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Journal of Rail Transport Planning and Management is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.7), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2210-9706Verify ISSN ↗2210-9714Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,070 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modeling and Simulation | 62 / 397 | 84th | Q1 |
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 105 / 434 | 75th | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 323 / 1022 | 68th | Q2 |
| Management Science and Operations Research | 74 / 225 | 67th | Q2 |
| Transportation | 57 / 169 | 66th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.7.
Journal of Rail Transport Planning and Management is Q1 in Modeling and Simulation (rank 62 of 397), Q1 in Civil and Structural Engineering (rank 105 of 434) and Q2 in Computer Science Applications (rank 323 of 1022), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Rail Transport Planning and Management 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 5.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.696, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 39.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,070 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.
Journal of Rail Transport Planning and Management is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 2210-9706 and its online ISSN is 2210-9714.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Rail Transport Planning and Management has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 2.04 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #135 of 323 Scopus journals in Modeling and Simulation.
Journal of Rail Transport Planning and Management published 46 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 98 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from China (18.4%), Germany (13.1%) and Italy (6.1%).
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 1 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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