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Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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Occupational and Environmental Medicine

1351-0711

Published by: BMJ Publishing Group

https://oem.bmj.com/

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Medicine 869 201 197 25

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 320
Documents by Best Scientists*: 290
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 11
SCIMAGO H-index: 167
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.338
Impact Factor: 3.1

Overview

Top Research Topics at Occupational and Environmental Medicine?

The journal investigates studies in Environmental health, Occupational safety and health, Surgery, Internal medicine and Demography. The studies in Environmental health featured incorporate elements of Asbestos and Epidemiology. Many of the studies tackled connect Asbestos with a similar field of study like Pathology.

Issues in Epidemiology were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Cohort study and Risk factor. The concepts on Occupational safety and health presented in the journal can also apply to other research fields, including Family medicine, Work (electrical), Injury prevention, Suicide prevention and Human factors and ergonomics. The journal holds forums on Surgery that merges themes from other disciplines such as Cancer and Incidence (epidemiology).

In it, Endocrinology and Oncology are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Internal medicine research. The research on Demography featured in the journal combines topics in other fields like Odds ratio, Gerontology, Cohort and Confidence interval. Occupational and Environmental Medicine explores research in Occupational medicine and the adjacent study of Physical therapy.

  • Environmental health (16.92%)
  • Occupational safety and health (13.47%)
  • Surgery (11.80%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Diffuse pleural mesothelioma and asbestos exposure in the North Western Cape Province. (1452 citations)
  • The relationship between job satisfaction and health: a meta-analysis (1021 citations)
  • Is there an association between shift work and having a metabolic syndrome? Results from a population based study of 27 485 people (718 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Occupational and Environmental Medicine:

The published papers investigate studies in Occupational medicine, Surgery, Epidemiology, Environmental health and Internal medicine. The studies on Occupational medicine discussed at the published papers can also contribute to research in the domains of Physical therapy, Gerontology and Risk factor. The works on Epidemiology tackled in the most cited articles bring together disciplines like Odds ratio, Incidence (epidemiology), Cohort study, Relative risk and Demography.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Internal medicine
  • Disease
  • World War II

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The concepts of Occupational safety and health, Epidemiology, Demography, Cohort and Environmental health are tackled in the journal. Occupational and Environmental Medicine addresses concerns in Occupational safety and health which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Health care, MEDLINE, Family medicine, Injury prevention and Human factors and ergonomics. The research on Epidemiology tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Logistic regression, Poisson regression, Relative risk, Public health and Mental health.

The journal explores issues in Demography which can be linked to other research areas like Cohort study, Percentile, Odds, Socioeconomic status and Sick leave. Cohort research discussed in it aim to provide more information in the subject of Internal medicine. Topics in Environmental health explored in it were investigated in conjunction with research in Lower risk and Asbestos.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Occupation and risk of severe COVID-19: prospective cohort study of 120 075 UK Biobank participants. (102 citations)
  • Association between SARS-CoV-2 infection, exposure risk and mental health among a cohort of essential retail workers in the USA. (26 citations)
  • COVID-19 risk management at the workplace, fear of infection and fear of transmission of infection among frontline employees. (14 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Occupational and Environmental Medicine (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Hans Kromhout (132 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • Roel Vermeulen (129 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • David Coggon (104 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Dick Heederik (90 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Paul A. Demers (81 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Occupational and Environmental Medicine (based on the number of publications) are:

  • National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (256 papers) published 9 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Utrecht University (236 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • National Institutes of Health (199 papers) published 9 papers at the last edition, 5 more than at the previous edition,
  • Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (198 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • French Institute of Health and Medical Research (197 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 9.58% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 25.83% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 9.27% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 16.56% of all publications and 48.34% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Understanding the Career Paths in Occupational and Environmental Medicine

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Top Publications

  • Occupation and risk of severe COVID-19: prospective cohort study of 120 075 UK Biobank participants.

    Miriam Mutambudzi;Claire Niedwiedz;Ewan Beaton Macdonald;Alastair Leyland

    (2021)
    561 Citations
  • Psychosocial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on 4378 UK healthcare workers and ancillary staff: initial baseline data from a cohort study collected during the first wave of the pandemic.

    Danielle Lamb;Sam Gnanapragasam;Neil Greenberg;Rupa Bhundia

    (2021)
    144 Citations
  • Occupation and COVID-19 mortality in England: a national linked data study of 14.3 million adults

    (2021)
    100 Citations
  • Global and regional burden of disease and injury in 2016 arising from occupational exposures: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Sally J. Hutchings;Kurt Straif;Kyle Steenland;Degu Abate

    (2020)
    71 Citations
  • Global and regional burden of chronic respiratory disease in 2016 arising from non-infectious airborne occupational exposures: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Aziz Sheikh

    (2020)
    61 Citations
  • Systematic review of methods used to assess exposure to pesticides in occupational epidemiology studies, 1993-2017.

    Johan Ohlander;Samuel Fuhrimann;Ioannis Basinas;John W Cherrie

    (2020)
    59 Citations
  • Mortality in a cohort of US firefighters from San Francisco, Chicago and Philadelphia: an update

    Lynne Pinkerton;Stephen J Bertke;James Yiin;Matthew Dahm

    (2020)
    51 Citations
  • Risks of COVID-19 by occupation in NHS workers in England.

    Diana A van der Plaat;Diana A van der Plaat;Ira Madan;David Coggon;Martie van Tongeren

    (2021)
    47 Citations
  • Occupational radiation exposure and excess additive risk of cataract incidence in a cohort of US radiologic technologists.

    Mark P Little;Elizabeth K Cahoon;Cari M Kitahara;Steven L Simon

    (2020)
    41 Citations
  • Cleaning products and respiratory health outcomes in occupational cleaners: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Olia Archangelidi;Sean Sathiyajit;Dario Consonni;Debbie Jarvis

    (2021)
    40 Citations

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