Journal profile · Business, Management and Accounting-Management Information Systems
Logistics
ISSN 2305-6290 · MDPI AG · United States
Logistics: CAS Zone 4 · Management (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 4.4 (journal website); JCR Q1 (journal website); fully open access; APC charged, amount not published; review about 11 weeks (community reports); 185 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Logistics is published by MDPI AG and is in Zone 4 of Management in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management and Urban and Freight Transport Logistics, together about 25.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Logistics (ISSN 2305-6290) is an original journal established for researchers and scholarly-oriented practitioners in the fields of logistics and supply chain management. The editors and editorial board members sought to provide a professional, efficient, and rigorously peer-reviewed journal providing an international forum for scientific advancement, intellectual exchange, and scholarly communications. The journal publishes quickly-refereed research articles and other scholarly contributions, including reviews and short notes, in an open access format, making them free to readers around the world. Our aim is to encourage scholars and practitioners to publish their research and theoretical or substantive insights in as effective a manner as possible. While no restriction on the maximum length of the papers. Electronic files presenting fuller details of the data, calculations, methodological procedures interviews, etc. may be included as 'Supplementary Material'. We are particularly interested in publishing articles, reviews, insights, and exchanges that deal with cutting-edge, innovative, and transformative logistics and supply chain issues. The subject areas below represent just a sample of such topics: 3-D printing analytics and cognitive computing in logistics autonomous (driverless) transportation and delivery big data and predictive analytics block chain logistics collaboration on innovation and new product development decision support systems e-commerce food chain management and traceability green logistics and sustainable supply chains health care and life sciences logistics humanitarian and disaster relief logistics internet of things and industry 4.0 lean production systems logistics clusters logistics and the competitiveness of firms and places real-time visibility, tracking, and control reverse logistics supplier relationship management supply chain best practices world class logistics
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Business, Management and Accounting-Management Information Systems
Editorial board by country: 6 in mainland China (about 19%); most named United States 8, Mainland China 6, United Kingdom 5, Canada 2, Australia 2 (31 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Sustainable Supply Chain ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting9.6%
- Supply Chain Resilience and Risk ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting7.8%
- Urban and Freight Transport LogisticsEngineering7.7%
- Maritime Ports and LogisticsEngineering6.8%
- Quality and Supply ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting6.5%
- Transportation Planning and OptimizationSocial Sciences6.5%
- Evaluation and Optimization ModelsEngineering5.9%
- Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics OptimizationEngineering5.5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Management Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Operations Research & Management Science | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Management | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Management Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Management | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Operations Research & Management Science | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q1 · Operations Research and Management Science · 2026
- CiteScore Q1 · Information Systems and Management · 2026
Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website
Database indexing
ScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
ESCIWeb of SciencePublisher website
Other: RePEc
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
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
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 4.4Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 4.5Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 8.1LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 8.1Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.77LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.31LetPub ·
- h-index
- 54OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 315OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 5.39OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,625 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 217 | 217 | 158 |
| 2025 | 185 | 185 | 969 |
| 2024 | 138 | 138 | 1,786 |
| 2023 | 103 | 103 | 2,020 |
| 2022 | 84 | 84 | 2,186 |
| 2021 | 90 | 90 | 2,965 |
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
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 11 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to first decision
- 17.1 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 5.9 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication
- 55 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 6 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
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
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | CHF 1,400 | Yes | CC BY | |
| OpenAlex | CHF 1,400 | — | — | |
| LetPub | CHF 1,400 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Open calls for papers2, by deadline
Publisher websiteWhat to prepare7 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 200 words
- Reference style
- Author–date
- Templates
- LaTeX and Word
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Required, 3
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted20
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Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Code availability, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Preprints
- Authorship Authorship
MDPI follows the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) guidelines which state that, in order to qualify for authorship of a manuscript, the following criteria should be observed: Make substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work, or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; Draft the work or review it critically for important intel…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Code availability
Citation policy requiring clear citation of sources and permission where appropriate. Model summary
Authors should ensure that where material is taken from other sources (including their own published writing) the source is clearly cited and that where appropriate permission is obtained.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Conflicts of Interest
According to The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, “Authors should avoid entering into agreements with study sponsors, both for-profit and non-profit, that interfere with authors’ access to all of the study’s data or that interfere with their ability to analyze and interpret the data and to prepare and publish manuscripts independently when and where they choose.” All authors mus…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability statements
Commitment to open scientific exchange and research data sharing. Model summary
Data availability statements are required for all articles published with MDPI. During the peer review and editorial decision process, authors can be asked to share existing datasets or raw data that have been analyzed in the manuscript, and whether they will be made available to other researchers following publication. Authors will also be asked for the details of any existing datasets that have …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Publication Ethics Statement
Logistics is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). We fully adhere to its Code of Conduct and to its Best Practice Guidelines. The editors of this journal enforce a rigorous peer review process together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsifica…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright / Open Access
Articles published in Logistics will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text: © 2026 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access publication fees
If you transfer your manuscript to another open access (OA) journal, you will be charged an Article Processing Charge (APC) if your article is accepted for publication. The APC for each journal can be found on the individual journal’s website. For more information about APCs, please see here.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Editorial Process and Peer Review
All submissions are thoroughly peer-reviewed by experts within the field and undergo a structured editorial workflow designed to ensure quality, transparency, and scientific integrity. The full editorial procedure is available on the Editorial Process page and is also provided below. Pre-check Pre-check consists of a technical pre-check performed by the Editorial Office and an editorial pre-check …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints and Conference Papers
Logistics accepts submissions that have previously been made available as preprints provided that they have not undergone peer review. A preprint is a draft version of a paper made available online before submission to a journal. MDPI operates Preprints, a preprint server to which submitted papers can be uploaded directly after completing journal submission. Note that Preprints operates independen…
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Country or region
- United States
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2305-6290
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 10 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Logistics
What CAS zone is Logistics in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Logistics is in Zone 4 of Management, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Operations Research & Management Science / Management. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Management. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Logistics?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 4.4 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 8.1, h-index 54.
How long does peer review take at Logistics?
Authors report an average review time of about 11 weeks. 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.
What JCR quartile is Logistics in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q1; by category, Operations Research and Management Science Q1. JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones; in the CAS ranking the journal is in Zone 4 of Management.
What are the manuscript requirements of Logistics?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 200 words; Reference style: Author–date; Templates: LaTeX and Word; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Required, 3; Graphical abstract: Optional; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Logistics based?
Of the 31 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 6 (about 19%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (8), Mainland China (6) and United Kingdom (5). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Logistics?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Logistics is indexed in Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists ESCI and Web of Science; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Logistics open access, and what is the APC?
Logistics is a fully open-access journal. APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; 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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .