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Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 12.1), ABDC A*, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier.
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ISSN 0965-8564Verify ISSN ↗1879-2375Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier
Cost to publish: About US$3,270 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) | 8 / 235 | 96th | Q1 |
| Aerospace Engineering | 6 / 169 | 96th | Q1 |
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 25 / 434 | 94th | Q1 |
| Management Science and Operations Research | 22 / 225 | 90th | Q1 |
| Transportation | 17 / 169 | 90th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1992–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 12.1.
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice is Q1 in Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) (rank 8 of 235), Q1 in Aerospace Engineering (rank 6 of 169) and Q1 in Civil and Structural Engineering (rank 25 of 434), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and 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 12.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.843, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 199.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,270 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.
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice is published by Elsevier. Its print ISSN is 0965-8564 and its online ISSN is 1879-2375.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A* in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Transportation, logistics and supply chains.
It is graded 3 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Sector Studies field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice has an h-index of 211 and a 2-year mean of 4.76 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 12.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #22 of 224 Scopus journals in Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous).
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice published 395 papers in 2025. 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 78 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (23%), United States (14.7%) and Netherlands (8.5%).
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.
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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