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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:

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 5.4.


== References ==