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Railway Sciences is Scopus-indexed, DOAJ. Published by Emerald Publishing.
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ISSN 2755-0907Verify ISSN ↗2755-0915Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Publishing
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Listed in Scopus, coverage 2025–present, but Scopus has not published a current CiteScore for this title — it may be newly indexed and not yet evaluated. Confirm its active status directly with Scopus before submitting.
Railway Sciences has no Journal Impact Factor — JIF is published only for journals in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI and ESCI) — and Scopus has not published a current CiteScore for it either. Treat any "impact factor" quoted for this journal elsewhere as unofficial.
Railway Sciences is published by Emerald Publishing. Its print ISSN is 2755-0907 and its online ISSN is 2755-0915.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Railway Sciences has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 1.4 citations per paper (OpenAlex).
Railway Sciences published 46 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 48. 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. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 95 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (65.1%), Morocco (5.8%) and Germany (3.5%). 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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