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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Association between job control and psychological health in middle-level managers	23
Industrial workers and bullying: a systematic review and meta-analysis of workplace violence	16
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	13
The association between work-family conflict and psychomotor vigilance among women working in aged care services in Japan	13
A panel study of job demands and practices toward infection prevention and control among healthcare workers: the moderating role of competing safety climate constructs	11
The impact of a personalized sleep & nutrition intervention in shift workers: improved subjective sleep without objective changes	10
Working Time Traffic Light recommendations: development, use, and implementation in the Finnish social and healthcare	9
Associations between work style and sleep health indicators among Japanese workers: a comparison by chronotype	8
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	8
Protocol for a web-based study on the work environment and daily lifestyle of Japanese employees	8
Occupational safety and health in freelancers in Japan	8
Association between home working and mental health by key worker status during the Covid-19 pandemic. Evidence from four British longitudinal studies	8
Farm operations and slips, trips, and falls among corn farm workers in Thailand	7
The past and future of industrial hygiene in Japan	7
I watch SEM: continuous time dynamic models with <i>N</i>≥1 smart watch data	6
Symptoms of heat illness and water consumption habits in mine industry workers over the summer months in Australia	6
Multidimensional analysis of schoolteachers’ occupational stress by the New Brief Job Stress Questionnaire: focusing on gender differences	6
Evaluation of respiratory toxicity and peritoneal mesothelioma induced by heat-treated and milled amosite following intratracheal and intraperitoneal injection in rats	6
How changes in laughter predict work engagement and workaholism: reciprocal relationships among Japanese employees	6
Factors and their age differences associated with low back pain among Japanese workers: a cross-sectional study	6
More effort to deliver evidence globally through <i>Industrial Health</i>	6
Psychological hardiness, sleepiness, and fatigue as predictors of occupational errors in nurses: implications for enhancing nurse well-being and patient safety	6
Measuring the effects of respiratory protective equipment and other protectors in preventing the scattering of vocalization droplets	5
Association of effort–reward imbalance with fingernail cortisol levels in apparel manufacturing workers	5

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 strat	5
Uneven distribution of stressful working conditions among Japanese nurses: a secondary analysis of nurses with and without children	5
An occupational group with multiple musculoskeletal trauma and precarious employment: jockeys	5
Night shift and shift work does not affect automatic cognition as reflected by duration mismatch negativity	4
Home as a new physical workplace: a causal model for understanding the inextricable link between home environment, work productivity, and well-being	4
Asian Intensive Reader of Pneumoconiosis program: examination for certification during 2008–2020	4
Association between work stress and sleep disturbances: the mediating role of pre-sleep arousal symptoms	4
Heat stress and social dialogue in Greece	4
Increased job strain and cardiovascular disease mortality: a prospective cohort study in U.S. workers	4
The husband’s mental health is affected by the wife’s happiness, but not vice versa: a longitudinal observation	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
Association between impaired objective alertness and poor subjective health: a study on physicians’ work-style reform surveillance in Japan	4
Teleworking during COVID-19: experiences from Saudi Arabia	3
Concurrent trajectories of occupational groups and sustainable working life—a Swedish twin cohort study over 16 years	3
Local effects of printed logos and reflective striping fixed to firefighter clothing material packages under low radiation exposure	3
Frequency of laughter and work engagement among Japanese employees: a cross-sectional study during COVID-19	3
Organizational wellbeing and associated factors in telecommunication workers in Thailand	3
Poor preparedness of congolese healthcare workers for Ebola during the 10th outbreak (2018–2020)	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
Occupational carcinogens in Italy: an overview on exposure to cadmium and its compounds	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
Supporting the well-being of nurses, paramedics, and firefighters during external crises by managing workload: an umbrella review	3
Paradox of long working hours: how income levels and satisfaction modify health outcomes	3
Protecting sleep for the well-being of physicians and their patients	3
Measuring work engagement in Thailand: development and validation testing of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale-Thai version (UWES-TH)	2
