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Public Transport is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.4), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Verlag.
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ISSN 1613-7159Verify ISSN ↗1866-749XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Cost to publish: About US$3,390 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 153 / 740 | 79th | Q1 |
| Information Systems | 150 / 519 | 71st | Q2 |
| Transportation | 50 / 169 | 70th | Q2 |
| Management Science and Operations Research | 68 / 225 | 70th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.4.
Public Transport is Q1 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 153 of 740), Q2 in Information Systems (rank 150 of 519) and Q2 in Transportation (rank 50 of 169), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Public Transport 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 6.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 79th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.861, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 41.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,390 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.
Public Transport is published by Springer Verlag. Its print ISSN is 1613-7159 and its online ISSN is 1866-749X.
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.
Public Transport has an h-index of 49 and a 2-year mean of 3.83 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #138 of 641 Scopus journals in Mechanical Engineering.
Public Transport published 32 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 36. 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 99 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (14.9%), China (7.1%) and India (6.6%).
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.
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