Journal profile · PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
WORK-A Journal of Prevention Assessment & Rehabilitation
ISSN 1051-9815 · eISSN 1875-9270 · SAGE Publications (formerly IOS Press)
WORK-A Journal of Prevention Assessment & Rehabilitation: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.49; hybrid open access; APC about USD 4,150; review about 224 days (submission to acceptance, publisher); acceptance rate 34.7% (journal website); 395 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
WORK-A Journal of Prevention Assessment & Rehabilitation is published by SAGE Publications (formerly IOS Press) 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 Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, Occupational Health and Safety Research and Workplace Health and Well-being, together about 36.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Occupational Therapy. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation is an interdisciplinary, international journal which publishes high quality peer-reviewed manuscripts covering the …
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
Editor-in-chief Karen JacobsPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 4 in mainland China (about 5%); most named United States 33, Australia 8, Italy 6, Canada 5, Mainland China 4 (88 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitationMedicine16.2%
- Occupational Health and Safety ResearchHealth Professions10.1%
- Workplace Health and Well-beingHealth Professions10%
- Ergonomics and Musculoskeletal DisordersPsychology9.9%
- Occupational Therapy Practice and ResearchHealth Professions5.8%
- Occupational health in dentistryHealth Professions5.3%
- Occupational Health and PerformanceHealth Professions4.7%
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnoutHealth Professions3.8%
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
SSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
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
- 1.49LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 1.6Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 1.8Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.9LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.5LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.74LetPub ·
- h-index
- 91OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 2,578OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.24OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 18.8%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 9.11%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 418LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 7,641 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 347 | 80 | 37 |
| 2025 | 395 | 91 | 410 |
| 2024 | 423 | 144 | 992 |
| 2023 | 363 | 157 | 1,584 |
| 2022 | 558 | 223 | 3,952 |
| 2021 | 411 | 124 | 4,591 |
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
Publisher-reported review time from the journal's website
224 dayssubmission to acceptance
The publisher's own definition applies; dates from this journal's articles in the last 24 months are not available yet, so the publisher's figure is used.
Figures by source
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 34.7%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 4 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance
- 224 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 27 daysPublisher website ·
- 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
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 4,150 / GBP 3,043 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 300 / GBP 250 | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
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)
What to prepare5 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 250 words
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 7,500 words
- Reference style
- Vancouver
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
Article types accepted15, with length limits
- case reportResearch articles Research articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or understa…main text ≤ 1,500 words
- case reportsCase reports are composed of novel or complex case examples encountered in the area of work.Length not stated
- commentariesCommentaries are short opinion pieces representing the author’s viewpoint.Length not stated
- commentaryResearch articles Research articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or understa…main text ≤ 1,000 words
- letterResearch articles Research articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or understa…Length not stated
- letter to the editorResearch articles Research articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or understa…main text ≤ 1,000 words
- opinionResearch articles Research articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or understa…Length not stated
- original articleResearch articles Research articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or understa…Length not stated
- research articleResearch articles Research articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or understa…Length not stated
- research articlesResearch articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or understanding.Length not stated
- reviewResearch articles Research articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or understa…Length not stated
- review articleResearch articles Research articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or understa…Length not stated
- review articlesReview articles should be authoritative and topical and provide comprehensive and balanced coverage of a timely and/or controversial issue.Length not stated
- systematic reviewResearch articles Research articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or understa…Length not stated
- viewpointResearch articles Research articles should present novel work within the scope of the journal which represents an important advancement in knowledge or understa…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Author contributions
You will be asked to list the contribution of each author as part of the submission process. Please include the Author Contributions heading within your submission after the Acknowledgements section. The information you give on submission will then show under the Author Contributions heading later at the proofing stage.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
When an article is accepted for publication, authors are required to pay a publication fee of $300/£250. Waivers are available for corresponding authors from low-income countries as identified by Research4Life. A waiver request for the publication fee should be submitted and granted before the initial submission of an article. Please send your waiver request to the editorial office for evaluation.…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Double anonymized peer review Model summary
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Double-anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscripts may be desk rejec…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
The journal conforms to the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment as a condition of consideration for publication. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract.
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
- SAGE Publications (formerly IOS Press)
- ISSN
- 1051-9815
- Electronic ISSN
- 1875-9270
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about WORK-A Journal of Prevention Assessment & Rehabilitation
What CAS zone is WORK-A Journal of Prevention Assessment & Rehabilitation in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, WORK-A Journal of Prevention Assessment & Rehabilitation 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 WORK-A Journal of Prevention Assessment & Rehabilitation?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.49; CiteScore 2.9, h-index 91.
How long does peer review take at WORK-A Journal of Prevention Assessment & Rehabilitation?
The publisher reports about 224 days (submission to acceptance); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 34.7%. 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.
What are the manuscript requirements of WORK-A Journal of Prevention Assessment & Rehabilitation?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 250 words; Manuscript length: ≤ 7,500 words; Reference style: Vancouver; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Optional. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of WORK-A Journal of Prevention Assessment & Rehabilitation based?
Of the 88 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 4 (about 5%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (33), Australia (8) and Italy (6). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index WORK-A Journal of Prevention Assessment & Rehabilitation?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, WORK-A Journal of Prevention Assessment & Rehabilitation is indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Is WORK-A Journal of Prevention Assessment & Rehabilitation open access, and what is the APC?
WORK-A Journal of Prevention Assessment & Rehabilitation is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 4,150.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; 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: .