Journal profile · PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine
ISSN 0924-6479 · eISSN 1878-6847 · SAGE Publications (formerly IOS Press)
International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 0.9 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,900; 67 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine is published by SAGE Publications (formerly IOS Press) 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 Pharmacovigilance and Adverse Drug Reactions, Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy and Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues, together about 27.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Economics and Econometrics. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine: Patient Safety - Pharmacovigilance – Liability is concerned with rendering the practice of medicine as safe as it can be; that involves promoting the highest possible quality of care, but also examining how those risks, which are inevitable, can be contained and managed ideally... View full journal description
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
Editor-in-chief Liliya E. ZiganshinaPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 3, United Kingdom 3, Italy 3, Nigeria 3, Netherlands 2 (23 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Pharmacovigilance and Adverse Drug ReactionsPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.7%
- Pharmaceutical Economics and PolicyEconomics, Econometrics and Finance8.6%
- Medical Malpractice and Liability IssuesHealth Professions8.4%
- Patient Safety and Medication ErrorsHealth Professions8.3%
- Pharmaceutical industry and healthcarePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics6.2%
- Pharmaceutical studies and practicesMedicine6.2%
- Human auditory perception and evaluationEngineering5.6%
- Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient OutcomesMedicine5.4%
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 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
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 (publisher)
- 0.9Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 1Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.27LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.45LetPub ·
- h-index
- 38OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 224OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.01OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 11.1%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 5.17%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 56LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,362 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 43 | 7 | 15 |
| 2025 | 67 | 20 | 67 |
| 2024 | 30 | 10 | 60 |
| 2023 | 28 | 15 | 86 |
| 2022 | 52 | 35 | 127 |
| 2021 | 32 | 10 | 260 |
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
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer review, Open 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
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 3,900 / GBP 2,859 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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)
What to prepare8 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 200 words
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 5,500 words
- Reference style
- Vancouver
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Highlights
- Optional
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted15, with length limits
- book reviewResearch articles: Research articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or underst…Length not stated
- book reviewsBook reviews: Book reviews should be 750 words or less and without sections.Length not stated
- brief reportResearch articles: Research articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or underst…main text ≤ 1,500 words
- brief reportsBrief reports: Brief reports are articles of original scholarship of unusual interest of less than 1500 words (not including references). They should be structu…Length not stated
- case reportResearch articles: Research articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or underst…main text ≤ 2,000 words
- case reportsCase reports: Case reports explain the diagnosis, treatment, and outcome of an individual case which has not been previously published in the medical literature…Length not stated
- commentariesCommentaries: Commentaries are short opinion pieces representing the author’s viewpoint. Commentaries should be 1000 words or less with an abstract and no other…Length not stated
- commentaryResearch articles: Research articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or underst…main text ≤ 1,000 words
- opinionResearch articles: Research articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or underst…Length not stated
- perspectiveResearch articles: Research articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or underst…Length not stated
- research articleResearch articles: Research articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or underst…Length not stated
- reviewResearch articles: Research articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or underst…Length not stated
- review articleResearch articles: Research articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or underst…Length not stated
- systematic reviewResearch articles: Research articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or underst…Length not stated
- viewpointResearch articles: Research articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or underst…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Author contributions
You will be asked to list the contribution of each author as part of the submission process. Please include the Author Contributions heading within your submission after the Acknowledgements section. The information you give on submission will then show under the Author Contributions heading later at the proofing stage.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal. Figures submitted in color will be published in color in the online version of the journal at no cost. If you wish to have color figures in the printed version, fees will be determined and applied at production stage. Optional open access publishing is available for a fee via the Sage Choice program, and Open Access agreements, where …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Single anonymized peer review Model summary
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Single-anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: Review reportsAuthor/editor communicationReviewer identities (reviewer opt in) Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
The journal endorses the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment. However, consistent with the AllTrials campaign, retrospectively registered trials will be considered if the justification for late registration is acceptable. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be …
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
- SAGE Publications (formerly IOS Press)
- ISSN
- 0924-6479
- Electronic ISSN
- 1878-6847
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine
What CAS zone is International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine 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 4 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 0.9; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 2, h-index 38.
What are the manuscript requirements of International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 200 words; Manuscript length: ≤ 5,500 words; Reference style: Vancouver; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Optional; Highlights: Optional; Graphical abstract: Optional; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine based?
Of the 23 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (3), United Kingdom (3) and Italy (3). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine is indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Is International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine open access, and what is the APC?
International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,900.
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 2026-08-30). Last updated: .