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Review of Journals about Environmental and Occupational Health. Running title: Review of Environmental and Occupational Health Journals

Shiva Pouradeli, PhD; Mohsen Rezaeian, PhD

Abstract environmental and occupational health. Health in workforce leads to United States with 11 journals and the United economic success and population health. It is Kingdom with 9 journals publish the essential that the results of research about the maximum number of specific journals. Taylor work environment and occupational health be & Francis Company publish most of these published in relevant journals. The aim of this journals and only eight of them are open study was to review specialized journals access. Five of these eight journals are about the work environment and occupational published in Asia. Occupational and health field.This descriptive study was Environmental Medicine Journal has a higher conducted in 2018. The Scimago Journal & (IF=3.965). The oldest journal Country Rank (SJR) portal was used to began publication in 1949. Articles on search for the journals related to occupational environmental and occupational health are health. NLM catalog of the PubMed published in public health journals and was searched to find and characterize specialized journals. Researchers can select journals. In the initial search, 508 titles of the best journal related to environmental and journals were found in the SJR portal in the occupational health to publish articles and the public health, Environmental and authors can publish their articles in any of the Occupational Health field from which 38 journals of this list, depending on the quality, specific journals publish articles related to time, place of research and the budget of the study. Key words: Occupations; Shiva Pouradeli, PhD Environment; Health; Database; Descriptive Candidate in Epidemiology, Occupational Environment Research Center, Medical School, Introduction: Rafsanjan of Medical , Kerman, Health is one of the challenges that Iran Oral and Dental Diseases Research Center, Kerman people have always faced. (1) Occupational University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Islamic health is one of the issues that has attracted Republic of Iran great attention recently. Many people are in E-mail: [email protected] the work environment for long periods to

Mohsen Rezaeian, PhD earn their livelihood. (2) Health in workforce Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, leads to economic success and population Occupational Environment Research Center, Medical health. “Health promotion in the workplace is School, Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences, defined as preventing, minimizing and Rafsanjan, Iran, Islamic Republic of eliminating health hazards, and maintaining E-mail: [email protected] and promoting work ability. Worker health

Received: June 9, 2019. and wellness is maintaining a balance of the Accepted: April 5, 2020. physical, mental and social ingredients, as Conflict of interest: none. well as health habits associated with good

Social Medicine (www.socialmedicine.info) -82 - Volume 13, Number 2, May August 2020. physical condition, and vitality”. (3) information. (7) Therefore, in each field it is Previous research has shown that the work necessary for professionals and students to environment can have an important role in recognize specialized journals. Furthermore, the incidence and prevalence of some it is essential that the results of research about diseases in workers and employees. (4-6) the work environment and occupational Journals in the health field publish health be published in relevant journals. In the findings of new research to provide addition, based on the results of these studies, appropriate solutions for the problems in institutions consider the best strategies for health and in cultural, social and economic promoting health in the workplace. Therefore issues of the community. The results of health the aim of this study was to collect important research are published in two public health data and review specialized journals about the and specialized journals. (7) PubMed, work environment and occupational health PubMed Central (PMC), MEDLINE, field to help researchers and planners apply and Web of are the most and use this information. important of medical journal literature in the world. (8) and : Due to the advances in information This descriptive study was conducted technology, the publication of content has in 2018. The Scimago Journal & Country been converted from traditional print to Rank (SJR) portal was used to search the electronic format. (9) The first electronic titles of the journals related to occupational journals were published nearly 20 years ago. health. All the journals in this portal are Electronic journals have been developed for indexed in Scopus database. The terms disseminating new knowledge and promoting ‘public health’ and ‘environmental and science for solving the problems and occupational health’ in the subject categories limitations of traditional print. (10) Journals in 2017 and journal type, without country should consider some criteria for quality limitations, were searched in the SJR. Then control before they accept reports for information about the journals was publication. (11) downloaded in the Excel format. To find a Researchers have become interested special title of journals about occupational in the use of various resources of scientific health, the title column was filtered by the results of research since many years ago. words ‘occupation’ and ‘work’. Rows of Access to the results of in various information about these journals were forms such as scientific articles, , etc. is selected and copied in a new Excel file. important in all the stages of a research, Finally, some important data such as title of including collecting the history and preparing the journal, SJR quartile, country, categories the proposal of the research for comparing and so on were investigated. To find the the results of different research studies. websites of these journals the titles of the Researchers can search the favorite titles in journals were searched in Google, too. NLM specialized journals or global databases and catalog of the PubMed database was searched access articles by subscribing in their website to find the abbreviations of journal titles, or purchasing the articles. The use of valid publication start year and frequency of results of studies will increase the credibility in a year. Impact factor of ISI and scientific reputation of that research. journals was extracted via the website of each Researchers can increase their chances for journal and the resource finder site of the publishing articles in specialized journals by Ministry of Health in Iran updating information about journals, (http://rsf.research.ac.ir/). reviewing articles in recent issues of a journal, and by considering the requirements Results for writing articles in the journal; they should In the initial search, 508 titles of also have the necessary information on the journals were found in the SJR portal in the costs of publishing articles and other useful public health, Environmental and

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Chart 1 Frequencies of public health journals in the world.

160 137 137 140 120 100 80 60 32 34 32 40 9 9 9 9 11 11 11 12 20 3 4 4 4 4 5 5 6 6 6 8

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Iran

Italy

India

Cuba

Spain

Brazil

Egypt

China

Japan

France

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Poland

Canada

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Australia

Germany

Another 24…

Switzerland

SouthAfrica

SouthKorea

Netherlands

NewZealand UnitedStates CzechRepublic

Occupational Health field. All these journals health. Journal of Occupational and publish articles on public health and Environmental Medicine has published the occupational health field, too. These journals greatest number of articles in the past year are published in 47 countries. In addition, 23 with 247 articles. Publication start year for countries publish three or more journals in the oldest journal is 1949 and the newest the public health field. The United States and journal began publication in 2017. Two United Kingdom with 137 journals have the journals publish articles only in the print greatest number of journals (Chart 1). Of format (Table 2). these, 38 journals publish articles, especially in the occupational health field. United States Discussion with 11 journals and the United Kingdom The results of this study showed that with 9 journals publish the maximum number researchers have paid attention to public of journals in the occupational health. All health and many articles have been published these journals, except the Iranian in this field since many years ago. One of the Occupational Health Journal, publish articles important topics of research in these journals in the English . However, the is environmental and occupational health. In abstracts of the Iranian Occupational Health this field, journals are divided into two Journal articles, are published in both the categories: public health journals and English and Persian languages. Some of these specialized journals. The majority of public journals still publish articles in the print health journals, which also publish the results format. Taylor & Francis Company publish of research into environmental and most of the journals. All the journals are occupational health, are published in indexed in Scopus and some of them are European countries and the United States. indexed in PubMed and , too. Among Asian countries, Japan, India and Iran Only eight of these journals are . have the highest number of these journals. A Five of these eight journals are published in large number of journals in European and Asia. The first open access journal is American countries indicate the importance published since 1994 in Germany (Table 1). of research into public health topics in these Four journals have Q1 score in SJR quartile. countries. Despite the high population density Occupational and Environmental Medicine in Asian countries, the number of public Journal has a higher impact factor. health journals is very low in these countries, (IF=3.965) In the past year, these journals (12) which might be attributed to many published 2353 articles on occupational

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Table 1 Public characteristics of occupational health journals

Publication Open N Title Language Frequency Index Country Publisher Website Start Year access

1. Journal of Quarterly American Occupational ISI, Scopus, United https://www.apa.org/ English 1996 print Psychological No pubs/journals/ocp/in Health PubMed, States Electronic Association dex.aspx Psychology 2. Occupational and BMJ Monthly- print ISI, Scopus, United Environmental English 1994 Publishing No https://oem.bmj.com/ Electronic PubMed, Kingdom Medicine Group 3. International Archives of Eight no. a year ISI, Scopus, Springer https://link.springer.c Occupational and English 1975 print Germany No PubMed Verlag om/journal/420 Environmental Electronic Health 4. Journal of Lippincott Occupational and Monthly- print ISI, Scopus, United https://journals.lww. English 1995 Williams & No com/joem/pa Environmental Electronic PubMed, States Wilkins Ltd. es/default.aspx Medicine 5. Eight no. a year, Oxford Occupational ISI, Scopus, United https://academic.oup. English 1992 print University No Medicine PubMed Kingdom com/occmed Electronic Press 6. Journal of Occupational Irregular United BioMed https://occup- English 2006 ISI, Scopus, Yes med.biomedcentral.c Medicine and Electronic Kingdom Central om/ 7. Scandinavian Four no. a year Journal of ISI, Scopus, United Taylor & https://www.tandfonl English 1994 print No ine.com/toc/iocc20/c Occupational PubMed Kingdom Francis Electronic urrent Therapy 8. Journal of Monthly Occupational and ISI, Scopus, United Taylor & https://www.tandfonl English 2004 print No Environmental PubMed Kingdom Francis ine.com/loi/uoeh20 Electronic Hygiene 9. International Journal of Quarterly ISI (ESCI), NIOC Health http://www.theijoem. Occupational and English 2010 print Scopus, Iran Yes com/ijoem/index.php Environmental Electronic PubMed, /ijoem Medicine 10. Archives of Taylor & Environmental Four no. a year, ISI, Scopus, United Francis https://www.tandfonl English 2005 No ine.com/toc/vaeh20/c and Occupational 2007- Print PubMed, States Heldref urrent Health Publications 11. Japan Society Journal of English- Quarterly- print ISI, Scopus, for https://www.jstage.js Occupational Japanes 1996 Japan Yes Electronic PubMed Occupational t.go.jp/browse/joh/ Health e Health 12. International Maney Journal of Quarterly- ISI, Scopus, United Publishing https://www.tandfonl Occupational and English 1995 print No ine.com/toc/yjoh20/c PubMed Kingdom Taylor & Environmental Electronic urrent Francis Health

