3.3 The journals’ performance
The top 10 journals contained 38.8% of the 5246 publications, and the distribution of their publications is shown in Fig 2. Impact factors qualitatively indicate the standard of journals, the research papers they publish and researchers associated with those papers (Huibin et al. 2015). Below, we used 2017 impact factors in Journal Citation Reports (JCR) to determine the journal standards.
Fig 2 The performance of top10 most productive journals
Publications on green building have appeared in a variety of titles, including energy, building, environment, materials, sustainability, indoor built environment and thermal engineering. Energy and Buildings, with its impact factor 4.457, was the most
productive journal apparently from 2009 to 2017. Sustainability (IF=2.075) and Journal of cleaner production (IF=5.651) rose to significance rapidly since 2015 and ranked top two journals in 2018.
Funding
This study was supported by The National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.51808385).
