Safety Science

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]

Safety Science

Discipline	Safety management
Language	English
Edited by	Georgios Boustras
Publication details
Former name(s)	Journal of Occupational Accidents
History	1976–present
Publisher	Elsevier
Frequency	Monthly
Open access	Hybrid
Impact factor	5.4 (2023)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Saf. Sci.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0925-7535 (print) 1879-1042 (web)
LCCN	91640944
OCLC no.	670097316
Journal of Occupational Accidents
ISSN	0925-7535
Links
Journal homepage Online archive

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]