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Journal of Construction in Developing Countries is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.7), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia.
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ISSN 1823-6499Verify ISSN ↗1985-8329Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Architecture | 69 / 210 | 67th | Q2 |
| Building and Construction | 160 / 258 | 38th | Q3 |
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 226 / 317 | 28th | Q3 |
| Strategy and Management | 363 / 506 | 28th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.7.
Journal of Construction in Developing Countries is Q2 in Architecture (rank 69 of 210), Q3 in Building and Construction (rank 160 of 258) and Q3 in Management of Technology and Innovation (rank 226 of 317), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Construction in Developing Countries 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 1.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 67th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.249, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 32.
Journal of Construction in Developing Countries is published by Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia. Its print ISSN is 1823-6499 and its online ISSN is 1985-8329.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Construction in Developing Countries has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 0.61 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #80 of 185 Scopus journals in Architecture.
Journal of Construction in Developing Countries published 54 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 77 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Malaysia (63.7%), Indonesia (5.2%) and Nigeria (4.9%). 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. 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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