Journal rankings · indicator year 2025
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Subfield ranking · 2025
Building and Construction journal rankings 2025
88 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Building and Construction has 88 ranked journals in 2025. The median OJR rose 0.08 on 2024 to 0.74, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.13. No journal’s likely rank range stays within the top 3, so the intro names none.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2025. 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 2022–2024, the window the 2025 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 Engineering595
- Mechanical Engineering366
- Biomedical Engineering349
- Civil and Structural Engineering268
- Aerospace Engineering141
- Control and Systems Engineering135
- Mechanics of Materials124
- Computational Mechanics98
- Building and Construction88
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering84
- Ocean Engineering71
- Automotive Engineering42
88 ranked journals
Filters
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. The small range under it is the likely rank range: in 95% of 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers, it ranked inside that range. Journals whose ranges overlap are not clearly different. | 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 2024. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2022–2024, the window the 2025 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2022–2024 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 2016 to 2025. A label compares the 2022→2025 change with the median change of the journal’s field or domain. Rising needs a relative change of +10% or more that is at least 2 standard errors above zero; Falling needs -9.1% or less (rounded), at least 2 standard errors below zero. Sorting uses that relative change. | Compare |
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Rank 1; likely between #1 and #5 of 88Sustainable StructuresOAHong Kong SAR China | 2.57Q1 | 9.13 0.43 down from 2024 | 52 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 2; likely between #1 and #4 of 88Proceedings of the ... ISARCPublisher not listed | 2.47Q1 | 1.18 0.02 down from 2024 | 366 | 97% | — | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 3; likely between #2 and #5 of 88Building and EnvironmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.07Q1 | 8.88 0.43 up from 2024 | 3,107 | 33% | $4,280 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 4; likely between #2 and #9 of 88Frontiers of Architectural ResearchOAElsevier BV · China | 1.97Q1 | 4.76 0.77 up from 2024 | 261 | 100% | $1,500 | ||
Rank 5; likely between #4 and #8 of 88Energy and BuildingsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.92Q1 | 8.57 0.40 up from 2024 | 2,842 | 39% | $4,260 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 6; likely between #4 and #8 of 88Journal of Construction Engineering and ManagementAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.92Q1 | 5.62 0.49 up from 2024 | 679 | 11% | — | ||
Rank 7; likely between #2 and #12 of 88Energy and Built EnvironmentOAElsevier BV · China | 1.91Q1 | 8.53 1.25 up from 2024 | 229 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
Rank 8; likely between #4 and #11 of 88Smart and Sustainable Built EnvironmentEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.80Q1 | 6.98 1.02 up from 2024 | 258 | 41% | — | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 9; likely between #3 and #21 of 88Construction technologies and architectureTrans Tech Publications · Switzerland | 1.60Q1 | 0.42 0.10 down from 2024 | 246 | 91% | — | ||
Rank 10; likely between #9 and #16 of 88Building SimulationSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 1.53Q1 | 6.90 0.79 up from 2024 | 340 | 16% | $4,090 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 11; likely between #6 and #21 of 88Computing in constructionUniversity College Dublin · Belgium | 1.52Q1 | 0.82 0.06 up from 2024 | 354 | 96% | — | ||
Rank 12; likely between #8 and #17 of 88Construction InnovationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.52Q1 | 4.96 0.33 up from 2024 | 260 | 29% | — | ||
Rank 13; likely between #8 and #19 of 88Building Research & InformationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.51Q1 | 4.05 0.02 down from 2024 | 161 | 58% | — | ||
Rank 14; likely between #8 and #26 of 88Journal of Facilities ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.40Q1 | 2.95 0.88 down from 2024 | 125 | 26% | — | ||
Rank 15; likely between #10 and #22 of 88Buildings and CitiesOAUbiquity Press · United Kingdom | 1.37Q1 | 3.54 0.88 up from 2024 | 158 | 100% | $1,165 | ||
Rank 16; likely between #10 and #24 of 88eCAADe proceedingsPublisher not listed | 1.36Q1 | 0.63 0.13 up from 2024 | 459 | 4% | — | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 17; likely between #10 and #22 of 88The Extractive Industries and SocietyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.35Q1 | 4.85 0.25 down from 2024 | 452 | 55% | $3,470 | ||
Rank 18; likely between #15 and #26 of 88International Journal of Construction ManagementTaylor & Francis · Hong Kong SAR China | 1.20Q1 | 3.38 0.40 down from 2024 | 371 | 26% | — | ||
Rank 19; likely between #11 and #37 of 88IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.18Q1 | 3.89 0.28 up from 2024 | 303 | 1% | — | ||
Rank 20; likely between #15 and #31 of 88Journal of Civil Engineering and ManagementOATaylor & Francis · Lithuania | 1.16Q1 | 3.28 1.03 down from 2024 | 146 | 100% | $517 | ||
