Aims and scope

Traffic Injury Prevention publishes research on medicine, engineering, public health, and traffic safety in order to foster the science of traffic injury prevention.

The archival journal focuses on research, interventions, and evaluations within the areas of traffic safety, crash causation, injury prevention, and treatment.

General topics within the journal's scope are:

  • Driver behavior
  • Road infrastructure
  • Emerging crash avoidance technologies
  • Crash and injury epidemiology
  • Alcohol and drugs
  • Impact injury biomechanics
  • Vehicle crashworthiness
  • Occupant restraints
  • Pedestrian safety
  • Evaluation of interventions
  • Economic consequences
  • Emergency and clinical care (specific to traffic injury prevention)

The journal includes full length papers, review articles, case studies, brief technical notes, and commentaries.

Traffic Injury Prevention operates a single anonymized peer review policy. Authors can choose to publish gold open access in this journal.

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Journal metrics

Usage

  • 266K annual downloads/views

Citation metrics

  • 1.6 (2023) Impact Factor
  • 2.3 (2023) 5 year IF
  • 3.6 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
  • Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
  • 0.997 (2023) SNIP
  • 0.615 (2023) SJR

Speed/acceptance

  • 16 days avg. from submission to first decision
  • 38 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
  • 43 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
  • 25% acceptance rate

Editorial board

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

David C. Viano
ProBiomechanics LLC
Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA
dviano@comcast.net
Phone: 248-645-5832


ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Matthew Baldock
Centre for Automotive Safety Research
University of Adelaide, South Australia
matthew.baldock@adelaide.edu.au

Marco H. Benedetti
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Columbus, OH USA
MarcoHBenedetti@gmail.com

Alessandro Calvi
Department of Civil, Computer Science and Aeronautical Technologies Engineering 
Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy
alessandro.calvi@uniroma3.it

Matthew Craig
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Washington, DC
matthew.craig@dot.gov

Jason L. Forman
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA USA
jlf3m@virginia.edu

Richard J. Frampton
Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
Loughborough University, UK
R.J.Frampton@lboro.ac.uk

Douglas Gabauer
Bucknell University
Lewisburg, PA USA
dg027@bucknell.edu

Russell Griffin
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL USA
russellg@uab.edu

Jingwen Hu
University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute
Ann Arbor, MI USA
jwhu@umich.edu

Samantha Jamson
Institute for Transport Studies
University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
S.L.Jamson@its.leeds.ac.uk

Sang-Hwan Kim
University of Michigan - Dearborn
Dearborn, MI USA
dysart@umich.edu

Sjaan Koppel
Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC)
Monash University, Australia
sjaanie.koppel@monash.edu

Michelle Macy
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL USA
mmacy@luriechildrens.org

Julie Mansfield
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH USA
Julie.Mansfield@osumc.edu

Koji Mizuno, University of Nagoya
Nagoya University
Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Japan
kmizuno@mech.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Luke E. Riexinger
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
Ruckersville, VA USA
lriexinger@iihs.org

Emma Sartin
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL USA
esartin@uab.edu

Giovanni Savino
University of Florence
Florence, Italy
giovanni.savino@unifi.it

Brian D. Stemper
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI USA
stemps@mcw.edu

Kathryn Stewart
Safety and Policy Analysis International
Lafayette, CA USA/Tucson, AZ USA
kgbstewart@gmail.com

Cody Stolle
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE USA
cstolle2@unl.edu

Abstracting and indexing

Abstracted and/or indexed in: Current Contents/Clinical Medicine; Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences; Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition; Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition; MEDLINE; Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch); Social Sciences Citation Index; Social Scisearch; and Transportation Research Information Services.

Open access

Traffic Injury Prevention is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our 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 access?

  1. Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
  2. Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
  3. Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
  4. Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
  5. Rigorous peer review for every open access article

Article Publishing Charges (APC)

If you choose to publish open access in this journal you may be asked to pay an Article Publishing Charge (APC). You may be able to publish your article at no cost to yourself or with a reduced APC if your institution or research funder has an open access agreement or membership with Taylor & Francis.

If you choose not to publish Open Access in this journal, there is no Article Publishing Charge (APC).

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Society information

Traffic Injury Prevention is the official journal of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM).

Traffic Injury Prevention is also affiliated with the International Council on Alcohol, Drug, and Traffic Safety (ICADTS), the International Traffic Medicine Association (ITMA), and the International Research Council on Biomechanics of Injury (IRCOBI).

Visit the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine

Visit the International Council on Alcohol, Drugs, and Traffic Safety

Visit the International Research Council on the Biomechanics of Impact

Visit the International Traffic Medicine Association

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