About this journal
Aims and scope
Transport Reviews is an international review journal covering all aspects of transport. It provides authoritative and up to date research-based reviews of transport related topics that are informative to those that are knowledgeable in the subject area. It also provides a means by which experts from different backgrounds can find out about the subject area, so the papers should be accessible to a wide ranging readership.
Transport Reviews encourages submissions from all disciplinary perspectives (e.g. economics or engineering), all relevant subject areas (e.g. social issues or environment), and all methodological approaches (e.g. modelling, qualitative approaches or mixed-methods). The reviews normally present new methodological approaches, new analysis, innovative perspectives and original data, but are not exclusively research based.
Transport Reviews has authors from a range of backgrounds, including conventional academic authors, and those working in consultancies, local authorities, government departments and the international agencies. The geographic spread of authors is extensive.
A Review Paper “takes a comprehensive overview of a subject, bringing together the material and coming to some interesting conclusions”. There are four main elements that we are looking for:
a) The review should be authoritative, critical and add value to the literature;
b) The paper should primarily be a review, although secondary data showing general trends can be used. Primary data analyses (including data collection and data analysis) are beyond the scope of the journal. The conclusions should always relate to the review elements of the paper;
c) In all cases, the discussion must be in the context of the relevant peer-reviewed literature, and as relevant, the grey literature. More general conclusions should be drawn so that the paper is of interest to a wide range of readers;
d) The review should be interesting, readable, up to date and be written in such a way that it will provide valuable insights and encourage discussion and debate.
Additional information on writing a literature review for Transport Reviews can be found here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01441647.2015.1065456. Further tips are also available on our Author Services website.
For more information about the journal please see www.tandfonline.com/TTRV.
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Open Access
Gold Open Access ensures your article is freely and permanently available online. To provide Gold Open Access, this journal has an Article Publishing Charge (APC). You can find the APC for publishing your article Open Access in Transport Reviews here.
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Journal metrics
Usage
- 618K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 9.5 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 11.5 (2023) 5 year IF
- 17.7 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 3.905 (2023) SNIP
- 3.016 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 4 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 71 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 11 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 10% 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-IN-CHIEF
Jonas De Vos, Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, UK
Ahmed El-Geneidy, School of Urban Planning, McGill University, Canada
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Johan Woxenius, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
EDITORIAL BOARD
Nihan Akyelken, Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford, UK
David Banister, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, UK
Eleni Bardaka, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University, USA
Michael Browne, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Ralph Buehler, School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Tech, USA
Lucy Budd, Leicester Castle Business School, De Montfort University, UK
Anne Brown, School of Planning, Public Policy and Management, University of Oregon, USA
Oded Cats, Department of Transport and Planning, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
Long Cheng, School of Transportation, Southeast University, China
Nicola Christie, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, University College London, UK
Alexa Delbosc, Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University, Australia
Laura Eboli, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Calabria, Italy
Alireza Ermagun, Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science, George Mason University, USA
Susan Handy, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California - Davis, USA
Sylvia He, Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Eva Heinen, Department of Spatial Planning, Technical University of Dortmund, Germany
Johan W. Joubert, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leuven, Belgium
Huyen Le, Department of Geography, The Ohio State University, USA
Cathy Macharis, Department of Business Technology and Operations, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Dimitris Milakis, Institute of Transport Research, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
Catherine Morency, Department of Civil, Geological and Mining Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada
Oscar Oviedo-Trespalacios, Department of Values, Technology and Innovation (VTI), Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
John Pucher, Bloustein School of Planning and Policy, Rutgers University, USA
Luis Rizzi Campanella, Department of Transportation and Logistics Engineering, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Chile
Jean-Paul Rodrigue, Department of Global Studies and Geography, Hofstra University, USA
Jan-Dirk Schmöcker, Department of Urban Management, Kyoto University, Japan
Susan Shaheen, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California - Berkeley, USA
Atiyya Shaw, Civil and Environmntal Engineering, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, USA
Patrick Singleton, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Utah State University, USA
Yusak Susilo, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria
Araz Taeihagh, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Bert van Wee, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Donggen Wang, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Jiaoe Wang, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Gordon Wilmsmeier, School of Management, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
Frank Witlox, Department of Geography, Ghent University, Belgium
Abstracting and indexing
Transport Reviews is abstracted in: Current Contents, Geographical Abstracts: Human Geography, International Development Abstracts and Social Science Citation Index.
Open access
Transport Reviews 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)
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