The Journal Center of the College of Civil Engineering was founded in 2022 in celebration of the 115th anniversary of Tongji University. The center is home to 9 peer-reviewed English journals and 3 peer-reviewed Chinese journals spanning a broad field of civil engineering. Across the center’s journals, 3 English journals are newly launched to promote cutting-edge research devoted to building intelligent, resilient, and low-carbon infrastructure and cities.
The journal center advances the college’s objective of excellence in research and education through a journals program. It is committed to coordinating a clustery growth of high-quality journals that disseminate high-impact outcomes of scientific and technological research in the discipline of civil engineering. It also serves as an international platform that supports high-level conferences and workshops and connects Tongji’s best researchers with worldwide collaborators from the academy and industry.













Engineering
The Civil, Hydraulic, and Architectural Engineering Section:
Section Editor-in-Chief: Jianguo Nie
Section Executive Editor-in-Chief: Junzhi Cui.
Engineering, supported by the Chinese Academy of Engineering, is a comprehensive open access journal aiming at exploring critical issues and major problems to gain foresight into the future development in Engineering Science and Technology (EST). The scope of the Civil, Hydraulic, and Architectural Engineering Section of the journal includes hydrology, water resources, hydraulic structure, and ocean engineering; municipal engineering and water environment management; architecture, urban planning, landscape architecture and ecological protection; surveying, mapping, and geographic information and their applications; structural engineering and mechanics, bridge engineering, earthquake and disaster mitigation & prevention; civil engineering materials. pavement, tunnel, geotechnical, and underground engineering. The journal provides a high-level platform for academic achievements of great importance to accelerate the development of EST, better benefit humankind, and create a bright future.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/engineering
http://www.engineering.org.cn/en/journal/eng
ISSN 2095-8099 (Print) ISSN 2096-0026 (Electronic)
CN 10-1244/N

ENGINEERING Structure and Civil Engineering
Editors-in-Chief: Junzhi Cui, Jianguo Nie, Surendra P. Shah
ENGINEERING Structure and Civil Engineering (ESCE) (formerly known as Frontiers of Structural and Civil Engineering (FSCE)) is an international comprehensive journal of civil engineering. It provides researchers and practitioners in structural and civil engineering with a unique forum for disseminating new ideas and techniques with significant potential impact,particularly at the cutting-edge intersections between civil engineering and emerging fields such as “O4” (i.e., information science, nanotechnology, bio/ecological technology, and social sciences). The journal strives to capture and archive in a timely manner and in one venue significant advancements of a broad field that encompasses, but is not limited to, Structural Engineering, Bridge Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Hydraulic and Coastal Engineering, Geotechnical, and Underground Engineering, as well as the supporting fundamental disciplines such as Mechanics and Material Science. The purpose of the journal is to advance the frontiers of the field by encouraging cross-disciplinary research and innovative applications in major engineering projects.
https://www.springer.com/journal/11709
https://journal.hep.com.cn/fsce/

ISSN 3091-5031 (Print) ISSN 3091-504X (Online)
CN 10-2071/X

Underground Space
Editors-in-Chief: Hehua Zhu, Antonio Bobet, Teruo Nakai
Underground Space is an open access journal without article processing charges (APC), which is committed to serving as a scientific forum for researchers and practitioners in the field of underground engineering. The journal welcomes manuscripts that deal with original theories, methods, technologies, and important applications throughout the life-cycle of underground projects, including planning, design, operation and maintenance, disaster prevention, and demolition. Since established in 2016, Underground Space has been indexed by major databases including SCIE, EI, SCOPUS, INSPEC, and ProQuest. Its latest JCR impact factor (lF) is 8.3 (Q1), making it listed among the top 3% out of 184 journals in the Engineering, Civil category of the Web of Science database.
https://www.keaipublishing.com/UNDSP
ISSN 2096-2754 (Print) ISSN 2467-9674 (Electronic)
CN 31-2130/TU

AI in Civil Engineering
Editor-in-Chief: Xianzhong Zhao
AI in Civil Engineering (AICE) is an international journal for publishing original research papers, reviews, comments, and perspectives on AI applications in civil engineering. The scope of the journal includes the basic research and engineering applications of advanced AI technologies, such as machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, natural language processing, enhanced display, and big data, blockchain, cloud computing and Internet of things, in all different domains of civil engineering, including structural engineering, geotechnical engineering, bridge engineering, infrastructure, construction engineering, disaster mitigation, etc. The AICE journal is dedicated to advance the frontiers of AI-enabled knowledge discovery and technology innovation in civil engineering. It is an Open Access publication and an article-processing charge (APC) is levied on articles that are accepted for publication by the Editors. The APC for this journal is covered by Tongji University. The journal was indexed in Scopus (July 2025) and later in EI Compendex (September 2025).
https://www.springer.com/journal/43503
ISSN 2097-0943 (Print) ISSN 2730-5392 (Electronic)
CN 31-2183/TU

Resilient Cities and Structures
Editors-in-Chief: Ying Zhou, Michel Bruneau, Gian Paolo Cimellaro
Resilient Cities and Structures is a premium international journal for publishing original research papers, reviews, comments, and perspectives to construct a resilient city in multiple levels and aspects. The journal is dedicated to providing a forum and advancing the frontiers of the continuously increasing research work worldwide on reducing disasters' enormous adverse impacts on cities' normal operation. The scope of the journal includes fundamental research, innovative technologies and engineering applications in resilient cities, infrastructure, structures and resilience-based management. Specific interests are given to research and ideas related to the system's resilience to resist disasters, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, fire, floods and hurricanes.
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/resilient-cities-and-structures
ISSN 2772-7416 (Electronic)

