Occupational Medicine

Occupational Medicine is an international peer-reviewed journal of occupational health, published eight times a year by Oxford University Press for the Society of Occupational Medicine, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 2.4.《职业医学》是面向职业健康领域的国际同行评审期刊，刊载工作相关伤病、职业病预防与工作场所健康促进方面的研究，读者包括职业医学医师、护士与安全管理人员。

Scope

• The journal's stated purpose is to supply information that supports the promotion of health and safety at work, a remit repeated in successive aims statements.刊物声明的宗旨是提供有助于促进工作场所健康与安全的信息，这一定位在历次征稿说明中反复出现。

• Two strategic aims are named, improving the practice of occupational health professionals through continuing education and raising the profile of occupational health among policy makers and employers.征稿说明列出两项战略目标，一是通过继续教育改进职业健康从业者的实践，二是提升职业健康在政策制定者与雇主中的能见度。

• Work-related injury and illness form the core of the content, whether the cause is acute, such as an accident, or gradual, such as a cumulative musculoskeletal disorder.工作相关伤害与疾病构成内容核心，成因既可能是突发事故，也可能是逐渐累积的肌肉骨骼疾患。

• Prevention of accidents and illness is treated as a practical subject, with attention to risk assessment, control measures and the evidence behind them.事故与疾病预防按实务题目处理，关注风险评估、控制措施以及支撑这些措施的证据基础。

• Occupational disease receives steady coverage, from respiratory and skin conditions to noise-induced hearing loss and the disorders that follow repetitive work.职业病获得持续报道，涵盖呼吸系统与皮肤疾患，也涉及噪声性听力损失与重复性工作引起的疾患。

• Health promotion at work is included, along with the design of programmes that address lifestyle, mental health and the organization of shift work.工作场所健康促进也在范围之内，包括针对生活方式、心理健康与轮班安排的项目设计。

• Health education and training belong to the remit, since the journal addresses practitioners who must keep their knowledge current long after qualifying.健康教育与培训属于刊物职责，因为它面向的从业者在取得资格之后仍需长期更新知识。

• The development and implementation of health and safety standards is named explicitly, covering regulation and the local policies that put it into practice.健康与安全标准的制定与实施被明确列入范围，既涉及法规，也涉及把法规落到实处的机构内部政策。

• Monitoring of the working environment appears as a subject in its own right, including exposure measurement, sampling strategy and the interpretation of hygiene data.工作环境监测作为独立题目出现，涵盖暴露测量、采样策略与卫生监测数据的判读。

• Management of known hazards is treated alongside the identification of new ones, from asbestos and silica to nanomaterials and psychosocial strain.已知危害的管理与新型危害的识别并列，涉及石棉与二氧化硅，也涉及纳米材料与心理社会压力。

• Sickness absence, fitness for work and rehabilitation are recurrent themes, reflecting the journal's interest in the boundary between clinical care and employment.病假、工作适应性与康复是反复出现的主题，反映刊物对临床照护与就业之间边界的关注。

• Papers on service organization and audit appear regularly, including studies of how occupational health services are staffed, commissioned and judged by those who use them.服务组织与审计类论文经常出现，包括职业健康服务的人员配置、委托方式以及使用者评价研究。

• The journal carries editorials, original papers, reviews, short reports, case reports and correspondence, which leaves room for formal research and for practical experience.刊物刊载社论与原创论文，也刊载综述与短篇报告，病例报告与读者来信同样在内，为正式研究与实践经验都留出位置。

• Two standing series shape the features pages, the Art and Occupation essays on work in art and the questionnaire reviews that appraise instruments used in practice.两个常设专栏构成特色版面，一个是以艺术作品中的劳动为题的 Art and Occupation 系列，另一个是评介实务量表的问卷综述系列。

• Readers include occupational physicians, nurses, hygienists, safety advisers and managers, and the clinical material assumes no special statistical knowledge.读者以职业医学医师与护士为主，兼顾卫生学家与安全管理人员，临床类内容不预设专业统计学基础。

History

• The title began in 1951 as the Transactions of the Association of Industrial Medical Officers, a body formed in 1935 to represent doctors working in factories and workshops.该刊 1951 年以《工业医学官员协会汇刊》（Transactions of the Association of Industrial Medical Officers）的名义创刊，主办团体成立于 1935 年，代表在工厂与车间行医的医生。

• Early volumes carried proceedings, case notes and short papers, and the journal appeared quarterly for much of its first two decades.早期各卷刊载会议记录、病例札记与短篇论文，头二十年里刊物大体按季刊发行。

• In 1962 the rectangular cover gave way to a square format that readers evidently liked, a detail preserved in the journal's own retrospectives.1962 年，长方形开本改为方形封面，读者显然喜欢这一变化，细节保存在刊物自己的回顾文章里。^[1]

• The Association took the name Society of Occupational Medicine in 1965, and the January 1966 issue appeared as the first Transactions of the Society of Occupational Medicine.该协会于 1965 年更名为职业医学学会（Society of Occupational Medicine），1966 年 1 月号成为《职业医学学会汇刊》的首期。

• A further change came in 1973, when the word Transactions was dropped and the journal became the Journal of the Society of Occupational Medicine.1973 年再次改名，Transactions 一词被去掉，刊物成为《职业医学学会杂志》（Journal of the Society of Occupational Medicine）。^[2]

• That change marked a move from a record of proceedings to a journal of record, the shift the 1970s retrospective describes as the specialty's coming of age.这次改动标志着刊物从会议记录汇编转向正式学报，1970 年代的回顾文章把这一转变视为该专科走向成熟。

