Impact factor, 0.32
as at June 2023
Aim and Scope
The aim of the Journal of Road Safety (JRS) is to facilitate sharing of new knowledge that will help prevent death, serious injury and associated trauma due to crashes on our roads. We welcome submissions:
- on the latest work from researchers, practitioners, policy makers, program implementers and other road safety experts
- that take a systems approach and recognise that crashes on our roads are a failing of broader factors, beyond blaming individual road users
- that present findings about all aspects of the Safe System including Safe Roads and Roadsides, Safe Speeds, Safe Vehicles, Safe People and Post-Crash Care
- from all disciplines and practices that directly identify ways to prevent crashes on our roads
The JRS accepts papers from authors from all countries and regions around the world. The JRS provides a rich source of current knowledge, evidence, developments, and best practice in road safety implementation.
The Journal is published quarterly (February, May, August, November) and electronic copies are emailed to ACRS members on the date of publishing. Current and back issues are available online for free download.
Open access
The JRS is provided for free to authors and readers. Free and unrestricted access to all content is available worldwide because we value facilitation of the latest research and evidence to contribute to the growing knowledge and best practice in road safety. Open-access ensures that high quality road safety research and practice papers are more discoverable, visible, accessible and usable and will be more likely to be used to advance road safety and eliminate fatal and serious injury crashes. Open-access allows everyone from around the world – students, policymakers, advocates, implementers, funders and all others interested in road safety – to learn and be part of the progress.
Under an open-access CC-BY license, authors own the copyright to their work and are free to share it anywhere, anytime, with anyone. The work of JRS authors is available for everyone to find, read and reuse around the world as long as the author and original sources are appropriately cited.
Publication fee
Authors are not charged any fee to publish in the JRS.
Indexing and Archiving
The Journal of Road Safety (JRS), first published in February 2020 (formerly the Journal of the Australasian College of Road Safety (JACRS)) is indexed in:
TRID
SafetyLit
Informit
DOAJ
BASE
Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
Scopus
Editorial team
A/Prof Marilyn Johnson - Victoria, Australia
University of New South Wales
Editor-in-Chief
Dr Chika Sakashita - New South Wales, Australia
Global Road Safety Solutions
Managing Editor
Dr Ingrid Johnston - Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Australasian College of Road Safety
Mx Gemma Beet - Queensland, Australia
Australasian College of Road Safety
About the Publisher
The Journal of Road Safety (JRS) is owned and published by the Australasian College of Road Safety (ACRS). The ACRS has been a progressive organisation since 1989 encouraging communication, networking, professionalism and advocacy across all levels of road safety - policy makers, academics, community organisations, researchers, federal, state and local government agencies, private companies and members of the public. Learn more about the ACRS here.
JRS is proudly sponsored by
Get in touch
Contact the Journal Managing Editor at journaleditor@acrs.org.au for questions about submitting or reviewing an article for the Journal of Road Safety (JRS).