The Journal of Wellbeing Management and Applied Psychology (JWMAP) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access scholarly journal with its primary disciplinary orientation in the natural and applied sciences.

JWMAP was first published in 2018. Its principal academic focus is Environmental, Occupational, and Human Wellbeing Sciences.

Academic cooperation, scholarly communication, and journal promotion are supported by the Korea Wellbeing Convergence Association as the journal’s Publishing Partner.

Aim of the Journal

JWMAP advances scientific knowledge concerning how environmental exposures, occupational conditions, biological and physiological processes, technologies, and human factors affect health, safety, and wellbeing.

The journal gives priority to research that:

• Measures or characterizes environmental and occupational exposures;

• Investigates their effects on human health, physiological function, behavior, safety, or quality of life;

• Evaluates interventions intended to prevent or reduce health and safety risks;

• Develops or validates scientific methods, monitoring systems, and health-protection technologies; or

• Integrates environmental, occupational, physiological, and psychological evidence to improve human wellbeing.

JWMAP provides a scientific platform connecting environmental science, occupational health, safety science, human physiology, applied psychology, public health, and health-related technology.

The journal welcomes contributions from researchers worldwide. All manuscripts must demonstrate academic originality, scientific rigor, methodological transparency, ethical compliance, and a clearly defined contribution to the journal’s aims and scope.

JWMAP publishes articles in English.

eISSN: 2586-6036

Scope of the Journal

1. Environmental Exposure and Health

JWMAP publishes research on environmental factors that may affect human and community health, including:

• Indoor and outdoor air quality;

• Odors and volatile organic compounds;

• Particulate matter and airborne microplastics;

• Biological and chemical contaminants;

• Hazardous substances and environmental toxicants;

• Water, soil, and waste contamination;

• Waste treatment and pollution-control technologies;

• Exposure assessment and environmental monitoring;

• Environmental epidemiology and health-risk assessment; and

• Environmental interventions designed to protect human health.

Environmental engineering studies are considered when they address pollution prevention, exposure reduction, health protection, environmental safety, or scientifically meaningful environmental performance.

2. Occupational Health and Safety Science

The journal welcomes scientific studies concerning workplace hazards, worker health, and accident prevention, including:

• Industrial hygiene and occupational exposure;

• Heat stress, noise, vibration, dust, gases, and hazardous substances;

• Occupational diseases and work-related health outcomes;

• Construction, manufacturing, transportation, laboratory, and industrial safety;

• Ergonomics, workload, fatigue, and physical risk;

• Human error and accident causation;

• Quantitative and qualitative risk assessment;

• Safety monitoring and early-warning systems;

• Personal protective equipment and risk-control interventions; and

• Evidence-based occupational safety and health programs.

Studies limited to legal interpretation or administrative description must provide empirical evidence or demonstrate a clear contribution to occupational health or safety science.

3. Human Health, Physiology, and Wellbeing

JWMAP publishes studies examining measurable human health and wellbeing outcomes, including:

• Physiological responses to environmental or occupational conditions;

• Cardiovascular, respiratory, neurological, and stress-related indicators;

• Heart rate variability and other validated biomarkers;

• Sleep, fatigue, physical activity, and functional health;

• Aging, resilience, rehabilitation, and quality of life;

• Preventive health and health-promotion interventions;

• Community health related to environmental or occupational conditions; and

• Evidence-based nursing and care interventions with measurable health outcomes.

Clinical studies may be considered when they are directly relevant to prevention, rehabilitation, environmental health, occupational health, or measurable human wellbeing. JWMAP does not normally consider general clinical case reports or pharmaceutical treatment studies.

4. Applied Psychology and Human Factors

Applied psychology falls within the scope of JWMAP when it contributes directly to the scientific understanding of health, safety, or human wellbeing.

Relevant topics include:

• Environmental and occupational stress;

• Risk perception and safety behavior;

• Cognitive workload, fatigue, attention, and human error;

• Psychological responses to environmental exposure;

• Behavioral adaptation to health and safety risks;

• Resilience and coping under hazardous or stressful conditions;

• Evidence-based psychological interventions;

• Psychophysiological assessment; and

• Human factors affecting the use of health or safety technologies.

General organizational behavior or leadership research is outside the journal’s primary scope unless it directly examines validated health, safety, psychophysiological, or wellbeing outcomes.

5. Health, Environmental, and Safety Technologies

JWMAP encourages scientifically validated technological research related to:

• Environmental and occupational sensing;

• Wearable health and safety devices;

• Biosensors and physiological monitoring;

• Digital health and remote health monitoring;

• Artificial intelligence for exposure, health, or safety prediction;

• Smart workplace and smart-building health systems;

• Computer vision and AI-assisted accident prevention;

• Digital twins for environmental or occupational risk management;

• Robotics and automation for hazardous environments;

• Health and safety data analytics; and

• Decision-support and early-warning systems.

