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Transportation
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Transportation

0049-4488

Published by: Springer

https://www.springer.com/journal/11116

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Engineering and Technology 340 55 105 23
Business and Management 392 8 17 8

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 105
Documents by Best Scientists*: 195
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 4
SCIMAGO H-index: 118
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.233
Impact Factor: 3.3

Overview

Top Research Topics at Transportation?

The concepts of Transport engineering, Travel behavior, Public transport, Econometrics and Operations research are tackled in Transportation. The journal facilitates discussions on Transport engineering that incorporate concepts from other fields like Service (business) and Urban area. Transportation explores topics in Travel behavior which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Demographic economics, Built environment, Mode choice, Advertising and Marketing.

Research in the field of Mode (statistics) was used to conduct the presented Mode choice study. The work on Public transport tackled in it brings together disciplines like Public economics and Subsidy. The research on Econometrics featured in it combines topics in other fields like Mixed logit and Statistics, Sample (statistics).

  • Transport engineering (29.11%)
  • Travel behavior (20.91%)
  • Public transport (18.18%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • THE MIXED LOGIT MODEL: THE STATE OF PRACTICE (1427 citations)
  • A micro-analysis of land use and travel in five neighborhoods in the San Francisco Bay Area (849 citations)
  • Stated preference analysis of travel choices: the state of practice (570 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Transportation:

Travel behavior, Transport engineering, Econometrics, Mode choice and Operations research are the main subjects of interest in the most cited papers. The Travel behavior research presented in the journal articles focuses mostly on Built environment and, on occasion, topics in Land use. The most cited articles address concerns in the field of Transport engineering by exploring it in line with topics in Human factors and ergonomics which intersect with Injury prevention subjects.

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 Transportation (based on the number of publications) are:

  • David A. Hensher (46 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Patricia L. Mokhtarian (34 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition,
  • Kay W. Axhausen (28 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Chandra R. Bhat (28 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ram M. Pendyala (24 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 Transportation (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Leeds (82 papers) published 9 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Sydney (62 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Delft University of Technology (52 papers) published 13 papers at the last edition, 7 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of California, Davis (49 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition,
  • University of Toronto (46 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition, 2 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, 6.35% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 27.68% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 7.91% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 19.77% of all publications and 44.63% 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

  • What are the determinants of the willingness to share rides in pooled on-demand services?

    María J Alonso-González;Oded Cats;Niels van Oort;Sascha Hoogendoorn-Lanser

    (2021)
    117 Citations
  • Effects of perceived safety, involvement and perceived service quality on loyalty intention among ride-sourcing passengers

    Diep Ngoc Su;Duy Quy Nguyen-Phuoc;Lester W. Johnson

    (2021)
    91 Citations
  • Socioeconomic and usage characteristics of transportation network company (TNC) riders

    Rick Grahn;Corey D. Harper;Chris Hendrickson;Zhen Qian

    (2020)
    85 Citations
  • Carsharing: the impact of system characteristics on its potential to replace private car trips and reduce car ownership

    Fanchao Liao;Eric Molin;Harry Timmermans;Bert van Wee

    (2020)
    80 Citations
  • E-bike user groups and substitution effects: evidence from longitudinal travel data in the Netherlands

    M.C. de Haas;M. Kroesen;C.G. Chorus;S. Hoogendoorn-Lanser

    (2021)
    58 Citations
  • Latent classes of daily mobility patterns: the relationship with attitudes towards modes

    Danique Ton;Lara-Britt Zomer;Florian Schneider;Sascha Hoogendoorn-Lanser

    (2020)
    55 Citations
  • A theoretical investigation of user acceptance of autonomous public transport

    (2022)
    54 Citations
  • Evaluating the impacts of shared automated mobility on-demand services: an activity-based accessibility approach

    Bat Hen Nahmias-Biran;Bat Hen Nahmias-Biran;Jimi B. Oke;Jimi B. Oke;Nishant Kumar;Carlos M. Lima Azevedo

    (2021)
    49 Citations
  • Are travelers substituting between transportation network companies (TNC) and public buses? A case study in Pittsburgh

    Rick Grahn;Sean Qian;H. Scott Matthews;Chris Hendrickson

    (2021)
    49 Citations
  • Cascading failure analysis and robustness optimization of metro networks based on coupled map lattices: a case study of Nanjing, China

    Yi Shen;Yi Shen;Gang Ren;Bin Ran;Bin Ran

    (2021)
    46 Citations

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