• The present title arrived in 1992, when the journal was renamed Occupational Medicine and the volume numbering ran on without a break at volume 42.现名于 1992 年启用，刊物改称《职业医学》，卷号未曾中断，直接从第 42 卷接续。^[3]

• Butterworth-Heinemann published the relaunch in Oxford on behalf of the Society, and the first issue under the new name carried a February 1992 date.改版由 Butterworth-Heinemann 在牛津代表学会出版，新名之下首期的出版日期为 1992 年 2 月。

• MEDLINE and PubMed both begin their coverage at volume 42, number 1, which fixes that February issue as the point of entry into indexed medicine.MEDLINE 与 PubMed 的收录都从第 42 卷第 1 期起算，1992 年 2 月号因此成为进入索引医学体系的起点。

• Frequency rose to eight issues a year in 1997, the schedule the National Library of Medicine still records for the title.刊期在 1997 年增至每年八期，美国国立医学图书馆至今仍按这一频率著录该刊。

• Oxford University Press took over publication in 2001, and the imprint moved to London, where the journal has been produced ever since.牛津大学出版社于 2001 年接手出版，版权页地点改为伦敦，此后刊物一直在那里制作。

• The sixtieth volume in 2010 carried a series of retrospectives by D. Bruton and colleagues that traced each decade of the title's life.2010 年第 60 卷刊出一组回顾文章，由（D. Bruton）等人撰写，逐年代梳理刊物的历程。

• Indexing covers Science Citation Index Expanded, MEDLINE, PubMed and Index Medicus, the list the National Library of Medicine records for the title.收录该刊的数据库包括 Science Citation Index Expanded 与 MEDLINE，PubMed 与 Index Medicus 亦在其列，这一清单由美国国立医学图书馆著录。

• Recent metrics show a peak of 5.629 in 2022, followed by 2.4 in 2023, 1.7 in 2024 and 2.4 again in 2025, a pattern shaped by the post-pandemic correction in citation rates.近年指标在 2022 年达到 5.629 的峰值，随后为 2023 年的 2.4，2024 年的 1.7，2025 年回到 2.4，这一走势与疫情后引用率的回调有关。

• In the 2025 Journal Citation Reports the title sits in the second quartile at 193 of 443 journals, with a Journal Citation Indicator of 0.59.在 2025 年期刊引证报告中，该刊位于第二四分位，在 443 种期刊中排第 193 位，期刊引证指标为 0.59。

• About 65 research items appear each year, the papers collected 5004 citations in the reporting window, and the cited half-life is 10.8 years.每年发表约 65 篇研究条目，报告期内共获 5004 次引用，被引半衰期为 10.8 年。

• Gold open access accounts for 41.92 per cent of recent content, and a supplement drawn from the ICOH 2024 congress features among the journal's recent collections.近年内容中有 41.92% 以金色开放获取发表，取自 ICOH 2024 大会的一册增刊也列在刊物近期的专辑之中。

Editors

• Steven Nimmo holds the editorship, listed on the journal's homepage as professor and editor-in-chief beside the current impact factor.主编由（Steven Nimmo）担任，刊物首页在影响因子旁标注的头衔为教授与主编。

• He works with an editorial board whose names and affiliations are published on the press website.他同编委会合作，成员姓名与所属机构列在出版社网站上。

• Correspondence goes to Oxford University Press at Great Clarendon Street in Oxford, the address printed in the journal's author guidance.通信地址为牛津大学出版社在牛津 Great Clarendon Street 的社址，作者指南按此地址联系编辑部。

• Manuscripts are submitted through ScholarOne at mc.manuscriptcentral.com/oup/occmed, the portal named in the author instructions.稿件通过 ScholarOne 投递，入口为 mc.manuscriptcentral.com/oup/occmed，作者指南指明的正是该地址。

• The journal is described on its own pages as international and peer reviewed, and it publishes work from clinical services, universities and industry alike.刊物定位为国际同行评审期刊，刊登来自临床服务，大学与产业界的来稿。

• Each issue opens with an In This Issue editorial that walks through the contents, a device that helps readers decide what to read first.每期以一篇 In This Issue 导览开篇，逐篇介绍本期内容，帮助读者决定先读哪一篇。

• The questionnaire review series is commissioned rather than submitted, and the editors are rebuilding it to cover instruments used in everyday occupational health practice.问卷综述系列采用约稿方式，编辑部正在重编这一系列，以覆盖日常职业健康实务所用的量表。

• Art and Occupation is a standing series of essays on the depiction of work in art, running from prehistoric images to contemporary practice and popular with readers.Art and Occupation 是常设随笔系列，讨论艺术中的劳动场景，从史前图像一直讲到当代创作。

• Themed issues are assembled by guest editors, with recent collections on occupational lung disease and silicosis, COVID-19, presenteeism and universal health coverage.专题刊由客座编辑组织，近年有职业性肺病与硅肺，COVID-19，带病出勤与全民健康覆盖等专辑。

• Publication is hybrid, so authors may pay for open access at acceptance, and every article carries the line that it is published for the Society by Oxford University Press.出版采用混合模式，作者可在录用时为开放获取付费，每篇文章都标注由牛津大学出版社代表学会出版。

• Correspondence appears in the journal, giving readers a route to contest method and interpretation between issues.读者来信在刊内发表，为读者提供在两次出版之间质疑方法与解释的渠道。