Journal profile · Social Sciences-Transportation
Open Transportation Journal
ISSN 1874-4478 · Bentham
Open Transportation Journal: fully open access; median 63 days to acceptance (38 articles, last 24 months); 17 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Open Transportation Journal is published by Bentham. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Transportation Planning and Optimization, Traffic and Road Safety and Transportation Systems and Logistics, together about 40.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Transportation. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Research area (LetPub): Social Sciences-Transportation
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Transportation Planning and OptimizationSocial Sciences15.4%
- Traffic and Road SafetyEngineering13.4%
- Transportation Systems and LogisticsEngineering12%
- Traffic control and managementEngineering9.7%
- transportation and logistics systemsSocial Sciences7.2%
- Urban Transport and AccessibilitySocial Sciences7%
- Transportation and Mobility InnovationsEngineering4.7%
- Aviation Industry Analysis and TrendsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance4.5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modeling and Simulation | Q2 | 184/397 | 53rd |
| Transportation | Q3 | 97/169 | 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
- 2.9LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.33LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.59LetPub ·
- h-index
- 24OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 79OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.83OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 315 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 15 | 15 | 368 |
| 2025 | 17 | 17 | 467 |
| 2024 | 33 | 33 | 367 |
| 2023 | 22 | 22 | 309 |
| 2022 | 30 | 30 | 282 |
| 2021 | 27 | 27 | 230 |
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
68 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 51 days – 110 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 67 days (33 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 145 days
- Sample
- 33 articles with submission and acceptance dates (42 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
Fully open accessOpenAlex
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
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
- Bentham
- ISSN
- 1874-4478
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Open Transportation Journal
How long does peer review take at Open Transportation Journal?
Based on the dates recorded on 38 articles published between November 2024 and November 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 63 days (interquartile range 37–105 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 Open Transportation Journal?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Open Transportation Journal is indexed in Scopus.
Is Open Transportation Journal open access, and what is the APC?
Open Transportation Journal is a fully open-access journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, 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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .