OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Work and Stress is 5. 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
Unpacking the dynamics of illegitimate tasks: how variability and previous experiences ignite job crafting and meaningful work	70
Validation of the Intervention Preparedness Tool: a short measure to assess important precursors for successful implementation of organisational interventions	56
When daily home-to-work transitions are not all bad: a multi-study design on the role of appraisals	53
A watched pot never boils: how appraisals of supervisor remote monitoring influence remote workers’ voice and silence	49
Workplace bullying and personality change: evidence from a 4-year Swiss panel study	49
Always on? Development and validation of the Employee Digital Disconnection Scale (EDDS)	47
Throwing the baby out with the bathwater – while adding the bathtub too: a rejoinder to “Beliefs about burnout” of Bianchi and Schonfeld	38
Work engagement and its antecedents in remote work: A person-centered view	30
Beyond surface and deep acting: investigating interaction avoidance in coworkers’ daily relationships and its consequences	29
Day-level relationships between work, physical activity, and well-being: Testing the physical activity-mediated demand-control (pamDC) model	21
PSC through the lens of a dispersion-composition model: the beneficial effects of PSC ideal as a high and strong PSC signal	17
Professor Karina Nielsen 1973–2024	16
Are all challenge stressors beneficial for learning? A meta-analytical assessment of differential effects of workload and cognitive demands	16
How are organisational conditions related to illegitimate tasks among managers and their subordinates in the public sector? A Swedish study	12
Opportunities and challenges in designing and evaluating complex multilevel, multi-stakeholder occupational health interventions in practice	12
Crossover of emotional exhaustion in collaboration networks: the roles of hindrance stressors and organisational tenure	11
Exploring the enablers, motivators, and triggers of upwards bullying	11
Beliefs about burnout	11
Exploring the relationship between workplace bullying and objective cognitive performance	11
Job demands and resources and their association with employee well-being in the European healthcare sector: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective research	10
Challenging challenge and hindrance appraisals	10
Correction	9
Work–family conflict and spouse’s job performance: when detaching from home is key	9
Emotional labour job characteristics in compassion work – differentiating exposure, empathy, compassion, and distancing	9
Some positivity per day can protect you a long way: A within-person field experiment to test an affect-resource model of employee effectiveness at work	9

Work stress interventions in an imperfect world	8
Exploring stable between-person and dynamic within-person relations between illegitimate tasks and employee wellbeing	8
Is it all about the personal resources? The moderating role of resilience on daily stress appraisal and emotion	8
“It’s a rollercoaster”: the recovery and return to work experiences of workers with long COVID	8
The perils of leadership development: unintended consequences for employee withdrawal behaviour and conflict	8
What really bothers us about work interruptions? Investigating the characteristics of work interruptions and their effects on office workers	8
Linking objective and subjective job demands and resources in the JD-R model: A multilevel design	7
Cognitive function in clinical burnout: A systematic review and meta-analysis	7
Understanding the outcomes of training to improve employee mental health: A novel framework for training transfer and effectiveness evaluation	6
Job demands, not resources, predict worsening psychological distress during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Employees’ experience of supervisor behaviour – a support or a hindrance on their return-to-work journey with a CMD? A qualitative study	6
Interventions against bullying at work: a meta-analysis	6
Is work intensification bad for employees? A review of outcomes for employees over the last two decades	6
Materialism predicts burnout through the basic needs: individual-level and within-person longitudinal evidence	5
Quantitative process measures in interventions to improve employees’ mental health: A systematic literature review and the IPEF framework	5
Cherry picking and red herrings creating much ado about nothing: a critique of Bianchi and Schonfeld’s beliefs about burnout	5
A longitudinal study on ICT workload in the extended stressor-detachment model: testing moderated mediation models for extended work availability and workplace telepressure	5
The role of leadership practices in the relationship between role stressors and exposure to bullying behaviours – a longitudinal moderated mediation design	5
Career calling in the work stress process: a conceptual and review analysis	5
Within-person increases in job autonomy linked to greater employee strain	5