Journal profile · Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Medicina del Lavoro
ISSN 0025-7818 · eISSN 2532-1080 · Mattioli 1885 S.p.A. · ITALY · Bimonthly · Founded 1925
Medicina del Lavoro: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.09; fully open access; no APC; median 141 days to acceptance (68 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: easy; 44 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Medicina del Lavoro is published by Mattioli 1885 S.p.A. 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 Occupational and environmental lung diseases, Occupational exposure and asthma and Occupational Health and Safety Research, together about 33.9% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
La Medicina del Lavoro, a Journal owned by the Italian Society of Occupational Medicine, is a bimonthly magazine founded in 1901 by L. Devoto, and then directed by L. Preti, E. Vigliani, V. Foà, and P.A. Bertazzi (Milan), and now by A. Mutti (Parma), the journal aims at updating postgraduate students, specialists, and physicians of local health services dealing with occupational health. Listed by La Medicina del Lavoro is indexed by Index Medicus/MEDLINE; Embase/Excerpta Medica; the Elsevier BioBASE, Abstracts on Hygiene; Industrial Hygiene Digest; Securitè et Santè au Travail Bit-CIS; Sociedad Iberoamericana de Informaciòn Cientifica (SIIC); Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch); Clarivate Web of Knowledge and Web of Science; Scopus, Portico. Bibliometry Journal Citation Report; Scopus
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Editor-in-chief Antonio Mutti ManagementPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Occupational and environmental lung diseasesMedicine19.1%
- Occupational exposure and asthmaMedicine8.3%
- Occupational Health and Safety ResearchHealth Professions6.5%
- Workplace Health and Well-beingHealth Professions5.6%
- Heavy Metal Exposure and ToxicityEnvironmental Science5.5%
- Carcinogens and Genotoxicity AssessmentBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology5.3%
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitationMedicine4.9%
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnoutHealth Professions4.4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of ScienceMEDLINEEmbasePublisher website
Other: Index Medicus, Portico
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.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 2.09LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.1Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 4.6LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 4.6Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.66LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.66Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher)
- 0.81Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 23LetPub ·
- h-index
- 27OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 120OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.96OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 93.94%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 39LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,304 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 31 | 31 | 0 |
| 2025 | 44 | 44 | 50 |
| 2024 | 46 | 46 | 187 |
| 2023 | 52 | 52 | 360 |
| 2022 | 49 | 49 | 500 |
| 2021 | 48 | 48 | 501 |
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.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with PubMed · to
141 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 87 days – 203 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 44 days (68 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 191 days
- Sample
- 68 articles with submission and acceptance dates (90 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- over 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
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.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessOpenAlex
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted3
- case reportInterstitial Lung Disease in a Dental Technician Diagnosed Through an Integrated Multidisciplinary Approach Giacomo Giulianelli, Giuseppe Maggioni, Matteo Daver…Length not stated
- original articleCombined Occupational Exposure to Lead and Other Metals and Risk of Lung Cancer Paolo Boffetta, David Zaridze, Beata Świątkowska , Tamás Pándics, Jolanta Lissow…Length not stated
- reviewBridging Two Gaps: A Roadmap for Collaboration Between Occupational Physicians and General Practitioners Giuseppe De Palma Abstract 374 | PDF Downloads 231 Page…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review
- AI use Adoption of a new AI Policy (Effective 1st January 2026)
La Medicina del Lavoro | Work, Environment and Health announces that, effective 1 January 2026, the journal will formally adopt the Editorial Policy on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Peer Review Process as outlined in the attached document.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright COPYRIGHT
Copyright retained by author; CC BY-NC 4.0 license. Model summary
We publish under the CC Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0) license: the author keeps the copyright, and the public can reuse the content according to the restrictions on the license.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access and APC (Article Processing Charge)
La Medicina del Lavoro | Work, Environment, and Health is a small, independently managed, and fully open-access journal that has not applied an article processing charge so far. Thanks to the Italian Society of Occupational Medicine’s generous sponsorship of its official journal, only scientific merit determines whether to accept or decline submissions. Once accepted, all manuscripts are published…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Process
Peer review ensures that only manuscripts of good quality are published. It is a process at the heart of good scholarly publishing and is carried out in all reputable journals. Our referees play a vital role in maintaining the high standards of La Medicina del Lavoro, and manuscripts are peer-reviewed following the procedure outlined below. Initial manuscript evaluationAll new submissions are scre…
Source ↗Publisher website ·
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.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Mattioli 1885 S.p.A.
- Country or region
- ITALY
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Bimonthly
- Founded
- 1925
- ISSN
- 0025-7818
- Electronic ISSN
- 2532-1080
- Society / sponsor
- Italian Society of Occupational Medicine
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 117, Issue 4 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Medicina del Lavoro
What CAS zone is Medicina del Lavoro in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Medicina del Lavoro is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Public, Environmental & Occupational Health. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Medicina del Lavoro?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.09; CiteScore 4.6, h-index 27.
How long does peer review take at Medicina del Lavoro?
Based on the dates recorded on 68 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 141 days (interquartile range 87–203 days); authors report an average review time of over 12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Which databases index Medicina del Lavoro?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Medicina del Lavoro is indexed in SCIE and Scopus. The journal's website also lists Web of Science, MEDLINE and Embase; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Medicina del Lavoro open access, and what is the APC?
Medicina del Lavoro is a fully open-access journal. It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .