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Railway Standard Design is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.4), DOAJ. Published by Editorial Office of Railway Standard Design.
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ISSN 1004-2954Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Editorial Office of Railway Standard Design
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Building and Construction | 176 / 258 | 31st | Q3 |
| Engineering (miscellaneous) | 215 / 300 | 28th | Q3 |
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 325 / 434 | 25th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.4.
Railway Standard Design is Q3 in Building and Construction (rank 176 of 258), Q3 in Engineering (miscellaneous) (rank 215 of 300) and Q3 in Civil and Structural Engineering (rank 325 of 434), by CiteScore 2025.
Railway Standard Design 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 1.4, quartile Q3, 31st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.301, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 11.
Railway Standard Design is published by Editorial Office of Railway Standard Design. Its ISSN is 1004-2954.
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 Standard Design has an h-index of 0 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #191 of 219 Scopus journals in Building and Construction.
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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