OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Psychological Service Utilization and its Impact on Return to Work in Vocational Retraining Centers: A Cohort Study	67
Reducing Shoulder Complaints in Employees with High Occupational Shoulder Exposures: A Cluster-Randomised Controlled Study (The Shoulder-Café Study)	62
The Association of Physiotherapy Continuity of Care with Duration of Time Loss Among Compensated Australian Workers with Low Back Pain	47
A Scoping Review of Vocational Rehabilitation Programs for People with Acquired Physical Disabilities	37
Therapeutic Approaches for the Prevention of Upper Limb Repetitive Strain Injuries in Work-Related Computer Use: A Scoping Review	29
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	28
Occupational Factors and Labor Market Outcomes Among Individuals with Sickness Absence due to Common Mental Disorders: A Population-Wide Cohort Study	26
Disability Phenotypes and Job Accommodations Utilization Among People with Physical Disability	25
Barriers to and Facilitators for Finding and Keeping Competitive Employment: A Focus Group Study on Autistic Adults With and Without Paid Employment	22
Successful Strategies for Occupational Health and Safety in Small and Medium Enterprises: Insights for a Sustainable Return to Work	20
Return-to-Work Experiences in Ontario Policing: Injured But Not Broken	20
Occupational Exoskeletons as a Technological Solution for Musculoskeletal Disorders: A Systematic Review of Barriers and Facilitators for Sustainable Workplace Integration	19
Patients’ Needs Regarding Work-Focused Healthcare: A Qualitative Evidence Synthesis	18
Generic and Disease-Specific Themes in Occupational Reflections of Patients in Cardiac, Cancer and Orthopedic Rehabilitation: An Interview Study	17
Suffering of Common Mental Disorders but Still at Work: A Longitudinal Study During Periods of Differences in Regulations for Having Sick Leave	17
How Much Does Presenteeism Change in Response to Interventions or Alterations in Health Status? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Using the COSMIN Methodology	16
Understanding Work Ability in Employees with Pain and Stress-Related Ill-Health: An Explorative Network Analysis of Individual Characteristics and Psychosocial Work Environment	15
Changes and Determinants of Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with Work-Related Traumatic Musculoskeletal Injuries: A Longitudinal Analysis of HRQoL and the EQ-VAS	14
Mapping the Landscape of Work Rehabilitation Education in Physiotherapy Programs: Findings from a Cross-Sectional Survey in Quebec	13
Return to Work After Lower Limb Amputation: A Critical Challenge in Jordan’s Socioeconomic and Healthcare Context	13
Precision and Recall of Search Strategies for Identifying Studies on Work-Related Psychosocial Risk Factors in PubMed	13
Timing Return-to-Work Counseling: An Observational Study Into the Effect of Time to First Consultation on Return to Work	12
Advancing Work-Related Musculoskeletal Pain Science in the Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation: Time to Fully Adopt Biopsychosocial Approaches?	12
The Job Demands and Accommodation Planning Tool (JDAPT): A Nine-Month Evaluation of Use, Changes in Self-efficacy, Presenteeism, and Absenteeism in Workers with Chronic and Episodic Disabilities	12
Return to Work and Psychosocial Adaptation Trajectories in Young and Middle-Aged Patients with Stroke: A 12-Month Longitudinal Cohort Study	12

Implementing the GUideline for Intervention DEscription in Rehabilitation (GUIDE-Rehab) Within Work Disability Prevention Research	12
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	11
Effectiveness of a Stigma Awareness Intervention on Reemployment of People with Mental Health Issues/Mental Illness: A Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial	11
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	11
Determinants of Sustainable Return to Work After Burnout or Depression: A Longitudinal Cohort Study	11
Tensions of Low-Back Pain and Lifting; Bridging Clinical Low-Back Pain and Occupational Lifting Guidelines	10
Promoting Job Quality and Career Advancement Among Persons with Disabilities During Critical Career Transitions: A Scoping Review of Published Evidence	10
Lifestyle Dimensions of Public Safety Personnel Families: There’s No Life Like It	10
What Works (or Doesn’t) in Return to Work after Physical Injury? A Qualitative Study on the Perspectives of Trauma Patients and Health Care Professionals on Barriers and Facilitators in Return to Work	10
