Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Subfield ranking · 2024
Building and Construction journal rankings 2024
93 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Building and Construction has 93 ranked journals in 2024. The median OJR fell 0.08 on 2023 to 0.66, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.15. The top three are Sustainable Structures, Proceedings of the ... ISARC, and Energy and Built Environment.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2024. 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 2021–2023, the window the 2024 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 Engineering604
- Mechanical Engineering372
- Biomedical Engineering346
- Civil and Structural Engineering273
- Aerospace Engineering150
- Control and Systems Engineering138
- Mechanics of Materials126
- Computational Mechanics95
- Building and Construction93
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering85
- Ocean Engineering72
- Automotive Engineering42
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 2023. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2021–2023, the window the 2024 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2021–2023 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 2015 to 2024. | Compare |
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1Sustainable StructuresOAHong Kong SAR China | 2.91Q1 | 9.57 1.35 down from 2023 | 33 | 100% | — | ||
2Proceedings of the ... ISARCPublisher not listed | 2.41Q1 | 1.20no change | 329 | 64% | — | ||
3Energy and Built EnvironmentOAElsevier BV · China | 2.14Q1 | 7.28 0.37 up from 2023 | 191 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
4Building and EnvironmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.09Q1 | 8.45 0.10 up from 2023 | 2,952 | 40% | $4,280 | ||
5Energy and BuildingsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.92Q1 | 8.17 0.30 up from 2023 | 2,594 | 41% | $4,260 | ||
6Journal of Construction Engineering and ManagementAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.90Q1 | 5.13 0.18 up from 2023 | 667 | 11% | — | ||
7Frontiers of Architectural ResearchOAElsevier BV · China | 1.87Q1 | 3.99 0.17 down from 2023 | 203 | 100% | $1,500 | ||
8Smart and Sustainable Built EnvironmentEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.84Q1 | 5.96 0.07 up from 2023 | 196 | 29% | — | ||
9Computing in constructionUniversity College Dublin · Belgium | 1.83Q1 | 0.75 0.51 down from 2023 | 282 | 92% | — | ||
10Journal of Information Technology in ConstructionOAConseil International du Bâtiment · Netherlands | 1.66Q1 | 4.65 0.72 down from 2023 | 153 | 100% | — | ||
11Journal of Civil Engineering and ManagementOATaylor & Francis · Lithuania | 1.59Q1 | 4.31 0.05 down from 2023 | 143 | 100% | $517 | ||
12Architectural IntelligenceOASpringer Science+Business Media | 1.59Q1 | 3.49 1.16 down from 2023 | 39 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
13Construction InnovationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.58Q1 | 4.63 0.18 down from 2023 | 272 | 22% | — | ||
14Journal of Facilities ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.54Q1 | 3.83 0.45 up from 2023 | 166 | 6% | — | ||
15The Extractive Industries and SocietyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.48Q1 | 5.10 0.45 up from 2023 | 435 | 52% | $3,470 | ||
16Building SimulationSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 1.48Q1 | 6.11 0.02 down from 2023 | 343 | 21% | $4,090 | ||
17International Journal of Construction ManagementTaylor & Francis · Hong Kong SAR China | 1.47Q1 | 3.78 0.20 down from 2023 | 388 | 29% | — | ||
18Building Research & InformationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.45Q1 | 4.07 0.71 down from 2023 | 169 | 43% | — | ||
19Construction technologies and architectureTrans Tech Publications · Switzerland | 1.31Q1 | 0.52 0.01 down from 2023 | 195 | 91% | — | ||
20EPiC series in built environmentUnited Kingdom | 1.28Q1 | 0.50 0.23 down from 2023 | 255 | 100% | — | ||
21Journal of Engineering Design and TechnologyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.26Q1 | 3.50 0.25 down from 2023 | 353 | 24% | — | ||
22IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.20Q1 | 3.61 0.23 up from 2023 | 334 | 32% | — | ||
23URBAN DESIGN InternationalPalgrave Macmillan | 1.19Q1 | 2.55 0.25 down from 2023 | 78 | 69% | $3,190 | ||
24Open House InternationalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.15Q1 | 2.47 0.15 up from 2023 | 148 | 17% | — | ||
25Journal of Composites for ConstructionAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.11Q2 | 3.97 0.75 up from 2023 | 271 | 9% | — | ||
26Buildings and CitiesOAUbiquity Press · United Kingdom | 1.11Q2 | 2.66 0.75 down from 2023 | 168 | 100% | $1,165 | ||
