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Construction and Building Materials is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 14.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 0950-0618Verify ISSN ↗1879-0526Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,540 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 17 / 434 | 96th | Q1 |
| Building and Construction | 13 / 258 | 95th | Q1 |
| Materials Science (all) | 42 / 475 | 91st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1987–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 14.2.
Construction and Building Materials is Q1 in Civil and Structural Engineering (rank 17 of 434), Q1 in Building and Construction (rank 13 of 258) and Q1 in Materials Science (all) (rank 42 of 475), by CiteScore 2025.
Construction and Building Materials 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 14.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.097, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 322.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,540 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.
Construction and Building Materials is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0950-0618 and its online ISSN is 1879-0526.
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.
Construction and Building Materials has an h-index of 353 and a 2-year mean of 9.89 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 14.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #7 of 385 Scopus journals in Civil and Structural Engineering.
Construction and Building Materials published 5,220 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 75 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (67.8%), United States (4.7%) and South Korea (3.3%). 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. 149 retracted papers are recorded (3 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 10 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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