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Building Research and Information is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.9), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 2, WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor & Francis Online.
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ISSN 0961-3218Verify ISSN ↗1466-4321Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Building and Construction | 30 / 258 | 88th | Q1 |
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 53 / 434 | 87th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1991–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.9.
Building Research and Information is Q1 in Building and Construction (rank 30 of 258) and Q1 in Civil and Structural Engineering (rank 53 of 434), by CiteScore 2025.
Building Research and Information 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 8.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.907, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 116.
Building Research and Information is published by Taylor & Francis Online. Its print ISSN is 0961-3218 and its online ISSN is 1466-4321.
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.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other commerce, management, tourism and services.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Sector Studies field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Building Research and Information has an h-index of 133 and a 2-year mean of 2.89 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #69 of 219 Scopus journals in Building and Construction.
Building Research and Information published 60 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 84. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (19%), China (11%) and United States (7.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.9 per 1,000 papers). 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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