About JOMT

What is JOMT?

JOMTis an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal that considers original research related to the field of occupational medicine and toxicology.

JOMT is aimed at clinicians and researchers in the wide-ranging discipline of occupational medicine and toxicology. The field is devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, management and scientific analysis of occupational diseases, injuries and disability; it also covers the promotion of health of workers, their families, and communities. In the era of heavy industries, occupational medicine was known as "industrial medicine" with a focus on acute medical care for injured employees. The complexity of modern industrial processes has changed the field and today the areas covered by occupational medicine include effects of atmospheric pollution, carcinogenesis, biological monitoring, ergonomics, epidemiology, product safety, and health promotion.

The field of occupational medicine and toxicology is not static and the demand for studies addressing the large variety of current issues continues to grow. In view of this demand and the fact that the majority of occupational medicine and toxicology studies are currently published by journals of related fields such as pulmonary medicine, oncology or allergy, there is a need for a high-quality journal in this field. JOMT aims to provide this, with the important features of being an open access journal with an open peer review policy, and rapid publication process without major space limitations.

Content overview

JOMT considers the following types of articles:

• Research: reports of data from original research.
• Reviews: comprehensive, authoritative descriptions of any subject within the scope of JOMT. These articles are usually written by opinion leaders that have been invited by the Editorial Board.
• Short reports: brief reports of data from original research.
• Methodology articles: present a new experimental method, test or procedure. The method described may either be completely new, or may offer a better version of an existing method.
• Case reports: reports of clinical cases that can be educational, describe a diagnostic or therapeutic dilemma, suggest an association, or present an important adverse reaction.
• Commentaries: short, focused and opinionated articles on any subject within the scope of the journal. These articles are usually related to a contemporary issue, such as recent research findings, and are often written by opinion leaders invited by the Editorial Board. These should be limited to 1000 words in length.
• Debate articles: present an argument that is not essentially based on practical research. Debate articles can report on all aspects of the subject including sociological and ethical aspects.
• Hypothesis: short articles presenting an untested original hypothesis backed solely by previously published results rather than any new evidence. They should outline significant progress in thinking that would also be testable.
• Software articles: describe the source code for software applications, tools or algorithm implementations.
• Study protocols: describe proposed or ongoing research, providing a detailed account of the hypothesis, rationale, and methodology of the study.

Peer review policies

JOMT has a closed peer review policy. Submitted manuscripts will be reviewed by two experts with the aim of reaching a decision as soon as possible. Reviewers are asked to declare any competing interests.

Edited by Axel Fischer and David A Groneberg, JOMT is supported by an expert Editorial Board.

Publishing in JOMT

All articles are listed in PubMed immediately upon acceptance (after peer review), and are covered by PubMed Central, CAS, CABI and Embase.

Articles in JOMT should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. However, because articles in this journal are not printed, they do not have page numbers. Instead, they have a unique article number.

The following citation:

J Occup Med Toxicol 2004, 2:1

refers to article 1 from volume 2 of the journal.

As an online journal, JOMT does not have issue numbers. Each volume corresponds to a calendar year.

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Submission of manuscripts

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to JOMT using the online submission system. Full details of how to submit a manuscript are given in the instructions for authors.

General journal policies

JOMT is published by BioMed Central, an independent publisher committed to ensuring peer-reviewed biomedical research is open access. That means it is freely and universally accessible online, it is archived in at least one internationally recognised free access repository, and its authors retain copyright, allowing anyone to reproduce or disseminate articles, according to the BioMed Central copyright and licence agreement. JOMT however, has taken this further by making all its content open access.

JOMT's articles are archived in PubMed Central, the US National Library of Medicine's full-text repository of life science literature, and also at INIST in France and in e-Depot, the National Library of the Netherlands' digital archive of all electronic publications. The journal is also participating in the British Library's e-journals pilot project, and plans to deposit copies of all articles with the British Library.

BioMed Central is working closely with Thomson Reuters (ISI) to ensure that citation analysis of articles published in JOMT will be available.

JOMT is able to deliver summaries of frequently updated content via Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds. These are accessible via the orange "XML" button at the top of the list of recent articles or the list of most accessed articles. For more information about RSS feeds see our publisher's website.

For further information about general policies please see the instructions for authors.