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Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.1), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by The American Society of Mechanical Engineers(ASME).
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ISSN 2642-6625Verify ISSN ↗2642-6641Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers(ASME)
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Architecture | 60 / 210 | 71st | Q2 |
| Building and Construction | 149 / 258 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Engineering (miscellaneous) | 181 / 300 | 39th | Q3 |
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 276 / 434 | 36th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.1.
Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities is Q2 in Architecture (rank 60 of 210), Q3 in Building and Construction (rank 149 of 258) and Q3 in Engineering (miscellaneous) (rank 181 of 300), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities 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 2.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.212, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 10.
Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities is published by The American Society of Mechanical Engineers(ASME). Its print ISSN is 2642-6625 and its online ISSN is 2642-6641.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities has an h-index of 11 and a 2-year mean of 1.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #46 of 185 Scopus journals in Architecture.
Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities published 31 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 91 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (50%), India (8.2%) and Qatar (3.8%). 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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