ANNALS OF WORK - 2019 REVIEW
ANNALS OF WORK EXPOSURES AND HEALTH: 2019 PERFORMANCE AND ACTIVITY
NOAH SEIXAS
ACTIVITY AND PRODUCT
I am pleased to report to the BOHS membership that we have now fully edited, printed, and distributed worldwide Volume 63 of the Annals of Work Exposures and Health. The volume continues to offer readers and scientists a wide range of investigations of working conditions and their impact on the health of those doing the work. This is the third complete volume under the name Annals of Work Exposures and Health, demonstrating our attention to the myriad conditions which are intended by the concept of ‘exposure’, and the wide range of impacts on health and well-being or working people. We believe the content and impact of the journal reflects this broadening perspective.
In 2019 we published nine issues, 80 original articles, 7 editorials, 5 commentaries, 4 short communications, 2 letters to the editor, and 1 review. Of the 250 submissions during the year, 191 were original research articles, 21 short communications, 19 reviews, 8 editorials, 7 commentaries, and 4 letters to the editor. Among the 225 articles for which final publication decisions were made, 86 were accepted, giving us a rejection rate of 61.8%.
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Notable accomplishments included the publication in July of a special issue relating to X2018, the 9th International Conference on the Science of Exposure Assessment (issue #6). With excellent leadership from the two guest editors, Kate Jones and Martie van Tongeren,
we solicited contributions from keynote speakers and other conference presenters, resulting in 3 editorials, 2 commentaries, 6 original articles and 1 short communication. We have again looked at the distribution of types of studies and hazards addressed in our published papers. Exposure assessment continues as our predominant type of study (44%) although this category is very broadly defined. Ten percent of our papers are epidemiologic in nature and an increased number of studies addressed measurement methods, 21% up from 10% the previous year. We also increased our presentation of sciences underlying the methods used for exposure assessment and control. We had a similar number of articles compared to last year addressing aerosol exposures (20%),
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