About this journal
Aims and scope
The International Journal of Sustainable Transportation provides a discussion forum for the exchange of new and innovative ideas on sustainable transportation research in the context of environmental, economical, social, and engineering aspects, as well as current and future interactions of transportation systems and other urban subsystems.
The scope includes the examination of overall sustainability of any transportation system, including its infrastructure, vehicle, operation, and maintenance; the integration of social science disciplines, engineering, and information technology with transportation; the understanding of the comparative aspects of different transportation systems from a global perspective; qualitative and quantitative transportation studies; and case studies, surveys, and expository papers in an international or local context.
Equal emphasis is placed on the problems of sustainable transportation that are associated with passenger and freight transportation modes in both industrialized and non-industrialized areas.
All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial evaluation by the Editors and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert reviewers. All peer review is single-anonymized. Submissions are made online via ScholarOne Manuscripts.
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Journal metrics
Usage
- 203K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 3.1 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 4.2 (2023) 5 year IF
- 8.9 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 1.605 (2023) SNIP
- 1.222 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 15 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 143 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 19 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 5% 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.
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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-in-Chief:
S.C. Wong - The University of Hong Kong, Dept. of Civil Engineeering, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
Keechoo Choi - Ajou University, Dept. of Transportation Engineering, College of Engineering, San 5 Woncheon-Dong, Paldal-Ku, Suwon, 442-749, Korea
Founding Editor:
Chang-Ho Park
Associate Editors:
Asad J. Khattak - University of Tennessee, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 322 J.D. Tickle Bldg., Knoxville, TN 37996-2010
Robert Noland - Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University, 33 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
Editorial Board:
Mohamed Abdel-Aty - University of Central Florida, USA
Gulsah Akar - Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Adjo Amekudzi - Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Ralph Buehler - Virginia Tech, USA
Huey-Kuo Chen - National Central University, Taiwan
Christopher R. Cherry - University of Tennessee, USA
Margarida Coelho - University of Aveiro, Portugal
Jin-Hyuk Chung - Yonsei University, Korea
Chengri Ding - University of Maryland, USA
Jing Dong - Iowa State University, USA
Ying-En Ge - Chang'an University, China
Susan Handy - University of California at Davis, USA
Benjamin G. Heydecker - University College London, UK
Jee Eun "Jamie" Kang - University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA
Sigal Kaplan - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Der-Horng Lee - Zhejiang University, China
Jinwoo Lee - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Seungjae Lee - University of Seoul, Korea
Zhi-Chun Li - Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Jane Lin - University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Zhenhong Lin - South China University of Technology, China
Robin Lindsey - University of British Columbia, Canada
Hong K. Lo - The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Becky P.Y. Loo - The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Patricia L. Mokhtarian - Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Se-il Mun - Doshisha University, Japan
Anna Nagurney - University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA
David A. Noyce - University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
Byungkyu (Brian) Park - University of Virginia, USA
Carlo Prato - University of Leeds, UK
Bin Ran - University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
Daniel Rodriguez - University of California, Berkeley USA
Susan Shaheen - University of California, Berkeley, USA
Tony Sze - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
W.Y. Szeto - The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Richard Tay - RMIT University, Australia
Harry Timmermans - Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Simon P. Washington - Advanced Mobility Analytics Group, Australia
Yafeng Yin -University of Michigan, USA
Christopher Zegras - MIT, USA
Yu Zhang - University of South Florida, USA
Shengchuan Zhao - Dalian University of Technology, China
Abstracting and indexing
Abstracted/indexed in: CSA Technology Research Database; Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences; Geobase; Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition; Social Sciences Citation Index; Social Scisearch; and Scopus.
Open access
International Journal of Sustainable Transportation 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.
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- 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
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