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Indoor and Built Environment
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Indoor and Built Environment

1420-326X

Published by: SAGE

https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ibe

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Engineering and Technology 478 40 54 17
Environmental Sciences 698 13 13 5

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 90
Documents by Best Scientists*: 101
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 2
SCIMAGO H-index: 61
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.658
Impact Factor: 2.9

Overview

Top Research Topics at Indoor and Built Environment?

The aim of the journal is to expand the discussion of research in Environmental engineering, Indoor air quality, Ventilation (architecture), Architectural engineering and Environmental health. The studies in Environmental engineering featured incorporate elements of Particulates and Radon. Some problems in Indoor air quality that were presented in the journal overlapped with concepts under Waste management, Pollutant and Air quality index.

Indoor and Built Environment explores research in Ventilation (architecture) and the adjacent study of Airflow. Many of the studies tackled connect Airflow with a similar field of study like Computational fluid dynamics. The Computational fluid dynamics study featured falls within the wider field of Mechanics.

Discussions in Indoor and Built Environment are anchored in the subject of Architectural engineering and the similar topic of Thermal comfort. Thermal comfort study tackled is connected to the field of Thermal.

  • Environmental engineering (15.62%)
  • Indoor air quality (14.95%)
  • Ventilation (architecture) (11.23%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • The Airborne Transmission of Infection in Hospital Buildings: Fact or Fiction? (183 citations)
  • Dust Storms in the Middle East: Sources of Origin and Their Temporal Characteristics (177 citations)
  • Rethinking the measurement of energy poverty in Europe: A critical analysis of indicators and data. (143 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Indoor and Built Environment:

The published papers generally zeroe in on subjects such as Indoor air quality, Environmental engineering, Ventilation (architecture), Architectural engineering and Thermal comfort. While the most cited articles focused on Indoor air quality, they were also able to explore topics like Waste management, Energy recovery ventilation, Pollutant, Environmental health and Environmental chemistry. The most cited publications address concerns in Environmental engineering which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Particulates and Radon.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • World War II
  • Internal medicine
  • Law

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal primarily focuses on research topics in Thermal comfort, Architectural engineering, Thermal, Environmental engineering and Ventilation (architecture). Thermal comfort research featured in it incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Mechanical engineering, Automotive engineering and China. Indoor and Built Environment dives deep in exploring the relationship between the study of Architectural engineering and Efficient energy use.

Indoor air quality is a major topic of Environmental engineering research.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Development trend and challenges of sustainable urban design in the digital age (12 citations)
  • Quantitative investigations on setting parameters of air conditioning (air-supply speed and temperature) in ventilated cooling rooms: (8 citations)
  • Review of the effects of plants on indoor environments (7 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Indoor and Built Environment (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Chuck Wah Yu (99 papers) published 15 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Jeong Tai Kim (82 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • John A. Hoskins (51 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • John H. Lange (26 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ling Tim Wong (20 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Indoor and Built Environment (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Hong Kong Polytechnic University (101 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Kyung Hee University (93 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Tsinghua University (59 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • Xi'an Jiaotong University (45 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 7 less than at the previous edition,
  • Yonsei University (35 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 3.14% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 20.13% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 11.69% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 8.44% of all publications and 59.74% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Predictive and retrospective modelling of airborne infection risk using monitored carbon dioxide

    Henry C. Burridge;Shiwei Fan;Roderic L. Jones;Catherine J. Noakes

    (2021)
    54 Citations
  • COVID-19 pandemic and sick building syndrome

    (2020)
    52 Citations
  • A comparison of the thermal comfort performances of a radiation floor cooling system when combined with a range of ventilation systems

    Jiying Liu;Zhuangzhuang Li;Moon Keun Kim;Shengwei Zhu

    (2020)
    39 Citations
  • Mixing ventilation driven by two oppositely located supply jets with a time-periodic supply velocity: A numerical analysis using computational fluid dynamics

    T. van Hooff;B. Blocken

    (2020)
    34 Citations
  • Implementation of demand-oriented ventilation with adjustable fan network:

    Huan Wang;Guijin Wang;Xianting Li

    (2020)
    33 Citations
  • Seasonal variations and the influence of ventilation rates on IAQ: A case study of five low-energy London apartments:

    Samuel Stamp;Esfand Burman;Clive Shrubsole;Lia Chatzidiakou

    (2021)
    28 Citations
  • Evaluation of common indoor air pollutant reduction by a botanical indoor air biofilter system

    Izdihar Zahirah Ibrahim;Wen Tong Chong;Sumiani Yusoff;Chin-Tsan Wang

    (2021)
    27 Citations
  • Multiple airflow patterns in human microenvironment and the influence on short-distance airborne cross-infection – A review

    Peter V Nielsen;Chunwen Xu

    (2021)
    25 Citations
  • Machine learning algorithms for predicting occupants' behaviour in the manual control of windows for cross-ventilation in homes:

    Junseok Park;Bongchan Jeong;Young Tae Chae;Jae Weon Jeong

    (2021)
    24 Citations
  • Systematic summary and analysis of Chinese HVAC guidelines coping with COVID-19

    (2022)
    24 Citations

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