Brendan Burchell

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
71 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Brendan Burchell is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Brendan Burchell has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in General Health Professions, 21 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 12 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Brendan Burchell's work include Employment and Welfare Studies (29 papers), Retirement, Disability, and Employment (9 papers) and Digital Economy and Work Transformation (8 papers). Brendan Burchell is often cited by papers focused on Employment and Welfare Studies (29 papers), Retirement, Disability, and Employment (9 papers) and Digital Economy and Work Transformation (8 papers). Brendan Burchell collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Singapore and United States. Brendan Burchell's co-authors include Agnieszka Piasna, Colette Fagan, Kirsten Sehnbruch, Nurjk Agloni, Gilla K. Shapiro, Jill Rubery, Catherine Marsh, Frank Wilkinson, Richard P. Allen and Alan Felstead and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Social Science & Medicine and Psychological Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Brendan Burchell

66 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The quality of employment and decent work: definitions, methodologies, and ongoing debates

2013 226 citations Brendan Burchell, Agnieszka Piasna et al. Cambridge Journal of Economics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Brendan Burchell United Kingdom	26	945	680	392	274	260	71	2.2k
Noah Lewìn-Epstein Israel	29	712 0.8×	1.6k 2.3×	367 0.9×	197 0.7×	381 1.5×	85	2.6k
Thomas DeLeire United States	30	843 0.9×	843 1.2×	1.0k 2.6×	302 1.1×	134 0.5×	80	3.2k
Patrick M. Horan United States	20	442 0.5×	1.3k 1.8×	643 1.6×	368 1.3×	199 0.8×	42	2.9k
Peter Blanck United States	29	591 0.6×	532 0.8×	234 0.6×	332 1.2×	130 0.5×	159	2.9k
Peter Holland Australia	26	514 0.5×	939 1.4×	160 0.4×	370 1.4×	178 0.7×	137	3.5k
Shirley Dex United Kingdom	31	952 1.0×	1.5k 2.3×	418 1.1×	145 0.5×	482 1.9×	106	2.7k
Lisa Schur United States	22	456 0.5×	466 0.7×	217 0.6×	84 0.3×	281 1.1×	50	2.0k
Lynn A. Karoly United States	30	976 1.0×	1.0k 1.5×	893 2.3×	93 0.3×	164 0.6×	172	3.9k
Jon Lorence United States	21	350 0.4×	564 0.8×	171 0.4×	268 1.0×	67 0.3×	41	1.4k
Helen Russell Ireland	18	591 0.6×	781 1.1×	228 0.6×	194 0.7×	248 1.0×	85	1.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brendan Burchell

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Wood, Alex J., et al.. (2025). Beyond the ‘Gig Economy’: Towards Variable Experiences of Job Quality in Platform Work. Work Employment and Society. 39(5). 1154–1178.

Burchell, Brendan, Simon Deakin, Jill Rubery, & David Spencer. (2024). The future of work and working time: introduction to special issue. Cambridge Journal of Economics. 48(1). 1–24. 2 indexed citations

Burchell, Brendan, et al.. (2022). The association between job quality and the incidence of PTSD amongst police personnel. Policing A Journal of Policy and Practice. 17. 4 indexed citations

Wang, Senhu, et al.. (2022). The Impact of Reduced Working Hours and Furlough Policies on Workers’ Mental Health at the Onset of COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study. Journal of Social Policy. 53(3). 702–726. 25 indexed citations

Brewin, Chris R., Jessica K. Miller, & Brendan Burchell. (2022). Estimating the total prevalence of PTSD among the UK police force: Formal comment on Stevelink et al. (2020). PLoS ONE. 17(5). e0268621–e0268621.

Wood, Alex J., et al.. (2021). Alienation Is Not ‘Bullshit’: An Empirical Critique of Graeber’s Theory of BS Jobs. Work Employment and Society. 36(5). 816–840. 36 indexed citations

Kamerāde, Daiga, et al.. (2021). What matters more for employees’ mental health: job quality or job quantity?. Cambridge Journal of Economics. 46(2). 251–274. 1 indexed citations

Burchell, Brendan, et al.. (2020). An exploration of the multiple motivations for spending less time at work. Time & Society. 30(1). 55–77. 20 indexed citations

Burchell, Brendan, Darja Reuschke, & Mary Zhang. (2020). Spatial and temporal segmenting of urban workplaces: The gendering of multi-locational working. Urban Studies. 58(11). 2207–2232. 28 indexed citations

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Brewin, Chris R., et al.. (2020). Posttraumatic stress disorder and complex posttraumatic stress disorder in UK police officers. Psychological Medicine. 52(7). 1287–1295. 66 indexed citations

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Kamerāde, Daiga, et al.. (2019). A shorter working week for everyone: How much paid work is needed for mental health and well-being?. Social Science & Medicine. 241. 112353–112353. 83 indexed citations

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Didriksen, Maria, Richard P. Allen, Brendan Burchell, et al.. (2018). Restless legs syndrome is associated with major comorbidities in a population of Danish blood donors. Sleep Medicine. 45. 124–131. 21 indexed citations

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Annor, Francis & Brendan Burchell. (2018). A cross-national comparative study of work demands/support, work-to-family conflict and job outcomes. Apollo (University of Cambridge). 1 indexed citations

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Didriksen, Maria, Andreas S. Rigas, Richard P. Allen, et al.. (2017). Prevalence of restless legs syndrome and associated factors in an otherwise healthy population: results from the Danish Blood Donor Study. Sleep Medicine. 36. 55–61. 52 indexed citations

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Piasna, Agnieszka, et al.. (2013). Participatory HRM practices and job quality of vulnerable workers. The International Journal of Human Resource Management. 24(22). 4094–4115. 20 indexed citations

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Allen, Richard P., Brendan Burchell, Ben Macdonald, Wayne A. Hening, & Christopher J. Earley. (2009). Validation of the self-completed Cambridge-Hopkins questionnaire (CH-RLSq) for ascertainment of restless legs syndrome (RLS) in a population survey. Sleep Medicine. 10(10). 1097–1100. 164 indexed citations

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Burchell, Brendan, Richard P. Allen, Jessica K. Miller, Wayne A. Hening, & Christopher J. Earley. (2009). RLS and blood donation. Sleep Medicine. 10(8). 844–849. 19 indexed citations

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Burchell, Brendan & Colette Fagan. (2004). Gender and the Intensification of Work: Evidence from the European Working Conditions Surveys. Eastern Economic Journal. 30(4). 627–642. 22 indexed citations

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Rubery, Jill, Jill Earnshaw, & Brendan Burchell. (1993). New forms and patterns of employment : the role of self-employment in Britain. Nomos eBooks. 3 indexed citations

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Burchell, Brendan & Jill Rubery. (1989). Segmented jobs and segmented workers : an empirical investigation. 1 indexed citations

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