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Transportation Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10), ABDC A*, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SCIE/SSCI. Published by The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).
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ISSN 0041-1655Verify ISSN ↗1526-5447Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 43 / 434 | 90th | Q1 |
| Transportation | 28 / 169 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Stage | Typical time |
|---|---|
| Submission → first decision | 45 days |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present (also 1969–1993), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.
Transportation Science is Q1 in Civil and Structural Engineering (rank 43 of 434) and Q1 in Transportation (rank 28 of 169), by CiteScore 2025.
Transportation Science 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, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.371, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 139.
Transportation Science is published by The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). Its print ISSN is 0041-1655 and its online ISSN is 1526-5447.
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 Operations Research and Management Science field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Transportation Science has an h-index of 195 and a 2-year mean of 6.17 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #31 of 385 Scopus journals in Civil and Structural Engineering.
Transportation Science published 66 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 101. 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 97 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (28.9%), China (14.4%) and Germany (11.9%).
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.
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