About this journal
Aims and scope
Co-founded by John Urry, Mimi Sheller and Kevin Hannam in 2006 Mobilities has grown and developed into the internationally recognised Journal it is today. Mobilities was accepted by the SSCI in 2010 and stands as a testament to John Urry's pioneering work and leadership in the 'new mobilities paradigm' in social science research. Following John Urry's death in 2016 the Editorial team has grown to include Kevin Hannam, David Tyfield, Julie Cidell, Pete Adey and Kathy Burrell.
A statement from Lancaster University paying tribute to John Urry can be found here: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/john-urry/
The journal addresses major topical issues and fosters scholarly debate around the ‘mobilities’ turn. Papers sent for peer review from this journal generally have a strong theoretical as well as empirical focus in mobilities scholarship specifically. Even as they may bring new angles and thinking to the field, we expect articles to make their contributions to 'mobilities turn' literature, theory, methods and audiences, deliberate and explicit. While initially core contributions have come from multi-disciplinary ‘movement-based’ fields such as tourism, transport and migration studies, submissions that focus only on such issues but are not engaged with mobilities scholarship in this way will be returned to authors for submission to a more appropriate journal in those sub-disciplines.
Conversely, the journal recognises and welcomes interdisciplinary scholarship across the broad range of issues specifically engaging with mobilities scholarship, and encourages both qualitative social science and arts & humanities approaches. While the journal has not generally published 'review' or 'state of the art' articles in the past, we now welcome ideas for review pieces that both critically synthesise and push on new directions in the field – please contact the editors before submission of those articles if you have a review idea you would like to discuss.
Mobilities publishes original, theoretically-informed research which is international in scope. We positively encourage submissions from scholars of all ethnicities, and researchers writing from or about the Global South. Mobilities has always encouraged early career researchers to consider publication in Mobilities, and we endeavour to ensure that our review and editorial process is kind, constructive and timely.
Peer Review Statement
All submissions undergo rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by up to three referees. The decisions of the editors are final.
Notes for Contributors
Journal metrics
Usage
- 234K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 2.9 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 3.2 (2023) 5 year IF
- 5.4 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 1.728 (2023) SNIP
- 1.101 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 13 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 99 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 21 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 21% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Editors:
Professor Peter Adey, Biography Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Professor Kathy Burrell, Biography, University of Liverpool, UK
Professor Julie Cidell, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Professor Kevin Hannam, City University of Macau, Macau PRC
Professor David Tyfield, Biography, LEC, Lancaster University, UK
Founding Editor
Professor John Urry (1946-2016)
Editorial Board:
Rachel Aldred, University of Westminster, UK
Thiago Allis, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Kaya Barry, Griffith University, Australia
Frauke Behrendt, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Thomas Birtchnell, University of Wollongong, Australia
David Bissell, University of Melbourne, Australia
Monika Büscher, Lancaster University, UK
Noel Cass, Leeds University, UK
Peter Chambers, RMIT, Australia
Catharine Coleborne, University of Newcastle, Australia
Tim Cresswell, North Eastern University, USA
Tim Edensor, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Martin Emanuel, KTH Institute, Sweden
Malene Freudendal-Pedersen, Roskilde University, Denmark
Jennie Germann Molz, College of the Holy Cross, USA
Govind Gopakumar, Concordia University, Canada
Jason Henderson, San Francisco State University, USA
Henk van Houtum, Radboud University, The Netherlands
Allison Hui, Lancaster University, UK
Benjamin Lucca Iaquinto, University of Hong Kong, China
Irit Katz, University of Cambridge, UK
Sven Kesselring, Nürtingen-Geislingen University, Germany
Paola Jirón Martínez, University of Chile, Chile
Jonas Larsen, Roskilde University, Denmark
Jinhyoung Lee, Konkuk University, South Korea
Weiqiang Lin, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Peter Merriman, Aberystwyth University, UK
Massimo Moraglio, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Lesley Murray, University of Brighton, UK
Peter Peters, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands
Gina Porter, University of Durham, UK
Jillian Rickly, University of Nottingham, UK
Bradley Rink, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Joris Schapendonk, Radboud University, The Netherlands
Wladimir Sgibnev, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Germany
Stephanie Sodero, University of Manchester, UK
Adriana de Souza e Silva, North Carolina State University, USA
Justin Spinney, Cardiff University, UK
Tauri Tuvikene, Tallinn University, Estonia
Phillip Vannini, Royal Roads University, Canada
Honggang Xu, Sun Yat Sen University, China
Dennis Zuev, CIES-ISCTE-IUL, Portugal
Abstracting and indexing
Clarivate:
Social Sciences Citation Index
Web of Science
Elsevier:
Geobase
Scopus
Knowledge E (Zendy)
NHN (NAVER)
RePEc
World Transit Research (Monash University)
TRIS (Transit Research Board)
E-Lib Bremen (University of Bremen)
Safety Lit (Centre for Injury prevention)
EBSCO
ProQuest:
Health Research Premium Collection
Public Health Database
SciTech Premium Collection
Natural Science Collection
Environmental Science Collection
Environmental Science Database
Social Science Premium Collection
Sociology Collection
Sociological Abstracts
ProQuest Central
ProQuest Central Essentials
ProQuest Central Student
ProQuest Central Basic (Korea)
Open access
Mobilities is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
Why choose open access?
- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
If you choose to publish open access in this journal you may be asked to pay an Article Publishing Charge (APC). You may be able to publish your article at no cost to yourself or with a reduced APC if your institution or research funder has an open access agreement or membership with Taylor & Francis.
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10 issues per year
Associated with:
- Applied Mobilities (2016 - current)
Special Issues
Mobilities welcomes proposals for special issues. The deadlines for proposals is 30 June each year. Please note that Mobilities receives more proposals than we have space for and competition is fierce. Special Issue proposals should be sent direct to [email protected]. Please do not submit special issue proposals through the online submission system at this stage. Special issue proposals received during the year will be acknowledged and considered by the Editors in July/August following the deadline when all proposals will be examined for publication.
For each special issue:
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We recommend that you consult the journal’s Aims and Scope to ensure that this journal is a good fit for your proposed Special Issue. Specifically, this is a journal of largely qualitative social science focused on the ‘mobilities’ turn, and we will not consider proposals that are focused on questions of the engineering or technical aspects of mobility systems or transport studies.
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We require a working title, short details of each author and the special issue editors, article abstracts, keywords and details of how these articles are tied together relating to the Mobilities literature;
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Special Issue Editor(s) should commission, edit papers and produce an introduction.
The special issue should be delivered to Mobilities only after the Special Issue Editor(s) have completed their own internal review of the articles; -
Special issues should be around 75 - 90,000 words and made up of 5-8 articles.
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Please refer to our Instructions for Authors for layout, in particular our referencing style etc.
- If the special issue is commissioned for publication the Managing Editor (Pennie Drinkall) will agree an estimated publication date, nominate a Mobilities Editor and draw up a timetable;
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It is the responsibility of the Special Issue Editors to appoint an external referee or referees to undertake the 'blind' review of the issue. Mobilities journal will appoint their own internal referee;
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The Mobilities Editors, on the basis of those assessments, will approve all or some of the issue;
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The Mobilities Editors reserve the right to make the topic a section rather than a whole issue;
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Upon receipt of the referees' report the Managing Editor will send the comments and date for return direct to the corresponding Special Issue Editor and the Mobilities Editor. The Managing Editor will also forward copies of the reports to both referees.
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