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Structural Safety is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 12.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 0167-4730Verify ISSN ↗1879-3355Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$4,430 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality | 11 / 282 | 96th | Q1 |
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 24 / 434 | 94th | Q1 |
| Building and Construction | 20 / 258 | 92nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1984–present (also 1982), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 12.4.
Structural Safety is Q1 in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (rank 11 of 282), Q1 in Civil and Structural Engineering (rank 24 of 434) and Q1 in Building and Construction (rank 20 of 258), by CiteScore 2025.
Structural Safety is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 12.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.544, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 128.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,430 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.
Structural Safety is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0167-4730 and its online ISSN is 1879-3355.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Structural Safety has an h-index of 146 and a 2-year mean of 6.9 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 12.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #11 of 199 Scopus journals in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality.
Structural Safety published 71 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 102. 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 95 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (27.7%), United States (13.6%) and Japan (5.9%).
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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