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---
title: "DOA-journal-occupational"
---
## Description
This is a project proposal for a diamond open access (DOA) journal in occupational health, with a focus on the publication of research and educational content, as well as experiences from young researchers in the field. As an academic and community-led journal, content will be published online-only, at no cost to authors and readers, whilst allowing authors to retain copyright of their work.
To learn more about the diamond open access (DOA) publication model, please refer to <https://www.coalition-s.org/diamond-open-access/>.
## Aims
*Journal Title (TBD)* aims to be a forum for researchers in occupational health, occupational exposure science, and occupational epidemiology, with representation of researchers from all over the world, including low to middle-income countries, early-career researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders. To make this possible, we work with a diamond open access publication model, making content available to the research community at no cost to researchers nor readers. The journal embraces open science practices, so we operate with (optional) open peer-review. Data and code can be submitted as independent research outputs and we embrace their availability accompanying research papers published in the journal. We welcome submissions from all fronts aiming to improve occupational health to build links between academic and non-academic contexts of practice.
## Scope
Any paper related to the occupational health field will be considered for publication. This includes papers addressing but not limited to: exposure at the workplace to chemical, physical, biological, ergonomic, psychosocial, among others; health outcomes (acute, chronic, accidents), interventions at the workplace, prevention, decision making, and aspects related to the practice of occupational hygiene and medicine from their many different areas. There is also special interest in the publication of classical and novel (computational) methods in the form of full-length papers, descriptions of new computational packages (R, python, etc.), or tutorials. The journal encourages authors to accompany their submissions with any underlying data and code for reproducibility whenever possible (i.e., GitHub repository, dataverse, zenodo, etc.). These can also be submitted as individual items for simultaneous publication in the journal.
Novel topics within the field (just to mention how novelty can be addressed with examples)
- Occupational exposome – the ‘Worksome’; occupation-course epidemiology (instead of life-course epidemiology)
- Geospatial analysis in occupational epidemiology (ex. air pollutants, surface temperature, built-up environment, etc.)
- Climate change and workers (ex. methodological needs?)/ Occupational global health/ and occupational infectious diseases in non-healthcare workers
## Types of content
Submissions for all the different stages in the research processes sand practice will be published in the journal. This means that authors can submit protocols, commentaries, tutorials, datasets, softwares, among others.
The journal will publish the following types of content:
1. **Research articles**: Original research articles that present new findings in the field of occupational health. These articles will be peer-reviewed by experts in the field.
2. **Review articles**: Comprehensive reviews of current topics in occupational health, including systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
3. **Narrative reviews**: Articles that provide a narrative overview of a specific topic in occupational health, without the need for a systematic review.
4. **Protocols**: Detailed descriptions of research protocols for scientific studies in occupational health, protocols that improve practice within industry, or public health recommendations.
5. **Methods**: Articles that study or describe research methods or applications in practice.
6. **Computational Tutorials**: Step-by-step instructions on how to perform specific techniques and/or analyses, with emphasis in open science practices.
7. **Dataset**: Description of a dataset with the potential to be reused by other practitioners and researchers in the occupational health field.
8. **Software**: Description of software tools or applications that can be used by practitioners and researchers in the occupational health field.
9. **Case studies**: Reports of unique cases or experiences in the field of occupational health.
10. **Commentaries**: Opinion pieces or perspectives on current issues in occupational health.
11. **Editorial**: Editorial content from the journal's editorial board, including updates on the journal's policies and practices.
## Peer Review
The journal operates in a flexible open peer-review model, which means that both the author and reviewer are aware of the identity of each other; however, every part involved in the peer review is able to request opting out (remaining anonymous) for numerous reasons which can be selected at submission of the manuscript for authors or at the moment of accepting to review an article by reviewers.
There is also an option to opt-in into a crowd peer review process with early publication, where the journal will present the submitted manuscript to its readers for an open review by members of the community. This will grant early access to the manuscript
## Community Engagement
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