What is ORP Journal?
ORP Journal is the official journal of the ORP International Foundation. It is an electronic publication that compiles applied research in occupational risk prevention and related disciplines, and was launched in 2014 in parallel with the consolidation of the ORP congresses as a professional meeting point between Spain and Latin America.
Its function within the ORP ecosystem is twofold: to channel the scientific production presented at conferences and to offer a publication route to researchers and professionals in the Ibero-American field.
Identification and registration details
The ISSN Portal record identifies the publication with the key title “ORP journal” and e-ISSN 2385-3832, as an online resource published in Spain. The registration is listed as confirmed, with the last modification on May 18, 2026. Dialnet lists it as “ORPjournal” and indicates the ORP Foundation as the publishing entity. Latindex lists it with the title “ORP journal: for business improvement and innovation.”
The coexistence of several forms of the title, ORP Journal, ORP journal and ORPjournal, comes from the sources themselves and should be kept in mind when citing or searching for the journal.
Thematic scope and languages
The journal declares its scope to be research in innovation and business quality. In practice, judging from published issues and conference proceedings, its content focuses on occupational risk prevention, workplace safety and health , ergonomics, and healthy workplaces.
The Latindex entries and the journal itself list Spanish as the language of publication. However, it is not exclusively a Spanish-language journal: the official languages of the ORP2026 Congress are Spanish and English, papers can be submitted in either language, and accepted papers are published in a special issue of ORPjournal.
Editorial process and peer review
The journal states that it uses a double-blind peer review system, with an editorial committee and an evaluation board. These elements are stated by the publication itself. This information sheet does not present them as having been verified by an external editorial audit.
Issues published and frequency
The stated publication frequency is quarterly. The archive on the magazine’s official website displays regular issues and, continuously, a special ORP issue per year between 2017 and 2025, in addition to the special issues from 2015 and 2016.
The Dialnet listing, on the other hand, only includes issues from 2014, 2015, 2016, 2022, 2023, and 2024. This difference does not indicate an interruption of the journal: it is a partial coverage of the repository, and the official archive is the reference to know what has been published each year.
Indexing, directory and classification
It is important to distinguish three things that often occur together:
- Repository and bibliographic database. Dialnet includes the journal and provides access to its summaries and articles. This ensures its direct presence in the repository.
- Directory. Latindex has it registered in its Directory, which is a descriptive record of journals. In the v1.0 Catalog, valid until 2017, it is listed as having met 32 criteria; in the v2.0 Catalog it is listed as pending qualification.
- Classification. CIRC assigns it category D in Social Sciences. CIRC is an integrated classification of scientific journals, not an index or a database: it organizes journals into groups based on their presence in other products.
The Foundation also declares a presence on Google Scholar. However, no source places the journal in Scopus or Web of Science, and this entry does not confirm this.
Access and license
Latindex lists the journal as current and open access, and indicates in its record a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.
The journal’s own pages consulted for this entry do not publish a license notice, so there is no direct general license for reuse applicable to all content. Anyone wishing to reuse a specific work should check the terms of that issue.
Relationship with ORP congresses
The documented procedure for the ORP2026 edition is explicit: the scientific committee evaluates the contributions received and defines those that will appear in the congress proceedings, all accepted works are published online in a monographic issue of ORPjournal and the best ones are sent to the journal’s evaluation committee.
This connection explains the profile of the authors, mostly professionals and researchers from the Ibero-American field of prevention, and the applied nature of much of the work.
What has not been verified
The pages consulted do not identify the director or editor-in-chief, nor the nominal composition of the editorial committee. There is also no licensing statement on the journal’s website. These points remain unconfirmed and are not stated definitively.
