ORIGINAL RESEARCH 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 & impact factor (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 database 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 University of Medical Sciences, 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, energy 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 SCOPUS and Web of Science are the most and use this information. important databases of medical journal literature in the world. (8) Materials and Methods: 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 researches in various information about these journals were forms such as scientific articles, books, 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 publishing 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 Social Medicine (www.socialmedicine.info) -83 - Volume 13, Number 2, May August 2020. 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 0 Iran Italy India Cuba Spain Brazil Egypt China Japan France United… Poland Canada Russian… Australia Germany Another 24… Switzerland South Africa South Korea Netherlands New Zealand UnitedStates Czech Republic 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 language. 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