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Communications in Transportation Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 13.6), ABDC C, WoS SCIE/SSCI, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by Elsevier & Tsinghua University Press.
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ISSN 2097-5023Verify ISSN ↗2772-4247Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier & Tsinghua University Press
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Control and Systems Engineering | 25 / 390 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Transportation | 12 / 169 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Decision Sciences (miscellaneous) | 4 / 46 | 92nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–2025, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 13.6.
Communications in Transportation Research is Q1 in Control and Systems Engineering (rank 25 of 390), Q1 in Transportation (rank 12 of 169) and Q1 in Decision Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 4 of 46), by CiteScore 2025.
Communications in Transportation Research is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 13.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.970, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 36.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,250 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Communications in Transportation Research is published by Elsevier & Tsinghua University Press. Its print ISSN is 2097-5023 and its online ISSN is 2772-4247.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Transportation, logistics and supply chains.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Communications in Transportation Research has an h-index of 44 and a 2-year mean of 9.81 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 13.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #9 of 306 Scopus journals in Control and Systems Engineering.
Communications in Transportation Research published 72 papers in 2025. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 90 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (42.6%), United States (12.6%) and Hong Kong SAR China (7.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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