title: The historical development of academic journals in occupational medicine, 1901-2009.
abstract: Academic journals in a specialist field provide an interesting historical record of its development and progression over time. This article describes the evolution of some major international journals of occupational medicine, including some historical background on their editorial board. As North America, the United Kingdom, and Northern Europe are known to have the highest contribution to scientific production, it was considered appropriate to investigate the main occupational medicine periodicals in these regions. Given the remarkable improvements in Japanese occupational health following the Second World War, it was also considered worthwhile to investigate the two English-language journals of occupational medicine from this country.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Health, School of Health Sciences, University of Newcastle, Ourimbah, New South Wales, Australia. derek.smith@newcastle.edu.au
authors.forename: Derek R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D009787:Occupational Medicine / Q000266:history*; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000266:history*