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Journal of the Korean Society for Railway is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.5). Published by Korean Society for Railway.
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ISSN 1738-6225Verify ISSN ↗2288-2235Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Korean Society for Railway
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Energy Engineering and Power Technology | 288 / 347 | 17th | Q4 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 780 / 876 | 11th | Q4 |
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 390 / 434 | 10th | Q4 |
| Automotive Engineering | 129 / 143 | 10th | Q4 |
| Transportation | 154 / 169 | 9th | Q4 |
| Strategy and Management | 478 / 506 | 5th | 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 2017–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.5.
Journal of the Korean Society for Railway is Q4 in Energy Engineering and Power Technology (rank 288 of 347), Q4 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 780 of 876) and Q4 in Civil and Structural Engineering (rank 390 of 434), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Journal of the Korean Society for Railway 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 0.5, quartile Q4, 17th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.206, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 8.
Journal of the Korean Society for Railway is published by Korean Society for Railway. Its print ISSN is 1738-6225 and its online ISSN is 2288-2235.
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 the Korean Society for Railway has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #220 of 257 Scopus journals in Energy Engineering and Power Technology.
Journal of the Korean Society for Railway published 104 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 120. 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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