International Journal of Reliability and Safety
- Editor in Chief
- Prof. Yiliu Liu
- ISSN online
- 1479-3903
- ISSN print
- 1479-389X
- 4 issues per year
- CiteScore 1.0 (2023)
IJRS provides an authoritative source of information and an international forum in the field of reliability and safety. It is a highly professional and refereed journal that aims to achieve a balance between academic rigour and practical applications from all disciplines. In addition, prominent members of the reliability and safety community may serve as guest editors of special issues dedicated to a specific subject.
Topics covered include
- Physics of reliability and safety
- Model-based system reliability assessment
- Data-driven reliability analysis
- Design for reliability and robustness
- Resilience engineering
- Reliability-centered maintenance
- Condition monitoring, fault diagnosis and PHM
- Risk and barrier analysis
- Risk-related decision making and risk management
- Accident investigation
- Standardisation and compliance management
- Emergency management
- Human factors and ergonomics
- Safety culture and organisation
- Insurance and safety-related economic analysis
Objectives
The goal of IJRS is to provide an international forum for information exchange in the development and application of non-deterministic methods and practices for the enhancement of product and process reliability and safety. IJRS also aims to help engineers, applied scientists, educators and policy makers to contribute and disseminate information and to learn from each other in the areas of reliability and safety.
Readership
Professionals, academics and researchers of all disciplines in the areas of reliability and safety.
Contents
IJRS publishes original research papers, review papers, case studies, book reviews, notes, commentaries and news. Multidisciplinary studies and research for interconnecting humans, technology and organisations are gladly received. IJRS also invites applied studies in (but not limited to) oil, gas, processing and mining industries; transportation, including railway, road, aviation and maritime; renewable energies such as wind, hydrogen, solar, hydro; manufacturing industries; network systems such as power distribution, telecommunication and other infrastructures; autonomous systems and robots; public sectors such as healthcare and municipal services. Contributions may be by submission or invitation. Suggestions for special issues and publications are welcome.
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IJRS is indexed in:
- Scopus (Elsevier)
- Compendex [formerly Ei] (Elsevier)
- Business Source Premier (EBSCO)
- cnpLINKer (CNPIEC)
- Ergonomics Abstracts - Ergo-Abs
- Google Scholar
- Inspec (Institution of Engineering and Technology)
- J-Gate
- International Abstracts in Operations Research
- ProQuest Advanced Technologies Database with Aerospace
- RePEc
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- Liu, Yiliu, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
(yiliu.liuntnu.no)
Associate Editors
- Abbassi, Rouzbeh, Macquarie University, Australia
- Chaturvedi, Sanjay K., Indian Institute of Technology, India
- Lin, Janet, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
- Si, Shubin, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Editorial Board Members
- Ahmed, Salim, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
- Fan, Dongming, Beihang University, China
- Iaiani, Matteo, Università di Bologna, Italy
- Kang, Henry Hooi-Siang, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
- Machado, Mario Marcondes, Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras, Brazil
- Marta, Bucelli, SINTEF Energy Research, Norway
- Mazurkiewicz, Dariusz, Lublin University of Technology, Poland
- Meng, Huixing, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
- Mizutani, Satoshi, Aichi Institute of Technology, Japan
- Sanchez-Silva, Mauricio, Universidad de Los Andes Carrera, Colombia
- Shao, Haidong, Hunan University, China
- Vu, Hai Canh, University of Technology of Compiègne, France
- Wang, Qingsheng Samuel, Texas A&M University, USA
- Wang, Shan, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
- Wu, Shengnan, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), China
- Xiahou, Tangfan, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
- Yatim, Ardiyansyah Saad, Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia
- Zennir, Youcef, Laboratoire d'Automatique de Skikda, Algeria
- Zhang, Aibo, Beijing University of Science and Technology, China
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