Safety Science
Academic journal on human and industrial safety
Safety Science is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier covering research on all aspects of human and industrial safety. The editor-in-chief is Georgios Boustras (European University Cyprus). The journal was established in 1976 as the Journal of Occupational Accidents, with Herbert Eisner as founding editor-in-chief. In 1990, the aims and scope of the journal were expanded, and the journal obtained its current name.
01Editors-in-chief
Since 1990, the following persons are or have been editors-in-chief:
- 1990-2009: Andrew Hale
- 2010-2012: Kathryn Mearns
- 2013-2017: Jean-Luc Wybo
- 2018-present: Georgios Boustras
02Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
- CAB Abstracts
- Current Contents/Engineering, Computing & Technology
- EBSCO databases
- Ei Compendex
- Embase
- Inspec
- ProQuest databases
- PsycINFO
- Science Citation Index Expanded
- Scopus
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 5.4.
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