About

Acceptance rate:
36%
Time to first decision:
8 days*
Time to first decision with review:
71 days*
Acceptance to publication:
21 days*
Impact Factor (JCR):
3.8
Citescore:
5

Aims and scope

Injury Prevention is the leading journal for public-health-focused injury prevention efforts to reduce the burden of injury in all age groups around the world. This includes understanding of not just the physical factors that contribute to injury but also the behavioural, commercial, political and social influences of injury risk. As an international peer-reviewed journal, it 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. It is particularly focussed on: furthering data-driven evidence to inform policy and practice responses; improving understanding of, and perceptions around, risks and the preventability of injuries; and documenting both implementation challenges and success stories to provide robust evidence to demonstrate that injury prevention efforts have real-world impact. Injury Prevention is committed to the publication, discussion, and dissemination of research to academics as well as to the injury prevention practitioner workforce and the general community. Injury Prevention is online only. It is the official journal of the Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (SAVIR). For information about the Injury Prevention Editor-in-Chief Professor Caroline Finch and her editorial team, please refer to the Editorial Board page.

Plan S compliance

Injury Prevention is a Plan S compliant Transformative Journal. Transformative Journals are one of the compliance routes offered by cOAlition S funders, such as Wellcome, WHO and UKRI. Find out more about Transformative Journals and  Plan S compliance on our Author Hub.

Journal information

Ownership
Injury Prevention is owned by BMJ
Publication Model
Subscription; with hybrid open access option
Frequency
Bi-monthly (online only)
Launch date
1995
Digital Archives
Indexed by
Web of Science Core Collection: Science Citation Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index; Current Contents: Clinical Medicine, MEDLINE (Index Medicus), PubMed Central (BMJ Open Access Special Collection), Scopus, Embase (Excerpta Medica), CINAHL, Google Scholar
Peer Review Model
Single anonymised; the names of reviewers are hidden from the author
Online ISSN
1475-5785

Journal Statistics 2023

Acceptance rate: 36%
Speed Time to first decision without review (median): 8 days Time to first decision with review (median): 71 days Time from acceptance to publication (median): 21 days
Impact Impact Factor category: Public, Environmental & Occupational Health Impact Factor (JCR): 3.8 Impact Factor rank: 80/207 (SCIE) 5 year Impact Factor: 3.1 Journal Citation Indicator (JCI): 1.01 Eigenfactor: 0.00548 Citescore: 5 Citescore rank: 143/577 Scimago Journal Rank (SJR): 1.317
Reach Total content views: 297,531 Total Altmetric mentions: 1,638
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