Occupational Medicine is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering occupational medicine. It is published eight times per year by Oxford University Press. The journal covers "work-related injury and illness, accident and illness prevention, health promotion, occupational disease, health education, the establishment and implementation of health and safety standards, monitoring of the work environment, and the management of recognized hazards".[1] It was established in 1948.
| Discipline | Occupational medicine, industrial hygiene |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Steven Nimmo |
| Publication details | |
Former name(s) | Journal of the Society of Occupational Medicine; Transactions of the Society of Occupational Medicine; Transactions of the Association of Industrial Medical Officers; Transactions of the Association of Industrial Medical Officers; Quarterly Bulletin of the Association of Industrial Medical Officers |
| History | 1948–present |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (United Kingdom) |
| Frequency | 8/year |
| Hybrid | |
| 1.472 (2013) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Occup. Med. (Lond.) |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0962-7480 |
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History
editThe journal was initially established as The Quarterly Bulletin of the Association of Industrial Medical Officers in 1948, and became the Transactions of the Association of Industrial Medical Officers from 1951 to 1965. From 1966 to 1972, it was known as the Transactions of the Society of Occupational Medicine, and from 1973 to 1991 it was known as the Journal of the Society of Occupational Medicine. It took the current name of Occupational Medicine in 1992.
Abstracting and indexing
editThe journal is covered by several major indexing services including:
References
edit- ^ About The Journal web page (website visited Jan. 26, 2009)
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