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Best Safety Research journals

107 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Safety Research. All are listed below, ranked by CiteScore percentile — 27 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Analytic Methods in Accident Research 22.6 99th Q1 SSCI B No
2 Global Food Security 17.2 98th Q1 SCIE – No
3 Safety Science 13.7 97th Q1 SCIE A No
4 NanoImpact 12.9 96th Q1 SCIE – No
5 International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 9.1 95th Q1 SCIE A No
6 International Journal of Disaster Risk Science 8.4 94th Q1 SCIE – Yes
7 Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity 8.2 93rd Q1 ESCI – Yes
8 Journal of Safety Science and Resilience 8.1 93rd Q1 ESCI – Yes
9 IATSS Research 7 92nd Q1 ESCI C Yes
10 Food Analytical Methods 6.9 91st Q1 SCIE – No
11 Digital Threats: Research and Practice 6.9 90th Q1 ESCI – No
12 Terrorism and Political Violence 6.7 89th Q1 SSCI – No
13 Journal of Cyber Security Technology 6.6 88th Q1 – – No
14 Journal of Transportation Safety and Security 6.4 87th Q1 SSCI – No
15 Progress in Disaster Science 6.4 86th Q1 ESCI – Yes
16 WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs 6.1 85th Q1 ESCI – No
17 Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 5.7 84th Q1 SSCI – No
18 European Journal of Risk Regulation 5.7 83rd Q1 ESCI – Yes
19 Journal of Transport and Health 5.7 82nd Q1 SSCI B No
20 Journal of Peace Research 5.6 81st Q1 SSCI – No
21 Tropical Cyclone Research and Review 5.5 81st Q1 ESCI – Yes
22 International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics 5.5 80th Q1 SSCI – No
23 Safety and Health at Work 5.4 79th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – Yes
24 Journal of Applied Volcanology 5.4 78th Q1 – – Yes
25 ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering 5.4 77th Q1 ESCI – No
26 Fire 5.1 76th Q1 SCIE – Yes
27 Journal of Applied Security Research 5 75th Q1 ESCI – No
28 European Journal of International Security 4.9 74th Q2 ESCI – Yes
29 International Journal of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism 4.8 73rd Q2 ESCI – No
30 Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 4.7 72nd Q2 SCIE – Yes
31 International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion 4.4 71st Q2 SSCI – No
32 Security Journal 4.2 70th Q2 SSCI – No
33 Infrastructure Asset Management 4 69th Q2 ESCI – No
34 Jamba: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies 3.9 68th Q2 ESCI – Yes
35 Safety 3.9 68th Q2 ESCI – Yes
36 Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management 3.7 67th Q2 SCIE – Yes
37 Traffic Injury Prevention 3.7 66th Q2 SCIE, SSCI – No
38 International Journal of Emergency Services 3.6 65th Q2 ESCI C No
39 Australian Journal of Maritime and Ocean Affairs 3.6 64th Q2 – – No
40 International Journal of Computer Network and Information Security 3.6 63rd Q2 – – No
41 Journal of Air Transportation 3.6 62nd Q2 – – No
42 Surveillance and Society 3.5 61st Q2 ESCI – Yes
43 Armed Forces and Society 3.4 60th Q2 SSCI – No
44 Journal of Global Security Studies 3.3 59th Q2 ESCI – No
45 Crime Prevention and Community Safety 3.3 58th Q2 ESCI – No
46 Perfusion (United Kingdom) 3.3 57th Q2 SCIE – No
47 Peacebuilding 3.2 56th Q2 SSCI – No
48 Journal of Conflict and Security Law 2.9 56th Q2 ESCI – No
49 EDPACS 2.8 55th Q2 – C No
50 African Security 2.8 54th Q2 ESCI – No
51 Journal of Transportation Security 2.7 53rd Q2 ESCI B No
