Journal rankings · indicator year 2022
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Subfield ranking · 2022
Safety Research journal rankings 2022
58 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Safety Research has 58 ranked journals in 2022. The median OJR fell 0.07 on 2021 to 0.99, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.70. The top three are International Journal for Educational Integrity, Minds and Machines, and Philosophy & Technology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2022. 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 2019–2021, the window the 2022 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)
58 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 2021. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2019–2021, the window the 2022 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2019–2021 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 2013 to 2022. | Compare |
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1International Journal for Educational IntegrityOABioMed Central · Australia | 5.44Q1 | 9.51 5.55 up from 2021 | 50 | 100% | $1,290 | ||
2Minds and MachinesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.50Q1 | 11.32 2.18 up from 2021 | 91 | 85% | $3,290 | ||
3Philosophy & TechnologySpringer Nature (Netherlands) · Netherlands | 3.71Q1 | 8.57 2.21 up from 2021 | 148 | 78% | $3,290 | ||
4AI and EthicsSpringer Nature · Switzerland | 2.92Q1 | 6.32 1.83 up from 2021 | 114 | 73% | $3,190 | ||
5Ethics and Information TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.63Q1 | 4.20 0.32 down from 2021 | 159 | 74% | $2,190 | ||
6Science and Engineering EthicsSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 2.43Q1 | 5.23 0.04 down from 2021 | 262 | 83% | $3,090 | ||
7Journal of Career AssessmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.42Q1 | 3.96 0.40 down from 2021 | 101 | 22% | $3,650 | ||
8Journal of Career DevelopmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.22Q1 | 3.66 1.25 up from 2021 | 183 | 21% | $3,650 | ||
9Journal of Academic EthicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.18Q1 | 3.20 0.11 up from 2021 | 113 | 63% | $3,290 | ||
10Scandinavian Journal of Disability ResearchOAStockholm University Press · Sweden | 2.04Q1 | 3.36 0.83 up from 2021 | 103 | 100% | $576 | ||
11AI & SocietySpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.99Q1 | 4.50 0.30 up from 2021 | 434 | 67% | $3,190 | ||
12The Career Development QuarterlyWiley · United States | 1.94Q1 | 2.57 0.07 down from 2021 | 97 | 24% | $2,900 | ||
13Accountability in ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.90Q1 | 4.67 1.81 up from 2021 | 124 | 39% | $3,500 | ||
14Career Development and Transition for Exceptional IndividualsSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.77Q1 | 4.08 0.68 up from 2021 | 51 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
15Disability & SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.70Q1 | 2.70 0.19 down from 2021 | 475 | 54% | — | ||
16Journal of Economic PsychologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.67Q2 | 2.94 1.24 down from 2021 | 187 | 43% | $3,710 | ||
17Journal of Adolescent ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.58Q2 | 2.22 0.31 down from 2021 | 124 | 43% | $3,650 | ||
18Research and Practice for Persons with Severe DisabilitiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.51Q2 | 2.80 0.54 up from 2021 | 70 | 20% | $3,650 | ||
19Journal for STEM Education ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.47Q2 | 2.67 0.31 up from 2021 | 47 | 59% | $3,290 | ||
20Journal of Disability Policy StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.46Q2 | 2.14 0.83 up from 2021 | 94 | 17% | $3,650 | ||
21Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER)OAPurdue University Press · United States | 1.44Q2 | 1.81 3.34 down from 2021 | 41 | 100% | — | ||
22Experimental EconomicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.40Q2 | 2.35 0.31 down from 2021 | 133 | 76% | $3,550 | ||
23International Journal for Educational and Vocational GuidanceSpringer Science+Business Media | 1.31Q2 | 1.80 0.07 down from 2021 | 120 | 64% | $3,090 | ||
24Journal of Behavioral and Experimental EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.23Q2 | 1.97 0.52 down from 2021 | 319 | 45% | $2,830 | ||
25Economic Development and Cultural ChangeUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 1.23Q2 | 1.65 0.35 down from 2021 | 127 | 35% | — | ||
