A ranking of safety journals using different measurement methods

Using an online survey, we asked safety researchers around the globe how they perceived the quality of a list of 35 representative safety journals. We found that the most well-respected journal by expert opinion was the Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries. However, taking both the respondents’ results and the citation-based results into consideration, the Journal of Hazardous Materials is the most influential journal, followed by Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Risk Analysis, Accident Analysis and Prevention and Safety Science.

► Safety journals’ perceived quality- and 1-year IF-rankings were uncorrelated.
► Safety journals’ perceived quality- and 5-year IF-rankings were correlated.
► Top 5 of safety journals was determined w.r.t. objective and subjective criteria.