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Zhongguo Tiedao Kexue/China Railway Science is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.2). Published by Chinese Academy of Railway Sciences.
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ISSN 1001-4632Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Chinese Academy of Railway Sciences
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 430 / 740 | 41st | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2003–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.2.
Zhongguo Tiedao Kexue/China Railway Science is Q3 in Mechanical Engineering (rank 430 of 740), by CiteScore 2025.
Zhongguo Tiedao Kexue/China Railway Science is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q3, 41st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.386, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 37.
Zhongguo Tiedao Kexue/China Railway Science is published by Chinese Academy of Railway Sciences. Its ISSN is 1001-4632.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Zhongguo Tiedao Kexue/China Railway Science has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #582 of 641 Scopus journals in Mechanical Engineering.
Zhongguo Tiedao Kexue/China Railway Science published 1 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2012 with 104. 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.
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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