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.^[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).

Building and Environment

Language	English
Edited by	Chao-Hsin Lin, Xudong Yang
Publication details
Former name(s)	Building Science
History	1965–present
Publisher	Elsevier
Frequency	Semimonthly
Open access	Hybrid
Impact factor	7.1 (2023)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Build. Environ.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0360-1323 (print) 1873-684X (web)
LCCN	78649044
OCLC no.	38871233
Links
Journal homepage Online archive

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Current Contents/Engineering, Computing & Technology^[2]
• EBSCO databases^[3]
• GEOBASE^[4]
• Science Citation Index Expanded^[2]
• Scopus^[5]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 7.1.^[6]