Aims and scope Construction Management and Economics publishes high-quality original research concerning the management and economics of activity in the construction industry. Our concern is the production of the built environment. We seek to extend the concept of construction beyond on-site production to include a wide range of value-adding activities and involving coalitions of multiple actors, including clients and users, that evolve over time. We embrace the entire range of construction services provided by the architecture/engineering/construction sector, including design, procurement and through-life management. We welcome papers that demonstrate how the range of diverse academic and professional disciplines enable robust and novel theoretical, methodological and/or empirical insights into the world of construction. Ultimately, our aim is to inform and advance academic debates in the various disciplines that converge on the construction sector as a topic of research. While we expect papers to have strong theoretical positioning, we also seek contributions that offer critical, reflexive accounts on practice.
Construction Management & Economics now publishes the following article types:
Research Papers
Notes - offering a comment on a previously published paper or report a new idea, empirical finding or approach.
Book Reviews
Letters - terse, scholarly comments on any aspect of interest to our readership.
Commentaries
Obituaries - welcome in relation to significant figures in our field.
All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, will enter peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double anonymized and submission is online via ScholarOne Manuscripts
Journal metrics
Usage
398K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
3.0 (2023) Impact Factor
Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
3.8 (2023) 5 year IF
7.5 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
1.649 (2023) SNIP
0.874 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
1 days avg. from submission to first
decision
83 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
17 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
13% acceptance rate
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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.
Associate Professor Florence Phua School of Construction Management and Engineering University of Reading United Kingdom
Professor Pablo Ballesteros-Perez Departamento de Proyectos de Ingeniería Universitat Politècnica de València Spain
Associate Editors:
Professor Carrie Sturts Dossick Department of Construction Management University of Washington College of Built Environments, 120 Architecture Hall, Box 351610Seattle, WA 98195 USA
Professor Islam El-adaway Professor Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Missouri University of Science and Technology Rolla MO 65409, USA
Dr Andreas Hartmann Faculty of Engineering Technology University of Twente Horst Complex Z229, P.O. Box 217 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
Professor Christine Räisänen Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering Chalmers University of Technology Construction Management, SE-412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden
Professor Paul W. Chan Faculty of Architecture and The Built Environment Delft University of Technology Julianalaan 134 - 2628 BL Delft The Netherlands
Professor Andy Dainty
Manchester Metropolitan University All Saints Building Manchester M15 6BH, UK
Professor Will Hughes School of Construction Management & Engineering University of Reading PO Box 219, Whiteknights Reading, RG6 6AW, UK
Dr Roine Leiringer
Department of Real Estate and Construction The University of Hong Kong Pokfulam Hong Kong
Editorial Board:
Professor David Arditi - Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Dr Luiz Brandao - PUC -Rio, Brazil Professor Jan Bröchner - Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Professor André Dorée - University of Twente, The Netherlands Professor Per-Erik Eriksson - Luleå University of Technology, Sweden Professor Richard Fellows - Professor of Construction Business Management, Civil and Building Engineering, Loughborough, UK Professor Pernilla Gluch - Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Dr Stefan Gottlieb - Aalborg University, Denmark Professor Tina Karrbom Gustavsson - KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Professor Carl Haas - University of Waterloo, Canada Professor Makarand Hastak - Purdue University, USA Professor Amy Javernick-Will - University of Colorado Boulder, USA Professor Christian Koch - Aarhus University, Denmark Professor Lauri Koskela - University of Huddersfield, UK Professor Helen Lingard - RMIT University, Australia Professor Giorgio Locatelli - Politecnico di Milano, Italy Professor Martin Loosemore - UNSW, Australia Professor Ashwin Mahalingam - Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Professor George Ofori - London Southbank University, UK Professor Miroslaw J. Skibniewski - University of Maryland, USA Professor Martin Skitmore - Queensland University of Technology, Australia Dr Simon Smith - University of Edinburgh, UK Professor Lucio Soibelman - University of Southern California, USA Professor Martin Tuuli - GIMPA Business School, Ghana Professor Leentje Volker - University of Twente, The Netherlands Dr Bo Xia - Queensland University of Technology, Australia Professor Shuibo Zhang - Tianjin University, China
Abstracting and indexing
Construction Management and Economics is abstracted and indexed in:
ABI/Inform; Architectural Publications Index; Construction and Building Abstracts (CBA); Construction Information Quarterly (Formerly Construction Information Digest); CSA (Advanced Polymers Abstracts, Aluminium Industry Abstracts, ARCOM:Construction Management Abstracts and Indexes,Ceramic Abstracts, Civil Engineering Abstracts,Composites Industry Abstracts, Computer and Information Systems Abstracts, Copper Data Center Database, Corrosion Abstracts,Earthquake Engineering Abstracts,Electronics and Communications Abstracts, Emerging Sources Citation Index, Engineered Materials Abstracts, Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management International Aerospace Abstracts, International Civil Engineering Abstracts, Mechanical & Transportation Engineering Abstracts,Metadex, Risk Abstracts, Solid State and Superconductivity Abstracts, Urban Studies Abstracts); EBSCO (Business Source Corporate, Business Source Elite, Business Source Premier, Corporate Resource Net, TOC Premier); Ei Page One; Elsevier GEOAbstracts; Emerald Abstracts (International Civil Engineering Abstracts); Gale Responsive Databases Inc (Business and Management Practices, Business and Industry); IBZ; Materials Business File; OCLC ArticleFirst Database and OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Collections Database; Scopus; Swets Information Services and Zetoc.
Open access
Construction Management and Economics 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.
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)
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.
CIB - International Council For Research And Innovation In Building And Construction
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