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Smart Construction and Sustainable Cities is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.9), DOAJ. Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 2731-9032Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Building and Construction | 31 / 258 | 88th | Q1 |
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 54 / 434 | 87th | Q1 |
| Environmental Engineering | 46 / 241 | 81st | Q1 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.9.
Smart Construction and Sustainable Cities is Q1 in Building and Construction (rank 31 of 258), Q1 in Civil and Structural Engineering (rank 54 of 434) and Q1 in Environmental Engineering (rank 46 of 241), by CiteScore 2025.
Smart Construction and Sustainable Cities 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 8.9, quartile Q1, 88th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.361, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 14.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Smart Construction and Sustainable Cities is published by Springer Nature. Its ISSN is 2731-9032.
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.
Smart Construction and Sustainable Cities has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 4.33 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #36 of 219 Scopus journals in Building and Construction.
Smart Construction and Sustainable Cities published 31 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 89 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from China (19.7%), India (16.7%) and Japan (12.4%).
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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