KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering

KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering is the peer-reviewed journal of the Korean Society of Civil Engineers, publishing original research and practice reports across all branches of civil engineering.《韩国土木工程师学会土木工程杂志》是韩国土木工程师学会（Korean Society of Civil Engineers）的同行评审刊物，刊载土木工程各分支的原创研究与工程实践报告。

Its pages carry laboratory studies and field investigations alike, with an emphasis on results that designers, contractors and public agencies can apply directly to built infrastructure of every scale.版面同时容纳试验研究与现场调查，偏重设计人员、施工方与公共机构能够直接用于各类实际工程的结论。

Each issue sets analysis beside measured performance, so a reader meets both the reasoning behind a method and evidence of how that method behaved on a real project.每期都把分析结果与实测表现并置，读者既能读到方法背后的推理，也能看到该方法在具体工程中的表现。

Scope

• The stated aim is to report original results, academic and practical, on earlier practice and current knowledge across all civil engineering fields, with no narrowing to a single subdiscipline or method.刊物自述的宗旨是报道土木工程各领域在既有做法与当前认识上的原创成果，学术价值与工程可用性并重，不向单一分支或单一方法收窄。
• Structural papers treat the analysis, design and seismic assessment of buildings, bridges and industrial facilities, and they cover steel, reinforced concrete, prestressed and composite framing in equal measure.结构类论文讨论建筑、桥梁与工业设施的分析、设计与抗震评定，钢结构、钢筋混凝土、预应力结构与组合结构在其中各占一席。
• Geotechnical contributions span soil and rock mechanics, foundation design, slope stability, retaining structures, ground improvement and site characterisation for projects whose scale ranges from single buildings to long alignments.岩土类稿件涉及土力学与岩石力学、基础设计、边坡稳定、支挡结构、地基处理，以及从单体建筑到长距离线路等不同尺度的场地表征。
• Transportation coverage runs from highway and railroad engineering through pavement design, traffic operations and travel demand modelling to the planning of intercity corridors and congested urban networks.交通方向从公路与铁路工程延伸到路面设计、交通运行与出行需求建模，再延伸到城际通道和拥堵城市路网的规划。
• Water resources work addresses catchment hydrology, open-channel and pipe hydraulics, flood forecasting, the operation of dams and reservoirs, irrigation and the joint management of surface water and aquifers.水资源方面的研究涉及流域水文、明渠与管道水力学、洪水预报、大坝与水库调度、灌溉，以及地表水与含水层的联合调度。
• Environmental engineering appears through drinking water and wastewater treatment, water quality monitoring, contaminant transport modelling and the remediation of polluted soil, sediment and groundwater at contaminated sites.环境工程通过饮用水与污水处理、水质监测、污染物迁移模拟，以及污染场地上土壤、沉积物与地下水的修复进入刊物视野。
• Coastal and harbour engineering papers deal with wave loading, sediment transport, breakwater stability and port layout, together with the protection of shorelines as sea levels continue to rise.海岸与港口工程论文处理波浪荷载、泥沙输移、防波堤稳定与港区布置，并涉及海平面持续上升条件下的岸线防护。
• Construction management is treated as an engineering subject, with cost estimating, scheduling, productivity measurement, contract delivery, safety performance and the organisation of teams that carry complex projects.施工管理被当作工程学科对待，涉及造价估算、进度计划、生产率测度、合同交付、安全绩效，以及承担复杂项目的团队组织。
• Information technology holds a standing place in the scope, covering building information modelling, structural health sensing, digital twins and the automated inspection of bridges, tunnels and other infrastructure assets.信息技术在收录范围内占有固定位置，覆盖建筑信息模型、结构健康监测、数字孪生，以及桥梁、隧道等基础设施资产的自动化检测。
• Surveying and geo-spatial engineering contributions include deformation monitoring, satellite positioning, remote sensing and the building of three-dimensional models of terrain, of structures under load and of active construction sites.测量与地理空间工程类稿件包括变形监测、卫星定位、遥感，以及地形、受力结构物与在建工地的三维模型构建。
• Nuclear power engineering is handled from a civil standpoint, through work on containment structures, seismic qualification, ageing management and the founding conditions of reactor buildings and their foundations.核电工程从土木角度切入，研究安全壳结构、抗震鉴定、老化管理，以及反应堆厂房与其基础的持力条件。
• Tunnelling and underground space form a further axis, with excavation methods, lining design, ground settlement control, ventilation and the use of subsurface space in increasingly dense cities.隧道与地下空间构成另一条主线，涉及开挖工法、衬砌设计、地表沉降控制、通风，以及日益密集城区的地下空间利用。
• Earthquake, wind and climate extremes recur as cross-cutting themes, together with risk assessment, early warning systems and the resilience of networks that have to keep running after a shock.地震、风与极端气候作为贯穿性主题反复出现，并伴随风险评估、预警系统，以及必须在冲击后继续运转的网络韧性研究。
• Sustainable infrastructure rounds out the scope, through low-carbon binders, recycled aggregates, life-cycle assessment, embodied carbon accounting and retrofit strategies that lengthen the service life of ageing bridges and buildings.可持续基础设施补足了收录范围，涉及低碳胶凝材料、再生骨料、生命周期评价、隐含碳核算，以及延长老旧桥梁与建筑服役年限的加固策略。

