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Occupational Health and Burnout

Occupational Health and Burnout is a research topic within Occupational Therapy. Science Explorer counts 12k research works in it since 1951. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the evaluation of occupational stress, mental health, and psychological distress among healthcare workers and education professionals, particularly nurses and teachers. The papers explore the prevalence of burnout syndrome, work conditions, and the impact on quality of life in these occupational groups.

  • Occupational Stress
  • Mental Health
  • Healthcare Workers
  • Education Professionals
  • Burnout Syndrome
  • Work Conditions
  • Quality of Life
  • Nursing
  • Teachers
  • Psychological Distress
Research works
12k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
1.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+12%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Brazil
83% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Occupational Health and Burnout

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Occupational Health and Burnout research?

By volume, Brazil and Portugal publish the most (2.9k and 168 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Brazil 2.9k works
  2. 2 Portugal 168 works
  3. 3 United States 123 works
  4. 4 Spain 69 works
  5. 5 Mexico 69 works
  6. 6 ?? 48 works
  7. 7 Ecuador 46 works
  8. 8 Peru 33 works
  9. 9 Colombia 32 works
  10. 10 France 23 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Brazil: 82.6%Portugal: 4.8%United States: 3.5%Spain: 2.0%6 others listed: 7.1%83%largest
Brazil2,892 · 82.6%Portugal168 · 4.8%United States123 · 3.5%Spain69 · 2.0%6 others listed250 · 7.1%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Occupational Health and Burnout research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidade de São Paulo publishes the most Occupational Health and Burnout research, followed by Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 86 works
  2. 2 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 52 works
  3. 3 Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 47 works
  4. 4 Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 43 works
  5. 5 Universidade Federal de Santa MariaBrazil 40 works
  6. 6 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 38 works
  7. 7 Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 38 works
  8. 8 Universidade Federal de São PauloBrazil 36 works
  9. 9 Universidade Federal da ParaíbaBrazil 34 works
  10. 10 Universidade Federal de São CarlosBrazil 32 works

Who are the leading researchers in Occupational Health and Burnout?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Occupational Health and Burnout include Mika Kivimäki, Isabela M. Benseñor and Paulo A. Lotufo.

  1. 1 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k citations
  2. 2 Isabela M. Benseñor Brazil 245k citations
  3. 3 Paulo A. Lotufo Brazil 239k citations
  4. 4 Itamar S Santos Brazil 199k citations
  5. 5 Déborah Carvalho Malta Brazil 192k citations
  6. 6 María Inês Schmidt Brazil 163k citations
  7. 7 Wilmar B. Schaufeli Netherlands 158k citations
  8. 8 André Faro Brazil 155k citations
  9. 9 Diego Augusto Santos Silva Brazil 152k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Occupational Health and Burnout?

The most cited paper in Occupational Health and Burnout is "Aplicação da versão em português do instrumento abreviado de avaliação da qualidade de vida "WHOQOL-bref"" (Marcelo PA Fleck, Sérgio Louzada, Marta Kops Xavier et al., 2000), with 1,937 citations. Next come "Os sentidos do trabalho" (1,043) and "Job stressors, personality and burnout in primary school teachers" (958).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Aplicação da versão em português do instrumento abreviado de avaliação da qualidade de vida "WHOQOL-bref" Marcelo PA Fleck, Sérgio Louzada, Marta Kops Xavier et al. · Revista de Saúde Pública Open access Apr 2000 1,937
2 Os sentidos do trabalho Estelle M. Morin · Revista de Administração de Empresas Open access Sep 2001 1,043
3 Job stressors, personality and burnout in primary school teachers Constantinos M. Kokkinos · British Journal of Educational Psychology 14 Sep 2006 958
4 Determinants and prevalence of burnout in emergency nurses: A systematic review of 25 years of research Jef Adriaenssens, Véronique De Gucht, Stan Maes · International Journal of Nursing Studies Review 11 Nov 2014 793
5 Transtornos do humor em enfermaria de clínica médica e validação de escala de medida (HAD) de ansiedade e depressão Neury José Botega, Márcia R. Bio, Maria Adriana Zomignani et al. · Revista de Saúde Pública Open access Oct 1995 738
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Where is Occupational Health and Burnout research done?

The largest centres of Occupational Health and Burnout research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Brasília (Brazil) and Belo Horizonte (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Montes Claros.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 398 works
  2. 2 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 221 works
  3. 3 BrasíliaBrazil 112 works
  4. 4 Belo HorizonteBrazil 109 works
  5. 5 Porto AlegreBrazil 89 works
  6. 6 FortalezaBrazil 86 works
  7. 7 SalvadorBrazil 80 works
  8. 8 RecifeBrazil 80 works
  9. 9 CuritibaBrazil 63 works
  10. 10 BelémBrazil 61 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Montes ClarosBR · 30.5 works88×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Occupational Health and Burnout than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Occupational Health and Burnout?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidade de São Paulo, Universidade Federal de São Paulo and Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 12.59%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidade Federal…Universidade Estadua…Universidade de São …Universidade Federal…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Universidade de São PauloBrazil 81.512.9%12.9×86 +10.7%
2Universidade Federal de São PauloBrazil 81.519.0%25.1×36 +16.2%
3Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 70.011.9%19.3×47 +10.3%
4Universidade Estadual de Montes ClarosBrazil 68.514.2%101.3×30 +63.5%
5Universidade BrasilBrazil 65.610.9%41.6×15 +112.4%
6Universidade Federal de São CarlosBrazil 64.511.3%25.5×32 +35.3%
7Universidade Federal da BahiaBrazil 63.110.9%31.8×30 +1.9%
8Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 62.811.0%20.3×52 -16.6%
9Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)Brazil 62.814.8%13.2×32 -17.3%
10Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 62.59.0%20.2×38 +6.0%

Universities only. The score blends citation excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Occupational Health and Burnout, country by country

Is Occupational Health and Burnout research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Occupational Health and Burnout.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Occupational Health and Burnout as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.015% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Occupational Health and Burnout0.013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Occupational Health and Burnout over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Occupational Health and Burnout10.2% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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