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KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.7), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Elsevier Inc..
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ISSN 1226-7988Verify ISSN ↗1976-3808Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 141 / 434 | 67th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.7.
KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering is Q2 in Civil and Structural Engineering (rank 141 of 434), by CiteScore 2025.
KSCE Journal 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 4.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 67th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.513, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 74.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,800 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.
KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering is published by Elsevier Inc. Its print ISSN is 1226-7988 and its online ISSN is 1976-3808.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering has an h-index of 82 and a 2-year mean of 3.51 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #94 of 385 Scopus journals in Civil and Structural Engineering.
KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering published 407 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 471. 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 85 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (50.6%), South Korea (28.6%) and Türkiye (3.5%). 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. 23 retracted papers are recorded (3.8 per 1,000 papers). 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.
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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