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Disaster Prevention and Management

Emerald Publishing · United Kingdom · Est. 1992

ISSN1758-6100

SJR Q2✓ WOS SSCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SSCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q2. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.503

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.98

Total Worksi

2,461

Total Citationsi

42,333

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.15

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Environmental Studies; Management; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health; Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous); Health (social science); Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law; Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1992

Annual Volume~ 51 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications2,461

Publisher OrgEmerald Publishing Limited

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Emerald Publishing

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1758-6100

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

1.3k

2019

941

2020

545

2021

455

2022

424

2023

182

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)Q2

Health (social science)Q2

Management, Monitoring, Policy and LawQ2

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Environmental StudiesManagementPublic, Environmental & Occupational Health

Scopus Categories

Management, Monitoring, Policy and LawPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthHealth (social science)Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Disaster Management and ResilienceDisaster Response and ManagementFlood Risk Assessment and ManagementClimate Change, Adaptation, MigrationInfrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability AnalysisOccupational Health and Safety ResearchPublic Relations and Crisis CommunicationRisk and Safety AnalysisRisk Perception and ManagementHuman auditory perception and evaluation

Frequently asked questions about Disaster Prevention and Management

Is Disaster Prevention and Management a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Disaster Prevention and Management: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Disaster Prevention and Management?

Disaster Prevention and Management is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 1.15.

Is Disaster Prevention and Management indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Disaster Prevention and Management is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.