What are the best journals for Civil and Structural Engineering?

From a 17,500-venue index, the highest-ranked Civil and Structural Engineering journals include Cement and Concrete Composites, Cement and Concrete Research, Construction and Building Materials, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Engineering Geology. The top 40 of 329 ranked venues are listed on this page; all 40 are Scimago Q1. Each shows its open-access status and indexing, and predatory venues are excluded. For a shortlist matched to your specific paper, use the Journal Finder (15 credits; free account starts with 25).

How were these Civil and Structural Engineering journals ranked?

By Scimago quartile first (Q1 → Q4, then venues without one). Within a quartile, venues whose main OpenAlex subfield is Civil and Structural Engineering come before those that list it second or third, and ties go to OpenAlex cites/paper over a 2-year window. A venue whose main subfield is unrelated to Civil and Structural Engineering — fewer than a quarter of the venues filed under that subfield (or fewer than five) are also filed under Civil and Structural Engineering — is listed after all the others. Where cites/paper decides, a journal with fewer than 30 papers in OpenAlex over the four most recent publication years is listed after those with more: a two-year average over so few papers can rest on a single article (1 of the 329 journals ranked here is below that floor; it is not among the 40 shown). Cites/paper is a transparent citation rate, not a licensed Impact Factor, and journals flagged as predatory are excluded.

Why don't all Civil and Structural Engineering journals show a quartile?

Scimago doesn't cover every journal — many strong regional and open-access venues are absent from it. We show "no Scimago quartile" for those rather than hide them; it's a coverage gap, not a quality judgement.

How do I find the best journal for my specific Civil and Structural Engineering paper?

Paste your title and abstract into the Journal Finder — it returns a shortlist matched to your paper's topic from the same index, with acceptance-fit signals, open-access status, and predatory flags. A free account starts with 25 welcome credits; each run costs 15.

Civil and Structural Engineering · 329 journals ranked · top 40 listed

Best journals for Civil and Structural Engineering

The top 40 of 329 Civil and Structural Engineering journals, ranked by Scimago quartile, then by how central Civil and Structural Engineering is to each journal, then OpenAlex cites/paper (2-year window), drawn from a 17,500-venue index. Predatory venues are excluded; the FAQ below gives the exact ranking rule. These are field-wide rankings — for a shortlist matched to your specific paper, paste your title and abstract into the Journal Finder (a free account starts with 25 welcome credits).

Data as of 18 October 2026 — the date our venue index was last rebuilt from OpenAlex and Scimago.

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All Best open-access journals

1
Cement and Concrete Composites
15.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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2
Cement and Concrete Research
13.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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3
Construction and Building Materials
9.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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4
Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing
9.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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5
Engineering Geology
9.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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6
Underground Space
8.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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7
Thin-Walled Structures
8.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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8
Engineering Structures
8.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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9
Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
8.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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10
Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology
8.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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11
Computers and Geotechnics
7.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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12
Developments in the Built Environment
7.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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13
Results in Engineering
7.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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14
Structural Safety
6.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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15
Advances in Engineering Software
6.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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16
Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering
6.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
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17
Journal of Building Engineering
6.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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18
Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy
6.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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19
Acta Geotechnica
6.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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20
Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring
6.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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21
Frontiers of Structural and Civil Engineering
6.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Higher Education Press
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22
Ain Shams Engineering Journal
5.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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23
Geotextiles and Geomembranes
5.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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24
Journal of Sound and Vibration
5.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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25
Journal of Constructional Steel Research
5.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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26
Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
5.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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27
Civil Engineering Journal
5.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Salehan Institute of Higher Education
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28
Computers & Structures
5.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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29
Géotechnique
5.0 cites/paper · Q1 · ICE Publishing
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30
International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials
5.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Nature
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31
Case Studies in Construction Materials
4.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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32
Structures
4.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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33
International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics
4.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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34
Journal of Composites for Construction
4.7 cites/paper · Q1 · American Society of Civil Engineers
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35
Structural Health Monitoring
4.6 cites/paper · Q1 · SAGE Publishing
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36
Journal of Zhejiang University. Science A
4.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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37
Transportation Geotechnics
4.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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38
Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization
4.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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39
Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics
4.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
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40
Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment
4.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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“Cites/paper” is the OpenAlex 2-year citation rate — a transparent signal, not a licensed Impact Factor. Many regional and open-access journals are strong but aren’t covered by Scimago, so they show “no Scimago quartile”; that’s a coverage gap, not a quality judgement.