History

• The first issue appeared in December 1997 as volume 1, number 1, issued by the society itself while Springer distributed the title and sold the institutional subscriptions.创刊号于 1997 年 12 月面世，编为第 1 卷第 1 期，由学会自行主办，Springer 负责发行与机构订阅销售。
• Volume numbering has never restarted, so the thirtieth volume of 2026 covers twenty-nine completed years of publication and gives the surest available guide to the journal's age.卷号从未重新起算，2026 年的第 30 卷对应二十九年连续出版的历史，这也是判断刊龄最可靠的依据。
• Frequency climbed in steps, from four issues a year between 1998 and 2002 to six from 2003, and then to a twelve-issue monthly volume in the years that followed.刊期逐步加密，1998 年至 2002 年每年 4 期，2003 年起增至 6 期，其后的年份里稳定为每年 12 期的月刊。
• For most of its life the journal carried the 10.1007 DOI prefix, a marker that runs from the 1997 opening issue straight through to the last number of volume 28.在大部分历史中，刊物使用 10.1007 的 DOI 前缀，从 1997 年创刊号一直延续到第 28 卷的最后一期。
• Volume 29 opened in January 2025 under the 10.1016 prefix, the first issue produced after Elsevier took over publication on behalf of the Korean society that owns the title.第 29 卷于 2025 年 1 月以 10.1016 前缀开卷，这是 Elsevier 代表拥有该刊的韩国学会接掌出版之后推出的首期。
• The archive moved to ScienceDirect at that point, while manuscripts kept arriving through Editorial Manager, the submission system the journal had already used for many years before the switch.存档随之迁往 ScienceDirect，稿件仍通过 Editorial Manager 投递，这套系统在出版方更替之前已被刊物使用多年。
• Editorial control stayed with the society through the change of publisher, and the editor-in-chief and the board are appointed by the society rather than by the press or its editors.出版方更替期间，编辑权仍留在学会手中，主编与编委由学会任命，出版社及其编辑人员不参与这项决定。
• The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 2.4, up from 2.0 a year earlier, with a five-year figure of 2.5 and a Journal Citation Indicator of 0.43 for the same year.2025 年的期刊影响因子为 2.4，高于上一年的 2.0，同年五年影响因子为 2.5，期刊引文指标为 0.43。
• In the Engineering, Civil category of the Science Citation Index Expanded the title ranks 101st among 193 journals, a position inside the third quartile of the field.在科学引文索引扩展版的工程土木类别中，本刊于 193 种期刊里位列第 101 位，处于该领域的第三四分位。
• Cumulative citations passed 10,600 in the 2025 report, accrued across roughly 290 articles a year, with a cited half-life close to six years across the journal's whole archive.2025 年报告中的累计被引超过 10600 次，年发文量约 290 篇，全部过刊的被引半衰期接近六年。
• Roughly a third of recent articles are open access on gold terms, and the journal runs a hybrid model in which authors may pay an article processing charge of 1,800 US dollars.近年约三分之一的文章以金色开放获取方式发表，刊物实行混合模式，作者可支付 1800 美元的文章处理费。
• Abstracting and indexing cover the Science Citation Index Expanded, Ei Compendex and Scopus, while the title is also listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals for its open access content.文摘与索引覆盖科学引文索引扩展版、Ei Compendex 与 Scopus，刊物因开放获取内容同时收录于开放获取期刊目录。
• The 1997 launch carried ISSN 1226-7988 for the printed edition and 1976-3808 for the online one, numbers that stayed with the title after the change of publisher.1997 年创刊时，印刷版使用 ISSN 1226-7988，网络版使用 1976-3808，两个号码在更换出版方之后仍随刊沿用。

