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Vehicles is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI).
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ISSN 2624-8921Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Automotive Engineering | 33 / 143 | 77th | Q1 |
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 293 / 1030 | 71st | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.5.
Vehicles is Q1 in Automotive Engineering (rank 33 of 143) and Q2 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 293 of 1030), by CiteScore 2025.
Vehicles 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 5.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.597, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 28.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,930 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.
Vehicles is published by Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI). Its ISSN is 2624-8921.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Vehicles has an h-index of 33 and a 2-year mean of 3.46 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #27 of 120 Scopus journals in Automotive Engineering.
Vehicles published 167 papers in 2025. 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 95 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (37.5%), Romania (8.4%) and Germany (7.2%).
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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