Journal profile · Engineering-Civil and Structural Engineering
Resilient Cities and Structures
ISSN 2772-7416 · Elsevier · Netherlands
Resilient Cities and Structures: impact factor 4.7 (journal website); diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 132 days (submission to acceptance, publisher); 39 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Resilient Cities and Structures is published by Elsevier. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis, Seismic Performance and Analysis and Disaster Management and Resilience, together about 42% of its articles. Its main subfields are Civil and Structural Engineering. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Resilient Cities and Structures (RCS) is a premium international journal for publishing original research papers, reviews, comments, and perspectives to construct a resilient city in multiple levels and aspects. The scope of the journal includes fundamental research, innovative technologies and engineering applications in resilient cities, infrastructure, structures and resilience−based management.Specific interests are given to research and ideas related to the system's resilience to resist disasters, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, fire, floods and hurricanes, etc. The RCS journal is dedicated to providing a forum and advancing the frontiers of the continuously increasing research work worldwide on reducing disasters' enormous adverse impacts on cities' normal operation. Relevant topics include the following: Innovative resilient technologies for structures, infrastructure and citiesResilience evaluation methodologies for structures, infrastructure and citiesLife−cycle assessments and health monitoring of structures, infrastructure and citiesResilience−based design of structures and infrastructureFunctional interaction analyses among city infrastructure systemsUrban resilience−based managementDefinition of 'Resilience' Resilience is the ability to plan, prepare for, mitigate, and adapt to changing conditions from hazards to enable rapid recovery of physical, social, economic, and ecological infrastructure. Therefore, within the scope of the journal, improving resilience requires engineering capabilities that can make the physical infrastructure able to rapidly recover their functionality, either as individual structures, as systems, or as interdependent systems.RCS published 3 issues respectively in 2022 and 2023, and since 2024 is published as a quarterly journal.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Engineering-Civil and Structural Engineering
Editor-in-chief Michel BruneauPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 9 in mainland China (about 16%); most named United States 19, Mainland China 9, Canada 6, United Kingdom 3, Italy 3 (57 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability AnalysisEngineering18.2%
- Seismic Performance and AnalysisEngineering13.5%
- Disaster Management and ResilienceSocial Sciences10.3%
- Flood Risk Assessment and ManagementEnvironmental Science6.1%
- Masonry and Concrete Structural AnalysisEngineering4.8%
- Structural Response to Dynamic LoadsEngineering4.2%
- Diverse Scientific and Economic StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance4%
- Ferroelectric and Negative Capacitance DevicesEngineering3.7%
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
ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub
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.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 4.7Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 9.7LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 9.7Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.28LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.85LetPub ·
- h-index
- 23OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 63OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 5.79OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 8.5%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 32LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 171 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 35 | 35 | 14 |
| 2025 | 39 | 39 | 218 |
| 2024 | 36 | 36 | 405 |
| 2023 | 35 | 35 | 511 |
| 2022 | 26 | 26 | 763 |
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
Publisher-reported review time from the journal's website
132 dayssubmission to acceptance · community reports about 7 weeks
The publisher's own definition applies; dates from this journal's articles in the last 24 months are not available yet, so the publisher's figure is used.
