Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Subfield ranking · 2021
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality journal rankings 2021
26 ranked journals · Subfield in Engineering
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality has 26 ranked journals in 2021. The median journal has an OJR of 0.84, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2020; Q1 starts at OJR 1.34. The top three are Analytic Methods in Accident Research, Accident Analysis & Prevention, and IEEE Transactions on Reliability.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2021. 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 2018–2020, the window the 2021 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 Engineering574
- Mechanical Engineering380
- Biomedical Engineering327
- Civil and Structural Engineering272
- Aerospace Engineering175
- Mechanics of Materials123
- Control and Systems Engineering121
- Computational Mechanics102
- Building and Construction97
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering90
- Ocean Engineering74
- Automotive Engineering38
- 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 2020. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2018–2020, the window the 2021 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2018–2020 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 2012 to 2021. | Compare |
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1Analytic Methods in Accident ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.08Q1 | 14.37 1.97 up from 2020 | 69 | 39% | $5,310 | ||
2Accident Analysis & PreventionElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.70Q1 | 6.78 0.49 up from 2020 | 1,088 | 31% | $4,150 | ||
3IEEE Transactions on ReliabilityInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.43Q1 | 4.81 0.49 up from 2020 | 393 | 29% | $2,645 | ||
4Journal of Safety ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.41Q1 | 4.99 0.37 up from 2020 | 326 | 28% | $3,220 | ||
5IATSS ResearchOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.99Q1 | 4.67 1.10 up from 2020 | 114 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
6International Journal of Transportation Science and TechnologyOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.66Q1 | 3.74 0.12 up from 2020 | 119 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
7Fire Safety JournalElsevier BV · Switzerland | 1.34Q1 | 3.25 0.07 down from 2020 | 497 | 41% | $3,770 | ||
8Fire TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.30Q2 | 3.42 0.77 up from 2020 | 338 | 37% | $2,190 | ||
9Journal of Transportation Safety & SecurityTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.11Q2 | 2.48 0.43 up from 2020 | 197 | 6% | — | ||
10International Journal of Injury Control and Safety PromotionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.07Q2 | 2.64 1.04 up from 2020 | 156 | 31% | — | ||
11Traffic Injury PreventionTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.91Q2 | 2.30 0.42 up from 2020 | 551 | 35% | — | ||
12Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part O Journal of Risk and ReliabilitySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.85Q2 | 2.25 0.42 up from 2020 | 236 | 19% | $4,150 | ||
13Fire and MaterialsWiley · United Kingdom | 0.85Q2 | 2.03 0.28 down from 2020 | 312 | 22% | $3,760 | ||
14Journal of Quality in Maintenance EngineeringEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.83Q3 | 2.12 0.40 up from 2020 | 143 | 21% | — | ||
| 0.77Q3 | 0.32no 2020 value | 128 | — | — | — | ||
| 0.75Q3 | 0.37 0.08 up from 2020 | 145 | — | — | |||
17Journal of Fire SciencesSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.72Q3 | 1.98 0.35 up from 2020 | 80 | 30% | $4,150 | ||
18Applied Stochastic Models in Business and IndustryWiley · United Kingdom | 0.69Q3 | 1.40 0.08 down from 2020 | 232 | 29% | $3,800 | ||
19The Open Transportation JournalOABentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 0.58Q3 | 1.45 0.03 up from 2020 | 81 | 100% | — | ||
20Journal of Transportation TechnologiesOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.44Q3 | 1.09 0.12 down from 2020 | 75 | 100% | — | ||
21International Journal of Reliability Quality and Safety EngineeringWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.35Q4 | 0.86 0.21 up from 2020 | 104 | 3% | — | ||
22International Journal of Reliability and SafetyInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.35Q4 | 0.56 0.12 up from 2020 | 101 | 18% | — | ||
23Journal of Injury and Violence ResearchOAKermanshah University of Medical Sciences · Iran | 0.28Q4 | 0.53 0.14 up from 2020 | 265 | 100% | — | ||
24Journal of the Australasian College of Road SafetyOAAustralia | 0.22Q4 | 0.52 0.09 down from 2020 | 33 | — | — | ||
| 0.16Q4 | 0.29 0.11 up from 2020 | 63 | 0% | — | |||
26Defense Acquisition Research JournalUnited States | 0.16Q4 | 0.37 0.13 up from 2020 | 33 | 5% | — |
Subfields of Engineering, with Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality highlighted.
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering574
- Mechanical Engineering380
- Biomedical Engineering327
- Civil and Structural Engineering272
- Aerospace Engineering175
- Mechanics of Materials123
- Control and Systems Engineering121
- Computational Mechanics102
- Building and Construction97
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering90
- Ocean Engineering74
- Automotive Engineering38
- Media Technology27
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality26
- Architecture2
- General Engineering0
Journals
Citations made in 2021. Corpus-wide, 87.7% 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 2018–2020, 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: 2021. Publication window: 2018–2020. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 26
- Window papers (baseline)
- 24,644 +7.1% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.842 -20.2% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2018–2020 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.