OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Industrial Health is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Association between job control and psychological health in middle-level managers	33
Relationship between using tables, chairs, and computers and improper postures when doing VDT work in work from home	23
Industrial workers and bullying: a systematic review and meta-analysis of workplace violence	20
Reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the New Brief Job Stress Questionnaire (New BJSQ) among workers in China	15
Prevalence of coronary heart disease and its risk factors by working environment among Japanese male workers	15
Supporting the management of long-term health risk from night work	15
The past and future of industrial hygiene in Japan	13
Reliability and validity of the Japanese version of the psychological safety scale for workers	13
Occupational safety and health in freelancers in Japan	11
Working Time Traffic Light recommendations: development, use, and implementation in the Finnish social and healthcare	11
Protocol for a web-based study on the work environment and daily lifestyle of Japanese employees	11
Association between long working hours of doctors and the seriousness of adverse events: a cross-sectional study using national adverse event reporting system data in Japan	11
Association between home working and mental health by key worker status during the Covid-19 pandemic. Evidence from four British longitudinal studies	10
Multidimensional analysis of schoolteachers’ occupational stress by the New Brief Job Stress Questionnaire: focusing on gender differences	9
Associations between work style and sleep health indicators among Japanese workers: a comparison by chronotype	9
Farm operations and slips, trips, and falls among corn farm workers in Thailand	9
Factors and their age differences associated with low back pain among Japanese workers: a cross-sectional study	8
Symptoms of heat illness and water consumption habits in mine industry workers over the summer months in Australia	7
I watch SEM: continuous time dynamic models with <i>N</i>≥1 smart watch data	7
Stress and the gig economy: it's not all shifts and giggles	7
An occupational group with multiple musculoskeletal trauma and precarious employment: jockeys	6
Psychological hardiness, sleepiness, and fatigue as predictors of occupational errors in nurses: implications for enhancing nurse well-being and patient safety	6
Conflicts in the workplace, negative acts and health consequences: evidence from a clinical evaluation	6
More effort to deliver evidence globally through <i>Industrial Health</i>	6
Occupational management of low back pain secondary to prolapsed intervertebral disc in a Malaysian healthcare worker: a case report emphasizing ergonomic intervention and risk reduction strategies	6

Measuring the effects of respiratory protective equipment and other protectors in preventing the scattering of vocalization droplets	5
Association between work stress and sleep disturbances: the mediating role of pre-sleep arousal symptoms	5
Asian Intensive Reader of Pneumoconiosis program: examination for certification during 2008–2020	5
Uneven distribution of stressful working conditions among Japanese nurses: a secondary analysis of nurses with and without children	5
Association between work content and musculoskeletal disorders among home caregivers: a cross-section study	5
Cross-sectional associations between oral diseases and work productivity loss among regular employees in Japan	5
How changes in laughter predict work engagement and workaholism: reciprocal relationships among Japanese employees	5
Night shift and shift work does not affect automatic cognition as reflected by duration mismatch negativity	5
Work strain and thermophysiological responses in Norwegian fish farming — a field study	4
Slim larks and overweight owls? A two years dietary intervention in shift workers	4
Work-family conflict and withdrawal behavior among mainland China's IT employees: the mediating role of emotional exhaustion and moderating role of job autonomy	4
Database-driven chemical information integration: analysis of substances investigated by the investigative committee on risk assessment for preventing impairment of workers’ health c	4
Poor preparedness of Congolese healthcare workers for Ebola during the 10th outbreak (2018–2020)	4
The husband’s mental health is affected by the wife’s happiness, but not vice versa: a longitudinal observation	4
Home as a new physical workplace: a causal model for understanding the inextricable link between home environment, work productivity, and well-being	4
Increased job strain and cardiovascular disease mortality: a prospective cohort study in U.S. workers	4
Supporting the well-being of nurses, paramedics, and firefighters during external crises by managing workload: an umbrella review	3
Protecting sleep for the well-being of physicians and their patients	3
Characteristics of mental disorders among education and learning-support workers in 119 compensated cases in Japan	3
Do holidays change subjective sleep length or sleep debt in shift work disorder?	3
Relationship among work–treatment balance, job stress, and work engagement in Japan: a cross-sectional study	3
Paradox of long working hours: how income levels and satisfaction modify health outcomes	3
Risk factors for resignation from work during pregnancy among Japanese women: a cross-sectional, multicenter questionnaire survey	3
The relationships between coping styles and food intake in shiftworking nurses and midwives: a pilot study	3
Occupational carcinogens in Italy: an overview on exposure to cadmium and its compounds	3
Customer verbal abuse is associated with depressive symptoms among high-workload cosmetics sales workers in South Korea	3
Factors affecting work productivity and activity impairment among chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients	3
Workload predictions from a biomathematical model compared to top-of-descent NASA Task Load Index scores in commercial pilots	3
Frequency of laughter and work engagement among Japanese employees: a cross-sectional study during COVID-19	3
Characteristics of COVID-19 infection clusters occurring among workers in several Asia-Pacific countries	3
Teleworking during COVID-19: experiences from Saudi Arabia	3
Burnout and poor perceived health in flexible working time in Japanese employees: the role of self-endangering behavior in relation to workaholism, work engagement, and job stressors	3
Work-related injuries and compliance with personal protective equipment among migrant workers in Al-Qassim, Saudi Arabia	3
Inter-observer agreement and accuracy in classifying radiographs for pneumoconiosis among Asian physicians taking AIR Pneumo certification examination	3
How can Ministries of Health and Labour add the new indicator on work-related diseases to the monitoring system for the United Nations global goals?	3