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13. International Journal of Bimonthly Walter de Occupational ISI, Scopus, English 1994 print Germany Gruyter Yes http://ijomeh.eu/ Medicine and PubMed, Electronic GmbH Environmental Health 14. Annals of English ISI (ESCI), Occupational and Annually United BioMed https://link.springer.c German 2013 Scopus, Yes Environmental Electronic Kingdom Central om/journal/40557 y PubMed, Medicine 15. Occupational Quarterly ISI (ESCI), United Haworth Press https://www.tandfonl Therapy in Mental English 1980 print No ine.com/toc/womh20 Scopus States Inc. Health Electronic /current 16. Indian Journal of ISI (ESCI), Occupational and Quarterly- print Medknow http://www.ijoem.co English 1997 Scopus, India Yes Environmental Electronic Publications m/ PubMed, Medicine 17. Tehran Bimonthly Iran Occupational Scopus University of http://ioh.iums.ac.ir/i Farsi 2005 print Iran Yes ndex.php?slc_lang=e Health Journal Medical Electronic n&sid=1 Sciences 18. International Journal of Quarterly- ISI, Scopus, United Taylor & https://www.tandfonl Occupational English 1995 print No ine.com/toc/tose20/c PubMed Kingdom Francis Safety and Electronic urrent Ergonomics 19. Journal of Occupational Quarterly CCH http://www.wolterskl uwer.cch.com.au/em Health and Safety English 1985 print Scopus Australia Australia No ployment- - Australia and Electronic Limited whs/journalhse New Zealand 20. Sangyo eiseigakuzasshi = English Bimonthly print Scopus, Nihon Sangyo https://www.jstage.js Journal of Japanes 1995 Japan No t.go.jp/browse/sangy Electronic PubMed Eisei Gakkai occupational e oeisei/-char/en health 21. Occupational Quarterly- print Netherlan https://www.iospress English 1997 Scopus IOS Press No .nl/journal/occupatio Ergonomics Electronic ds nal-ergonomics/

22. https://www.personn Occupational United Royal College eltoday.com/occupati English 1949 Monthly Scopus No Health Kingdom of Nursing onal-health-and- wellbeing/ 23. https://ohsonline.co Occupational Thirteen no. a Scopus, United 1105 Media m/research/list/occup health & safety English 1976 year No ational-health-safety- PubMed States Inc. (Waco, Tex.) print -digital- edition.aspx 24. Journal of Quarterly. of Ecophysiology http://www.informati English 2010 print& Scopus India Environment No csjournals.com/index and Occupational Electronic .php/JEOH Health 25. Canadian Occupational Bimonthly Association of https://www.caot.ca/i English 1979 Scopus Canada No Therapy Now Print Occupational ndex.html Therapists

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26. Annals of Work Oxford ISI, Scopus, United https://academic.oup. Exposures and English 2017 9 issues a year University No PubMed Kingdom com/annweh Health Press 27. Kluwer Clinical Social United Academic/Ple https://link.springer.c English 1973 Quarterly ISI, Scopus No Work Journal States num om/journal/10615 Publishers 28. Three times a United Whiting & https://journals.whiti Groupwork English 1988 No ngbirch.net/index.ph year Kingdom Birch Ltd. p/GPWK/index

