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D-Index
60
Citations
14038
World Ranking
1464
National Ranking
273

Overview

Tom Cox is affiliated with the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom and has contributed to research spanning engineering and health professions. Their work intersects subfields including general health professions, electrical and electronic engineering, building and construction, environmental engineering, and atomic and molecular physics, and optics.

Their recent publications cover a range of topics such as healthcare professionals' stress and burnout, workplace health and well-being, gyrotron and vacuum electronics research, intensive care unit cognitive disorders, anesthesia and sedative agents, employment and welfare studies, and building energy and comfort optimization.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Doctors' working conditions, wellbeing and hospital quality of care: A multilevel analysis (2020) published in Safety Science
  • Dexmedetomidine- or Clonidine-Based Sedation Compared With Propofol in Critically Ill Patients (2025) published in JAMA
  • Field testing of the QUB method for assessing the thermal performance of dwellings: In situ measurements of the heat transfer coefficient of a circa 1950s detached house in UK (2020) published in Energy and Buildings
  • Work-related factors in the etiology of symptoms of post-traumatic stress among first responders: the Brazilian Firefighters Longitudinal Health Study (FLoHS) (2021) published in Cadernos de Saúde Pública
  • Returning to clinical work and doctors' personal, social and organisational needs: a systematic review (2022) published in BMJ Open

Frequent co-authors with whom Tom Cox has collaborated include:

  • Timothy Walsh
  • Kevin Teoh
  • David Hope
  • Nazir Lone
  • John Norrie

Their publications have appeared regularly in venues such as Energy and Buildings, JAMA, Safety Science, BMJ Open, and Cadernos de Saúde Pública.

Their work on healthcare professionals' stress and burnout and workplace health and well-being reflects interdisciplinary research across both health and engineering domains. Simultaneously, contributions to topics like gyrotron and vacuum electronics research and building energy optimization reveal a broad engagement with engineering complexities.

Tom Cox's research outputs demonstrate a blend of clinical, environmental, and technical perspectives that contribute to understanding and improving both healthcare settings and engineering applications.

Best Publications

  • Exploratory Factor Analysis: A Users’Guide

    Eamonn Ferguson;Tom Cox

  • The structure of employee attitudes to safety: A European example

    Sue Cox;Tom Cox

  • An inventory for the measurement of self‐reported stress and arousal

    Colin Mackay;Tom Cox;Grenville Burrows;Tony Lazzerini

  • The cost of work-related stress to society: a systematic review

    Juliet Hassard;Kevin R. H. Teoh;Gintare Visockaite;Philip Dewe

  • Burnout, Health, Work Stress, and Organizational Healthiness

    Tom Cox;George Kuk;Michael P. Leiter

  • Psychosocial factors predicting employee sickness absence during economic decline

    M Kivimäki;J Vahtera;L Thomson;A Griffiths

  • Relationship between work stress and body mass index among 45,810 female and male employees

    Anne Kouvonen;Mika Kivimäki;Sara J Cox;Tom Cox

  • The Appraisal of Life Events (ALE) scale: Reliability and validity

    Eamonn Ferguson;Gerald Matthews;Tom Cox

  • Individual strategies for coping with stress at work: A review

    Philip Dewe;Tom Cox;Eamonn Ferguson

  • Rail passenger crowding, stress, health and safety in Britain

    Tom Cox;Jonathan Houdmont;Amanda Griffiths

  • The future of organizational interventions: addressing the challenges of today's organizations

    Karina Nielsen;Toon W. Taris;Tom Cox

  • Psychometric evaluation of a short measure of social capital at work

    Anne Kouvonen;Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Jussi Vahtera;Tuula Oksanen

  • Psychosocial factors and psychophysiological mechanisms in the aetiology and development of cancers

    Tom Cox;Colin Mackay

  • Evaluating organizational-level work stress interventions: Beyond traditional methods

    Tom Cox;Maria Karanika;Amanda Griffiths;Jonathan Houdmont

  • Safety, Systems and People

    Sue Cox;Tom Cox

  • The nature and measurement of stress

    Tom Cox

  • Exposure to occupational violence and the buffering effects of intra-organizational support.

    Phil Leather;Claire Lawrence;Di Beale;Tom Cox

  • Calculating the cost of work-related stress and psychosocial risks

    J. Hassard;Kevin Teoh;Tom Cox;M. Cosmar

  • Integrated motor drives: state of the art and future trends

    Robert Abebe;Gaurang Vakil;Giovanni Lo Calzo;Thomas Cox

  • Psychosocial factors predicting employee sickness absence during economic decline.

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  • The measurement of self-reported stress and arousal.

    Tom Cox;Colin Mackay

  • Downsizing, changes in work, and self-rated health of employees: A 7-year 3-wave panel study

    Mika Kivimäki;Jussi Vahtera;Jaana Pentti;Louise Thomson

  • Evaluating organizational stress-management interventions using adapted study designs

    Raymond Randall;Amanda Griffiths;Tom Cox

  • Measurement of the subjective work environment

    Tom Cox;Eamonn Ferguson

  • Stress, coping and problem solving

    Tom Cox

  • Participants' accounts of a stress management intervention

    Raymond Randall;Tom Cox;Amanda Griffiths

  • Work-related stress in nursing : controlling the risk to health

    Tom. Cox;Amanda. Griffiths;Sue. Cox

  • The nature and assessment of general well-being

    Tom Cox;Michele Thirlaway;Gordon Gotts;Sue Cox

  • A Risk Management Approach to the Prevention of Work Stress

    Tom Cox;Amanda Griffths;Raymond Randall

  • Job strain, effort-reward imbalance, and heavy drinking: a study in 40,851 employees.

    Anne Kouvonen;Mika Kivimäki;Sara J Cox;Kari Poikolainen

  • Work-related violence : assessment and intervention

    Phil Leather;Carol Brady;Claire Lawrence;Diane Beale

  • Work, employment and mental health in Europe

    Tom Cox;Stavroula Leka;Ivan Ivanov;Evelyn Kortum

  • Organizational health, culture and helping

    Tom Cox;Ian Howarth

  • The health of health care organizations

    Tom Cox;Michael Leiter

  • Work-place social capital and smoking cessation: The Finnish Public Sector Study

    Anne Kouvonen;Tuula Oksanen;Jussi Vahtera;Ari Väänänen

  • The Experience and Effects of Stress in Teachers

    Tom Cox;Terence Brockley

Frequent Co-Authors

Eamonn Ferguson
Eamonn Ferguson University of Nottingham
Claire Lawrence
Claire Lawrence University of Nottingham
Michael P. Leiter
Michael P. Leiter Deakin University
Marko Elovainio
Marko Elovainio University of Helsinki
Toon W. Taris
Toon W. Taris Utrecht University
David D. Clarke
David D. Clarke University of Nottingham
Chris Gerada
Chris Gerada University of Nottingham
José M. Peiró
José M. Peiró University of Valencia
Richard G. Wilkinson
Richard G. Wilkinson University of Nottingham
Patrick Wheeler
Patrick Wheeler University of Nottingham

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