Research Data and Reports (RDR) is a free, open-access, global, peer-reviewed online journal primarily focused on Civil Engineering, while also welcoming high-quality contributions from broader fields of civil and environmental engineering. The journal is an initiative of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras through the Centre of Excellence on Technologies for Low Carbon and Lean Construction (TLC2), Chennai, India.
The journal commenced publication on May 26, 2025, and publishes two issues per year.
- Publication Format: Online
- Language: English
- Primary Subject Area: Civil Engineering
RDR aims to promote the dissemination of research across diverse scientific and technological disciplines by providing a unique interdisciplinary platform for publishing peer-reviewed journal articles, preprints, research data, technical reports, and research-based studies.
The journal follows a free open-access policy, ensuring that all published content is freely accessible to readers worldwide without subscription charges. Articles published in RDR will be assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to enhance visibility, accessibility, indexing, and citation of published works.
Significance & Aim
Many find it difficult to source funding to pursue expensive experiments and simulations towards high-quality and impactful research output. Such difficulties force many to use just available resources and pursue low-hanging and, probably, less impactful research. This means significant wastage of talented, energetic, and enthusiastic human resources in various universities. At the same time, many top researchers are not able to freely & openly publish useful datasets and reports due to various reasons.
Free open access to such quality datasets and reports could accelerate their use in new research by others (means more citations), enable more collaborations, and reduce the cost of research. RDR aims to provide such a scenario to minimize repetitive/redundant research and facilitate accelerated Research towards identifying knowledge gaps and filling them with optimal resources.
Scope
RDR is a global open-access journal intended to serve the international research community. RDR journal will have (1) Brief papers on datasets, (2) Technical reports, (3) Journal papers on original research, and (4) Point-of-view papers or Review papers. These will be in broad areas of civil & environmental engineering and interdisciplinary areas/works with relevance to civil & environmental engineering. These may include analytical/experimental research, test protocols, and datasets from lab experiments and/or case studies in the field, models and datasets from numerical simulations, with a focus on technical innovation and engineering impact. The topics can include the following: Structural, construction materials, concrete technology, forensics, geotechnical, transportation, pavement, environmental, water resources, coastal/ocean engineering, earth science, climate science, building science, and construction technology/management. Contributions on emerging and interdisciplinary areas (sustainability, resilience, data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, smart systems, GIS, sensors, robotics & automation, etc.) with strong relevance to civil and environmental engineering are also welcome. RDR will serve as a platform to enhance collaboration across various fields within civil & environmental engineering.
If this repository is a good fit for your research data, you can find out more details via the Guide for Authors. You are invited to submit your manuscript through the submission link.
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