Safety Science

Safety Science

Discipline	Safety management
Language	English
Edited  by	Georgios Boustras
Publication details
Former name(s)	Journal of Occupational Accidents
History	1976–present
Publisher	Elsevier
Frequency	Monthly
Open access	Hybrid
Impact factor	4.7 (2023)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Saf. Sci.
Indexing CODEN (alt  · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR  · NLM (alt) · Scopus  · W&L
ISSN	0925-7535  (print) 1879-1042  (web)
LCCN	91640944
OCLC  no.	670097316
Journal of Occupational Accidents
ISSN	0925-7535
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Safety Science is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier covering research on all aspects of human and industrial safety. ^[1] The editor-in-chief is Georgios Boustras (European University Cyprus),. ^[2] The journal was established in 1976 as the Journal of Occupational Accidents, with Herbert Eisner as founding editor-in-chief. ^[3] In 1990, the aims and scope of the journal were expanded, and the journal obtained its current name. ^{[4] [5]}

Editors-in-chief

Since 1990, the following persons are or have been editors-in-chief: ^[4]

• 1990–2009: Andrew Hale
• 2010–2012: Kathryn Mearns
• 2013–2017: Jean-Luc Wybo
• 2018–present: Georgios Boustras

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• CAB Abstracts ^[6]
• Current Contents/Engineering, Computing & Technology ^[7]
• EBSCO databases ^[8]
• Ei Compendex ^[9]
• Embase ^[10]
• Inspec ^[11]
• ProQuest databases ^[8]
• PsycINFO ^[12]
• Science Citation Index Expanded ^[7]
• Scopus ^[13]

According to the Journal Citation Reports , the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 4.7. ^[14]

References

1. "Aims & Scope". Safety Science. Elsevier. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
2. "Editorial board". Safety Science. Elsevier. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
3. Eisner, H.S. (July 1976). "Editorial". Journal of Occupational Accidents. 1 (1): 1. doi:10.1016/0376-6349(76)90002-X.
4. Boustras, George; Jie, Li (2022-01-24). "Brief History of Safety Science Journal". Figshare .
5. Merigo, Jose M.; Miranda, Jaime; Modak, Nikunja Mohan; Boustras, Georgios; de la Sotta, Catalina (2019). "Forty years of Safety Science: A bibliometric overview". Safety Science. 115: 66–88. doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2019.01.029. ISSN   0925-7535.
6. "Serials cited". CAB Abstracts . CABI . Retrieved 2024-01-19.
7. "Web of Science Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Clarivate . Retrieved 2024-01-19.
8. "Safety Science". MIAR: Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals. University of Barcelona . Retrieved 2024-01-19.
9. "Content/Database Overview - Compendex Source List". Engineering Village. Elsevier . Retrieved 2024-01-19.
10. "Embase Coverage". Embase. Elsevier . Retrieved 2024-01-19.
11. "Inspec list of journals" (PDF). Inspec. Institution of Engineering and Technology. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-05-22. Retrieved 2024-01-19.
12. "PsycINFO Journal Coverage". American Psychological Association . Retrieved 2024-01-19.
13. "Source details: Safety Science". Scopus Preview. Elsevier . Retrieved 2024-01-19.
14. "Safety Science". 2023 Journal Citation Reports (Science ed.). Clarivate. 2024 – via Web of Science.