International Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground Engineering

International Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground Engineering is a bimonthly research journal from Springer, issued from Cham in Switzerland and devoted to geosynthetics, ground improvement and the ground engineering that surrounds them. Volume 1 opened in 2015, and the title now sits in the Engineering, Geological category of the Emerging Sources Citation Index with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 2.4.《国际土工合成材料与地基工程杂志》是 Springer 在瑞士 Cham 出版的双月刊，聚焦土工合成材料、地基处理及与之相关的岩土工程。第 1 卷于 2015 年问世，现列于新兴来源引证索引的工程地质类，2025 年期刊影响因子为 2.4。

Scope

• Fundamental and applied research on every aspect of geosynthetics and their applications forms the core of the stated remit, together with ground improvement methods that reinforce or densify soils and rock.刊物自述的范围涵盖土工合成材料各方面及其应用的基础与应用研究，也涵盖对土体与岩体进行加筋或压密的地基处理技术。

• Product families run from geotextiles, geogrids and geomembranes through geonets, geocells and geosynthetic clay liners to the factory-made composites that combine several of them.涉及的产品门类从土工布、土工格栅与土工膜，延伸到土工网、土工格室与膨润土防水毯，还包括把数种材料复合而成的工厂化制品。

• Separation, filtration, drainage, reinforcement, containment, protection and erosion control define the functions discussed, each handled as an engineering problem rather than a product label.讨论的功能包括隔离、过滤、排水、加筋、防渗、防护与防冲蚀，每一项都按工程问题处理，而不按产品标签分门别类。

• Ground improvement appears through compaction and densification, replacement and inclusion techniques, preloading with vertical drains, grouting, and the chemical or biological stabilisation of difficult soils.地基处理经由压实与压密、置换与加筋体技术、竖井排水联合预压、注浆，以及不良土体的化学与生物改良进入刊物。

• The scientific framing is explicitly geophysical, geochemical and geomechanical, so a paper is expected to explain why a solution works and not merely that it worked on one site.刊方明确以地球物理、地球化学与地质力学的原理为框架，要求论文解释方案为何有效，而不止于报告某处现场曾经奏效。

• Core civil engineering readership is served through geotechnical, geoenvironmental, environmental, transportation and hydraulic engineering, which the aims statement lists by name.核心读者来自岩土、地质环境、环境、交通与水利几类土木工程，征稿说明逐一列出这些方向。

• Ground-related sectors beyond civil engineering are admitted as well, among them mining engineering, agriculture, aquaculture and waste management.土木工程之外的涉土行业同样在列，包括采矿工程、农业、水产养殖与废物管理。

• Soil-geosynthetic interaction is a recurring subject, from direct shear and pullout testing to the interface parameters that design codes later adopt.土与土工合成材料的相互作用是反复出现的主题，从直剪与拉拔试验，一直做到设计规范随后采用的界面参数。

• Reinforced soil structures form a large block of the coverage, taking in walls, slopes, embankments, basal reinforcement and piled embankments.加筋土结构构成覆盖范围的一大板块，涵盖挡墙、边坡、路堤、基底加筋与桩承式路堤。

• Containment work appears through landfill liners and covers, waste containment facilities, and the migration of contaminants through barrier systems.防渗工程经由填埋场衬垫与覆盖层、废物封存设施，以及污染物在阻隔系统中的迁移进入选题。

• Hydraulic and coastal applications include canals, reservoirs, dams, dykes and the scour protection that keeps water-retaining structures standing.水工与海岸应用包括渠道、水库、坝体、堤防，以及维系挡水建筑物安全的防冲护底。

• Transport infrastructure supplies roads, railways, airfields, ballast and subgrade work, where geosynthetics are assessed against conventional granular layers.交通基础设施提供道路、铁路、机场、道砟与路基方面的选题，土工合成材料在其中与传统粒料层相互比较。

• Testing, instrumentation and numerical modelling sit alongside the applications, from laboratory apparatus and field monitoring to constitutive models and finite element or finite difference analysis.试验、监测与数值模拟同应用研究并列，从室内装置与现场监测，到本构模型与有限元或有限差分分析。

