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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Association between job control and psychological health in middle-level managers	23
Relationship between using tables, chairs, and computers and improper postures when doing VDT work in work from home	20
Industrial workers and bullying: a systematic review and meta-analysis of workplace violence	15
Supporting the management of long-term health risk from night work	15
Prevalence of coronary heart disease and its risk factors by working environment among Japanese male workers	15
A panel study of job demands and practices toward infection prevention and control among healthcare workers: the moderating role of competing safety climate constructs	13
The past and future of industrial hygiene in Japan	12
Working Time Traffic Light recommendations: development, use, and implementation in the Finnish social and healthcare	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
Associations between work style and sleep health indicators among Japanese workers: a comparison by chronotype	9
Protocol for a web-based study on the work environment and daily lifestyle of Japanese employees	9
Occupational safety and health in freelancers in Japan	9
Association between home working and mental health by key worker status during the Covid-19 pandemic. Evidence from four British longitudinal studies	8
Multidimensional analysis of schoolteachers’ occupational stress by the New Brief Job Stress Questionnaire: focusing on gender differences	7
Farm operations and slips, trips, and falls among corn farm workers in Thailand	7
Stress and the gig economy: it's not all shifts and giggles	6
Factors and their age differences associated with low back pain among Japanese workers: a cross-sectional study	6
I watch SEM: continuous time dynamic models with <i>N</i>≥1 smart watch data	6
Symptoms of heat illness and water consumption habits in mine industry workers over the summer months in Australia	6
Measuring the effects of respiratory protective equipment and other protectors in preventing the scattering of vocalization droplets	5
How changes in laughter predict work engagement and workaholism: reciprocal relationships among Japanese employees	5
Conflicts in the workplace, negative acts and health consequences: evidence from a clinical evaluation	5
Cross-sectional associations between oral diseases and work productivity loss among regular employees in Japan	5
More effort to deliver evidence globally through <i>Industrial Health</i>	5
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	5

Psychological hardiness, sleepiness, and fatigue as predictors of occupational errors in nurses: implications for enhancing nurse well-being and patient safety	5
An occupational group with multiple musculoskeletal trauma and precarious employment: jockeys	5
Uneven distribution of stressful working conditions among Japanese nurses: a secondary analysis of nurses with and without children	4
The husband’s mental health is affected by the wife’s happiness, but not vice versa: a longitudinal observation	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
Association between work stress and sleep disturbances: the mediating role of pre-sleep arousal symptoms	4
Work strain and thermophysiological responses in Norwegian fish farming — a field study	4
Database-driven chemical information integration: analysis of substances investigated by the investigative committee on risk assessment for preventing impairment of workers’ health c	4
Asian Intensive Reader of Pneumoconiosis program: examination for certification during 2008–2020	4
Night shift and shift work does not affect automatic cognition as reflected by duration mismatch negativity	4
Home as a new physical workplace: a causal model for understanding the inextricable link between home environment, work productivity, and well-being	4
Concurrent trajectories of occupational groups and sustainable working life—a Swedish twin cohort study over 16 years	3
Slim larks and overweight owls? A two years dietary intervention in shift workers	3
Teleworking during COVID-19: experiences from Saudi Arabia	3
Paradox of long working hours: how income levels and satisfaction modify health outcomes	3
Frequency of laughter and work engagement among Japanese employees: a cross-sectional study during COVID-19	3
Characteristics of mental disorders among education and learning-support workers in 119 compensated cases in Japan	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
Increased job strain and cardiovascular disease mortality: a prospective cohort study in U.S. workers	3
Association between impaired objective alertness and poor subjective health: a study on physicians’ work-style reform surveillance in Japan	3
Local effects of printed logos and reflective striping fixed to firefighter clothing material packages under low radiation exposure	3
Work-related injuries and compliance with personal protective equipment among migrant workers in Al-Qassim, Saudi Arabia	3
Protecting sleep for the well-being of physicians and their patients	3
Characteristics of COVID-19 infection clusters occurring among workers in several Asia-Pacific countries	3
Supporting the well-being of nurses, paramedics, and firefighters during external crises by managing workload: an umbrella review	3
Poor preparedness of Congolese healthcare workers for Ebola during the 10th outbreak (2018–2020)	3
Risk factors for resignation from work during pregnancy among Japanese women: a cross-sectional, multicenter questionnaire survey	3
Organizational wellbeing and associated factors in telecommunication workers in Thailand	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