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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. 10.2% 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%
2.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+11%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
27% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Workplace Health and Well-being

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 (982 and 533 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 982 works
  2. 2 Germany 533 works
  3. 3 China 421 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 330 works
  5. 5 Japan 256 works
  6. 6 Sweden 242 works
  7. 7 Canada 241 works
  8. 8 Australia 235 works
  9. 9 Brazil 220 works
  10. 10 India 211 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.

United States: 26.7%Germany: 14.5%China: 11.5%United Kingdom: 9.0%6 others listed: 38.3%27%largest
United States982 · 26.7%Germany533 · 14.5%China421 · 11.5%United Kingdom330 · 9.0%6 others listed1,406 · 38.3%

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

Which institutions lead Workplace Health and Well-being research?

By volume in 2022-now, Karolinska Institutet publishes the most Workplace Health and Well-being research, followed by Finnish Institute of Occupational Health and Yonsei University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Karolinska InstitutetSweden 65 works
  2. 2 Finnish Institute of Occupational HealthFinland 37 works
  3. 3 Yonsei UniversitySouth Korea 29 works
  4. 4 Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and HealthGermany 27 works
  5. 5 University of HelsinkiFinland 27 works
  6. 6 Stockholm UniversitySweden 26 works
  7. 7 University of Occupational and Environmental Health JapanJapan 26 works
  8. 8 University of GothenburgSweden 24 works
  9. 9 InsermFrance 24 works
  10. 10 Monash UniversityAustralia 23 works

Who are the leading researchers in Workplace Health and Well-being?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Workplace Health and Well-being include George Davey Smith, Ali H. Mokdad and Walter Churchill Willett.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Ali H. Mokdad United States 429k citations
  3. 3 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
  4. 4 Richard M. Ryan United States 395k citations
  5. 5 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  6. 6 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  7. 7 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  8. 8 Stephan Windecker Switzerland 338k citations
  9. 9 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k citations
  10. 10 Edward L. Deci United States 325k 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 Workplace Health and Well-being?

The most cited paper in Workplace Health and Well-being is "The Job Demands‐Resources model: state of the art" (Arnold B. Bakker, Evangelia Demerouti, 2007), with 12,685 citations. Next come "Lifetime and 12-Month Prevalence of DSM-III-R Psychiatric Disorders in the United States" (12,546) and "The job demands-resources model of burnout." (12,369).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Job Demands‐Resources model: state of the art Arnold B. Bakker, Evangelia Demerouti · Journal of Managerial Psychology Open access 15 Mar 2007 12,685
2 Lifetime and 12-Month Prevalence of DSM-III-R Psychiatric Disorders in the United States Ronald C. Kessler · Archives of General Psychiatry 1994 12,546
3 The job demands-resources model of burnout. Evangelia Demerouti, Arnold B. Bakker, Friedhelm Nachreiner et al. · Journal of Applied Psychology Open access Jun 2001 12,369
4 Job demands, job resources, and their relationship with burnout and engagement: a multi‐sample study Wilmar B. Schaufeli, Arnold B. Bakker · Journal of Organizational Behavior Open access 30 Mar 2004 9,263
5 The measurement of organizational commitment Richard T. Mowday, Richard M. Steers, Lyman W. Porter · Journal of Vocational Behavior Apr 1979 8,803
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Where is Workplace Health and Well-being research done?

The largest centres of Workplace Health and Well-being research in 2022-now 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, Dortmund and Helsinki.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 StockholmSweden 111 works
  2. 2 SeoulSouth Korea 105 works
  3. 3 HelsinkiFinland 97 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 96 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 92 works
  6. 6 MelbourneAustralia 63 works
  7. 7 BeijingChina 63 works
  8. 8 ParisFrance 57 works
  9. 9 AmsterdamNetherlands 53 works
  10. 10 OsloNorway 52 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KitakyushuJP · 26.4 works16×
  2. DortmundDE · 32.5 works14×
  3. HelsinkiFI · 97.1 works14×
  4. StockholmSE · 110.7 works9.5×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Workplace Health and Well-being than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Workplace Health and Well-being?

Among universities, judged by research, Karolinska Institutet, UNSW Sydney and Sapienza University of Rome 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.

0%20%40%mean 20.09%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →UNSW SydneySapienza University …Erasmus University R…Karolinska Institutet
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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.

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
1Karolinska InstitutetSweden 71.77.4%20.6×65 +24.8%
2UNSW SydneyAustralia 68.728.3%2.7×14 +40.5%
3Sapienza University of RomeItaly 60.322.2%3.3×21 +83.0%
4Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 59.816.6%5.7×17 +0.3%
5Utrecht UniversityNetherlands 59.28.4%3.5×14 +29.8%
6Deakin UniversityAustralia 58.231.5%4.4×11 -14.0%
7Monash UniversityAustralia 57.713.9%4.2×23 +18.5%
8King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 56.715.7%4.1×20 +47.9%
9Central South UniversityChina 55.134.5%0.9×10 +118.4%
10The University of SydneyAustralia 51.122.4%1.8×12 +12.4%

Universities only. The score blends 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 Workplace Health and Well-being, country by country

Is Workplace Health and Well-being research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Workplace Health and Well-being.

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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 Workplace Health and Well-being as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.025% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Workplace Health and Well-being0.028% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Workplace Health and Well-being 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%Workplace Health and Well-being10.2% 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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