Journal profile · Social Sciences-Safety Research
Journal of Air Transportation
ISSN 2380-9450 · American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Journal of Air Transportation: subscription journal; median 192 days to acceptance (60 articles, last 24 months); 30 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Air Transportation is published by American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Air Traffic Management and Optimization, Aerospace and Aviation Technology and Human-Automation Interaction and Safety, together about 50.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Aerospace Engineering. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
This journal is devoted to the dissemination of original archival papers describing new developments in air traffic management and aviation operations of all flight vehicles, including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and space vehicles, operating in the global airspace system. The scope of the journal includes theory, applications, technologies, operations, economics, and policy. Among the subjects addressed are collision avoidance, separation assurance, traffic flow management, en route and terminal airspace operations, airport surface operations, air-ground collaboration for traffic management, trajectory based operations, avionics, aviation weather, flight operations, standards, procedures, training, and certification, aviation policy, airline economics, and cost/benefit analyses of aviation systems. Also included are aviation-specific aspects of some broader subjects: communications, navigation, and surveillance (CNS), operations research, systems engineering and complexity, system safety and resilience, human factors, decision support tools, human-machine interaction, and automation/autonomy. Papers are sought which report on quantitative studies, results of original research, and innovative applications.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Social Sciences-Safety Research
Editor-in-chief Craig R. WankePublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Air Traffic Management and OptimizationEngineering33%
- Aerospace and Aviation TechnologyEngineering9.4%
- Human-Automation Interaction and SafetyPsychology8.2%
- Aviation Industry Analysis and TrendsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance7.4%
- Advanced Aircraft Design and TechnologiesEnvironmental Science6.4%
- Railway Systems and Energy EfficiencyEngineering5.3%
- Healthcare Operations and Scheduling OptimizationHealth Professions3.8%
- Aerospace Engineering and Control SystemsEngineering3.6%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
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CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
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CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
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CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Safety Research | Q2 | 41/108 | 62nd |
| Aerospace Engineering | Q2 | 64/169 | 62nd |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | Q2 | 203/432 | 53rd |
| Management of Technology and Innovation | Q2 | 152/317 | 52nd |
| Transportation | Q2 | 83/169 | 51st |
| Energy (miscellaneous) | Q3 | 61/106 | 42nd |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
Database indexing
ScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.6LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.41LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.13LetPub ·
- h-index
- 21OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 65OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.7OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 274 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 35 | 5 | 279 |
| 2025 | 30 | 3 | 270 |
| 2024 | 25 | 3 | 261 |
| 2023 | 20 | 6 | 245 |
| 2022 | 17 | 4 | 205 |
| 2021 | 14 | 1 | 182 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
192 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 145 days – 261 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 43 days (60 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 235 days
- Sample
- 60 articles with submission and acceptance dates (79 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- ISSN
- 2380-9450
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 34 (September 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Air Transportation
How long does peer review take at Journal of Air Transportation?
Based on the dates recorded on 60 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 192 days (interquartile range 145–261 days). Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Which databases index Journal of Air Transportation?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Air Transportation is indexed in Scopus.
Is Journal of Air Transportation open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Air Transportation is a subscription journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .