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Berghahn Books Inc. · United States · Est. 2011

ISSN2045-4821

SJR Q4✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (ESCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

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The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q4. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 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

0.279

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.571

Total Worksi

519

Total Citationsi

1,662

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.07

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: History; Transportation.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2011

Annual Volume~ 22 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications519

Publisher OrgBerghahn Books

Submission Info

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

5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Berghahn Books Inc.

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Does the journal have a website?

No URL

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Is the ISSN verified?

2045-4821

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, 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?

English

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

107

2019

106

2020

151

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

2026

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.

TransportationQ4

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

History

Scopus Categories

Transportation

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Geographies of human-animal interactionsHistorical Studies and Socio-cultural AnalysisTravel Writing and LiteratureUrban Transport and AccessibilityFrench Urban and Social StudiesDiaspora, migration, transnational identityGlobal Maritime and Colonial HistoriesWater Governance and InfrastructureMigration, Refugees, and IntegrationChinese history and philosophy

Frequently asked questions about Transfers

Is Transfers a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Transfers: it is indexed in Web of Science, 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 Transfers?

Transfers is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.07.

Is Transfers indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Transfers is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Transfers?