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Journal of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1.2), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by South African Institute of Civil Engineers.
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ISSN 1021-2019Verify ISSN ↗2309-8775Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: South African Institute of Civil Engineers
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 339 / 434 | 22nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2003–present (also 1993–1995), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.2.
Journal of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering is Q4 in Civil and Structural Engineering (rank 339 of 434), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of the South African Institution of Civil 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 1.2, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 22nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.172, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 24.
Journal of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering is published by South African Institute of Civil Engineers. Its print ISSN is 1021-2019 and its online ISSN is 2309-8775.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering has an h-index of 20 and a 2-year mean of 0.67 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #278 of 385 Scopus journals in Civil and Structural Engineering.
Journal of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering published 11 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 27. 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 70 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (69.8%), China (6.4%) and United States (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. 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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