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STBE
See the table of contents for the latest issue, Volume 30, Issue 8 (September 2024), here.

STBE is ASHRAE’s archival research publication offering comprehensive reporting of original research in science and technology related to the stationary and mobile built environment, including indoor environmental quality, thermodynamic and energy system dynamics, materials properties, refrigerants, renewable and traditional energy systems and related processes and concepts, integrated built environmental system design approaches and tools, simulation approaches and algorithms, building enclosure assemblies, and systems for minimizing and regulating space heating and cooling modes. The journal also features review articles that critically assess existing literature and point out future research directions.

Science and Technology for the Built Environment accepts for publication only works reporting on research that is original and of lasting value. This journal is published by Taylor & Francis Group on behalf of ASHRAE and included in the Web of Science® and Current Contents Connect®  databases. Science and Technology for the Built Environment is available online and as a printed volume.

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  • Subjects

    Subjects covered by this journal:

    • Building and Construction
    • Built Environment
    • Control Engineering
    • Engineering & Technology
    • Fluid Mechanics
    • Heat Transfer
    • Heating Ventilation & Air Conditioning
    • Mechanical Engineering
    • Power & Energy
    • Systems & Control Engineering
    • Thermodynamics

    Citation and Abstract Services

  • Impact Factors & Rankings

    2023 Impact Factor: 1.7
    2023 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.9

    Ranking: 51/91 in Construction & Building Technology; 45/76 in Thermodynamics; 106/180 in Engineering, Mechanical 
    Journal Citation Reports® Clarivate Analytics, 2024

    CiteScore (Scopus): 4.3 (2023)
    Rank: 37/96 in Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, 89/197 in Environmental Engineering, 74/223 in Building and Construction
    Highest percentile: 67%—Building and Construction

    Google Scholar h5-index: 27 (2019-2023)
    Google Scholar h5-median: 38 (2019-2023)

    About Journal Citation Reports
    Web of Science™ is the world's leading citation index with multidisciplinary content from over 12,000 of the top-tier international and regional journals. The editorial staff at Clarivate Analytics reviews over 2500 journals each year. Of these, only about 10% to 12% of the most influential in the fields of science, social sciences, and arts and humanities are selected for indexing in the Web of Science. More than 11,000 of those elite publications are indexed in Journal Citation Reports. Factors considered during the evaluation and selection process include the journal's publishing standards, its editorial content, and citation data from Web of Science.

  • Editors & Policy Committee

    Editor-in-Chief

    Jeffrey D. Spitler, PhD, PE
    Regents Professor and OG&E Energy Technology Chair
    School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
    Oklahoma State University
    201 General Academic Building
    Stillwater, OK  74078-0001
    E-mail: spitler@okstate.edu


    Associate Editors

    • Jie Cai, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
    • Kristen Cetin, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
    • Richard de Dear, PhD, Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
    • Brian Fronk, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
    • Saqib Javed, PhD, Researcher, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Anchorage, Alaska, USA
    • Yong Chan Kim, PhD, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea
    • Clayton Miller, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of the Built Environment, National University of Singapore, Singapore
    • William O'Brien, PhD, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
    • Zheng O'Neill, PhD, J. Mike Walker '66 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA
    • Rajan Rawal, PhD, Building Energy Performance, Faculty of Technology, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India
    • Jørn Toftum, PhD, Associate Professor, International Centre for Indoor Environment and Energy, Department of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
    • Shengwei Wang, PhD, Chair Professor, Department of Building Services Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong
    • Bin Yang, PhD, Professor, School of Energy and Safety Engineering, Tianjin Chengjian University, Tianjin, China
    • John Zhai, PhD, Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado-Boulder. CO, USA
    • Jianshun "Jensen" Zhang, PhD, Professor and Director, Building Energy & Environmental Systems Laboratory (BEESL), Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA
    • Claudio Zilio, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Management and Engineering, University of Padova, Italy

    Reviewer Board

    • Ahmad Abbas, GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi, KPK, Pakistan
    • Philip R. Agee, PhD, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
    • Vikrant C. Aute, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
    • Christian K. Bach, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA
    • Mariya P. Bivolarova, International Centre for Indoor Environment and Energy, Department of Environment, Technical University of Denmark
    • Craig R. Bradshaw, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA
    • Jayson Bursill, Delta Controls Inc., Canada
    • Jie Cai, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA
    • Shanshan Cai, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China
    • Bin Cao, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
    • Yimin Chen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
    • Massimo Cimmino, Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
    • Moshood O. Fadeyi, Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore
    • Cheng Fan, College of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Shenzhen University, China
    • Victor Fransson, Division of Building Services, Department of Building- and Environmental Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Lund University, Sweden
    • Yangyang Fu, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA
    • Wenjie Gang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
    • Zhi Gao, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
    • Hua Ge, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
    • Sara Gilani, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    • Burak Gunay, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    • Akram Abdul Hamid, Division of Building Physics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
    • Maomao Hu, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    • Ongun Berk Kazanci, International Centre for Indoor Environment and Energy, Department of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
    • Jae-Weon Jeong, Professor of Department of Architectural Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
    • Michael G. Kent, Berkeley Education Alliance for Research in Singapore, Singapore
    • Meng Kong, Well Living Lab, Rochester, MN, USA
    • Hoseong Lee, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
    • Hangxin Li, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR
    • Fang Liu, Shandong Jianzhu University, Jinan, Shangdong, China
    • Xiaobing Liu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
    • Matt S. Mitchell, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, USA
    • Mohamed Ouf, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
    • Jingjing Pei, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
    • Long T. Phan, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA
    • Mohammad Reza Safaei, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
    • Omer Sarfraz, Johnson Controls, York, Pa, USA
    • Jialei Shen, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA
    • Andrew Sommers, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA
    • Rui Tang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
    • Despoina Teli, Division of Building Services Engineering, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden
    • Marianne F. Touchie, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Adam Wills, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    • Dr. Xin Zhang, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

    Managing Editor

    Randie Potts
    School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
    Oklahoma State University
    201 General Academic Building
    Stillwater, OK 74078-0001
    E-mail: randie.potts@okstate.edu


    Policy Committee

    • Blake Ellis, PE, Fellow ASHRAE, Chair
    • Timothy C. Dwyer, CEng, Fellow ASHRAE
    • Carey J. Simonson, PhD, Fellow ASHRAE
    • Jeffrey D. Spitler, PhD, Fellow ASHRAE
    • Mark Owen, Member ASHRAE
  • Manuscript
    Submissions

    For information on submitting to Science and Technology for the Built Environment, click here.

    Research prepared in connection with an ASHRAE research project that is submitted to and published in STBE may be selected for Open Access.

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