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Public Roads

U.S. Federal Highway Administration · United States

ISSN0033-3735

SJR Q4✓ Scopus / SJR

Journal Impact Factor

Not on record at PubScope. The Journal Impact Factor is published by Clarivate for Web of Science (JCR)–indexed journals.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Bottom 25%

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.108

H-Indexi

Total Worksi

1,270

Total Citationsi

4,631

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.00

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Civil and Structural Engineering; Geography, Planning and Development; Transportation.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary Language—

1st Year Published—

Annual Volume~ 9 articles / year

StatusActive

Total Publications1,270

Publisher OrgU.S. Federal Highway Administration

Submission Info

Publishing ModelSubscription

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

4/11 · 36%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

U.S. Federal Highway Administration

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Does the journal have a website?

No URL

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Is the ISSN verified?

0033-3735

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Indexed in a trusted database?

Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

N/A

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

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Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Civil and Structural EngineeringQ4

Geography, Planning and DevelopmentQ4

TransportationQ4

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

TransportationGeography, Planning and DevelopmentCivil and Structural Engineering

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Transportation Systems and InfrastructureTransportation Safety and Impact AnalysisTraffic and Road SafetyInfrastructure Maintenance and MonitoringTransportation Planning and OptimizationTraffic Prediction and Management TechniquesAsphalt Pavement Performance EvaluationUnderground infrastructure and sustainabilityTransport and Economic PoliciesGeotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures

Frequently asked questions about Public Roads

Is Public Roads a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Public Roads: it is indexed in Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Public Roads?

Public Roads is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 0.108.

Is Public Roads indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Public Roads is indexed in Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Public Roads?