Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Subfield ranking · 2019
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality journal rankings 2019
26 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality has 26 ranked journals in 2019. The median OJR fell 0.08 on 2018 to 0.97, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.68. The top three are Analytic Methods in Accident Research, Journal of Safety Research, and Accident Analysis & Prevention.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2019. 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 2016–2018, the window the 2019 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 Engineering542
- Mechanical Engineering371
- Biomedical Engineering303
- Civil and Structural Engineering265
- Aerospace Engineering184
- Control and Systems Engineering128
- Mechanics of Materials123
- Computational Mechanics102
- Building and Construction91
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering87
- Ocean Engineering75
- Automotive Engineering34
- 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 2018. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2016–2018, the window the 2019 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2016–2018 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 2010 to 2019. | Compare |
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1Analytic Methods in Accident ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.37Q1 | 11.08 0.75 down from 2018 | 53 | 33% | $5,310 | ||
2Journal of Safety ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.76Q1 | 3.91 0.19 up from 2018 | 233 | 23% | $3,220 | ||
3Accident Analysis & PreventionElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.58Q1 | 4.61 0.69 up from 2018 | 1,036 | 26% | $4,150 | ||
4IEEE Transactions on ReliabilityInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.38Q1 | 4.15 1.04 up from 2018 | 391 | 25% | $2,645 | ||
5IATSS ResearchOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.19Q1 | 2.78 0.63 up from 2018 | 83 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
6International Journal of Transportation Science and TechnologyOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.00Q1 | 3.45 0.83 up from 2018 | 101 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
7Fire Safety JournalElsevier BV · Switzerland | 1.68Q1 | 2.99 0.47 up from 2018 | 410 | 44% | $3,770 | ||
8Journal of Quality in Maintenance EngineeringEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.24Q2 | 1.92 0.24 up from 2018 | 88 | 8% | — | ||
9Fire TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.17Q2 | 2.13 0.49 up from 2018 | 238 | 38% | $2,190 | ||
10Journal of Fire SciencesSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.11Q2 | 1.52 0.06 up from 2018 | 91 | 18% | $4,150 | ||
11Journal of Transportation Safety & SecurityTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.02Q2 | 1.88 0.68 up from 2018 | 129 | 9% | — | ||
12Fire and MaterialsWiley · United Kingdom | 1.00Q2 | 2.09 0.75 up from 2018 | 215 | 26% | $3,760 | ||
13Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part O Journal of Risk and ReliabilitySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.98Q2 | 1.58 0.10 up from 2018 | 201 | 22% | $4,150 | ||
14Traffic Injury PreventionTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.97Q3 | 1.75 0.06 up from 2018 | 462 | 38% | — | ||
15The Open Transportation JournalOABentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.96Q3 | 1.17 0.41 up from 2018 | 55 | 100% | — | ||
16Journal of Injury and Violence ResearchOAKermanshah University of Medical Sciences · Iran | 0.95Q3 | 1.52 0.05 down from 2018 | 38 | 100% | — | ||
17International Journal of Injury Control and Safety PromotionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.94Q3 | 1.33 0.27 up from 2018 | 130 | 36% | — | ||
18Applied Stochastic Models in Business and IndustryWiley · United Kingdom | 0.93Q3 | 1.18 0.18 down from 2018 | 205 | 25% | $3,800 | ||
19International Journal of Reliability Quality and Safety EngineeringWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.61Q3 | 0.99 0.26 up from 2018 | 115 | 3% | — | ||
20Journal of Transportation TechnologiesOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.60Q3 | 1.49 0.58 up from 2018 | 89 | 100% | — | ||
21Geo-Risk 2017Publisher not listed | 0.45Q4 | 0.27 0.14 down from 2018 | 171 | — | — | ||
22International Journal of Reliability and SafetyInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.30Q4 | 0.51 0.21 up from 2018 | 119 | 0% | — | ||
23Defense Acquisition Research JournalUnited States | 0.28Q4 | 0.34 0.12 up from 2018 | 33 | 11% | — | ||
| 0.16Q4 | 0.32 0.11 up from 2018 | 45 | 0% | — | |||
25Reliability: Theory & ApplicationsPublisher not listed | 0.08Q4 | 0.28 0.05 up from 2018 | 40 | 0% | — | ||
26Yunchou yu guanliOperations Research Society of China | 0.01Q4 | —no 2018 value | 177 | — | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering542
- Mechanical Engineering371
- Biomedical Engineering303
- Civil and Structural Engineering265
- Aerospace Engineering184
- Control and Systems Engineering128
- Mechanics of Materials123
- Computational Mechanics102
- Building and Construction91
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering87
- Ocean Engineering75
- Automotive Engineering34
- Media Technology26
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality26
- Architecture1
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2019. Corpus-wide, 83.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
9 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 2016–2018, 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: 2019. Publication window: 2016–2018. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 26
- Window papers (baseline)
- 21,773 -33.0% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 0.975 -0.9% from indicator year 2016
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2016–2018 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.