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High-speed Railway is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.7), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by KeAi Communications Co..
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ISSN 2097-3446Verify ISSN ↗2949-8678Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: KeAi Communications Co.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 421 / 1030 | 59th | Q2 |
| Control and Systems Engineering | 162 / 390 | 58th | Q2 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 310 / 740 | 58th | Q2 |
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 188 / 434 | 56th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.7.
High-speed Railway is Q2 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 421 of 1030), Q2 in Control and Systems Engineering (rank 162 of 390) and Q2 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 310 of 740), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
High-speed Railway is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 3.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 59th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.537, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 11.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
High-speed Railway is published by KeAi Communications Co. Its print ISSN is 2097-3446 and its online ISSN is 2949-8678.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
High-speed Railway has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 2.7 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #277 of 744 Scopus journals in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
High-speed Railway published 48 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 85 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (72.4%), United Kingdom (3.8%) and United States (3.8%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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.
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