Reliability Engineering & System Safety

pISSN: 0951-8320eISSN: 1879-0836• JCR: RELIAB ENG SYST SAFEElsevier BVUnited Kingdom
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2026 Impact Factor

13.7

Released June 2026 · Based on 2025 citation data

↑ 2.7 (+24.6%) vs last year

Impact Factor History

  1. Metric year 2025

    Released

    13.7
  2. Metric year 2024

    11.0

JCR Category Rankings

Journal Citation Reports category rankings
CategoryIndexesQuartile
ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIALSCIEQ1
OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCESCIEQ1
Q1
JCR Quartile
B1
CAS Block

Reliability Engineering & System Safety current release and JCR quartile

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Ranking position in Engineering

Ranked #127 in Engineering by impact factor and #127 among Q1 Engineering journals. This context helps compare Reliability Engineering & System Safety against journals publishing in the same field.

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Reliability Engineering & System Safety publication trend

Published 3,807 papers across the last 5 recorded years with a current impact factor of 13.7.

2026 vs 2025: -796
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Journal Details

Total Articles
11,123
H-Index
220
Open Access
Hybrid
APC
$4,190 USD
Subject Areas
Safety, Risk, Reliability and QualityStatistics, Probability and UncertaintyStatistics, Probability and UncertaintySoftware

Article Volume

2022
610
2023
748
2024
749
2025
1,248
2026
452
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