Journal of Occupational Health

Journal of Occupational Health is published by Japan Society for Occupational Health 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 Legal and Regulatory Analysis, Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies and Military Technology and Strategies, together about 45.5% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Overview The Journal of Occupational Health (JOH) is the official English language open access journal of the Japan Society for Occupational Health with the aim of publishing original contributions relevant to occupational health. The scope of the journal is broad, covering toxicology, ergonomics, psychosocial factors and other relevant health issues of workers, with special emphasis on the current developments in occupational health. The JOH also accepts various methodologies that are relevant to investigation of occupational health risk factors and exposures, such as large-scale epidemiological studies, human studies employing biological techniques and fundamental experiments on animals, and also welcomes submissions concerning occupational health practices and related issues. The JOH publishes original articles, review articles, brief reports, case studies, field studies, opinions or recommendations, and letters to the editor. Six Fields and the Areas covered in the JOH Toxicology: Toxicology in chemical substances including experimental and epidemiological studies, exposure assessment and biological monitoring in working conditions or environment. Ergonomics: Interdisciplinary research concerning interactions among humans and other elements of physical, psychosocial, cognitive, and organizational environments for optimizing health, safety, well-being, and system performance. Mental Health/Psychosocial Factors: Factors associated with the mental health of workers; psychosocial factors at work and health outcomes. Occupational Health Practice/Occupational Health Practitioner: Role and activities of occupational health practitioners; regulations related to occupational health practice. Health Promotion: Factors that contribute to many health and safety problems among workers, measures for protection and health promotion of the health of workers. Epidemiology: Large-scale epidemiological studies, trends of health problems in workers, international surveys, studies utilizing risk factors beyond the workplace such as socioeconomic factors and specific epidemiological methodologies. Journal metrics Citation metrics Clarivate 2025 Impact Factor 2.8 2025 5 Year Impact Factor 3.0 Public, Environmental & Occupational Health (Rank by Impact Factor) 149/443 2025 Cited Half-Life 7.9 years 2025 Immediacy Index 0.7 2025 Eigenfactor Score 0.00197 2025 Article Influence Score 0.653 Scopus 2025 CiteScore 4.0 Public Health, Environmental And Occupational Health (Rank by C

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Public, Environmental & Occupational Health

Editor-in-chief Takeshi EbaraPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 2 in mainland China (about 2%); most named Japan 59, South Korea 6, Taiwan, China 5, United States 5, Mainland China 2 (91 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

2.6LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

3Publisher website · 2026-10-01

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

4Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

4LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

4Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

0.77LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.21LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

51LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

94OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

1,198OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

3.19OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

3.6%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

100%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

71LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher) 2025

347,075Publisher website · 2026-10-01

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.

Other sources

Average review time (community reports)

6–12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

Fairly easyLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to first decision 2025

8 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to final decision 2025

8.5 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 20 weeksDOAJ · 2026-10-25

Peer review

Single 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.

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• Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
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Publisher

Japan Society for Occupational Health

Country or region

JAPAN

Language

English

Frequency

Quarterly

Founded

1996

ISSN

1341-9145

Electronic ISSN

1348-9585

Society / sponsor

Japan Society for Occupational Health

Latest issue on the website

Volume 68, Issue 1 (December 2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Author guidelines ↗LetPub
• Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
• Special issues ↗Publisher website
• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ
• Peer review process ↗LetPub
• Editorial board ↗LetPub
• Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