Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Subfield ranking · 2024
Transportation journal rankings 2024
51 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Transportation has 51 ranked journals in 2024. The median OJR rose 0.07 on 2023 to 1.23, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.97. The top three are Cities, Computers Environment and Urban Systems, and Transport Reviews.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2024. 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 2021–2023, the window the 2024 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)
51 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 2023. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2021–2023, the window the 2024 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2021–2023 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 2015 to 2024. | Compare |
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1CitiesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.70Q1 | 7.84 0.24 up from 2023 | 1,387 | 48% | $3,000 | ||
2Computers Environment and Urban SystemsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.25Q1 | 9.66 2.23 up from 2023 | 299 | 62% | $3,740 | ||
3Transport ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.08Q1 | 10.84 0.75 up from 2023 | 137 | 63% | — | ||
4Journal of Transport GeographyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.81Q1 | 6.92 0.27 up from 2023 | 647 | 51% | $2,990 | ||
5Multimodal TransportationOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.63Q1 | 7.62 0.76 down from 2023 | 66 | 100% | $1,800 | ||
6Transportation Research Part A Policy and PracticeElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.55Q1 | 7.41 0.03 down from 2023 | 775 | 56% | $3,270 | ||
7Transport PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.44Q1 | 6.19 1.90 down from 2023 | 752 | 43% | $2,890 | ||
8Transportation Research Part D Transport and EnvironmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.42Q1 | 8.68 0.15 down from 2023 | 1,041 | 44% | $3,450 | ||
9Transportation Research Part B MethodologicalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.37Q1 | 6.46 0.04 up from 2023 | 408 | 51% | $3,810 | ||
10Travel Behaviour and SocietyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.32Q1 | 6.42 0.21 up from 2023 | 373 | 42% | $2,850 | ||
11Journal of Urban MobilityOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.32Q1 | 7.57 3.38 up from 2023 | 68 | 100% | $1,590 | ||
12Research in Transportation Business & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.00Q1 | 5.43 0.04 up from 2023 | 335 | 39% | $2,620 | ||
13Computational Urban ScienceOASpringer Nature · Singapore | 1.97Q1 | 5.18 0.89 up from 2023 | 111 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
14European Transport Research ReviewOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.87Q2 | 5.35 1.89 down from 2023 | 156 | 100% | $1,990 | ||
15Transportation Research Interdisciplinary PerspectivesOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.79Q2 | 4.82 0.73 down from 2023 | 650 | 100% | $2,400 | ||
16International Journal of Health GeographicsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.77Q2 | 4.14 0.31 up from 2023 | 102 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
17Urban InformaticsOASpringer Science+Business Media | 1.68Q2 | 5.13 1.82 up from 2023 | 30 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
18Research in Transportation EconomicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.59Q2 | 3.36 2.05 down from 2023 | 230 | 55% | $2,430 | ||
19TransportationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.51Q2 | 3.70 0.36 down from 2023 | 296 | 56% | $2,990 | ||
20Journal of Public TransportationOAUnited States | 1.48Q2 | 4.00 1.85 up from 2023 | 80 | 100% | $2,110 | ||
21International Journal of Sustainable TransportationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.47Q2 | 4.64 0.72 up from 2023 | 181 | 34% | — | ||
22Case Studies on Transport PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.45Q2 | 4.31 0.68 up from 2023 | 556 | 39% | $1,950 | ||
23ISPRS International Journal of Geo-InformationOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.38Q2 | 3.57 0.10 down from 2023 | 1,955 | 100% | $2,292 | ||
24Journal of Transport & HealthElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.37Q2 | 3.12 0.45 down from 2023 | 525 | 56% | $2,720 | ||
