Call for Papers for the Special Issue: Safety Science in China

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In the last decades, China’s research on safety science has increased dramatically and provided insights into safety principles and fundamental ideas, and developed methods, tools, and processes for assessing, and ensuring safety. China has been the most productive country in terms of the publications in the main international safety-related journals. Besides, many safety-related studies were published in Chinese journals while they may not be accessed by foreigners due to language barriers, unavailable permission, etc. This Special Issue “Safety Science in China” aims to contribute to systemizing the safety research in China, finding out the progress and contributions of subdomains of safety science research in China, and promoting the academic communication and collaboration between China and other countries/regions on safety science. This may relate to paradigmatic or methodological development paths, application domains, specific safety problems and research issues, and perspectives on future research issues in China.

Guest editors:

• Associate Research Fellow. Dr. Jie Li
  Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
  lijie2022@mail.las.ac.cn

• Dr. Chao Chen
  Southwest Petroleum University
  chenchaoswpu@gmail.com

• Prof. Hong Chen
  Jiangnan University, China
  hongchenxz@163.com

• Prof. Genserik Reniers
  TU Delft, The Netherlands
  g.l.l.m.e.reniers@tudelft.nl

• Prof. Georgios Boustras
  European University Cyprus
  G.Boustras@euc.ac.cy

• Prof. Floris Goerlandt
  Dalhousie University, Canada
  floris.goerlandt@dal.ca

Special issue information:

Scope:

China has been the world's second-largest economy since 2010 with rapid industrialization and urbanization in recent decades. To meet the needs of industrialization and urbanization, China’s central government and local governments have already taken a lot of measures to improve safety in China. Besides, Safety science became an independent discipline in 2011. Now more than 200 universities have bachelor education programs and over 20 universities have doctoral education programs in safety science. In 2018, China established the Ministry of Emergency Management (MEM) to integrate different safety resources for effectively preventing and controlling accidents and disasters.

In the last decades, China’s research on safety science has increased dramatically and provided insights into safety principles and fundamental ideas, developed methods, tools, and processes for assessing, and ensuring safety. China has been the most productive country in terms of the publications in the main international safety-related journals. Besides, many safety-related studies were published in Chinese journals while they may not be accessed by foreigners due to language barriers, unavailable permission, etc.

This Special Issue “Safety Science in China” aims to contribute to systemizing the safety research in China, finding out the progress and contributions of subdomains of safety science research in China, and promoting the academic communication and collaboration between China and other countries/regions on safety science. This may relate to paradigmatic or methodological development paths, application domains, specific safety problems and research issues, and perspectives on future research issues in China. The sub-topics related to safety science research in China include, while not limited to:

• The history or the review of safety science and engineering research in China

• The contribution of China safety science to the safety community

• Scientific communication and safety research comparison between China and other countries/regions

• The research progress of sub-topics of safety science in China (e.g. process safety, fire safety science, mining safety, transportation safety, public safety and other safety research in different domains)

• Safety economics, education, policy, ethics, laws and standards in China

• DRC-disasters, risk and crisis-related research in China

• RAMR- reliability, availability, maintainability, and resilience related to safety

• OHS-Occupational safety and health in China

• Public safety and emergency management

Timeline:

Submission available in Editorial Manager: May 21, 2022

Submission deadline of full papers: December 31, 2023

Manuscript submission information:

Manuscript submission information:

All papers should be submitted via the Safety Science submission system. While submitting a paper to the special issue, please choose the article type “VSI: SafeChina” otherwise your submission will be handled as a regular manuscript. All submissions will go through the journal’s standard peer-review process. Criteria for acceptance include originality, contribution, scientific merit, and relevance to the theme of the Special Issue. 

For author guidelines, please visit the website of the journal at http://www.journals.elsevier.com/safety-scienceSubmitted papers must be unpublished and not currently under review by other journals.

To submit the manuscript please visit:https://www.editorialmanager.com/safety/default1.aspx

Keywords:

(China) OR (chinese) AND (safety) OR (accident) OR (disaster) OR (public health)

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