29. International Emerald Journal of ISI(ESCI), United Group https://www.emerald English 2008 Quarterly No insight.com/loi/ijwh Workplace Health Scopus Kingdom Publishing m Management Ltd. 30. Journal of Religion and ISI(ESCI), United Haworth Press https://www.tandfonl English 2004 Quarterly No Spirituality in Scopus States Inc. ine.com/loi/wrsp20 Social Work 31. Journal of ISI (ESCI), United Haworth Press https://www.tandfonl Workplace English 2005 Quarterly No Scopus States Inc. ine.com/loi/wjwb20 Behavioral Health 32. Nordic Journal of Roskilde https://tidsskrift.dk/n Working English 2011 Quarterly ISI (ESCI) Denmark No University jwls/index Studies

33. https://www.science Safety and Health ISI(ESCI), South direct.com/journal/sa English 2010 Quarterly BV Yes at Work Scopus, Korea fety-and-health-at-

work 34. Nordic Scandinavian Association of Journal of Work, ISI, Scopus, Occupational www.sjweh.fi/index. English 1975 Bimonthly Finland No Environment and PubMed Safety and php Health Health (NOROSH) 35. Haworth Social Work in ISI (ESCI), United https://www.tandfonl English 2002 Bimonthly Social Work No ine.com/loi/wsmh20 Mental Health Scopus States Practice Press #.VWc3HGfJDGg 36. Social Work in English- ISI, Scopus, United Haworth Press https://www.tandfonl 2007 Bimonthly No Public Health PubMed States Inc. ine.com/loi/whsp20

37. ISI, Scopus, Netherlan https://content.iospre Work English 1990 Monthly IOS Press No ss.com/journals/work PubMed ds /Pre-press/Pre-press

38. SAGE Workplace health ISI, Scopus, United https://journals.sagep English 2012 Monthly Publications No & safety PubMed States ub.com/home/whs Inc.

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Table 2 Numerical characteristics of occupational health journals

Total Total Total Citable Cites / SJR Impact Total Ref. / Abbreviation H index Docs. Docs. Cites Docs. Doc. Quartile factor Refs. Doc. (2017) (3years) (3years) (3years) (2years) J Occup Health 1. Q1 99 3.766 62 123 3515 544 115 4,08 56,69 Psychol

2. Occup Environ Med Q1 123 3.965 156 485 4654 1413 333 4,09 29,83

Int Arch Occup 3. Q1 76 2.148 82 315 3373 680 301 2,06 41,13 Environ Health

J OCCUP 4. Q2 94 1.355 247 774 8932 1105 664 1,30 36,16 ENVIRON MED

5. Occup Med Q2 69 1.482 145 519 2364 548 385 1,25 16,30

J Occup Med 6. Q2 31 1.859 32 138 1134 272 137 1,94 35,44 Toxicol

7. Scand J Occup Ther Q2 32 1.162 89 184 2087 209 163 1,06 23,45

J Occup Environ 8. Q2 46 1.462 110 377 2511 515 363 1,36 22,83 Hyg

Int J Occup Environ 9. Q2 13 - 36 97 859 122 76 1,36 23,86 Med

Arch Environ Occup 10. Q2 57 1.386 84 138 1662 140 119 1,14 19,79 Health

11. J Occup Health Q2 50 1.285 69 224 1914 256 216 1,05 27,74

Int J Occup Environ 12. Q3 44 1.195 10 135 414 168 123 1,02 41,40 Health

Int J Occup Med 13. Q3 38 1.367 62 289 2009 366 274 1,32 32,40 Environ Health

Ann Occup Environ 14. Q3 7 - 56 152 1969 169 147 1,11 35,16 Med

Occup Ther Ment 15. Q3 16 - 34 67 1022 38 65 0,55 30,06 Health

Indian J Occup 16. Q3 18 - 28 108 562 61 87 0,40 20,07 Environ Med

17. Iran Occup Health J Q4 5 - 69 179 2110 56 179 0,27 30,58

Int J Occup Saf 18. Q4 26 0.648 134 212 2463 163 195 0,74 18,38 Ergon

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Journal of health, 19. safety and Q4 16 - 23 67 729 14 59 0,13 31,70 environment Sangyo Eiseigaku 20. Q4 11 - 13 57 0 10 57 0,13 0,00 Zasshi

