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Urban Rail Transit

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH · Germany · Est. 2015

ISSN2199-6679

SJR Q1✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

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.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.602

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.015

Total Worksi

254

Total Citationsi

3,405

2yr Mean Citednessi

3.28

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Transportation; Transportation Science & Technology; Automotive Engineering; Urban Studies; Civil and Structural Engineering; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Geography, Planning and Development.

General Information

Country / RegionGermany

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2015

FrequencyQuarterly

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications254

Publisher OrgSpringer Science+Business Media

OA Since2014

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Submission Info

Peer ReviewDouble-blind

OA LicenseCC BY

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✓ Yes

📦 Long-term Preservation

PorticoCLOCKSS

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

10/11 · 91%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2199-6679

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, DOAJ

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Peer review process documented?

Double-blind

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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?

Portico, CLOCKSS

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Plagiarism detection in place?

Yes

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

DOAJ verified

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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

515

2019

258

2020

258

2021

257

2022

222

2023

208

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.

Automotive EngineeringQ1

Urban StudiesQ1

Civil and Structural EngineeringQ2

Electrical and Electronic EngineeringQ2

Geography, Planning and DevelopmentQ2

TransportationQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

TransportationTransportation Science & Technology

Scopus Categories

Urban StudiesAutomotive EngineeringTransportationElectrical and Electronic EngineeringGeography, Planning and DevelopmentCivil and Structural Engineering

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Transportation Planning and OptimizationUrban Transport and AccessibilityRailway Engineering and DynamicsRailway Systems and Energy EfficiencyUrban and Freight Transport LogisticsTraffic Prediction and Management TechniquesTransportation and Mobility InnovationsEvacuation and Crowd DynamicsTraffic and Road SafetyInfrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring

Frequently asked questions about Urban Rail Transit

Is Urban Rail Transit a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Urban Rail Transit: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ, 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 Urban Rail Transit?

Urban Rail Transit 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 3.28.

Is Urban Rail Transit indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Urban Rail Transit is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ.