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Safety Science
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Safety Science

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Engineering and Technology 98 100 253 45

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 307
Documents by Best Scientists*: 463
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 13
SCIMAGO H-index: 166
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.427
Impact Factor: 5.4

Overview

Top Research Topics at Safety Science?

The objective of the journal is to combine knowledge in the areas of Occupational safety and health, Human factors and ergonomics, Injury prevention, Risk analysis (engineering) and Transport engineering. The research on Occupational safety and health featured in it combines topics in other fields like Computer security, Forensic engineering, Public relations and Environmental health. The research on Human factors and ergonomics tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Safety culture, Context (language use), Applied psychology, Suicide prevention and Operations research.

Most of the works presented in Safety Science deals with Injury prevention but it intersects with the subject of Medical emergency. It holds forums on Risk analysis (engineering) that merges themes from other disciplines such as Risk management, Process (engineering) and Risk assessment.

  • Occupational safety and health (36.50%)
  • Human factors and ergonomics (26.90%)
  • Injury prevention (20.42%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Risk management in a dynamic society: a modelling problem (1875 citations)
  • A new accident model for engineering safer systems (1404 citations)
  • The nature of safety culture: a review of theory and research (1292 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Safety Science:

Occupational safety and health, Human factors and ergonomics, Injury prevention, Transport engineering and Risk analysis (engineering) are the main subjects of interest in the journal papers. While the primary focus in the most cited publications is Occupational safety and health, they also dissect topics surrounding Safety culture and Organizational culture as a whole. The studies on Human factors and ergonomics discussed at the published papers can also contribute to research in the domains of Social psychology, Computer security, Public relations, Suicide prevention and Operations research.

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

  • World War II
  • Law
  • Statistics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The primary areas of discussion in the journal are Occupational safety and health, Context (language use), Psychosocial, Applied psychology and Environmental health. Psychological intervention, Economic growth, Workforce, Staffing and Checklist are some topics wherein Occupational safety and health research discussed in Safety Science have an impact. The featured Workforce studies mainly concentrate on Safety culture but also cover areas of interest in Process (engineering).

In Safety Science, Social psychology, Psychological resilience, Risk analysis (engineering), Developing country and Inequality are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Context (language use) research. The studies in Risk analysis (engineering) featured incorporate elements of Redundancy (engineering), Bi objective, Selection (genetic algorithm) and Risk assessment. While work presented in it provided substantial information on Environmental health, it also covered topics in Key (cryptography) and Textile industry.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Fire evacuation supported by centralized and decentralized visual guidance systems (0 citations)
  • Exploring inattentional blindness in failure of safety risk perception: Focusing on safety knowledge in construction industry (0 citations)
  • Impact of mindfulness on construction workers’ safety performance: The mediating roles of psychological contract and coping behaviors (0 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 Safety Science (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Andrew Hale (63 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Genserik Reniers (48 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Neville A. Stanton (44 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Paul M. Salmon (35 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • Paul Swuste (31 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 Safety Science (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Delft University of Technology (191 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology (124 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • China University of Mining and Technology (81 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Queensland University of Technology (68 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Monash University (64 papers) absent 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 2022 edition, 28.57% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 23.33% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 3.33% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 13.33% of all publications and 60.00% 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

  • Improved DEMATEL methodology for effective safety management decision-making

    Mohammad Yazdi;Faisal Khan;Rouzbeh Abbassi;Rouzbeh Abbassi;Risza Rusli

    (2020)
    340 Citations
  • The scientific literature on Coronaviruses, COVID-19 and its associated safety-related research dimensions: A scientometric analysis and scoping review.

    Milad Haghani;Michiel C.J. Bliemer;Floris Goerlandt;Jie Li

    (2020)
    270 Citations
  • Framing the FRAM : A literature review on the functional resonance analysis method

    Riccardo Patriarca;G Di Gravio;Rogier Woltjer;F Costantino

    (2020)
    248 Citations
  • An overview of scientometric mapping for the safety science community: Methods, tools, and framework

    Jie Li;Jie Li;Floris Goerlandt;Genserik Reniers;Genserik Reniers;Genserik Reniers

    (2021)
    234 Citations
  • Causal analysis of accidents on construction sites: A hybrid fuzzy Delphi and DEMATEL approach

    Unknown

    (2022)
    171 Citations
  • A thorough classification and discussion of approaches for modeling and managing domino effects in the process industries

    Chao Chen;Genserik Reniers;Genserik Reniers;Genserik Reniers;Nima Khakzad

    (2020)
    138 Citations
  • Chemical industry in China : The current status, safety problems, and pathways for future sustainable development

    Chao Chen;Genserik Reniers;Genserik Reniers;Genserik Reniers

    (2020)
    137 Citations
  • A novel extension of DEMATEL approach for probabilistic safety analysis in process systems

    Mohammad Yazdi;Arman Nedjati;Esmaeil Zarei;Rouzbeh Abbassi

    (2020)
    130 Citations
  • A Dynamic Bayesian Network model for ship-ice collision risk in the Arctic waters

    Bushra Khan;Faisal Khan;Brian Veitch

    (2020)
    129 Citations
  • A bibliometric analysis and systematic review of shipboard Decision Support Systems for accident prevention

    Mateusz Gil;Krzysztof Wróbel;Jakub Montewka;Floris Goerlandt;Floris Goerlandt

    (2020)
    124 Citations

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