21. Occup Ergon Q4 16 - 0 32 0 11 29 0,38 0,00

22. Occupational Health Q4 5 - 0 121 0 5 121 0,03 0,00

23. Occup Health Saf Q4 9 - 13 484 15 5 472 0,01 1,15

J. ecophysiol. occup. 24. Q4 7 - 0 61 0 1 61 0,00 0,00 hlth.

Occupational 25. Q4 7 - 46 139 321 7 73 0,17 6,98 therapy now Annals of Work 26. Exposures and Q2 66 0 79 306 1866 475 276 1,52 23,62 Health Clinical Social 27. Q2 26 0.807 49 135 1775 123 126 0,68 36,22 Work Journal

28. Groupwork Q4 7 - 0 13 0 1 11 0,00 0,00

International Journal 29. of Workplace Health Q3 13 - 32 58 1666 61 58 0,43 52,06 Management Journal of Religion 30. and Spirituality in Q4 16 - 24 70 1338 27 65 0,48 55,75 Social Work Journal of 31. Workplace Q4 13 - 17 56 709 20 55 0,33 41,71 Behavioral Health Nordic Journal of 32. Working Life - 1 - 36 0 1743 0 0 0,00 48,42 Studies Safety and Health at 33. Q3 15 - 84 155 2037 241 146 1,39 24,25 Work Scandinavian Journal of Work, 34. Q1 93 2.792 72 211 2636 567 168 2,72 36,61 Environment and Health Social Work in 35. Q3 14 - 44 108 1964 63 105 0,55 44,64 Mental Health

Social Work in 36. Q3 23 0.504 48 174 2185 135 172 0,55 45,52 Public Health

37. Work Q3 40 0.902 190 762 7046 688 708 0,90 37,08

Workplace health & 38. Q3 32 0.831 78 238 1787 158 222 0,70 22,91 safety

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challenges in some countries, such as India, can publish high-quality articles. Authors where research on public health is not a must pay attention to this matter when they priority. want to select a journal to publish their Among countries that publish specialized articles. journals in the field of environmental and Almost all the relevant journals occupational health, the United Kingdom and publish articles in the English language. the United States have the largest number of English is an international language and journals and India, Iran, Japan and Germany journals can get scores of scientific indexes are in the next rank. If we review the faster if they publish articles in the English proportion of journals on public health and language. Also to have easier access to the those specialized in environmental and journal articles all over the world at least the occupational health, it seems that of the articles must be published in environmental and occupational health topic English. Probably important and high-quality is more important in countries such as India, articles are published in the journals in the Iran and Japan. Developing countries such as local language in different countries, but due India and Iran have a large workforce, but to lack of easy access to these articles for these countries lack high standards for health researchers in other countries, the results of in workplace compared to developed these studies are ignored in systematic countries. Therefore, studies on the efficacy reviews. (13). of factors in health in the work environment Five of the 12 journals published are especially important. Japan is one the since 2005 are open access. It seems that developed countries that is growing very fast open-access policies for journals have been in technology. Considering the country's considered more than before in the past reputation for good human resource decade.(14) Access to the scientific research management, it seems that environmental and is not only a sufficient condition for citation, occupational health is especially important to but also it is a necessary one. The results of a increase the work efficiency and maintain the study by Bernius showed that if the same- health of the staff in this country. quality articles are published, open access Of all the journals evaluated, the articles are downloaded, read and cited at a oldest journal dedicated to occupational higher rate compared to non-open access health has been published since 1949 in the articles published in traditional journals. (15) UK. This journal has been published for more The International Journal of Occupational than 69 years, and despite being indexed in Medicine and Environmental Health is an Scopus, the h-index of this journal is 5 and it open access journal with an impact factor of does not have an Impact Factor yet. The 1.367 and is published in Germany, the second rank belongs to the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Archives of Occupational and Environmental Medicine is not open access and is published Health journal, which is about 43 years old, in the United Kingdom with an impact factor with an h-index of 79 and an Impact Factor of of 3.965. Both these journals have been about 2. One of the newest journals in this published since 1994 but although the group is the Journal of Occupational Occupational and Environmental Medicine Medicine and Toxicology that is published in journal is not open access, it has a higher the UK. Although it has been published for impact factor than the International Journal about 12 years, it has an Impact Factor above of Occupational Medicine and Environmental 1 and an h-index of 31. Comparison between Health, which contradicts the results of the the quality and history of the publication of mentioned study. (15) these journals indicates that the history of a The results of a study by Evans and journal cannot be a reason for the high quality Reimer showed that open access articles are and superiority of journals. New journals can mostly cited in poor countries.(16) In this also get high-quality scientific indexes if they study, 4 journals of 8 open access journal are

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