International_Journal_of_Occupational_and_Environmental_Health

<i>International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health</i>

International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health

Academic journal

Not to be confused with International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health.

The International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health was a quarterly peer-reviewed public health journal with a focus on occupational and environmental health. It was established in 1995 and was published by Routledge. The last editor-in-chief was Andrew Maier (University of Cincinnati).

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History

The journal was established in 1995, and was originally published by Maney Publishing. Its founding editor-in-chief was Joseph LaDou (University of California, San Francisco), who initially spent between $50,000 and $75,000 of his own money each year to keep publishing the journal.[1] David Egilman (Brown University) replaced LaDou as the journal's editor-in-chief in 2007. As of 2009, it was the official journal of the International Commission on Occupational Health.[2] Along with the rest of Maney's portfolio, the journal was acquired by Taylor & Francis in 2015,[1] which will stop publishing it at the end of 2018.[3]

Recognition

A 2000 article in Occupational and Environmental Medicine identified the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health as one of the eight most prominent journals in the occupational health field.[4] Epidemiologist David Michaels told ProPublica in 2017 that the journal was one of the few publications where "scientists whose work is independent of the corporations that manufacture chemicals" could publish their research, adding, "The silencing of that voice would be a real loss to the field."[1]

Editorial board controversy

Shortly after acquiring the journal in 2015, Taylor & Francis angered the editorial board by appointing Andrew Maier as the journal's new editor-in-chief without consulting the board. In an April 2017 letter to Taylor & Francis, the board's 22 members called attention to their concerns about some of the publisher's recent practices. The editors stated in the letter that, had they been consulted, they probably would not have approved of Maier's appointment, citing the tendency of his research to reach conclusions favorable to entities with conflicts of interest in the topic. The editorial board members also criticized Taylor & Francis for retracting a paper by Egilman[5] with no explanation. The following month, Taylor & Francis managing director Ian Bannerman responded to the letter, claiming that he had consulted editorial board member Jukka Takala before offering Maier the position of editor-in-chief. Takala, who had signed the original letter, told Retraction Watch that, in fact, he had not been contacted prior to Maier's appointment.[6]

In November 2017, the editorial board sent a letter to the National Library of Medicine asking for the journal to be removed from MEDLINE. Later that month, the entire board resigned in protest. In their letter sent to Bannerman, the editors cited Taylor & Francis' appointment of Maier as editor-in-chief, as well as the company's unexplained retraction of Egilman's paper, as among the reasons for their resignation.[1][7]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 1.195.[14]

References

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    Song, Lisa (2017-11-20). "Sudden Shift at a Public Health Journal Leaves Scientists Feeling Censored". ProPublica. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
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    Hakkinen, P. J. Bert; Mohapatra, Asish; Gilbert, Steven G. G. (2009-08-19). Information Resources in Toxicology. Academic Press. pp. 566–567. ISBN 9780080920030.
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    Oransky, Ivan (2018-07-27). "Months after an editorial mutiny, publisher decides to shutter public health journal". Retraction Watch. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
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    Gehanno, J. F.; Thirion, B. (2000-10-01). "How to select publications on occupational health: the usefulness of Medline and the impact factor". Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 57 (10): 706–709. doi:10.1136/oem.57.10.706. ISSN 1351-0711. PMC 1739865. PMID 10984344.
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    Egilman, D. S. (2016). "The production of corporate research to manufacture doubt about the health hazards of products: An overview of the Exponent Bakelite™ simulation study". International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health. 22 (1): 18–26. doi:10.1080/10773525.2015.1123379. PMC 4894274. PMID 27128626.
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    "Publisher responds to public health journal editorial board's "grave concerns"". Retraction Watch. 2017-05-12. Retrieved 2018-08-15.
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    McCook, Alison (2017-11-22). "Editorial board of public health journal resigns in protest". Retraction Watch. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
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    "Source details: International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health". Scopus preview. Elsevier. Retrieved 2018-07-30.
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    "International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health". 2017 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Clarivate Analytics. 2018.
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