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Smart and Sustainable Built Environment is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 14.4), ABDC C, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
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ISSN 2046-6099Verify ISSN ↗2046-6102Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 2 / 1434 | 99th | Q1 |
| Architecture | 1 / 210 | 99th | Q1 |
| Urban Studies | 4 / 295 | 98th | Q1 |
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 16 / 434 | 96th | Q1 |
| Building and Construction | 12 / 258 | 95th | Q1 |
| Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment | 46 / 345 | 86th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 14.4.
Smart and Sustainable Built Environment is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 2 of 1434), Q1 in Architecture (rank 1 of 210) and Q1 in Urban Studies (rank 4 of 295), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Smart and Sustainable Built Environment 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 14.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.198, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 46.
Smart and Sustainable Built Environment is published by Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2046-6099 and its online ISSN is 2046-6102.
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.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Commercial services.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Smart and Sustainable Built Environment has an h-index of 54 and a 2-year mean of 5.49 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 14.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #6 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Smart and Sustainable Built Environment published 162 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Australia (13.8%), United States (12%) and United Kingdom (8.5%).
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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