163
- Control and Systems Engineering128
- Mechanics of Materials121
- Computational Mechanics96
- Building and Construction92
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering86
- Ocean Engineering74
- Automotive Engineering44
- Media Technology24
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality23
- Architecture1
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2023. Corpus-wide, 88.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
60 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 2020–2022, 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: 2023. Publication window: 2020–2022. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 270
- Window papers (baseline)
- 161,425 +20.6% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.657 -6.1% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 18
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2020–2022 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.