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Best Building and Construction journals

240 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Building and Construction. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 65 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Advances in Applied Energy 26.6 99th Q1 ESCI Yes
2 Cement and Concrete Research 25.9 99th Q1 SCIE No
3 Cement and Concrete Composites 25.7 99th Q1 SCIE No
4 Automation in Construction 22.7 98th Q1 SCIE No
5 Applied Energy 22.1 98th Q1 SCIE A No
6 Energy and Built Environment 20.1 97th Q1 ESCI Yes
7 Energy 17.1 97th Q1 SCIE No
8 Underground Space (new) 15.8 97th Q1 SCIE Yes
9 Journal of Road Engineering 15.4 96th Q1 ESCI Yes
10 Energy Reports 15.3 96th Q1 SCIE Yes
11 Building and Environment 15 95th Q1 SCIE No
12 Smart and Sustainable Built Environment 14.4 95th Q1 ESCI C No
13 Construction and Building Materials 14.2 95th Q1 SCIE No
14 Safety Science 13.7 94th Q1 SCIE A No
15 Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology 13.4 94th Q1 SCIE No
16 Energy and Buildings 13.1 93th Q1 SCIE No
17 Journal of Building Engineering 13.1 93th Q1 SCIE No
18 International Journal of Construction Management 12.7 93th Q1 ESCI B No
19 Sustainable Structures 12.5 92th Q1 ESCI Yes
20 Structural Safety 12.4 92th Q1 SCIE No
21 Thin-Walled Structures 12 92th Q1 SCIE No
22 Developments in the Built Environment 11.9 91th Q1 SCIE Yes
23 Building Simulation 11.6 91th Q1 SCIE No
24 Georisk 11.1 90th Q1 SCIE No
25 Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management 10.7 90th Q1 SCIE, SSCI A No
26 Journal of Intelligent Construction 10.7 90th Q1 Yes
27 Construction Innovation 10.7 89th Q1 ESCI B No
28 Structural Control and Health Monitoring 10.3 89th Q1 SCIE Yes
29 Indoor Air 9.9 88th Q1 SCIE No
30 Building Research and Information 8.9 88th Q1 SCIE A No
31 Smart Construction and Sustainable Cities 8.9 88th Q1 Yes
32 ES Materials and Manufacturing 8.9 87th Q1 No
33 Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering 8.8 87th Q1 SCIE No
34 Structure and Infrastructure Engineering 8.7 87th Q1 SCIE No
35 Journal of Construction Engineering and Management 8.2 86th Q1 SCIE A* No
36 Journal of Constructional Steel Research 8.1 86th Q1 SCIE No
37 Journal of Composites for Construction 8.1 85th Q1 SCIE No
38 Frontiers of Architectural Research 7.8 85th Q1 AHCI Yes
39 Journal of Earthquake Engineering 7.5 85th Q1 SCIE No
40 Journal of Structural Engineering 7.5 84th Q1 SCIE No
41 Civil Engineering Journal (Iran) 7.3 84th Q1 ESCI No
42 Construction Management and Economics 7.3 83th Q1 ESCI A No
43 International Journal of Ambient Energy 7.2 83th Q1 No
44 Journal of Bridge Engineering 7.2 83th Q1 SCIE No
45 Structures 7.1 82th Q1 SCIE No
46 International Journal of Refrigeration 7 82th Q1 SCIE No
47 Journal of Information Technology in Construction 7 81th Q1 ESCI Yes
48 International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation 6.9 81th Q1 ESCI No
49 Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure 6.8 81th Q1 ESCI No
50 Fire Safety Journal 6.8 80th Q1 SCIE No
51 Journal of Low Frequency Noise Vibration and Active Control 6.8 80th Q1 SCIE Yes
52 Steel and Composite Structures 6.7 80th Q1 SCIE No
53 RILEM Technical Letters 6.6 79th Q1 Yes
54 Structural Concrete 6.6 79th Q1 SCIE No
55 AI in Civil Engineering 6.5 78th Q1 Yes
56 International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics 6.5 78th Q1 SCIE No
57 Architectural Engineering and Design Management 6.4 78th Q1 SCIE No
58 Advances in Building Energy Research 6.3 77th Q1 ESCI No
59 Journal of Building Performance Simulation 6.3 77th Q1 SCIE No
60 Journal of Soft Computing in Civil Engineering 6.3 76th Q1 Yes
61 Materials and Structures/Materiaux et Constructions 6.2 76th Q1 SCIE No
62 Journal of Structural Integrity and Maintenance 6 76th Q1 ESCI No
63 Infrastructures 5.7 75th Q1 ESCI Yes
64 Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering 5.7 75th Q1 SCIE No
65 Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration 5.6 75th Q1 SCIE No
66 Buildings 5.6 74th Q2 SCIE Yes
67 Frontiers in Built Environment 5.4 74th Q2 ESCI Yes
68 Built Environment Project and Asset Management 5.4 73th Q2 ESCI B No
69 Intelligent Transportation Infrastructure 5.3 73th Q2 ESCI Yes
70 International Journal of Architectural Computing 5.3 73th Q2 ESCI No
71 Architecture, Structures and Construction 5.2 72th Q2 No
72 Buildings and Cities 5.2 72th Q2 ESCI Yes
73 Advances in Structural Engineering 5.2 71th Q2 SCIE No
74 Fire 5.1 71th Q2 SCIE Yes
75 Structural Engineering and Mechanics 5.1 71th Q2 SCIE No
76 Low-Carbon Materials and Green Construction 5 70th Q2 ESCI Yes
77 International Journal of Protective Structures 4.8 70th Q2 ESCI No
78 ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering 4.7 69th Q2 SCIE No
79 Diqiu Kexue - Zhongguo Dizhi Daxue Xuebao/Earth Science - Journal of China University of Geosciences 4.7 69th Q2 No
80 Innovative Infrastructure Solutions 4.7 69th Q2 ESCI No
81 Intelligent Buildings International 4.6 68th Q2 ESCI No
82 Journal of Building Physics 4.6 68th Q2 SCIE No
83 Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering 4.5 68th Q2 AHCI, SCIE Yes
84 Mesopotamian Journal of Civil Engineering 4.5 67th Q2 No
85 Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Bridge Engineering 4.5 67th Q2 ESCI No
86 Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Ground Improvement 4.4 66th Q2 ESCI No
87 Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities 4.3 66th Q2 SCIE C No
88 Building Acoustics 4.3 66th Q2 ESCI No
89 Facilities 4.3 65th Q2 ESCI B No
90 Curved and Layered Structures 4.1 65th Q2 ESCI Yes
91 Building Services Engineering Research and Technology 4.1 64th Q2 SCIE No
92 Construction Materials and Products 4.1 64th Q2 No
93 International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment 4.1 64th Q2 ESCI No
94 Advances in Wind Engineering 4 63th Q2 Yes
95 Magazine of Concrete Research 4 63th Q2 SCIE No
96 Infrastructure Asset Management 4 62th Q2 ESCI No
97 Acta Geodaetica et Geophysica 3.9 62th Q2 SCIE No
98 International Journal of Construction Education and Research 3.9 62th Q2 No
99 Glass Structures and Engineering 3.8 61th Q2 ESCI No
100 Journal of Building Pathology and Rehabilitation 3.8 61th Q2 No

Rank and percentile are within the Building and Construction Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-06-09). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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