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Vehicular Communications is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 14.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Inc..
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ISSN 2214-2096Verify ISSN ↗2214-210XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$2,890 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communication | 7 / 541 | 98th | Q1 |
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 47 / 1030 | 95th | Q1 |
| Automotive Engineering | 7 / 143 | 95th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 14.4.
Vehicular Communications is Q1 in Communication (rank 7 of 541), Q1 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (rank 47 of 1030) and Q1 in Automotive Engineering (rank 7 of 143), by CiteScore 2025.
Vehicular Communications 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 14.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.326, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 69.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,890 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.
Vehicular Communications is published by Elsevier Inc. Its print ISSN is 2214-2096 and its online ISSN is 2214-210X.
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.
Vehicular Communications has an h-index of 74 and a 2-year mean of 5.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 14.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #20 of 511 Scopus journals in Communication.
Vehicular Communications published 121 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (37.4%), India (17.8%) and Saudi Arabia (4.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (1.1 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 5 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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