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Vehicle System Dynamics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 11.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 0042-3114Verify ISSN ↗1744-5159Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality | 16 / 282 | 94th | Q1 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 52 / 740 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Automotive Engineering | 13 / 143 | 91st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1972–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 11.3.
Vehicle System Dynamics is Q1 in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (rank 16 of 282), Q1 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 52 of 740) and Q1 in Automotive Engineering (rank 13 of 143), by CiteScore 2025.
Vehicle System Dynamics 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 11.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.413, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 125.
Vehicle System Dynamics is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0042-3114 and its online ISSN is 1744-5159.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Vehicle System Dynamics has an h-index of 133 and a 2-year mean of 4.36 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 11.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #29 of 199 Scopus journals in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality.
Vehicle System Dynamics published 152 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 165. 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 China (45.8%), Italy (12%) and Germany (8.3%).
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.
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