Vehicular Communications

Vehicular Communications is an Elsevier journal launched in 2014 that publishes research on communication between vehicles and roadside infrastructure, appearing six issues a year with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 5.7 and a CiteScore of 14.4.《车载通信》（Vehicular Communications）由（Elsevier）于 2014 年创办，刊载车辆之间以及车辆与路侧基础设施之间的通信研究，每年出版六期，2025 年期刊影响因子为 5.7，CiteScore 为 14.4。

Scope

• The core of the journal is vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication, including the networking problems that arise when links are intermittent and highly mobile.期刊核心是车对车与车对基础设施通信，包括链路间歇、高度移动条件下出现的组网问题。
• Physical-layer work covers channel modelling, modulation and coding for vehicular environments.物理层研究涵盖车载环境下的信道建模、调制与编码。
• Network-level papers address congestion control, scalability, protocol design, testing and verification, and routing in vehicular networks.网络层论文涉及拥塞控制、可扩展性、协议设计、测试与验证，以及车载网络路由。
• Security issues and countermeasures form a standing strand, alongside deployment, field testing and standardisation of protocols.安全问题与对策构成固定方向，并与部署、现场测试及协议标准化并列。
• Energy consumption, vehicle safety and driver-assistance applications are treated as design objectives rather than side topics.能耗、车辆安全与驾驶辅助应用被视为设计目标，而非附带议题。
• Wireless in-car networks, data collection and dissemination, mobility and handover complete the networking coverage.车内无线网络、数据采集与分发、移动性管理与切换，构成组网研究的其余部分。
• The scope also reaches unmanned aerial vehicles, underwater communications, autonomous cooperative driving, social networks, the Internet of vehicles and protocol standardisation.收稿范围还延伸至无人机、水下通信、自主协同驾驶、社交网络、车联网与协议标准化。

History

• Elsevier announced the launch in April 2014 and made the first issue freely available on ScienceDirect, with the journal published quarterly at that stage.（Elsevier）于 2014 年 4 月宣布创刊，并在（ScienceDirect）上免费开放第一期，当时为季刊。
• Mohammed Atiquzzaman of the University of Oklahoma has served as editor-in-chief since the launch and shaped the journal's initial scope.（University of Oklahoma）的（Mohammed Atiquzzaman）自创刊起担任主编，并确定了刊物最初的收稿范围。
• Output has grown to six volumes a year, and volumes 51 to 56 carried 117 articles in 2025.发文规模已增至每年六卷，2025 年第 51 至 56 卷共刊载 117 篇论文。
• The journal is subscription-based with an open access option, and the article publishing charge is USD 2,750.期刊以订阅为主并提供开放获取选项，文章出版费为 2750 美元。
• The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 5.7, against 6.5 in 2024, 8.373 in 2022 and 6.91 in 2021, placing it 30th of 127 in telecommunications and 19th of 80 in transportation science and technology.2025 年期刊影响因子为 5.7，2024 年为 6.5，2022 年为 8.373，2021 年为 6.91；在电信类 127 种期刊中排第 30 位，在运输科学与技术类 80 种期刊中排第 19 位。
• Publisher metrics put the median time to a first decision at six days, to a post-review decision at 65 days and to acceptance at 145 days, with four days from acceptance to online publication.出版方数据显示，首次决定中位时间为六天，审后决定为 65 天，投稿到录用为 145 天，录用到在线发表为四天。

Editors

• Mohammed Atiquzzaman holds the Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professorship and the Hitachi Chair in the School of Computer Science at the University of Oklahoma, and works on satellite, wireless, mobile and vehicular networks.（Mohammed Atiquzzaman）为（University of Oklahoma）计算机学院（Edith Kinney Gaylord）讲席教授兼（Hitachi）讲席教授，研究卫星、无线、移动与车载网络。
• Twenty-one associate editors support him, and the journal lists 22 editors and editorial board members drawn from 13 countries, five of them in the United States.二十一位副编辑协助其工作；期刊列出 22 位编辑与编委，来自 13 个国家，其中美国占五位。
• The associate editors include Monica Aguilar Igartua of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Nirwan Ansari of the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Raj Jain of Washington University in St Louis.副编辑包括（Polytechnic University of Catalonia）的（Monica Aguilar Igartua）、（New Jersey Institute of Technology）的（Nirwan Ansari）与（Washington University in St Louis）的（Raj Jain）。
• Hussein Mouftah of the University of Ottawa and Lei Zhong of Toyota Motor Corporation represent the network-infrastructure and automotive-industry sides of the field.（University of Ottawa）的（Hussein Mouftah）与（Toyota Motor Corporation）的（Lei Zhong）分别代表网络基础设施与汽车工业两方面的视角。
• Manuscripts are handled through a single anonymized review process, normally with at least two independent reviewers, and each submission may be appealed once.稿件采用单匿名评审，通常至少由两位独立审稿人评议，每篇投稿可申诉一次。
• Special issues and article collections follow the same review standard, with guest editors permitted to organise review but final decisions reserved to the journal's editors.特刊与专题合集适用同一评审标准，客座编辑可组织评审，最终决定权保留于期刊编辑。