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Building Simulation is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 11.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Tsinghua University.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1996-3599Verify ISSN ↗1996-8744Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Tsinghua University
Cost to publish: About US$4,090 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Building and Construction | 23 / 258 | 91st | Q1 |
| Energy (miscellaneous) | 24 / 106 | 77th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 11.6.
Building Simulation is Q1 in Building and Construction (rank 23 of 258) and Q1 in Energy (miscellaneous) (rank 24 of 106), by CiteScore 2025.
Building Simulation 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 11.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.361, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 63.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,090 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 Simulation is published by Tsinghua University. Its print ISSN is 1996-3599 and its online ISSN is 1996-8744.
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 Simulation has an h-index of 73 and a 2-year mean of 7.11 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 11.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #17 of 219 Scopus journals in Building and Construction.
Building Simulation published 155 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (65.7%), Hong Kong SAR China (8.4%) and United States (7.7%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.3 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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