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Journal rankings · indicator year 2003

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Subfield ranking · 2003

Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality journal rankings 2003

16 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering

Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality has 16 ranked journals in 2003. The median OJR rose 0.08 on 2002 to 0.61, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.71. The top three are Accident Analysis & Prevention, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, and Fire Safety Journal.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2003. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 score is computed on.

16
1% of Engineering
Median OJR

The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.

The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.

The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.

0.61+0.08 vs 2002
This subfieldAll 0.75World 1.00
Open-access journals

Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.

6%
All fields: 13%
Median listed APC

Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.

$3,765
Median positive listed APC: $3,765 among 8 journals. Another 1 lists $0; 7 have no known price. All fields: $3,550.

Subfields of Engineering (16)

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16 ranked journals

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Quartile

Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

They are computed within the list on screen, so a journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 in the global ranking.

Access
APC (list price)
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality ranking, 2003

Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest.

OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields.

The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list.

OJR

Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field.

▲ or ▼ is the change from 2002. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor.

Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked.

Share of the journal’s 2000–2002 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal.

List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed.

The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2003.

Compare
1Accident Analysis & PreventionElsevier BV · United Kingdom
2.72Q12.46 0.73 up from 20022955%$4,150
2IEEE Transactions on ReliabilityInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States
2.13Q10.96 0.14 down from 20021618%$2,645
3Fire Safety JournalElsevier BV · Switzerland
2.04Q10.90 0.22 up from 20021334%$3,770
4Journal of Safety ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.71Q11.30 0.70 up from 2002835%$3,220
5Journal of Quality in Maintenance EngineeringEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
1.67Q20.58 0.32 up from 2002644%—
6Traffic Injury PreventionTaylor & Francis · United States
1.55Q21.70no 2002 value3716%——
7Fire and MaterialsWiley · United Kingdom
1.30Q20.62 0.08 up from 20021123%$3,760
0.69Q20.62 0.13 up from 2002868%$3,800
0.52Q30.28 0.08 down from 2002823%—
10Journal of Fire SciencesSAGE Publishing · United States
0.51Q30.44 0.10 up from 20021140%$4,150
11Fire TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
0.41Q30.17 0.05 down from 2002609%$2,190
12Journal of Applied Fire ScienceSAGE Publishing · United States
0.40Q30.16 0.08 up from 200273100%—
13IATSS ResearchOAElsevier BV · Netherlands
0.35Q40.11 0.07 up from 200278100%$0 listed
14Fire Safety ScienceInternational Association of Fire Safety Science
0.18Q40.02 0.08 down from 200223744%—
15Nuclear FutureThomas Telford Ltd. · United Kingdom
0.06Q40.07 0.04 up from 2002920%—
16Yunchou yu guanliOperations Research Society of China
0.01Q40.00no change2590%—

Citations made in 2003. Corpus-wide, 70.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.

6 additional Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2000–2002, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2003. Publication window: 2000–2002. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
16
Window papers (baseline)
14,422 +98.2% from indicator year 2000
Median OJR
0.61 -11.9% from indicator year 2000
Rising journals (2025)
1

Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2000–2002 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals1414161618192019232323262624252628262526262627232423
Window papers (baseline)7,2779,06911,43714,42217,13520,18823,32627,26131,10234,86437,38839,32541,24741,24540,58537,00532,49526,76823,00221,77322,85024,64426,55927,37427,62729,052
Median OJR0.690.570.520.610.911.131.110.8040.8030.880.9691.0021.191.251.341.040.981.011.050.9750.8390.8420.8020.990.860.83

How to read these rankings

OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
Quartiles
Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
Impact factor (2-year)
Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
Rank ranges
Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.