Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Papers
(The median citation count of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 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.)
ArticleCitations
Occupational noise exposure and maternal pregnancy complications: register-based cohort from urban areas in four Nordic countries80
Exposure to low-dose radiation in occupational settings and ischaemic heart disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis54
Occupation-specific risk estimates for suicide and non-fatal self-harm from a Swedish cohort of male construction workers followed 1987–201847
Fatal occupational injuries in North Carolina, 1992–201734
Habitual exercise, chronic exposure to fine particulate matter and high-sensitivity C reactive protein in Asian adults32
Irritant asthma and work: cases from the UK SWORD reporting scheme from 1999 to 201830
Differences in total sleep time and heart rate variability between shift types in firefighters29
Head and neck cancer and asbestos exposure28
Emergency responders’ return to work after injury/disease sustained during periods of extreme bushfires28
Prevalence and severity of abnormal lung function among US former coal miners with and without radiographic coal workers’ pneumoconiosis24
Radon and lung cancer in the pooled uranium miners analysis (PUMA): highly exposed early miners and all miners23
Multilevel approach to individual and organisational predictors of stress and fatigue among healthcare workers of a university hospital: a longitudinal study23
Occupational risk factors for thumb carpometacarpal joint osteoarthritis: a register-based study of construction workers22
Lifelong differences in cancer incidence and mortality between subgroups of similar socioeconomic status in the Royal Norwegian Navy21
Correction:Lifetime exposure to rubber dusts, fumes and N-nitrosamines and cancer mortality in a cohort of British rubber workers with 49 years follow-up20
Association between prolonged exposure to long working hours and stroke subtypes in the CONSTANCES cohort20
Correspondence on ‘Demographic, exposure and clinical characteristics in a multinational registry of engineered stone workers with silicosis’ by Huaet al20
High occupational physical activity and its combined effect with leisure-time physical activity on cardiovascular disease and mortality: systematic reviews and meta-analyses20
Systematic review and meta-analysis of birth weight and perfluorohexane sulfonate exposures: examination of sample timing and study confidence20
Correction:Insufficient respiratory hazard identification in the safety data sheets for cleaning and disinfection products used in healthcare organisations across England and Wales19
Identifying occupational health inequities in the absence of suitable data: are there inequities in access to adequate bathrooms in US workplaces?19
Legionnaires’ disease in transportation, construction and other occupations in 39 US jurisdictions, 2014–201619
Occupational differences in the prevalence and severity of long-COVID: analysis of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infection Survey19
Industry-specific prevalence of elevated blood lead levels among Pennsylvania workers, 2007–201819
Effectiveness of adding motivational interviewing or a stratified vocational advice intervention to usual case management on return to work for people w19
Four-year follow-up of surface contamination by antineoplastic drugs in a compounding unit18
Dupuytren’s disease and occupational mechanical exposures: a systematic review and meta-analysis18
Relationships between asbestos exposure and pleural plaques: dose and time effects using fractional polynomials17
Benzene exposure and risk of benzene poisoning in Chinese workers17
Exposure to fibres and risk of pleural mesothelioma in the Norwegian Offshore Petroleum Workers cohort17
Occupational risk assessment: lessons from the MSHA Silica Rule17
Occupational exposure to respirable and inhalable dust and its components in a Nicaraguan sugarcane plantation15
Occupational exposure to extremely low-frequency magnetic fields and follicular lymphoma risk: a family case–control study15
Epidemiology of work-related fall injuries resulting in hospitalisation: individual and work risk factors and severity15
Career duration and later-life health conditions among former professional American-style football players15
Outbreak of lead poisoning from a civilian indoor firing range in the UK15
Impact of occupational asthma on health and employment status: a long-term follow-up study15
Finger blood flow (FBF) measurement among vibration-exposed groundskeepers: a pilot study in the southeastern USA15
Work-related asthma symptoms and lung function among workers in the Norwegian salmon processing industry: a cross-sectional study15
Occupational physical demands and menstrual cycle irregularities in flight attendants and teachers14
Increased risk of incident knee osteoarthritis in those with greater work-related physical activity14
Magnetic fields from indoor transformer stations and risk of cancer in adults: a cohort study14
Association of occupational and environmental clinics exposure code system and criteria for substances that cause work-related asthma14
Ever and cumulative occupational exposure and lung function decline in longitudinal population-based studies: a systematic review and meta-analysis14
Are we underestimating indoor radon exposure in radon priority areas?14
Thin seams and small mines are associated with higher exposures to respirable crystalline silica in US underground coal mines13
Increased odds of mortality from non-malignant respiratory disease and lung cancer are highest among US coal miners born after 193913
Exploring the role of silica exposure in the aetiology of interstitial lung disorders13
