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Public Roads is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.2). Published by U.S. Federal Highway Administration.
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ISSN 0033-3735Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: U.S. Federal Highway Administration
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 836 / 876 | 4th | Q4 |
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 415 / 434 | 4th | Q4 |
| Transportation | 163 / 169 | 3rd | 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 1992–2025 (also 1969–1990), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.2.
Public Roads is Q4 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 836 of 876), Q4 in Civil and Structural Engineering (rank 415 of 434) and Q4 in Transportation (rank 163 of 169), by CiteScore 2025.
Public Roads 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 0.2, quartile Q4, 4th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.108, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 14.
Public Roads is published by U.S. Federal Highway Administration. Its ISSN is 0033-3735.
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.
Public Roads has an h-index of 27 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #776 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
Public Roads published 18 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2015 with 32. 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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