Railway Engineering Science is an international, peer-reviewed, and free open-access journal that publishes original research articles and comprehensive reviews related to fundamental engineering science and emerging technologies in rail transit systems, focusing on the cutting-edge research in high-speed railway, heavy-haul railway, urban rail transit, maglev system, hyperloop transportation, etc. The main goal of the journal is to maintain high quality of publications, serving as a medium for railway academia and industry to exchange new ideas and share the latest achievements in scientific research, technical innovation and industrial development in railway science and engineering. The topics include but are not limited to
- Design theory and construction technology
- System dynamics and safety
- Electrification, signaling and communication
- Operation and maintenance
- System health monitoring and reliability
- Environmental impact and sustainability
- Cutting-edge technologies
The publication costs for Railway Engineering Science are fully covered by Southwest Jiaotong University so authors do not need to pay any article-processing charges.
Journal information
- Editor-in-Chief
-
- Wanming Zhai
- Publishing model
- Open Access. Learn about OA at Springer
Journal metrics
- 18 days
- Submission to first decision
- 260 days
- Submission to acceptance
- 215,459 (2019)
- Downloads
Latest issue
Latest articles
-
-
Running safety assessment of a train traversing a three-tower cable-stayed bridge under spatially varying ground motion
Authors (first, second and last of 6)
-
Active suspension in railway vehicles: a literature survey
Authors (first, second and last of 6)
-
-
Letter from the editor-in-chief
Authors
Journal updates
-
Railway Engineering Science is now indexed in ESCI and Scopus
We are delighted that Railway Engineering Science (RES) is now indexed in ESCI (Emerging Sources Citation Index) and Scopus, and all the articles can be searched on the Web of Science.
Since the title change RES has received great support from editorial board members, experts, and readers from all over the world, for which we’d like to express our sincere gratitude.
In the future, RES will continuously publish high-quality articles and provide rapid review and publication services. We cordially welcome you to search, download and distribute RES articles freely, and hope you to submit your high-quality research paper to Railway Engineering Science.Editorial office
Railway Engineering Science -
Letter from the Editor-in-Chief (show all)
I am delighted to announce the launch of Railway Engineering Science, an international, peer-reviewed and free open-access journal which is renamed from Journal of Modern Transportation but focused on a narrower scope, publishing original research articles and comprehensive reviews related to fundamental engineering science and emerging technologies in various rail transit systems.
Professor Wanming Zhai, Ph.D
Editor-in-Chief, Railway Engineering Science
Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Societies, partners and affiliations
Advertisement
About this journal
- Electronic ISSN
- 2662-4753
- Print ISSN
- 2662-4745
- Co-Publisher information
- Sponsored by Southwest Jiaotong University
- Abstracted and indexed in
-
- CNKI
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) - GoOA
- DOAJ
- EBSCO Applied Science & Technology Source
- EBSCO Discovery Service
- EBSCO STM Source
- Emerging Sources Citation Index
- Google Scholar
- INSPEC
- Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China
- Naver
- OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
- ProQuest Central
- ProQuest Engineering
- ProQuest Materials Science and Engineering Database
- ProQuest SciTech Premium Collection
- ProQuest Technology Collection
- ProQuest-ExLibris Primo
- ProQuest-ExLibris Summon
- SCImago
- SCOPUS
- Transport Research International Documentation(TRID)
- WTI Frankfurt eG
- Copyright information
