Get an email when this journal's indexing changes
Added to or removed from Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas or ONOS. One confirmation click; unsubscribe anytime.
Accident Analysis and Prevention is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 12.1), ABDC A*, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0001-4575Verify ISSN ↗1879-2057Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier
Cost to publish: About US$4,150 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 10 / 1162 | 99th | Q1 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 22 / 725 | 97th | Q1 |
| Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality | 12 / 282 | 95th | Q1 |
| Transportation | 18 / 169 | 89th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1969–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 12.1.
Accident Analysis and Prevention is Q1 in Law (rank 10 of 1162), Q1 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 22 of 725) and Q1 in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (rank 12 of 282), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Accident Analysis and Prevention is indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 12.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.997, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 212.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,150 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Accident Analysis and Prevention is published by Elsevier. Its print ISSN is 0001-4575 and its online ISSN is 1879-2057.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A* in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Transportation, logistics and supply chains.
It is graded 3 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Psychology (Work and Organisational Psychology and Organisational Behaviour) field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Accident Analysis and Prevention has an h-index of 254 and a 2-year mean of 8.03 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 12.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #6 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Accident Analysis and Prevention published 341 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 475. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (43.4%), United States (15.2%) and United Kingdom (5.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (0.4 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
Comments load as you scroll here.