Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Subfield ranking · 2017
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality journal rankings 2017
26 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality has 26 ranked journals in 2017. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.01 against 1.00, up 0.02 on 2016. A journal needs OJR 1.59 to reach Q1. The top three are Analytic Methods in Accident Research, Journal of Safety Research, and IEEE Transactions on Reliability.
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 Engineering (16)
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering506
- Mechanical Engineering360
- Biomedical Engineering272
- Civil and Structural Engineering250
- Aerospace Engineering181
- Control and Systems Engineering128
- Mechanics of Materials126
- Computational Mechanics103
- Building and Construction81
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering79
- Ocean Engineering71
- Automotive Engineering27
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality26
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26 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 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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1Analytic Methods in Accident ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.54Q1 | 9.23 3.09 up from 2016 | 42 | 20% | $5,310 | ||
2Journal of Safety ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.91Q1 | 3.05 0.48 up from 2016 | 184 | 36% | $3,220 | ||
3IEEE Transactions on ReliabilityInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.86Q1 | 3.11 0.38 up from 2016 | 405 | 5% | $2,645 | ||
4Accident Analysis & PreventionElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.68Q1 | 3.22 0.07 down from 2016 | 988 | 21% | $4,150 | ||
5Fire Safety JournalElsevier BV · Switzerland | 1.92Q1 | 2.26 0.40 up from 2016 | 266 | 30% | $3,770 | ||
6Journal of Quality in Maintenance EngineeringEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.76Q1 | 1.66 0.57 up from 2016 | 81 | 19% | — | ||
7IATSS ResearchOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.59Q1 | 1.59 0.50 up from 2016 | 68 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
8Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part O Journal of Risk and ReliabilitySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.35Q2 | 1.75 0.50 up from 2016 | 141 | 22% | $4,150 | ||
9Applied Stochastic Models in Business and IndustryWiley · United Kingdom | 1.28Q2 | 1.20 0.24 down from 2016 | 168 | 26% | $3,800 | ||
10Journal of Injury and Violence ResearchOAKermanshah University of Medical Sciences · Iran | 1.22Q2 | 1.46 0.19 up from 2016 | 37 | 100% | — | ||
11Journal of Transportation Safety & SecurityTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.17Q2 | 1.03 0.13 down from 2016 | 102 | 13% | — | ||
12Fire TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.09Q2 | 1.20 0.28 down from 2016 | 235 | 36% | $2,190 | ||
13Traffic Injury PreventionTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.01Q2 | 1.44 0.10 down from 2016 | 470 | 49% | — | ||
14Journal of Fire SciencesSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.00Q3 | 1.52 0.33 up from 2016 | 78 | 11% | $4,150 | ||
15Fire and MaterialsWiley · United Kingdom | 0.93Q3 | 1.09 0.01 up from 2016 | 174 | 13% | $3,760 | ||
16Fire Safety ScienceInternational Association of Fire Safety Science | 0.83Q3 | 0.00 0.66 down from 2016 | 125 | — | — | ||
17Journal of Transportation TechnologiesOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.78Q3 | 0.95 0.03 down from 2016 | 96 | 100% | — | ||
18International Journal of Reliability Quality and Safety EngineeringWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.74Q3 | 0.95 0.56 up from 2016 | 110 | 7% | — | ||
19International Journal of Injury Control and Safety PromotionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.61Q3 | 0.85 0.11 up from 2016 | 139 | 24% | — | ||
20International Journal of Transportation Science and TechnologyOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.58Q3 | 0.79 0.48 up from 2016 | 76 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
21International Journal of Reliability and SafetyInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.36Q4 | 0.51 0.20 down from 2016 | 63 | 0% | — | ||
| 0.33Q4 | 0.61 0.01 down from 2016 | 67 | 0% | — | |||
23Journal of the Australasian College of Road SafetyOAAustralia | 0.23Q4 | 0.04 0.08 down from 2016 | 37 | 0% | — | ||
24Reliability: Theory & ApplicationsPublisher not listed | 0.18Q4 | 0.28 0.11 up from 2016 | 69 | 0% | — | ||
25Journal of Local and Global Health ScienceHBKU Press · Russia | 0.10Q4 | 0.12 0.12 down from 2016 | 132 | — | — | ||
26Yunchou yu guanliOperations Research Society of China | 0.03Q4 | 0.01 0.07 down from 2016 | 289 | — | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering506
- Mechanical Engineering360
- Biomedical Engineering272
- Civil and Structural Engineering250
- Aerospace Engineering181
- Control and Systems Engineering128
- Mechanics of Materials126
- Computational Mechanics103
- Building and Construction81
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering79
- Ocean Engineering71
- Automotive Engineering27
- Media Technology27
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality26
- Architecture2
- General Engineering0
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, Risk, Reliability and Quality 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
- 26
- Window papers (baseline)
- 26,768 -34.0% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 1.01 -25.0% 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 | 14 | 14 | 16 | 16 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 19 | 23 | 23 | 23 | 26 | 26 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 28 | 26 | 25 | 26 | 26 | 26 | 27 | 23 | 24 | 23 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 7,277 | 9,069 | 11,437 | 14,422 | 17,135 | 20,188 | 23,326 | 27,261 | 31,102 | 34,864 | 37,388 | 39,325 | 41,247 | 41,245 | 40,585 | 37,005 | 32,495 | 26,768 | 23,002 | 21,773 | 22,850 | 24,644 | 26,559 | 27,374 | 27,627 | 29,052 | |
| Median OJR | 0.69 | 0.57 | 0.52 | 0.61 | 0.91 | 1.13 | 1.11 | 0.804 | 0.803 | 0.88 | 0.969 | 1.002 | 1.19 | 1.25 | 1.34 | 1.04 | 0.98 | 1.01 | 1.05 | 0.975 | 0.839 | 0.842 | 0.802 | 0.99 | 0.86 | 0.83 |
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.