CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF RESEARCH!

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Online-first articles

Original article [online first; 22 August 2025]   pdf
Exposure to protracted low-dose ionizing radiation and incident dementia in a cohort of Ontario nuclear power plant workers
Frangione B, Colman I, Momoli F, Davesne E, Talarico R, Yu C, Villeneuve PJ
 
Original article [online first; 18 August 2025]   pdf
Economic gains from hypothetical improvements in the psychosocial work environment: A cohort study of 71 207 workers in Denmark
Graversen BK, Hansen KS, Rugulies R, Sørensen JK, Larsen AD
 
Original article [online first; 15 August 2025]   pdf
Absence during pregnancy in the Danish workforce: occupational, industrial, and temporal trends in a nationwide register-based cohort study
Begtrup LM, Flachs EM, Wils RS, Mehlum IS, Bonde JPE, Andersen AJ, Frankel HN, Tøttenborg SS, Hougaard KS, Sejbaek CS
 
Original article [online first; 9 August 2025]   pdf
Exposure to heat at work: development of a quantitative European job exposure matrix (heat JEM)
de Crom TOE, Scholten B, Traini E, van der Sanden K, Kingma B, Pekel F, Ghosh M, Notø H, Turner MC, Alba Hidalgo MA, Klous L, Albin M, Kolstad HA, Selander J, Calvin Ge C, Pronk A
 
Review [online first; 25 July 2025]   pdf
Risk factors for voluntary early old-age retirement in middle-aged workers: A meta-analysis
Shiri R, Poutanen J, Haukka E, Härmä M, Ervasti J

Recent most cited articles in Scopus

The following list includes most cited articles published during the previous 36 months.

Review 2023;49(5):315-329   pdf full text
69 citationsHow effective are organizational-level interventions in improving the psychosocial work environment, health, and retention of workers? A systematic overview of systematic reviews
Aust B, Møller JL, Nordentoft M, Frydendall KB, Bengtsen E, Jensen AB, Garde AH, Kompier M, Semmer N, Rugulies R, Jaspers SØ
 
Original article 2024;50(2):73-82   pdf full text
48 citationsGlobal-, regional- and country-level estimates of the work-related burden of diseases and accidents in 2019
Takala J, Hämäläinen P, Sauni R, Nygård C-H, Gagliardi D, Neupane S
 
Original article 2022;48(6):446-456   pdf full text
40 citationsOccupation and SARS-CoV-2 infection risk among 108 960 workers during the first pandemic wave in Germany
Reuter M, Rigó M, Formazin M, Liebers F, Latza U, Castell S, Jöckel K-H, Greiser KH, Michels KB, Krause G, Albrecht S, Öztürk I, Kuss O, Berger K, Lampl BMJ, Leitzmann M, Zeeb H, Starke KR, Schipf S, Meinke-Franze C, Ahrens W, Seidler A, Klee B, Pischon T, Deckert A, Schmidt B, Mikolajczyk R, Karch A, Bohn B, Brenner H, Holleczek B, Dragano N
 
Original article 2023;49(4):293-302   pdf full text
37 citationsHow to assess severe burnout? Cutoff points for the Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT) based on three European samples
Schaufeli WB, De Witte H, Hakanen JJ, Kaltiainen J, Kok R
 
Original article 2022;48(6):457-467   pdf full text
23 citationsChanges in occupational well-being during COVID-19: the impact of age, gender, education, living alone, and telework in a Finnish four-wave population sample
Kaltiainen J, Hakanen J
 
Original article 2022;48(7):549-559   pdf full text
23 citationsCombined psychosocial work factors and risk of long-term sickness absence in the general working population: Prospective cohort with register follow-up among 69 371 workers
Andersen LL, Vinstrup J, Thorsen SV, Pedersen J, Sundstrup E, Rugulies R
 
Original article 2022;48(8):651-661   pdf full text
23 citationsDoes occupational forward bending of the back increase long-term sickness absence risk? A 4-year prospective register-based study using device-measured compositional data analysis
Gupta N, Bjerregaard SS, Yang L, Forsman M, Rasmussen CL, Rasmussen CDN, Clays E, Holtermann A
 
Review 2023;49(4):235-248   pdf full text
23 citationsHow effective are interventions in optimizing workplace mental health and well-being? A scoping review of reviews and evidence map
Waddell A, Kunstler B, Lennox A, Pattuwage L, Grundy EAC, Tsering D, Olivier P, Bragge P
 
Original article 2022;48(6):425-434   pdf full text
22 citationsWorkplace bullying and risk of suicide and suicide attempts: A register-based prospective cohort study of 98 330 participants in Denmark
Conway PM, Erlangsen A, Grynderup MB, Clausen T, Rugulies R, Bjorner JB, Burr H, Francioli L, Garde AH, Hansen ÅM, Hanson LM, Kirchheiner-Rasmussen J, Kristensen TS, Mikkelsen EG, Stenager E, Thorsen SV, Villadsen E, Høgh A
 
Original article 2022;48(8):611-620   pdf full text
22 citationsLongitudinal changes in proportionate mortality due to COVID-19 by occupation in England and Wales
Cherrie M, Rhodes S, Wilkinson J, Mueller W, Nafilyan V, Van Tongeren M, Pearce N

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