Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Subfield ranking · 2017
Safety Research journal rankings 2017
52 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Safety Research has 52 ranked journals in 2017. The median OJR rose 0.13 on 2016 to 1.24, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.04. The top three are Journal of the Economic Science Association, Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, and The Career Development Quarterly.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2017. 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 2014–2016, the window the 2017 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)
52 ranked journals
Filters
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 2016. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2014–2016, the window the 2017 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2014–2016 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 2008 to 2017. | Compare |
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1Journal of the Economic Science AssociationSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 8.16Q1 | 7.06 0.96 up from 2016 | 31 | 64% | $3,550 | ||
2Research and Practice for Persons with Severe DisabilitiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.41Q1 | 3.10 0.79 up from 2016 | 66 | 8% | $3,650 | ||
3The Career Development QuarterlyWiley · United States | 3.22Q1 | 2.37 0.35 down from 2016 | 86 | 13% | $2,900 | ||
4Economic Development and Cultural ChangeUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 2.86Q1 | 2.21 0.33 up from 2016 | 74 | 23% | — | ||
5Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability StudiesLiverpool University Press · United Kingdom | 2.77Q1 | 1.38 0.92 up from 2016 | 91 | 2% | — | ||
6Experimental EconomicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.64Q1 | 1.80 0.16 down from 2016 | 113 | 40% | $3,550 | ||
7Journal of Economic PsychologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.56Q1 | 2.42 0.63 up from 2016 | 198 | 38% | $3,710 | ||
8Journal of Career DevelopmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.34Q1 | 1.67no change | 128 | 14% | $3,650 | ||
9Ethics and Information TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.33Q1 | 2.54 0.39 up from 2016 | 82 | 54% | $2,190 | ||
10Journal of Disability Policy StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.29Q1 | 1.31 0.11 up from 2016 | 55 | 14% | $3,650 | ||
11Journal of Adolescent ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.17Q1 | 1.60 0.15 down from 2016 | 112 | 20% | $3,650 | ||
12International Journal for Educational and Vocational GuidanceSpringer Science+Business Media | 2.16Q1 | 1.50 0.55 up from 2016 | 72 | 13% | $3,090 | ||
13Career Development and Transition for Exceptional IndividualsSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.04Q1 | 1.30 0.02 up from 2016 | 61 | 19% | $3,650 | ||
14Journal of Career AssessmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.91Q2 | 1.45 0.20 down from 2016 | 149 | 27% | $3,650 | ||
15Disability & SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.90Q2 | 1.39 0.15 down from 2016 | 349 | 72% | — | ||
16New Directions for Youth DevelopmentWiley · United States | 1.68Q2 | —no 2016 value | 32 | — | — | ||
17Journal of Behavioral and Experimental EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.57Q2 | 1.22 0.05 down from 2016 | 223 | 32% | $2,830 | ||
18The Journal of Special EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.55Q2 | 1.83 0.23 up from 2016 | 49 | 18% | $3,650 | ||
19Philosophy & TechnologySpringer Nature (Netherlands) · Netherlands | 1.53Q2 | 1.60 0.57 up from 2016 | 98 | 57% | $3,290 | ||
20Journal of Employment CounselingWiley · United States | 1.51Q2 | 1.09 0.56 down from 2016 | 49 | 15% | $2,900 | ||
21Science and Engineering EthicsSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.47Q2 | 2.05 0.08 up from 2016 | 353 | 37% | $3,090 | ||
22InclusionAmerican Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities · United States | 1.42Q2 | 1.21 0.16 up from 2016 | 88 | 13% | — | ||
23Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and EngineeringBegell House · United States | 1.41Q2 | 0.76 0.73 down from 2016 | 55 | 6% | — | ||
24Adoption QuarterlyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.38Q2 | 1.03 0.11 up from 2016 | 54 | 17% | — | ||
25Child and Adolescent Social Work JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.38Q2 | 1.29 0.28 up from 2016 | 145 | 10% | $3,290 | ||
