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Journal of Transportation Safety and Security
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Journal of Transportation Safety and Security

1943-9962

Published by: Taylor & Francis

https://www.springer.com/journal/12198

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Engineering and Technology 578 24 38 15

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 37
Documents by Best Scientists*: 47
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 2
SCIMAGO H-index: 31
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.775
Impact Factor: 2.6

Overview

Top Research Topics at Journal of Transportation Safety & Security?

The journal primarily tackles Transport engineering, Occupational safety and health, Injury prevention, Human factors and ergonomics and Statistics. Transport engineering research is concerned with Pedestrian in particular. Injury prevention research featured in the journal incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Suicide prevention, Forensic engineering and Environmental health.

The work on Statistics addressed in the journal expands to the thematically related Simulation.

  • Transport engineering (44.38%)
  • Occupational safety and health (19.88%)
  • Injury prevention (18.47%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Exploring the relationship between average speed, speed variation, and accident rates using spatial statistical models and gis (73 citations)
  • Alternative Ordered Response Frameworks for Examining Pedestrian Injury Severity in New York City (66 citations)
  • Robust Shelter Locations for Evacuation Planning with Demand Uncertainty (53 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Journal of Transportation Safety & Security:

The journal articles mostly deal with topics like Transport engineering, Human factors and ergonomics, Occupational safety and health, Simulation and Driving simulator. The journal publications investigate Transport engineering research which frequently intersects with Highway Safety Manual. The works on Human factors and ergonomics tackled in the published papers bring together disciplines like Taxis, Traffic engineering, Applied psychology, Sample (statistics) and Risk assessment.

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

  • Statistics
  • Transport engineering
  • Artificial intelligence

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal focuses on Transport engineering, Statistics, Pedestrian, Econometrics and Applied psychology. Intersection, Mixed logit and Highway Safety Manual are some topics wherein Transport engineering research discussed in it have an impact. While Statistics is the key highlight in Journal of Transportation Safety & Security, it also covered some subjects on Crash frequency and Built environment.

Issues in Econometrics were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Mathematical model, Ordered logit and Bayesian probability. The research on Ordered logit discussed in it draws on the closely related field of Crash data. The studies on Applied psychology discussed can also contribute to research in the domains of Distracted driving and Distraction.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Prevalence of cell phone use while driving and its impact on driving performance, focusing on near-crash risk: A survey study in Tehran (13 citations)
  • A separate analysis of crash frequency for the highways involving traffic hazards and involving no traffic hazards (12 citations)
  • Hit and run crash analysis using association rules mining (10 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 Transportation Safety & Security (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Ronald K. Faller (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • John D. Reid (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Mohamed Abdel-Aty (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Sunanda Dissanayake (7 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Wen Cheng (7 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 Transportation Safety & Security (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Beijing Jiaotong University (18 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Nebraska–Lincoln (16 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Central Florida (15 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Tongji University (12 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • University of North Carolina at Charlotte (11 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 1 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, 2.13% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 29.35% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 14.13% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 18.48% of all publications and 38.04% 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

  • Random parameter probit models to analyze pedestrian red-light violations and injury severity in pedestrian–motor vehicle crashes at signalized crossings

    Jie Wang;Helai Huang;Pengpeng Xu;Siqi Xie

    (2020)
    63 Citations
  • Spatial joint analysis for zonal daytime and nighttime crash frequencies using a Bayesian bivariate conditional autoregressive model

    Qiang Zeng;Huiying Wen;S. C. Wong;Helai Huang

    (2020)
    54 Citations
  • Evaluating how right-turn treatments affect right-turn-on-red conflicts at signalized intersections

    Yanyong Guo;Pan Liu;Yao Wu;Jingxu Chen

    (2020)
    41 Citations
  • An empirical analysis of how asleep/fatigued driving-injury severities have changed over time

    (2022)
    33 Citations
  • Crash analysis of expressway long tunnels using a seven-zone analytic approach

    Amjad Pervez;Helai Huang;Jaeyoung Lee;Chunyang Han

    (2021)
    25 Citations
  • Traffic safety analysis of inter-tunnel weaving section with conflict prediction models

    Pengying Ouyang;Jiaming Wu;Chengcheng Xu;Lu Bai

    (2020)
    24 Citations
  • Agent-based evacuation simulation from subway train and platform

    Qiling Zou;Daniel S. Fernandes;Suren Chen

    (2021)
    22 Citations
  • Investigation of the effect of tourism on road crashes

    Vasileios Bellos;Apostolos Ziakopoulos;George Yannis

    (2020)
    21 Citations
  • Combined variable speed limit and lane change guidance for secondary crash prevention using distributed deep reinforcement learning

    (2021)
    21 Citations
  • Evaluating transit network resilience through graph theory and demand-elastic measures: Case study of the Toronto transit system

    David King;Aya Aboudina;Amer Shalaby

    (2020)
    21 Citations

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