About the Journal

Arbete och Hälsa (Work and Health) has been published since 1967 and is the oldest journal in Scandinavia in the fields of work environment, occupational health and working life.

Arbete och Hälsa publishes peer-reviewed scientific papers including, for example, original research, criteria documents, systematic reviews and assessments of causal relationships between hazardous agents at the workplace and disease or health.

Arbete och Hälsa aims to reach various stakeholders who need quality-assured knowledge for their operations, such as the Swedish Work Environment Authority, occupational health services, the Swedish Social Insurance Agency, employer and employee organizations, occupational and environmental medicine clinics, administrative courts, and other actors in working life. Arbete och Hälsa also aims to reach equivalent stakeholders in the Nordic countries and internationally.

Arbete och Hälsa follows the ICMJE recommendations for best practice and ethical standards in the conduct and reporting of research (https://www.icmje.org/recommendations/).

Contributions are considered if they:

  • contribute to increased knowledge in the field of work and health,
  • maintain good quality with expected standards of ethics and scientific integrity,
  • have not been previously published, nor are undergoing review in another journal.

Aims and scope

Arbete och Hälsa publishes peer-reviewed scientific papers about occupational exposure limits, systematic reviews within work environment, occupational health, and working life, expert assessments related to insurance medicine and causality in suspected work-related injuries, as well as original research.

Articles are published in Swedish and English. All content is freely available and downloadable

Peer review policy

All submitted manuscripts are first assessed by an editor who decides whether the manuscript is suitable to be sent for peer review.

Manuscripts deemed suitable for further review are sent to two or more experts who are tasked with highlighting the manuscript's general and specific merits and shortcomings.

The journal uses single-blind peer review, that is, authors do not know who the reviewers are, but the reviewers know who the authors are. 

The review process is expected to take 6 to 8 weeks but may vary.

Based on the review, the editor then compiles a recommendation to a) accept the manuscript for publication b) ask the author to revise the manuscript or c) reject the manuscript.

The overall publishing responsibility rests with the journal's editor-in-chief, who has a qualified editorial board for support in various issues regarding the publication of individual manuscripts, the journal's development, etc.

Original articles and review articles are subject to peer review, but criteria documents, knowledge overviews, and doctoral dissertations—where experts have already reviewed the text through expert groups or other means—may be exempt from peer review.

In cases where a manuscript’s author is in some way associated with the editorial team, they will be removed from all editorial tasks for that article. An independent editor will be tasked with organizing the peer-review process. The author's affiliation with the journal will also be indicated in the final publication of the article.

Duplicate publication, also called "redundant publication" or "dual publication", is not permitted. This refers to the publication of the same article in more than one journal or to the publication of a document that is substantially similar to one already published without reference to the original publication.

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