Technology studies must demonstrate a clear application to environmental protection, human health, occupational safety, risk prevention, or wellbeing. Studies addressing only software development, equipment performance, or technical optimization without such relevance are outside the journal’s scope.

6. Climate, Disaster, and Community Health Resilience

The journal welcomes studies addressing:

• Climate change and human health;

• Extreme heat, cold, flooding, wildfires, and air-pollution events;

• Disaster-related environmental and occupational exposure;

• Public and worker health during disasters;

• Community health resilience;

• Environmental risk communication;

• Emergency health and safety systems; and

• Scientific evaluation of disaster-prevention interventions.

Purely political or administrative disaster-policy commentary without scientific analysis is outside the journal’s primary scope.

7. Emerging Areas

JWMAP encourages forward-looking research in areas expected to shape environmental and human wellbeing sciences over the coming decade, including:

• The human exposome;

• One Health and planetary health;

• Climate-sensitive health risks;

• Environmental microbiomes;

• Emerging contaminants;

• Healthy aging in changing environments;

• Wearable and real-time exposure monitoring;

• AI-based environmental and occupational health prediction;

• Precision prevention and personalized risk assessment;

• Smart and healthy buildings;

• Sustainable pollution-control technologies; and

• Integrated environmental, physiological, and behavioral data science.

Types of Manuscripts

JWMAP considers:

• Original research articles;

• Systematic reviews and meta-analyses;

• Scoping reviews employing rigorous and reproducible methods;

• Methodological and measurement studies;

• Field and laboratory studies;

• Environmental and occupational epidemiological studies;

• Intervention and program-evaluation studies;

• Short research reports containing substantive scientific evidence; and

• Evidence-based interdisciplinary studies.

Narrative reviews may be considered only when they provide a critical scientific synthesis, a clearly defined analytical framework, and a significant contribution to the relevant field.

Methodological Expectations

Submitted manuscripts should, where applicable:

• State a clear and scientifically relevant research question;

• Use appropriate experimental, observational, epidemiological, field, or analytical methods;

• Describe sampling, measurement, and analytical procedures in sufficient detail;

• Use objective measurements or validated instruments;

• Report reliability, validity, uncertainty, and study limitations;

• Provide appropriate statistical or qualitative analyses;

• Clearly distinguish evidence from interpretation;

• Disclose ethical approval, informed consent, funding, conflicts of interest, and the use of artificial intelligence where applicable; and

• Ensure that conclusions are fully supported by the reported data.

Out-of-Scope Manuscripts

The following types of manuscripts are normally outside the scope of JWMAP unless they demonstrate a direct and substantial contribution to environmental, occupational, physiological, psychological, health, or safety science:

• General business and management studies;

• Marketing and consumer-purchase studies;

• General leadership and organizational-performance studies;

• Fashion, beauty, tourism, and cultural-content studies;

• General education and curriculum studies;

• General social welfare and social-policy studies;

• Political or legal commentary without scientific evidence;

• Purely descriptive institutional reports;

• Engineering optimization without environmental, health, or safety relevance;

• Software or AI studies without validated health, exposure, or safety applications; and

• Studies that use the terms “wellbeing,” “health,” or “safety” only nominally without measuring or scientifically examining those outcomes.

Interdisciplinary research is welcome, but every manuscript must establish a clear scientific connection to environmental health, occupational health, human physiology, applied health science, safety science, human factors, or measurable wellbeing outcomes.

Publication Frequency

JWMAP is published six times a year. Issues are released on February 28, April 30, June 30, August 30, October 30, and December 30.

Historical issue lists are presented according to the journal’s actual publication record for each year.

Journal Information

Journal Title: Journal of Wellbeing Management and Applied Psychology
Abbreviation: JWMAP
Primary Academic Focus: Environmental, Occupational, and Human Wellbeing Sciences
Owner: KODISA Foundation
Publisher: KODISA Foundation
Publishing Partner: Korea Wellbeing Convergence Association
Journal Homepage: https://accesson.kr/jwmap
eISSN: 2586-6036
Language: English
Publication Frequency: Six times a year
Issue Release Dates: February 28, April 30, June 30, August 30, October 30, and December 30
Peer Review: Double-blind peer review by at least two independent expert reviewers
Publication Type: Open access journal
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Editorial Independence

All manuscript screening, peer-review, revision, acceptance, and rejection decisions are made independently by the Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board based on scientific merit, methodological quality, ethical compliance, and relevance to the journal’s aims and scope.

No publishing or partner organization may influence editorial decisions for financial, institutional, personal, or promotional reasons.

Editorial Office

Journal of Wellbeing Management and Applied Psychology (JWMAP)

Department of Environmental Health and Safety
Eulji University, Seongnam Campus
Room B134, 553 Sanseong-daero, Sujeong-gu
Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do 13135, Republic of Korea

Tel: +82-31-740-7230
Email: awtkw@eulji.ac.kr