27eCAADe proceedingsPublisher not listed | 1.07Q2 | 0.50 0.20 down from 2023 | 428 | 13% | — | ||
28International Journal of Architectural Research Archnet-IJAREmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.07Q2 | 2.94 0.60 up from 2023 | 152 | 26% | — | ||
29Frontiers in Engineering and Built EnvironmentOAEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.00Q2 | 3.06 0.51 up from 2023 | 58 | 100% | — | ||
30Advances in Building Energy ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.00Q2 | 3.81 1.04 up from 2023 | 48 | 17% | — | ||
31Architectural Science ReviewTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.99Q2 | 2.44 0.10 down from 2023 | 106 | 46% | — | ||
32Architecture Structures and ConstructionSpringer Nature · Switzerland | 0.97Q2 | 1.98 0.39 down from 2023 | 100 | 43% | $3,090 | ||
33Construction RoboticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 0.95Q2 | 3.53 0.89 up from 2023 | 72 | 59% | $3,190 | ||
34International Journal of Building Pathology and AdaptationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.95Q2 | 2.65 0.08 down from 2023 | 209 | 11% | — | ||
35Architectural Engineering and Design ManagementTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.93Q2 | 2.74 0.24 down from 2023 | 145 | 37% | — | ||
36Wood Science and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.87Q2 | 3.05 0.43 down from 2023 | 260 | 40% | $3,990 | ||
37Journal of Asian Architecture and Building EngineeringOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.83Q2 | 1.92 0.04 down from 2023 | 555 | 100% | $1,165 | ||
38WIT transactions on ecology and the environmentWIT Press · United Kingdom | 0.82Q2 | 0.62 0.01 up from 2023 | 311 | 95% | — | ||
39International Journal of Architectural ComputingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.80Q2 | 2.38 0.35 up from 2023 | 105 | 51% | $4,150 | ||
40Indoor and Built EnvironmentSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.79Q2 | 2.97 0.11 down from 2023 | 302 | 31% | $4,400 | ||
41Journal of Wood ScienceOASpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.79Q2 | 2.53 0.23 down from 2023 | 177 | 100% | $1,990 | ||
42Journal of Building Performance SimulationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.76Q2 | 2.95 0.30 up from 2023 | 157 | 54% | — | ||
43Future Cities and EnvironmentOAUbiquity Press · United Kingdom | 0.73Q2 | 2.00 0.21 down from 2023 | 49 | 100% | $613 | ||
44European Journal of Wood and Wood ProductsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.70Q2 | 2.63 0.23 down from 2023 | 388 | 45% | $2,590 | ||
45Coloration TechnologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.69Q2 | 2.64 0.42 up from 2023 | 208 | 54% | $3,950 | ||
46Journal of Architectural EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 0.68Q2 | 1.80 0.07 down from 2023 | 196 | 12% | — | ||
47MethaneOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | 0.66Q2 | 3.40 0.74 up from 2023 | 56 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
48Journal of DaylightingOASolarLits · South Korea | 0.64Q3 | 2.38 0.40 down from 2023 | 57 | 100% | — | ||
49Intelligent Buildings InternationalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.62Q3 | 1.13 0.79 down from 2023 | 64 | 40% | — | ||
50Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering SustainabilityThomas Telford Ltd. · United Kingdom | 0.60Q3 | 2.56 0.86 up from 2023 | 91 | 21% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Building and Construction highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering604
- Mechanical Engineering372
- Biomedical Engineering346
- Civil and Structural Engineering273
- Aerospace Engineering150
- Control and Systems Engineering138
- Mechanics of Materials126
- Computational Mechanics95
- Building and Construction93
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering85
- Ocean Engineering72
- Automotive Engineering42
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality24
- Media Technology22
- Architecture0
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2024. Corpus-wide, 87.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
22 additional Building and Construction journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2021–2023, 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: 2024. Publication window: 2021–2023. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 93
- Window papers (baseline)
- 87,016 +20.7% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 0.66 -1.7% from indicator year 2021
- Rising journals (2025)
- 11
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2021–2023 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.