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Journal of Railway Engineering Society is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1.2). Published by Editorial Department of Journal of Railway Engineering Society.
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ISSN 1006-2106Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Editorial Department of Journal of Railway Engineering Society
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering (miscellaneous) | 229 / 300 | 23rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.2.
Journal of Railway Engineering Society is Q4 in Engineering (miscellaneous) (rank 229 of 300), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Railway Engineering Society is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q4, 23rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.356, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 19.
Journal of Railway Engineering Society is published by Editorial Department of Journal of Railway Engineering Society. Its ISSN is 1006-2106.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Railway Engineering Society has an h-index of 7 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #245 of 268 Scopus journals in Engineering (miscellaneous).
Journal of Railway Engineering Society published 40 papers in 2015; its busiest recent year was 2007 with 294. 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.
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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