Journal profile · BUSINESS
Construction Management and Economics
ISSN 0144-6193 · eISSN 1466-433X · Taylor & Francis
Construction Management and Economics: CAS Zone 4 · Management (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 3.2 (journal website); JCR Q2 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 218 days to acceptance (93 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 10% (journal website); 44 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Construction Management and Economics is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 4 of Management in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Construction Project Management and Performance, BIM and Construction Integration and Occupational Health and Safety Research, together about 46.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Strategy and Management. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Construction Management and Economics (CM&E) is a subscription-based, peer-reviewed journal covering the management and economics aspects of the construction processes in the construction industry and the wider built environment. The journal aims to inform and advance academic debates in the various disciplines that converge on the construction and the built environment fields as a research topic. The journal's scope covers the entire range of construction services and processes provided by the architecture/engineering/construction sectors, including design and procurement through life management. The journal’s audience includes academics, researchers, and practitioners from the construction and the built environment industries. CM&E covers a wide range of value-adding activities and all the stages of the construction process, involving coalitions of multiple actors, clients, and users. To this end, CM&E will consider papers demonstrating how diverse academic disciplines and practitioner perspectives enable robust and novel theoretical, methodological, or empirical contributions to the construction field. We also value papers that offer strong practical applications that seek to promote research and academic debates. We discourage papers that only focus on applications of existing techniques, tools, analysis, or technologies on well-known issues that do not theoretically contribute to advancing the body of knowledge in the field. Similarly, we discourage papers focusing on design or technological applications without offering critical, reflexive accounts of practice. With no exception, at CM&E, we expect all papers and notes to have strong theoretical positioning. We encourage the following manuscript submissions, which will all be subject to double anonymous peer review: original research papers and research notes. Authors can choose to publish gold open access in this journal. Read the Instructions for Authors for information on how to submit your article.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): BUSINESS
Editor-in-chief Florence PhuaPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 8%); most named United Kingdom 3, Netherlands 2, Sweden 2, Mainland China 1, Hong Kong, China 1 (12 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Construction Project Management and PerformanceDecision Sciences28.4%
- BIM and Construction IntegrationEngineering11.6%
- Occupational Health and Safety ResearchHealth Professions6.1%
- Facilities and Workplace ManagementPsychology4.2%
- Public-Private Partnership ProjectsBusiness, Management and Accounting4%
- Human auditory perception and evaluationEngineering3.8%
- Public Procurement and PolicyBusiness, Management and Accounting3.6%
- Sustainable Building Design and AssessmentEngineering3.5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Management Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Business | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Management Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Business | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
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
ESCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
EBSCO, OCLC, ABI/Inform, Architectural Publications Index, Construction and Building Abstracts (CBA), Ei Page One, Elsevier GEOAbstracts, IBZ, Materials Business File, Swets Information Services, ZetocPublisher website
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
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.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 3.2Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 4Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 7.3LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 7.3Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.8LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.8Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.17LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 1.17Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 147OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 2,056OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.69OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 9.4%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 37.16%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 45LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 354,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 3,333 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 53 | 36 | 11 |
| 2025 | 44 | 24 | 157 |
| 2024 | 45 | 30 | 356 |
| 2023 | 63 | 39 | 663 |
| 2022 | 68 | 40 | 1,228 |
| 2021 | 62 | 36 | 1,246 |
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.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
218 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 168 days – 300 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 17 days (93 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 233 days
- Sample
- 93 articles with submission and acceptance dates (111 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 10%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 7 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 67 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 18 daysPublisher website ·
- 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.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted2
- original research papersWe encourage the following manuscript submissions, which will all be subject to double anonymous peer review: original research papers and research notes.Length not stated
- research notesWe encourage the following manuscript submissions, which will all be subject to double anonymous peer review: original research papers and research notes.Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
Construction Management and Economics is a hybrid open access journal that is part of the Taylor & Francis Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research. Why choose open access? Increase the disco…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Double anonymous peer review Model summary
We encourage the following manuscript submissions, which will all be subject to double anonymous peer review: original research papers and research notes.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
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.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- ISSN
- 0144-6193
- Electronic ISSN
- 1466-433X
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 44, Issue 10 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Construction Management and Economics
What CAS zone is Construction Management and Economics in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Construction Management and Economics is in Zone 4 of Management, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Business. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Management. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Construction Management and Economics?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 3.2 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 7.3, h-index 147.
How long does peer review take at Construction Management and Economics?
Based on the dates recorded on 93 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 218 days (interquartile range 168–300 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 10%. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What JCR quartile is Construction Management and Economics in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q2 (best quartile). JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones; in the CAS ranking the journal is in Zone 4 of Management.
Where are the editorial board members of Construction Management and Economics based?
Of the 12 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 1 (about 8%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United Kingdom (3), Netherlands (2) and Sweden (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Construction Management and Economics?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Construction Management and Economics is indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Is Construction Management and Economics open access, and what is the APC?
Construction Management and Economics is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .