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Journal of Building Engineering 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 2352-7102Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,940 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Architecture | 2 / 210 | 99th | Q1 |
| Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality | 7 / 282 | 97th | Q1 |
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 21 / 434 | 95th | Q1 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 25 / 408 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Building and Construction | 16 / 258 | 93rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 13.1.
Journal of Building Engineering is Q1 in Architecture (rank 2 of 210), Q1 in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (rank 7 of 282) and Q1 in Civil and Structural Engineering (rank 21 of 434), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Building Engineering 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 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.703, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 139.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,940 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.
Journal of Building Engineering is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 2352-7102.
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.
Journal of Building Engineering has an h-index of 154 and a 2-year mean of 6.52 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 13.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 185 Scopus journals in Architecture.
Journal of Building Engineering published 3,386 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 95 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (54.8%), South Korea (4.7%) and Türkiye (3.9%). 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. 66 retracted papers are recorded (3.8 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 11 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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