Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Subfield ranking · 2017
Transportation journal rankings 2017
48 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Transportation has 48 ranked journals in 2017. The median OJR fell 0.27 on 2016 to 1.46, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.45. The top three are Cities, Transportation Research Part B Methodological, and Journal of Transport Geography.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2017. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2014–2016, the window the 2017 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Social Sciences (22)
48 ranked journals
Filters
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2016. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2014–2016, the window the 2017 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2014–2016 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2008 to 2017. | Compare |
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1CitiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.81Q1 | 3.73 0.19 up from 2016 | 443 | 26% | $3,000 | ||
2Transportation Research Part B MethodologicalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.77Q1 | 5.14 0.23 up from 2016 | 527 | 50% | $3,810 | ||
3Journal of Transport GeographyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.50Q1 | 3.59 0.11 up from 2016 | 464 | 29% | $2,990 | ||
4Transport ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.17Q1 | 5.02 1.36 up from 2016 | 164 | 51% | — | ||
5Computers Environment and Urban SystemsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.77Q1 | 4.30 0.19 down from 2016 | 237 | 40% | $3,740 | ||
6TransportationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.45Q1 | 2.84 0.35 up from 2016 | 234 | 34% | $2,990 | ||
7Transportation Research Part A Policy and PracticeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.40Q1 | 3.81 0.17 up from 2016 | 631 | 32% | $3,270 | ||
8Transport PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.24Q1 | 3.19 0.11 up from 2016 | 428 | 33% | $2,890 | ||
9Travel Behaviour and SocietyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.98Q1 | 2.51 0.16 up from 2016 | 72 | 20% | $2,850 | ||
10Research in Transportation Business & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.95Q1 | 3.31 1.07 up from 2016 | 143 | 11% | $2,620 | ||
11International Journal of Health GeographicsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.56Q1 | 3.54 0.98 down from 2016 | 130 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
12Journal of Transport and Land UseOAUniversity of Minnesota · United States | 2.45Q1 | 2.25 0.63 up from 2016 | 115 | 100% | $750 | ||
13Transportmetrica A Transport ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.44Q2 | 2.54 0.03 down from 2016 | 110 | 33% | — | ||
14Transactions in GISWiley · United Kingdom | 2.32Q2 | 2.46 0.09 up from 2016 | 178 | 14% | $3,800 | ||
15Transportation Research Part D Transport and EnvironmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.29Q2 | 3.88 0.03 up from 2016 | 518 | 27% | $3,450 | ||
16Networks and Spatial EconomicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.27Q2 | 2.52 0.42 up from 2016 | 115 | 20% | $3,090 | ||
17Journal of Transport & HealthElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.18Q2 | 2.74 0.88 up from 2016 | 222 | 16% | $2,720 | ||
18Research in Transportation EconomicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.90Q2 | 1.73 0.25 up from 2016 | 221 | 27% | $2,430 | ||
19Public TransportSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.85Q2 | 1.32 0.50 down from 2016 | 66 | 32% | $3,390 | ||
20ISPRS International Journal of Geo-InformationOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.82Q2 | 2.81 0.38 up from 2016 | 461 | 100% | $2,292 | ||
21Case Studies on Transport PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.80Q2 | 1.44 0.21 down from 2016 | 140 | 20% | $1,950 | ||
22European Transport Research ReviewOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.61Q2 | 2.43 0.52 up from 2016 | 85 | 100% | $1,990 | ||
23Urban Planning and Transport ResearchOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.50Q2 | 0.75 0.02 up from 2016 | 47 | 100% | $1,165 | ||
24International Journal of Sustainable TransportationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.46Q2 | 2.00 0.56 up from 2016 | 164 | 27% | — | ||
25Journal of Public TransportationOAUnited States | 1.46Q3 | 1.19 0.06 up from 2016 | 101 | 100% | $2,110 | ||
26European journal of transport and infrastructure researchOADelft University of Technology · Netherlands | 1.45Q3 | 1.49 0.35 up from 2016 | 105 | 100% | — | ||
27Australian PlannerTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.43Q3 | 1.13 0.30 up from 2016 | 99 | 39% | — | ||
