About
Acceptance Rate:
14%
Time to first decision:
5 days*
Time to first decision with review:
70 days*
Time from acceptance to publication:
22 days*
Impact Factor (JCR):
4.952
Citescore:
6.9
Aims and scope
Occupational and Environmental Medicine is an international peer reviewed journal covering current developments in occupational and environmental health worldwide. Occupational and Environmental Medicine publishes high-quality research relating to the full range of chemical, physical, ergonomic, biological and psychosocial hazards in the workplace and to environmental contaminants and their health effects. The journal welcomes research aimed at improving the evidence-based practice of occupational and environmental research; including the development and application of novel biological and statistical techniques in addition to evaluation of interventions in controlling occupational and environmental risks.
For information about Occupational and Environmental Medicine Editor-in-Chief Professor Hans Kromhout and his editorial team, please refer to the Editorial Board page.
Plan S compliance
Occupational and Environmental Medicine is a Plan S compliant Transformative Journal. Transformative Journals are one of the compliance routes offered by cOAlition S funders, such as Wellcome, WHO and UKRI. Find out more about Transformative Journals and Plan S compliance on our Author Hub.
Journal information
Ownership
Occupational and Environmental Medicine is owned by BMJ. Occupational and Environmental Medicine is the official journal of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of London, the Australian and New Zealand Society of Occupational Medicine, and the the Scientific Committee on Epidemiology in Occupational Health (EPICOH).
Publication model
Subscription; with hybrid open access option
Frequency
Monthly
Launch date
1944
Indexed by
Web of Science Core Collection: Science Citation Index, Science Citation Index Extended; BIOSIS Reviews, Current Contents: Clinical Medicine, Life Sciences; MEDLINE (Index Medicus), PubMed Central (BMJ Open Access Special Collection), Scopus, Embase (Excerpta Medica), CINAHL, Google Scholar
Peer review model
Single anonymised; the names of reviewers are hidden from the author
Print ISSN
1351-0711
Online ISSN
1470-7926
Journal Statistics (2021)
Acceptance rate: 14%
Speed
Time to first decision without review: 5 days (median)
Time to first decision with review: 70 days (median)
Time from acceptance to publication: 22 days (median)
Impact
Impact Factor category: Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Impact Factor (JCR): 4.952
Impact Factor rank: 64/210
5 Year Impact Factor: 5.185
Journal Citation Indicator:1.2
Eigenfactor Score: 0.00767
Citescore: 6.9
Citescore rank: 53/562
SciMago Journal Rank (SJR): 1.139
Reach
2021 total content views: 530,581
2021 total Altmetric mentions: 3,832
The impact that academic research has cannot be defined by one single metric. In 2013, BMJ signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). We did this to show our support for using multiple measures and metrics to portray journals’ impact; moving away from the Impact Factor as a single measure.
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Affiliations
BMJ is a founding member of COPE (the Committee on Publication Ethics), which provides a forum for publishers and Editors of scientific journals to discuss issues relating to the integrity of the work submitted to or published in their journals.
The EQUATOR Network is an international initiative that seeks to improve the value of medical research literature by promoting accurate, transparent reporting of research studies. The BMJ Group is a sponsor of its activities.
BMJ is a founding organisation of the AllTrials initiative, which calls for all past and present clinical trials to be registered and their results reported.