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Energy and Built Environment is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 20.1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by KeAi Communications Co..
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ISSN 2666-1233Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: KeAi Communications Co.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 4 / 434 | 99th | Q1 |
| Building and Construction | 6 / 258 | 97th | Q1 |
| Transportation | 7 / 169 | 96th | Q1 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 27 / 345 | 92nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 20.1.
Energy and Built Environment is Q1 in Civil and Structural Engineering (rank 4 of 434), Q1 in Building and Construction (rank 6 of 258) and Q1 in Transportation (rank 7 of 169), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Energy and Built Environment is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 20.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.830, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 42.
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Energy and Built Environment is published by KeAi Communications Co. Its ISSN is 2666-1233.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Energy and Built Environment has an h-index of 52 and a 2-year mean of 6.64 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 20.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #26 of 385 Scopus journals in Civil and Structural Engineering.
Energy and Built Environment published 71 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 91. 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (60.5%), Hong Kong SAR China (5.1%) and Canada (4.6%). 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. 3 retracted papers are recorded (5.7 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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