Long-term clinical follow-up of irritant-induced occupational asthma13
COP27 climate change conference: urgent action needed for Africa and the world12
Occupational exposure to respirable crystalline silica and incident idiopathic interstitial pneumonias and pulmonary sarcoidosis: a national prospective follow-up study12
How serious are we about protecting workers health? The case of diesel engine exhaust12
Comparison of factors associated with postpartum depression from two cohorts of nurses: the Korea Nurses’ Health Study and the Nurses’ Health Study 311
Mild traumatic brain injury caused by workplace violence in a US workers’ compensation system11
Disparities in death at work: reflections on occupational injury fatality data11
Are state abortion bans an occupational health hazard for obstetrician-gynaecologists? Findings from a multistate qualitative study10
Occupational biomechanical risk factors for carpal tunnel syndrome surgery: a prospective cohort study on 203 866 Swedish male construction workers followed for 19 years10
Who tests for lead and why? A 10-year analysis of blood lead screening, follow-up and CNS outcomes in a statewide US healthcare system10
Applying a ‘presumably plausible’ principle in a new one-time financial compensation system for occupational diseases in the Netherlands10
Chronic respiratory symptoms following deployment-related occupational and environmental exposures among US veterans10
Cancer risk among firefighters and police in the Ontario workforce10
Rest, shade, hydration and hygiene for the prevention of kidney injuries and inflammation in a Nicaraguan sugarcane worker cohort10
Relationship between trauma, psychological distress and help-seeking among corrective service workers10
Differences in COVID-19 vaccination coverage by occupation in England: a national linked data study9
Effects of work-related electronic communication during non-working hours after work from home and office on fatigue, psychomotor vigilance performance and actigraphic sleep: observational study on in9
Volume-based tomography for the diagnosis of incipient silicosis in former gold miners9
Mental health effects of unemployment and re-employment: a systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies9
Correction: Bladder cancer incidence among workers exposed to o-toluidine, aniline and nitrobenzene at a rubber chemical manufacturing plant9
Pulmonary hypertension in patients with pneumoconiosis with progressive massive fibrosis9
Night shift work and risk of colorectal cancer: a prospective cohort study among 56 477 female nurses in the Netherlands8
Unemployment due to the SARS-CoV-2-pandemic among people with and without severe disabilities: a difference-in-differences analysis8
Physical activity interventions and musculoskeletal health in surgeons: a systematic review and meta-analysis8
Ethnic inequalities among NHS staff in England: workplace experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic8
Trends in fatal occupational injury rates among older workers before and after the Great Recession of 20088
Impact of occupational pesticide exposure assessment method on risk estimates for prostate cancer, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and Parkinson’s disease: results of three meta-analyses8
Estimating the relationship between precarious employment and occupational injury: do the registry data tell the whole story?8
OPERAS decision support system versus manual job coding: a quantitative analysis on coding time and inter-coder reliability8
Firefighter occupational factors and the risk of preterm birth: results from a survey of women firefighters in the USA8
Response to: Correspondence on “Association between occupational exposure to irritant agents and a distinct asthma endotype in adults” by Andrianjafimasy et al8
Repeat measures of DNA methylation in an inception cohort of firefighters8
Occupational risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection: a nationwide register-based study of the Danish workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020–20218
Trends in work-related respiratory diseases attributed to nickel, chromium and cobalt in the UK: descriptive findings from The Health and Occupation Research (THOR) network 1996–20198
Mortality and cancer incidence in a population exposed to TCDD after the Seveso, Italy, accident (1976–2013)8
Effects of consecutive workdays and days off on low back pain, fatigue and stress: prospective cohort study among warehouse and construction workers8
Response to comment by Erren and Morfeld on our paper ‘Night work and breast cancer risk in a cohort of female healthcare employees in Stockholm, Sweden’7
Herbicide use in farming and other jobs in relation to non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) risk7
Trajectories of work ability and associated work unit characteristics from pre-COVID to post-COVID pandemic period7
Prenatal and early life exposure to air pollution and the risk of severe lower respiratory tract infections during early childhood: the Espoo Cohort Study7
Emotional demands at work and risk of disability pension: a nationwide cohort study in Denmark7
Comment on ‘Measuring lung diffusing capacity: an opportunity for improved medical surveillance and disability evaluation of coal miners’7
Lack of association of impaired upper airway sensation with the presence or absence of obstructive sleep apnoea or chronic rhinosinusitis in World Trade Center responders7
Poor adherence to dust, noise and safety regulations predict injury rates in underground coal mines7
Trajectories of mental health among UK university staff and postgraduate students during the pandemic7
A less detailed job axis in a quantitative job-exposure matrix results in a similar exposure-response association7
Individual responses to the implementation of mandatory fitness testing within a fire department7
Dose-response relationship of cadmium and pancreatic cancer risk: a meta-analysis7
Correspondence on “Association between occupational exposure to irritant agents and a distinct asthma endotype in adults” by Andrianjafimasy et al7
COPD mortality among workers in the construction industry, by occupation: USA, 2021–20227
Impact of legislative reform on worker fatalities in New Zealand workplaces: a 30-year retrospective population-level analysis7
National examination of occupational hazards in emergency medical services7
Precarious employment in young adulthood and later alcohol-related morbidity: a register-based cohort study6
Airborne occupational exposures associated with pulmonary sarcoidosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis6
Sex and race disparities in the association between work characteristics and vitamin D deficiency: findings from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2005–20106
Workplace mental health screening: a systematic review and meta-analysis6
Measuring lung diffusing capacity: an opportunity for improved medical surveillance and disability evaluation of coal miners6
Impact of sedentary behaviour reduction on desk-worker workplace satisfaction, productivity, mood and health-related quality of life: a randomised trial6
Surveillance is the first step to preventing injury among fast jet aircrew: results of a 2-year prospective cohort study6
Long-term exposure to air pollution and COVID-19 incidence: a prospective study of residents in the city of Varese, Northern Italy6
Gene–occupational exposure interactions in small airways obstruction in the UK Biobank: a cross-sectional study6
Occupational noise exposure and risk of incident stroke: a pooled study of five Scandinavian cohorts6
Thoughts on adding diffusing capacity to medical surveillance of coal miners6
Benzene exposure and risk of lung cancer in the Norwegian Offshore Petroleum Worker cohort: a prospective case-cohort study6
Increased all-cause mortality following occupational injury: a comparison of two states6
Incident skin melanoma in Danish male military pilots: a nested case–control study6
Occupational asthma in the salmon processing industry: a case series6
Dying for sport6
Health burdens of uranium miners will extend beyond the radiation exposure compensation act deadline6
Correction:What role for asbestos in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis? Findings from the IPF job exposures case–control study6
Gender and sex differences in occupation-specific infectious diseases: a systematic review5
Lung cancer mortality in the European cohort of titanium dioxide workers: a reanalysis of the exposure–response relationship5
Job control, job demands and job strain and suicidal behaviour among three million workers in Sweden5
Keratinocyte carcinoma as an occupational disease5
Characteristics of exposure to 10 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon metabolites among pregnant women: cohort of pregnant women in Zunyi, southwest China5
Night work during pregnancy and small for gestational age: a Danish nationwide register-based cohort study5
Respiratory symptoms, airflow obstruction and asthma in a cohort of workers from the stone benchtop industry5
Agricultural exposure and risk of ovarian cancer in the AGRIculture and CANcer (AGRICAN) cohort5
Sick leave due to COVID-19 during the first pandemic wave in France, 20205
Health Hazard Evaluations of occupational cancer cluster concerns: the USA, January 2001–December 20205
Cancer and mortality in coal mine workers: a systematic review and meta-analysis5
Prenatal occupational disinfectant exposure and childhood allergies: the Japan Environment and Children’s study5
Shiftwork, long working hours and markers of inflammation in a national US population-based sample of employed black and white men and women aged ≥45 years5
Estimated exposure to endotoxin and circulating immunological markers among male farmers in the Biomarkers of Exposure and Effect in Agriculture study5
Coworkers are more likely than patients to transmit SARS-CoV-2 infection to healthcare personnel5
Observational study on occupational exposure of dairy farmers to formaldehyde5
Effectiveness of the Coordinated Return to Work model after orthopaedic surgery for lumbar discectomy and hip and knee arthroplasty: a register-based study5
Vitamin D levels in Portuguese Navy military personnel: a cross-sectional study4
Occupational risk factors for work disability following carpal tunnel syndrome: a pooled prospective study4
Incident hypertension in relation to aircraft noise exposure: results of the DEBATS longitudinal study in France4
Should engineered stone products be banned?4
Occupation, work-related contact and SARS-CoV-2 anti-nucleocapsid serological status: findings from the Virus Watch prospective cohort study4
Response to: Comment on ‘Measuring lung diffusing capacity: an opportunity for improved medical surveillance and disability evaluation of coal miners’ by Cetintepe and Ilhan4
Variation in occupational exposure risk for COVID-19 workers’ compensation claims across pandemic waves in Ontario4
Critical reviews of exposure assessment in carcinogenic hazard identification: the IARCMonographsexperience4
Subtle exposures, invisible outcomes, real suffering: sex, gender and occupational health4
Ending nuclear weapons, before they end us4
Vitamin D status in active duty Navy military personnel: a systematic review4
Occupational trichloroethylene exposure and antinuclear antibodies: a cross-sectional study in China4
Investigating the relationship between melatonin patterns and methylation in circadian genes among day shift and night shift workers4
Research and public health prevention policies of occupational heat exposure in Italy4
Night work and breast cancer risk in a cohort of female healthcare employees in Stockholm, Sweden4
Secular trends in gabapentinoid dispensing by compensated workers with low back pain: a retrospective cohort study4
Exploration of associations between occupational exposures and current adult eczema4
Does radon cause diseases other than lung cancer? Findings on mortality within the German uranium miners cohort study, 1946–20184
Seroprevalence of the SARS-CoV-2 antibody in healthcare workers: a multicentre cross-sectional study in 10 Colombian cities4
Time off work following psychological injury among health and social care workers: a population-based retrospective cohort study in New South Wales, Australia4
Deployment to bases with open burn pits and mortality of US Military Veterans4
Occupational COVID-19: can we claim that compensation is causation?4
Autoimmune diseases, autoantibody status and silicosis in a cohort of 1238 workers from the artificial stone benchtop industry4
Person-related work and the risk of type 2 diabetes: a Swedish register-based cohort study4
How is the mental health of teachers faring? A 10-year follow-up study of depressive symptoms and job dissatisfaction in the CONSTANCES cohort4
Towards more inclusive practices for gender-diverse people in occupational health research4
Correction:Night work during pregnancy and small for gestational age: a Danish nationwide register-based cohort study4
Cumulative occupational exposure to gases and fumes is associated with impairment in lung function and disease-related quality of life in a German COPD patient cohort4
SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence among firefighters in Los Angeles, California4
Systematic scoping review of occupational health injuries and illnesses among Indigenous workers4
Mortality follow-up of Fernald Feed Materials Production Center workers exposed to uranium from 1951 to 19853
Non-malignant kidney diseases in Danish firefighters3
Rotating shift work, with night shift work, affects cardiovascular risk factors: a 6-year follow-up study in the insulation industry3
Excess potential years of working life lost in six countries from Latin America and Europe in 2020 and 20213
Recognition of COVID-19 with occupational origin: a comparison between European countries3
Incidence of mesothelioma in young people and causal exposure to asbestos in the Italian national mesothelioma registry (ReNaM)3
Feasibility and sustainability of working in different types of jobs after total hip arthroplasty: analysis of longitudinal data from two cohorts3
Social inequalities, stressful work and non-fatal cardiovascular disease: follow-up findings from the CONSTANCES Study3
Advancing global public health with occupational epidemiology3
Alterations to biomarkers related to long-term exposure to diesel exhaust at concentrations below occupational exposure limits in the European Union and the USA3
Associations between shift work arrangements, sleep characteristics, urinary cortisol and melatonin levels among nurses in Hong Kong3
Maternal occupational exposure to noise: prevalence, maternal effects and infant outcomes in the National Birth Defects Prevention Study, 1997–20113
Assessing the relationship between hypospadias risk and parental occupational exposure to potential endocrine-disrupting chemicals3
Assessing the work relatedness of diagnoses in occupational health primary care appointments: a 3-year review of electronic medical records3
Sarin exposure, mortality and cancer incidence in UK military veterans involved in human experiments at Porton Down: 52-year follow-up3
COVID-19 risk by work-related factors: pooled analysis of individual linked data from 14 cohorts3
Occupational exposure and chronic bronchitis in a sample of the general population in Telemark, Norway: a two-phased cross-sectional study3
Comparison of cancer incidence and mortality in the Norwegian Fire Departments Cohort, 1960–20183
Asthma in pesticide users: an update from the Great Britain Prospective Investigation of Pesticide Applicators’ Health (PIPAH) cohort study3
Doctors’ perceived working conditions, psychological health and patient care: a meta-analysis of longitudinal studies3
Neglecting equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) is a choice with consequences for occupational health3
Correspondence on: Household use of crop residues and fuelwood for cooking and newborn birth size in rural Bangladesh by Leeet al3
Prevalence and correlates of workplace violence: descriptive results from the National Transgender Discrimination Survey3
Estimating impacts of reducing acrylonitrile exposure on lung cancer mortality in an occupational cohort with the parametric g-formula3
Characteristics of long working hours and subsequent psychological and physical responses: JNIOSH cohort study3
Introducing LTASR, a new R package based on the NIOSH Life Table Analysis System3
Impact of asthma on working life: an analysis of the French CONSTANCES cohort3
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sick leave among healthcare workers: a register-based observational study3
Associations between high ambient temperatures and asthma exacerbation among children in Philadelphia, PA: a time series analysis3
Understanding current and projected emergency department presentations and associated healthcare costs in a changing thermal climate in Adelaide, South Australia3
Fertility in a prospective Canadian cohort of women in the welding and electrical trades3
Occupational risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection and reinfection during the second pandemic surge: a cohort study3
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