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Journal of Road Safety is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.4), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Australasian College of Road Safety.
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ISSN 2652-4252Verify ISSN ↗2652-4260Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Australasian College of Road Safety
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 374 / 744 | 49th | Q3 |
| Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality | 161 / 282 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Safety Research | 79 / 108 | 27th | Q3 |
| Transportation | 132 / 169 | 22nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.4.
Journal of Road Safety is Q3 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 374 of 744), Q3 in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (rank 161 of 282) and Q3 in Safety Research (rank 79 of 108), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Road Safety is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 49th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.271, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 8.
Journal of Road Safety is published by Australasian College of Road Safety. Its print ISSN is 2652-4252 and its online ISSN is 2652-4260.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Road Safety has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 1.76 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #153 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Journal of Road Safety published 24 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 36. 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 83 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Australia (40.4%), New Zealand (7%) and United States (6.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (5.2 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.
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