OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation is 4. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Development of a Programme Theory for Early Intervention Vocational Rehabilitation: A Realist Literature Review	56
Comment to “The Predictive Value of Return-to-Work Self-efficacy for Return to Work Among Employees with Cancer Undergoing Chemotherapy”	41
Trajectories of Vocational Recovery Among Persons with Severe Mental Illness Participating in a Randomized Three-Group Superiority Trial of Individual Placement and Support (IPS) in Denmark	31
Variation in General Practice Services Provided to Australian Workers with Low Back Pain: A Cross-Jurisdictional Comparative Study	28
Therapeutic Approaches for the Prevention of Upper Limb Repetitive Strain Injuries in Work-Related Computer Use: A Scoping Review	24
Clinician Experiences of and Responses to the Challenges of Working with Patients in the Australian Compensation Setting	21
Ethnocultural Minority Workers and Sustainable Return to Work Following Work Disability: A Qualitative Interpretive Description Study	20
Characteristics and Prognostic Factors for Return to Work in Public Safety Personnel with Work-Related Posttraumatic Stress Injury Undergoing Rehabilitation	17
Patients’ Needs Regarding Work-Focused Healthcare: A Qualitative Evidence Synthesis	16
The Social Insurance Literacy Questionnaire (SILQ): Development and Psychometric Evaluation	14
Experiences of Working with Lower Limb Osteoarthritis: A Qualitative Study	14
Return-to-Work Experiences in Ontario Policing: Injured But Not Broken	13
Process Evaluation of a Motivational Interviewing Intervention in a Social Security Setting: A Qualitative Study among Work-Disabled Patients	13
Help! I Need Somebody: Help-Seeking Among Workers with Self-Reported Work-Related Mental Disorders	12
A Standpoint Approach to Return-to-Work Coordination: Understanding Union Roles	11
A Framework for Understanding How Variation in Health Care Service Delivery Affects Work Disability Management	11
Acquired Brain Injury Among Adolescents and Young Adults: A Nationwide Study of Labor Market Attachment	11
Inability to Work Fulltime and the Association with Paid Employment One Year After the Work Disability Assessment: A Longitudinal Register-Based Cohort Study	11
Generalizability of a Musculoskeletal Therapist Electronic Health Record for Modelling Outcomes to Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders	11
Reducing Shoulder Complaints in Employees with High Occupational Shoulder Exposures: A Cluster-Randomised Controlled Study (The Shoulder-Café Study)	11
Is a Problem-Solving Intervention with Workplace Involvement for Employees on Sickness Absence Due to Common Mental Disorders More Effective, than Care as Usual, in Reducing Sickness Absence Days? Res	11
“I Felt Supported by the Peers in My Group”: Analyzing Experiences of Youths with Mental Health Challenges of a Supported Employment Program in Canada	11
Can General Practitioner Opioid Prescribing to Compensated Workers with Low Back Pain Be Detected Using Administrative Payments Data? An Exploratory Study	10
Barriers to and Facilitators for Finding and Keeping Competitive Employment: A Focus Group Study on Autistic Adults With and Without Paid Employment	10
Return to work following long term sickness absence: a comparative analysis of stakeholders’ views and experiences in six European countries	10

Expectations for Return to Work Predict Return to Work in Workers with Low Back Pain: An Individual Participant Data (IPD) Meta-Analysis	10
Competencies for Physiotherapists Working to Facilitate Rehabilitation, Work Participation and Return to Work for Workers with Musculoskeletal Disorders: A Scoping Review	10
Double Trouble! Do Workplace Supports Mitigate Lost Productivity for Young Workers with Both Severe Rheumatic Diseases and Depressive Symptoms?	10
Employment Sustainability for People with Intellectual Disability: A Systematic Review	9
Exploring Employer Perspectives on Their Supportive Role in Accommodating Workers with Disabilities to Promote Sustainable RTW: A Qualitative Study	9
A Decision Aid to Support Vocational Rehabilitation Professionals Offering Tailored Care to Benefit Recipients with a Long-Term Work Disability: A Feasibility Study	8
Elements of Return-to-Work Interventions for Workers on Long-Term Sick Leave: A Systematic Literature Review	8
Disability Phenotypes and Job Accommodations Utilization Among People with Physical Disability	7
Minds@Work: A New Manualized Intervention to Improve Job Tenure in Psychosis Based on Scoping Review and Logic Model	7
Effectiveness of Interventions on Work Outcomes After Road Traffic Crash-Related Musculoskeletal Injuries: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis	7
The Association of Physiotherapy Continuity of Care with Duration of Time Loss Among Compensated Australian Workers with Low Back Pain	7
Psychological Service Utilization and its Impact on Return to Work in Vocational Retraining Centers: A Cohort Study	7
A Meta-synthesis of Qualitative Research on Effective Return to Work Counseling for Individuals with Work Participation Restrictions – A Systematic Review	7
Cost-Effectiveness of a Multi-faceted Workplace Intervention to Reduce Musculoskeletal Pain in Nursing Staff: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial (INTEVAL_Spain)	7
The Prevalence and Determinants of Return to Work in Head and Neck Cancer Survivors: A Scoping Review	7
Patterns of Mental Health Service Use in Australian Workers with Low Back Pain: A Retrospective Cohort Study	7
Exploring the Occupational Lifestyle Experiences of the Families of Public Safety Personnel	7
