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Railway Engineering Science

Publishing model:
Open access

Overview

Railway Engineering Science is an international peer-reviewed open-access journal focusing on cutting-edge fundamental research and emerging technologies of rail transit systems.
  • Covering high-speed railways, heavy-haul railways, urban rail transit, maglev train system, evacuated tube (e.g., hyperloop) transportation, etc.
  • Presenting an attractive mix of authoritative and comprehensive reviews, original articles on cutting-edge research, editorials, etc.
  • Pursuing high-quality publications with high visibility.
  • Offering rapid review and publication of articles free of charge.
Editor-in-Chief
  • Wanming Zhai

Societies and partnerships

Journal metrics

Journal Impact Factor
4.4 (2023)
5-year Journal Impact Factor
5.6 (2023)
Submission to first decision (median)
6 days
Downloads
373.7k (2024)

Latest articles

Journal updates

  • Article Processing Charges (APCs)

    Railway Engineering Science is fully sponsored by Southwest Jiaotong University. Authors do not need to pay an article processing charge.

  • Special Issue Call for Papers: Innovative Techniques for Railway Infrastructure Monitoring

    The Special Issue calls for the most recent research studies, findings, and achievements related to the condition monitoring of railway infrastructures. Theoretical, experimental, and computational investigations are welcome.

  • Journal Metrics 2023

    Impact Factor 2023: 4.4
    CiteScore 2023: 10.8

Journal information

Electronic ISSN
2662-4753
Print ISSN
2662-4745
Abstracted and indexed in
  1. Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
  2. Baidu
  3. CLOCKSS
  4. CNKI
  5. CNPIEC
  6. DOAJ
  7. Dimensions
  8. EBSCO
  9. EI Compendex
  10. Emerging Sources Citation Index
  11. GoOA - The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
  12. Google Scholar
  13. INSPEC
  14. Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
  15. Naver
  16. OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  17. Portico
  18. ProQuest
  19. SCImago
  20. SCOPUS
  21. TD Net Discovery Service
  22. Transport Research International Documentation(TRID)
  23. Wanfang

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