Korean journal recognized globally

SH@W is now listed on the world’s largest quotation database for biomedicine journals

21^st September, 2012

Now journal authors can find the SH@W, the OSHRI’s magazine in the list of the world’s largest quotation databases for biomedicine journals, PubMed and PubMed Central’(PMC).

*SH@W stands for Safety and Health at Work.

Experts of the biomedicine around the world are using these biomedical academic databases, run by the US National Library of Medicine or NLM, the affiliated organization of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

More than 25,000 journals are listed in the PubMed and PMC providing over 22million academic writings. Some of Korean medical journals are listed but it is the first time for the journal in the OSH sector to be listed.

As the SH@W is listed in the two widely-known databases, more users would have access to it around the world. The magazine, as a result, would also be widely-used in writing journals. Domestic experts in OSH have more chances to refer to the journals across the world, as well.

The magazine is quarterly published and contains around 10 reports on occupational medicine, occupational safety, job stress etc in every volume.

Total of 98 papers were listed in the SH@W among which 46 or 47% were written by Korean author and the rest, 53 or 53% were written by writers from other nations.

A paper passes through review of domestic OSH experts before it is published in the magazine, free of charge and then is updated on www.e-shaw.org.

Director General Jung-sun Park said that “As the SH@W is listed on the globally-used database, this would be a chance to introduce advanced researches conducted by domestic organizations and universities.” adding that OSHRI would continue to work hard to find itself in the global arena.” End.