OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Health Perspectives is 49. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Disinfection By-Products in Drinking Water and Bladder Cancer: Evaluation of Risk Modification by Common Genetic Polymorphisms in Two Case–Control Studies	288
Comment on “COVID-19, the Built Environment, and Health”	270
Comment on “Application of an in Vitro Assay to Identify Chemicals That Increase Estradiol and Progesterone Synthesis and Are Potential Breast Cancer Risk Factors”	145
Prolonged Cadmium Exposure and Osteoclastogenesis: A Mechanistic Mouse and in Vitro Study	133
Evaluation of FXR Activity in Pollutants Identified in Sewage Sludge and Subsequent in Vitro and in Vivo Characterization of Metabolic Eff	128
Concentration–Response Functions Relating Concentration and Duration of Ambient Traffic-Related Air Pollution Exposure to Systolic Blood Pressure	128
Mapping Climate-Related Hazards along Migration Routes: A Mixed Methods Study of Hypertensive Syrian and Iraqi Refugees Resettled in San Diego, California	122
Madagascar’s Plague: One Health Research Aims to Slow Its Spread	120
Calibration of Toenail Metal Concentrations for Sample Mass Heterogeneity and Between-Batch Variability: The COMET Approach	98
Association of Ambient Air Pollution and Temperature Exposure with Placental Abruption: A Nested Case–Control Study Based on Live Birth Registrations	96
Prenatal and Early Postnatal Exposure to Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs): What Is the Correlation between Dioxins and Long-Chain Per- and Polyfluorinated Alkyl Substances (PFAS)?	92
Invited Perspective: Prenatal PM2.5 Exposure Associated with Adverse Birth Outcomes Requiring Medical Interventions	90
Erratum: “Association of Temperature Thresholds with Heat Illness– and Cardiorespiratory-Related Emergency Visits during Summer Months in Alaska”	86
An Exploration of Cultural–Environmental Interactions with Native American Health Literacy	82
Maternal Phthalate and Bisphenol Urine Concentrations during Pregnancy and Early Markers of Arterial Health in Children	78
Use of Mixture Dosing and Nonlinear Mixed Effect Modeling of Eight Environmental Contaminants in Rabbits to Improve Extrapolation Value of Toxicokinetic Data	77
Marking Time: Epigenetic Aging May Partially Explain the Arsenic–Cardiovascular Disease Link	77
Invited Perspective: Metals and Menarche	76
Estimating the Effects of Hypothetical Ambient PM2.5 Interventions on the Risk of Dementia Using the Parametric g-Formula in the UK Biobank Cohort	72
Nutritional Modulation of Associations between Prenatal Exposure to Persistent Organic Pollutants and Childhood Obesity: A Prospective Cohort Study	71
Erratum: “Climate Change, Summer Temperature, and Heat-Related Mortality in Finland: Multicohort Study with Projections for a Sustainable vs. Fossil-Fueled Future to 2050”	71
Perinatal Exposure to Lead or Diethylhexyl Phthalate in Mice: Sex-Specific Effects on Cardiac DNA Methylation and Gene Expression across Time	69
A Machine Learning–Based Clustering Analysis to Explore Bisphenol A and Phthalate Exposure from Medical Devices in Infants with Congenital Heart Defects	68
Associations between Maternal Urinary Metabolite Concentrations of Selected Volatile Organic Compounds and Child Neurocognitive Development at Two Years of Age	66
Invited Perspective: Uncovering Harmful Exposures in Carceral Environments	65

Charting a Path Forward: Assessing the Science of Chemical Risk Evaluations under the Toxic Substances Control Act in the Context of Recent National Academies Recommendations	64
Long-Term Exposure to Low-Level PM2.5 and Mortality: Investigation of Heterogeneity by Harmonizing Analyses in Large Cohort Studies in Canada, United States, and Europe	62
Invited Perspective: Inroads to Biology-Informed Exposomics	61
Invited Perspective: Important New Evidence for Glyphosate Hazard Assessment	60
Identifying the Optimal Heat Exposure Metric for Predicting the Physiological Response to Dry or Humid Heat Stress in Young and Older Adults: A Randomized Controlled Study	60
The Conflict between Regulatory Agencies over the 20,000-Fold Lowering of the Tolerable Daily Intake (TDI) for Bisphenol A (BPA) by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)	60
Erratum: “Associations of Organophosphate Ester Flame Retardant Exposures during Pregnancy with Gestational Duration and Fetal Growth: The Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Prog	60
A Hazard-Based Framework for Identifying Safer Alternatives to Classes of Chemicals: A Case Study on Phthalates in Consumer Products	60
Effects of Gestational Arsenic Exposures on Placental and Fetal Development in Mice: The Role of Cyr61 m6A	60
Role of Hepatocyte- and Macrophage-Specific PPARγ in Hepatotoxicity Induced by Diethylhexyl Phthalate in Mice	60
Mortality Risk from PM2.5: A Comparison of Modeling Approaches to Identify Disparities across Racial/Ethnic Groups in Policy Outcomes	59
Ambient Air Pollution in Relation to SARS-CoV-2 Infection, Antibody Response, and COVID-19 Disease: A Cohort Study in Catalonia, Spain (COVICAT Study)	59
The Parallel Transformations of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in the Body and in the Atmosphere	59
Characterization of Anxiety-Like Behaviors and Neural Circuitry following Chronic Moderate Noise Exposure in Mice	58
Exposure to Perfluoroalkyl Substances and Associations with Pubertal Onset and Serum Reproductive Hormones in a Longitudinal Study of Young Girls in Greater Cincinnati and the San Francisco Bay Area	58
Perfluoroalkyl Acids in Follicular Fluid and Embryo Quality during IVF: A Prospective IVF Cohort in China	56
Evaluating Chemical Mixtures in Epidemiological Studies to Inform Regulatory Decisions	56
Invited Perspective: Challenges and Opportunities for Missing Data in the Context of Environmental Mixture Methods	54
Invited Perspective: Causal Implications of Gene by Environment Studies Applied to Gulf War Illness	54
Comment on “Charting a Path Forward: Assessing the Science of Chemical Risk Evaluations under the Toxic Substances Control Act in the Context of Recent National Academies Recommendations”	53
Invited Perspective: Drilling Down into the Mechanisms Linking Oil and Gas Development to Adverse Perinatal Health Outcomes	53
Targeting the Macrophage: Immune Cells May Be the Key to Phthalate-Induced Liver Toxicity	52
Prenatal and Childhood Exposure to Fluoride and Cognitive Development: Findings from the Longitudinal MINIMat Cohort in Rural Bangladesh	50
Comment on “Occupational Benzene Exposure and Lung Cancer in Human Studies: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis”	50