Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Subfield ranking · 2012
Safety Research journal rankings 2012
49 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Safety Research has 49 ranked journals in 2012. The median OJR rose 0.12 on 2011 to 1.08, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.04. The top three are Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, Economic Development and Cultural Change, and Experimental Economics.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2012. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2009–2011, the window the 2012 score is computed on.
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.
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.
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.
Subfields of Social Sciences (22)
49 ranked journals
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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. | 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 2011. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2009–2011, the window the 2012 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2009–2011 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 2003 to 2012. | Compare |
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1Career Development for Exceptional IndividualsSAGE Publishing · United States | 7.64Q1 | 2.52 0.69 down from 2011 | 42 | — | — | ||
2Economic Development and Cultural ChangeUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 4.68Q1 | 2.37 0.11 up from 2011 | 80 | 23% | — | ||
3Experimental EconomicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.16Q1 | 2.48 0.72 up from 2011 | 97 | 24% | $3,550 | ||
4Ethics and Information TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.83Q1 | 2.56 0.51 up from 2011 | 100 | 29% | $2,190 | ||
5Journal of Career DevelopmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.72Q1 | 1.62 0.71 down from 2011 | 100 | 5% | $3,650 | ||
6Journal of Adolescent ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.65Q1 | 1.99 0.33 up from 2011 | 104 | 28% | $3,650 | ||
7International Journal for Educational IntegrityOABioMed Central · Australia | 2.56Q1 | 1.74 0.15 down from 2011 | 39 | 100% | $1,290 | ||
8Disability & SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.42Q1 | 1.71 0.48 up from 2011 | 247 | 8% | — | ||
9Journal of Career AssessmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.42Q1 | 1.70 0.59 down from 2011 | 99 | 18% | $3,650 | ||
10The Career Development QuarterlyWiley · United States | 2.39Q1 | 2.40 0.66 up from 2011 | 91 | 9% | $2,900 | ||
11Adoption QuarterlyTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.21Q1 | 1.69 0.89 up from 2011 | 45 | 11% | — | ||
12Journal of Economic PsychologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.15Q1 | 1.75 0.28 up from 2011 | 286 | 25% | $3,710 | ||
13Engineering StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 1.22 0.48 down from 2011 | 41 | 14% | — | ||
14Journal of Disability Policy StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.76Q2 | 1.25 0.02 down from 2011 | 74 | 9% | $3,650 | ||
15International Journal for Educational and Vocational GuidanceSpringer Science+Business Media | 1.66Q2 | 0.69 0.53 down from 2011 | 49 | 39% | $3,090 | ||
16Journal of Development EffectivenessTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.63Q2 | 0.90 0.83 down from 2011 | 89 | 13% | — | ||
17The Journal of Special EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.54Q2 | 1.23 0.03 up from 2011 | 65 | 17% | $3,650 | ||
18Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and EngineeringBegell House · United States | 1.46Q2 | 0.98no change | 59 | 4% | — | ||
19New Directions for Youth DevelopmentWiley · United States | 1.20Q2 | 0.85 0.22 up from 2011 | 140 | 28% | — | ||
20The Journal of Postsecondary Education and DisabilityPublisher not listed | 1.12Q2 | 0.78 0.76 down from 2011 | 51 | 0% | — | ||
21Journal of Academic EthicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.10Q2 | 1.07 0.27 up from 2011 | 66 | 10% | $3,290 | ||
22Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability StudiesLiverpool University Press · United Kingdom | 1.09Q2 | 0.46 0.23 up from 2011 | 89 | 0% | — | ||
23Philosophy & TechnologySpringer Nature (Netherlands) · Netherlands | 1.09Q2 | 0.95 0.95 up from 2011 | 58 | 35% | $3,290 | ||
24Research and Practice for Persons with Severe DisabilitiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.09Q2 | 0.79 0.10 up from 2011 | 49 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
25IEEE Technology and Society MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.08Q2 | 0.63 0.04 down from 2011 | 151 | 5% | — | ||
26Science and Engineering EthicsSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.06Q3 | 1.30 0.27 up from 2011 | 228 | 22% | $3,090 | ||
27Child and Adolescent Social Work JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.05Q3 | 0.65 0.50 down from 2011 | 89 | 7% | $3,290 | ||
