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Research in Transportation Economics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.9), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 1, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier.
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ISSN 0739-8859Verify ISSN ↗1875-7979Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier
Cost to publish: About US$2,430 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) | 37 / 283 | 87th | Q1 |
| Transportation | 47 / 169 | 72nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present (also 2001, 1999, 1996, 1994), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.9.
Research in Transportation Economics is Q1 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) (rank 37 of 283) and Q2 in Transportation (rank 47 of 169), by CiteScore 2025.
Research in Transportation Economics is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 6.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.945, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 78.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,430 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.
Research in Transportation Economics is published by Elsevier. Its print ISSN is 0739-8859 and its online ISSN is 1875-7979.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Transportation, logistics and supply chains.
It is graded 1 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Economics, Econometrics and Statistics field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Research in Transportation Economics has an h-index of 87 and a 2-year mean of 2.8 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #60 of 274 Scopus journals in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous).
Research in Transportation Economics published 147 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 159. 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 89 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (22.5%), United States (9.6%) and Japan (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 1 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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