Journal profile · PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion
ISSN 1745-7300 · eISSN 1745-7319 · Taylor & Francis
International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.69; JCR Q2 (journal website); subscription journal; APC charged, amount not published; median 174 days to acceptance (91 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 17% (journal website); 53 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion is published by Taylor & Francis 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 Traffic and Road Safety, Injury Epidemiology and Prevention and Urban Transport and Accessibility, together about 61.1% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion (ICSP) publishes high quality original articles, reviews and short communications. The Journal will be of interest to researchers and practitioners in all fields of injury control, including prevention, acute care and rehabilitation. ICSP encompasses all causes of fatal and non-fatal injury, including injuries related to but not limited to: transport school and work home and leisure activites sports violence and assault Readership: Injury prevention practitioners, product manufacturers, researchers, legislators, educationalists and other professionals from a wide variety of disciplines who work on safety standards or policies. The Journal encourages authors to address the following specific points when submitting research in relation to the injury: description of the problem analysis of the causes and associated risk factors discussion of implementation of effective programs and policies All submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, will enter peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is single-anonymized and submissions are made online via ScholarOne Manuscripts.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
Editor-in-chief Geetam TiwariPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Traffic and Road SafetyEngineering29%
- Injury Epidemiology and PreventionMedicine22.6%
- Urban Transport and AccessibilitySocial Sciences9.6%
- Trauma and Emergency Care StudiesMedicine7.1%
- Occupational Health and Safety ResearchHealth Professions5.2%
- Automotive and Human Injury BiomechanicsMedicine3.1%
- Traffic Prediction and Management TechniquesEngineering2.5%
- Risk and Safety AnalysisDecision Sciences2.5%
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 4 |
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 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q2 · best quartile · 2025
- CiteScore Q2 · 2025
Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website
Database indexing
SSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
MEDLINEPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, OCLC, British Library Inside, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, EBSCO Databases, Electronic Collections Online, Ergonomics Abstracts, New Jour, Occupational Safety and Health Database, OCLC ArticleFirst, SafetyLit SM, Transport Research Information Services, Zetoc
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
- 2.69LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.7Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.9Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 4.4LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 4.4Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.56LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.56Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 1Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 52OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 530OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.69OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 11.1%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 3.62%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 51LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 87,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,194 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 52 | 18 | 20 |
| 2025 | 53 | 8 | 82 |
| 2024 | 46 | 8 | 304 |
| 2023 | 56 | 12 | 341 |
| 2022 | 54 | 11 | 573 |
| 2021 | 70 | 22 | 1,010 |
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 Crossref · to
174 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 138 days – 261 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 11 days (91 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 200 days
- Sample
- 91 articles with submission and acceptance dates (117 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
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 17%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 28 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 50 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 14 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
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
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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 accepted3
- original articlesInternational Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion (ICSP) publishes high quality original articles, reviews and short communications.Length not stated
- reviewsInternational Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion (ICSP) publishes high quality original articles, reviews and short communications.Length not stated
- short communicationsInternational Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion (ICSP) publishes high quality original articles, reviews and short communications.Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion is a hybrid open access journal that is part of the Taylor & Francis Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research. Why choose open acc…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
All submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, will enter peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is single-anonymized and submissions are made online via ScholarOne Manuscripts. Model summary
All submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, will enter peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is single-anonymized and submissions are made online via ScholarOne Manuscripts.
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
- Taylor & Francis
- ISSN
- 1745-7300
- Electronic ISSN
- 1745-7319
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 33, Issue 3 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion
What CAS zone is International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 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 International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.69; CiteScore 4.4, h-index 52.
How long does peer review take at International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion?
Based on the dates recorded on 91 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 174 days (interquartile range 138–261 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 17%. 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.
What JCR quartile is International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q2 (best quartile). JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones; in the CAS ranking the journal is in Zone 4 of Medicine.
Which databases index International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion is indexed in SSCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists MEDLINE; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion open access, and what is the APC?
International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion is a subscription journal. APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; 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 2026-08-24). Last updated: .