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Bauingenieur is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.8), WoS SCIE. Published by VDI Fachmedien GmbH & Co. KG.
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ISSN 0005-6650Verify ISSN ↗1436-4867Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: VDI Fachmedien GmbH & Co. KG
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Building and Construction | 213 / 258 | 17th | Q4 |
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 369 / 434 | 15th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present (also 1969–1990), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.8.
Bauingenieur is Q4 in Building and Construction (rank 213 of 258) and Q4 in Civil and Structural Engineering (rank 369 of 434), by CiteScore 2025.
Bauingenieur is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 0.8, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 17th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.281, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 22.
Bauingenieur is published by VDI Fachmedien GmbH & Co. KG. Its print ISSN is 0005-6650 and its online ISSN is 1436-4867.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Bauingenieur has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #182 of 219 Scopus journals in Building and Construction.
Bauingenieur published 98 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 178. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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