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Reliability Engineering and System Safety is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 21.9), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier.
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ISSN 0951-8320Verify ISSN ↗1879-0836Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier
Cost to publish: About US$4,830 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality | 2 / 282 | 99th | Q1 |
| Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | 10 / 425 | 97th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1988–present (also 1983), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 21.9.
Reliability Engineering and System Safety is Q1 in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (rank 2 of 282) and Q1 in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (rank 10 of 425), by CiteScore 2025.
Reliability Engineering and System Safety is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 21.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.838, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 209.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,830 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.
Reliability Engineering and System Safety is published by Elsevier. Its print ISSN is 0951-8320 and its online ISSN is 1879-0836.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Human resources and industrial relations.
It is graded 3 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Operations Research and Management Science field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Reliability Engineering and System Safety has an h-index of 225 and a 2-year mean of 10.81 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 21.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #3 of 199 Scopus journals in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality.
Reliability Engineering and System Safety published 1,249 papers in 2025. 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 73 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (71.5%), United States (5.3%) and Iran (3.4%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 5 retracted papers are recorded (0.4 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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