26Accountability in ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.28Q2 | 1.40 0.07 down from 2016 | 69 | 37% | $3,500 | ||
27Journal of Development EffectivenessTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.20Q3 | 1.33 0.06 down from 2016 | 102 | 43% | — | ||
28Journal of Academic EthicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.17Q3 | 1.20 0.12 up from 2016 | 69 | 15% | $3,290 | ||
29Residential Treatment for Children & YouthTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.10Q3 | 1.19 0.28 up from 2016 | 64 | 45% | — | ||
30ACM SIGCAS Computers and SocietyAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 1.05Q3 | 0.86 0.85 down from 2016 | 131 | 0% | — | ||
31Scandinavian Journal of Disability ResearchOAStockholm University Press · Sweden | 1.04Q3 | 0.49 0.66 down from 2016 | 82 | 100% | $576 | ||
32The Journal of Postsecondary Education and DisabilityPublisher not listed | 1.00Q3 | 0.87 0.21 up from 2016 | 87 | 0% | — | ||
33AI & SocietySpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.00Q3 | 0.79 0.04 up from 2016 | 195 | 30% | $3,190 | ||
34Journal of Public Child WelfareTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.97Q3 | 0.94 0.01 down from 2016 | 99 | 16% | — | ||
35Sexuality and DisabilitySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.93Q3 | 1.22 0.07 down from 2016 | 124 | 17% | $3,290 | ||
36Journal of Vocational RehabilitationIOS Press · United States | 0.82Q3 | 0.99 0.05 up from 2016 | 175 | 32% | $4,150 | ||
37International Journal of Gender, Science, and TechnologyPublisher not listed | 0.75Q3 | 0.66 0.26 up from 2016 | 57 | 0% | — | ||
38IEEE Technology and Society MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 0.64Q3 | 0.64 0.09 up from 2016 | 234 | 3% | — | ||
39Rehabilitation Counseling BulletinSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.64Q3 | 0.71no change | 84 | 10% | $3,650 | ||
40Journal of Applied Rehabilitation CounselingSpringer Nature · United States | 0.60Q4 | 0.35 0.15 down from 2016 | 53 | 0% | — | ||
41Adoption & FosteringSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.59Q4 | 0.51 0.02 down from 2016 | 117 | 22% | $3,650 | ||
42Archives of BudoInternational Scientific Information Inc. · Poland | 0.57Q4 | 0.93 0.02 down from 2016 | 64 | 0% | — | ||
43Engineering StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.56Q4 | 0.54 0.13 up from 2016 | 61 | 38% | — | ||
44Journal of rehabilitationUniversity of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences · United States | 0.55Q4 | 0.56 0.07 down from 2016 | 54 | 0% | — | ||
45International Journal of TechnoethicsIGI Global · United States | 0.55Q4 | 0.27 0.27 down from 2016 | 42 | 20% | — | ||
46Minds and MachinesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.53Q4 | 0.84 0.33 up from 2016 | 72 | 48% | $3,290 | ||
47Journal of Youth DevelopmentOAUniversity Library System, University of Pittsburgh · United States | 0.44Q4 | 0.44 0.15 up from 2016 | 93 | 100% | — | ||
48Disability CBR & Inclusive DevelopmentOAVU e-Publishing · Netherlands | 0.38Q4 | 0.34 0.13 down from 2016 | 99 | 100% | — | ||
49Rehabilitation Research Policy and EducationSpringer Nature · United States | 0.36Q4 | 0.56 0.18 up from 2016 | 78 | 0% | — | ||
50International Journal on Disability and Human DevelopmentDe Gruyter · Germany | 0.26Q4 | 0.31 0.39 down from 2016 | 199 | 29% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Safety Research highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,300
- Education698
- Political Science and International Relations318
- Communication71
- Gender Studies63
- Health53
- Safety Research52
- Public Administration51
- Transportation48
- Linguistics and Language47
- Law46
- Urban Studies45
- Anthropology41
- Library and Information Sciences41
- Demography40
- Geography, Planning and Development28
- Cultural Studies9
- Development4
- General Social Sciences3
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2017. Corpus-wide, 77.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
10 additional Safety Research journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2014–2016, 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: 2017. Publication window: 2014–2016. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 52
- Window papers (baseline)
- 33,277 +5.6% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 1.24 +9.9% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2014–2016 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.