Journal of Structural Integrity and Maintenance

Journal of Structural Integrity and Maintenance is published by Taylor & Francis 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 Innovative concrete reinforcement materials, Concrete and Cement Materials Research and Structural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete, together about 32.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Civil and Structural Engineering. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Journal of Structural Integrity and Maintenance covers the broad fields of structural engineering, construction materials engineering, and foundation engineering. The terms of structural integrity and structural maintenance are used to ensure the structural performance of a component, a single structure, or a structure consisting of different components for the designed life of them: i.e., broad and deep aspects of the performance-based engineering including the analysis, design, and maintenance of structural components and systems to assure their integrity throughout their life cycles are included. Authors are encouraged to submit papers on topics related to the-state-of-the-art methods for structural maintenance and inspection, structural integrity and safety, design optimization, installation and decommissioning, retrofitting, structural health monitoring, nondestructive testing, repair and rehabilitation, and structural design and construction management. The topics of the articles include the following: Fundamental design and modeling in the area of structural engineering Construction materials engineering and foundation engineering Analysis of the experimental and computational results Investigation of the properties of innovative construction and geotechnical materials in terms of maintenance and managemen Practical-oriented topics and cases studies for buildings, stadiums, bridges, highways, foundations, roads, pavements, tunnels, railways, industrial facilities, silos, offshore and onshore plants, nuclear structures, retaining structures, slope stability, and dams are also encouraged and welcomed. Journal of Structural Integrity and Maintenance is the Official Journal of Korea Institute for Structural Maintenance and Inspection (www.ksmi.or.kr). Peer Review Policy: All peer review is single anonymized and submission is online via Editorial Manager. 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.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): ENGINEERING, CIVIL

Editor-in-chief Myoungsu ShinPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 17%); most named South Korea 5, Mainland China 1 (6 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• JCR Q1 · 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

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 (publisher) 2025

4.6Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

3.4Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

6LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

6Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.75LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.75Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SNIP 2026-06

1.31LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

1.31Publisher website · 2026-09-29

h-index

25OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

109OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

4.93OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

15.2%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

7.78%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

35LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

20,000Publisher website · 2026-09-29

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.

Figures by source

Acceptance rate (publisher)

18%Publisher website · 2026-09-29

Submission to first decision

44 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

First decision after review

111 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

Acceptance to publication

17 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

Peer review

Single 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 & Francis

ISSN

2470-5314

Electronic ISSN

2470-5322

Society / sponsor

Korea Institute for Structural Maintenance and Inspection

Latest issue on the website

Volume 11, Issue 4 (2026)

Official links

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