Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Subfield ranking · 2021
Transportation journal rankings 2021
50 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Transportation has 50 ranked journals in 2021. The median OJR fell 0.17 on 2020 to 1.33, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.99. The top three are Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Cities, and Transport Reviews.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2021. 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 2018–2020, the window the 2021 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)
50 ranked journals
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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 2020. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2018–2020, the window the 2021 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2018–2020 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 2012 to 2021. | Compare |
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1Transportation Research Interdisciplinary PerspectivesOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.15Q1 | 11.88 9.27 up from 2020 | 259 | 100% | $2,400 | ||
2CitiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.92Q1 | 7.31 0.69 up from 2020 | 958 | 37% | $3,000 | ||
3Transport ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.41Q1 | 9.96 0.75 up from 2020 | 151 | 62% | — | ||
4Transportation Research Part A Policy and PracticeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.35Q1 | 7.78 1.17 up from 2020 | 882 | 39% | $3,270 | ||
5Journal of Transport GeographyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.25Q1 | 6.92 1.51 up from 2020 | 636 | 43% | $2,990 | ||
6Transportation Research Part B MethodologicalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.21Q1 | 8.55 1.83 up from 2020 | 499 | 46% | $3,810 | ||
7Travel Behaviour and SocietyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.98Q1 | 5.69 0.22 down from 2020 | 221 | 42% | $2,850 | ||
8Transport PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.83Q1 | 7.32 2.03 up from 2020 | 550 | 53% | $2,890 | ||
9Computers Environment and Urban SystemsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.80Q1 | 6.75 0.28 up from 2020 | 296 | 53% | $3,740 | ||
10TransportationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.43Q1 | 4.96 0.76 up from 2020 | 289 | 60% | $2,990 | ||
11International Journal of Health GeographicsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.41Q1 | 7.51 2.08 up from 2020 | 132 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
12Transportation Research Part D Transport and EnvironmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.39Q1 | 8.14 1.64 up from 2020 | 895 | 41% | $3,450 | ||
13European Transport Research ReviewOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.99Q1 | 5.47 1.67 up from 2020 | 165 | 100% | $1,990 | ||
14Research in Transportation Business & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.97Q2 | 4.33 0.75 up from 2020 | 228 | 30% | $2,620 | ||
15International Journal of Sustainable TransportationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.94Q2 | 4.84 0.86 up from 2020 | 236 | 43% | — | ||
16Journal of Transport and Land UseOAUniversity of Minnesota · United States | 1.82Q2 | 3.70 0.70 up from 2020 | 144 | 100% | $750 | ||
17Journal of Transport & HealthElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.75Q2 | 4.09 0.75 up from 2020 | 417 | 40% | $2,720 | ||
18Research in Transportation EconomicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.68Q2 | 3.86 0.72 up from 2020 | 329 | 42% | $2,430 | ||
19Case Studies on Transport PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.61Q2 | 3.71 0.94 up from 2020 | 323 | 24% | $1,950 | ||
20ISPRS International Journal of Geo-InformationOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.57Q2 | 4.13 0.33 up from 2020 | 1,825 | 100% | $2,292 | ||
21Transportmetrica A Transport ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.50Q2 | 3.40 0.75 down from 2020 | 234 | 39% | — | ||
22Journal of Location Based ServicesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.49Q2 | 2.70 1.13 down from 2020 | 33 | 38% | — | ||
23Australian PlannerTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.45Q2 | 1.45 0.24 up from 2020 | 52 | 18% | — | ||
24Public TransportSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.37Q2 | 3.05 0.91 down from 2020 | 81 | 50% | $3,390 | ||
25Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.34Q2 | 3.20 0.51 up from 2020 | 310 | 43% | $3,650 | ||
26Networks and Spatial EconomicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.31Q3 | 2.71 0.14 up from 2020 | 123 | 54% | $3,090 | ||
27FindingsOAAustralia | 1.30Q3 | 3.34 1.94 up from 2020 | 53 | 100% | $100 | ||
28Journal of Advanced TransportationOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · Canada | 1.28Q3 | 3.11 0.36 down from 2020 | 986 | 100% | $2,760 | ||
29Journal of Urban Planning and DevelopmentAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.17Q3 | 2.62 0.10 up from 2020 | 230 | 10% | — | ||
30Transactions in GISWiley · United Kingdom | 1.11Q3 | 2.96 0.65 up from 2020 | 280 | 36% | $3,800 | ||
31Transportation Planning and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 1.05Q3 | 2.31 0.76 up from 2020 | 142 | 28% | — | ||
32Urban Rail TransitOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.02Q3 | 2.70 0.26 up from 2020 | 62 | 100% | $1,590 | ||
33Transportation LettersTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.01Q3 | 2.98 1.41 up from 2020 | 156 | 15% | — | ||
34Transportation research procediaOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.95Q3 | 3.30 0.93 up from 2020 | 1,725 | 100% | — | ||
35Articulo – revue de sciences humainesOASwitzerland | 0.80Q3 | 0.31 0.13 down from 2020 | 50 | 100% | — | ||
36Applied MobilitiesTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.78Q3 | 1.64 0.34 down from 2020 | 72 | 31% | — | ||
37Transportation in Developing EconomiesSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 0.63Q3 | 1.76 0.11 up from 2020 | 56 | 6% | $3,890 | ||
38European Transport/Trasporti EuropeiUniversity of Trieste · Italy | 0.62Q3 | 1.26 0.26 up from 2020 | 39 | 80% | — | ||
39European journal of transport and infrastructure researchOADelft University of Technology · Netherlands | 0.58Q4 | 1.49 0.02 up from 2020 | 82 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.52Q4 | 1.27 0.54 up from 2020 | 111 | 100% | — | |||
41Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Municipal EngineerThomas Telford Ltd. · United Kingdom | 0.46Q4 | 0.95 0.08 down from 2020 | 75 | 37% | — | ||
42ICTE 2019Publisher not listed | 0.46Q4 | 0.19no 2020 value | 127 | — | — | — | |
43CICTP 2019Publisher not listed | 0.41Q4 | 0.25 0.09 up from 2020 | 544 | — | — | ||
44ITE journalInstitute of Transportation Engineers · United States | 0.38Q4 | 1.44 0.61 up from 2020 | 44 | 0% | — | ||
45Transactions on Transport SciencesOAPalacký University Olomouc | 0.35Q4 | 1.07 0.72 up from 2020 | 42 | 100% | — | ||
46Asian Transport StudiesOAElsevier BV · Japan | 0.31Q4 | 0.73 0.14 up from 2020 | 63 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
47Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for transportation studies/Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation StudiesEastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies · Japan | 0.21Q4 | 0.51 0.35 up from 2020 | 74 | — | — | ||
48CICTP 2018Publisher not listed | 0.19Q4 | —no 2020 value | 277 | — | — | ||
49Journal of Transportation Systems Engineering and Information TechnologyScience Press · Netherlands | 0.12Q4 | 0.29 0.09 up from 2020 | 31 | 0% | — | ||
50CICTP 2020Publisher not listed | 0.10Q4 | 0.04no 2020 value | 461 | — | — | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Transportation highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,377
- Education762
- Political Science and International Relations333
- Communication75
- Gender Studies64
- Safety Research57
- Health55
- Public Administration52
- Urban Studies51
- Transportation50
- Law48
- Linguistics and Language48
- Demography42
- Library and Information Sciences41
- Anthropology38
- Geography, Planning and Development33
- Cultural Studies7
- Development4
- General Social Sciences3
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2021. Corpus-wide, 87.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
10 additional Transportation journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2018–2020, 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: 2021. Publication window: 2018–2020. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 50
- Window papers (baseline)
- 31,002 +2.6% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 1.33 -13.1% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2018–2020 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.