About this journal
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
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
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Journal metrics in brief
UUsage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Speed data is only available where a journal has made more than 10 decisions of that type in the time period. Speed metrics are averages; some manuscripts will take longer than this. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months. This includes manuscripts which are not sent for peer review (desk rejections). Manuscripts which are sent out for review can therefore have a significantly longer wait than this metric indicates.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
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*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
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?
- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- 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.
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News, offers and calls for papers
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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
8 issues per year
Currently known as:
- Traffic Injury Prevention (2002 - current)
Formerly known as
- Journal of Crash Prevention and Injury Control (1999 - 2001)
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