Journal: International Journal of Occupational Safety and Health
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ISSN
ISSN 2738-9707 eISSN 2091-0878
Publisher
Editor-in-Chief
Description
About the Journal
The Aim, Focus, and Scope
The International Journal of Occupational Safety and Health (IJOSH) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal that covers occupational health, safety, and workers' health, including homemakers and students.
It provides occupational health physicians, ergonomists, nurses, occupational hygienists, and health and safety professionals with a dependable single source of proficiently written legal, practical, and management occupational health information.
IJOSH welcomes original research submissions relating to the full range of chemical, physical, ergonomic, biological, and psychosocial workplace hazards and environmental contaminants and their health effects, safety standards, and interventions. Research aimed at improving the evidence-based practice of occupational medicine and research on developing and applying novel methods, including biological and statistical techniques, is also of interest. In addition, we publish meta-analyses, systematic reviews, review articles, editorials, commentaries, case studies, and letters to the editor, which provide a forum for debate.
Publication process
The assistant editors initially review all manuscripts submitted to IJOSH to ensure they adhere to the journal's submission guidelines. Submissions that do not comply with these guidelines are returned to the authors.
All submissions to IJOSH undergo a double-blind peer-review process. Peer reviewers are experts chosen by editors to provide a written assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of written research. The aim is to improve the article and modify it in the most appropriate and highest mode for the journal. Initial submissions are sent to two reviewers, but a third reviewer is contacted if there is a disagreement between their assessments of whether a submission should be considered for publication.
Usually, the initial screening of the submissions takes place within two weeks, the first round of peer review takes 45-60 days, and an additional 15-30 days are needed if the paper needs to be revised by the authors before it is sent out for the second round of review. Thus, on average, it takes 120-180 days from the initial submission to the decision to publish the paper. Furthermore, the copyediting process could take between two and three weeks. However, occasionally, the process may take a little longer than anticipated due to the late submission of the reviewers' comments and late response from the authors.
Submissions not fulfilling the author's guidelines will be declined immediately without further clarification.
Indexing
IJOSH is indexed in the COPE, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), EBSCO, EMBASE (Excerpta Medica dataBASE), SCI Journal, SCImago, and Scopus.
Similarly, contents published in IJOSH are available on the listing indexes like Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE), CORE (core.ac.uk), Crossref, European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS), Exaly, Google Scholar, Hinari, Index Copernicus International Journals Master List, JournalTOCs, Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals (NSD), Open Access Library (OALib), Scientific Literatures (SciLit), SafetyLit, WorldCat, etc.