International Journal of Pavement Engineering

International Journal of Pavement Engineering 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 Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation, Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring and Innovative concrete reinforcement materials, together about 61.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Civil and Structural Engineering. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Pavement Engineering is important for facilitating national and international movement of people, services, and goods. Building and preserving efficient, reliable, and sustainable highway and airport pavement systems is crucial for economic and social development. The International Journal of Pavement Engineering is dedicated to the publication of cutting edge research and development in such important types of structures and facilities, including advanced analytical and computational techniques and pavement mechanics; material characterization and innovative laboratory testing techniques, non-destructive testing and evaluation; novel design approaches and their implementation; construction techniques and strategies; rehabilitation, preservation, and maintenance strategies and approaches; bound and unbound pavement performance; pavement life cycle assessment and life cycle cost analysis; pavement management systems. The Journal publishes the latest research findings from all over the world as well as case studies. Hence, one of the journal aims is to bring together and disseminate results of advanced research and its implementation across the world. Occasionally, the journal publishes state-of-the-art reviews on pavement engineering aiming to transfer advanced pavement understanding to the international user community as well as special issues focusing on subjects of importance and interest to the pavement community. All published research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous triple-anonymized peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by independent expert referees.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): CONSTRUCTION & BUILDING TECHNOLOGY-ENGINEERING, CIVIL

Editor-in-chief Tom ScarpasPublisher website

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 3 (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

Current ContentsPublisher website

Other: EBSCO, OCLC, British Library Inside, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Construction and Building Abstracts, EBSCO Databases, Electronic Collections Online, Emerald International Civil Engineering Abstracts, Engineering Information Inc, New Jour, OCLC ArticleFirst, Transport Research Information Services, Zetoc

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.

Impact

Impact factor

3.51LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

3.7Publisher website · 2026-10-01

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

4.1Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

8.5LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

8.5Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

0.85LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.85Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SNIP 2026-06

1.25LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

1.25Publisher website · 2026-10-01

h-index

36LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

92OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

1,722OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

3.35OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

10.8%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

5.03%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

300LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

237,000Publisher 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)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

Acceptance rate (publisher)

28%Publisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to first decision

44 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

First decision after review

70 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Acceptance to publication

10 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Peer review

Triple 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

1029-8436

Electronic ISSN

1477-268X

Latest issue on the website

Volume 27, Issue 1 (2026)

Official links

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