A Bibliometric Overview of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (2000–2021)

The IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transport Systems was founded in 2000 to enhance the sharing of international research on theoretical and practical technology developments in the ITS field. Since then, it has become a leading journal in the field and has attracted a high caliber of multi-disciplinary authors and publications. In recognition of twenty plus years of contributions to the field, this paper analyses the evolution of the journal over its lifetime for the period 2000–2021. A bibliometric analysis is conducted on 3,428 peer-reviewed publications (articles and reviews) using data collected from Core Collection Database of Web of Science. The paper identifies the most influential and cited articles and their impacts on the development of research in the ITS field. The analysis also includes detailed information on top leading authors, their organizations and countries where the research was funded and developed. The analysis shows how the growing interest and diversity of transport technology topics has led to an increase in the number and quality of publications in journal over the past twenty plus years. A visualization of bibliographic coupling, co-authorship and keywords analysis is also presented using the VOSviewer software leading to insightful findings regarding the journal’s impact and standing in this field of research.