Get an email when this journal's indexing changes
Added to or removed from Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas or ONOS. One confirmation click; unsubscribe anytime.
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 15.4), ABDC A*, WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0968-090XVerify ISSN ↗1879-2359Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier
Cost to publish: About US$4,040 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 10 / 434 | 97th | Q1 |
| Automotive Engineering | 5 / 143 | 96th | Q1 |
| Transportation | 9 / 169 | 94th | Q1 |
| Management Science and Operations Research | 12 / 225 | 94th | Q1 |
| Stage | Typical time |
|---|---|
| Submission → first decision | 3 days |
| Acceptance → online publication | 13 days |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 15.4.
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies is Q1 in Civil and Structural Engineering (rank 10 of 434), Q1 in Automotive Engineering (rank 5 of 143) and Q1 in Transportation (rank 9 of 169), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 15.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.396, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 214.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,040 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 C: Emerging Technologies is published by Elsevier. Its print ISSN is 0968-090X and its online ISSN is 1879-2359.
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.
It is rated A* in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Transportation, logistics and supply chains.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies has an h-index of 236 and a 2-year mean of 7.75 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 15.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #20 of 385 Scopus journals in Civil and Structural Engineering.
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies published 417 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 441. 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 75 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (35.3%), United States (15.8%) and Hong Kong SAR China (8.7%).
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.
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.
Comments load as you scroll here.