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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Workplace bullying, symptoms of anxiety and the interaction with leadership quality – a longitudinal study using dynamic panel models with fixed effects	180
Professional cleaning and risk of asthma – a Danish nationwide register-based study	125
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	72
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	46
Effect of retirement on self-rated oral health and dental services use: longitudinal fixed-effects instrumental variable study in 31 countries	43
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	42
Occupational history of psychosocial work environment exposures and risk of autoimmune rheumatic diseases – a Danish register-based cohort study	40
Night shift work and cardiovascular diseases among employees in Germany: five-year follow-up of the Gutenberg Health Study	38
Healthcare workers’ SARS-CoV-2 infection rates during the second wave of the pandemic: follow-up study	37
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	36
Successful prevention of organic solvent induced disorders: history and lessons	34
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	28
Workplace bullying and risk of suicide and suicide attempts: A register-based prospective cohort study of 98 330 participants in Denmark	24
How effective are organizational-level interventions in improving the psychosocial work environment, health, and retention of workers? A systematic overview of systematic reviews	23
Interaction of night shift work with polymorphism in melatonin receptor 1B gene on incident stroke	23
A meta-analysis of unemployment risk factors for middle-aged workers	22
Occupation and SARS-CoV-2 infection risk among 108 960 workers during the first pandemic wave in Germany	22
Social inequalities in early exit from employment in Germany: a causal mediation analysis on the role of work, health, and work ability	22
Changing of the guards at the Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health	22
Research topics in occupational medicine, 1990–2022: A text-mining-applied bibliometric study	21
Aluminum dust exposure and risk of neurodegenerative diseases in a cohort of male miners in Ontario, Canada	19
Mortality of working-age physicians compared to other high-skilled occupations in Austria from 1998 to 2020	19
The role of working conditions in educational differences in all-cause and ischemic heart disease mortality among Swedish men	19
Can we distinguish the roles of demographic and temporal changes in the incidence and prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders? A systematic review	18
Five decades of occupational cancer epidemiology	17

Work-related sexual and gender harassment: conceptual challenges and the need for evidence-based prevention	17
Trajectories of disability throughout early life and labor force status as a young adult: Results from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children	16
Psychosocial working conditions and sickness absence among younger employees in Denmark: a register-based cohort study using job exposure matrices	15
Association of managerial position with cardiovascular risk factors: A fixed-effects analysis for Japanese employees	15
Office design and occupational health – has research been left behind?	15
Precarious employment at a young age and labor-market marginalization during middle-adulthood: A register-linked cohort study	15
Parental precarious employment and the mental health of adolescents: a Swedish registry study	14
The consequences of after-hours work: a fixed-effect study of burnout, pain, detachment and work–home conflict among Norwegian workers	14
Amendments and corrections	14
The contribution of employer characteristics to continued employment of employees with residual work capacity: evidence from register data in The Netherlands	14
Association between rotating night shift work and carotid intima-media thickness among Chinese steelworkers: a cross-sectional survey	13
Working hours and cardiovascular disease	12
Working life expectancies among individuals with type 1 and type 2 diabetes over a 30-year period	12
The effect of a night shift nap on post-night shift performance, sleepiness, mood, and first recovery sleep: A randomized crossover trial	12
Occupational mechanical exposures as risk factor for chronic low-back pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis	11
Effectiveness of leader-targeted stress management interventions: A systematic review and meta-analysis	11
Short and long-term associations between serum proteins linked to cardiovascular disease and particle exposure among constructions workers	11
Do return-to-work trajectories differ by mental disorder diagnosis? A register study among 37 523 Dutch workers	11
Working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic and its longitudinal association with physical activity and sedentary behavior	10
Respirable crystalline silica and lung cancer in community-based studies: impact of job-exposure matrix specifications on exposure–response relationships	10
Towards a better understanding of work participation among employees with common mental health problems: a systematic realist review	10
An occupational exposure limit for welding fumes is urgently needed	10
Development of a gender-specific European job exposure matrix (EuroJEM) for physical workload and its validation against musculoskeletal pain	9
Job strain and effort-reward imbalance as risk factors for type 2 diabetes mellitus: A systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies	9
The importance of occupation in the development of the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Gender differences in occupational hazard exposures within the same occupation: A nationally representative analysis in South Korea	9
Cancer incidence in sites potentially related to occupational exposures: 58 years of follow-up of firefighters in the Norwegian Fire Departments Cohort	9
COVID-19-related hospital admission in spouses of partners in at-risk occupations	8
The achievements and challenges of occupational health research: Looking back and ahead	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	8
The association of job fatigue with mental disorders among bus drivers	8
The labor market costs of work-related stress: A longitudinal study of 52 763 Danish employees using multi-state modeling	8
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
Economic evaluations in occupational health: what brings the best bang for the buck?	7
Burden of idiopathic inflammatory rheumatic diseases in occupational healthcare: increased absenteeism and healthcare resource utilization	7
Short-term exposure to stone minerals used in asphalt affect lung function and promote pulmonary inflammation among healthy adults	7
Sexual and gender harassment in Swedish workplaces: A prospective cohort study on implications for long-term sickness absence	7
Heat-related illness among workers in British Columbia, Canada: Extreme hot weather in 2021 compared to 2001–2020	7
Could work-related muscle activity explain sex differences in neck pain? A meta-analysis of a pooled dataset	7
Post-COVID condition or “long COVID”, return-to work, and occupational health research	6
The impact of employment on mental healthcare use among people with disability: distinguishing between part- and full-time employment	6
Emotional dissonance and mental health among home-care workers: A nationwide prospective study of the moderating role of leadership behaviors	6
Validity of self-reported night shift work among women with and without breast cancer	6
Occupational risk of COVID-19 across pandemic waves: a two-year national follow-up study of hospital admissions	6
Short- and long-term health effects of job insecurity. Fixed effects panel analysis of German data	6
Physical activity at work may not be health enhancing. A systematic review with meta-analysis on the association between occupational physical activity and cardiovascular disease mortality covering 23	6
A systematic review of the relation between ten potential occupational sensitizing exposures and asthma	6
Impact of employment and income support interventions on the health of young adults with episodic disability: Findings from a systematic review	6
Trajectories of psychosocial working conditions and all-cause and cause-specific mortality: a Swedish register-based cohort study	6