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Quarterly Report of RTRI (Railway Technical Research Institute) is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.5). Published by Ken-yusha Inc..
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ISSN 0033-9008Verify ISSN ↗1880-1765Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Ken-yusha Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 661 / 740 | 10th | 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 1969–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.5.
Quarterly Report of RTRI (Railway Technical Research Institute) is Q4 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 661 of 740), by CiteScore 2025.
Quarterly Report of RTRI (Railway Technical Research Institute) 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, 10th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.195, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 33.
Quarterly Report of RTRI (Railway Technical Research Institute) is published by Ken-yusha Inc. Its print ISSN is 0033-9008 and its online ISSN is 1880-1765.
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.
Quarterly Report of RTRI (Railway Technical Research Institute) has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 0.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #552 of 641 Scopus journals in Mechanical Engineering.
Quarterly Report of RTRI (Railway Technical Research Institute) published 42 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 50. 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 26 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Japan (69.2%), Bangladesh (26.9%) and Germany (3.8%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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