About
Acceptance rate:
16%
Time to first decision:
6 days*
Time to first decision with review:
71 days*
Acceptance to publication:
17 days*
Impact Factor (JCR):
3.77
Citescore:
4.2
Aims and scope
Since its inception in 1995, Injury Prevention has been the pre-eminent repository of original research and compelling commentary relevant to this increasingly important field. An international peer reviewed journal, it offers the best in science, policy, and public health practice to reduce the burden of injury in all age groups around the world. The journal publishes original research, opinion, debate and special features on the prevention of unintentional, occupational and intentional (violence-related) injuries. 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 Roderick J. McClure and his 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
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 blind; the names of reviewers are hidden from the author
Online ISSN
1475-5785
Journal Statistics (2021)
Acceptance rate: 16%
Speed
Time to first decision without review (median): 6 days
Time to first decision with review (median): 71 days
Time from acceptance to publication (median): 17 days
Impact
Impact Factor category: Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Impact Factor (JCR): 3.77
Impact Factor rank: 91/201
5 year Impact Factor: 3.665
Journal Citation Indicator (JCI): 0.95
Eigenfactor: 0.00506
Citescore: 4.2
Citescore rank: 154/562
Scimago Journal Rank (SJR): 1.003
Reach
2021 total content views: 366,126
2021 total Altmetric mentions: 1,102
The impact that academic research has cannot be defined by one single metric. In 2013, BMJ signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). We did this to show our support for using multiple measures and metrics to portray journals’ impact; moving away from the Impact Factor as a single measure.
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BMJ is a founding organisation of the AllTrials initiative, which calls for all past and present clinical trials to be registered and their results reported.