Work

SAGE Publications Ltd · Netherlands · Est. 1974

ISSN1875-9270

SJR Q2✓ WOS SSCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SSCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

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📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.498

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.629

Total Worksi

7,421

Total Citationsi

86,778

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.97

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Public, Environmental & Occupational Health; Rehabilitation; Medicine (miscellaneous); Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

General Information

Country / RegionNetherlands

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1974

FrequencyTwevle No. A Year, 2010-

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications7,421

Publisher OrgIOS Press

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

SAGE Publications Ltd

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1875-9270

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

264

3.4k

2019

325

4.1k

2020

411

4.6k

2021

558

3.9k

2022

363

1.5k

2023

423

948

2024

395

369

2025

318

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

RehabilitationQ2

Medicine (miscellaneous)Q3

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Public, Environmental & Occupational Health

Scopus Categories

RehabilitationPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthMedicine (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitationOccupational Health and Safety ResearchWorkplace Health and Well-beingErgonomics and Musculoskeletal DisordersOccupational Therapy Practice and ResearchOccupational health in dentistryOccupational Health and PerformanceHealthcare professionals’ stress and burnoutDisability Education and EmploymentOccupational Health and Safety in Workplaces

Frequently asked questions about Work

Is Work a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Work: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Work?

Work is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.97.

Is Work indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Work is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Work?