Journal profile · Engineering-Building and Construction
Infrastructures
ISSN 2412-3811 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) · Switzerland
Infrastructures: impact factor 3.6 (journal website); JCR Q2 (journal website); fully open access; APC charged, amount not published; review about 18 days (submission to first decision, publisher); 357 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Infrastructures is published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring, Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation and Structural Health Monitoring Techniques, together about 29% of its articles. Its main subfields are Civil and Structural Engineering. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The scope of Infrastructures includes applications in road, railway, urban, coastal, airport, energy, and critical infrastructures and encompasses the following: Construction technology, maintenance, retrofitting, infrastructure upgrade and management of constructed facilities, LCA/LCC, construction materials and utilities, management information systems, intelligent control systems, BIM, and digital twin; Analysis of transportation networks, logistics, supply chains, management of transport systems, intelligent transportation systems, safety, and mobility; Structural design, structural control, SHM, health monitoring and prediction, non-destructive technologies, inspection, and structural reliability/stability; Infrastructure assets (pavement, railway, bridge, tunnel, dam, port and marine), geotechnical, environmental, water resources, and survey engineering; Computers in civil engineering, automation, robotics in construction, monitoring and remote sensing; Smart infrastructures, sustainable infrastructures, aging infrastructures, resilient infrastructures (adaptation to climate change, extreme events, hazards and mitigation), V2X, real-time communications, decision-making and driver behavior; Artificial intelligence, cognitive modeling, concurrent engineering, distributed computing, evolutionary computing, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, geometric modeling, internet-based technologies, machine learning algorithms, mobile computing, multimedia technologies, neural network computing, parallel processing, software engineering, VR/AR/MR, and visualization techniques.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Engineering-Building and Construction
Editor-in-chief Applied Geotechnologies GroupPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 2 in mainland China (about 7%); most named Italy 7, United States 5, Spain 4, Canada 3, Mainland China 2 (30 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Infrastructure Maintenance and MonitoringEngineering14%
- Asphalt Pavement Performance EvaluationEngineering7.7%
- Structural Health Monitoring TechniquesEngineering7.3%
- Innovative concrete reinforcement materialsEngineering6.6%
- Concrete Corrosion and DurabilityEngineering6%
- Concrete and Cement Materials ResearchEngineering5.5%
- Geotechnical Engineering and Underground StructuresEngineering4.8%
- Structural Behavior of Reinforced ConcreteEngineering4.1%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
No record of this journal in the CAS ranking tables yet.
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q2 · Construction and Building Technology
- CiteScore Q1 · Building and Construction
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
DOAJLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
ESCIWeb of ScienceScopusINSPECPublisher 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
- 3.6Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 3.5Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 5.7LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.67LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.32LetPub ·
- h-index
- 53OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 592OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.88OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 5.6%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 361LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,782 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 333 | 333 | 143 |
| 2025 | 357 | 357 | 1,341 |
| 2024 | 241 | 241 | 2,130 |
| 2023 | 182 | 182 | 2,476 |
| 2022 | 175 | 175 | 2,704 |
| 2021 | 185 | 185 | 3,818 |
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
- Submission to first decision
- 18.2 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 2.9 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 6 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Unspecified peer reviewDOAJ
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
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | CHF 1,800 | Yes | CC BY | |
| OpenAlex | CHF 1,800 | — | — | |
| LetPub | CHF 1,800 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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)
Open calls for papers9, by deadline
- AI-Driven Transportation Infrastructure Inspection and Asset ManagementDeadline
- Advances in Artificial Intelligence for Geotechnical EngineeringDeadline
- Building Information Modeling (BIM) for Civil InfrastructuresDeadline
- Advances in Road Infrastructure SafetyDeadline
- Civil, Mechanical and Environmental Engineering—Sustainable Development Goals for the 21st CenturyDeadline
- Fatigue Assessment of Elderly Metallic BridgesDeadline
- Towards Smarter, Greener, and More Resilient Transport SystemsDeadline
- Digitalization in Geotechnical Engineering for Sustainable and Resilient InfrastructureDeadline
- Digital Twins and AI for Infrastructure Asset ManagementDeadline
What to prepare5 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 200 words
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Required, 3
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted18
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Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Preprints
- Authorship Authorship
MDPI follows the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) guidelines which state that, in order to qualify for authorship of a manuscript, the following criteria should be observed: Make substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work, or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; Draft the work or review it critically for important intel…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Conflicts of Interest
According to The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, “Authors should avoid entering into agreements with study sponsors, both for-profit and non-profit, that interfere with authors’ access to all of the study’s data or that interfere with their ability to analyze and interpret the data and to prepare and publish manuscripts independently when and where they choose.” All authors mus…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability statements
Data availability statements are required for all articles published with MDPI. During the peer review and editorial decision process, authors can be asked to share existing datasets or raw data that have been analyzed in the manuscript, and whether they will be made available to other researchers following publication. Authors will also be asked for the details of any existing datasets that have …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Publication Ethics Statement
Infrastructures is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). We fully adhere to its Code of Conduct and to its Best Practice Guidelines. The editors of this journal enforce a rigorous peer review process together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data fal…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright / Open Access
Articles published in Infrastructures will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text: © 2026 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the term…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access publication fees
If you transfer your manuscript to another open access (OA) journal, you will be charged an Article Processing Charge (APC) if your article is accepted for publication. The APC for each journal can be found on the individual journal’s website. For more information about APCs, please see here.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Editorial Process and Peer Review
All submissions are thoroughly peer-reviewed by experts within the field and undergo a structured editorial workflow designed to ensure quality, transparency, and scientific integrity. The full editorial procedure is available on the Editorial Process page and is also provided below. Pre-check Pre-check consists of a technical pre-check performed by the Editorial Office and an editorial pre-check …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints and Conference Papers
Infrastructures accepts submissions that have previously been made available as preprints provided that they have not undergone peer review. A preprint is a draft version of a paper made available online before submission to a journal. MDPI operates Preprints, a preprint server to which submitted papers can be uploaded directly after completing journal submission. Note that Preprints operates inde…
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
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
- Country or region
- Switzerland
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2412-3811
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 11 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Infrastructures
What is the impact factor of Infrastructures?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 3.6 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 5.7, h-index 53.
How long does peer review take at Infrastructures?
The publisher reports about 18 days (submission to first decision); first decisions include desk rejections. 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 Infrastructures in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q2; by category, Construction and Building Technology Q2. JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones.
What are the manuscript requirements of Infrastructures?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 200 words; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Required, 3; Graphical abstract: Optional; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Infrastructures based?
Of the 30 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 2 (about 7%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Italy (7), United States (5) and Spain (4). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Infrastructures?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Infrastructures is indexed in DOAJ. The journal's website also lists ESCI, Web of Science, Scopus and INSPEC; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Infrastructures open access, and what is the APC?
Infrastructures is a fully open-access journal. APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; 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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .