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International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 15.1), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 2, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Group Publishing.
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ISSN 0960-0035Verify ISSN ↗1758-664XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Transportation | 10 / 169 | 94th | Q1 |
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 25 / 317 | 92nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1990–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 15.1.
International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management is Q1 in Transportation (rank 10 of 169) and Q1 in Management of Technology and Innovation (rank 25 of 317), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management is indexed in the 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 15.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.015, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 151.
International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management is published by Emerald Group Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0960-0035 and its online ISSN is 1758-664X.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Transportation, logistics and supply chains.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Operations and Technology Management field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management has an h-index of 177 and a 2-year mean of 6.51 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 15.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #17 of 150 Scopus journals in Transportation.
International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management published 54 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 64. 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (31.4%), China (8.8%) and Sweden (8.4%).
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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