BUILDING RESEARCH AND INFORMATION

BUILDING RESEARCH AND INFORMATION is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. and is in Zone 3 of Engineering in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Sustainable Building Design and Assessment, Building Energy and Comfort Optimization and Construction Project Management and Performance, together about 41% of its articles. Its main subfields are Building and Construction. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Building Research and Information (BRI) focuses on the entire life cycle of buildings, from inception to designing, engineering and making, through the building in use phase, to disassembly and recovery. Unique to BRI is a holistic and interdisciplinary approach to a sustainable built environment, centered on the building and its context. We welcome original research, information papers, book reviews and evidence-based commentaries that acknowledge the complex and inter-related nature of our built environment, while focusing on the building . The journal scope includes research on a wide range of topics relating to buildings, embracing the what, why, how and when questions. Central to an integrated and sustainable built environment is building information , its generation, transmission, use, storage, access and management. The scope covers: People: Motivations and actions of designers, engineers, makers, managers and users of buildings; user satisfaction; universal and inclusive design; education of stakeholders; supply chain capabilities; stakeholder needs; stewardship; sustainable communities; culture. Performance: The performance and impact of buildings in relation to design, engineering, environmental, economic, social, organizational, structural and technical factors; impact assessment and performance monitoring; thermal comfort and indoor climate; resource use. Policy: Innovation; legislation, standards and codes; ethics and ethical sourcing; health, wellbeing and quality of life; building values; value of buildings; public policy; space standards; societal interests and sustainable building; engagement with buildings; security. Product: De-carbonized buildings; regenerative and restorative building design and development; mitigation, resilience and adaption to climate change; active building technologies and smart buildings; innovative and non-conventional building materials; healing environments; adaptive re-use, retrofit, disassembly and resource recovery; quality. Process: Integrated and creative processes and systems; automation and craft; creation and making of buildings; management and use of built assets within a digital, creative and circular economy; optimization of design; innovative solutions to complex challenges; interfaces. All manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor-in-Chief and if deemed suitable for further consideration will be subject to highly rigorous, double-anonymized, peer review by independent experts in t

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Construction & Building Technology

Editor-in-chief Stephen EmmittPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 2 in mainland China (about 67%); most named Mainland China 2, India 1 (3 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• JCR Q2 · best quartile · 2025
• CiteScore Q1 · 2025

Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website

Database indexing

SCIEScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

EI CompendexPublisher website

Other: ANBAR, Architectural Publications Index API, ARCOM Construction Management Abstracts, Avery Periodical Index, British Technology Index, Building Management Abstracts, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Construction and Building Abstracts, Construction Information Digest, CRI Abstracts (India), Entrepreneurship Research Engine, featuresexec.com, ICONDA>®Bibliographic, International Building Services Abstracts, International Civil Engineering Abstracts, International Developments Abstracts, ISMEC (Mechanical Engineering Abstracts), Journal of Planning Literature, RICS Abstracts, Science Direct, SciSearch Research Alert, Shandong Jianzhu University abstracts (in Chinese), Urban Studies Abstracts

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Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.

Impact

Impact factor

3.52LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

3.5Publisher website · 2026-10-01

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

4.5Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

8.9LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

8.9Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

0.91LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.91Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SNIP 2026-06

1.57LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

1.57Publisher website · 2026-10-01

h-index

72LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

134OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

1,252OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

2.98OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

11.4%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

33.92%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

58LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

356,000Publisher website · 2026-10-01

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Other sources

Average review time (community reports)

over 12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

Fairly easyLetPub · 2026-09-13

Acceptance rate (publisher)

10%Publisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to first decision

4 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

First decision after review

59 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Acceptance to publication

22 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.

Publisher

Taylor and Francis Ltd.

Country or region

ENGLAND

Language

English

Frequency

Bimonthly

ISSN

0961-3218

Electronic ISSN

1466-4321

Latest issue on the website

Volume 54, Issue 6 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website