aec-journals

aec-journals is a skill for Claude Code from Abhinavbwj/AEC-Scholar. It costs 95 tokens per session (2,138 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference guide to journals, conferences, databases, professional societies, and research metrics in architecture, engineering, and construction, commonly shortened to AEC.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to match a manuscript to a venue, plan literature searches, build source lists, and interpret research metrics.
Why use it?
It helps researchers choose credible publication venues and information sources without misunderstanding changing metrics, fees, or access policies.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the aec-scholar plugin — 11 skills, 36 commands, 10 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to match a manuscript to a venue, plan literature searches, build source lists, and interpret research metrics.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/abhinavbwj/aec-scholar/aec-journals
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add Abhinavbwj/AEC-Scholar --skill aec-journals
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abhinavbwj/AEC-Scholar

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aec-scholar, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 36 commands, 10 agents, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,138 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00095 $0.02138
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.01069
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00428
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00214

Measured 12d ago against content hash fefb8f0c50c7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aec-journals scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

aec-scholar/skills/aec-journals/SKILL.md · 144 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 144 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AEC Journals, Conferences, Databases & Metrics — Reference

Use this to match a manuscript to credible venues, build a defensible source list for a review, and interpret bibliometric metrics correctly. Always tell the user to verify current scope, impact metrics, APCs and open-access policy on the publisher's site — these change yearly and must not be stated as fixed.


A. Leading journals by cluster (with scope notes)

Construction informatics / digital construction

  • Automation in Construction (Elsevier) — flagship for digital/automated construction: BIM, robotics, computer vision, sensing, AI in construction. Broad and prestigious; high selectivity.
  • Advanced Engineering Informatics (Elsevier) — informatics, data/knowledge engineering, AI across engineering incl. AEC; methodological depth expected.
  • Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering (ASCE) — computing methods in civil/AEC; algorithmic rigor valued.
  • Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering (Wiley) — AI/optimization/computing for infrastructure; very high impact, methods-heavy.
  • Journal of Information Technology in Construction (ITcon) — open access, IT in construction, no APC; strong for openBIM/interoperability work.
  • Developments in the Built Environment (Elsevier) — open access, broad built-environment scope.

Construction engineering & management

  • Journal of Construction Engineering and Management (ASCE) — premier CEM venue: planning, productivity, safety, methods, project performance.
  • Construction Management and Economics (Taylor & Francis) — management, economics, sociology of construction; methodological pluralism, strong qualitative tradition.
  • Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management (ECAM) (Emerald) — management/practice focus.
  • International Journal of Project Management (Elsevier) — project management broadly (not AEC-only).
  • Journal of Management in Engineering (ASCE) — engineering management & leadership.
  • International Journal of Construction Management (Taylor & Francis) — broad CM, more accessible.
  • Construction Innovation (Emerald) — innovation, process, technology adoption.

Read the full file on GitHub · 144 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 144 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A fefb8f0c50c7

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aec-journals is a skill published in the GitHub repository Abhinavbwj/AEC-Scholar (18 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 2,138 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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