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Process Safety Progress
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Process Safety Progress

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Engineering and Technology 967 14 23 8

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 35
Documents by Best Scientists*: 50
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 2
SCIMAGO H-index: 49
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.264
Impact Factor: 1

Overview

Top Research Topics at Process Safety Progress?

The journal investigates areas of study like Process (engineering), Process safety, Risk analysis (engineering), Waste management and Operations management. The journal focuses on Process (engineering) but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Hazard, Reliability engineering, Risk assessment and Forensic engineering. Most of the Reliability engineering studies addressed also intersect with Safety instrumented system.

It connects the study in Process safety with the closely related area of Engineering management. While Risk analysis (engineering) is the focus of Process Safety Progress, it also provided insights into the studies of Hazard analysis, Risk management and SAFER. It holds forums on Waste management that merges themes from other disciplines such as Ignition system and Environmental engineering.

  • Process (engineering) (27.33%)
  • Process safety (18.49%)
  • Risk analysis (engineering) (16.96%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • A resilience assessment framework for infrastructure and economic systems: Quantitative and qualitative resilience analysis of petrochemical supply chains to a hurricane (187 citations)
  • Out-of-the-Loop Performance Problems and the Use of Intermediate Levels of Automation for Improved Control System Functioning and Safety (175 citations)
  • Models for domino effect analysis in chemical process industries (173 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Process Safety Progress:

The most cited articles tackle a plethora of topics, such as Process (engineering), Risk analysis (engineering), Forensic engineering, Reliability engineering and Waste management. The journal publications are focused mainly on Process (engineering), particularly Process safety. The studies on Risk analysis (engineering) discussed at the journal publications can also contribute to research in the domains of Process safety management, Inherent safety, Hazard analysis and SAFER.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Law
  • Mechanical engineering
  • Statistics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Process Safety Progress generally zeroes in on subjects such as Process safety, Risk analysis (engineering), Risk assessment, Mechanics and Waste management. Topics in Process safety were tackled in line with various other fields like Construction engineering and Process management. The studies in Risk analysis (engineering) featured incorporate elements of Process safety management, Process (engineering) and Hazard analysis.

The studies in Risk assessment featured incorporate elements of Risk analysis, Process engineering and Environmental health. In addition to Mechanics research, the journal aims to explore topics under Deflagration and Detonation. Specifically, studies on Storage tank are prevalent in the Waste management works discussed.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Process safety incidents across 14 industries (7 citations)
  • Corrosion prevention of crude and vacuum distillation column overheads in a petroleum refinery: A field monitoring study (2 citations)
  • Development of dynamic fault tree model for reactor protection system (2 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Process Safety Progress (based on the number of publications) are:

  • John F. Murphy (53 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Paul Baybutt (39 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Faisal Khan (32 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ronald J. Willey (31 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Dennis C. Hendershot (30 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Process Safety Progress (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Dow Chemical Company (54 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Exponent (37 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Rohm and Haas (29 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Northeastern University (25 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • DuPont (25 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 47.97% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 20.31% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 10.94% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 12.50% of all publications and 56.25% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Energy transition technology comes with new process safety challenges and risks—What does it mean?

    (2024)
    39 Citations
  • A hybrid human reliability assessment technique for the maintenance operations of marine and offshore systems

    Rabiul Islam;Mohan Anantharaman;Faisal Khan;Rouzbeh Abbassi

    (2020)
    31 Citations
  • Process safety analysis using operational data and Bayesian network

    (2023)
    25 Citations
  • A variable mosquito flying optimization-based hybrid artificial neural network model for the alarm tuning of process fault detection systems

    Alauddin;Faisal Khan;Syed Imtiaz;Salim Ahmed

    (2020)
    14 Citations
  • Comparison between simulation and conventional training: Expanding the concept of social fidelity

    (2022)
    12 Citations
  • Probabilistic failure assessment of oil pipelines due to internal corrosion

    (2022)
    12 Citations
  • Analysis of dispersion behavior of aluminum powder in a 20 L chamber with two symmetric nozzles

    Ning Yao;Liqiong Wang;Chunhua Bai;Nan Liu

    (2020)
    9 Citations
  • Analyzing human factors and complexities of mining and O&G process accidents using FRAM: Copiapó (Chile) and FPSO CSM (Brazil) cases

    (2022)
    9 Citations
  • Investigation on suppression of melamine polyphosphate on acrylonitrile‐butadiene‐styrene dust explosion

    (2021)
    8 Citations
  • Investigation of the explosion severity of multiphase hybrid mixtures

    Emmanuel K. Addai;Ali Aljaroudi;Zaheer Abbas;Paul Amyotte

    (2020)
    7 Citations

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