Rank 21; likely between #15 and #34 of 88Journal of Information Technology in ConstructionOAConseil International du Bâtiment · Netherlands | 1.14Q1 | 4.00 0.65 down from 2024 | 156 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 22; likely between #16 and #32 of 88Journal of Engineering Design and TechnologyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.13Q1 | 3.14 0.36 down from 2024 | 204 | 39% | — | ||
Rank 23; likely between #8 and #45 of 88WIT transactions on ecology and the environmentWIT Press · United Kingdom | 1.11Q2 | 0.40 0.22 down from 2024 | 270 | 22% | — | ||
Rank 24; likely between #14 and #40 of 88URBAN DESIGN InternationalPalgrave Macmillan | 1.06Q2 | 1.95 0.60 down from 2024 | 70 | 53% | $3,190 | ||
Rank 25; likely between #16 and #37 of 88Open House InternationalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.05Q2 | 2.86 0.39 up from 2024 | 134 | 13% | — | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 26; likely between #14 and #44 of 88International Journal of Architectural ComputingSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.05Q2 | 3.37 0.99 up from 2024 | 153 | 45% | $4,150 | ||
Rank 27; likely between #22 and #34 of 88Journal of Asian Architecture and Building EngineeringOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.03Q2 | 2.87 0.95 up from 2024 | 699 | 100% | $1,165 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 28; likely between #18 and #37 of 88International Journal of Architectural Research Archnet-IJAREmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.03Q2 | 2.09 0.84 down from 2024 | 180 | 37% | — | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 29; likely between #21 and #36 of 88International Journal of Building Pathology and AdaptationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.01Q2 | 3.23 0.58 up from 2024 | 201 | 23% | — | ||
Rank 30; likely between #9 and #52 of 88Advances in Building Energy ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.01Q2 | 3.37 0.44 down from 2024 | 66 | 18% | — | ||
Rank 31; likely between #17 and #43 of 88Architectural IntelligenceOASpringer Science+Business Media | 1.00Q2 | 2.33 1.16 down from 2024 | 75 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
Rank 32; likely between #24 and #36 of 88Journal of Composites for ConstructionAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 0.99Q2 | 3.81 0.16 down from 2024 | 291 | 11% | — | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 33; likely between #20 and #47 of 88MethaneOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | 0.93Q2 | 4.31 0.91 up from 2024 | 87 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
Rank 34; likely between #20 and #46 of 88Digital Transportation and SafetyOAPublisher not listed | 0.90Q2 | 3.81 1.93 up from 2024 | 55 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 35; likely between #22 and #46 of 88Journal of DaylightingOASolarLits · South Korea | 0.90Q2 | 2.98 0.59 up from 2024 | 59 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 36; likely between #21 and #46 of 88EPiC series in built environmentUnited Kingdom | 0.90Q2 | 0.42 0.08 down from 2024 | 290 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 37; likely between #23 and #47 of 88Construction RoboticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 0.89Q2 | 2.96 0.57 down from 2024 | 81 | 85% | $3,190 | ||
Rank 38; likely between #27 and #46 of 88Journal of Building Performance SimulationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.84Q2 | 3.27 0.31 up from 2024 | 163 | 44% | — | ||
Rank 39; likely between #21 and #52 of 88Frontiers in Engineering and Built EnvironmentOAEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.84Q2 | 2.45 0.60 down from 2024 | 52 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 40; likely between #33 and #45 of 88Wood Science and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.80Q2 | 3.27 0.21 up from 2024 | 266 | 39% | $3,990 | ||
Rank 41; likely between #34 and #46 of 88Architectural Engineering and Design ManagementTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.77Q2 | 2.71 0.03 down from 2024 | 179 | 29% | — | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 42; likely between #32 and #50 of 88Architectural Science ReviewTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.76Q2 | 2.65 0.21 up from 2024 | 128 | 40% | — | ||
Rank 43; likely between #36 and #48 of 88Indoor and Built EnvironmentSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.75Q2 | 2.75 0.22 down from 2024 | 328 | 25% | $4,400 | ||
Rank 44; likely between #35 and #49 of 88Journal of Wood ScienceOASpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.74Q2 | 2.65 0.12 up from 2024 | 162 | 100% | $1,990 | ||
Rank 45; likely between #32 and #52 of 88Architecture Structures and ConstructionSpringer Nature · Switzerland | 0.73Q3 | 3.42 1.45 up from 2024 | 96 | 47% | $3,090 | ||
Rank 46; likely between #31 and #61 of 88Recent Progress in MaterialsUnited States | 0.68Q3 | 2.30 0.15 up from 2024 | 88 | 81% | — | ||
Rank 47; likely between #35 and #57 of 88Future Cities and EnvironmentOAUbiquity Press · United Kingdom | 0.66Q3 | 1.86 0.14 down from 2024 | 64 | 100% | $613 | ||
Rank 48; likely between #44 and #52 of 88European Journal of Wood and Wood ProductsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.63Q3 | 2.66 0.03 up from 2024 | 392 | 44% | $2,590 | ||
Rank 49; likely between #42 and #55 of 88Coloration TechnologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.62Q3 | 2.78 0.14 up from 2024 | 188 | 55% | $3,950 | ||
Rank 50; likely between #39 and #66 of 88Journal of Building PhysicsSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.57Q3 | 2.55 1.05 up from 2024 | 79 | 50% | $4,150 |
11 Building and Construction journals are labelled rising: their OJR moved up between 2022 and 2025 clearly faster than the median journal of their field or domain.
