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Journal of Building Performance Simulation is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 1940-1493Verify ISSN ↗1940-1507Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Architecture | 13 / 210 | 94th | Q1 |
| Modeling and Simulation | 49 / 397 | 87th | Q1 |
| Building and Construction | 59 / 258 | 77th | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 288 / 1022 | 71st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.3.
Journal of Building Performance Simulation is Q1 in Architecture (rank 13 of 210), Q1 in Modeling and Simulation (rank 49 of 397) and Q1 in Building and Construction (rank 59 of 258), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Building Performance Simulation 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 6.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.672, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 58.
Journal of Building Performance Simulation is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1940-1493 and its online ISSN is 1940-1507.
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 Performance Simulation has an h-index of 64 and a 2-year mean of 3.43 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #13 of 185 Scopus journals in Architecture.
Journal of Building Performance Simulation published 73 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (17.4%), Canada (10%) and South Korea (9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
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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