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Steel Construction is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley & Sons Inc..
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ISSN 1867-0520Verify ISSN ↗1867-0539Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$3,300 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metals and Alloys | 77 / 182 | 57th | Q2 |
| Building and Construction | 118 / 258 | 54th | Q2 |
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 221 / 434 | 49th | Q3 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 219 / 408 | 46th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–2012 (also 2014–present), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.
Steel Construction is Q2 in Metals and Alloys (rank 77 of 182), Q2 in Building and Construction (rank 118 of 258) and Q3 in Civil and Structural Engineering (rank 221 of 434), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Steel Construction 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 3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 57th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.364, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 21.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,300 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.
Steel Construction is published by John Wiley & Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 1867-0520 and its online ISSN is 1867-0539.
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.
Steel Construction has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 0.84 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #101 of 164 Scopus journals in Metals and Alloys.
Steel Construction published 52 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 84. 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 56 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Germany (50.3%), Belgium (5.4%) and Luxembourg (4.5%). 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. 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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