Transportation · 502 journals indexed
Best journals for Transportation
The top Transportation journals ranked by Scimago quartile, then cites/paper (OpenAlex, 2-year window), drawn from a 17,786-venue index. Predatory venues are excluded. These are field-wide rankings — for a shortlist matched to your specific paper, paste your title and abstract into the Journal Finder (a free account starts with 25 welcome credits).
- 1Smart Cities8.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
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- 3Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment7.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 4Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies6.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 6Journal of Intensive Care5.4 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed CentralOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 10Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice4.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 12Laboratory Animal Research3.8 cites/paper · Q1 · BioMed CentralOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 13ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information3.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 14The World Journal of Men s Health3.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Korean Society for Sexual Medicine and AndrologyOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 17Urban Science2.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 18International Journal of Sustainable Transportation2.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & FrancisScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 20Research in Transportation Business & Management2.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 21Journal of Bone Metabolism2.6 cites/paper · Q1 · The Korean Society for Bone and Mineral ResearchScopusPubMed
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- 23Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives2.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 25Transportmetrica A Transport Science2.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & FrancisScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 26Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science2.2 cites/paper · Q1 · SAGE PublishingScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 29Археология Евразийских степей0.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Tatarstan Academy of SciencesOpen AccessDOAJScopus
- 30Journal of Urban Planning and Development2.1 cites/paper · Q2 · American Society of Civil EngineersScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 31The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine2.0 cites/paper · Q2 · Korean Association of Internal MedicineOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 32Transport2.0 cites/paper · Q2 · Vilnius Gediminas Technical UniversityOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
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- 34Journal of Advanced Transportation1.9 cites/paper · Q2 · Hindawi Publishing CorporationOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 35Journal of Transportation Engineering Part A Systems1.3 cites/paper · Q2 · American Society of Civil EngineersScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 36PROMET - Traffic&Transportation1.2 cites/paper · Q2 · University of Zagreb, Faculty of Transport and Traffic SciencesOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
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- 38Distributed Computing1.1 cites/paper · Q2 · Springer Science+Business MediaScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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“Cites/paper” is the OpenAlex 2-year citation rate — a transparent signal, not a licensed Impact Factor. Many regional and open-access journals are strong but aren’t covered by Scimago, so they show “no Scimago quartile”; that’s a coverage gap, not a quality judgement.
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