The French Society for Radiological Protection (SFRP) is celebrating its sixty-year anniversary in 2025. Established on February 18th 1965 as a charity under French law, its mission was, and is to this day, to exchange best practices and disseminate a culture of radiological protection beyond the world of specialists. The SFRP was established when the Society of Radiation Protection Engineers (SIRP) and the Society for Radiation Protection (SRP) merged. It was recognised as a French learned society immediately and affiliated to the International Association for Radiological Protection (IRPA), established just a few years earlier.
Radioprotection, the official journal of the SFRP, was launched in 1966 to aid in the society’s mission of dissemination and knowledge exchange. Approaching its own 60th anniversary in 2026, the journal continues from strength to strength in pursuit of this purpose.
With a 2024 Journal Impact Factor™ of 1.8 (2025 Journal Citation Reports, Clarivate) Radioprotection demonstrates growth as a trusted voice in the discipline. The journal currently ranks in six CiteScore categories (Scopus): Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality; Nuclear Energy and Engineering; Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health; Waste Management and Disposal; Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment; Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. The variety in these categories shows the wide ranging applications of the research published, and the impact the journal is having on those disciplines.
In 2022, Radioprotection adopted the Subcribe-to-Open (S2O) open access model and by 2024 successfully reached the threshold of institutional support to make content accessible to all, with no fees to read, publish, or reuse the research (under a CC-By 4.0 licence) published. Subscribe-to-Open is a model that offers true equity of access, regardless of geography or institutional affiliation. It is, however, entirely conditional on the support of those institutions who subscribe and we would like to take this opportunity to offer sincere thanks to those who made opening the content in 2024 and 2025 financially viable for the journal. If you don’t currently support the Radioprotection S2O model with a subscription, but would like to find out more, visit the journal website.
In this significant year for both the society and journal, Radioprotection moved submission system to NESTOR (New Editorial System Tool for Research), an editorial platform developed in-house by EDP Sciences to meet the evolving needs of the scientific publishing community. The change reflects both the SFRP and Radioprotection teams’ ongoing commitment to improving the author and reviewer experience while maintaining the highest standards of editorial and publishing quality. NESTOR offers a more streamlined, secure, and user-friendly interface designed to support the full publishing workflow, from submission through to publication. Find out more here.
In an Editorial published in the journal this year, Editors-in-Chief M. Bourguignon, Université Paris-Saclay (UVSQ), and J.M. Bertho, ASNR, discuss the challenges and opportunities facing the SFRP and Radioprotection in this era of profound societal changes, including those driven by emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence. Read the Editors’ perspective in Radioprotection, Volume 60,1.