Natural Hazards Review

Natural Hazards Review is published by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and is in Zone 4 of Engineering in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Disaster Management and Resilience, Flood Risk Assessment and Management and Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis, together about 45.9% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The Natural Hazards Review addresses the range of events, processes, and consequences that occur when natural hazards interact with the physical, social, economic, and engineered dimensions of communities and the people who live, work, and play in them. As these conditions interact and change, the impact on human communities increases in size, scale, and scope. Such interactions necessarily need to be analyzed from an interdisciplinary perspective that includes both social and technical measures. For decision makers, the risk presents the challenge of managing known hazards, but unknown consequences in time of occurrence, scale of impact, and level of disruption in actual communities with limited resources. The journal is dedicated to bringing together the physical, social, and behavioral sciences; engineering; and the regulatory and policy environments to provide a forum for cutting edge, holistic, and cross-disciplinary approaches to anticipating risk, loss, and cost reduction from natural hazards. The journal welcomes rigorous research on the intersection between social and technical systems that advances concepts of resilience within lifeline and infrastructure systems and the organizations that manage them for all hazards. It offers a professional forum for researchers and practitioners working together to publish the results of truly interdisciplinary and partnered approaches to the anticipation of risk, loss reduction, and community resilience. Engineering topics covered include the characterization of hazard forces and the planning, design, construction, maintenance, performance, and use of structures in the physical environment. Social and behavioral sciences topics include analysis of the impact of hazards on communities and the organizations that seek to mitigate and manage response to hazards.

Source: LetPub

Research area (LetPub): ENGINEERING, CIVIL-GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

3.23LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

5LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.67LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.04LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

48LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

85OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

605OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

2.97OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

6.1%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

14.07%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

89LetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

Other sources

Average review time (community reports)

over 12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

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Publisher

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

Country or region

UNITED STATES

Language

English

ISSN

1527-6988

Electronic ISSN

1527-6996

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗LetPub