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Railway Engineering Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.8), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Springer.
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ISSN 2662-4745Verify ISSN ↗2662-4753Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computational Mechanics | 6 / 99 | 94th | Q1 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 72 / 740 | 90th | Q1 |
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 118 / 1030 | 88th | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 148 / 1022 | 85th | Q1 |
| Transportation | 29 / 169 | 83rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.8.
Railway Engineering Science is Q1 in Computational Mechanics (rank 6 of 99), Q1 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 72 of 740) and Q1 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 118 of 1030), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Railway Engineering Science 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 9.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.278, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 45.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Railway Engineering Science is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 2662-4745 and its online ISSN is 2662-4753.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Railway Engineering Science has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 4.5 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #9 of 86 Scopus journals in Computational Mechanics.
Railway Engineering Science published 52 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 100 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (44.5%), Italy (10%) and Sweden (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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