Safety Science
Academic journal on human and industrial safety
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Safety Science is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier covering research on all aspects of human and industrial safety.[1] The editor-in-chief is Georgios Boustras (European University Cyprus).[2] The journal was established in 1976 as the Journal of Occupational Accidents, with Herbert Eisner as founding editor-in-chief.[3] In 1990, the aims and scope of the journal were expanded, and the journal obtained its current name.[4][5]
| Discipline | Safety management |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Georgios Boustras |
| Publication details | |
Former name | Journal of Occupational Accidents |
| History | 1976–present |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Hybrid | |
| 5.4 (2023) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Saf. Sci. |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0925-7535 (print) 1879-1042 (web) |
| LCCN | 91640944 |
| OCLC no. | 670097316 |
Journal of Occupational Accidents | |
| ISSN | 0925-7535 |
| Links | |
Editors-in-chief
Since 1990, the following persons are or have been editors-in-chief:[4]
- 1990–2009: Andrew Hale
- 2010–2012: Kathryn Mearns
- 2013–2017: Jean-Luc Wybo
- 2018–present: Georgios Boustras
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
- CAB Abstracts[6]
- Current Contents/Engineering, Computing & Technology[7]
- EBSCO databases[8]
- Ei Compendex[9]
- Embase[10]
- Inspec[11]
- ProQuest databases[8]
- PsycINFO[12]
- Science Citation Index Expanded[7]
- Scopus[13]
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 5.4.[14]
