Journal profile · Multiple
Mobilities
ISSN 1745-0101 · eISSN 1745-011X · Taylor & Francis
Mobilities: CAS Zone 2 · Sociology (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.82; JCR Q1 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 286 days to acceptance (102 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 20% (journal website); 103 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Mobilities is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 2 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Urban Transport and Accessibility, Geographies of human-animal interactions and Migration, Refugees, and Integration, together about 34.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Mobilities publishes articles related to the mobilities turn and the new mobilities paradigm. This encompasses the movements and mobilities of people, objects, capital, information, knowledge and material things at all scales. Papers published in this journal generally have a strong theoretical as well as empirical focus in mobilities scholarship specifically. Articles are expected to contribute deliberately and clearly to the mobilities turn literature, theory, methods and/or audiences. Relevant topics concerned with the ‘mobilities turn’ include, but are not limited to: Large-scale movements of people, objects, capital, and information. Local processes of daily transportation. Mobility rights, access and activism. Tourism mobilities. New transportation, technological and digital infrastructures. The coordination and governance of mobilities. The travel of material objects in everyday life. Mobility in emergencies, disasters and the crises of climate change. Past and future mobilities. Imagined and represented mobilities. The embodiments of mobility and immobility. New mobilities research methods and theories. Mobilities recognises and welcomes interdisciplinary scholarship across the broad range of issues specifically engaging with mobilities scholarship, and encourages qualitative social science as well as arts and humanities approaches. The journal also welcomes ideas for review pieces that critically synthesise and advance new directions in the field – please contact the editors before submission if you have a review idea you would like to discuss. Mobilities publishes original, theoretically informed research which is international in scope. The editors positively encourage submissions from scholars of all ethnicities, and researchers writing from or about the Global South. Mobilities has always encouraged early career researchers to consider publication in Mobilities, and the editors endeavour to ensure that the review and editorial process is constructive and timely. Co-founded by John Urry, Mimi Sheller and Kevin Hannam in 2006, Mobilities has grown and developed into the internationally recognised Journal it is today. Mobilities was accepted by the SSCI in 2010 and stands as a testament to John Urry's pioneering work and leadership in the 'new mobilities paradigm' in social science research.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Multiple
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 1, United Kingdom 1, South Korea 1, Portugal 1 (4 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Urban Transport and AccessibilitySocial Sciences13.5%
- Geographies of human-animal interactionsSocial Sciences11.9%
- Migration, Refugees, and IntegrationSocial Sciences9.5%
- Migration and Labor DynamicsSocial Sciences7.8%
- Diaspora, migration, transnational identitySocial Sciences5.9%
- Migration, Aging, and Tourism StudiesSocial Sciences4.3%
- Migration, Ethnicity, and EconomySocial Sciences4%
- Transportation and Mobility InnovationsEngineering3.9%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Sociology Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Geography | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Transportation | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Sociology Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Geography | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Transportation | Zone 2 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Sociology Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Geography | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Transportation | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q1 · best quartile · 2025
- CiteScore Q1 · 2025
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
SSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of SciencePublisher website
Other: EBSCO, ProQuest, Naver, RePEc, Elsevier: Geobase, Knowledge E (Zendy), NHN (NAVER), World Transit Research (Monash University), TRIS (Transit Research Board), E-Lib Bremen (University of Bremen), Safety Lit (Centre for Injury prevention), ProQuest: Health Research Premium Collection, Public Health Database, SciTech Premium Collection, Natural Science Collection, Environmental Science Collection, Environmental Science Database, Social Science Premium Collection, Sociology Collection, Sociological Abstracts, ProQuest Central, ProQuest Central Essentials, ProQuest Central Student, ProQuest Central Basic (Korea)
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
- 2.82LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.9Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 3.7Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 5.3LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 5.3Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.9LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.9Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.76LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 1.76Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 86OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 635OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.18OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 20.7%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 39.73%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 97LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 312,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,087 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 91 | 54 | 26 |
| 2025 | 103 | 64 | 221 |
| 2024 | 67 | 46 | 321 |
| 2023 | 64 | 46 | 706 |
| 2022 | 65 | 38 | 907 |
| 2021 | 81 | 48 | 1,817 |
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
286 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 198 days – 373 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 24 days (103 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 315 days
- Sample
- 102 articles with submission and acceptance dates (203 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".
Other sources
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 20%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 64 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 100 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 20 daysPublisher website ·
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
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
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)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
Mobilities is a hybrid open access journal that is part of the Taylor & Francis 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 o…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Rigorous peer review for every open access article Model summary
Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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
- Taylor & Francis
- ISSN
- 1745-0101
- Electronic ISSN
- 1745-011X
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 21, Issue 4 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Mobilities
What CAS zone is Mobilities in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Mobilities is in Zone 2 of Sociology, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Geography / Transportation. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 1 of Sociology. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Mobilities?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.82; CiteScore 5.3, h-index 86.
How long does peer review take at Mobilities?
Based on the dates recorded on 102 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 286 days (interquartile range 198–373 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 20%. 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 Mobilities in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q1 (best quartile). JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones; in the CAS ranking the journal is in Zone 2 of Sociology.
Where are the editorial board members of Mobilities based?
Of the 4 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (1), United Kingdom (1) and South Korea (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Mobilities?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Mobilities is indexed in SSCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists Web of Science; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Mobilities open access, and what is the APC?
Mobilities is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; 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: .