• Sustainability is written into the remit, covering the needs of developing economies, environmental sustainability, and contributions tied to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.可持续性写进了章程，含发展中经济体的需求、环境可持续性，以及与联合国可持续发展目标相衔接的研究。

• Readers are practising engineers who must pick a technique for a particular site, so papers that tie a mechanism to a design decision sit at the centre of the editorial interest.读者是须为具体场地选定技术的执业工程师，把机理与设计决策连起来的论文因此处在编辑关注的中心。

History

• The journal was launched by Springer, and volume 1 appeared in 2015 with four issues, a schedule that held for the first seven volumes.该刊由 Springer 创办，第 1 卷于 2015 年问世，全年四期，这一形制延续了前七个卷次。

• Volume numbering has since run one volume a year without interruption, so volume 12 carries the papers of 2026.此后每年一卷，卷号未曾中断，2026 年的论文编在第 12 卷。

• From volume 8 in 2022 the schedule widened to six issues a year, and every volume since has run from issue 1 through issue 6.自 2022 年第 8 卷起，刊期扩为每年六期，此后每卷都从第 1 期排到第 6 期。

• Print ISSN 2199-9260 and electronic ISSN 2199-9279 are the identifiers in use, and the pair has travelled with the title through its volumes.刊物现用的标识为印刷版 ISSN 2199-9260 与电子版 ISSN 2199-9279，两个号码随各卷沿用至今。

• Publication sits with Springer, recorded in Crossref under Springer-Verlag and carrying the Springer Nature Switzerland AG imprint of Cham.出版事务由 Springer 承担，Crossref 记为 Springer-Verlag，版权页署 Cham 的 Springer Nature Switzerland AG。

• No learned society owns the title, unlike several geotechnical journals that are run on behalf of national or international associations.该刊没有学会作为主办方，与若干由国家级或国际性协会代管的岩土期刊不同。

• Indexing runs through the Emerging Sources Citation Index of Clarivate, with Scopus, EI Compendex and INSPEC also on the publisher's list, while no MEDLINE or PubMed record exists for the title.收录渠道包括科睿唯安的新兴来源引证索引，Scopus、EI Compendex 与 INSPEC 也在出版方名单之上，该刊没有 MEDLINE 或 PubMed 记录。

• Journal Citation Reports values stand at 2.3 for 2023, 2.3 for 2024 and 2.4 for 2025, with a five-year impact factor of 2.8 in the latest release.期刊引证报告给出的数值是 2023 年 2.3，2024 年 2.3，2025 年 2.4，最新一版五年影响因子为 2.8。

• In the 2025 edition the journal ranks 37th among 68 titles in Engineering, Geological, which places it in Q3 with a JIF percentile of 46.3.2025 年版把它列在工程地质类 68 种刊的第 37 位，属 Q3 区，影响因子百分位为 46.3。

• Citation traffic reaches about 1,601 citations, the cited half-life is 4.6 years, and the Journal Citation Indicator stands at 0.55.累计被引约 1601 次，被引半衰期为 4.6 年，期刊引证指数为 0.55。

• Annual output has roughly doubled since the opening volume, and the Journal Citation Reports count 69 articles for 2025.年发文量较创刊卷大致翻倍，期刊引证报告为 2025 年计得 69 篇。

• Access is hybrid. Subscriptions still carry most reading, authors may pay for open access, and gold open access accounts for about a tenth of output.访问模式为混合型，订阅仍承担主要阅读量，作者可付费开放获取，金色开放获取约占产出的十分之一。

• Accepted papers appear online before they are assigned to an issue, since the platform runs continuous article publishing alongside the six numbered issues.录用论文先在线发布，之后再编入期次，平台在六个编号期次之外并行采用连续出版方式。

• Topical collections gather papers around a single theme, and the journal keeps them together on a Collections page beside the numbered issues.专题合集把同一主题的论文聚在一起，刊物将其与编号期次并列归入合集页面。

• The archive is digitised back to volume 1, so the 2015 papers remain readable on the platform beside the current issues.过刊已回溯数字化至第 1 卷，2015 年的论文与当年期次一样可在平台上调阅。