28Accountability in ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.92Q3 | 1.20 0.45 up from 2011 | 62 | 22% | $3,500 | ||
29Journal of Vocational RehabilitationIOS Press · United States | 0.85Q3 | 0.78 0.01 down from 2011 | 149 | 11% | $4,150 | ||
30Minds and MachinesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.85Q3 | 1.02 0.48 up from 2011 | 118 | 13% | $3,290 | ||
31Journal of Public Child WelfareTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.84Q3 | 0.69 0.34 up from 2011 | 73 | 8% | — | ||
32Journal of Employment CounselingWiley · United States | 0.82Q3 | 0.58 0.06 up from 2011 | 75 | 4% | $2,900 | ||
33ACM SIGCAS Computers and SocietyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 0.81Q3 | 0.41 0.14 up from 2011 | 59 | 0% | — | ||
34Archives of BudoInternational Scientific Information Inc. · Poland | 0.80Q3 | 0.75 0.24 up from 2011 | 52 | 12% | — | ||
35Adoption & FosteringSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.77Q3 | 0.47 0.02 down from 2011 | 142 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
36AI & SocietySpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 0.77Q3 | 0.63 0.30 down from 2011 | 184 | 13% | $3,190 | ||
37Scandinavian Journal of Disability ResearchOAStockholm University Press · Sweden | 0.73Q3 | 0.62 0.28 up from 2011 | 91 | 100% | $576 | ||
38Journal of rehabilitationUniversity of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences · United States | 0.66Q4 | 0.50 0.44 down from 2011 | 49 | 0% | — | ||
39International Journal of TechnoethicsIGI Global · United States | 0.63Q4 | 0.64 0.09 up from 2011 | 42 | 0% | — | ||
40International Journal on Disability and Human DevelopmentDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.61Q4 | 1.10 0.76 up from 2011 | 160 | 28% | — | ||
41Law Innovation and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.60Q4 | 0.92 0.20 up from 2011 | 35 | 38% | — | ||
42Rehabilitation Counseling BulletinSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.56Q4 | 0.67 0.09 down from 2011 | 65 | 3% | $3,650 | ||
43Sexuality and DisabilitySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.49Q4 | 0.70 0.04 down from 2011 | 125 | 20% | $3,290 | ||
44Residential Treatment for Children & YouthTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.49Q4 | 0.60 0.40 down from 2011 | 56 | 12% | — | ||
45International Journal of Gender, Science, and TechnologyPublisher not listed | 0.32Q4 | 0.44 0.14 up from 2011 | 67 | 0% | — | ||
46Journal of Youth DevelopmentOAUniversity Library System, University of Pittsburgh · United States | 0.20Q4 | 0.13 0.02 up from 2011 | 112 | 100% | — | ||
47Journal of Applied Rehabilitation CounselingSpringer Nature · United States | 0.19Q4 | 0.09 0.02 down from 2011 | 49 | 0% | — | ||
48Rehabilitation Research Policy and EducationSpringer Nature · United States | 0.12Q4 | 0.10 0.10 up from 2011 | 61 | 0% | — | ||
49IEEE Women in Engineering MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 0.06Q4 | 0.05 0.02 up from 2011 | 93 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Safety Research highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,049
- Education564
- Political Science and International Relations287
- Gender Studies57
- Communication54
- Safety Research49
- Public Administration48
- Health43
- Transportation40
- Library and Information Sciences39
- Linguistics and Language38
- Law37
- Anthropology36
- Urban Studies36
- Demography33
- Geography, Planning and Development24
- Cultural Studies10
- Development3
- General Social Sciences2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2012. Corpus-wide, 75.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
11 additional Safety Research journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2009–2011, 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.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2012. Publication window: 2009–2011. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 49
- Window papers (baseline)
- 29,445 +21.1% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 1.084 +14.0% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2009–2011 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.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
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| Ranked journals | 27 | 28 | 30 | 31 | 33 | 33 | 34 | 33 | 34 | 39 | 41 | 44 | 49 | 51 | 50 | 53 | 51 | 52 | 51 | 56 | 55 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 12,378 | 13,450 | 14,537 | 15,737 | 16,531 | 17,755 | 18,527 | 20,440 | 22,001 | 24,308 | 26,052 | 27,912 | 29,445 | 30,699 | 31,512 | 32,232 | 32,810 | 33,277 | 33,608 | 34,117 | 34,778 | 35,732 | 36,134 | 35,754 | 35,845 | 39,824 | |
| Median OJR | 0.87 | 0.69 | 0.76 | 0.79 | 0.78 | 1.016 | 1.002 | 0.999 | 1.024 | 0.95 | 1.078 | 0.96 | 1.084 | 0.88 | 1.13 | 1.05 | 1.11 | 1.24 | 1.10 | 1.01 | 1.03 | 1.06 | 0.993 | 1.09 | 0.988 | 0.85 |
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.