52 IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering 2.6 52nd Q2 ESCI – No
53 African Security Review 2.6 50th Q2 ESCI – No
54 Health Security 2.5 50th Q2 SSCI – No
55 Frontiers in Political Science 2.5 49th Q3 ESCI – Yes
56 Safety and Reliability 2.4 48th Q3 – – No
57 Democracy and Security 2.4 47th Q3 ESCI – No
58 Journal of Regional Security 2.4 46th Q3 – – Yes
59 Perspectives on Terrorism 2.3 45th Q3 – – Yes
60 Journal of Peacebuilding and Development 2.3 44th Q3 ESCI – No
61 Traffic Safety Research 2.3 43rd Q3 ESCI – Yes
62 Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management 2.2 43rd Q3 SSCI – No
63 Asian Security 2.2 42nd Q3 – – No
64 International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology 2.1 41st Q3 – – No
65 China Safety Science Journal 2.1 40th Q3 – – No
66 Safer Communities 2 39th Q3 ESCI – No
67 Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies 1.9 38th Q3 – – Yes
68 Central European Journal of International and Security Studies 1.9 37th Q3 – – Yes
69 Journal of Safety and Sustainability 1.8 36th Q3 – – Yes
70 Revista Cientifica General Jose Maria Cordova 1.7 35th Q3 ESCI – Yes
71 Global Governance 1.7 34th Q3 SSCI – No
72 SAE International Journal of Transportation Safety 1.6 33rd Q3 ESCI – No
73 Journal of Integrated Disaster Risk Management 1.5 32nd Q3 – – No
74 WIT Transactions on the Built Environment 1.5 31st Q3 – – No
75 International Journal of Occupational Safety and Health 1.5 30th Q3 – – Yes
76 Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports 1.5 30th Q3 ESCI – Yes
77 Asian Journal of Peacebuilding 1.5 29th Q3 – – No
78 Contemporary British History 1.4 28th Q3 AHCI – No
79 Journal of Road Safety 1.4 27th Q3 ESCI – Yes
80 Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications 1.3 26th Q3 – – No
81 Journal of Human Security 1.2 25th Q3 – – No
82 Parameters 1.2 24th Q4 – – No
83 Peace Review 1.2 24th Q4 ESCI – No
84 Journal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response 1.2 22nd Q4 – – Yes
85 Journal of Critical Infrastructure Policy 1.1 21st Q4 – – No
86 Revista de Pensamiento Estrategico y Seguridad CISDE 1 20th Q4 – – No
87 Journal of Health and Safety at Work 1 19th Q4 ESCI – Yes
88 Australian Journal of Emergency Management 1 18th Q4 ESCI – Yes
89 World Customs Journal 1 17th Q4 – – No
90 Journal of Emergency Management 0.9 16th Q4 – – No
91 Strategic Analysis 0.9 15th Q4 ESCI – No
92 Journal of Strategic Security 0.9 14th Q4 – – Yes
93 Revista Brasileira de Direito Processual Penal 0.9 13th Q4 ESCI – Yes
94 Journal of Cyber Security 0.8 12th Q4 – – No
95 Korean Journal of Defense Analysis 0.8 11th Q4 SSCI – No
96 Peace and Conflict Studies 0.8 10th Q4 – – No
97 Desde el Sur 0.7 9th Q4 – – Yes
98 NBP. Nauka, bezbednost, policija 0.6 8th Q4 – – Yes
99 Connections 0.6 7th Q4 – – No
100 International Journal of Nuclear Security 0.5 6th Q4 – – Yes
101 Journal of Information Systems Security 0.5 6th Q4 – – No
102 Sigurnost 0.4 5th Q4 – – Yes
103 Military Operations Research (United States) 0.4 4th Q4 SCIE – No
104 Kriminologisches Journal 0.3 3rd Q4 – – No
105 Iberoamerica (Russian Federation) 0.3 2nd Q4 – – No
106 Revista Brasileira de Ciencias Policiais 0.2 1st Q4 – – No
107 Whitehall Papers 0 0th Q4 – – No

Rank and percentile are within the Safety Research Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-10-04). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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