Safety Science

Safety Science is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier covering research on all aspects of human and industrial safety. The editor-in-chief is Georgios Boustras (European University Cyprus),. The journal was established in 1976 as the Journal of Occupational Accidents, with Herbert Eisner as founding editor-in-chief. In 1990, the aims and scope of the journal were expanded, and the journal obtained its current name.

Editors-in-chief
Since 1990, the following persons are or have been editors-in-chief:


 * 1990–2009: Andrew Hale
 * 2010–2012: Kathryn Mearns
 * 2013–2017: Jean-Luc Wybo
 * 2018–present: Georgios Boustras

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in: • CAB Abstracts

• Current Contents/Engineering, Computing & Technology

• EBSCO databases

• Ei Compendex

• Embase

• Inspec

• ProQuest databases

• PsycINFO

• Science Citation Index Expanded

• Scopus According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 4.7.