Figures by source
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 7 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to first decision
- 5 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 65 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance
- 132 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 15 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 21 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, CC BY-NC-ND | |
| OpenAlex | USD 1,200 / EUR 1,120 / GBP 960 / JPY 148,840 | — | — | |
| LetPub | No APC | Yes | — |
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 papers1, by deadline
Publisher websiteWhat to prepare3 items from the author guidelines
- Reference style
- Numbered, in order of citation
- Highlights
- Optional
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
Article types accepted7
- editorialFull Length Article--Full length articles presenting original research results contributing to resilient cities, structures, infrastructure and resilience-based…Length not stated
- full length articleFull Length Article--Full length articles presenting original research results contributing to resilient cities, structures, infrastructure and resilience-based…Length not stated
- opinionFull Length Article--Full length articles presenting original research results contributing to resilient cities, structures, infrastructure and resilience-based…Length not stated
- opinion paperOpinion Paper--Opinion papers provide a forum for timely presentation and discussion of questions, problems, or topics based on technically sound observation, e…Length not stated
- original researchFull Length Article--Full length articles presenting original research results contributing to resilient cities, structures, infrastructure and resilience-based…Length not stated
- review articleFull Length Article--Full length articles presenting original research results contributing to resilient cities, structures, infrastructure and resilience-based…Length not stated
- technical noteFull Length Article--Full length articles presenting original research results contributing to resilient cities, structures, infrastructure and resilience-based…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Conflicts of interest, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Preprints
- AI use Declaration of generative AI in scientific writing
Authors must declare the use of generative AI tools in manuscript preparation upon submission; AI tools may only be applied with human oversight and control, and must not be listed as authors. Model summary
Authors must declare the use of generative AI tools in the manuscript preparation process upon submission of the paper.Generative AI and AI-assisted technologies (“AI tools”) have been rapidly adopted in research and scholarly publishing, offering significant benefits while requiring clear standards for responsible and transparent use.Authors preparing a manuscript for this journal may use AI tool…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship Author contributions
Provide a maximum of 6 keywords immediately after the abstract, using American spelling and avoiding general and plural terms and multiple concepts. Model summary
For transparency, we require corresponding authors to provide co-author contributions to the manuscript using the relevant CRediT roles. The CRediT taxonomy includes 14 different roles describing each contributor's specific contribution to the scholarly output. The roles are: Conceptualization; Data curation; Formal analysis; Funding acquisition; Investigation; Methodology; Project administration;…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Declaration of competing interest
Corresponding authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships that could inappropriately influence their work; all authors should provide relevant information to the corresponding author. Model summary
Corresponding authors, on behalf of all the authors of a submission, must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. Examples of potential conflicts of interest include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright
Upon acceptance, authors complete a License Agreement; permitted third party reuse of open access articles is determined by the author's choice of user license. Model summary
Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to complete a 'License Agreement' (see more information on this). Permitted third party reuse of open access articles is determined by the author's choice of user license.Author rightsAs an author you (or your employer or institution) have certain rights to reuse your work. More information.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access
The Article Publishing Charge (APC) fee will be covered by College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University for articles submitted by 31st December 2027.Please visit our Open Access page for more information.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review
The journal operates a single anonymized review process with a minimum of two independent expert reviewers; the Editor is responsible for the final decision. Model summary
This journal operates a single anonymized review process. All contributions are typically sent to a minimum of two independent expert reviewers to assess the scientific quality of the paper. The Editor is responsible for the final decision regarding acceptance or rejection of articles. The Editor's decision is final. Editors are not involved in decisions about papers which they have written themse…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
Preprints can be shared anywhere at any time, in line with Elsevier's sharing policy, and will not count as prior publication. Model summary
Please note that preprints can be shared anywhere at any time, in line with Elsevier's sharing policy. Sharing your preprints e.g. on a preprint server will not count as prior publication (see 'Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication' for more information).
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
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Country or region
- Netherlands
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2772-7416
- 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 Resilient Cities and Structures
What is the impact factor of Resilient Cities and Structures?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 4.7; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 9.7, h-index 23.
How long does peer review take at Resilient Cities and Structures?
The publisher reports about 132 days (submission to acceptance); authors report an average review time of about 7 weeks. 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 Resilient Cities and Structures?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Reference style: Numbered, in order of citation; Highlights: Optional; Graphical abstract: 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 Resilient Cities and Structures based?
Of the 57 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 9 (about 16%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (19), Mainland China (9) and Canada (6). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Resilient Cities and Structures?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Resilient Cities and Structures is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Resilient Cities and Structures open access, and what is the APC?
Resilient Cities and Structures 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, Publisher website, OpenAlex, 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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .