Safety Science

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.

Editors-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

Abstracting 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.