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Transportation Research Part B: Methodological is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.7), ABDC A*, ABS / AJG 4, 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 0191-2615Verify ISSN ↗1879-2367Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier
Cost to publish: About US$3,810 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 35 / 434 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Transportation | 21 / 169 | 87th | Q1 |
| Stage | Typical time |
|---|---|
| Submission → first decision | 7 days |
| Acceptance → online publication | 15 days |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1979–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.7.
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological is Q1 in Civil and Structural Engineering (rank 35 of 434) and Q1 in Transportation (rank 21 of 169), by CiteScore 2025.
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 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 10.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.070, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 194.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,810 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 B: Methodological is published by Elsevier. Its print ISSN is 0191-2615 and its online ISSN is 1879-2367.
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 4 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 B: Methodological has an h-index of 229 and a 2-year mean of 5.94 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #33 of 385 Scopus journals in Civil and Structural Engineering.
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological published 146 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 218. 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 69 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (35%), United States (25.9%) and Hong Kong SAR China (11.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.5 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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