OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Work and Stress is 6. 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
Unpacking the dynamics of illegitimate tasks: how variability and previous experiences ignite job crafting and meaningful work	89
Validation of the Intervention Preparedness Tool: a short measure to assess important precursors for successful implementation of organisational interventions	73
When daily home-to-work transitions are not all bad: a multi-study design on the role of appraisals	69
A watched pot never boils: how appraisals of supervisor remote monitoring influence remote workers’ voice and silence	59
Transformational leadership and employee suicidal ideation: evidence from a three-wave panel model	38
Workplace bullying and personality change: evidence from a 4-year Swiss panel study	36
Throwing the baby out with the bathwater – while adding the bathtub too: a rejoinder to “Beliefs about burnout” of Bianchi and Schonfeld	25
Always on? Development and validation of the Employee Digital Disconnection Scale (EDDS)	22
Work engagement and its antecedents in remote work: A person-centered view	19
Beyond surface and deep acting: investigating interaction avoidance in coworkers’ daily relationships and its consequences	19
Are all challenge stressors beneficial for learning? A meta-analytical assessment of differential effects of workload and cognitive demands	18
Professor Karina Nielsen 1973–2024	16
PSC through the lens of a dispersion-composition model: the beneficial effects of PSC ideal as a high and strong PSC signal	16
How are organisational conditions related to illegitimate tasks among managers and their subordinates in the public sector? A Swedish study	15
Exploring the relationship between workplace bullying and objective cognitive performance	14
Opportunities and challenges in designing and evaluating complex multilevel, multi-stakeholder occupational health interventions in practice	14
Crossover of emotional exhaustion in collaboration networks: the roles of hindrance stressors and organisational tenure	14
Exploring the enablers, motivators, and triggers of upwards bullying	14
Challenging challenge and hindrance appraisals	13
Beliefs about burnout	13
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	12
Emotional labour job characteristics in compassion work – differentiating exposure, empathy, compassion, and distancing	12
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	12
Correction	11
Digital interventions to foster resilience in working populations – a systematic review and meta-analysis	11

Work–family conflict and spouse’s job performance: when detaching from home is key	10
The perils of leadership development: unintended consequences for employee withdrawal behaviour and conflict	10
Work stress interventions in an imperfect world	9
Does your work make you a workaholic? Situational triggers and chronic enhancers of state workaholism	9
Is it all about the personal resources? The moderating role of resilience on daily stress appraisal and emotion	9
Exploring stable between-person and dynamic within-person relations between illegitimate tasks and employee wellbeing	8
Interventions against bullying at work: a meta-analysis	8
What really bothers us about work interruptions? Investigating the characteristics of work interruptions and their effects on office workers	8
“It’s a rollercoaster”: the recovery and return to work experiences of workers with long COVID	8
Employees’ experience of supervisor behaviour – a support or a hindrance on their return-to-work journey with a CMD? A qualitative study	8
Materialism predicts burnout through the basic needs: individual-level and within-person longitudinal evidence	7
Job demands, not resources, predict worsening psychological distress during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Career calling in the work stress process: a conceptual and review analysis	7
Is work intensification bad for employees? A review of outcomes for employees over the last two decades	7
The less the better? The effects of changes in illegitimate tasks on exhaustion and uncertainty	7
A longitudinal study on ICT workload in the extended stressor-detachment model: testing moderated mediation models for extended work availability and workplace telepressure	7
The role of leadership practices in the relationship between role stressors and exposure to bullying behaviours – a longitudinal moderated mediation design	6
Development of job burnout and job performance: a latent profile and transition analysis over three years	6
Quantitative process measures in interventions to improve employees’ mental health: A systematic literature review and the IPEF framework	6
Within-person increases in job autonomy linked to greater employee strain	6
Are psychosocial work environments associated with physical activity and sitting during work time? A systematic review and meta-analysis	6
Cherry picking and red herrings creating much ado about nothing: a critique of Bianchi and Schonfeld’s beliefs about burnout	6