Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Subfield ranking · 2020
Transportation journal rankings 2020
46 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Transportation has 46 ranked journals in 2020. The median OJR rose 0.06 on 2019 to 1.50, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.06. The top three are Cities, Transport Reviews, and Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2020. 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 2017–2019, the window the 2020 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)
46 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 2019. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2017–2019, the window the 2020 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2017–2019 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 2011 to 2020. | Compare |
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1CitiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.63Q1 | 6.62 0.82 up from 2019 | 785 | 36% | $3,000 | ||
2Transport ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.57Q1 | 9.21 3.93 up from 2019 | 155 | 38% | — | ||
3Transportation Research Part A Policy and PracticeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.57Q1 | 6.62 1.51 up from 2019 | 856 | 37% | $3,270 | ||
4Transportation Research Part B MethodologicalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.33Q1 | 6.72 0.57 up from 2019 | 577 | 48% | $3,810 | ||
5Travel Behaviour and SocietyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.30Q1 | 5.92 0.93 up from 2019 | 159 | 40% | $2,850 | ||
6Journal of Transport GeographyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.21Q1 | 5.41 0.72 up from 2019 | 559 | 38% | $2,990 | ||
7Computers Environment and Urban SystemsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.11Q1 | 6.47 0.10 up from 2019 | 307 | 45% | $3,740 | ||
8Transport PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.00Q1 | 5.29 0.91 up from 2019 | 498 | 39% | $2,890 | ||
9TransportationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.36Q1 | 4.20 1.10 up from 2019 | 301 | 43% | $2,990 | ||
10Transportation Research Part D Transport and EnvironmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.34Q1 | 6.50 1.04 up from 2019 | 786 | 35% | $3,450 | ||
11Public TransportSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.13Q1 | 3.96 1.58 up from 2019 | 71 | 39% | $3,390 | ||
12International Journal of Health GeographicsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 5.43 0.79 up from 2019 | 121 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
13Journal of Transport and Land UseOAUniversity of Minnesota · United States | 2.03Q2 | 3.01 0.73 up from 2019 | 136 | 100% | $750 | ||
14Research in Transportation Business & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.97Q2 | 3.58 0.62 up from 2019 | 148 | 36% | $2,620 | ||
15European Transport Research ReviewOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.86Q2 | 3.80 0.80 up from 2019 | 163 | 100% | $1,990 | ||
16Research in Transportation EconomicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.81Q2 | 3.14 0.23 up from 2019 | 228 | 53% | $2,430 | ||
17International Journal of Sustainable TransportationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.80Q2 | 3.99 0.58 up from 2019 | 226 | 29% | — | ||
18Transportmetrica A Transport ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.72Q2 | 4.14 1.83 up from 2019 | 176 | 25% | — | ||
19ISPRS International Journal of Geo-InformationOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.71Q2 | 3.80 0.44 up from 2019 | 1,481 | 100% | $2,292 | ||
20Case Studies on Transport PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.67Q2 | 2.78 0.64 up from 2019 | 279 | 27% | $1,950 | ||
21Transportation Research Interdisciplinary PerspectivesOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.63Q2 | 2.61no 2019 value | 69 | 100% | $2,400 | — | |
22Journal of Advanced TransportationOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · Canada | 1.58Q2 | 3.47 0.97 up from 2019 | 702 | 100% | $2,760 | ||
23Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.53Q2 | 2.69 0.41 up from 2019 | 267 | 37% | $3,650 | ||
24Networks and Spatial EconomicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.46Q3 | 2.57 0.04 down from 2019 | 136 | 12% | $3,090 | ||
25Journal of Location Based ServicesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.40Q3 | 3.83 1.83 up from 2019 | 34 | 44% | — | ||
26Transactions in GISWiley · United Kingdom | 1.36Q3 | 2.31 0.22 down from 2019 | 216 | 28% | $3,800 | ||
27Journal of Public TransportationOAUnited States | 1.36Q3 | 3.10 1.35 up from 2019 | 36 | 100% | $2,110 | ||
28Journal of Urban Planning and DevelopmentAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.28Q3 | 2.52 0.60 up from 2019 | 175 | 9% | — | ||
29Australian PlannerTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.27Q3 | 1.21 0.19 up from 2019 | 49 | 18% | — | ||
30Urban Rail TransitOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.21Q3 | 2.44 0.42 up from 2019 | 67 | 100% | $1,590 | ||
31Journal of Transport & HealthElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.16Q3 | 3.33 1.94 up from 2019 | 666 | 42% | $2,720 | ||
32Applied MobilitiesTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.11Q3 | 1.98 0.36 up from 2019 | 72 | 34% | — | ||
33Transportation research procediaOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.07Q3 | 2.37 0.72 up from 2019 | 1,903 | 100% | — | ||
34European journal of transport and infrastructure researchOADelft University of Technology · Netherlands | 0.96Q3 | 1.47 0.15 up from 2019 | 79 | 100% | — | ||
35Transportation LettersTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.96Q3 | 1.57 0.11 up from 2019 | 142 | 17% | — | ||
36Transportation Planning and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.89Q4 | 1.55 0.32 up from 2019 | 144 | 16% | — | ||
37Transportation in Developing EconomiesSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 0.84Q4 | 1.65 0.80 up from 2019 | 61 | 0% | $3,890 | ||
38Articulo – revue de sciences humainesOASwitzerland | 0.57Q4 | 0.44 0.22 down from 2019 | 61 | 100% | — | ||
39Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Municipal EngineerThomas Telford Ltd. · United Kingdom | 0.44Q4 | 1.03 0.16 down from 2019 | 93 | 24% | — | ||
40CICTP 2019Publisher not listed | 0.36Q4 | 0.16no 2019 value | 544 | — | — | — | |
| 0.33Q4 | 0.73 0.11 down from 2019 | 111 | 100% | — | |||
42ITE journalInstitute of Transportation Engineers · United States | 0.29Q4 | 0.83 0.51 up from 2019 | 58 | 0% | — | ||
43CICTP 2018Publisher not listed | 0.26Q4 | 0.13 0.07 up from 2019 | 277 | — | — | ||
44Asian Transport StudiesOAElsevier BV · Japan | 0.22Q4 | 0.59 0.16 up from 2019 | 47 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
45Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for transportation studies/Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation StudiesEastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies · Japan | 0.14Q4 | 0.16 0.01 down from 2019 | 142 | — | — | ||
46Transactions on Transport SciencesOAPalacký University Olomouc | 0.12Q4 | 0.35 0.22 up from 2019 | 34 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Transportation highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,333
- Education727
- Political Science and International Relations332
- Communication79
- Gender Studies64
- Safety Research55
- Health54
- Urban Studies52
- Public Administration51
- Linguistics and Language49
- Law48
- Transportation46
- Library and Information Sciences41
- Demography40
- Anthropology37
- Geography, Planning and Development33
- Cultural Studies8
- Development3
- General Social Sciences3
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2020. Corpus-wide, 86.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
13 additional Transportation journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2017–2019, 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: 2020. Publication window: 2017–2019. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 46
- Window papers (baseline)
- 29,380 -6.7% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 1.50 +2.6% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2017–2019 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.