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Communications in Transportation Research

Tsinghua University Press · China · Est. 2021

ISSN2772-4247

SJR Q1✓ WOS SCIE✓ WOS SSCI✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE · SSCI) — 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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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

1.97

H-Indexi

SNIPi

3.214

Total Worksi

213

Total Citationsi

4,172

2yr Mean Citednessi

6.94

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

Communications in Transportation Research publishes peer-reviewed research on emerging transport systems. Its scope includes artificial intelligence and transportation, electric vehicles, multimodal transportation, transportation systems, automated vehicles, transportation policy, interactions among transportation systems and other systems, and the integration of emerging technologies with transportation systems.

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General Information

Country / RegionChina

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2021

Annual Volume~ 45 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications213

Publisher OrgElsevier BV

Region🌍 Global South

OA Since2020

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Submission Info

Peer ReviewSingle-blind

OA LicenseCC BY, CC BY-NC-ND

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?

Tsinghua University Press

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2772-4247

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, DOAJ

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Peer review process documented?

Single-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

1.4k

2021

1.3k

2022

792

2023

878

2024

612

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.

Control and Systems EngineeringQ1

Decision Sciences (miscellaneous)Q1

TransportationQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

TransportationTransportation Science & Technology

Scopus Categories

TransportationControl and Systems EngineeringDecision Sciences (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Transportation Planning and OptimizationTraffic control and managementAutonomous Vehicle Technology and SafetyTransportation and Mobility InnovationsTraffic Prediction and Management TechniquesUrban Transport and AccessibilityElectric Vehicles and InfrastructureVehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs)Human Mobility and Location-Based AnalysisTraffic and Road Safety

Frequently asked questions about Communications in Transportation Research

Is Communications in Transportation Research a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Communications in Transportation Research: 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 Communications in Transportation Research?

Communications in Transportation Research 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 6.94.

Is Communications in Transportation Research indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Communications in Transportation Research is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ.