International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management

About International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management

International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management — Journal Profile

The International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management, shortened to IJRAM, is an interdisciplinary, refereed journal devoted to how societies, companies and public bodies identify, assess and manage risk. It is published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd in the United Kingdom, under print ISSN 1466-8297 and online ISSN 1741-5241 — the pair recorded on this JournalsWorld record, confirmed on the publisher's platform and in the OpenAlex source record resolved from those ISSNs. OpenAlex records its first publication year as 2000, which makes it one of the longer-lived titles in its field: a journal founded when risk management was still consolidating as a discipline in its own right, and still publishing a quarter of a century later.

The journal's premise is that risk is one subject, not many. A flood, a financial shock, a software failure, an industrial accident, an epidemic and an environmental spill are different events, but the intellectual machinery used to understand them — probability, uncertainty, exposure, vulnerability, consequence, perception and governance — is shared. IJRAM exists to provide cross-learning between fields that too often work in isolation: the publisher describes it as a journal that facilitates learning across business and economic disciplines and scientific and technological areas, the energy industries, environmental and ecological systems, safety, public health and medical services, and software services, reliability and safety.

At a Glance

• Title: International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management
• Acronym: IJRAM
• Print ISSN: 1466-8297
• Online ISSN: 1741-5241
• Publisher: Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, United Kingdom
• Publishing since: 2000 (first publication year recorded by OpenAlex)
• Editor-in-Chief: M.A. Dorgham, International Centre for Technology and Management, UK (as listed on the publisher's journal page when this profile was researched)
• Peer review: Double-blind, per the publisher's stated essentials for this journal
• Publishing charges: The publisher states there are no charges for publishing with Inderscience unless an author requires the article to be open access
• Official home: inderscience.com, journal code ijram

Scope and Topics

The publisher's topic list for IJRAM, reproduced here, defines its territory:

• Principles and theory of risk assessment and management
• Risk assessment policy, standards and regulations
• Risk-based decision making and risk management
• Decision making and decision support systems for risk and disaster management on regional and global scales
• Risk perception and communications
• Risk assessment and control
• Risk characterisation
• Dynamic risk assessment
• Integration of risk models and quantifications
• Advanced concepts and information technologies in risk assessment and management
• Integrated risk assessment and safety management
• Integrated risk assessment in developing and rapidly developing countries

Its stated objective is to provide an international forum for researchers and practitioners across the many relevant disciplines and industries to disseminate information and learn from each other's work. Its named readership is professionals, academics, researchers and managers — a practitioner-inclusive audience that matches the journal's contents, which run wider than the research article alone: the publisher lists original and review papers, technical reports, case studies, conference reports, management reports, book reviews, and notes, commentaries and news, with contributions by submission or invitation and suggestions for special issues welcomed.

Special issues are a living part of the journal's model. Calls visible on the publisher's site have included an issue on the integration of risk management and corporate budgeting — asking how budgets should be treated as uncertain quantities rather than fixed numbers, how risk indicators can be built into performance measurement, and how simulation approaches such as Monte Carlo methods can be used in budgeting — and an issue on risk culture and crisis communication, examining how cultural and social structures shape the perception of danger and the framing of responses to natural and human-made disasters. Those two calls, one from corporate finance and one from the social sciences, capture the journal's range in miniature.

Reading the Scope in Practice

To see how the topic list works as a whole, follow a single risk through it. Consider a chemical plant near a growing city. The principles-and-theory work in this journal asks how the hazard should be modelled at all — what probability means for a rare, high-consequence event. Risk characterisation turns the model into a statement about who is exposed and how badly. Dynamic risk assessment asks how that statement changes as the plant ages, the city grows and the climate shifts. Policy, standards and regulations decide what level of residual risk a society will accept, and risk-based decision making is where an operator or a regulator acts on the analysis. Risk perception and communication then decide whether the surrounding community understands, trusts or contests those decisions — a question on which technically sound assessments regularly fail. Finally, the journal's interest in integrated assessment in developing and rapidly developing countries recognises that much of the world's fastest industrial growth, and much of its most exposed population, is in places where formal risk institutions are still being built. A journal that holds all of those conversations in one venue lets a safety engineer read the perception literature, and a social scientist read the quantification literature, in a way that single-discipline titles rarely achieve.

OpenAlex's topic analysis of the journal's archive supports the same picture from the citation side. Its largest clusters are risk and safety analysis, risk perception and management, and disaster management and resilience, with further strength in infrastructure resilience and vulnerability analysis. That is the profile of a journal whose centre sits between formal analysis and human response — quantitative about hazards, and serious about the people and institutions who must act on the numbers.

