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Energy and Buildings is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 13.1), 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 0378-7788Verify ISSN ↗1872-6178Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$4,260 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 37 / 740 | 95th | Q1 |
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 22 / 434 | 95th | Q1 |
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 60 / 1030 | 94th | Q1 |
| Building and Construction | 17 / 258 | 93rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1981–present (also 1977–1979, 1970), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 13.1.
Energy and Buildings is Q1 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 37 of 740), Q1 in Civil and Structural Engineering (rank 22 of 434) and Q1 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 60 of 1030), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Energy and Buildings 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 13.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.622, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 260.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,260 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.
Energy and Buildings is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0378-7788 and its online ISSN is 1872-6178.
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.
Energy and Buildings has an h-index of 288 and a 2-year mean of 7.79 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 13.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #33 of 641 Scopus journals in Mechanical Engineering.
Energy and Buildings published 1,498 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 82 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (26.8%), Italy (6.7%) and United Kingdom (6.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 24 retracted papers are recorded (1.3 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 2 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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