7 May 2021
Recruiting Topic Editor, Reviewer Board Members and Editorial Board Members for Safety


Safety (ISSN 2313-576X) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal of industrial and human health safety published quarterly online by MDPI. Safety has been indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI—Web of Science), from Vol. 3, as well as in SafetyLit., and it is covered in Scopus (The CiteScore in 2019 Scopus data is: 1.4; ranked Q2 in the category of "Safety Research"). The website of Safety can be accessed here.

Safety is recruiting Topic Editor (TE), Reviewer Board Members (RBMs) and Editorial Board Members (EBMs) with research interest in the following areas:

  • Advanced science and technology to improve public and industrial safety and human health (including plant/machine/product design, human–machine interaction, human factors, product processing and manufacturing, packaging, storage and transportation, etc.);
  • Risk assessment (including hazard prevention, control and management);
  • Occupational health and safety;
  • Environmental health and safety;
  • Safe mobility of air, sea and land vehicles (including crashworthiness, biomechanics, human factors, crash prevention, and intelligent transport systems);
  • Security, violence and emergency response;
  • Evidence based policy making and safety philosophy.

The main responsibilities of the Topic Editor (TE) are as follows:

  • Promoting Safety and published papers among your peers via social media or other venues periodically;
  • Suggesting current topics within your research field;
  • Promoting Safety and published papers at conferences that you attend or organize (through materials like flyers or business cards, which can be designed and shipped to your office);
  • Acting as Guest Editor of a Special Issue in your particular field of expertise, or recommending potential topics and Guest Editors.

The benefits of joining our Reviewer Board are as follows:

  • We will announce your entry information on journal's reviewer board;
  • For each review, we will offer you a discount code if a comprehensive and timely report is provided. The vouchers can be used for your future publications in all MDPI journals;
  • You may publish one paper per year with a 20% discount after standard peer-review in /Safety/.
  • You will receive a personalized reviewer certificate.
  • You will have the ability to adjust your review frequency based on your schedule in our system.
  • You can verify and showcase your peer review and editorial contributions for our journal.

The main responsibilities of the Editorial Board Members (EBMs) are as follows:

  • Pre-screening submissions and making decisions on whether a manuscript should be accepted or rejected for processing, as well as suggesting additional reviewers (if necessary);
  • Acting as Guest Editor of a Special Issue in your particular field of expertise, or recommending potential topics and Guest Editors;
  • Promoting Safety and increasing its visibility at related academic conferences;
  • Advising on the journal’s development.

To see the current Editorial Board of Safety, please visit the journal website at https://www.mdpi.com/journal/safety/editors.

If you are interested in becoming an Editorial Board Member, Topic Editor or Reviewer Board Member of Safety, please send your application, including a full academic CV, to the Safety Editorial Office (safety@mdpi.com).

We look forward to hearing from you.

Safety Editorial Office

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