Medycyna Pracy-Workers Health and Safety

Medycyna Pracy-Workers Health and Safety is published by Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine 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 exposure and asthma, Public health and occupational medicine and Workplace Health and Well-being, together about 21.9% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

“Medycyna Pracy. Workers’ Health and Safety” (formerly “Medycyna Pracy”) has been published since 1950. Since 1990 it has been edited, published and distributed by the Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine in Lodz in cooperation with the Polish Society of Occupational Medicine (PTMP). The journal publishes original papers, reviews and case reports submitted in Polish and English. The topics cover occupational medicine and public health, including occupational pathology, physical, chemical and biological hazards, stress and psychological issues related to work, toxicology and mutagenesis, health policy, management and organization of health care and epidemiological studies. The journal publishes reports from international and national scientific conferences related to occupational medicine. Letters to the editor are also published. The journal is indexed by CABI (CAB Abstracts, Global Health), CNKI Scholar, DOAJ, EBSCO (Central & Eastern European Academic Source), Elsevier (EMBASE, EMCare, SCImago Journal & Country Rank, SCOPUS), Europe PubMed Central, Google Scholar, J-Gate, Library of Science ICM UW, Polish Medical Bibliography, ProQuest (Health and Medical Collection, Psychology Database), PubMed/MEDLINE, SHERPA/RoMEO, Web of Science Group (BIOSIS Citation Index, BIOSIS Previews, Web of Science Core Collection, Journal Citation Reports, Science Citation Index Expanded), WorldCat. “Medycyna Pracy. Workers’ Health and Safety” is published based on the open access model (OA). The rules of article use are set out in the CC BY 4.0 license (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International) beginning with issue 6/2024 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 5/2024. In the case of making articles available on another website, the submitter is obliged to provide full names of authors, article title, journal title, year, volume, number, page range, DOI number in the form of a link and the name of the license with a link to its description (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The editors recommend that authors depositing their work in discipline and institutional repositories use the published version of the article posted on the journal website (https://medpr.imp.lodz.pl/en). Third party advertisements in the journal or on the journal website are not accepted. Publication on the journal website of information about conferences, conventions, s

From the journal's Aims & Scope

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

Editor-in-chief Jolanta Walusiak-SkorupaPublisher website

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, SJR, SNIP, CiteScore

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

1.8LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

18Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.28LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.42LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

15LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

27OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

172OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.79OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

100%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

43LetPub · 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 16 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

Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine

Country or region

Poland

Language

English, Polish

Frequency

Bimonthly

Founded

1948

ISSN

0465-5893

Electronic ISSN

2353-1339

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
• Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