Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2008;65:578
EDITORIALS
OEM’s impact factor reaches a new high
1 Editor-in-chief, Occupational and Environmental Medicine
2 Deputy Editor, Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Keith Palmer, Editor, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, BMA House, Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9JR, UK; oemeditorial@bmjgroup.com
Accepted 8 July 2008
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Readers and authors alike will be pleased to know that the impact factor (IF) of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM) has risen to 2.817 in 2007, from 2.255 in 2006. (The IF is a bibliometric index which measures the citation frequency of articles contained in a journal, standardised according to its number of published, potentially citable articles.)
This is the highest IF the journal has ever had and represents the fourth consecutive year in which the IF has marched upwards. It is now over 50% higher than in 2003. The journal has also moved up the rankings within its sector (public, environmental and occupational health), which includes some 100 journals, including all the general epidemiology, public health and environmental medicine publications. In 2005 we were placed 36th, in 2006 27th, and we now occupy the 21st position.
Figure 1 shows IF trends for OEM, the sector as
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