Journal of Public Transportation

Journal of Public Transportation is published by National Center for Transit Research and is in Zone 3 of Engineering in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Transportation Planning and Optimization, Urban Transport and Accessibility and Transportation and Mobility Innovations, together about 65.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Transportation and Building and Construction. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

267,698 items to date 40,198,248 full-text downloads to date 9,284,565 downloads in the past year General Information on Institutional Repositories (IR) What is an IR? In the simplest terms, an Institutional Repository is “a digital preservation system” and showcase for an institution’s scholarly output. Additional information concerning IRs can be found in these articles: Lynch, Clifford A. “Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age” ARL, no. 226 (February 2003): 1-7. http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/br/br226/br226ir.shtml “Institutional Repository.” Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Http://www.wikimediafoundation.org/, 12 Aug. 2011. Web. 19 Aug. 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_repository What system supports this IR? The system is supported by bepress’ Digital Commons. Find out more information on Digital Commons here: http://digitalcommons.bepress.com Who else uses the Digital Commons software to preserve and showcase their research? CalPoly, UCF, and Purdue to name a few. To see a complete list, please visit: https://www.bepress.com/products/digital-commons/why-digital-commons/customers/ Is IR content always openly accessible? Some IR’s do allow for restricted content; however Digital Commons @ USF is a completely open access IR. If you require restrictions on your material, please contact the administrator to learn about other available options. USF Digital Commons @ USF What is the project’s mission? The USF Tampa Library strives to develop and encourage research collaboration and initiatives throughout all areas of campus. Members of the USF community are encouraged to deposit their research with Digital Commons @ USF. We commit to assisting faculty, staff, and students in all stages of the deposit process as well as managing their work to optimize access/readership and to ensure long-term preservation. Long-term preservation and increasing accessibility will increase citation rates and highlight the research accomplishments of this campus. Digital Commons @ USF will have a direct impact on the University’s four strategic goals: student success, research innovation, sound financial management, and creating new partnerships. What is the project’s vision? Digital Commons @ USF will provide digital preservation and open access to all scholarly works produced by the University of South Florida Community. We want to grow Digital Commons @ USF to be a vehicle to drive research communication a

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): TRANSPORTATION

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SSCIScopusDOAJLetPub

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.

Impact

Impact factor

4.33LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

6LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.97LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.33LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

71OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

405OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

3.89OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

4.5%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

100%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

31LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

40,198,248Publisher website · 2026-09-29

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.

Average review time (community reports)

about 19 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Publisher

National Center for Transit Research

Country or region

United States

Language

English

ISSN

1077-291X

Electronic ISSN

2375-0901

Latest issue on the website

Volume 23, Issue 2 (2021)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website