The ''International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research in

ergonomics Human factors and ergonomics (commonly referred to as human factors) is the application of psychological and physiological principles to the engineering and design of products, processes, and systems. Four primary goals of human factors learnin ...

product safety Product may refer to: Business * Product (business), an item that serves as a solution to a specific consumer problem. * Product (project management), a deliverable or set of deliverables that contribute to a business solution Mathematics * Prod ...

, and the

prevention Prevention may refer to: Health and medicine * Preventive healthcare, measures to prevent diseases or injuries rather than curing them or treating their symptoms General safety * Crime prevention, the attempt to reduce deter crime and crim ...

and care of injuries. It is published by

Taylor & Francis Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in England that publishes books and academic journals. Its parts include Taylor & Francis, Routledge, F1000 (publisher), F1000 Research or Dovepress. It is a division of Informa ...

and is an official journal of the European Association for Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion (EuroSafe), formerly the European Consumer Safety Association (ECOSA). JCR: According to the ''

Journal Citation Reports ''Journal Citation Reports'' (''JCR'') is an annual publicationby Clarivate Analytics (previously the intellectual property of Thomson Reuters). It has been integrated with the Web of Science and is accessed from the Web of Science-Core Collec ...

'', the journal has a 2016

impact factor The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal, as ...

of 0.875.

History

The journal was established in 1994 as the ''International Journal for Consumer and Product Safety''. It was renamed to ''Injury Control and Safety Promotion'' in 2000, before obtaining its current name in 2005. It was published by Æolus Press for ECOSA until 1999 and then by Swets & Zeitlinger, until that company was acquired in 2003 by Taylor & Francis.

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* {{Official, http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17457300.asp Product safety Academic journals established in 1994 Quarterly journals English-language journals Taylor & Francis academic journals