Novel Internet Support for Neck-Specific Rehabilitation Improves Work-Related Outcomes to the Same Extent as Extensive Visits to a Physiotherapy Clinic in Individuals with Chronic Whiplash-Associated	10
Reliability and Construct Validity of the Work Rehabilitation Questionnaire Domains in Patients with Persistent Low Back Pain	10
A Multi-component Intervention (NEXpro) Reduces Neck Pain-Related Work Productivity Loss: A Randomized Controlled Trial Among Swiss Office Workers	10
The Cross-Country Comparison Model for Labor Participation (CCC Model for LP) of Persons with Chronic Diseases	10
Importance of Health Policy and Systems Research for Strengthening Rehabilitation in Health Systems: A Call to Action to Accelerate Progress	10
Correction: Organisational Policies and Practices for the Inclusion of Vulnerable Workers: A Scoping Review of the Employer’s Perspective	10
Reliability of a Spinal Cord Injury-Specific Extension of the Work Rehabilitation Questionnaire (WORQ-SCI)	10
Exploring Canadian Career Firefighters’ Understanding of the Return-to-Work Process After Musculoskeletal Injuries	9
What is the Meaning of Paid Employment for Well-Being? A Focus Group Study on Differences and Similarities Between Autistic Adults With and Without Employment	9
Effective Teams in Vocational Rehabilitation: An Exploration of Complexities and Practice in Aotearoa-New Zealand	9
Sustainable Employability of People with Limited Capability for Work: The Participatory Development and Validation of a Questionnaire	9
Long COVID and the Challenge of Long-Term Employment: An Ecological, Sequential Explanatory Mixed-Methods Approach	9
Strengthening the IPS Workforce: Designing a Competency-Based IPS Workforce Development Framework for Headspace Centres in Australia	9
Obstacles, Self-Efficacy, and Strategies for Returning to Work after Experiencing Burnout: Paving the Path to Sustainable Reintegration	9
General Practitioner Service Use Before and After Long-Term Workplace Injury: A Retrospective Cohort Study	8
Factors Associated with Negative Experiences and Mental Ill Health During a Workers’ Compensation Claim: A Mixed Methods Study	8
Validity of the Capacity to Work Index: Development of an Instrument to Measure Work Capacity in Relation to Depression and Anxiety in the General Working Population	8
Effectiveness of Physical Activity Interventions on Return to Work After a Cancer Diagnosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis	8
The Longitudinal Relationship Between Self-Efficacy and Job Satisfaction Among Workers with Disabilities in South Korea: An Autoregressive Cross-Lagged Panel Analysis	8
Global statements to produce and implement evidence in the post-COVID-19 era provide a path forward for rehabilitation - A joint initiative of Cochrane Rehabilitation and the leading journals in the f	8
Increased Use and Large Variation in Strong Opioids and Metamizole (Dipyrone) for Minor and Major Musculoskeletal Injuries Between 2008 and 2018: An Analysis of a Representative Sample of Swiss Worker	8
Negotiating Safety: Facilitation of Return to Work for Individuals Employed in High-Risk Occupations	8
Including ‘Work as a Treatment Goal’ in the Care for Patients with Chronic Diseases	7
Exploring Work Absences and Return to Work During Social Transition and Following Gender-Affirming Care, a Mixed-Methods Approach: ‘Bridging Support Actors Through Literacy’	7
Assisting Employers of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) to Support Employees on Long-Term Sick-Leave: Development of a Web-Based SME Tool Using Intervention Mapping	7
Return to Work for People with Common Mental Disorders: Insights into the Implementation of a Collaborative Program in a Specialized Mental Health Hospital	7
The Lived Experience of Return to Work in Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury in Saudi Arabia: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis	7
Self-Perceived Interpersonal Problems Among Long-Term Unemployed Individuals, and Vocational Rehabilitation Programs (In)ability to Change Them	7
Incidence Rates and Predictors of Recurrent Long-Term Mental Sickness Absence Due to Common Mental Disorders	7
Associations between Psychosocial Working Conditions and Work-Specific Self-Efficacy Beliefs Among Employees Receiving Psychotherapeutic Consultation at Work	7
Work-Related Fear-Avoidance Beliefs and Risk of Low-Back Pain: Prospective Cohort Study Among Healthcare Workers	7
