Journal profile · Multiple
Low-carbon Materials and Green Construction
ISSN 2731-6319
Low-carbon Materials and Green Construction: impact factor 4 (journal website); diamond open access (no APC); no APC; median 110 days to acceptance (67 articles, last 24 months); 34 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, Low-carbon Materials and Green Construction's largest topics are Concrete and Cement Materials Research, Innovative concrete reinforcement materials and Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance, together about 49.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Civil and Structural Engineering and Building and Construction. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Low-Carbon Materials and Green Construction is an international journal concerned with the materials and construction in civil engineering to cope with the challenges raised by climate change, together with resources and energy consumption, and is dedicated to the widest dissemination of high-quality original research and insights. This journal publishes creative and original research articles and review papers in the field of civil engineering within the context of a much broader multi-disciplinary scope, focusing on the spatiotemporal dynamic evolution of building performances, structural behaviours, and carbon emissions within the structure-environment symbiosis, and the related carbon emission reduction and sustainability issues. The contents cover the life cycle of civil engineering projects, which includes the stages of planning, design, construction, operation and maintenance, deconstruction, reuse and recycling for buildings and infrastructures on the earth, or even on other planets. The journal also welcomes papers on related topics covering aspects of environmental conservation, energy utilization and policy making to better promote the harmony between humans and nature. The journal welcomes submissions related to issues about new construction, renovation, maintenance, rehabilitation and recycling of civil engineering projects that include, but are not limited to: Construction materials innovation focusing carbon emission reduction Life cycle analysis of civil engineering Green construction design and implementation Structural design for climate change adaptation and mitigation Interactions between buildings and environment Methods for quantifying carbon emissions in the construction industry Building information modelling (BIM) in green construction Construction engineering automation and artificial intelligence (AI) Clean energy utilization and multi-energy coupling for buildings Deconstruction and reuse Waste disposal and recycling Construction robots and systems Construction big data and machine learning Integrated building services systems for built environment Sustainability evaluation on pavements and transportation infrastructures Carbon capture and storage technologies Carbon footprint and low carbon policy in buildings Construction on other planetary objects, such as the moon and Mars
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Multiple
Editor-in-chief Surendra P. ShahPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 23 in mainland China (about 42%); most named Mainland China 23, Australia 6, Belgium 3, United States 2, United Kingdom 2 (55 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Concrete and Cement Materials ResearchEngineering21.6%
- Innovative concrete reinforcement materialsEngineering16.4%
- Recycled Aggregate Concrete PerformanceEngineering11.6%
- Innovations in Concrete and Construction MaterialsEngineering6%
- Recycling and utilization of industrial and municipal waste in materials productionEngineering4.8%
- Magnesium Oxide Properties and ApplicationsMaterials Science4%
- Concrete Properties and BehaviorEngineering3.6%
- Wood Treatment and PropertiesEngineering3.2%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
EI CompendexScopusCASPublisher website
Other: Google Scholar, EBSCO, ProQuest, Dimensions, CNKI, Baidu, Astrophysics Data System, Naver, OCLC, Portico, CLOCKSS
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
- 4Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 4Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
- SJR (publisher)
- 5Publisher website ·
- SNIP (publisher)
- 0.87Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 15OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 27OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.43OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 7.5%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 30LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 2,025Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 124,200Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 116 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 22 | 22 | 8 |
| 2025 | 34 | 34 | 96 |
| 2024 | 30 | 30 | 277 |
| 2023 | 30 | 30 | 431 |
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
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
110 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 53 days – 175 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 31 days (67 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 152 days
- Sample
- 67 articles with submission and acceptance dates (71 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Submission to first decision
- 20 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 12 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous 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
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY | |
| OpenAlex | USD 0 | — | — |
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 papers3, by deadline
Publisher websiteWhat to prepare4 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- 150–250 words
- Keywords
- ≥ 4
- Reference style
- Numbered, in order of citation
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
Article types accepted7
- editorialSingle-blind peer review This journal follows a single-blind reviewing procedure. This journal also publishes special/guest-edited issues. The peer review proce…Length not stated
- full research articleLow-carbon Materials and Green Construction accepts submissions of the following article types: Research Article Research articles publish full reports of data …Length not stated
- perspectiveLow-carbon Materials and Green Construction accepts submissions of the following article types: Research Article Research articles publish full reports of data …Length not stated
- research articleLow-carbon Materials and Green Construction accepts submissions of the following article types: Research Article Research articles publish full reports of data …Length not stated
- reviewLow-carbon Materials and Green Construction accepts submissions of the following article types: Research Article Research articles publish full reports of data …Length not stated
- review articleLow-carbon Materials and Green Construction accepts submissions of the following article types: Research Article Research articles publish full reports of data …Length not stated
- viewpointLow-carbon Materials and Green Construction accepts submissions of the following article types: Research Article Research articles publish full reports of data …Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review
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Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship Authorship principles
These guidelines describe authorship principles and good authorship practices to which prospective authors should adhere to. Authorship clarified The Journal and Publisher assume all authors agreed with the content and that all gave explicit consent to submit and that they obtained consent from the responsible authorities at the institute/organization where the work has been carried out, before th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Competing Interests
Authors are requested to disclose interests that are directly or indirectly related to the work submitted for publication. Interests within the last 3 years of beginning the work (conducting the research and preparing the work for submission) should be reported. Interests outside the 3-year time frame must be disclosed if they could reasonably be perceived as influencing the submitted work. Disclo…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability statements
All original research must include a data availability statement. This statement should explain how to access data supporting the results and analysis in the article, including links/citations to publicly archived datasets analysed or generated during the study. Please see our full policy here. If it is not possible to share research data publicly, for instance when individual privacy could be com…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright
Articles in Springer Nature open access journals do not require transfer of copyright as the copyright remains with the author. Details of the OA licences offered to authors can be found on the individual journal website, in the journal's How to publish with us guide. Back to top
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access publishing
To find out more about publishing your work Open Access in Low-carbon Materials and Green Construction, including information on fees, funding and licences, visit our Open access publishing page. Back to top
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Single-blind peer review
This journal follows a single-blind reviewing procedure. This journal also publishes special/guest-edited issues. The peer review process for these articles is the same as the peer review process of the journal in general. Additionally, if a guest editor authors an article in their issue/collection, they will not handle the peer review process.
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
- ISSN
- 2731-6319
- Print ISSN
- 2097-468X
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
- Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗DOAJ
- Editorial board ↗DOAJ
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Low-carbon Materials and Green Construction
What is the impact factor of Low-carbon Materials and Green Construction?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 4 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; h-index 15.
How long does peer review take at Low-carbon Materials and Green Construction?
Based on the dates recorded on 67 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 110 days (interquartile range 53–175 days). 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 are the manuscript requirements of Low-carbon Materials and Green Construction?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: 150–250 words; Keywords: ≥ 4; Reference style: Numbered, in order of citation; Suggested reviewers: Optional. 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 Low-carbon Materials and Green Construction based?
Of the 55 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 23 (about 42%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Mainland China (23), Australia (6) and Belgium (3). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Low-carbon Materials and Green Construction?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Low-carbon Materials and Green Construction is indexed in ESCI and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists EI Compendex, Scopus and CAS; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Low-carbon Materials and Green Construction open access, and what is the APC?
Low-carbon Materials and Green Construction is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website, 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 2026-08-30). Last updated: .