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Journal of Transportation Security is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.7), ABDC B, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer International Publishing.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1938-7741Verify ISSN ↗1938-775XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$3,090 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 268 / 1162 | 76th | Q1 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 217 / 745 | 70th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 479 / 1530 | 68th | Q2 |
| Safety Research | 51 / 108 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Transportation | 101 / 169 | 40th | Q3 |
| Management Science and Operations Research | 135 / 225 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.7.
Journal of Transportation Security is Q1 in Law (rank 268 of 1162), Q2 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 217 of 745) and Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 479 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Journal of Transportation Security 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 2.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 76th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.320, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 23.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,090 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 Transportation Security is published by Springer International Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1938-7741 and its online ISSN is 1938-775X.
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.
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.
Journal of Transportation Security has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 2.1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #108 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Journal of Transportation Security published 32 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 92 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (24.3%), India (8.7%) and Türkiye (8.2%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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