OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Industrial Health is 3. 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
Association between job control and psychological health in middle-level managers	33
Relationship between using tables, chairs, and computers and improper postures when doing VDT work in work from home	23
Industrial workers and bullying: a systematic review and meta-analysis of workplace violence	20
Prevalence of coronary heart disease and its risk factors by working environment among Japanese male workers	15
Supporting the management of long-term health risk from night work	15
Reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the New Brief Job Stress Questionnaire (New BJSQ) among workers in China	15
Reliability and validity of the Japanese version of the psychological safety scale for workers	13
The past and future of industrial hygiene in Japan	13
Working Time Traffic Light recommendations: development, use, and implementation in the Finnish social and healthcare	11
Protocol for a web-based study on the work environment and daily lifestyle of Japanese employees	11
Association between long working hours of doctors and the seriousness of adverse events: a cross-sectional study using national adverse event reporting system data in Japan	11
Occupational safety and health in freelancers in Japan	11
Association between home working and mental health by key worker status during the Covid-19 pandemic. Evidence from four British longitudinal studies	10
Farm operations and slips, trips, and falls among corn farm workers in Thailand	9
Multidimensional analysis of schoolteachers’ occupational stress by the New Brief Job Stress Questionnaire: focusing on gender differences	9
Associations between work style and sleep health indicators among Japanese workers: a comparison by chronotype	9
Factors and their age differences associated with low back pain among Japanese workers: a cross-sectional study	8
Stress and the gig economy: it's not all shifts and giggles	7
Symptoms of heat illness and water consumption habits in mine industry workers over the summer months in Australia	7
I watch SEM: continuous time dynamic models with <i>N</i>≥1 smart watch data	7
More effort to deliver evidence globally through <i>Industrial Health</i>	6
Occupational management of low back pain secondary to prolapsed intervertebral disc in a Malaysian healthcare worker: a case report emphasizing ergonomic intervention and risk reduction strategies	6
An occupational group with multiple musculoskeletal trauma and precarious employment: jockeys	6
Psychological hardiness, sleepiness, and fatigue as predictors of occupational errors in nurses: implications for enhancing nurse well-being and patient safety	6
Conflicts in the workplace, negative acts and health consequences: evidence from a clinical evaluation	6

Asian Intensive Reader of Pneumoconiosis program: examination for certification during 2008–2020	5
Uneven distribution of stressful working conditions among Japanese nurses: a secondary analysis of nurses with and without children	5
Association between work content and musculoskeletal disorders among home caregivers: a cross-section study	5
Cross-sectional associations between oral diseases and work productivity loss among regular employees in Japan	5
How changes in laughter predict work engagement and workaholism: reciprocal relationships among Japanese employees	5
Night shift and shift work does not affect automatic cognition as reflected by duration mismatch negativity	5
Measuring the effects of respiratory protective equipment and other protectors in preventing the scattering of vocalization droplets	5
Association between work stress and sleep disturbances: the mediating role of pre-sleep arousal symptoms	5
Database-driven chemical information integration: analysis of substances investigated by the investigative committee on risk assessment for preventing impairment of workers’ health c	4
Poor preparedness of Congolese healthcare workers for Ebola during the 10th outbreak (2018–2020)	4
The husband’s mental health is affected by the wife’s happiness, but not vice versa: a longitudinal observation	4
Home as a new physical workplace: a causal model for understanding the inextricable link between home environment, work productivity, and well-being	4
Increased job strain and cardiovascular disease mortality: a prospective cohort study in U.S. workers	4
Work strain and thermophysiological responses in Norwegian fish farming — a field study	4
Slim larks and overweight owls? A two years dietary intervention in shift workers	4
Work-family conflict and withdrawal behavior among mainland China's IT employees: the mediating role of emotional exhaustion and moderating role of job autonomy	4
Workload predictions from a biomathematical model compared to top-of-descent NASA Task Load Index scores in commercial pilots	3
Frequency of laughter and work engagement among Japanese employees: a cross-sectional study during COVID-19	3
Characteristics of COVID-19 infection clusters occurring among workers in several Asia-Pacific countries	3
Teleworking during COVID-19: experiences from Saudi Arabia	3
Burnout and poor perceived health in flexible working time in Japanese employees: the role of self-endangering behavior in relation to workaholism, work engagement, and job stressors	3
Work-related injuries and compliance with personal protective equipment among migrant workers in Al-Qassim, Saudi Arabia	3
Inter-observer agreement and accuracy in classifying radiographs for pneumoconiosis among Asian physicians taking AIR Pneumo certification examination	3
How can Ministries of Health and Labour add the new indicator on work-related diseases to the monitoring system for the United Nations global goals?	3
A roadmap to improve usage items to enhance the operational effectiveness of occupational safety and health management expense in Korean construction	3
Organizational wellbeing and associated factors in telecommunication workers in Thailand	3
Local effects of printed logos and reflective striping fixed to firefighter clothing material packages under low radiation exposure	3
Concurrent trajectories of occupational groups and sustainable working life—a Swedish twin cohort study over 16 years	3
Supporting the well-being of nurses, paramedics, and firefighters during external crises by managing workload: an umbrella review	3
Protecting sleep for the well-being of physicians and their patients	3
Characteristics of mental disorders among education and learning-support workers in 119 compensated cases in Japan	3
Do holidays change subjective sleep length or sleep debt in shift work disorder?	3
Relationship among work–treatment balance, job stress, and work engagement in Japan: a cross-sectional study	3
Paradox of long working hours: how income levels and satisfaction modify health outcomes	3
Risk factors for resignation from work during pregnancy among Japanese women: a cross-sectional, multicenter questionnaire survey	3
The relationships between coping styles and food intake in shiftworking nurses and midwives: a pilot study	3
Occupational carcinogens in Italy: an overview on exposure to cadmium and its compounds	3
Customer verbal abuse is associated with depressive symptoms among high-workload cosmetics sales workers in South Korea	3
Factors affecting work productivity and activity impairment among chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients	3