Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems is devoted to the advancement of systems thinking and systems techniques throughout systems engineering, environmental engineering decision-making, and engineering management. We do this by publishing the practical applications and developments of "hard" and "soft" systems techniques and thinking.
Submissions that allow for better analysis of civil engineering and environmental systems might look at:
Civil Engineering optimization
Risk assessment in engineering
Civil engineering decision analysis
System identification in engineering
Civil engineering numerical simulation
Uncertainty modelling in engineering
Qualitative modelling of complex engineering systems
Submissions on systems thinking that advance our understanding of complex civil engineering and environmental systems might examine:
Safety in engineering systems
Decision making with engineering systems
Risk management in engineering systems
Civil engineering environmental policy
Sustainable development in civil engineering
Submissions that fall outside the scope of Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems and will not be considered, include, but are not limited to, those on:
Testing of civil engineering materials, and the feasibility of use of sustainable materials.
Sustainable construction and building design where systems methods are incidental or treated as opaque (black-box) tools.
Construction management and project management case studies that are limited to surveys or bibliographic analysis and not systems analysis.
System analysis tools (e.g., ANN, fuzzy logic) where the focus is on an incremental improvement in the tool, or an application using opaque tools.
Modelling when the purpose is to solve a narrow specialist problem.
Case studies that do not give rise to generalized knowledge.
Once your paper has been assessed for suitability by the editor, it will then be peer-reviewed by independent, anonymous expert referees. You can find out more information on our Instructions for Authors site.
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Journal metrics
Usage
33K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
1.7 (2023) Impact Factor
2.0 (2023) 5 year IF
3.3 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
0.872 (2023) SNIP
0.357 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
2 days avg. from submission to first
decision
4% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors
who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication.
However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s
quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it
should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to
support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside
other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its
readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In
addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and
never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year
and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six
months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated
annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of
the following metrics
(find out why).
Usage:
the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users
of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the
nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles published in the
journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science
Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI),
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources
Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
Impact Factor Best Quartile*:
the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation
Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
5 Year Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal
within a five-year window.
CiteScore (Scopus)†:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over
a four-year period.
CiteScore Best Quartile†:
the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1
= 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
SNIP
(Source Normalized Impact per Paper):
the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation
potential in the field.
SJR
(Scimago Journal Rank):
Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the
number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
From submission to first decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a
first decision in the last six months.
From submission to first post-review decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review.
Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last
six months.
From acceptance to online publication:
the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to
online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published
in the last six months.
Acceptance rate:
articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous
calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
Professor Mark Milke Civil and Natural Resources Engineering University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800 Christchurch 8140 New Zealand Email: [email protected]
Associate Editors
Professor Priyan Dias Department of Civil Engineering University of Moratuwa Katubedda Moratuwa Sri Lanka Email: [email protected]
Professor Marc A. Maes Department of Civil Engineering University of Calgary 2500 University Drive Calgary,T2N 1N4 Canada Email: [email protected]
Professor Tonatiuh Rodriguez-Nikl Department of Civil Engineering, California State University, Los Angeles Los Angeles, US Email: [email protected]
Past Editors
Professor Ian Munro (1983-1985) Professor Colin B. Brown (1983-2003) Professor Mark Houck (2004-2007) Professor Paul W. Jowitt (1985-2022)
International Editorial Board
Dr Jitendra Agarwal Department of Civil Engineering University of Bristol Bristol BS8 1TH Email: [email protected]
Professor D. I. Blockley Department of Civil Engineering University of Bristol Bristol BS8 1TH UK Email: [email protected]
Professor D. G. Carmichael School of Civil Engineering University of New South Wales PO Box 1 Kensington New South Wales 2033 Australia Email: [email protected]
Professor D. G. Elms Civil and Natural Resources Engineering University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800 Christchurch 8140 New Zealand Email: [email protected]
Professor Ian Goulter Charles Sturt University The Grange Bathurst NSW 2795 Australia Email: [email protected]
Professor Jim Hall University of Oxford Environmental Change Institute South Parks Road Oxford OX1 3QY UK Email: [email protected]
Dr Mashor Housh University of Haifa Mount Carmel Haifa Israel 3498838 Email: [email protected]
Dr Alan Jessop University of Durham Business School Mill Hill Lane Durham DH1 3LB UK Email: [email protected]
Professor Paul W. Jowitt Intitute of Infrastructure and Environment, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton, Edinburgh EH14 4AS UK Email: [email protected]
Professor Jochen Köhler The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Høgskoleringen 1, Trondheim NO-7491 Norway Email: [email protected]
Professor Jay Lund Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California Davis CA 95616 USA Email: [email protected]
Dr Kristen MacAskill University of Cambridge Engineering Department Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1PZ UK Email: [email protected]
Dr Mary Moloney Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Cork Institute of Technology Cork Ireland T12 P928 Email: [email protected]
Dr Erik Porse Institute of the Environment and Sustainability University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles CA 90095 USA Email: [email protected]
Professor Mauricio Sánchez Silva School of Engineering Universidad de Los Andes Colombia Email: [email protected]
Professor Mark Stewart School of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Technology Sydney Ultimo, NSW, 2007 Australia Email: [email protected]
Dr Tiku Tanyimboh University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg Private Bag 3, WITS 2050 South Africa Email: [email protected]
Dr Guy Walker Institute of Infrastructure and Environment Heriot-Watt University Riccarton, Edinburgh, EH14 Scotland Email: [email protected]
Professor Jennifer Whyte University of Sydney Faculty of Engineering John Grill Institute for Project Leadership Caperdown NSW 2006 Australia Email: [email protected]
Abstracting and indexing
Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems is abstracted and indexed in: ARCOM Construction Management Abstracts; Cambridge Scientific Abstracts; Construction and Building Abstracts; EBSCO Databases; Electronic Collections Online; Emerald International Civil Engineering Abstracts; GEOBASE; ISI Current Contents® - Engineering, Computing & Technology; ISI Science Citation Index ExpandedÔ; New Jour; OCLC ArticleFirst, Scopus and Zetoc.
Open access
Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
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Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
If you choose to publish open access in this journal you may be asked to pay an Article Publishing Charge (APC). You may be able to publish your article at no cost to yourself or with a reduced APC if your institution or research funder has an open access agreement or membership with Taylor & Francis.
Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems
(1998 - current)
Formerly known as
Civil Engineering Systems
(1983 - 1997)
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