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Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Ground Improvement is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.4), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by ICE Publishing.
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ISSN 1755-0750Verify ISSN ↗1755-0769Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: ICE Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Building and Construction | 86 / 258 | 66th | Q2 |
| Soil Science | 57 / 167 | 66th | Q2 |
| Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology | 87 / 244 | 64th | Q2 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 169 / 408 | 58th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.4.
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Ground Improvement is Q2 in Building and Construction (rank 86 of 258), Q2 in Soil Science (rank 57 of 167) and Q2 in Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology (rank 87 of 244), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Ground Improvement 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 4.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 66th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.402, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 54.
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Ground Improvement is published by ICE Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1755-0750 and its online ISSN is 1755-0769.
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.
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Ground Improvement has an h-index of 54 and a 2-year mean of 1.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #119 of 219 Scopus journals in Building and Construction.
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Ground Improvement published 51 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 54. 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 82 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from India (21.3%), Australia (12.2%) and China (7.7%).
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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