Editors

• Sanjay Kumar Shukla, professor at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia, is the editor-in-chief and the only holder of that title on the board page.主编为（Sanjay Kumar Shukla），任职于澳大利亚珀斯的埃迪斯科文大学（Edith Cowan University），编委页上仅他一人署此职。

• His own research sits in geotechnical engineering and geosynthetics, which keeps the commissioning of papers close to the journal's core readership.他本人的研究在岩土工程与土工合成材料一带，组稿因此贴近刊物的核心读者。

• Below the editor-in-chief the board page lists 45 members, all with doctorates, and no separate tier of associate editors is named.主编之下，编委页列出 45 位成员，均具博士学位，页面未另设副编辑层级。

• The membership spreads across 22 countries on five continents, from Finland and Norway to Brazil, South Africa and Vietnam.编委分布在五大洲的 22 个国家，从芬兰与挪威，一直到巴西、南非与越南。

• India, China and the United States each hold six seats, the largest groups on a list that also carries Australian and South African members in numbers.印度、中国与美国各占六席，是名单上最大的几组，澳大利亚与南非成员的数量也相当可观。

• Indian seats include IIT Madras in Chennai, IIT Dhanbad and the National Institute of Technology Karnataka in Mangaluru.印度席位包括金奈的印度理工学院马德拉斯分校、丹巴德印度理工学院与门格洛尔的卡纳塔克国立技术学院。

• European seats include those of Nicola Moraci at Reggio Calabria, Sabatino Cuomo at Salerno, Ioannis Markou at Democritus University of Thrace and Fernanda Bessa Ferreira at Aveiro.欧洲席位里有雷焦卡拉布里亚大学的（Nicola Moraci）、萨莱诺大学的（Sabatino Cuomo）、色雷斯德谟克利特大学的（Ioannis Markou），以及阿威罗大学的（Fernanda Bessa Ferreira）。

• Asia and the Pacific are represented by Jin-Chun Chai at Saga University, Geoff Chao at the Asian Institute of Technology and Sanjay Nimbalkar at the University of Technology Sydney.亚太方面有佐贺大学的（Jin-Chun Chai）、亚洲理工学院的（Geoff Chao）与悉尼科技大学的（Sanjay Nimbalkar）。

• The Americas and Africa are covered through Shobha Bhatia at Syracuse, Prabir Kolay at Southern Illinois, Denis Kalumba at Cape Town and Jefferson Lins da Silva at Sao Paulo.美洲与非洲由雪城大学的（Shobha Bhatia）、南伊利诺伊大学的（Prabir Kolay）、开普敦大学的（Denis Kalumba）与圣保罗大学的（Jefferson Lins da Silva）覆盖。

• Submissions pass through the journal's SpringerLink site, which carries a pre-submission checklist and the full submission guidelines ahead of the upload.稿件经刊物的 SpringerLink 站点提交，上传之前可先过一遍投稿前检查清单与完整的投稿指南。

• SpringerLink reports a median of 15 days from submission to first decision, a figure the journal displays on its home page.平台公布从投稿到首次决定的中位时间为 15 天，这一数字刊载于刊物首页。

• Editorial policies, ethics and disclosures, and rights and permissions each have their own page, following the publisher's standard frame for research journals.编辑政策、伦理与声明、权利与许可各设独立页面，沿用出版方对研究期刊的统一框架。

• Review is organised in house by the editor-in-chief and the board, and no external editorial office is advertised on the journal site.评审由主编与编委会在刊内组织，站点未标出外部编辑办公室。

• The board mixes universities, national institutes and consultancies, which keeps the review of a ground engineering paper close to both the test site and the design office.编委兼有高校、国立研究院所与咨询公司，岩土工程稿件的评审因此既贴近试验场地，也贴近设计事务所。

• Authors who want open access pay an article processing charge, and about one paper in ten is recorded as gold open access in the citation reports.选择开放获取的作者需支付文章处理费，引证报告中约有十分之一的论文计为金色开放获取。