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Isabelle Niedhammer

Isabelle Niedhammer

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Social Sciences and Humanities
France
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
59
Citations
15418
World Ranking
1548
National Ranking
19

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in France Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in France Leader Award

Overview

Isabelle Niedhammer is affiliated with Grenoble Alpes University in France and has contributed extensively to health professions research, with a particular focus on workplace health and well-being. Their work spans multiple subfields including general health professions, radiological and ultrasound technology, social psychology, epidemiology, and clinical psychology.

The main topics of their research include workplace health and well-being, employment and welfare studies, occupational health and safety research, stress and burnout research, healthcare systems and public health, sleep and work-related fatigue, and musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation.

They have frequently collaborated with a number of co-authors, including Sandrine Bertrais, Jean-François Chastang, Hélène Sultan-Taïeb, Anthony D. LaMontagne, and B. Geoffroy-Perez.

Isabelle Niedhammer has published research in various venues, with repeated contributions to the following:

  • Poster presentations
  • International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health
  • Archives des maladies professionnelles et de médecine du travail/Archives des maladies professionnelles et de l'environnement
  • American Journal of Industrial Medicine
  • BMC Public Health

Significant papers authored by Niedhammer include the following:

  • Psychosocial work exposures and health outcomes: a meta-review of 72 literature reviews with meta-analysis (2021), Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & Health
  • Update of the fractions of cardiovascular diseases and mental disorders attributable to psychosocial work factors in Europe (2021), International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health
  • Working conditions and depression in the French national working population: Results from the SUMER study (2020), Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • Psychosocial work exposures of the job strain model and cardiovascular mortality in France: results from the STRESSJEM prospective study (2020), Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & Health
  • Psychosocial work exposures and suicide ideation: a study of multiple exposures using the French national working conditions survey (2020), BMC Public Health

Best Publications

  • The measurement of effort-reward imbalance at work: European comparisons.

    Johannes Siegrist;Dagmar Starke;Tarani Chandola;Isabelle Godin

  • Validity of self-reported weight and height in the French GAZEL cohort.

    I Niedhammer;I Bugel;S Bonenfant;M Goldberg

  • Job strain as a risk factor for clinical depression: systematic review and meta-analysis with additional individual participant data

    Ida E. H. Madsen;S. T. Nyberg;L. L. Magnusson Hanson;J. E. Ferrie

  • Psychosocial factors at work and subsequent depressive symptoms in the Gazel cohort.

    Isabelle Niedhammer;Marcel Goldberg;Annette Leclerc;I Bugel

  • Psychosocial factors at work, personality traits and depressive symptoms. Longitudinal results from the GAZEL Study.

    S. Paterniti;I. Niedhammer;T. Lang;S. M. Consoli

  • Effort-reward imbalance model and self-reported health: cross-sectional and prospective findings from the GAZEL cohort.

    Isabelle Niedhammer;Marie-Ly Tek;Dagmar Starke;Johannes Siegrist

  • Psychosocial work exposures and health outcomes: a meta-review of 72 literature reviews with meta-analysis

    Isabelle Niedhammer;Sandrine Bertrais;Katrina Witt

  • Social Integration and Mortality: A Prospective Study of French Employees of Electricity of France–Gas of France The GAZEL Cohort

    Lisa F. Berkman;Maria Melchior;Jean-François Chastang;Isabelle Niedhammer

  • Incidence of shoulder pain in repetitive work.

    Leclerc A;Chastang Jf;Niedhammer I;Landre Mf

  • Do psychosocial work factors and social relations exert independent effects on sickness absence? A six year prospective study of the GAZEL cohort

    M Melchior;I Niedhammer;L F Berkman;M Goldberg

  • Upper-limb disorders in repetitive work

    Annette Leclerc;Marie-France Landre;Jean-François Chastang;Isabelle Niedhammer

  • Psychosocial factors at work and sickness absence in the Gazel cohort: a prospective study

    Isabelle Niedhammer;Isabelle Bugel;Marcel Goldberg;Annette Leclerc

  • Social relations and self-reported health: a prospective analysis of the French Gazel cohort

    Maria Melchior;Lisa F Berkman;Isabelle Niedhammer;Maline Chea

  • Psychosocial work factors and sickness absence in 31 countries in Europe

    Isabelle Niedhammer;Jean-François Chastang;Hélène Sultan-Taïeb;Greet Vermeylen

  • Psychometric properties of the French version of the Karasek Job Content Questionnaire: a study of the scales of decision latitude, psychological demands, social support, and physical demands in the GAZEL cohort

    Isabelle Niedhammer

  • Socioeconomic, Demographic, Occupational, and Health Factors Associated with Participation in a Long-term Epidemiologic Survey: A Prospective Study of the French GAZEL Cohort and Its Target Population

    Marcel Goldberg;Jean François Chastang;Annette Leclerc;Marie Zins

  • Psychosocial job stressors and suicidality: a meta-analysis and systematic review

    Allison Milner;Katrina Gisela Witt;Anthony Lamontagne;Isabelle Niedhammer;Isabelle Niedhammer

  • One-year predictive factors for various aspects of neck disorders.

    Annette Leclerc;Isabelle Niedhammer;Marie-france Landre;Anna Ozguler

  • Association between workplace bullying and depressive symptoms in the French working population.

    Isabelle Niedhammer;Simone David;Stephanie Degioanni

  • Psychosocial work environment and cardiovascular risk factors in an occupational cohort in France.

    Isabelle Niedhammer;Marcel Goldberg;Annette Leclerc;Simone David

  • Workplace bullying and sleep disturbances: findings from a large scale cross-sectional survey in the french working population.

    Isabelle Niedhammer;Simone David;Stéphanie Degioanni;Anne Drummond

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-François Chastang
Jean-François Chastang Grenoble Alpes University
Anthony D. LaMontagne
Anthony D. LaMontagne Deakin University
Allison Milner
Allison Milner University of Melbourne
Lisa F. Berkman
Lisa F. Berkman Harvard University
Tarani Chandola
Tarani Chandola University of Hong Kong
Matthew J Spittal
Matthew J Spittal University of Melbourne
Bernard Bioulac
Bernard Bioulac University of Bordeaux
Cédric Lemogne
Cédric Lemogne Université Paris Cité
Nancy Krieger
Nancy Krieger Harvard University

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