25Transportation LettersTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.31Q2 | 3.86 0.05 down from 2023 | 279 | 10% | — | ||
26Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.23Q2 | 3.30 0.43 up from 2023 | 450 | 63% | $3,650 | ||
27Asian Transport StudiesOAElsevier BV · Japan | 1.06Q3 | 2.77 0.38 up from 2023 | 79 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
28Applied MobilitiesTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.05Q3 | 1.70 0.80 up from 2023 | 43 | 63% | — | ||
29Transportmetrica A Transport ScienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.05Q3 | 3.63 0.58 up from 2023 | 206 | 14% | — | ||
30Urban Planning and Transport ResearchOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.02Q3 | 2.12 0.28 up from 2023 | 113 | 100% | $1,165 | ||
31Urban Rail TransitOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.00Q3 | 2.98 0.88 up from 2023 | 65 | 100% | $1,590 | ||
32Journal of Transport and Land UseOAUniversity of Minnesota · United States | 0.97Q3 | 2.51 0.64 up from 2023 | 119 | 100% | $750 | ||
33Transactions in GISWiley · United Kingdom | 0.97Q3 | 2.68 0.04 up from 2023 | 372 | 47% | $3,800 | ||
34Public TransportSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.96Q3 | 2.58 0.16 down from 2023 | 82 | 41% | $3,390 | ||
35Journal of Urban Planning and DevelopmentAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 0.93Q3 | 2.19 0.24 up from 2023 | 384 | 19% | — | ||
36Transportation in Developing EconomiesSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 0.93Q3 | 2.12 0.08 down from 2023 | 82 | 8% | $3,890 | ||
37Frontiers in Future TransportationOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 0.85Q3 | 1.82 0.42 down from 2023 | 91 | 100% | $2,353 | ||
38Journal of Advanced TransportationOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · Canada | 0.85Q3 | 2.42 0.25 down from 2023 | 1,214 | 100% | $2,760 | ||
39Australian PlannerTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.82Q3 | 1.54 0.12 down from 2023 | 58 | 65% | — | ||
40Transportation Planning and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.64Q4 | 1.99 0.02 up from 2023 | 149 | 28% | — | ||
41European journal of transport and infrastructure researchOADelft University of Technology · Netherlands | 0.62Q4 | 2.15 0.54 up from 2023 | 47 | 100% | — | ||
42FindingsOAAustralia | 0.61Q4 | 1.19 0.43 down from 2023 | 177 | 100% | $100 | ||
43Active Travel StudiesOAUnited Kingdom | 0.59Q4 | 1.33 0.41 down from 2023 | 42 | 100% | — | ||
44Journal of Location Based ServicesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.57Q4 | 1.93 0.10 down from 2023 | 46 | 59% | — | ||
45Networks and Spatial EconomicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.54Q4 | 1.40 0.56 down from 2023 | 93 | 31% | $3,090 | ||
| 0.52Q4 | 1.96 0.34 up from 2023 | 147 | 100% | — | |||
47Transportation research procediaOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.48Q4 | 1.25 0.83 down from 2023 | 2,731 | 100% | — | ||
48Transactions on Transport SciencesOAPalacký University Olomouc | 0.45Q4 | 1.02 0.21 down from 2023 | 65 | 100% | — | ||
49European Transport/Trasporti EuropeiUniversity of Trieste · Italy | 0.42Q4 | 1.07 0.18 up from 2023 | 127 | 100% | — | ||
50Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Municipal EngineerThomas Telford Ltd. · United Kingdom | 0.24Q4 | 0.72 0.11 up from 2023 | 43 | 13% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Transportation highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,402
- Education698
- Political Science and International Relations334
- Communication72
- Gender Studies66
- Safety Research60
- Health56
- Urban Studies54
- Public Administration51
- Transportation51
- Linguistics and Language48
- Law46
- Demography40
- Library and Information Sciences40
- Anthropology36
- Geography, Planning and Development35
- Cultural Studies10
- Development4
- General Social Sciences2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Life-span and Life-course Studies1
- Archeology0
Journals
Citations made in 2024. Corpus-wide, 87.1% 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 2021–2023, 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: 2024. Publication window: 2021–2023. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 51
- Window papers (baseline)
- 30,499 -1.6% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 1.23 -7.1% from indicator year 2021
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2021–2023 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.