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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Association between job control and psychological health in middle-level managers	26
Relationship between using tables, chairs, and computers and improper postures when doing VDT work in work from home	22
Prevalence of coronary heart disease and its risk factors by working environment among Japanese male workers	16
Industrial workers and bullying: a systematic review and meta-analysis of workplace violence	16
A panel study of job demands and practices toward infection prevention and control among healthcare workers: the moderating role of competing safety climate constructs	16
Supporting the management of long-term health risk from night work	13
The past and future of industrial hygiene in Japan	12
Working Time Traffic Light recommendations: development, use, and implementation in the Finnish social and healthcare	12
Occupational safety and health in freelancers in Japan	11
Associations between work style and sleep health indicators among Japanese workers: a comparison by chronotype	10
Protocol for a web-based study on the work environment and daily lifestyle of Japanese employees	10
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	9
Association between home working and mental health by key worker status during the Covid-19 pandemic. Evidence from four British longitudinal studies	8
Factors and their age differences associated with low back pain among Japanese workers: a cross-sectional study	7
Farm operations and slips, trips, and falls among corn farm workers in Thailand	7
Stress and the gig economy: it's not all shifts and giggles	6
An occupational group with multiple musculoskeletal trauma and precarious employment: jockeys	6
Multidimensional analysis of schoolteachers’ occupational stress by the New Brief Job Stress Questionnaire: focusing on gender differences	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
I watch SEM: continuous time dynamic models with <i>N</i>≥1 smart watch data	6
More effort to deliver evidence globally through <i>Industrial Health</i>	5
Cross-sectional associations between oral diseases and work productivity loss among regular employees in Japan	5
Association between work stress and sleep disturbances: the mediating role of pre-sleep arousal symptoms	5
Measuring the effects of respiratory protective equipment and other protectors in preventing the scattering of vocalization droplets	5
How changes in laughter predict work engagement and workaholism: reciprocal relationships among Japanese employees	5

Symptoms of heat illness and water consumption habits in mine industry workers over the summer months in Australia	5
Asian Intensive Reader of Pneumoconiosis program: examination for certification during 2008–2020	5
Psychological hardiness, sleepiness, and fatigue as predictors of occupational errors in nurses: implications for enhancing nurse well-being and patient safety	5
Conflicts in the workplace, negative acts and health consequences: evidence from a clinical evaluation	5
Uneven distribution of stressful working conditions among Japanese nurses: a secondary analysis of nurses with and without children	5
Work-family conflict and withdrawal behavior among mainland China's IT employees: the mediating role of emotional exhaustion and moderating role of job autonomy	5
Heat stress and social dialogue in Greece	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
Night shift and shift work does not affect automatic cognition as reflected by duration mismatch negativity	4
Slim larks and overweight owls? A two years dietary intervention in shift workers	4
Association between impaired objective alertness and poor subjective health: a study on physicians’ work-style reform surveillance in Japan	4
Work strain and thermophysiological responses in Norwegian fish farming — a field study	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
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
Supporting the well-being of nurses, paramedics, and firefighters during external crises by managing workload: an umbrella review	3
Frequency of laughter and work engagement among Japanese employees: a cross-sectional study during COVID-19	3
Components of women’s health literacy associated with pregnancy at the wanted time and the use of infertility treatment among Japanese workers	3
Customer verbal abuse is associated with depressive symptoms among high-workload cosmetics sales workers in South Korea	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
Characteristics of mental disorders among physicians in 31 compensated cases in Japan	3
Work-related injuries and compliance with personal protective equipment among migrant workers in Al-Qassim, Saudi Arabia	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
Factors affecting work productivity and activity impairment among chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients	3
Protecting sleep for the well-being of physicians and their patients	3
Characteristics of COVID-19 infection clusters occurring among workers in several Asia-Pacific countries	3
Concurrent trajectories of occupational groups and sustainable working life—a Swedish twin cohort study over 16 years	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
Workload predictions from a biomathematical model compared to top-of-descent NASA Task Load Index scores in commercial pilots	3
Occupational carcinogens in Italy: an overview on exposure to cadmium and its compounds	3
Characteristics of mental disorders among education and learning-support workers in 119 compensated cases in Japan	3
A hospital-based return-to-work programme in Singapore	2
Hazards associated with blue light emitted during gas metal arc welding of mild steel using various shielding gases and currents	2
Development and validation of tools to screen occupational mental health and workplace factors influencing it: for the Indian workforce	2
Working with physical agents – The past, present, and future of Non-Ionizing Radiation (NIR) in occupational safety and health	2
Relationship between satisfaction with life and work and work functioning impairment among Japanese animators	2
Do holidays change subjective sleep length or sleep debt in shift work disorder?	2
Changing concepts in approaches to occupational low back pain	2
Strategies to manage working from home during the pandemic: the employee experience	2
Subjective and objective fatigue dynamics in air traffic control	2
Association of sitting time and cardiorespiratory fitness with cardiovascular disease risk and healthcare costs among office workers	2
Effects of different bed heights on the physical burden of physiotherapists during manual therapy: an experimental study	2
Relationship among work–treatment balance, job stress, and work engagement in Japan: a cross-sectional study	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
Characteristics of mental disorders among information technology workers in 238 compensated cases in Japan	2

Global Accord for Worker Mental Health: Tokyo Declaration on National Policy Commitments	2
Relationship between occupational injury and gig work experience in Japanese workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional internet survey	2
Association of severity of premenstrual disorders with absenteeism and presenteeism among Japanese working women: a cross-sectional study	2
Measuring work engagement in Thailand: development and validation testing of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale-Thai version (UWES-TH)	2
A roadmap to improve usage items to enhance the operational effectiveness of occupational safety and health management expense in Korean construction	2
Characteristics of workers’ compensation claim applications for COVID-19 infections in South Korea	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
Effect of shift work on excessive daytime sleepiness in female nurses: results from the Japan Nurses’ Health Study	1
Development and validation of the Work Style Reform Scale	1
Occupational ergonomic research and contextual design execution of a new workstation to reduce work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMSDs) among Dhokra handicraft artisans: an unorganized	1
Heat stress and social dialogue in Spain	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
How much advance notice do workers need? A review and theoretical framework for determining advance notice periods for unpredictable work	1
Influence of nurse work environment and psychological distress on resignation from hospitals: a prospective study	1
Observation of the same asbestos body by both phase contrast microscope and analytical transmission electron microscope	1
Self-undermining behaviour in an occupational context: a scoping review	1
An empirical investigation of firefighting personal protective equipment and burn injuries in Korea	1
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	1
Asbestos in organochlorine insecticide powder sprinkled between pages of antiquarian books in a library in Japan	1
Psychosocial Occupational Health, An Interdisciplinary Textbook	1
Cardiovascular disease incidence and its predictors among school teachers in Peninsular Malaysia: a prospective cohort study	1
Effects of different break patterns during driving on cardiovascular responses in male drivers	1
Loneliness without distress, chosen isolation (solitude) at the workplace, and mental health and job performance: a cross-sectional study of Japanese employees	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
Health and safety situation of arts and entertainment workers in Japan	1
The indirect effect of organizational justice on job performance and happiness through work engagement and burnout: a multilevel study	1
Brugada syndrome and job fitness: report of three cases	1
Associations of employment status, working time and job satisfaction with sleep duration and sleep quality among the 50+ population in Japan	1
Remote work and well-being in the post-COVID-19 era	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
Association between shift rotation and 30-year Framingham risk of cardiovascular disease among male workers in a medium-sized manufacturing factory	1
Identifying factors that inhibit or facilitate on-site implementation of chemical risk assessment at small and medium-sized companies	1