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Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
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Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Engineering and Technology 86 163 263 47
Environmental Sciences 183 67 74 26

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 402
Documents by Best Scientists*: 549
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 14
SCIMAGO H-index: 150
SCIMAGO SJR: 2.301
Impact Factor: 7.7

Overview

Top Research Topics at Transportation Research Part D-transport and Environment?

The foci of Transportation Research Part D-transport and Environment are Transport engineering, Greenhouse gas, Automotive engineering, Environmental economics and Fuel efficiency. The work on Transport engineering tackled in Transportation Research Part D-transport and Environment brings together disciplines like Sustainable transport and Built environment. It explores topics in Greenhouse gas which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Natural resource economics and Environmental engineering.

In addition to Environmental engineering research, the journal aims to explore topics under Air pollution, Particulates and Air quality index. Topics in Air pollution were tackled in line with various other fields like Pollutant and Pollution. The journal focuses on Automotive engineering but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Energy consumption, Electric vehicle, Battery (electricity) and Range (aeronautics).

The journal explores research in Energy consumption and the adjacent study of Efficient energy use.

  • Transport engineering (23.36%)
  • Greenhouse gas (12.67%)
  • Automotive engineering (12.43%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • TRAVEL DEMAND AND THE 3DS: DENSITY, DIVERSITY, AND DESIGN (2369 citations)
  • Correlation or causality between the built environment and travel behavior? Evidence from Northern California (774 citations)
  • ELECTRIC VEHICLES AS A NEW POWER SOURCE FOR ELECTRIC UTILITIES (608 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Transportation Research Part D-transport and Environment:

The published articles aim to foster the development of research in Transport engineering, Fuel efficiency, Automotive engineering, Greenhouse gas and Environmental economics. The journal papers explore issues in Transport engineering which can be linked to other research areas like Sustainable transport and Built environment. The most cited papers focus on Environmental economics but sometimes tackle the closely related topic of Electric vehicle which is concerned with Marketing.

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

  • World War II
  • Statistics
  • Law

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The scientific interests tackled in Transportation Research Part D-transport and Environment are Environmental economics, Automotive engineering, Greenhouse gas, Transport engineering and TRIPS architecture. Transportation Research Part D-transport and Environment connects research in Environmental economics with the related topic of Key (cryptography). The research on Automotive engineering featured in Transportation Research Part D-transport and Environment combines topics in other fields like Battery (electricity), Electric vehicle and Energy consumption.

The Greenhouse gas study tackled is a key component of adjacent topics in the area of Electricity. Transport engineering and Built environment are closely related fields of research discussed in it. Transportation Research Part D-transport and Environment explores research in TRIPS architecture alongside concepts in Public transport and other areas of study in Sustainable transport and Marketing.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Who left riding transit? Examining socioeconomic disparities in the impact of COVID-19 on ridership (21 citations)
  • The climate change mitigation effects of daily active travel in cities (12 citations)
  • Workability of rubberized asphalt from a perspective of particle effect (12 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 Transportation Research Part D-transport and Environment (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Marianne Hatzopoulou (19 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • H. Oliver Gao (16 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Jonn Axsen (15 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Debbie A. Niemeier (14 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Hesham A. Rakha (13 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 Research Part D-transport and Environment (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of California, Davis (88 papers) published 10 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Delft University of Technology (45 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Hong Kong Polytechnic University (41 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (39 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Tongji University (38 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition the same number as 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, 8.28% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 16.77% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 6.13% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 14.84% of all publications and 62.26% 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

  • Integrating e-scooters in urban transportation: Problems, policies, and the prospect of system change

    Stefan Gössling;Stefan Gössling;Stefan Gössling

    (2020)
    436 Citations
  • Spatial associations of dockless shared e-scooter usage

    Or Caspi;Michael J. Smart;Robert B. Noland

    (2020)
    289 Citations
  • The climate change mitigation effects of daily active travel in cities

    Christian Brand;Evi Dons;Evi Dons;Esther Anaya-Boig;Ione Avila-Palencia

    (2021)
    248 Citations
  • Carbon emissions reductions in last mile and grocery deliveries utilizing air and ground autonomous vehicles

    Miguel A. Figliozzi

    (2020)
    217 Citations
  • Accessibility to transit, by transit, and property prices: Spatially varying relationships

    Linchuan Yang;K.W. Chau;W.Y. Szeto;Xu Cui

    (2020)
    216 Citations
  • Evaluating public acceptance of autonomous delivery robots during COVID-19 pandemic

    Agnivesh Pani;Sabya Mishra;Mihalis Golias;Miguel Figliozzi

    (2020)
    206 Citations
  • Is accessibility an idea whose time has finally come

    Susan Handy

    (2020)
    182 Citations
  • How can the maritime industry meet Sustainable Development Goals? An analysis of sustainability reports from the social entrepreneurship perspective

    Xueqin Wang;Xueqin Wang;Kum Fai Yuen;Yiik Diew Wong;Kevin X. Li

    (2020)
    170 Citations
  • Electric vehicle charging station locations: Elastic demand, station congestion, and network equilibrium

    Yantao Huang;Kara M. Kockelman

    (2020)
    166 Citations
  • Port disruptions due to natural disasters: Insights into port and logistics resilience

    J. Verschuur;E.E. Koks;E.E. Koks;J.W. Hall

    (2020)
    148 Citations

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