Scope of The European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research

The European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research (EJTIR) is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal, freely accessible through the internet. EJTIR aims to present the results of high-quality scientific research to a readership of academics, practitioners and policy-makers.

It is our ambition to be the journal of choice in the field of transport and infrastructure both for readers and authors. To achieve this ambition, EJTIR distinguishes itself from other journals in its field, both through its scope and the way it is published.

EJTIR is listed in a number of databases, including SCOPUS and the Directory of Open Access Journals.

 

Our scope:

• First and foremost, we are a scholarly journal. This implies that we will only consider papers that explicitly add to relevant academic literature, as documented in international peer-reviewed journals. We expect every paper submitted to EJTIR to contain a review of past work on the paper's topic which is used to identify an academic knowlegde gap. In addition, we expect submitted papers to explicitly mention in the introduction the aimed for contribution in terms of filling the identified knowledge gap.

• We do not only want to contribute to the academic debate on transport and infrastructure, we also want to contribute to practice. We are primarily interested in publishing research that makes a real difference in addressing the immense and growing challenges of today’s transport systems. This means that EJTIR encourages submission of scholarly papers that explicitly aim to support decision-making and policy-making in the field of transport and infrastructure.

• Most of the issues related to transport policy- and decision-making are multidisciplinary by nature. As a result, EJTIR encourages submission of papers that present research positioned between disciplines.

• In addition, current transport problems often require that they are viewed from different perspectives. Therefore, EJTIR strongly supports special issues. Our ambition is to publish two special issues each year. We strongly encourage prospective guest editors to contact us with their ideas.

• We are a European journal. Papers from every corner of the globe are welcome. However, EJTIR invites authors whose papers focus on regions outside Europe, to explicitly discuss potential lessons relevant to the European context. In addition, we reflect on recent transport-policy developments at the European level through our column ‘EU perspectives’.
   

How we are published:

We are an open-access journal. We strongly believe that access to ideas developed with the aim of addressing important transport-related challenges should not be restricted to those individuals and institutions that are able to pay publishers large subscription fees.

We are an internet-only journal. Most scholars would say that the internet has replaced hardcopy material as the foremost scholarly medium of communication and dissemination. We agree with this view. The open-access, internet-only format brings important practical advantages to our authors and readers:

• Authors can disseminate their published work easily to colleagues around the world, without any formal restriction. They can also freely use their published EJTIR-papers for educational purposes.

• Authors benefit from the internet-based format as it allows us to drastically reduce turnaround times. Compared to most other journals in our field, EJTIR’s review and publication process is about twice as fast.

• Readers can freely access our papers from wherever they are: the only requirement is access to the internet. In turn, the accessibility of papers published in EJTIR increases their potential impact.