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Urban Rail Transit is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.8), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 2199-6679Verify ISSN ↗2199-6687Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Studies | 61 / 295 | 79th | Q1 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 208 / 876 | 76th | Q1 |
| Automotive Engineering | 37 / 143 | 74th | Q2 |
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 135 / 434 | 69th | Q2 |
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 336 / 1030 | 67th | Q2 |
| Transportation | 67 / 169 | 60th | Q2 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.8.
Urban Rail Transit is Q1 in Urban Studies (rank 61 of 295), Q1 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 208 of 876) and Q2 in Automotive Engineering (rank 37 of 143), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Urban Rail Transit is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 4.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 79th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.602, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 29.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,590 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.
Urban Rail Transit is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 2199-6679 and its online ISSN is 2199-6687.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Urban Rail Transit has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 3.95 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #23 of 280 Scopus journals in Urban Studies.
Urban Rail Transit published 25 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 27. 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 99 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from China (74.3%), United States (4.3%) and India (2.4%). 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. 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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