About this journal
Aims and scope
HBRC Journal publishes open access research on building materials, material science and architecture, housing and urban development.
HBRC Journal is the official journal of the Housing and Building National Research Center (HBRC).
HBRC Journal aims to publish high-quality original research internationally and accepts research on the following topics:
- Environmental engineering and building physics
- Structural engineering
- Geotechnical engineering
- Construction engineering and management
- Nanotechnology
- Engineering Materials
- Materials Science
- Architecture, Housing and Urban Development
HBRC Journal publishes original articles. The journal operates a double anonymized peer review policy.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 135K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 2.0 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.650 (2023) SNIP
- 0.272 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 16 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 46 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 14 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 58% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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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.
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Journal metrics in brief
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.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Professor Mohamed Masood - Chairman of The Housing and Building National Research Center (HBRC), Egypt
Editor in Chief
Professor Hanan Abdelaziz Fahmy ElNouhy, Building Materials and Quality Control Research Institute, HBRC, Egypt
Deputy Editors-in-Chief
Professor Tarek Mohamed El-Sokkary, Raw Materials and Technological Processing Research Institute, HBRC, Egypt
Professor Ibrahim M. El-Demery, Professor at the Architecture and Housing Research Institute, HBRC, Egypt
Editorial Office
[email protected] & [email protected]
Editorial Board
Dr. Farzaneh Hadafi, Architecture, Islamic Azad University, Iran
Dr. MD Tareq Rahman, Civil Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Dr. Nicola Tarque, Structural Engineering and Engineering Seismology, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (PUCP), Peru
Dr. Zaid Alwan, Architecture, Northumbria University, UK
Dr. Amin Kamal Akhnoukh, Construction Management Department, East Carolina University, USA
Dr. Arif Kamal, Architecture, Aligarh Muslim University, India
Dr. Ahmed Omran, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Dr. Hamdy Mohamed, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
Dr. Khalid Elzahaby, Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering Research Institute, HBRC, Egypt
Dr. Abdulla Galaa, Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering Research Institute, HBRC, Egypt
Dr. Mohamed Ayman Ismael, Structure and Metallic Construction Research Institute, HBRC, Egypt
Dr. Ghada Mahdy, Structure and Metallic Construction Research Institute, HBRC, Egypt
Dr. Sherif El-Zeiny, Concrete Construction Research Institute, HBRC, Egypt
Dr. Hany Serag Eldin, Architecture and housing research institute, HBRC, Egypt
Dr. Ibrahim Eldemery, Architecture and housing research institute, HBRC, Egypt
Dr.Tarek Elsokkary, Raw Materials and Technological Processing Research Institute, HBRC, Egypt
Dr. Sahar Hassan Elshahat, Construction Engineering and Construction Management Research Institute, HBRC, Egypt
Dr. Mohammad Morsy, Building Physics and Environment Research institute, HBRC, Egypt
Dr. Omaima Salah Eldeen, Building Materials and Quality Control Research Institute, HBRC, Egypt
Dr. Tarek Bahaa, Building Materials and Quality Control Research Institute, HBRC, Egypt
Dr. Ghada Diaa, Building Materials and Quality Control Research Institute, HBRC, Egypt
Dr. Hanan ElNouhy, Building Materials and Quality Control Research Institute, HBRC, Egypt
Dr. Ashish Kumar Nayak, PVPSIT: Prasad V Potluri Siddhartha Institute of Technology, India
Dr. Fidilis Emuze, Build Environment, Central University of Technology, Free State, South Africa
Dr. Xue Weichen, Building Engineering, University of Tongji, Shangai, China
Dr. Wibke de Villiers, Unit for Construction Materials, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Dr. Tahenni Touhami, Djilali Bounaama University, Algeria
Dr. Samir El Omari, University of Wisconsin, USA
Abstracting and indexing
HBRC Journal is indexed/tracked/covered by:
Directory of Open Access Journals - DOAJ
DTU Findit
EI Compendex
E-lib Breman
EZB - Electronic Journals Library
Google Scholar
Journal TOC
Microsoft Academic
NHN - Naver Academic Zetoc
Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL)
Portico
Publons
Scopus
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
WorldCat Local (OCLC)
Open access
HBRC Journal is an open access journal and only publishes open access articles. 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.
Why choose open access?
- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- 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)
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Continuous publication
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