Job Accommodations for People with Physical Disabilities: Findings of a United States National Survey	7
Early Prognostic Factors for Claim Cost and Claim Duration Following a Work-Related Back Injury in Saskatchewan, Canada	7
Barriers and Facilitators for Interprofessional Education in Work-Focused Healthcare: An Integrative Review	7
Work Participation of Hematological Cancer Survivors After Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation: A Scoping Review	6
Indirect Costs Related to Productivity Loss, Work-Related Quality of Life, and Resource Utilization in Workers with Multiple Sclerosis	6
The Prevalence of Mental Health Service Use in Australian Workers with Accepted Workers’ Compensation Claims for Low Back Pain: A Retrospective Cohort Study	6
Predictors of Mental Health–Related Sick Leave at Referral to Clinical Psychology: A Population-Based Study Using Electronic Health Records	6
What is Safe Long COVID Rehabilitation?	6
Acquired Brain Injury Among Adolescents and Young Adults: A Nationwide Study of Labor Market Attachment	6
Description of Managers’ Competencies in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: A Scoping Review	6

Conceptualizing Stigma in the Injured Worker Literature: A Scoping Review	6
Clinician Experiences of and Responses to the Challenges of Working with Patients in the Australian Compensation Setting	6
Elements of Return-to-Work Interventions for Workers on Long-Term Sick Leave: A Systematic Literature Review	6
Trajectories of Work Absence in England due to a Musculoskeletal or Mental Health Condition: An Electronic Health Record Cohort Study	6
Cross-Jurisdiction Comparative Research in Work Disability Prevention: Introduction to the Special Series	6
Work Difficulties in People with Multiple Sclerosis	6
Effectiveness and Characteristics of Work Participation Interventions for Adults with Musculoskeletal Upper Limb Conditions: A Systematic Review	6
Experiences of Working with Lower Limb Osteoarthritis: A Qualitative Study	6
Establishing Key Domains for Measuring Workplace Mental Health: The Indicators of A Thriving Workplace Survey	6
Exploring the Applicability and Relevance of the Seven Principles for Successful Return to Work in Practice: A Qualitative Analysis of the Perspectives of Disability Managers, Case Managers, and Retur	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	5
Acute Effects of a Warm-Up Intervention on Pain, Productivity, Physical Capacities and Psychological Perceptions Among Vineyard Workers: a Cluster Randomized Trial	5
Assessing Functional Limitations in Workers with a Common Mental Disorder or a Musculoskeletal Disorder: A Scoping Review of Questionnaires	5
Effects of Reducing the Number of Quick Returns (< 11 h off Between Shifts) on Turnover Intention and Job Satisfaction: a Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial Among Healthcare Workers	5
“We [have] to Get Them Coming Back to Work … Make The Offer, Make It Available, Make It Meaningful:” Returning to Work at a Canadian Municipal Police Service	5
Barriers and Facilitators of Implementing Workplace Interventions Supporting Young Workers’ Safety, Work Environment and Health: A Scoping Review of Qualitative and Mixed-Method Studies	5
Workplace Programs to Reduce Post-traumatic Stress Injuries Work Disability: First Responder Experiences	5
Assessing the Effect of a Rehabilitation Intervention on Exhaustion Disorders, Depression, and Return to Work: A Randomized Controlled Trial	5
Assessing Work Functioning in Patients with Persistent Low Back Pain: Exploring the Structural Validity of the Work Rehabilitation Questionnaire	5
Fostering Stay at Work After a Period of Disability: A Scoping Review of Occupational Rehabilitation Strategies to Support Workers in the Adoption of Preventive Behaviours	5
Residual Work Capacity and (In)Ability to Work Fulltime Among a Year-Cohort of Disability Benefit Applicants Diagnosed with Mental and Behavioural Disorders	5
Cross-Sectional Associations Between Overall and Task-Specific Physical Work Demands and Sustainable Employability Among Dutch Firefighters: Results from the SEmFire 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
Pre-existing anxiety and depression disorders and return to work after musculoskeletal strain or sprain: a phased-based approach	5
Trajectory and Predictors of Return-to-Work Outcomes for People After a Road Traffic Injury: A Prospective Cohort Study	5
Regional Variation in Management Strategies for Occupational Low Back Pain in Australia	5