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Aims and thematic scope of the journal

„Safety & Fire Technology“ is a peer-reviewed scientific journal. SFT publishes the following types of articles: original scientific articles, preliminary reports, review articles and case studies. Its aim constitutes in supporting the knowledge transfer in Poland and abroad, promoting research results and innovative projects as well as providing education on safety.

In the years 2022–2024, the journal received financial support from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education as part of the Scientific Journals Development project (contract no. RCN/SP/0560/2021/1).

The support from the Ministry covered the following areas:

  • dissemination of scientific articles and information about the journal,
  • translation of scientific articles and their abstracts in the journal into foreign languages,
  • covering the costs related to the purchase of digital identifiers for electronic documents (DOI – Digital Object Identifier),
  • purchase of licenses for editorial and publishing management software,
  • dissemination of scientific articles and information about the journal, including costs related to the adaptation of technical tools,
  • purchase of a license for plagiarism detection software.

Journal’s thematic scope:

  • fire dynamics and modeling,
  • fire protection systems and methods, fire prevention and mitigation,
  • fire investigation and risk analysis,
  • firefighting tactics, safety and technology,
  • fire safety legislation and education,
  • safety and civil protection,
  • hazards and environmental protection,
  • materials in environmental protection and fire hazards,
  • modern technologies in fire and environmental protection.

The archive of articles is maintained by the Editorial Office and in the long-term scientific and technical repository BazTech.

Open Access Policy

“Safety & Fire Technology” is published in free and open access, i.e., each user can read, copy, print, spread, cite and search open resources, including full texts of articles, respecting the copyright of its authors. A user can take advantage of articles published in the Half-yearly in accordance with the CC-BY-SA 4.0 license, indicating on the copy of the material information about the source and authors. The journal is published by CNBOP-PIB – the State Research Institute under the Diamond Open Access model. This means that neither authors nor readers are charged any fees for submitting, publishing, accessing, or using the journal's content. The costs of publishing the journal are covered by the Institute as part of its statutory mission, which includes the dissemination of research findings and knowledge in the fields of safety and fire protection.

Ghostwriting and guest autorship

With due regard to the need for integrity of information concerning authors and to avoid situations known as ghost-writing and guest authorship, the Editorial Board requires authors to disclose honest information about third parties who participate in the creation of submitted articles. Where ghost-writing or guest authorship is identified, the Editorial Board will inform the author’s Research Establishment, associations of which the author is a member, other Research Centres and Editorial Boards of different publications about the incident. 

International Advisory Board

Andriej Kuzyk, Professor , Lviv State University of Life Safety, Lviv, Ukraine

Venkatesh Kodur, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States

Jesús Ignacio Martínez Paricio, Professor Emeritus, Department of Applied Sociology, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Hauke Speth, Ph.D., State Fire Academy of North Rhine-Westphalia, Münster, Germany

Lech Starczewski, D.Sc. Eng., Professor, Military Institute of Armoured and Automotive Technology, Sulejówek, Poland

Asif Usmani, Professor, Department of Building Environment and Energy Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

Ai Sekizawa, Ph.D., Japan Association of Fire Protection Engineers (JAFPE), Tokyo, Japan

Iwona Szwach, D.Sc., Professor, Łukasiewicz Research Network – Institute for Renewable Resources Chemistry, Kędzierzyn-Koźle, Poland

Jason Yunlong Liu, Ph.D., PE, FPE, CPEng, FIEAust, AECOM, Sacramento, CA, United States

Qiang Xu, Ph.D., Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China

Milosh Puchovsky, PE, FSFPE, Professor of Practice, Department of Fire Protection Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, United States

Editorial Board

Paweł Janik, D.Sc. Eng., Scientific and Research Centre for Fire Protection – National Research Institute (CNBOP-PIB), Józefów, Poland
Editor-in-Chief

Jacek Zboina, D.Sc. Eng., Scientific and Research Centre for Fire Protection – National Research Institute (CNBOP-PIB), Józefów, Poland
Deputy-Editor-in-Chief

Daniel Małozięć, M.Sc. Eng., Scientific and Research Centre for Fire Protection – National Research Institute (CNBOP-PIB), Józefów, Poland
Deputy-Editor-in-Chief

Maria Zielecka, D.Sc. Eng., Professor, Scientific and Research Centre for Fire Protection – National Research Institute (CNBOP-PIB), Józefów, Poland
Deputy-Editor-in-Chief

Anna Rabajczyk, D.Sc. Eng., Professor, Scientific and Research Centre for Fire Protection – National Research Institute (CNBOP-PIB), Józefów, Poland
Editor

Mariusz Feltynowski, Ph.D. Eng., VIZJA University, Warsaw, Poland
Editor

Bogdan Z. Długogórski, Professor, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia
Editor

Aleš Dudáček, Ph.D., Professor, Faculty of Safety Engineering, VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic
Editor

Arief E. Dahoe, Professor, Knowledge Center for Explosion and Hydrogen Safety, Dutch Armed Forces, Zwolle, Netherlands
Editor

Agnieszka Siłuszyk, Ph.D. Eng., Institute of Mathematics, University of Siedlce, Siedlce, Poland
Statistical Editor

Monika Wyszomirska, Ph.D., Scientific and Research Centre for Fire Protection – National Research Institute (CNBOP-PIB), Józefów, Poland
Law Editor

Editorial Office

Elżbieta Muszyńska-Połeć, Scientific and Research Centre for Fire Protection – National Research Institute (CNBOP-PIB), Józefów, Poland
Editorial Secretary

Aleksandra Grzęda, Scientific and Research Centre for Fire Protection – National Research Institute (CNBOP-PIB), Józefów, Poland
Technical Editor

Anna Golińska, Scientific and Research Centre for Fire Protection – National Research Institute (CNBOP-PIB), Józefów, Poland
Language Editor

Katarzyna Szulejewska, Scientific and Research Centre for Fire Protection – National Research Institute (CNBOP-PIB), Józefów, Poland
Language Editor