Journal profile · Engineering-Building and Construction
International Journal of Sustainable Building Technology and Urban Development
ISSN 2093-761X · eISSN 2093-7628 · Sustainable Building Research Center
International Journal of Sustainable Building Technology and Urban Development: subscription journal; 0 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
The latest issue on the journal's website is from 2016 (Volume 7, Issue 3-4): the journal may have stopped publishing or moved platform in the last two years. Check its website before submitting.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
International Journal of Sustainable Building Technology and Urban Development is published by Sustainable Building Research Center. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Sustainable Building Design and Assessment, Building energy efficiency and sustainability and Building Energy and Comfort Optimization, together about 47.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Building and Construction. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
This title has ceased (2017). The International Journal of Sustainable Building Technology and Urban Development is the official publication of the Sustainable Building Research Center and serves as a resource to professionals and academics within the architecture and sustainability community. The International Journal of Sustainable Building Technology and Urban Development aims to support its academic community by disseminating studies on sustainable building technology, focusing on issues related to sustainable approaches in the construction industry to reduce waste and mass consumption, integration of advanced architectural technologies and environmentalism, sustainable building maintenance, life cycle cost (LCC), social issues, education and public policies relating to urban development and architecture . The International Journal of Sustainable Building Technology and Urban Development welcomes papers on the following topics: Building and Living Environmental; Bio and Healthy Buildings Research ; Energy Use and Climate; Environment Performance Assessment Tools; Facility Management of Sustainable Buildings; ) Life Cycle Cost (LCC); Sustainable Building Education; Sustainable Building Materials; Sustainable Culture, Tradition and Heritage; Sustainable Construction Management; Sustainable Legal Aspect; Sustainable Social Study and Economics; Sustainable Structural System; Sustainable Urban Development, Regeneration and Policies; Planning and Design of Sustainable Building; Psychology STAR Taylor & Francis/Routledge are committed to the widest possible dissemination of its journals to non-profit institutions in developing countries. Our STAR initiative offers individual researchers in Africa, South Asia and many parts of South East Asia the opportunity to gain one month’s free online access to 1,300 Taylor & Francis journals. For more information, please visit the STAR website. Sorry, there are currently no metrics available for this journal.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Engineering-Building and Construction
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Sustainable Building Design and AssessmentEngineering17.7%
- Building energy efficiency and sustainabilityEngineering15%
- Building Energy and Comfort OptimizationEngineering14.5%
- Construction Management and SustainabilityEngineering7.2%
- Environmental Impact and SustainabilityEnvironmental Science5.7%
- Sustainable Design and DevelopmentEngineering5.5%
- Concrete and Cement Materials ResearchEngineering4.1%
- BIM and Construction IntegrationEngineering4.1%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
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CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
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CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
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CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Building and Construction | Q3 | 142/258 | — |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
Database indexing
ScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
GeobasePublisher website
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Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.2LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.32LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.5LetPub ·
- h-index
- 26OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 67OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 337 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | 0 | 105 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 | 250 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 257 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 279 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 319 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 304 |
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.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
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Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access
- Open access Open access
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Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Sustainable Building Research Center
- ISSN
- 2093-761X
- Electronic ISSN
- 2093-7628
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 7, Issue 3-4 (2016)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about International Journal of Sustainable Building Technology and Urban Development
Which databases index International Journal of Sustainable Building Technology and Urban Development?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, International Journal of Sustainable Building Technology and Urban Development is indexed in Scopus.
Is International Journal of Sustainable Building Technology and Urban Development open access, and what is the APC?
International Journal of Sustainable Building Technology and Urban Development is a subscription journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; 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: .