''Occupational and Environmental Medicine'' is a monthly

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which covers research in occupational and

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. It is published by the

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and is the official journal of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine of the

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. The journal was established in 1944 under founding

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Donald Hunter as the ''British Journal of Industrial Medicine'' and obtained its present title in 1994.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed by EMBASE,

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, and the

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. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2017

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of 3.965.

References

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* Occupational safety and health journals English-language journals Publications established in 1944 Monthly journals BMJ Group academic journals Hybrid open access journals Academic journals associated with learned and professional societies {{med-journal-stub