Journal profile · Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Injury Prevention
ISSN 1353-8047 · eISSN 1475-5785 · BMJ Publishing Group · ENGLAND · Quarterly · Founded 1995
Injury Prevention: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.8; hybrid open access; median 169 days to acceptance (97 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: fairly easy; 185 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Injury Prevention is published by BMJ Publishing Group and is in Zone 4 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Injury Epidemiology and Prevention, Traffic and Road Safety and Trauma and Emergency Care Studies, together about 53.5% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Injury Prevention publishes original research, opinion, debate, and special features on the prevention of unintentional, and intentional (violence-related) injuries from a public health perspective, across multiple settings and contexts.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Editor-in-chief Caroline FinchPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Injury Epidemiology and PreventionMedicine27.5%
- Traffic and Road SafetyEngineering15.7%
- Trauma and Emergency Care StudiesMedicine10.2%
- Gun Ownership and Violence ResearchSocial Sciences5.8%
- Urban Transport and AccessibilitySocial Sciences4.1%
- Agriculture and Farm SafetyAgricultural and Biological Sciences3.6%
- Automotive and Human Injury BiomechanicsMedicine3.6%
- Occupational Health and Safety ResearchHealth Professions3.5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIESSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Online ISSN: 1475-5785, Print ISSN: 1353-8047Publisher website
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 1.8LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 1.9Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.9LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 3.9Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.83LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.07LetPub ·
- h-index
- 72LetPub ·
- h-index
- 126OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,874OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.93OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 5.3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 23.1%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 172LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 5,591 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 95 | 35 | 14 |
| 2025 | 185 | 92 | 245 |
| 2024 | 180 | 105 | 630 |
| 2023 | 84 | 54 | 517 |
| 2022 | 91 | 50 | 862 |
| 2021 | 86 | 47 | 1,356 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with PubMed · to
169 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 133 days – 244 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 379 days (97 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 481 days
- Sample
- 97 articles with submission and acceptance dates (425 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- 6–12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- Fairly easyLetPub ·
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted5
- abstractsAbstracts: Safety 2024Length not stated
- original researchOriginal research: Loneliness and secure firearm storage: findings from a national sample of low-income US military veteransLength not stated
- short reportShort report: Change in suicides during and after the installation of barriers at the Golden Gate BridgeLength not stated
- special featureSpecial feature: Integrating injury and violence prevention content into a tribal college public health curricula: a collaboration with Diné College, Indian Hea…Length not stated
- systematic reviewSystematic review: Do sports utility vehicles (SUVs) and light truck vehicles (LTVs) cause more severe injuries to pedestrians and cyclists than passenger cars …Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship
- Authorship
Online submission required Model summary
All manuscripts should be submitted online.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- BMJ Publishing Group
- Country or region
- ENGLAND
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Founded
- 1995
- ISSN
- 1353-8047
- Electronic ISSN
- 1475-5785
- Society / sponsor
- Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Injury Prevention
What CAS zone is Injury Prevention in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Injury Prevention is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Public, Environmental & Occupational Health. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Injury Prevention?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.8; CiteScore 3.9, h-index 126.
How long does peer review take at Injury Prevention?
Based on the dates recorded on 97 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 169 days (interquartile range 133–244 days); authors report an average review time of 6–12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Fairly easy”. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Which databases index Injury Prevention?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Injury Prevention is indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus.
Is Injury Prevention open access, and what is the APC?
Injury Prevention is a hybrid journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .