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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Comment to “The Predictive Value of Return-to-Work Self-efficacy for Return to Work Among Employees with Cancer Undergoing Chemotherapy”	57
Suffering of Common Mental Disorders but Still at Work: A Longitudinal Study During Periods of Differences in Regulations for Having Sick Leave	34
Cost-Effectiveness of a Multi-faceted Workplace Intervention to Reduce Musculoskeletal Pain in Nursing Staff: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial (INTEVAL_Spain)	33
Experiences of Working with Lower Limb Osteoarthritis: A Qualitative Study	32
Help! I Need Somebody: Help-Seeking Among Workers with Self-Reported Work-Related Mental Disorders	30
Work-Related Psychosocial Risk and Protective Factors Influencing Workplace Sickness Absence: A Systematic Literature Review	28
Barriers to and Facilitators for Finding and Keeping Competitive Employment: A Focus Group Study on Autistic Adults With and Without Paid Employment	28
Exploring Employer Perspectives on Their Supportive Role in Accommodating Workers with Disabilities to Promote Sustainable RTW: A Qualitative Study	20
Elements of Return-to-Work Interventions for Workers on Long-Term Sick Leave: A Systematic Literature Review	17
Competencies for Physiotherapists Working to Facilitate Rehabilitation, Work Participation and Return to Work for Workers with Musculoskeletal Disorders: A Scoping Review	17
A Decision Aid to Support Vocational Rehabilitation Professionals Offering Tailored Care to Benefit Recipients with a Long-Term Work Disability: A Feasibility Study	15
Reducing Shoulder Complaints in Employees with High Occupational Shoulder Exposures: A Cluster-Randomised Controlled Study (The Shoulder-Café Study)	14
A Framework for Understanding How Variation in Health Care Service Delivery Affects Work Disability Management	14
Correction to: Work-related support in clinical care for patients with a chronic disease: development of an intervention	14
Minds@Work: A New Manualized Intervention to Improve Job Tenure in Psychosis Based on Scoping Review and Logic Model	14
Patients’ Needs Regarding Work-Focused Healthcare: A Qualitative Evidence Synthesis	13
The Dutch Multidisciplinary Occupational Health Guideline to Enhance Work Participation Among Low Back Pain and Lumbosacral Radicular Syndrome Patients	13
Double Trouble! Do Workplace Supports Mitigate Lost Productivity for Young Workers with Both Severe Rheumatic Diseases and Depressive Symptoms?	12
Generalizability of a Musculoskeletal Therapist Electronic Health Record for Modelling Outcomes to Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders	12
Expectations for Return to Work Predict Return to Work in Workers with Low Back Pain: An Individual Participant Data (IPD) Meta-Analysis	12
Effectiveness of Interventions on Work Outcomes After Road Traffic Crash-Related Musculoskeletal Injuries: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis	11
Successful Strategies for Occupational Health and Safety in Small and Medium Enterprises: Insights for a Sustainable Return to Work	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
Therapeutic Approaches for the Prevention of Upper Limb Repetitive Strain Injuries in Work-Related Computer Use: A Scoping Review	11
The Association of Physiotherapy Continuity of Care with Duration of Time Loss Among Compensated Australian Workers with Low Back Pain	11

Psychological Service Utilization and its Impact on Return to Work in Vocational Retraining Centers: A Cohort Study	10
“I Felt Supported by the Peers in My Group”: Analyzing Experiences of Youths with Mental Health Challenges of a Supported Employment Program in Canada	10
A Standpoint Approach to Return-to-Work Coordination: Understanding Union Roles	10
Development of a Programme Theory for Early Intervention Vocational Rehabilitation: A Realist Literature Review	9
Acquired Brain Injury Among Adolescents and Young Adults: A Nationwide Study of Labor Market Attachment	9
Clinician Experiences of and Responses to the Challenges of Working with Patients in the Australian Compensation Setting	9
Effectiveness and Characteristics of Work Participation Interventions for Adults with Musculoskeletal Upper Limb Conditions: A Systematic Review	8
Patterns of Mental Health Service Use in Australian Workers with Low Back Pain: A Retrospective Cohort Study	8
Ethnocultural Minority Workers and Sustainable Return to Work Following Work Disability: A Qualitative Interpretive Description Study	8
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	8
Return to work following long term sickness absence: a comparative analysis of stakeholders’ views and experiences in six European countries	8
Process Evaluation of a Motivational Interviewing Intervention in a Social Security Setting: A Qualitative Study among Work-Disabled Patients	7
A Meta-synthesis of Qualitative Research on Effective Return to Work Counseling for Individuals with Work Participation Restrictions – A Systematic Review	7
Exploring the Occupational Lifestyle Experiences of the Families of Public Safety Personnel	7
Return-to-Work Experiences in Ontario Policing: Injured But Not Broken	7
Validating the Core Set for Vocational Rehabilitation in a Population of Cancer Survivors: A Cross-Sectional Study	7
Intervention challenges experienced in physiotherapy and occupational therapy with workers’ pain and disability representations: a mixed methods study	7
The Social Insurance Literacy Questionnaire (SILQ): Development and Psychometric Evaluation	7
