Journal of Building Performance Simulation

Journal of Building Performance Simulation is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. and is in Zone 4 of Engineering in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Building Energy and Comfort Optimization, Wind and Air Flow Studies and Urban Heat Island Mitigation, together about 57% of its articles. Its main subfields are Building and Construction. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The Journal of Building Performance Simulation (JBPS) is the official journal of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA). JBPS publishes original research papers, comprehensive review articles, conceptual research papers, researched case studies, viewpoint articles, method articles and data notes from around the world. JBPS advances and promotes techniques and application of building environmental performance modelling and simulation to improve the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of buildings in support of sustainable and healthy communities. JBPS covers a wide range of spatial scales, ranging from building components and systems, to buildings, neighbourhoods and cities. JBPS includes, but is not limited to, the following topics and themes: Modelling and simulation of: physical processes in the built environment (thermal, air flow, moisture, indoor air quality, lighting, acoustics), energy performance and indoor environmental quality, energy harvesting, conversion, storage, distribution, flexibility and associated control systems, and occupant behaviour in relation to building design and operation, weather data, and other boundary conditions impacting building and environmental performance. Simulation methods and algorithms for: optimizing the performance of (aggregations of) buildings and their systems, including interaction with the urban environment, transportation, the electrical grid and/or heat/cold networks, quality assurance – including useability - of building performance simulation techniques and tools. Advances in building performance modelling, and optimization techniques, including big data, machine learning and other artificial intelligence based developments, and validation, verification and uncertainty quantification. Software development techniques, interoperability issues and workflows with direct applicability to building performance simulation. Techniques for educating and training building simulation tool users. Researched case studies that demonstrate building performance simulation in use for any stage of the design, construction, commissioning, operation, or management of buildings and their systems are welcomed if they include validation or make a novel contribution to building performance simulation knowledge. Studies focused on the performance of buildings and their systems, rather than on modelling and simulation will not be considered. All articles submitted to JBPS are subject to

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): CONSTRUCTION & BUILDING TECHNOLOGY

Editorial board by country: 4 in mainland China (about 7%); most named United States 14, Canada 8, United Kingdom 6, Mainland China 4, Japan 3 (57 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-30

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

EBSCO, British Library Inside, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, EBSCO DatabasesPublisher 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.

Impact

Impact factor

3.13LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

3.2Publisher website · 2026-09-30

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

3.2Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CiteScore 2026-06

6.3LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

6.3Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SJR 2026-06

0.67LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.67Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SNIP 2026-06

1.04LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

1.04Publisher website · 2026-09-30

h-index

29LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

65OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

430OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

3.45OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

9.4%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

24.28%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

70LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher) 2025

114,000Publisher website · 2026-09-30

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) 2025

12%Publisher website · 2026-09-30

Submission to first decision 2025

3 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

First decision after review 2025

46 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

Acceptance to publication 2025

18 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

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

ISSN

1940-1493

Electronic ISSN

1940-1507

Society / sponsor

International Building Performance Simulation Association

Latest issue on the website

Volume 19, Issue 5 (2026)

Official links

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