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Lean Construction Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.6), DOAJ. Published by Lean Construction Institute.
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ISSN 1555-1369Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Lean Construction Institute
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Building and Construction | 165 / 258 | 36th | Q3 |
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 308 / 434 | 29th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present (also 2004–2005), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.6.
Lean Construction Journal is Q3 in Building and Construction (rank 165 of 258) and Q3 in Civil and Structural Engineering (rank 308 of 434), by CiteScore 2025.
Lean Construction Journal is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q3, 36th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.233, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 28.
Lean Construction Journal is published by Lean Construction Institute. Its ISSN is 1555-1369.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Lean Construction Journal has an h-index of 25 and a 2-year mean of 0.5 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #156 of 219 Scopus journals in Building and Construction.
Lean Construction Journal published 11 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2011 with 13. 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 32 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Canada (32.8%), United States (31.3%) and Indonesia (9.4%).
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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