Main description:

Occupational hazards have plagued human civilisation since time immemorial and much of the progress in making workplaces safer is reflected by, and recorded in, the academic periodicals of environmental and occupational health. As a result, careful examination of these journals provides an interesting record of the field itself, as well as documenting the concerns and issues deemed important by editorial boards and contributors over time.'Derek Smith has established himself as a pioneer in analyzing the literature of environmental and occupational health. Thanks to his fine work, we may use this resource to understand both the history of EOH for its own sake and the dynamics of publishing in one medium-sized, but largely self-contained, scientific field.'Tee L. Guidotti

Contents:

List of tables
List of figures
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements

Historical development of academic journals in environmental and occupational health
Historical development of the Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health
Highly cited articles in environmental and occupational health
A bibliometric analysis of the Archives of Environmental Health

References
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
About the author
Index