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SAE International Journal of Transportation Safety is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.6), WoS ESCI. Published by SAE International.
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ISSN 2327-5626Verify ISSN ↗2327-5634Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAE International
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality | 152 / 282 | 46th | Q3 |
| Human Factors and Ergonomics | 32 / 48 | 34th | Q3 |
| Safety Research | 72 / 108 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 497 / 740 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.6.
SAE International Journal of Transportation Safety is Q3 in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (rank 152 of 282), Q3 in Human Factors and Ergonomics (rank 32 of 48) and Q3 in Safety Research (rank 72 of 108), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
SAE International Journal of Transportation Safety 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 46th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.181, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 16.
SAE International Journal of Transportation Safety is published by SAE International. Its print ISSN is 2327-5626 and its online ISSN is 2327-5634.
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 Transportation Safety has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 0.52 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #152 of 199 Scopus journals in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality.
SAE International Journal of Transportation Safety published 16 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 31. 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 98 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (55.3%), Canada (12.9%) and China (6.5%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (6.2 per 1,000 papers). 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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