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Denmark
2026

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Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Reiner Rugulies is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and has contributed extensively to health professions research, with a particular focus on workplace health and well-being. The bulk of their research addresses the intersection of employment conditions and health outcomes, notably within the domains of occupational health, psychosocial factors at work, and public health.

The scientist's recent published papers include the following:

  • Global, regional, and national burdens of ischemic heart disease and stroke attributable to exposure to long working hours for 194 countries, 2000-2016: A systematic analysis from the WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of the Work-related Burden of Disease and Injury (2021, Environment International)
  • Association of Healthy Lifestyle With Years Lived Without Major Chronic Diseases (2020, JAMA Internal Medicine)
  • The COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic: consequences for occupational health (2020, Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & Health)
  • The effect of exposure to long working hours on ischaemic heart disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis from the WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of the Work-related Burden of Disease and Injury (2020, Environment International)
  • Work-related causes of mental health conditions and interventions for their improvement in workplaces (2023, The Lancet)

Frequent coauthors contributing to Rugulies' body of work include:

  • Ida E H Madsen
  • Jeppe Karl Sørensen
  • Linda L. Magnusson Hanson
  • Elisabeth Framke
  • Mika Kivimäki

Rugulies has published extensively in a range of scientific journals. The principal venues for their research output are:

  • Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & Health (29 publications)
  • European Journal of Public Health (10 publications)
  • International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health (10 publications)
  • Journal of Affective Disorders (7 publications)
  • Environment International (6 publications)

Their research spans multiple fields and subfields, emphasizing health professions with 200 publications overall. Within this, relevant subfields include:

  • General Health Professions (186 publications)
  • Social Psychology (19 publications)
  • Sociology and Political Science (18 publications)
  • Pharmacology (16 publications)
  • Demography (15 publications)

Core topics covered by Rugulies' work primarily focus on:

  • Workplace Health and Well-being
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Musculoskeletal Pain and Rehabilitation
  • Workplace Violence and Bullying
  • Retirement, Disability, and Employment
  • Stress and Burnout Research
  • Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue

Best Publications

  • Depression as a predictor for coronary heart disease. a review and meta-analysis

    Reiner Rugulies

  • Job strain as a risk factor for coronary heart disease: a collaborative meta-analysis of individual participant data.

    Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Solja T. Nyberg;G. David Batty;G. David Batty;Eleonor I. Fransson;Eleonor I. Fransson;Eleonor I. Fransson

  • Long working hours and risk of coronary heart disease and stroke : a systematic review and meta-analysis of published and unpublished data for 603 838 individuals

    Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Markus Jokela;Solja T. Nyberg;Archana Singh-Manoux;Archana Singh-Manoux

  • Overweight, obesity, and risk of cardiometabolic multimorbidity: pooled analysis of individual-level data for 120 813 adults from 16 cohort studies from the USA and Europe

    Mika Kivimaki;Mika Kivimaki;Mika Kivimaki;Eeva Kuosma;Jane E. Ferrie;Jane E. Ferrie;Ritva Luukkonen

  • The Relation between Work-related Psychosocial Factors and the Development of Depression

    Bo Netterstrøm;Nicole Conrad;Per Bech;Per Fink

  • Burnout among employees in human service work: design and baseline findings of the PUMA study.

    Marianne Borritz;Reiner Rugulies;Jakob B. Bjorner;Ebbe Villadsen

  • 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

  • Obesity and loss of disease-free years owing to major non-communicable diseases: a multicohort study.

    Solja T Nyberg;G David Batty;Jaana Pentti;Jaana Pentti;Marianna Virtanen

  • Psychosocial Work Environment and Incidence of Severe Depressive Symptoms: Prospective Findings from a 5-Year Follow-up of the Danish Work Environment Cohort Study

    Reiner Rugulies;Ute Bültmann;Birgit Aust;Hermann Burr

  • Global, regional, and national burdens of ischemic heart disease and stroke attributable to exposure to long working hours for 194 countries, 2000-2016: A systematic analysis from the WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of the Work-related Burden of Disease and Injury.

    Frank Pega;Bálint Náfrádi;Natalie C Momen;Yuka Ujita

  • Effort-reward imbalance at work and risk of depressive disorders. A systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies.

    Reiner Rugulies;Birgit Aust;Ida E. H. Madsen

  • The impact of work-related psychosocial stressors on the onset of musculoskeletal disorders in specific body regions: A review and meta-analysis of 54 longitudinal studies

    Angelika Hauke;Julia Flintrop;Emmanuelle Brun;Reiner Rugulies

  • Burnout as a predictor of self-reported sickness absence among human service workers: prospective findings from three year follow up of the PUMA study.

    M Borritz;R Rugulies;K B Christensen;E Villadsen

  • Effort-Reward Imbalance at Work and Incident Coronary Heart Disease: A Multicohort Study of 90,164 Individuals.

    Nico Dragano;Johannes Siegrist;Solja T. Nyberg;Thorsten Lunau

  • Job Strain as a Risk Factor for Leisure-Time Physical Inactivity: An Individual-Participant Meta-Analysis of Up to 170,000 Men and Women: The IPD-Work Consortium

    Eleonor I Fransson;Katriina Heikkila;Solja T Nyberg;Marie Zins

  • Long working hours, socioeconomic status, and the risk of incident type 2 diabetes: a meta-analysis of published and unpublished data from 222 120 individuals

    Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Marianna Virtanen;Ichiro Kawachi;Solja T Nyberg

  • Perceived job insecurity as a risk factor for incident coronary heart disease: systematic review and meta-analysis

    Marianna Virtanen;Solja T Nyberg;G David Batty;G David Batty;Markus Jokela

  • Job Strain as a Risk Factor for Type 2 Diabetes: A Pooled Analysis of 124,808 Men and Women

    Solja T Nyberg;Eleonor I Fransson;Katriina Heikkilä;Kirsi Ahola

  • Long Working Hours and Alcohol Use: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Published Studies and Unpublished Individual Participant Data

    Marianna Virtanen;Markus Jokela;Solja T Nyberg;Ida E H Madsen

  • Association of Healthy Lifestyle With Years Lived Without Major Chronic Diseases

    Solja T. Nyberg;Archana Singh-Manoux;Archana Singh-Manoux;Jaana Pentti;Jaana Pentti;Ida E. H. Madsen

  • Job strain as a risk factor for coronary heart disease

    Mika Kivimäki;Solja T Nyberg;G David Batty;Eleonor I Fransson

  • Perceived job insecurity as a risk factor for incident coronary heart disease: systematic review and meta-analysis

    Marianna Virtanen;Solja T. Nyberg;G. David Batty;Markus Jokela

Frequent Co-Authors

Mika Kivimäki
Mika Kivimäki University College London
Jussi Vahtera
Jussi Vahtera Turku University Hospital
Jakob B. Bjorner
Jakob B. Bjorner University of Copenhagen
Åse Marie Hansen
Åse Marie Hansen University of Copenhagen
Lars Alfredsson
Lars Alfredsson Karolinska Institute
Marianna Virtanen
Marianna Virtanen University of Eastern Finland
Jens Peter Bonde
Jens Peter Bonde University of Copenhagen
Hugo Westerlund
Hugo Westerlund Stockholm University
G. David Batty
G. David Batty University College London

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