28Journal of Advanced TransportationOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · Canada | 1.33Q3 | 1.33 0.18 down from 2016 | 187 | 100% | $2,760 | ||
29Journal of Urban Planning and DevelopmentAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.31Q3 | 1.36 0.06 down from 2016 | 183 | 12% | — | ||
30Urban Rail TransitOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.29Q3 | 1.37 0.19 up from 2016 | 38 | 100% | $1,590 | ||
31Transportation Planning and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 1.14Q3 | 1.11 0.21 up from 2016 | 151 | 13% | — | ||
32Transportation research procediaOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.12Q3 | 1.13 0.14 down from 2016 | 1,441 | 100% | — | ||
33Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.98Q3 | 1.12 0.67 up from 2016 | 83 | 38% | $3,650 | ||
34Journal of Location Based ServicesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.84Q3 | 1.60 0.72 down from 2016 | 46 | 36% | — | ||
35Articulo – revue de sciences humainesOASwitzerland | 0.84Q3 | 0.53 0.13 up from 2016 | 86 | 100% | — | ||
36Transportation LettersTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.73Q3 | 0.82 0.07 down from 2016 | 127 | 7% | — | ||
37International Journal of TransportationAustralia | 0.59Q4 | 0.38 0.11 down from 2016 | 56 | 72% | — | ||
38Transportation in Developing EconomiesSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 0.55Q4 | 0.63 0.35 up from 2016 | 30 | 13% | $3,890 | ||
39Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Municipal EngineerThomas Telford Ltd. · United Kingdom | 0.43Q4 | 0.73 0.35 up from 2016 | 104 | 33% | — | ||
40Journal of the Transportation Research ForumUnited States | 0.36Q4 | 0.24 0.20 down from 2016 | 63 | 21% | — | ||
| 0.34Q4 | 0.46 0.21 up from 2016 | 78 | 100% | — | |||
42Transportation Research Board 94th Annual MeetingTransportation Research BoardPublisher not listed | 0.24Q4 | 0.27no change | 1,450 | — | — | ||
43Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for transportation studies/Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation StudiesEastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies · Japan | 0.22Q4 | 0.25 0.08 up from 2016 | 126 | 0% | — | ||
44Transportation Research Board 95th Annual MeetingTransportation Research BoardPublisher not listed | 0.21Q4 | 0.20 0.20 down from 2016 | 1,367 | — | — | ||
45ITE journalInstitute of Transportation Engineers · United States | 0.19Q4 | 0.12 0.14 down from 2016 | 106 | 0% | — | ||
46Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual MeetingTransportation Research BoardPublisher not listed | 0.19Q4 | —no 2016 value | 1,355 | — | — | ||
47Journal of Transportation Systems Engineering and Information TechnologyScience Press · Netherlands | 0.14Q4 | 0.20 0.05 down from 2016 | 113 | — | — | ||
48Traffic engineering & controlHemming Group · United Kingdom | 0.04Q4 | 0.03 0.03 down from 2016 | 45 | — | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Transportation highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,300
- Education698
- Political Science and International Relations318
- Communication71
- Gender Studies63
- Health53
- Safety Research52
- Public Administration51
- Transportation48
- Linguistics and Language47
- Law46
- Urban Studies45
- Anthropology41
- Library and Information Sciences41
- Demography40
- Geography, Planning and Development28
- Cultural Studies9
- Development4
- General Social Sciences3
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2017. Corpus-wide, 77.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
12 additional Transportation journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2014–2016, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2017. Publication window: 2014–2016. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 48
- Window papers (baseline)
- 31,480 +11.8% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 1.46 -35.0% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2014–2016 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
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| Ranked journals | 22 | 21 | 21 | 23 | 24 | 28 | 27 | 27 | 27 | 33 | 35 | 41 | 40 | 42 | 40 | 45 | 46 | 48 | 47 | 46 | 46 | 50 | 51 | 53 | 51 | 51 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 8,867 | 9,543 | 10,186 | 10,873 | 11,598 | 12,477 | 13,558 | 14,735 | 15,795 | 17,085 | 18,709 | 20,716 | 23,170 | 25,781 | 28,152 | 30,461 | 31,404 | 31,480 | 30,211 | 29,600 | 29,380 | 31,002 | 31,749 | 31,901 | 30,499 | 30,896 | |
| Median OJR | 1.01 | 1.43 | 1.424 | 1.13 | 1.1609 | 1.57 | 1.51 | 1.415 | 1.48 | 1.29 | 1.85 | 1.97 | 1.90 | 1.88 | 2.24 | 1.68 | 1.72 | 1.46 | 1.52 | 1.44 | 1.50 | 1.33 | 1.17 | 1.1610 | 1.23 | 1.31 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.