Safety Science

Safety Science is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary journal published by Elsevier, founded in 1976 as the Journal of Occupational Accidents and renamed in 1991, covering the physics and engineering of safety together with risk assessment and human and organizational aspects, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 6.2《安全科学》（Safety Science）是（Elsevier）出版的同行评审多学科期刊，1976 年以（Journal of Occupational Accidents）之名创刊，1991 年改现名，覆盖安全的物理与工程以及风险评估和人因与组织层面，2025 年影响因子为 6.2。

Scope

• The journal covers the physics and engineering of safety together with its social, policy and organizational aspects期刊覆盖安全的物理与工程层面，以及其社会、政策与组织层面。
• The assessment, management and communication of risks are central topics风险的评估、管理与沟通是中心议题。
• It addresses the effectiveness of control and management techniques for safety, together with standardization, legislation, inspection, insurance and costing aspects期刊探讨安全控制与管理技术的有效性，以及标准化、立法、检查、保险与成本方面。
• Human behaviour and safety are covered, and papers addressing the interfaces between technology, people and organizations are especially welcome人行为与安全在收录之列，特别欢迎探讨技术、人与组织之间界面的论文。
• Contributors and readers range from social scientists to engineers撰稿人与读者横跨社会科学家到工程师。
• The journal focuses primarily on original research papers, but also welcomes state-of-the-art reviews, first-hand case histories of accidents and disasters, and discussion papers on hot topics期刊以原创研究论文为主，亦欢迎前沿综述、事故与灾难的第一手案例史以及热点讨论文章。

History

• The journal was founded in 1976 as the Journal of Occupational Accidents, with Herbert Eisner as founding editor该刊 1976 年以（Journal of Occupational Accidents）之名创刊，（Herbert Eisner）任创刊主编。
• Its early years were devoted to the study of occupational accidents其早期致力于职业事故研究。
• From volume 14 in 1991 it was renamed Safety Science and broadened its scope beyond occupational accidents1991 年自第 14 卷起改为现名《安全科学》（Safety Science），范围亦扩展至职业事故之外。
• The transition was marked by an editorial introducing the enlarged remit这次转型以一篇介绍扩展后范围的编辑部文章为标志。^[1]
• It is published by Elsevier under print ISSN 0925-7535 and electronic ISSN 1879-1042, issued monthly该刊由（Elsevier）出版，印刷 ISSN 为 0925-7535，电子 ISSN 为 1879-1042，按月出版。
• It offers a hybrid open access route with an article publishing charge of 4,150 US dollars该刊提供混合开放获取通道，文章出版费为 4150 美元。
• Its Journal Impact Factor moved from 4.877 in 2021 through 6.392 in 2022 and 5.4 in 2024 to 6.2 in 2025, ranking 15th among 69 industrial engineering journals in the Science Citation Index Expanded其影响因子由 2021 年的 4.877 经 2022 年的 6.392 与 2024 年的 5.4 至 2025 年的 6.2，在 SCIE 工业工程类 69 刊中列第 15 位。

Editors

• The Editor-in-Chief is Georgios Boustras of the European University Cyprus in Nicosia主编为尼科西亚（European University Cyprus）的（Georgios Boustras）。
• Twenty associate editors support him, including Guido J. L. Micheli of the Polytechnic University of Milan20 位副主编为其提供支持，包括米兰理工大学的（Guido J. L. Micheli）。
• Cleo Varianou-Mikellidou serves as assistant editor（Cleo Varianou-Mikellidou）任助理编辑。
• The editorial team numbers 119 editors and editorial board members across 29 countries and regions编辑团队合计 119 位编辑与编委，分布于 29 个国家和地区。
• The United Kingdom leads with 17 members, followed by China with 11, the United States with 11, Australia with 10 and Norway with 10英国以 17 位居首，其后为中国 11 位、美国 11 位、澳大利亚 10 位与挪威 10 位。
• The journal operates double-anonymized review, in which the identities of authors and reviewers are concealed from each other期刊实行双匿名评审，作者与审稿人的身份互不可见。