Successful Strategies for Occupational Health and Safety in Small and Medium Enterprises: Insights for a Sustainable Return to Work	6
Effectiveness and Characteristics of Work Participation Interventions for Adults with Musculoskeletal Upper Limb Conditions: A Systematic Review	6
The Dutch Multidisciplinary Occupational Health Guideline to Enhance Work Participation Among Low Back Pain and Lumbosacral Radicular Syndrome Patients	6
Correction: Tensions of Low-Back Pain and Lifting; Bridging Clinical Low-Back Pain and Occupational Lifting Guidelines	6
Exploration of the Usual Care Pathway for Rotator Cuff Related Shoulder Pain in the Western Australian Workers’ Compensation System	6
Vocational Outcomes of the Individual Placement and Support Model in Subgroups of Diagnoses, Substance Abuse, and Forensic Conditions: A Systematic Review and Analysis of Pooled Original Data	6
Correction to: Work-related support in clinical care for patients with a chronic disease: development of an intervention	6
Work-Related Psychosocial Risk and Protective Factors Influencing Workplace Sickness Absence: A Systematic Literature Review	6
Suffering of Common Mental Disorders but Still at Work: A Longitudinal Study During Periods of Differences in Regulations for Having Sick Leave	5
Barriers and Facilitators Associated with Return to Work Following Minor to Serious Road Traffic Musculoskeletal Injuries: A Systematic Review	5
Informal Network Members’ Perspectives and Experiences on Work for People with Intellectual Disabilities: A Thematic Synthesis	5
Level of and Changes in Perceived Work Ability Among Partial Disability Pensioners and the Risk of Full Disability Pension—A Register-Linked Cohort Study	5
The Influence of Teleworking in a Pandemic Context on the Work Experience of Individuals with Physical Disabilities: A Quebec Qualitative Study	5
Training for Supervisors to Improve Sustainable Employment of Employees with a work Disability: A Longitudinal Effect and Process Evaluation from an Intervention Study with Matched Controls	5
Evaluating the Impact of Intensive Case Management for Severe Vocational Injuries on Work Incapacity and Costs	5
Acute Effects of a Warm-Up Intervention on Pain, Productivity, Physical Capacities and Psychological Perceptions Among Vineyard Workers: a Cluster Randomized Trial	5
Validating the Core Set for Vocational Rehabilitation in a Population of Cancer Survivors: A Cross-Sectional Study	5
Determination of Perceived Levels of Physical Work Demand Thresholds, and Reliability and Responsiveness of the Modified-Spinal Function Sort Questionnaire in a Multidisciplinary Occupational Rehabili	5
Preference for Competitive Employment in People with Mental Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Proportions	5
How do Employees with Chronic Musculoskeletal Disorders Experience the Management of Their Condition in the Workplace? A Metasynthesis	5
Systematic Review to Inform a World Health Organization (WHO) Clinical Practice Guideline: Benefits and Harms of Structured and Standardized Education or Advice for Chronic Primary low back pain in Ad	4
Breast Cancer Survivors’ Experiences of Managers’ Actions During the Return to Work Process: A Scoping Review of Qualitative Studies	4
Economic Evaluation of Inpatient Multimodal Occupational Rehabilitation vs. Outpatient Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Sick-Listed Workers with Musculoskeletal- or Common Mental Disorders	4
Healthy Minds: Group Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention for Sustainable Return to Work After a Sick Leave Due to Depression	4
Precision and Recall of Search Strategies for Identifying Studies on Work-Related Psychosocial Risk Factors in PubMed	4
Videoconference-Supervised Group Exercise Reduces Low Back Pain in Eldercare Workers: Results from the ReViEEW Randomised Controlled Trial	4
Social Insurance Literacy Among the Sick-listed—A Study of Clients’ Comprehension and Self-Rated System Comprehensibility of the Sickness Insurance System	4
Translation and Psychometric Testing of the Hägerbäumer Presenteeism Scale in English	4
Development of a Multimodal, Physiotherapist-Led, Vocational Intervention for People with Inflammatory Arthritis and Reduced Work Ability: A Mixed-Methods Design Study	4
Mental Health Stigma in the Workplace and its Association with Possible Actions of Managers to Prevent Sickness Absence of Employees with Mental Health Problems in the Swedish Private Sector: a Video	4
Systematic Review Procedures for the World Health Organization (WHO) Evidence Syntheses on Benefits and Harms of Structured and Standardized Education/Advice, Structured Exercise Programs, Transcutane	4
Getting the Message Right: Evidence-Based Insights to Improve Organizational Return-to-Work Communication Practices	4
How Much Does Presenteeism Change in Response to Interventions or Alterations in Health Status? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Using the COSMIN Methodology	4

Developing a Training in Motivational Counselling to Promote Return to Work: An Intervention Mapping Approach	4
Work Ability After Anterior Cervical Decompression and Fusion Followed by a Structured Postoperative Rehabilitation: Secondary Outcomes of a Prospective Randomized Controlled Multi-Centre Trial with a	4
Pr. Patrick Loisel (1943–2022): A Pioneer, a Visionary Man, and Founding Father of Work Disability Prevention Research Field and Community	4
A Systematic Review of Job Loss Prevention Interventions for Persons with Inflammatory Arthritis	4
The Role of Perceived Job Exertion and Age as Moderators of the Relationship Between Gender and Upper Extremity Musculoskeletal Disability and Pain in Injured Workers	4