Journal rankings · indicator year 2013
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Subfield ranking · 2013
Safety Research journal rankings 2013
51 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Safety Research has 51 ranked journals in 2013. The median OJR fell 0.20 on 2012 to 0.88, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.97. The top three are Experimental Economics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, and International Journal for Educational Integrity.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2013. 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 2010–2012, the window the 2013 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)
51 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 2012. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2010–2012, the window the 2013 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2010–2012 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 2004 to 2013. | Compare |
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1Experimental EconomicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.75Q1 | 2.92 0.44 up from 2012 | 110 | 31% | $3,550 | ||
2Economic Development and Cultural ChangeUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 3.30Q1 | 2.54 0.18 up from 2012 | 84 | 9% | — | ||
3International Journal for Educational IntegrityOABioMed Central · Australia | 3.16Q1 | 0.68 1.06 down from 2012 | 38 | 100% | $1,290 | ||
4The Career Development QuarterlyWiley · United States | 2.76Q1 | 2.26 0.14 down from 2012 | 80 | 3% | $2,900 | ||
5Journal of Career AssessmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.63Q1 | 2.54 0.84 up from 2012 | 110 | 11% | $3,650 | ||
6Journal of Adolescent ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.55Q1 | 1.78 0.20 down from 2012 | 93 | 20% | $3,650 | ||
7Journal of Disability Policy StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.32Q1 | 1.60 0.35 up from 2012 | 96 | 18% | $3,650 | ||
8Ethics and Information TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.24Q1 | 1.04 1.52 down from 2012 | 90 | 30% | $2,190 | ||
9Adoption QuarterlyTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.22Q1 | 1.07 0.62 down from 2012 | 44 | 11% | — | ||
10Journal of Career DevelopmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.18Q1 | 1.38 0.24 down from 2012 | 97 | 10% | $3,650 | ||
11Engineering StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.15Q1 | 1.11 0.11 down from 2012 | 40 | 33% | — | ||
12Journal of Economic PsychologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.05Q1 | 2.06 0.32 up from 2012 | 300 | 19% | $3,710 | ||
13Disability & SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.97Q1 | 1.45 0.26 down from 2012 | 310 | 12% | — | ||
14Journal of Development EffectivenessTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.95Q2 | 2.37 1.47 up from 2012 | 88 | 8% | — | ||
15The Journal of Special EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.87Q2 | 1.56 0.34 up from 2012 | 62 | 22% | $3,650 | ||
16International Journal for Educational and Vocational GuidanceSpringer Science+Business Media | 1.79Q2 | 1.34 0.66 up from 2012 | 49 | 38% | $3,090 | ||
17New Directions for Youth DevelopmentWiley · United States | 1.52Q2 | 1.09 0.24 up from 2012 | 142 | 21% | — | ||
18Journal of Employment CounselingWiley · United States | 1.41Q2 | 1.12 0.54 up from 2012 | 70 | 5% | $2,900 | ||
19Journal of Academic EthicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.37Q2 | 0.84 0.23 down from 2012 | 72 | 14% | $3,290 | ||
20Journal of Vocational RehabilitationIOS Press · United States | 1.32Q2 | 1.18 0.40 up from 2012 | 154 | 9% | $4,150 | ||
21Research and Practice for Persons with Severe DisabilitiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.28Q2 | 1.32 0.53 up from 2012 | 67 | 10% | $3,650 | ||
22Child and Adolescent Social Work JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.10Q2 | 0.83 0.18 up from 2012 | 103 | 3% | $3,290 | ||
23Career Development and Transition for Exceptional IndividualsSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.06Q2 | 0.80 0.53 down from 2012 | 30 | 13% | $3,650 | ||
24Science and Engineering EthicsSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.03Q2 | 1.47 0.17 up from 2012 | 239 | 31% | $3,090 | ||
25Rehabilitation Counseling BulletinSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.91Q2 | 1.02 0.35 up from 2012 | 82 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
26Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and EngineeringBegell House · United States | 0.88Q2 | 0.51 0.46 down from 2012 | 59 | 0% | — | ||
27Minds and MachinesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.85Q3 | 1.21 0.19 up from 2012 | 112 | 26% | $3,290 | ||
28IEEE Technology and Society MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 0.84Q3 | 0.50 0.13 down from 2012 | 171 | 53% | — | ||
29The Journal of Postsecondary Education and DisabilityPublisher not listed | 0.79Q3 | 0.89 0.12 up from 2012 | 62 | 0% | — | ||
30AI & SocietySpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 0.78Q3 | 0.44 0.19 down from 2012 | 181 | 11% | $3,190 | ||
31Scandinavian Journal of Disability ResearchOAStockholm University Press · Sweden | 0.77Q3 | 0.73 0.10 up from 2012 | 101 | 100% | $576 | ||
32Adoption & FosteringSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.75Q3 | 0.39 0.08 down from 2012 | 136 | 3% | $3,650 | ||
33Residential Treatment for Children & YouthTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.73Q3 | 0.81 0.21 up from 2012 | 63 | 7% | — | ||
34Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability StudiesLiverpool University Press · United Kingdom | 0.72Q3 | 0.47 0.02 up from 2012 | 87 | 3% | — | ||
35Journal of Public Child WelfareTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.71Q3 | 0.45 0.24 down from 2012 | 88 | 10% | — | ||
36Accountability in ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.71Q3 | 1.27 0.06 up from 2012 | 67 | 19% | $3,500 | ||
37Philosophy & TechnologySpringer Nature (Netherlands) · Netherlands | 0.70Q3 | 0.73 0.21 down from 2012 | 91 | 28% | $3,290 | ||
38Disability CBR & Inclusive DevelopmentOAVU e-Publishing · Netherlands | 0.70Q3 | 0.85 0.54 up from 2012 | 54 | 100% | — | ||
39Journal of rehabilitationUniversity of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences · United States | 0.61Q3 | 0.53 0.03 up from 2012 | 49 | 0% | — | ||
40International Journal of TechnoethicsIGI Global · United States | 0.56Q4 | 0.36 0.29 down from 2012 | 62 | 14% | — | ||
41Sexuality and DisabilitySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.51Q4 | 0.73 0.03 up from 2012 | 116 | 26% | $3,290 | ||
42Archives of BudoInternational Scientific Information Inc. · Poland | 0.46Q4 | 0.84 0.09 up from 2012 | 50 | 15% | — | ||
43International Journal on Disability and Human DevelopmentDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.44Q4 | 0.79 0.30 down from 2012 | 162 | 13% | — | ||
44Law Innovation and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.41Q4 | 0.63 0.29 down from 2012 | 39 | 38% | — | ||
45Journal of Youth DevelopmentOAUniversity Library System, University of Pittsburgh · United States | 0.37Q4 | 0.28 0.15 up from 2012 | 113 | 100% | — | ||
46ACM SIGCAS Computers and SocietyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 0.32Q4 | 0.17 0.24 down from 2012 | 47 | 0% | — | ||
47International Journal of Gender, Science, and TechnologyPublisher not listed | 0.25Q4 | 0.33 0.10 down from 2012 | 72 | 0% | — | ||
48Journal of Applied Rehabilitation CounselingSpringer Nature · United States | 0.21Q4 | 0.29 0.19 up from 2012 | 48 | 0% | — | ||
49Revista de artes marciales asiáticasOAUniversity of León · Spain | 0.09Q4 | 0.04 0.04 up from 2012 | 277 | 100% | — | ||
50Rehabilitation Research Policy and EducationSpringer Nature · United States | 0.07Q4 | 0.09 0.01 down from 2012 | 89 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Safety Research highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,090
- Education598
- Political Science and International Relations287
- Communication57
- Gender Studies55
- Safety Research51
- Public Administration49
- Health47
- Transportation42
- Library and Information Sciences41
- Law40
- Linguistics and Language40
- Urban Studies39
- Anthropology37
- Demography34
- Geography, Planning and Development25
- Cultural Studies10
- Development3
- General Social Sciences2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2013. Corpus-wide, 76.9% 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 2010–2012, 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: 2013. Publication window: 2010–2012. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 51
- Window papers (baseline)
- 30,699 +17.8% from indicator year 2010
- Median OJR
- 0.88 -18.2% from indicator year 2010
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2010–2012 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.