Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries is a peer-reviewed journal founded in 1988 and published by Elsevier, presenting itself as the International Journal of Chemical and Process Plant Safety with a broad focus on loss prevention as practiced in the process industries, and its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 4.8（Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries）是 1988 年创办、（Elsevier）出版的同行评审期刊，自我定位为化学与过程工厂安全国际期刊，核心聚焦过程工业实践中的损失预防，2025 年影响因子为 4.8。

Scope

• The broad scope of the journal is process safety, defined as the prevention and mitigation of process-related injuries and damage arising from process incidents involving fire, explosion, and toxic release该刊的总体范围为过程安全，即预防和减轻由火灾、爆炸与有毒释放等过程事故导致的过程相关伤害与损害。
• Such undesired events occur in the process industries during the use, storage, manufacture, handling, and transportation of highly hazardous chemicals此类事件发生在过程工业中对高危险性化学品的使用、储存、制造、装卸与运输环节。
• The focus is on loss prevention as practiced in the process industries, with an emphasis on chemical and process plant safety and on manuscripts that make extensive reference to the process safety literature该刊聚焦过程工业实践中的损失预防，突出化学与过程工厂安全，并看重广泛引用过程安全文献的稿件。
• Eligible topics include process safety management, process safety culture, and incident investigation受理主题包括过程安全管理、过程安全文化与事故调查。
• They also include the design and reliability of protective systems, plant layout, maintenance and modification, process alarm management, and emergency planning亦包括防护系统的设计与可靠性、工厂布局、维护与变更、过程报警管理以及应急预案。
• Further topics cover transportation of hazardous materials, offshore oil and gas safety, energy safety, release and dispersion of toxic materials, process fires and explosions, dust explosions, and runaway reactions其他主题涵盖危险材料运输、近海油气安全、能源安全、有毒物质释放与扩散、过程火灾与爆炸、粉尘爆炸与失控反应。
• Process safety in emerging energy transition, inherently safer design, human error and human factors, process security, process safety decision-making and economic issues, and education and training round out the list新兴能源转型中的过程安全、本质更安全设计、人为失误与人的因素、过程安保、过程安全决策与经济问题以及教育培训亦在列。
• Topics excluded from consideration include occupational health and safety, safety in non-process sectors such as construction and aviation, coal mine safety, fundamental combustion and corrosion studies, general system reliability, and material characterization不予受理的主题包括职业健康与安全、建筑与航空等非过程行业安全、煤矿安全、基础燃烧与腐蚀研究、一般系统可靠性以及材料表征。

History

• The journal was founded in 1988, with Volume 1, Issue 1 appearing in January 1988 and opening with a founding editorial by Philip F. Nolan该刊创办于 1988 年，第 1 卷第 1 期于 1988 年 1 月出版，开篇为 Philip F. Nolan 的创刊社论。^[1]
• The founding editor was Philip F. Nolan of the Department of Chemical Engineering at South Bank Polytechnic in London, supported by regional editors for the United States and Japan and by an international editorial board创刊主编为伦敦南岸理工学院化学工程系的 Philip F. Nolan，设有美国与日本地区编辑，并组建了国际编辑委员会。
• The journal was launched by Butterworth Scientific of Guildford in the United Kingdom and later passed into the Reed Elsevier group, formed by the 1993 merger of Reed International and Elsevier, under the Butterworth-Heinemann brand before becoming part of Elsevier该刊由英国吉尔福德的 Butterworth Scientific 创办，后随 Reed International 与 Elsevier 于 1993 年合并组建的 Reed Elsevier 集团转入 Butterworth-Heinemann 品牌旗下，最终成为 Elsevier 的一部分。
• It has been published bimonthly, six issues a year, since its first volume自第 1 卷起该刊即为双月刊，每年 6 期。
• The journal follows a hybrid model, offering authors the choice of open access publication with an article publishing charge or subscription publication without a fee该刊采用混合模式，作者可选择缴纳文章出版费发表开放获取文章，或免出版费发表订阅制文章。
• Its Journal Impact Factor climbed from 3.66 in 2021 and 3.916 in 2022 to 4.2 in 2024 and 4.8 in 2025, and its 2025 Scopus CiteScore stood at 8.3其期刊影响因子由 2021 年的 3.66 与 2022 年的 3.916 升至 2024 年的 4.2 与 2025 年的 4.8，2025 年 Scopus CiteScore 为 8.3。
• Recent publishing times reported by the journal include a median of about 50 days from submission to decision after review and 109 days from submission to acceptance该刊公布的近期出版时长为投稿后经评审作出决定的中位数约 50 天、投稿至接受 109 天。

Editors

• The editor of the journal is Paul Amyotte, Professor of Chemical Engineering and the C. D. Howe Chair in Engineering at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, known for research on process safety, inherently safer design, and dust explosion risk reduction该刊主编为 Paul Amyotte，加拿大哈利法克斯达尔豪斯大学化学工程教授、C. D. Howe 工程讲席教授，以过程安全、本质更安全设计与粉尘爆炸风险削减研究闻名。
• The other editors are Ana Maria Cruz of the Kyoto University Disaster Prevention Research Institute in Japan, Gabriele Landucci of the University of Pisa in Italy, Genserik Reniers of the University of Antwerp in Belgium, and Qingsheng Wang of Texas A&M University in the United States其他编辑包括日本京都大学灾害预防研究所的 Ana Maria Cruz、意大利比萨大学的 Gabriele Landucci、比利时安特卫普大学的 Genserik Reniers 以及美国得克萨斯农工大学的 Qingsheng Wang。
• The editorial board comprises roughly 60 members drawn from about 20 countries and regions across Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia编委会由约 60 名成员组成，来自欧洲、北美、亚洲与澳大利亚约 20 个国家和地区。
• Manuscripts are submitted online through the Elsevier Editorial Manager system without a pre-submission enquiry requirement稿件通过 Elsevier Editorial Manager 系统在线投稿，无需预投稿询问。
• Editors must recuse themselves from papers written by themselves, family members, or colleagues, and authors may lodge one formal appeal under the Elsevier editorial decision appeals policy编辑须回避本人、家庭成员或同事撰写的论文，作者可按 Elsevier 编辑决定申诉政策提出一次正式申诉。
• Special issues and article collections follow the same peer review process as regular submissions, with guest editors making recommendations while journal editors take the final decision特刊与专辑遵循与常规投稿相同的同行评审流程，客座编辑提出建议而期刊编辑作出最终决定。
• The journal applies a strict generative artificial intelligence policy that currently bars academic editors and reviewers from uploading unpublished manuscripts to such tools该刊执行严格的生成式人工智能政策，目前禁止学术编辑与审稿人将未发表稿件上传至此类工具。