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Journal Metrics
Downloads and views
Combined full-text views and downloads of peer-reviewed content on https://journal-buildingscities.org/: 936,249 (2025)
Journal evaluation and impact
Scopus Citescore for 2025: 5.2 (ranked 18th in 203 journals - 91st percentile)
- #25/210 in Engineering: Architecture (88th percentile = Q1)
- #49/295 in Social Sciences: Urban Studies (83rd percentile = Q1)
- #187/876 in Social Sciences: Geography, Planning and Development (78th percentile = Q1)
- #72/258 in Engineering: Building and Construction (72nd percentile = Q2)
- #103/307 in Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (67th percentile = Q2)
- #147/432 in Environmental Science: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (66th percentile = Q2)
Scimago H-index: 26 (2025)
Scimago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.829 (2025) (Q1)
Web of Science / Journal Citation Reports Impact Factor for 2025: 3.7. Five year Impact Factor: 4.5
- #17/86 in Urban Studies (80th percentile = Q1)
- #27/104 in Construction and Building Technology (75th percentile)
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): Seal of Approval
Finnish Publication Forum (JUFO): level 2
Content metrics
| Peer-reviewed content in the 2025 volume: | |
|---|---|
| Submissions received 1 | 207 |
| Reviews requested 2 | 1022 |
| Reviews received 3 | 359 |
| Total Rejections 4 | 173 |
| Acceptances 5 | 62 |
| Acceptance rate 6 | 35% |
| Peer-reviewed papers - Time to publication in 2025: | |
|---|---|
| Time from submission to first decision 7 | 99 days (3.3 months) |
| Time from submission to acceptance 8 | 159 days (5.3 months) |
Definitions
1 Number of new articles received by the journal ↩
2 Number of peer review invitation emails that were sent out ↩
3 Number of completed peer review reports received ↩
4 Total number of articles rejected (including desk rejects) ↩
5 Number of articles that received a 'Accept for publication' decision ↩
6 Number of acceptances, as a percentage, against the total number of final decisions ↩
7 'Mean' average from submission to first decision for all publications in the volume ↩
8 'Mean' average from submission to acceptance for all publications in the volume (includes revision & second review) ↩
Latest Commentaries
Living Labs: Maturity, Impact and the Role of Researchers
Living labs are blossoming more than ever. Their first appearances in academic literature were roughly 25 years ago. Dimitri Schuurman (Ghent University) responds to the recent Buildings & Cities special issue “Living Labs: Agents for Change” and focuses on two important drawbacks that also come with living labs booming in practice as well as in the literature.
Building Performance Evaluation in Education – Why Not?
Building performance evaluation (BPE) is a process to understand how buildings perform in use and how inhabitants interact with their buildings. BPE can harness these insights to improve building design, operation and use. Paradoxically, BPE is rarely part of the curriculum for education of designers, buildings and managers. Fionn Stevenson (independent scholar) considers why BPE / post-occupancy evaluation is not being taught to architecture students in the UK and how to mainstream BPE in education and practice.