Workplace Health and Well-being
Workplace Health and Well-being is a research topic within General Health Professions. Science Explorer counts 27k research works in it since 1950. 31.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers focuses on the impact of work-related stress, psychosocial work environment, and job strain on employee health, including sickness presenteeism, absenteeism, and the development of depressive symptoms. It also explores the effectiveness of worksite health promotion programs and the association between effort-reward imbalance at work and various health outcomes, such as cardiovascular disease.
- Work-related Stress
- Psychosocial Work Environment
- Sickness Presenteeism
- Job Strain
- Health Impact
- Worksite Health Promotion
- Effort-Reward Imbalance
- Depressive Symptoms
- Absenteeism
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Research works
- 27k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 8.5k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 31.5% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +24% the tick is no change
This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.
Which countries lead Workplace Health and Well-being research?
By volume, the United States and Germany publish the most (856 and 471 works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 United States 856 works
- 2 Germany 471 works
- 3 China 324 works
- 4 United Kingdom 284 works
- 5 Japan 227 works
- 6 Sweden 220 works
- 7 Canada 219 works
- 8 Australia 209 works
- 9 Brazil 186 works
- 10 Netherlands 181 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.
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Which institutions lead Workplace Health and Well-being research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Karolinska Institutet publishes the most Workplace Health and Well-being research, followed by Finnish Institute of Occupational Health and Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Karolinska InstitutetSweden 60 works
- 2 Finnish Institute of Occupational HealthFinland 33 works
- 3 Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and HealthGermany 24 works
- 4 University of Occupational and Environmental Health JapanJapan 23 works
- 5 Stockholm UniversitySweden 21 works
- 6 University of GothenburgSweden 20 works
- 7 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 20 works
- 8 University of HelsinkiFinland 20 works
- 9 Monash UniversityAustralia 19 works
- 10 National Research Centre for the Working EnvironmentDenmark 18 works
Who are the leading researchers in Workplace Health and Well-being?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Workplace Health and Well-being include Richard M. Ryan, Ronald C. Kessler and Mika Kivimäki.
- 1 Richard M. Ryan United States 10k citations
- 2 Ronald C. Kessler United States 9.8k citations
- 3 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 6.7k citations
- 4 Arnold B. Bakker Netherlands 6k citations
- 5 Wilmar B. Schaufeli Netherlands 5.3k citations
- 6 Rahman Shiri Finland 5.3k citations
- 7 Harlan M. Krumholz United States 4.7k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Workplace Health and Well-being research done?
The largest centres of Workplace Health and Well-being research in 2022–2025 are Stockholm (Sweden), Seoul (South Korea), Helsinki (Finland) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kitakyushu, Helsinki and Dortmund.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- KitakyushuJP · 23.9 works17×
- HelsinkiFI · 84.4 works14×
- DortmundDE · 28.3 works14×
- StockholmSE · 100.4 works10×
- DüsseldorfDE · 25.7 works8.9×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Workplace Health and Well-being than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Workplace Health and Well-being?
Among universities, judged by research, Karolinska Institutet, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and Stockholm University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Karolinska InstitutetSweden | 72.3 | 23.3% | 25.2× | 60 | +21.0% |
| 2 | Heinrich Heine University DüsseldorfGermany | 67.2 | 27.7% | 11.3× | 17 | +233.8% |
| 3 | Stockholm UniversitySweden | 61.1 | 26.5% | 11.8× | 21 | +34.9% |
| 4 | University of GävleSweden | 60.0 | 24.1% | 50.6× | 9 | +270.3% |
| 5 | University of GothenburgSweden | 57.7 | 27.6% | 9.5× | 20 | -8.1% |
| 6 | Otto-von-Guericke-Universität MagdeburgGermany | 57.7 | 41.4% | 9.0× | 8 | +93.4% |
| 7 | University of South AustraliaAustralia | 55.9 | 46.7% | 7.9× | 9 | +13.3% |
| 8 | Umeå UniversitySweden | 54.8 | 41.0% | 7.6× | 10 | +47.0% |
| 9 | La Trobe UniversityAustralia | 52.4 | 45.8% | 5.7× | 9 | +74.0% |
| 10 | Medizinische Hochschule HannoverGermany | 52.3 | 51.3% | 7.4× | 8 | -15.6% |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Workplace Health and Well-being research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 24% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Workplace Health and Well-being.
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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.