A roadmap to improve usage items to enhance the operational effectiveness of occupational safety and health management expense in Korean construction	3
Organizational wellbeing and associated factors in telecommunication workers in Thailand	3
Local effects of printed logos and reflective striping fixed to firefighter clothing material packages under low radiation exposure	3
Concurrent trajectories of occupational groups and sustainable working life—a Swedish twin cohort study over 16 years	3
Subjective and objective fatigue dynamics in air traffic control	2
Strategies to manage working from home during the pandemic: the employee experience	2
Characteristics of mental disorders among information technology workers in 238 compensated cases in Japan	2
Relationship between satisfaction with life and work and work functioning impairment among Japanese animators	2
Effects of different bed heights on the physical burden of physiotherapists during manual therapy: an experimental study	2
Working with physical agents – The past, present, and future of Non-Ionizing Radiation (NIR) in occupational safety and health	2
How work engagement and workaholism relate to individuals’ and their intimate partners’ mental well-being: a test of the spillover-crossover model among Indonesian dual-earner couple	2
Observation of the same asbestos body by both phase contrast microscope and analytical transmission electron microscope	2
A hospital-based return-to-work programme in Singapore	2
The association between workplace telework guidance, self-management behaviors, and health outcomes among teleworkers: a cross-sectional study in collaboration with labor union	2
Changing concepts in approaches to occupational low back pain	2

Does breaking up sitting in office-based settings result in cognitive performance improvements which last throughout the day? A review of the evidence	2
Hazards associated with blue light emitted during gas metal arc welding of mild steel using various shielding gases and currents	2
Association of severity of premenstrual disorders with absenteeism and presenteeism among Japanese working women: a cross-sectional study	2
Occupational ergonomic research and contextual design execution of a new workstation to reduce work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMSDs) among Dhokra handicraft artisans: an unorganized sector o	2
The indirect effect of organizational justice on job performance and happiness through work engagement and burnout: a multilevel study	2
Development and validation of tools to screen occupational mental health and workplace factors influencing it: for the Indian workforce	2
Relationship between occupational injury and gig work experience in Japanese workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional internet survey	2
Global Accord for Worker Mental Health: Tokyo Declaration on National Policy Commitments	2
Exposure assessment of nanotitanium oxide powder handling using real-time size-selective particle number concentration measurements and X-ray fluorescence spectrometry —The possibility of exposure to	2
Characteristics of workers’ compensation claim applications for COVID-19 infections in South Korea	2
Association of sitting time and cardiorespiratory fitness with cardiovascular disease risk and healthcare costs among office workers	2
Measuring work engagement in Thailand: development and validation testing of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale-Thai version (UWES-TH)	2
An empirical investigation of firefighting personal protective equipment and burn injuries in Korea	2
Development and validation of the Work Style Reform Scale	2
A review of test methods for evaluating mobility of firefighters wearing personal protective equipment	1
Presenteeism among fruit farm workers in Northeast Brazil: cross-sectional study	1
Loneliness without distress, chosen isolation (solitude) at the workplace, and mental health and job performance: a cross-sectional study of Japanese employees	1
Cardiovascular disease incidence and its predictors among school teachers in Peninsular Malaysia: a prospective cohort study	1
Remote work and well-being in the post-COVID-19 era	1
Effects of different break patterns during driving on cardiovascular responses in male drivers	1
Health and safety situation of arts and entertainment workers in Japan	1
Walking the tightrope between work and home: the role of job/home resources in the relation between job/home demands and employee health and well-being	1
Occupational exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields	1
Association between shift rotation and 30-year Framingham risk of cardiovascular disease among male workers in a medium-sized manufacturing factory	1
Associations of employment status, working time and job satisfaction with sleep duration and sleep quality among the 50+ population in Japan	1
Support for safety in the fire service: a test of reciprocal causality for safety motivation	1
Influence of nurse work environment and psychological distress on resignation from hospitals: a prospective study	1
How much advance notice do workers need? A review and theoretical framework for determining advance notice periods for unpredictable work	1
Asbestos in organochlorine insecticide powder sprinkled between pages of antiquarian books in a library in Japan	1
Improving the care stress, life quality, and family functions for family-caregiver in long-term care by home modification	1
Effect of shift work on excessive daytime sleepiness in female nurses: results from the Japan Nurses’ Health Study	1
Comparison of disclosures on occupational health and safety in Japanese and Taiwanese listed companies	1
Association of open-plan offices and sick leave—a systematic review and meta-analysis	1
High serum perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) concentrations and interstitial lung disease in former and current workers in a fluorochemical company	1
Risk factors associated with heat-related illness among sugarcane farmers in Thailand	1
Perceptual and objective physical quality of chest images: a comparison between digital radiographic chest images processed for cancer screening and pneumoconiosis screening in Japan	1
Fractures from same-level falls among workers in the transportation sector: a retrospective analysis of the national open database of occupational injuries in Japan	1
Comparison of respiratory protection during exercise tasks between different methods of wearing replaceable particulate respirators and powered air-purifying respirators	1
Psychosocial Occupational Health, An Interdisciplinary Textbook	1
Self-undermining behaviour in an occupational context: a scoping review	1
Brugada syndrome and job fitness: report of three cases	1
Identifying factors that inhibit or facilitate on-site implementation of chemical risk assessment at small and medium-sized companies	1