OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & Health 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Professional cleaning and risk of asthma – a Danish nationwide register-based study	70
Changes in occupational well-being during COVID-19: the impact of age, gender, education, living alone, and telework in a Finnish four-wave population sample	60
Risk factors for voluntary early old-age retirement in middle-aged workers: A meta-analysis	59
Workplace bullying, symptoms of anxiety and the interaction with leadership quality – a longitudinal study using dynamic panel models with fixed effects	46
Effect of retirement on self-rated oral health and dental services use: longitudinal fixed-effects instrumental variable study in 31 countries	43
Metabolic syndrome increases the risk for premature employment exit: A longitudinal study among 60 427 middle-aged and older workers from the Lifelines Cohort Study and Biobank	43
Occupational history of psychosocial work environment exposures and risk of autoimmune rheumatic diseases – a Danish register-based cohort study	41
Work-family conflicts and sickness absence due to mental disorders among female municipal employees – a register-linked study comparing health and social care employees to employees in other sectors	27
Successful prevention of organic solvent induced disorders: history and lessons	27
Ground reaction force as a factor responsible for the topography of injuries in professional dance. An analysis of three dance styles: classical dance, modern dance, and folk dance	26
Healthcare workers’ SARS-CoV-2 infection rates during the second wave of the pandemic: follow-up study	25
Re: Bonde JPE, Sell L, Flachs EM, Coggon D, Albin M, Hengel KMO, Kolstad H, Mehlum IS, Schlünssen V, Solovieva S, Torén K, Jakobsson K, Nielsen C, Nilsson K, Rylander L, Petersen KU, Tøttenborg SS. Oc	23
A meta-analysis of unemployment risk factors for middle-aged workers	23
Night shift work and cardiovascular diseases among employees in Germany: five-year follow-up of the Gutenberg Health Study	23
The effects of prenatal psychosocial work stress on adverse pregnancy outcomes: A comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis	21
How effective are organizational-level interventions in improving the psychosocial work environment, health, and retention of workers? A systematic overview of systematic reviews	21
Interaction of night shift work with polymorphism in melatonin receptor 1B gene on incident stroke	20
Social inequalities in early exit from employment in Germany: a causal mediation analysis on the role of work, health, and work ability	20
Changing of the guards at the Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health	20
Workplace bullying and risk of suicide and suicide attempts: A register-based prospective cohort study of 98 330 participants in Denmark	18
The role of working conditions in educational differences in all-cause and ischemic heart disease mortality among Swedish men	17
Mortality of working-age physicians compared to other high-skilled occupations in Austria from 1998 to 2020	17
Occupation and SARS-CoV-2 infection risk among 108 960 workers during the first pandemic wave in Germany	17
Can we distinguish the roles of demographic and temporal changes in the incidence and prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders? A systematic review	16
A multi-component intervention (NEXpro) reduces neck pain: a randomized controlled trial among Swiss office workers	15

Work-related sexual and gender harassment: conceptual challenges and the need for evidence-based prevention	15
Five decades of occupational cancer epidemiology	14
Research topics in occupational medicine, 1990–2022: A text-mining-applied bibliometric study	14
Menopause in working life	13
Precarious employment at a young age and labor-market marginalization during middle-adulthood: A register-linked cohort study	13
Psychosocial working conditions and sickness absence among younger employees in Denmark: a register-based cohort study using job exposure matrices	13
Trajectories of disability throughout early life and labor force status as a young adult: Results from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children	13
Association between rotating night shift work and carotid intima-media thickness among Chinese steelworkers: a cross-sectional survey	12
Amendments and corrections	12
Parental precarious employment and the mental health of adolescents: a Swedish registry study	12
Office design and occupational health – has research been left behind?	12
Working hours and cardiovascular disease	12
The consequences of after-hours work: a fixed-effect study of burnout, pain, detachment and work–home conflict among Norwegian workers	12
