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The Journal of Integrated Security and Safety Science (JISSS)
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This is an Open Access Journal

Open Access journal
ISSN (Online) 2667-0429
Published by TU Delft

[7 journals]

Editorial
- Authors: Karolien van Nunen, Genserik Reniers, Pieter van Gelder, Floris Goerlandt, Jie Li
  Pages: 1 - 4
  Abstract: In 2017, the Journal of Integrated Security Science was founded at the Safety and Security Science section at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. Now, in 2021, we are happy to announce that we are rebranding the journal by taking it into an adjusted thematic and theoretical avenue: with a new journal name, a revised scope and updated editorial board, we aim for the journal to become an established value within the field of security and safety science, that guarantees high quality standards. In this editorial, we will elaborate upon the implemented changes, and our goals for the future.
  PubDate: 2021-03-01
  DOI: 10.18757/jisss.2021.1.5554
  Issue No: Vol. 1, No. 1 (2021)
Identifying common grounds for safety and security research: a comparative
scientometric analysis focusing on development patterns, similarities, and
differences
- Authors: Jie Li, Floris Goerlandt, Karolien van Nunen, Genserik Reniers
  Pages: 5 - 33
  Abstract: Safety and security are often considered in complimentary or opposing terms. Discussions on their conceptual meaning have been put forward, and calls for an increased integration of these domains have been made. Nevertheless, there is currently no high-level empirical comparison of the development and contents of these research domains. In this article, the broad scientific literature of safety and security research obtained from Web of Science is analysed, aiming to obtain comparative insights in these respective fields, with a specific focus on the themes, topics and scientific areas where increased integration can be fruitful. Scientific publications are analysed in terms of research trends and geographic distribution, journals’ distribution, scientific categories, and focus topics of safety and security research in 2019. The results indicate a rapidly growing publication trend in both research domains, with an exponential growth since the 1990s. Safety research focuses on medicine/drug safety, patient safety and disease-related safety, with occupational health and safety and safety in socio-technical systems comparatively smaller research domains. Security research focuses on internet of things, physical layer security and cybersecurity/information security. Journals and scientific categories where significant contributions to both safety and security research are made relate mostly to industrial and transport safety and security, food safety, and public, environmental and occupational health. Apart from providing insights to academics and practitioners to the scope and focus areas of safety and security research, the findings also support delineating the scope and focus of the Journal of Integrated Security and Safety Science (JISSS), which aims to bolster connections and integration between these domains. Based on the findings, a focus on safety and security in industrial plants, transportation contexts, and industrially relevant aspects of public, environmental and occupational health, is found to be an appropriate target area for JISSS.
  PubDate: 2021-03-01
  DOI: 10.18757/jisss.2021.1.4638
  Issue No: Vol. 1, No. 1 (2021)
Biases in security risk management: Do security professionals follow
prospect theory in their decisions'
- Authors: Johan de Wit, Wolter Pieters, Sylvia Jansen, Pieter van Gelder
  Pages: 34 - 57
  Abstract: Security professionals play a decisive role in security risk decision making, with important implications for security in organisations and society. Because of this subjective input in security understanding possible biases in this process is paramount. In this paper, well known biases as observed and described in prospect theory are studied in individual security risk decision making by security professionals. To this end, we distributed a questionnaire among security professionals including both original dilemmas from prospect theory and dilemmas adapted to the context of incident prevention. It was hypothesised that security professionals dealing with risks and decision making under risk on an almost daily basis would or should be less vulnerable to decision biases involving risks, in particular when framed in terms of incident prevention. The results show that security professionals are vulnerable to decision biases at the same scale as lay people, but some biases are weaker when decision problems are framed in terms of security as opposed to monetary gains and losses. Of the individual characteristics defining experience, only the general education level observably affects vulnerability for biases in security decision making in this study. A higher general education level leads to a significantly higher vulnerability to decision biases. By highlighting the vulnerability of security professionals to decision biases, this study contributes essential awareness and knowledge for improved decision making, for example by different representation of probabilities and uncertainty.
  PubDate: 2021-10-13
  DOI: 10.18757/jisss.2021.1.5700
  Issue No: Vol. 1, No. 1 (2021)