Editors

• Gye-Chun Cho, a professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Daejeon, holds the editor-in-chief post and signs the editorial decisions printed at the front of each issue.主编由大田韩国科学技术院（Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology）的 Gye-Chun Cho 担任，各期卷首刊出的编辑决定以其名义签发。
• Cho's own research sits in geotechnical and tunnelling engineering, which keeps the editorial office close to one of the largest streams of submissions that the journal receives each year.Gye-Chun Cho 本人的研究位于岩土与隧道工程，编辑部因此与刊物每年最大的投稿来源之一保持紧密联系。
• Three managing editors, Hyojeong Lee, Sodam Jeong and Hyunsun Song, handle the daily correspondence and keep manuscripts moving between authors, outside referees and the production staff of the press.三位执行编辑 Hyojeong Lee、Sodam Jeong 与 Hyunsun Song 负责日常通信，在作者、外部审稿人与出版社生产人员之间推进稿件流转。
• The board combines Korean universities and public institutes with laboratories abroad, among them Juhyuk Moon at Seoul National University and Tae-Min Oh at Pusan National University in Busan.编委由韩国高校与公立研究机构同海外实验室共同组成，其中包括首尔国立大学的 Juhyuk Moon 与釜山国立大学的 Tae-Min Oh。
• International members include Anil Kumar Mishra of the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Catherine Mulligan of Concordia University and Roberto Ranzi of the University of Brescia in Italy.国际编委包括印度理工学院古瓦哈提分校的 Anil Kumar Mishra、康考迪亚大学的 Catherine Mulligan，以及意大利布雷西亚大学的 Roberto Ranzi。
• Others serve from Virginia, Dundee and Ulsan, among them Brian Park, Yongsung Park and Jae Eun Oh, so the editorial reach extends well beyond East Asia into Europe and North America.另有编委来自弗吉尼亚、邓迪与蔚山，例如 Brian Park、Yongsung Park 与 Jae Eun Oh，编委触角因此越过东亚，伸向欧洲与北美。
• Korean members come largely from national universities and government institutes, among them the Korea Institute of Construction Technology and the Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology in Ansan.韩国编委多来自国立大学与政府研究机构，例如韩国建设技术研究院（Korea Institute of Construction Technology）与位于安山的韩国海洋科学技术院。
• Manuscripts enter through Editorial Manager and are screened for fit with the stated scope before an associate editor is asked to take charge of the review process.稿件经 Editorial Manager 进入，先按刊物公布的收录范围做契合度筛选，再交由副编辑主持整个评审流程。
• The journal reports a median of 33 days from submission to first decision, a figure it publishes alongside its author guidelines and refreshes whenever the review flow changes.刊物公布从投稿到首次决定的中位时间为 33 天，该数字随作者指南一同发布，并随评审流程变化而更新。
• Referees are drawn from outside the authors' institutions, and the handling editor weighs their reports before recommending acceptance, revision or rejection to the editor-in-chief and the board.审稿人取自作者所在机构之外，责任编辑权衡各份评审意见后，向主编与编委建议录用、修改或退稿。
• Revised manuscripts return to the same handling editor, which preserves continuity when a paper passes through two or three rounds of revision before a final ruling is issued.修改稿回到同一位责任编辑手上，论文在最终裁定下达前经历两三轮修改时，评审线索因此保持连贯。
• Production queries and proofs are handled by the publisher's journal office, which took on those duties when the title moved to Elsevier at the start of the year 2025.生产阶段的查询与校样由出版社的期刊办公室处理，该部门在 2025 年初刊物转投 Elsevier 时接手了这项职责。
• The society's office in Seoul coordinates board appointments and carries the journal's business to the society council, which approves changes to the scope of the title and to editorial policy.学会位于首尔的办公室协调编委任命，并把刊物事务提交学会理事会，刊物收录范围与编辑方针的调整由理事会批准。