Editorial Leadership and Board

The publisher's journal page lists the Editor-in-Chief as M.A. Dorgham of the International Centre for Technology and Management, UK. The Associate Editor listed is Jerry Busby of Lancaster University, UK, and the European Editor is Aleksandar Jovanovic of the European Virtual Institute for Integrated Risk Management, Germany. The editorial board named on the same page spans the journal's whole territory: members are listed from the University of Alabama, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, the University of Southampton, the University of Colorado, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Nîmes University, Old Dominion University, the University of Ottawa, the University of Pennsylvania, Holon Institute of Technology, King's College London, the United Nations Environment Programme, the National Centre for Scientific Research "DEMOKRITOS" in Greece, Stanford University, Harvard University, NASA Headquarters and NASA more broadly, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Beijing Institute of Technology, the University of Toronto, the University of Melbourne, George Mason University, the Paul Scherrer Institute, and the Research Institute for Sustainability at the Helmholtz Center Potsdam, among others.

Several of those names belong to scholars who helped build modern risk research as a field, and the board's mixture — universities, national laboratories, space agencies, a UN programme — mirrors the journal's practitioner-and-academic readership. Rosters change over time and are maintained by the publisher; this profile records the board as the publisher listed it when the page was fetched for this research, and readers should check the live page for the current membership.

Indexing and Listings

The publisher's journal page states that IJRAM is indexed in Scopus (Elsevier), and lists further indexing in services including Academic OneFile and other Gale collections, Business Source Premier and other EBSCO services including Environment Complete, Environment Index and Ergonomics Abstracts, Biology Digest, cnpLINKer, Google Scholar, the International Abstracts in Operations Research, J-Gate, and ProQuest collections including the ABI/Inform Collection and its Advanced Technologies Database with Aerospace. The same page lists the journal in directories and ranking lists including the Australian Business Deans Council Journal Rankings List, the National Agency for Evaluation of the University and Research System (ANVUR) lists in Italy, Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities, the BFI lists, the ICI World of Journals, the JUFO list, the Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers, and the University of Queensland Business School Journal List.

Indexing lists are maintained by their owners and change; authors citing indexing for promotion, accreditation or funder purposes should verify current coverage in the service itself. What the publisher's page establishes is the breadth of the journal's presence across the business, engineering, environmental and health databases its interdisciplinary readership actually searches.

Peer Review and Publishing Essentials

The publisher's essentials for this journal mirror its list-wide model. Submitted articles should not have been previously published or be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written and the author has cleared any necessary permissions with the copyright holder. Briefs and research notes are not published in this journal. All articles go through a double-blind review process. All authors must declare that they have read and agreed to the content of the submitted article, and the publisher's Ethical Guidelines for Authors apply. On charges, the publisher states that there are no charges for publishing with Inderscience unless the author requires the article to be open access; authors with funder open-access mandates should read the publisher's current open-access information before submitting.

Metrics and Standing

Figures in this section come from OpenAlex, resolved in the foreground through its ISSN endpoint for 1466-8297 (source S34923948). At checking time OpenAlex recorded 620 works for the journal, cited 4,759 times in total, with a summary h-index of 33, an i10-index of 133 and a two-year mean citedness of 0.0 at the moment of the fetch; it recorded a first publication year of 2000 and a most recent publication year of 2025, and named Inderscience Publishers as host organisation. The h-index of 29 carried in the journal's earlier directory data comes from a different database (the Scopus-based SCImago tradition) at an earlier date; the two numbers are snapshots of different sources, and this profile attributes each to its own source rather than averaging them. Directory summaries of the SCImago data have placed the journal in the fourth quartile of its Scopus categories, which include business and international management, management science and operations research, and statistics, probability and uncertainty — again, a statement belonging to that indexing service, to be verified there for formal use.

The fair summary is that IJRAM is a long-established mid-sized specialist journal: hundreds of papers, thousands of citations, an h-index in the low thirties on OpenAlex's count, and a quarter-century of continuous presence in a field where many titles have come and gone. In risk research, where much influential work appears in reports, standards and practice literature that citation databases count poorly, longevity and board calibre are meaningful signals alongside the metrics.

How to Submit

All articles for this journal must be submitted using Inderscience's online submissions system, reached from the journal's page on the publisher's site (journal code ijram), where the publisher also links its author guidelines. Drawing on the publisher's stated essentials:

• Confirm the paper is original, unpublished and not under consideration elsewhere
• If it develops a conference paper, re-write it completely and clear permissions first
• Do not submit briefs or research notes — the journal does not publish them — but note the wider range of formats it does publish, including technical reports, case studies and management reports
• Prepare the manuscript for double-blind review and follow the publisher's author guidelines
• Be ready for every author to declare agreement with the submitted content, and follow the publisher's ethical guidelines
• Consider proposing a special issue if you are assembling a themed collection — the publisher states that suggestions for special issues are welcome — and watch its calls for papers for open themed issues
• Decide early whether open access is required, since that is the route that carries a charge under the publisher's model

Risk in Developing and Rapidly Developing Countries

One line in the publisher's topic list deserves to be singled out, because few general risk journals state it as a commitment: integrated risk assessment in developing and rapidly developing countries. The reasoning is structural. Rapid industrialisation, fast urban growth and large infrastructure programmes concentrate new hazards — industrial, environmental, transport and public-health hazards — in places where regulatory institutions, inspection regimes and emergency services may still be developing, and where informal settlement and work can leave large populations exposed without formal protection. Methods designed for mature regulatory systems do not transfer automatically: data are scarcer, institutions differ, and the balance between development gains and risk costs is argued differently. A journal that names this setting as part of its scope gives researchers working in and on those countries a refereed home where the context is treated as central rather than as a complication, and gives readers in mature systems a view of problems their own frameworks will increasingly face as supply chains and climate risks globalise.

The same logic explains the journal's interest in disaster management at regional and global scales, and in risk governance for hazards that no single state can manage alone. Its published special-issue work on the governance of global and catastrophic risks — asking how hazards should be categorised in a holistic view, how robust societal decisions can be supported under large uncertainties, and how limited resources should be prioritised for global life-safety and health — shows the journal operating at that scale by design, not by accident.

Who Should Publish Here — and Who Should Read It

The journal suits researchers and practitioners working on risk in any of its homes: safety and reliability engineering, disaster management, environmental and health risk, corporate and financial risk, risk governance and regulation, and the social study of risk perception and communication. Its interdisciplinary refereeing is an asset for work that crosses those lines, and its report and case-study formats give practitioners a refereed route that purely academic titles often deny them. Its readers, per the publisher, are the professionals, academics, researchers and managers who assess and carry risk for a living.

Similar Journals

Authors comparing venues will weigh IJRAM against the established risk-analysis society journals, safety-science and reliability-engineering titles, disaster-studies journals, environmental-risk and health-risk journals, and the risk lists inside management and operations-research publishing. IJRAM's distinguishing marks are its deliberate breadth across all of those territories at once, its practitioner-inclusive formats, its special-issue tradition on themes from corporate budgeting to crisis communication, and its unbroken run since 2000 under the same title and publisher.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the journal's ISSNs?
Print ISSN 1466-8297 and online ISSN 1741-5241.

Who publishes it?
Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, in the United Kingdom. The code "3416" on the older version of this record was an internal directory identifier, not a publisher.

Who is the Editor-in-Chief?
The publisher's journal page lists M.A. Dorgham of the International Centre for Technology and Management, UK, with Jerry Busby as Associate Editor and Aleksandar Jovanovic as European Editor. Check the live page for the current roster.

Is it peer-reviewed?
Yes — the publisher states that all articles for this journal go through a double-blind review process.

Is it indexed in Scopus?
The publisher's journal page lists Scopus among its indexes, along with a range of Gale, EBSCO and ProQuest services. Verify current coverage in Scopus itself for formal purposes.

What are its metrics?
OpenAlex, checked for this profile, recorded 620 works, 4,759 citations and an h-index of 33, with publication years from 2000 to 2025.

Does it charge authors?
The publisher states there are no charges for publishing with Inderscience unless the author requires the article to be open access.

What kinds of papers does it publish?
Original and review papers, technical reports, case studies, conference reports, management reports, book reviews, and notes, commentaries and news — but not briefs or research notes.

Sources and Verification Note

This profile was researched from the publisher's official journal page for IJRAM on inderscience.com — its scope and topic list, objectives, readership, contents, indexing and listings, editorial roster and publishing essentials, together with the publisher's special-issue calls — and from the OpenAlex source record resolved by ISSN (S34923948), with metrics attributed to OpenAlex at checking time. The DOAJ search API returned an error during this research, so this profile makes no claim about that directory either way.