Short and long-term associations between serum proteins linked to cardiovascular disease and particle exposure among constructions workers	11
Towards a better understanding of work participation among employees with common mental health problems: a systematic realist review	11
Do return-to-work trajectories differ by mental disorder diagnosis? A register study among 37 523 Dutch workers	11
The effect of a night shift nap on post-night shift performance, sleepiness, mood, and first recovery sleep: A randomized crossover trial	10
Occupational mechanical exposures as risk factor for chronic low-back pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis	10
Requirements for occupational exposure limits in psychosocial risk assessment: What we know, what we don’t know and what we can learn from other disciplines	10
Effectiveness of leader-targeted stress management interventions: A systematic review and meta-analysis	10
Working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic and its longitudinal association with physical activity and sedentary behavior	10
Gender differences in occupational hazard exposures within the same occupation: A nationally representative analysis in South Korea	9
An occupational exposure limit for welding fumes is urgently needed	9
Development of a gender-specific European job exposure matrix (EuroJEM) for physical workload and its validation against musculoskeletal pain	9
Respirable crystalline silica and lung cancer in community-based studies: impact of job-exposure matrix specifications on exposure–response relationships	9
The association of job fatigue with mental disorders among bus drivers	9
Cancer incidence in sites potentially related to occupational exposures: 58 years of follow-up of firefighters in the Norwegian Fire Departments Cohort	9
The impact of occupational exposures on infection rates during the COVID-19 pandemic: a test-negative design study with register data of 207 034 Dutch workers	8
The labor market costs of work-related stress: A longitudinal study of 52 763 Danish employees using multi-state modeling	8
The achievements and challenges of occupational health research: Looking back and ahead	8
Economic gains from hypothetical improvements in the psychosocial work environment: A cohort study of 71 207 workers in Denmark	8
COVID-19-related hospital admission in spouses of partners in at-risk occupations	8
The importance of occupation in the development of the COVID-19 pandemic	8
How effective are interventions in optimizing workplace mental health and well-being? A scoping review of reviews and evidence map	8
The association between the use of shift schedule evaluation tool with ergonomics recommendations and occupational injuries: A 4-year prospective cohort study among healthcare workers	7
Immune modulating effects of continuous bioaerosol and terpene exposure over three years among sawmill workers in Norway	7
Emotional dissonance and mental health among home-care workers: A nationwide prospective study of the moderating role of leadership behaviors	7
Short-term exposure to stone minerals used in asphalt affect lung function and promote pulmonary inflammation among healthy adults	7
Workplace violence: A complex challenge demanding a systemic response	7
Could work-related muscle activity explain sex differences in neck pain? A meta-analysis of a pooled dataset	7
Burden of idiopathic inflammatory rheumatic diseases in occupational healthcare: increased absenteeism and healthcare resource utilization	7
Economic evaluations in occupational health: what brings the best bang for the buck?	6
Trajectories of psychosocial working conditions and all-cause and cause-specific mortality: a Swedish register-based cohort study	6
Post-COVID condition or “long COVID”, return-to work, and occupational health research	6
Longitudinal changes in proportionate mortality due to COVID-19 by occupation in England and Wales	6
Heat-related illness among workers in British Columbia, Canada: Extreme hot weather in 2021 compared to 2001–2020	6
Impact of employment and income support interventions on the health of young adults with episodic disability: Findings from a systematic review	6
A systematic review of the relation between ten potential occupational sensitizing exposures and asthma	6
Validity of self-reported night shift work among women with and without breast cancer	6
Short- and long-term health effects of job insecurity. Fixed effects panel analysis of German data	6

Organizational strategies of eldercare work and health – Is the daily number of residents cared for over 14 months associated with back pain?	6
The impact of employment on mental healthcare use among people with disability: distinguishing between part- and full-time employment	6
Occupational risk of COVID-19 across pandemic waves: a two-year national follow-up study of hospital admissions	6