Can General Practitioner Opioid Prescribing to Compensated Workers with Low Back Pain Be Detected Using Administrative Payments Data? An Exploratory Study	7
Correction: Tensions of Low-Back Pain and Lifting; Bridging Clinical Low-Back Pain and Occupational Lifting Guidelines	7
Variation in General Practice Services Provided to Australian Workers with Low Back Pain: A Cross-Jurisdictional Comparative Study	6
The Prevalence and Determinants of Return to Work in Head and Neck Cancer Survivors: A Scoping Review	6
Informal Network Members’ Perspectives and Experiences on Work for People with Intellectual Disabilities: A Thematic Synthesis	6
Employment Sustainability for People with Intellectual Disability: A Systematic Review	6
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	6
Disclosure Decisions of Workers Living with a Chronic Health Condition Causing Disability at Work: Are Decisions to Disclose to Co-workers and Supervisors Different?	6
Disability Phenotypes and Job Accommodations Utilization Among People with Physical Disability	6
Exploration of the Usual Care Pathway for Rotator Cuff Related Shoulder Pain in the Western Australian Workers’ Compensation System	6
What are the Perceptions and Lived Experiences of Canadian Injured Workers about the Provision of Physiotherapy Services using Telerehabilitation?	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
Implementing a Stratified Vocational Advice Intervention for People on Sick Leave with Musculoskeletal Disorders: A Multimethod Process Evaluation	5
Development of a Multimodal, Physiotherapist-Led, Vocational Intervention for People with Inflammatory Arthritis and Reduced Work Ability: A Mixed-Methods Design Study	5
Precision and Recall of Search Strategies for Identifying Studies on Work-Related Psychosocial Risk Factors in PubMed	5
Barriers and Facilitators Associated with Return to Work Following Minor to Serious Road Traffic Musculoskeletal Injuries: A Systematic Review	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
Who Requests and Receives Workplace Accommodations? An Intersectional Analysis	5
Improving Occupational Rehabilitation for People Living with Long COVID	5
Assistive Technology’s Potential to Improve Employment of People with Disabilities	5
Pr. Patrick Loisel (1943–2022): A Pioneer, a Visionary Man, and Founding Father of Work Disability Prevention Research Field and Community	5
Understanding Work Ability in Employees with Pain and Stress-Related Ill-Health: An Explorative Network Analysis of Individual Characteristics and Psychosocial Work Environment	5
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	5
“I grabbed my stuff and walked out”: Precarious workers’ responses and next steps when faced with procedural unfairness during work injury and claims processes	5
Social Insurance Literacy Among the Sick-listed—A Study of Clients’ Comprehension and Self-Rated System Comprehensibility of the Sickness Insurance System	5
Trajectories of Self-Rated Health Among Industrially Disabled Individuals: A Latent Class Growth Analysis	5
How do Employees with Chronic Musculoskeletal Disorders Experience the Management of Their Condition in the Workplace? A Metasynthesis	5
What Predicts Changes in the Work Situation of Recently Diagnosed People with Multiple Sclerosis and do these Predictors also Apply to Healthy People?	5
Integrated Mental Healthcare and Vocational Rehabilitation for People on Sick Leave with Anxiety or Depression: 24-Month Follow-up of the Randomized IBBIS Trial	5
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	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	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

Preference for Competitive Employment in People with Mental Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Proportions	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
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	4
Developing a Training in Motivational Counselling to Promote Return to Work: An Intervention Mapping Approach	4
Effectiveness of a Stigma Awareness Intervention on Reemployment of People with Mental Health Issues/Mental Illness: A Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial	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
Organisational Policies and Practices for the Inclusion of Vulnerable Workers: A Scoping Review of the Employer’s Perspective	4
Perceived Injustice as a Determinant of the Severity of Post-traumatic Stress Symptoms Following Occupational Injury	4
Reliability and Construct Validity of the Work Rehabilitation Questionnaire Domains in Patients with Persistent Low Back Pain	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
Breast Cancer Survivors’ Experiences of Managers’ Actions During the Return to Work Process: A Scoping Review of Qualitative Studies	4
The Prevalence of Mental Health Service Use in Australian Workers with Accepted Workers’ Compensation Claims for Low Back Pain: A Retrospective Cohort Study	4
Videoconference-Supervised Group Exercise Reduces Low Back Pain in Eldercare Workers: Results from the ReViEEW Randomised Controlled Trial	4
Translation and Psychometric Testing of the Hägerbäumer Presenteeism Scale in English	4
Person-, Job-, and Environment-Related Factors Associated with Long-Term Job Retention of People with Physical Disabilities	4
Correction to: Effort-Reward Imbalance at Work and Overcommitment in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI): Associations with Return to Work 6 Months After AMI	4