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Building and Environment

Building and Environment is a semimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal which focuses on building science, human interaction with built environment, as well as their applications to building design and operation. It was established in 1965 as Building Science, changing to the current name in 1976. It is published by Elsevier and the editors-in-chief are Chao-Hsin Lin (Boeing) and Xudong Yang. Qingyan Chen was editor-in-chief 2006-2024.

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Building and Environment
LanguageEnglish
Edited byChao-Hsin Lin, Xudong Yang
Publication details
Former name
Building Science
History1965–present
Publisher
FrequencySemimonthly
Hybrid
7.1 (2023)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt)
NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt Paid subscription required)
ISO 4Build. Environ.
Indexing
CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt)
MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN0360-1323 (print)
1873-684X (web)
LCCN78649044
OCLC no.38871233
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Building and Environment is a semimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal which focuses on building science, human interaction with built environment, as well as their applications to building design and operation.1 It was established in 1965 as Building Science, changing to the current name in 1976. It is published by Elsevier and the editors-in-chief are Chao-Hsin Lin (Boeing) and Xudong Yang (Tsinghua University). Qingyan Chen was editor-in-chief 2006-2024.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 7.1.6

References

References

  1. Yang, Xudong (2023-04-15). "Letter from the editor". Building and Environment. 234 110116. doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2023.110116.
  2. "Web of Science Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Clarivate. Retrieved 2025-02-05.
  3. "Building and Environment". MIAR: Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals. University of Barcelona. Retrieved 2025-02-04.
  4. "Content/Database Overview - GEOBASE Source List". Engineering Village. Elsevier. Retrieved 2025-02-05.
  5. "Source details: Building and Environment". Scopus Preview. Elsevier. Retrieved 2025-02-05.
  6. "Building and Environment". 2023 Journal Citation Reports (Science ed.). Clarivate. 2024 – via Web of Science.
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