Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
Transportation journal rankings 2023
53 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Transportation has 53 ranked journals in 2023. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.16 against 1.00, unchanged on 2022. A journal needs OJR 2.01 to reach Q1. The top three are Multimodal Transportation, Cities, and Transport Policy.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2023. 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 2020–2022, the window the 2023 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)
53 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 2022. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2020–2022, the window the 2023 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2020–2022 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 2014 to 2023. | Compare |
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1Multimodal TransportationOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.86Q1 | 8.38no 2022 value | 39 | 100% | $1,800 | — | |
2CitiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.69Q1 | 7.60 0.36 down from 2022 | 1,290 | 46% | $3,000 | ||
3Transport PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.08Q1 | 8.09 0.72 down from 2022 | 713 | 45% | $2,890 | ||
4Journal of Transport GeographyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.01Q1 | 6.65 0.51 down from 2022 | 696 | 48% | $2,990 | ||
5Computers Environment and Urban SystemsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.92Q1 | 7.43 0.30 down from 2022 | 306 | 61% | $3,740 | ||
6Transport ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.84Q1 | 10.09 0.54 up from 2022 | 144 | 65% | — | ||
7Transportation Research Interdisciplinary PerspectivesOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.75Q1 | 5.55 4.98 down from 2022 | 602 | 100% | $2,400 | ||
8Transportation Research Part A Policy and PracticeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.66Q1 | 7.44 0.38 up from 2022 | 771 | 50% | $3,270 | ||
9Transportation Research Part D Transport and EnvironmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.64Q1 | 8.83 0.20 down from 2022 | 1,082 | 43% | $3,450 | ||
10Journal of Public TransportationOAUnited States | 2.39Q1 | 2.15 12.92 down from 2022 | 45 | 100% | $2,110 | ||
11Transportation Research Part B MethodologicalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.38Q1 | 6.42 0.31 down from 2022 | 421 | 42% | $3,810 | ||
12Travel Behaviour and SocietyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.36Q1 | 6.21 0.02 down from 2022 | 313 | 34% | $2,850 | ||
13European Transport Research ReviewOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.09Q1 | 7.24 1.29 up from 2022 | 174 | 100% | $1,990 | ||
14Research in Transportation Business & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.01Q1 | 5.39 0.20 up from 2022 | 359 | 38% | $2,620 | ||
15International Journal of Health GeographicsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.93Q2 | 3.83 2.92 down from 2022 | 121 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
16Research in Transportation EconomicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.82Q2 | 5.41 0.24 up from 2022 | 283 | 47% | $2,430 | ||
17Computational Urban ScienceOASpringer Nature · Singapore | 1.73Q2 | 4.29 0.97 up from 2022 | 75 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
18TransportationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.62Q2 | 4.06 0.42 down from 2022 | 279 | 53% | $2,990 | ||
19International Journal of Sustainable TransportationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.56Q2 | 3.92 0.05 down from 2022 | 224 | 34% | — | ||
20Journal of Transport & HealthElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.53Q2 | 3.57 0.52 down from 2022 | 519 | 56% | $2,720 | ||
21Journal of Urban MobilityOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.45Q2 | 4.19 1.02 up from 2022 | 42 | 100% | $1,590 | ||
22ISPRS International Journal of Geo-InformationOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.39Q2 | 3.67 0.68 down from 2022 | 2,198 | 100% | $2,292 | ||
23Case Studies on Transport PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.33Q2 | 3.63 0.22 up from 2022 | 525 | 45% | $1,950 | ||
24Transportation LettersTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.30Q2 | 3.91 0.42 up from 2022 | 260 | 15% | — | ||
25Transportmetrica A Transport ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.18Q2 | 3.05 0.07 down from 2022 | 251 | 33% | — | ||
26Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.17Q2 | 2.87 0.62 down from 2022 | 426 | 54% | $3,650 | ||
27Public TransportSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.16Q2 | 2.75 0.15 down from 2022 | 86 | 71% | $3,390 | ||
28Transactions in GISWiley · United Kingdom | 1.08Q3 | 2.64 0.29 down from 2022 | 384 | 50% | $3,800 | ||
29Urban Planning and Transport ResearchOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.99Q3 | 1.84 0.49 down from 2022 | 65 | 100% | $1,165 | ||
30Journal of Advanced TransportationOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · Canada | 0.97Q3 | 2.67 0.29 down from 2022 | 1,403 | 100% | $2,760 | ||
31Journal of Transport and Land UseOAUniversity of Minnesota · United States | 0.92Q3 | 1.87 0.52 down from 2022 | 130 | 100% | $750 | ||
32Asian Transport StudiesOAElsevier BV · Japan | 0.90Q3 | 2.39 0.36 up from 2022 | 83 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
33Journal of Urban Planning and DevelopmentAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 0.90Q3 | 1.95 0.67 down from 2022 | 365 | 8% | — | ||
34FindingsOAAustralia | 0.89Q3 | 1.62 1.07 down from 2022 | 174 | 100% | $100 | ||
35Transportation research procediaOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.87Q3 | 2.08 0.39 down from 2022 | 2,262 | 100% | — | ||
36Australian PlannerTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.87Q3 | 1.66 0.08 up from 2022 | 60 | 61% | — | ||
37Frontiers in Future TransportationOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 0.83Q3 | 2.24 0.17 up from 2022 | 73 | 100% | $2,353 | ||
38Journal of Location Based ServicesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.81Q3 | 2.03 0.69 down from 2022 | 40 | 60% | — | ||
39Urban Rail TransitOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.79Q3 | 2.10 0.38 up from 2022 | 61 | 100% | $1,590 | ||
40Transportation in Developing EconomiesSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 0.77Q3 | 2.20 0.04 up from 2022 | 84 | 6% | $3,890 | ||
41European journal of transport and infrastructure researchOADelft University of Technology · Netherlands | 0.75Q4 | 1.61 0.06 up from 2022 | 72 | 100% | — | ||
42Transportation Planning and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.74Q4 | 1.97 0.12 down from 2022 | 126 | 27% | — | ||
43Applied MobilitiesTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.74Q4 | 0.90 0.47 down from 2022 | 57 | 23% | — | ||
44Networks and Spatial EconomicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.56Q4 | 1.95 0.43 down from 2022 | 91 | 21% | $3,090 | ||
45Transactions on Transport SciencesOAPalacký University Olomouc | 0.53Q4 | 1.23 0.52 down from 2022 | 62 | 100% | — | ||
46Active Travel StudiesOAUnited Kingdom | 0.52Q4 | 1.74 1.28 up from 2022 | 31 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.50Q4 | 1.61 0.07 up from 2022 | 118 | 100% | — | |||
48ICTE 2019Publisher not listed | 0.32Q4 | —no 2022 value | 127 | — | — | ||
49European Transport/Trasporti EuropeiUniversity of Trieste · Italy | 0.31Q4 | 0.89 0.11 down from 2022 | 111 | 100% | — | ||
50Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Municipal EngineerThomas Telford Ltd. · United Kingdom | 0.30Q4 | 0.62 0.63 down from 2022 | 40 | 16% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Transportation highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,403
- Education732
- Political Science and International Relations334
- Communication73
- Gender Studies66
- Safety Research59
- Health55
- Transportation53
- Public Administration52
- Urban Studies52
- Linguistics and Language49
- Law45
- Library and Information Sciences41
- Demography40
- Anthropology38
- Geography, Planning and Development33
- Cultural Studies9
- Development4
- General Social Sciences4
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Life-span and Life-course Studies1
- Archeology0
Journals
Citations made in 2023. Corpus-wide, 88.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
6 additional Transportation journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2020–2022, 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: 2023. Publication window: 2020–2022. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 53
- Window papers (baseline)
- 31,901 +8.6% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 1.1610 -22.4% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2020–2022 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.