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Built Environment is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.3). Published by Alexandrine Press.
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ISSN 0263-7960Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Alexandrine Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Studies | 111 / 295 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 405 / 876 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1981–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.3.
Built Environment is Q2 in Urban Studies (rank 111 of 295) and Q2 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 405 of 876), by CiteScore 2025.
Built Environment is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q2, 62nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.281, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 53.
Built Environment is published by Alexandrine Press. Its ISSN is 0263-7960.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Built Environment has an h-index of 63 and a 2-year mean of 1.11 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #116 of 280 Scopus journals in Urban Studies.
Built Environment published 34 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 52. 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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