Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
Safety Research journal rankings 2023
59 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Safety Research has 59 ranked journals in 2023. The median OJR rose 0.10 on 2022 to 1.09, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.85. The top three are International Journal for Educational Integrity, Minds and Machines, and Philosophy & Technology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2023. 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 2020–2022, the window the 2023 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)
59 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 2022. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2020–2022, the window the 2023 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2020–2022 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 2014 to 2023. | Compare |
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1International Journal for Educational IntegrityOABioMed Central · Australia | 6.42Q1 | 11.39 1.88 up from 2022 | 69 | 100% | $1,290 | ||
2Minds and MachinesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 6.17Q1 | 6.36 4.96 down from 2022 | 98 | 86% | $3,290 | ||
3Philosophy & TechnologySpringer Nature (Netherlands) · Netherlands | 3.78Q1 | 7.32 1.25 down from 2022 | 207 | 78% | $3,290 | ||
4AI and EthicsSpringer Nature · Switzerland | 3.43Q1 | 8.16 1.84 up from 2022 | 235 | 72% | $3,190 | ||
5Law Innovation and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.93Q1 | 5.32 2.57 up from 2022 | 36 | 69% | — | ||
6AI & SocietySpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 2.68Q1 | 4.95 0.45 up from 2022 | 633 | 74% | $3,190 | ||
7Ethics and Information TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.56Q1 | 6.33 2.14 up from 2022 | 185 | 77% | $2,190 | ||
8Scandinavian Journal of Disability ResearchOAStockholm University Press · Sweden | 2.49Q1 | 2.72 0.65 down from 2022 | 97 | 100% | $576 | ||
9Journal of Responsible TechnologyOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.49Q1 | 3.11 1.64 down from 2022 | 52 | 100% | $1,560 | ||
10Journal of Career AssessmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.48Q1 | 3.69 0.27 down from 2022 | 119 | 33% | $3,650 | ||
11Human-Machine CommunicationOAUnited States | 2.37Q1 | 3.85 5.42 down from 2022 | 41 | 100% | — | ||
12Journal of Career DevelopmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.36Q1 | 3.59 0.06 down from 2022 | 172 | 43% | $3,650 | ||
13Science and Engineering EthicsSpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 2.23Q1 | 5.10 0.13 down from 2022 | 230 | 66% | $3,090 | ||
14Journal of Academic EthicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.18Q1 | 4.44 1.24 up from 2022 | 105 | 43% | $3,290 | ||
15The Career Development QuarterlyWiley · United States | 1.85Q1 | 2.78 0.21 up from 2022 | 95 | 61% | $2,900 | ||
16International Journal of TechnoethicsIGI Global · United States | 1.60Q2 | 0.76 1.74 down from 2022 | 38 | 60% | — | ||
17Disability & SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.60Q2 | 2.39 0.31 down from 2022 | 409 | 58% | — | ||
18Journal of Adolescent ResearchSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.57Q2 | 2.82 0.60 up from 2022 | 141 | 57% | $3,650 | ||
19Journal of Employment CounselingWiley · United States | 1.52Q2 | 2.33 0.84 up from 2022 | 64 | 65% | $2,900 | ||
20Journal for STEM Education ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.51Q2 | 3.75 1.08 up from 2022 | 49 | 59% | $3,290 | ||
21International Journal for Educational and Vocational GuidanceSpringer Science+Business Media | 1.42Q2 | 2.48 0.68 up from 2022 | 148 | 59% | $3,090 | ||
22Developmental Child WelfareSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.38Q2 | 1.87 1.75 down from 2022 | 55 | 67% | $3,400 | ||
23Career Development and Transition for Exceptional IndividualsSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.37Q2 | 1.87 2.20 down from 2022 | 61 | 59% | $3,650 | ||
24Journal of Economic PsychologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.26Q2 | 2.89 0.04 down from 2022 | 172 | 59% | $3,710 | ||
25Accountability in ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.24Q2 | 3.19 1.47 down from 2022 | 146 | 39% | $3,500 | ||
26Studies in Engineering EducationOAVirginia Tech University Libraries · United States | 1.23Q2 | 4.34 2.14 up from 2022 | 36 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
27Research and Practice for Persons with Severe DisabilitiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.17Q2 | 2.69 0.11 down from 2022 | 55 | 31% | $3,650 | ||
28Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER)OAPurdue University Press · United States | 1.11Q2 | 2.77 0.97 up from 2022 | 41 | 100% | — | ||
29Child and Adolescent Social Work JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.09Q2 | 2.00 0.15 down from 2022 | 251 | 52% | $3,290 | ||
30Journal of Public Child WelfareTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.09Q2 | 1.71 0.24 down from 2022 | 121 | 7% | — | ||
31Journal of the Economic Science AssociationSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.07Q3 | 2.75 0.05 up from 2022 | 40 | 70% | $3,550 | ||
32Journal of Behavioral and Experimental EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.07Q3 | 2.02 0.06 up from 2022 | 316 | 59% | $2,830 | ||
33Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and EngineeringBegell House · United States | 1.06Q3 | 1.59 0.02 down from 2022 | 96 | 43% | — | ||
34Experimental EconomicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.05Q3 | 1.83 0.52 down from 2022 | 138 | 79% | $3,550 | ||
35Journal of Disability Policy StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.99Q3 | 1.49 0.65 down from 2022 | 94 | 40% | $3,650 | ||
36Economic Development and Cultural ChangeUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 0.97Q3 | 1.53 0.12 down from 2022 | 119 | 27% | — | ||
37Engineering StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.95Q3 | 2.36 0.23 up from 2022 | 35 | 58% | — | ||
38InclusionAmerican Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities · United States | 0.85Q3 | 1.91 0.73 up from 2022 | 85 | 4% | — | ||
39The Journal of Special EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.83Q3 | 2.14 0.42 up from 2022 | 75 | 38% | $3,650 | ||
40DisabilitiesOASwitzerland | 0.82Q3 | 1.78 0.69 up from 2022 | 86 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
41Revista de artes marciales asiáticasOAUniversity of León · Spain | 0.80Q3 | 1.65 0.12 up from 2022 | 45 | 100% | — | ||
42IEEE Technology and Society MagazineInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 0.80Q3 | 1.49 0.13 down from 2022 | 210 | 71% | — | ||
43Journal of Development EffectivenessTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.71Q3 | 1.17 0.32 down from 2022 | 86 | 33% | — | ||
44Journal of Vocational RehabilitationIOS Press · United States | 0.65Q3 | 1.38 0.21 up from 2022 | 162 | 53% | $4,150 | ||
45Rehabilitation Counseling BulletinSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.62Q3 | 1.58 0.15 down from 2022 | 101 | 42% | $3,650 | ||
46Journal of Youth DevelopmentOAUniversity Library System, University of Pittsburgh · United States | 0.61Q4 | 0.79 0.57 down from 2022 | 169 | 100% | — | ||
47Sexuality and DisabilitySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.57Q4 | 1.46 0.42 down from 2022 | 139 | 41% | $3,290 | ||
48Residential Treatment for Children & YouthTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.55Q4 | 1.46 0.46 up from 2022 | 63 | 42% | — | ||
49Adoption & FosteringSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.47Q4 | 0.85 0.29 up from 2022 | 109 | 59% | $3,650 | ||
50Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability StudiesLiverpool University Press · United Kingdom | 0.46Q4 | 0.64 0.05 up from 2022 | 98 | 2% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Safety Research highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,403
- Education732
- Political Science and International Relations334
- Communication73
- Gender Studies66
- Safety Research59
- Health55
- Transportation53
- Public Administration52
- Urban Studies52
- Linguistics and Language49
- Law45
- Library and Information Sciences41
- Demography40
- Anthropology38
- Geography, Planning and Development33
- Cultural Studies9
- Development4
- General Social Sciences4
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Life-span and Life-course Studies1
- Archeology0
Journals
Citations made in 2023. Corpus-wide, 88.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
11 additional Safety Research journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2020–2022, 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: 2023. Publication window: 2020–2022. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 59
- Window papers (baseline)
- 35,754 +2.8% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 1.09 +6.1% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2020–2022 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.