Association of severity of premenstrual disorders with absenteeism and presenteeism among Japanese working women: a cross-sectional study	2
Association of sitting time and cardiorespiratory fitness with cardiovascular disease risk and healthcare costs among office workers	2
Reply to letter to the editor from Dr. Jiayi Chen	2
Characteristics of mental disorders among information technology workers in 238 compensated cases in Japan	2
Characteristics of mental disorders among education and learning-support workers in 119 compensated cases in Japan	2
Workload predictions from a biomathematical model compared to top-of-descent NASA Task Load Index scores in commercial pilots	2
A hospital-based return-to-work programme in Singapore	2
Effects of different bed heights on the physical burden of physiotherapists during manual therapy: an experimental study	2
Subjective and objective fatigue dynamics in air traffic control	2
Healthy and autonomous styles of work	2
Relationship between satisfaction with life and work and work functioning impairment among Japanese animators	2
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?	2
Components of women’s health literacy associated with pregnancy at the wanted time and the use of infertility treatment among Japanese workers	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
Global Accord for Worker Mental Health: Tokyo Declaration on National Policy Commitments	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
Strategies to manage working from home during the pandemic: the employee experience	2
Factors affecting work productivity and activity impairment among chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients	2
Customer verbal abuse is associated with depressive symptoms among high-workload cosmetics sales workers in South Korea	2
Changing concepts in approaches to occupational low back pain	2
Observation of the same asbestos body by both phase contrast microscope and analytical transmission electron microscope	1
Asbestos in organochlorine insecticide powder sprinkled between pages of antiquarian books in a library in Japan	1

The letter to editor regarding “Characteristics of mental disorders among physicians in 31 compensated cases in Japan”	1
Comparison of disclosures on occupational health and safety in Japanese and Taiwanese listed companies	1
Hazards associated with blue light emitted during gas metal arc welding of mild steel using various shielding gases and currents	1
Cardiovascular disease incidence and its predictors among school teachers in Peninsular Malaysia: a prospective cohort study	1
Perceptions of occupational safety and health among foreign construction workers in South Korea: a comparative analysis with Japan	1
Influence of nurse work environment and psychological distress on resignation from hospitals: a prospective study	1
Psychosocial Occupational Health, An Interdisciplinary Textbook	1
Effects of different break patterns during driving on cardiovascular responses in male drivers	1
Long-term effects of radiation exposure on mental health symptoms and concern among Fukushima nuclear plant workers: The Fukushima NEWS Project Study	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
Comparison of primary school teachers’ stress responses between pre-pandemic and pandemic periods: a large-scale nationwide survey in Japan	1
Heat stress and social dialogue in Spain	1
The association between musculoskeletal symptoms and work characteristics, demographic factors, depression, anxiety, insomnia, and shift work disorder: a cross-sectional study among Norwegian nurses	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
Loneliness without distress, chosen isolation (solitude) at the workplace, and mental health and job performance: a cross-sectional study of Japanese employees	1
Associations of employment status, working time and job satisfaction with sleep duration and sleep quality among the 50+ population in Japan	1
Identifying factors that inhibit or facilitate on-site implementation of chemical risk assessment at small and medium-sized companies	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
Brugada syndrome and job fitness: report of three cases	1
Effect of shift work on excessive daytime sleepiness in female nurses: results from the Japan Nurses’ Health Study	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
High serum perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) concentrations and interstitial lung disease in former and current workers in a fluorochemical company	1
The indirect effect of organizational justice on job performance and happiness through work engagement and burnout: a multilevel study	1
Participatory action-oriented training implemented across various workplaces: a scoping review protocol	1
Development and validation of the Work Style Reform Scale	1
Remote work and well-being in the post-COVID-19 era	1
Association between shift rotation and 30-year Framingham risk of cardiovascular disease among male workers in a medium-sized manufacturing factory	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
Self-undermining behaviour in an occupational context: a scoping review	1
Health and safety situation of arts and entertainment workers in Japan	1