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International Journal of Reliability and Safety is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.4). Published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
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ISSN 1479-389XVerify ISSN ↗1479-3903Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality | 167 / 282 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.4.
International Journal of Reliability and Safety is Q3 in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (rank 167 of 282), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Reliability and Safety is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q3, 40th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.190, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 24.
International Journal of Reliability and Safety is published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1479-389X and its online ISSN is 1479-3903.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Reliability and Safety has an h-index of 27 and a 2-year mean of 0.41 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #157 of 199 Scopus journals in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality.
International Journal of Reliability and Safety published 43 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 60. 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 48 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (38.5%), India (28.1%) and Morocco (6.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. 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.
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