International Journal of Reliability and Safety
- Editor in Chief
- Prof. Om Prakash Yadav
- ISSN online
- 1479-3903
- ISSN print
- 1479-389X
- 4 issues per year
- CiteScore 0.9 (2019)

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
- Reliability assessment methods
- Uncertainty quantification and propagation using probabilistic and non-probabilistic methods
- Engineering decisions under uncertainty
- Probabilistic and non-probabilistic safety assessment
- Reliability and safety relationship
- Engineering design for safety and reliability
- Reliability-based condition assessment
- Reliability-based design optimisation
- Robust design
- Progressive reliability
- System reliability
- Random fields
- Stochastic finite elements
- Other relevant topics
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. It also aims to help engineers, applied scientists, educators and policy makers to contribute, disseminate information and learn from each other|s work in the area of reliability and safety.
Readership
Professionals, academics, researchers and managers of all disciplines in the area of reliability and safety.
Contents
IJRS publishes original and review papers, technical reports, case studies, conference reports, management reports, book reviews, notes, commentaries and news. Contribution may be by submission or invitation. Suggestions for special issues and publications are welcome.
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 (Palgrave Macmillan)
- ProQuest Advanced Technologies Database with Aerospace
- RePEc
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More journal lists/directories...Editor in Chief
- Yadav, Om Prakash, North Dakota State University, USA
(Om.Yadavndsu.edu)
Executive Editor
- Mourelatos, Zissimos, Oakland University, USA
Associate Editors
- Amari, Suprasad V., BAE Systems, USA
- Beer, Michael, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
- Chaturvedi, Sanjay K., Indian Institute of Technology, India
- Droguett, Enrique Lopez, University of Chile, Chile
- Liao, Haitao, University of Arkansas, USA
- Papadimitriou, Costas, University of Thessaly, Greece
Editorial Board Members
- Chiodo, Elio, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
- Conte, Joel P., University of California, San Diego, USA
- Du, Xiaoping, University of Missouri - Rolla, USA
- Faravelli, Lucia, University of Pavia, Italy
- Gea, Hae Chang, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
- Gorsich, David J., US Army TARDEC, USA
- Grandhi, Ramana, Wright State University, USA
- Grigoriu, Mircea, Cornell University, USA
- Guo, Huairui, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, USA
- Haukaas, Terje, University of British Columbia, Canada
- Jain, Rakesh, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, India
- Jensen, Hector, Santa Maria University, Chile
- Kim, Nam-Ho, University of Florida, USA
- Kokkolaras, Michael, University of Michigan, USA
- Limon, Shah, Slippery Rock University, USA
- Muhanna, Rafi L., Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
- Nair, Prasanth B., University of Southampton, UK
- Papadrakakis, Manolis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
- Phoon, Kok Kwang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Ram, Mangey, Graphic Era Deemed to be University, India
- Sachdeva, Anish, Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology (NIT), Jalandhar, India
- Singhal, Suren, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, USA
- Vaccaro, Alfredo, University of Sannio, Italy
- Wang, Zhonglai, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
- Xie, Liyang, Northeastern University, China
- Yang, Ren-Jye, Ford Research and Advanced Engineering, USA
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