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SAE International Journal of Passenger Vehicle Systems is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.9), WoS ESCI. Published by SAE International.
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ISSN 2770-3460Verify ISSN ↗2770-3479Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAE International
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality | 140 / 282 | 50th | Q2 |
| Automotive Engineering | 86 / 143 | 40th | Q3 |
| Modeling and Simulation | 238 / 397 | 40th | Q3 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 467 / 740 | 36th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.9.
SAE International Journal of Passenger Vehicle Systems is Q2 in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (rank 140 of 282), Q3 in Automotive Engineering (rank 86 of 143) and Q3 in Modeling and Simulation (rank 238 of 397), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
SAE International Journal of Passenger Vehicle Systems 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 1.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 50th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.209, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 35.
SAE International Journal of Passenger Vehicle Systems is published by SAE International. Its print ISSN is 2770-3460 and its online ISSN is 2770-3479.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
SAE International Journal of Passenger Vehicle Systems has an h-index of 6 and a 2-year mean of 0.84 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #134 of 199 Scopus journals in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality.
SAE International Journal of Passenger Vehicle Systems published 17 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 30. 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 73 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from China (36.3%), United States (17.8%) and India (13.7%).
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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