Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM) an international peer reviewed journal concerned with areas of current importance in occupational medicine and environmental health issues throughout the world.

Original contributions include epidemiological, physiological and psychological studies of occupational and environmental health hazards as well as toxicological studies of materials posing human health risks. A CPD/CME series aims to help visitors in continuing their professional development. A World at Work series describes workplace hazards and protetctive measures in different workplaces worldwide. A correspondence section provides a forum for debate and notification of preliminary findings.

Research areas include: Occupational diseases, environmental pollution, toxic substances in the workplace and general environment, epidemiology, ergonomics,,applied psychology, carcinogenesis, biological monitoring, metabolism of toxic substances, accidents at work, sickness absence.

OEM is adopted as the official journal of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of London and is published in conjunction with the BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.

Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM) is an international, peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the broad, multidisciplinary fields of occupational medicine and environmental health. Our goal is to help clinicians, researchers and others keep up to date with the latest developments in occupational and environmental health throughout the world. We publish high-quality original research and peer-assessed reviews in the areas of occupational and environmental epidemiology, medicine, exposure assessment, hygiene, ergonomics, and psychology; and the evaluation of interventions in controlling risks to the health of workers.

Although the journal’s main focus is primary research, we also seek to further the professional education of occupational physicians and other practitioners and to provide a lively forum for discussion of current concerns related to occupational and environmental health. A series on The World at Work describes workplace hazards and protective measures in diverse workplaces. A Continuing Professional Development (CPD) series is also provided.

Because the scope of occupational and environmental health is extraordinarily broad, OEM welcomes original research and systematic reviews on a wide range of health outcomes and their potential determinants. Industry- and population-based epidemiologic studies are considered relevant, as are assessments of workplace or ambient exposures. Clinical trials and other human experimental research into questions relevant to occupational and environmental health are also welcome. Methodological investigations and applications of mathematical modeling are considered, as well. In general, OEM does not publish reports of single clinical cases or results of laboratory-based research that does not include human subjects, unless of extraordinary interest.

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1. Median time from submission to first decision = 6 weeks
   1. 50% of papers rejected without external peer review within 1 week
2. Time from acceptance to publication = 4 months
   1. Full original articles published Online First within 2 weeks