26Child and Adolescent Social Work JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.09Q2 | 2.15 0.09 down from 2021 | 205 | 50% | $3,290 | ||
27Engineering StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.03Q2 | 2.13 0.70 down from 2021 | 37 | 53% | — | ||
28Developmental Child WelfareSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.03Q2 | 3.62 0.62 up from 2021 | 60 | 44% | $3,400 | ||
29The Journal of Special EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.00Q2 | 1.72 0.18 up from 2021 | 95 | 18% | $3,650 | ||
30Journal of the Economic Science AssociationSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.98Q3 | 2.70 1.20 up from 2021 | 55 | 71% | $3,550 | ||
31The Journal of Postsecondary Education and DisabilityPublisher not listed | 0.86Q3 | 1.38 0.20 up from 2021 | 56 | — | — | ||
32International Journal of Gender, Science, and TechnologyPublisher not listed | 0.86Q3 | 1.96 0.41 up from 2021 | 43 | — | — | ||
33Studies in Engineering EducationOAVirginia Tech University Libraries · United States | 0.85Q3 | 2.20 0.09 down from 2021 | 30 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
34Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and EngineeringBegell House · United States | 0.83Q3 | 1.61 0.11 down from 2021 | 70 | 31% | — | ||
35Journal of Public Child WelfareTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.82Q3 | 1.95 0.47 up from 2021 | 116 | 24% | — | ||
36Adoption QuarterlyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.75Q3 | 1.26 0.08 down from 2021 | 55 | 8% | — | ||
37IEEE Technology and Society MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 0.69Q3 | 1.62 0.50 up from 2021 | 219 | 80% | — | ||
38Sexuality and DisabilitySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.66Q3 | 1.88 0.23 down from 2021 | 137 | 36% | $3,290 | ||
39Rehabilitation Counseling BulletinSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.65Q3 | 1.73 0.71 up from 2021 | 90 | 27% | $3,650 | ||
40Journal of Youth DevelopmentOAUniversity Library System, University of Pittsburgh · United States | 0.65Q3 | 1.37 0.07 down from 2021 | 188 | 100% | — | ||
41InclusionAmerican Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities · United States | 0.64Q3 | 1.17 0.01 up from 2021 | 82 | 7% | — | ||
42Journal of Vocational RehabilitationIOS Press · United States | 0.59Q3 | 1.17 0.03 down from 2021 | 183 | 42% | $4,150 | ||
43Journal of Development EffectivenessTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.55Q3 | 1.49 0.15 up from 2021 | 71 | 50% | — | ||
44DisabilitiesOASwitzerland | 0.52Q3 | 1.09no 2021 value | 34 | 100% | $1,207 | — | |
45Revista de artes marciales asiáticasOAUniversity of León · Spain | 0.51Q4 | 1.53 0.69 up from 2021 | 67 | 100% | — | ||
46Adoption & FosteringSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.49Q4 | 0.56 0.23 down from 2021 | 111 | 20% | $3,650 | ||
47Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability StudiesLiverpool University Press · United Kingdom | 0.44Q4 | 0.59 0.17 up from 2021 | 99 | 7% | — | ||
48Residential Treatment for Children & YouthTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.43Q4 | 1.00 0.22 down from 2021 | 67 | 59% | — | ||
49Martial Arts StudiesOAUnited Kingdom | 0.41Q4 | 0.66 0.11 up from 2021 | 41 | 100% | — | ||
50Journal of rehabilitationUniversity of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences · United States | 0.33Q4 | 1.10 0.34 up from 2021 | 36 | — | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Safety Research highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,389
- Education752
- Political Science and International Relations339
- Communication77
- Gender Studies63
- Safety Research58
- Health54
- Public Administration52
- Linguistics and Language51
- Transportation51
- Urban Studies50
- Law47
- Library and Information Sciences42
- Demography39
- Anthropology37
- Geography, Planning and Development34
- Cultural Studies6
- Development4
- General Social Sciences3
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2022. Corpus-wide, 89.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
12 additional Safety Research journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2019–2021, 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: 2022. Publication window: 2019–2021. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 58
- Window papers (baseline)
- 36,134 +5.9% from indicator year 2019
- Median OJR
- 0.993 -1.7% from indicator year 2019
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2019–2021 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.