International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health

International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health is published by Versita and is in Zone 4 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Workplace Health and Well-being, Occupational exposure and asthma and Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout, together about 25.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The “International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health” has been published since 1988. It was established at the initiative of the Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine in Łódź and of the Main Board of the Polish Society of Occupational Medicine. The Journal is dedicated to present the contemporary research in occupational and environmental health from all over the world. It publishes works concerning: occupational and environmental: medicine, epidemiology, hygiene and toxicology; work physiology and ergonomics, musculoskeletal problems; psychosocial factors at work, work-related mental problems, aging, work ability and return to work; working hours, shift work; reproductive factors and endocrine disruptors; radiation, ionizing and non-ionizing health effects; agricultural hazards; work safety and injury and occupational health service; climate change and its effects on health; omics, genetics and epigenetics in occupational and environmental health; health effects of exposure to nanoparticles and nanotechnology products; human biomarkers in occupational and environmental health, intervention studies, clinical sciences’ achievements with potential to improve occupational and environmental health. The journal is indexed by, among others, CABI (CAB Abstracts, Global Health), Cengage Gale, CNKI Scholar, DOAJ, EBSCO (Academic Search Complete, Central & Eastern European Academic Source, Environment Complete, Ergonomics Abstracts), Elsevier (Embase, EMCare, SCImago Journal & Country Rank, SCOPUS), Europe PubMed Central, Google Scholar, Jisc, J-Gate, Library of Science ICM UW, Polish Medical Bibliography, ProQuest (ProQuest Environmental Science Collection, Health and Medical Collection, Psychology Database, Public Health Database), PubMed/MEDLINE/PMC, Web of Science Clarivate, WorldCat. “International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health" is published based on the open access model (OA). The use of the articles is possible under the terms of the license CC BY 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International) beginning with issue 4/2024 and under the terms of the CC BY-NC 3.0 Poland license (Creative Commons Attribution - NonCommercial 3.0 Poland) for articles up to and including issue 3/2024. If an article is made available on another site (such as a medicine-related site), it is obligatory to provide the following information: data about the author/co-authors, title of the article, DOI number in the form of a lin

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

Editor-in-chief Joanna JurewiczPublisher website

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Poland 3, Germany 1 (4 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

Web of ScienceMEDLINEPMCEmbaseCAB AbstractsPublisher website

Other: Google Scholar, EBSCO, ProQuest, CNKI, J-Gate, CiteScore, SJR, SNIP

As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.

Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.

Impact

Impact factor

1.95LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

2Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher)

2Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

3.1LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

3.1Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.5LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher)

0.5Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SNIP 2026-06

0.69LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher)

0.69Publisher website · 2026-09-29

h-index

40LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

67OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

669OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.8OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

5%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

100%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

47LetPub · 2026-09-13

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Average review time (community reports)

6–12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 41 weeksDOAJ · 2026-10-25

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.

Publisher

Versita

Country or region

POLAND

Language

English

Frequency

Quarterly

Founded

2011

ISSN

1232-1087

Electronic ISSN

1896-494X

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
• Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ
• Peer review process ↗DOAJ
• Editorial board ↗DOAJ