A journal is rising when its OJR grew from 2022 to 2025 faster than the median journal of its field (or domain, when the field is small), by two tests: the relative change is +10% or more, and it is at least 2 standard errors above zero. So the range of the change at 2 standard errors stays above zero, though not necessarily above +10%.
The bar is that range on a ratio scale; the shaded band, -9.1% to +10%, holds changes too small for a label. The list is ordered by the low end of the range, so the surest rises come first.
- 1Journal of Asian Architecture and Building EngineeringOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom+86% vs groupOJR 0.63 → 1.03range +49% to +133%
- 2eCAADe proceedingsPublisher not listed+94% vs groupOJR 0.80 → 1.36range +39% to +169%
- 3Open House InternationalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom+70% vs groupOJR 0.70 → 1.05range +19% to +142%
- 4Building and EnvironmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom+19% vs groupOJR 1.98 → 2.07range +12% to +26%
- 5Pigment & Resin TechnologyEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom+40% vs groupOJR 0.32 → 0.40range +10% to +77%
- 6Building SimulationSpringer Science+Business Media · China+26% vs groupOJR 1.37 → 1.53range +6.3% to +50%
- 7Energy and BuildingsElsevier BV · Netherlands+12% vs groupOJR 1.94 → 1.92range +5.4% to +20%
- 8Proceedings of the ... ISARCPublisher not listed+37% vs groupOJR 2.04 → 2.47range +5.1% to +79%
- 9BioResourcesOANorth Carolina State University · United States+18% vs groupOJR 0.44 → 0.46range +4.7% to +33%
- 10Forest Products JournalForest Products Society · United States+55% vs groupOJR 0.25 → 0.34range +3.6% to +132%
- 11Smart and Sustainable Built EnvironmentEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom+32% vs groupOJR 1.55 → 1.80range +0.2% to +75%
No-label zone, -9.1% to +10%Group median changeBar scale -65% to +183% (ratio scale)
6 Building and Construction journals are labelled falling: their OJR moved between 2022 and 2025 clearly behind the median journal of their field or domain.
A journal is falling when its OJR changed from 2022 to 2025 by less than the median journal of its field (or domain, when the field is small), by two tests: the relative change is -9.1% or less (rounded), and it is at least 2 standard errors below zero. So the range of the change at 2 standard errors stays below zero, though not necessarily below -9.1%.
The bar is that range on a ratio scale; the shaded band, -9.1% to +10%, holds changes too small for a label. The list is ordered by the high end of the range, so the surest falls come first.
- 1ACI Structural JournalAmerican Concrete Institute · United States-50% vs groupOJR 0.55 → 0.24range -61% to -37%
- 2Architectural Engineering and Design ManagementTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom-35% vs groupOJR 1.34 → 0.77range -51% to -14%
- 3Wood ResearchOASlovakia-38% vs groupOJR 0.39 → 0.21range -57% to -9.4%
- 4International Journal of Architectural Research Archnet-IJAREmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom-37% vs groupOJR 1.84 → 1.03range -56% to -8.7%
- 5Journal of Composites for ConstructionAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States-21% vs groupOJR 1.41 → 0.99range -33% to -6.8%
- 6Journal of Architectural EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States-24% vs groupOJR 0.84 → 0.56range -42% to -1.6%
No-label zone, -9.1% to +10%Group median changeBar scale -63% to +168% (ratio scale)
Subfields of Engineering, with Building and Construction highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering595
- Mechanical Engineering366
- Biomedical Engineering349
- Civil and Structural Engineering268
- Aerospace Engineering141
- Control and Systems Engineering135
- Mechanics of Materials124
- Computational Mechanics98
- Building and Construction88
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering84
- Ocean Engineering71
- Automotive Engineering42
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality23
- Media Technology21
- Architecture0
- General Engineering0
Journals
The endpoints below each rank show its likely range. How rank ranges are calculated
Citations made in 2025. Corpus-wide, 84.3% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
19 additional Building and Construction journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2022–2024, 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: 2025. Publication window: 2022–2024. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 88
- Window papers (baseline)
- 92,857 +18.6% from indicator year 2022
- Median OJR
- 0.74 +9.8% from indicator year 2022
- Rising journals (2025)
- 11
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2022–2024 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.