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Building and Environment is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 15), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0360-1323Verify ISSN ↗1873-684XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$4,280 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 14 / 876 | 98th | Q1 |
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 13 / 434 | 97th | Q1 |
| Building and Construction | 11 / 258 | 95th | Q1 |
| Environmental Engineering | 17 / 241 | 93rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1976–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 15.
Building and Environment is Q1 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 14 of 876), Q1 in Civil and Structural Engineering (rank 13 of 434) and Q1 in Building and Construction (rank 11 of 258), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Building and Environment 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 15, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.906, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 237.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,280 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Building and Environment is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0360-1323 and its online ISSN is 1873-684X.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Building and Environment has an h-index of 265 and a 2-year mean of 8.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 15, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #10 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
Building and Environment published 1,441 papers in 2025. 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.
In its latest 74 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (46.8%), Hong Kong SAR China (8.1%) and United Kingdom (6.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.1 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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