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International Journal of Vehicle Design is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.5), ABDC B, WoS SCIE. Published by Inderscience Publishers.
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ISSN 0143-3369Verify ISSN ↗1741-5314Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Automotive Engineering | 94 / 143 | 34th | Q3 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 502 / 740 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1979–2025, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.5.
International Journal of Vehicle Design is Q3 in Automotive Engineering (rank 94 of 143) and Q3 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 502 of 740), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Vehicle Design is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 34th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.235, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 53.
International Journal of Vehicle Design is published by Inderscience Publishers. Its print ISSN is 0143-3369 and its online ISSN is 1741-5314.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Transportation, logistics and supply chains.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Vehicle Design has an h-index of 55 and a 2-year mean of 0.51 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #90 of 120 Scopus journals in Automotive Engineering.
International Journal of Vehicle Design published 77 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 113. 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 41 research articles (2024–2025), authors are most often from China (81.7%), India (7.3%) and Iran (2.4%). 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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