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Journal of Transport Geography
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Journal of Transport Geography

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Engineering and Technology 245 56 104 28
Business and Management 330 11 15 10
Environmental Sciences 413 15 18 13

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 175
Documents by Best Scientists*: 282
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 8
SCIMAGO H-index: 155
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.9
Impact Factor: 6.3

Overview

Top Research Topics at Journal of Transport Geography?

The foci of the journal are Transport engineering, Public transport, Travel behavior, Regional science and Economic geography. Journal of Transport Geography focuses on Transport engineering but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Metropolitan area and Land use. The Travel behavior works featured in it incorporate elements from Marketing and Built environment.

  • Transport engineering (29.98%)
  • Public transport (13.34%)
  • Travel behavior (8.92%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Accessibility evaluation of land-use and transport strategies: review and research directions (1439 citations)
  • Transport and climate change: a review (717 citations)
  • From roadkill to road ecology : a review of the ecological effects of roads (661 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Journal of Transport Geography:

The most cited articles are organized to address concerns in the fields of Transport engineering, Travel behavior, Public transport, Mode choice and Economic geography. The most cited publications deal with Transport engineering in conjunction with Human factors and ergonomics and similar fields in Occupational safety and health, Suicide prevention and Advertising. The study of Public transport in the journal publications encompasses disciplines such as Economic growth, as well as fields such as Metropolitan area, all of which overlap with one another.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Law
  • China
  • Statistics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Journal of Transport Geography focuses on Public transport, Transport engineering, Built environment, TRIPS architecture and Travel behavior. The studies in Public transport featured incorporate elements of Rural area, Transportation planning, Metropolitan area and Land use. The research on Metropolitan area discussed in it draws on the closely related field of Regional science.

It dives deep in exploring the relationship between the study of Transport engineering and Index (economics). In addition to Built environment research, it aims to explore topics under Econometrics, Regression analysis, Socioeconomic status and Urban planning. It focuses on Travel behavior as well as the interrelated topic of Demographic economics.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Lockdowned: Everyday mobility changes in response to COVID-19 (32 citations)
  • To walk or not to walk? Examining non-linear effects of streetscape greenery on walking propensity of older adults (11 citations)
  • The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people's mobility: A longitudinal study of the U.S. from march to september of 2020 (8 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Journal of Transport Geography (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Frank Witlox (31 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 4 more than at the previous edition,
  • Richard D. Knowles (28 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Antonio Páez (23 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Theo Notteboom (23 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Jean-Paul Rodrigue (23 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Journal of Transport Geography (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Delft University of Technology (65 papers) published 11 papers at the last edition, 7 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Oxford (62 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 8 less than at the previous edition,
  • McMaster University (55 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Ghent University (52 papers) published 10 papers at the last edition, 7 more than at the previous edition,
  • University College London (51 papers) published 10 papers at the last edition, 4 more than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 6.98% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 17.08% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 5.42% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 20.42% of all publications and 57.08% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Perceived accessibility: What it is and why it differs from calculated accessibility measures based on spatial data

    Felix Johan Pot;Bert van Wee;Taede Tillema

    (2021)
    186 Citations
  • Transit-oriented development (TOD) typologies around metro station areas in urban China: A comparative analysis of five typical megacities for planning implications

    (2021)
    160 Citations
  • Spatially varying impacts of built environment factors on rail transit ridership at station level: A case study in Guangzhou, China

    Shaoying Li;Dijiang Lyu;Guanping Huang;Xiaohu Zhang

    (2020)
    148 Citations
  • Micromobility evolution and expansion: Understanding how docked and dockless bikesharing models complement and compete – A case study of San Francisco

    Jessica Lazarus;Jean Carpentier Pourquier;Frank Feng;Henry Hammel

    (2020)
    135 Citations
  • COVID-19 and its long-term effects on activity participation and travel behaviour: A multiperspective view.

    Bert van Wee;Frank Witlox

    (2021)
    131 Citations
  • Characterizing metro stations via urban function: Thematic evidence from transit-oriented development (TOD) in Hong Kong

    (2022)
    85 Citations
  • Unraveling the relative contribution of TOD structural factors to metro ridership: A novel localized modeling approach with implications on spatial planning

    (2022)
    78 Citations
  • An empirical analysis of dockless bike-sharing utilization and its explanatory factors: Case study from Shanghai, China

    Aoyong Li;Pengxiang Zhao;Yizhe Huang;Kun Gao

    (2020)
    76 Citations
  • Public transport trends in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic: An investigation of the influence of bio-security concerns on trip behaviour

    Matthew J. Beck;David A. Hensher;John D. Nelson

    (2021)
    69 Citations
  • Accessibility measurements in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba and Recife, Brazil

    Geneviève Boisjoly;Bernardo Serra;Gabriel T. Oliveira;Ahmed El-Geneidy

    (2020)
    67 Citations

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