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Transportation Research Record is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.1), ABDC B, WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Sage Publications.
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ISSN 0361-1981Verify ISSN ↗2169-4052Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sage Publications
Cost to publish: About US$3,650 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 279 / 740 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 165 / 434 | 62nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present (also 1974–1990), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.1.
Transportation Research Record is Q2 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 279 of 740) and Q2 in Civil and Structural Engineering (rank 165 of 434), by CiteScore 2025.
Transportation Research Record 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 4.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 62nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.557, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 166.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,650 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 Record is published by Sage Publications. Its print ISSN is 0361-1981 and its online ISSN is 2169-4052.
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 B 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 Record has an h-index of 198 and a 2-year mean of 2.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #276 of 641 Scopus journals in Mechanical Engineering.
Transportation Research Record published 870 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 990. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (50%), China (24%) and Canada (4.5%). 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. 6 retracted papers are recorded (0.2 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.
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