Civil Engineering & Construction Management
This guide will assist you in locating and effectively using print and electronic resources relating to Civil Engineering and Construction.
Search engines for scholarly articles in journals
- ASCE Library (American Society of Civil Engineers) This link opens in a new windowArticles, civil engineering (more...).
- Engineering Source This link opens in a new windowArticles, some peer-reviewed, engineering, computer science (more...).
- Engineering Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowarticles, citations, abstracts, various topics (more...).
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowScholarly articles, conference papers and proceedings; configure Library Links for off-campus access to library collections (more...).
Sources of Journal Rankings
- Scimago (Scopus/Elsevier)Note: GS Libraries do not subscribe to Scopus but data are available through Scimago which is publicly available on the Web,
- Journal Citation Reports (JCR/Clarivate)If you are off-campus, you will need to log in with your Georgia Southern credentials.
Did You Know?
The top 3 journals (ranked by journal impact factor)* in Civil Engineering in the JCR Year 2020 were:
- Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering (11.775)
- Automation in Construction (7.770)
- Transportation Research, pt. E:Logstics and Transportation Review (6.875)
The top 3 journals (ranked by journal impact factor)* in Construction and Building Technology in the JCR Year 2020 were
- Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering (11.775)
- Cement and Concrete Research (10.933)
- Automation and Construction (
You can get more information on these and other titles in the Journal Citation Reports database. Also, explore the resources on the Articles tab in this guide.
Note: if you are off-campus, you will be prompted for your MyGeorgiaSouthern ID and password.
* The number of current citations to articles published in a specific journal in a two year period divided by the total number of articles published in the same journal in the corresponding two year period.