Low-carbon Materials and Green Construction
Editors-in-Chief: Xuwen Xiao, Surendra P. Shah
Executive Editor-in-Chief: Jianzhuang Xiao
Low-carbon Materials and Green Construction (LMGC) is the first international academic journal in the field of civil engineering to integrate four related disciplines: materials, construction, environment, and energy. The journal is co-edited by Academician Xuwen Xiao of Tongji University/China State Construction Engineering Corporation and Academician Surendra P. Shah of the United States.Professor Jianzhuang Xiao of Tongji University/Guangxi University, a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and the Humboldt Research Award, serves as Executive Editor-in-Chief. LMGC was founded against the backdrop of major national strategies, including China’s “dual carbon” goals, the Belt and Road Initiative, and the China-ASEAN Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. Focusing on low carbon materials and green construction in civil engineering, the journal highlights material performance, structural performance, and the safety-low carbon collaborative design of coupled structure-environment systems, as well as related carbon-reduction and sustainability issues. It aims to lead the frontier development of low carbon civil engineering. The journal was successfully selected as a high-starting-point new journal under the 2022 China Science and Technology Journal Excellence Action Plan. On February 1st, 2023, its inaugural issue was launched on the online platform of Springer Nature, one of the world’s largest academic publishers. In April 2024, it was approved for the domestic unified publication number CN31-2203/TU. It was indexed by DOAJ in August 2024, by Ei Compendex in November 2024, by Scopus in March 2025, and by ESCI in October 2025.
https://www.springer.com/journal/44242
ISSN 2731-6319 (Electronic)
ISSN 2097-468X(Print)
CN 31-2203/TU

The Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings
Editor-in-Chief: Xilin Lu
The Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings provides structural engineers and contractors with advanced technologies of innovative structural design and construction practices for tall and special buildings. It also presents applied research on new materials or analysis methods that can directly benefit structural engineers involved in the design of tall and special buildings. The editor's policy is to maintain a reasonable balance between papers from design engineers and from research workers so that the journal will benefit to both groups.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15417808
ISSN 1541-7808 (Electronic)

Geoenvironmental Disasters
Editor-in-Chief: Fawu Wang
Geoenvironmental Disasters is an international open access journal with a focus on multi-disciplinary applied and fundamental research on the effects and impacts on infrastructure, society and the environment from disasters triggered by various types of geo-hazards (e.g. earthquakes, volcanic activity, landslides, tsunamis, intensive erosion and hydro-meteorological events). The journal publishes research papers, quick reports of recent geoenvironmental disasters, review papers, and technical reports of case studies. The major component of the journal is the case studies and quick reports of recent geoenvironmental disasters that help to advance the practical understanding of geoenvironmental disasters and to inform future research priorities.
https://geoenvironmental-disasters.springeropen.com/
ISSN 2197-8670 (Electronic)

Progress in Steel Building Structures
Editor-in-Chief: Guoqiang Li
Progress in Steel Building Structures is an academic journal on steel building Structures. It aims to the development of steel building structures in China by promoting related theoretical research, practical technology and new product development, and to strengthen academic exchanges at home and abroad, so as to facilitate the transformation of scientific research results into productive technologies. The journal is indexed in Chinese Science and Technology Paper and Citation Database (CSTPCD), Core Journals of Chinese Science Citation Database (CSCD), A Guide to the Core Journal of China (Peking University Library), Core Academic Journals of Research Center for Chinese Science Evaluation (A) (RCCSE), Architectural Society of China “High Quality Scientific and Technical Journals in the Field of Building Science Classification Catalogue Journal” T2 level, World Journals Clout Index (WJCI) Report of Scientific and Technological Periodicals, SCOPUS, DOAJ, EBSCO, CAS, JST, ICI Journals Master List, Research4Life, EuroPub.
ISSN 1673-9379 (Print)
CN 31-1893/TU
Structural Engineers
Editor-in-Chief: Huanjun Jiang
Structural Engineers is a bimonthly Chinese journal founded in 1985 and published domestically and abroad. It aims to publish high-quality papers and provide an excellent academic communication platform for researchers and engineers. The topics of the journal cover structural engineering, underground engineering, wind engineering, geotechnical engineering, bridge and tunnel engineering, disaster mitigation and protection engineering. The journal is included in the core library of the Chinese Science Citation Database.
ISSN 1005-0159 (Print)

Prestress Technology
Editor-in-Chief: Limin Sun
Prestress Technology, an international journal sponsored by Tongji University, is an open-access, peer-reviewed publication. It publishes original research in prestressing fields of the Civil Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, Energy Engineering. Prestress Technology publishes original research in prestressing fields of the Civil Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, Energy Engineering. The journal is devoted to the publication of high-quality papers on theoretical and practical aspects of prestress technology. Prestress Technology aims to become a window for scientific and technological exchanges and exhibitions of prestress technology and reports of scientific research achievements, explore the international publicity and exchange platform of complete technology from the perspective of new technologies, new materials, new structures and new products under the new situation, and devoted to create international influential professional academic journals. At present, the journal has been fully indexed by DOAJ, COAJ, SWIC Chinese Science and Technology Journals Database, Google scholar, Baidu Scholar and ResearchGate.
ISSN 2521-9480 (Print)
ISSN 2959-5177 (Electronic)

Architectural Intelligence Industrialization
Director of Editorial Board: Guoqiang Li
Editor in Chief: Feng Yuan
Architectural Intelligence Industrialization is published quarterly in Chinese. It was launched in 2018 as the first industry magazine with a focus on the latest theoretical development and technology application for industrialization, digitalization, and intelligentization in construction industry. The magazine aims to showcase the innovative development, promote communication between academy and industry, analyze development trends of construction industry, provide professional service to industry, and accelerate the transformation of China construction industry.

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