OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Aerobiologia is 2. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Obituary	34
Community structure of environmental microorganisms associated with COVID-19 affected patients	33
Live oak pollen as a source of atmospheric particles	30
The course of birch pollen seasons in Sosnowiec (Southern Poland) in 1997–2020 in relation to meteorological conditions	28
Analysis of quality control outcomes of grass pollen identification and enumeration: experience matters	22
Modeling airborne pollen concentrations at an urban scale with pollen release from individual trees	22
Fungi in the indoor air of critical hospital areas: a review	17
A first evaluation of multiple automatic pollen monitors run in parallel	16
Diversity and spatial–temporal distribution of airborne fungi at the world culture heritage site Maijishan Grottoes in China	13
Microscopic fungi and other contaminants on airborne pollen grains of ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.)	13
Culturable bacteria in clouds at Réunion, tropical island	11
Atmospheric particulate matter deposition on birch catkins and pollen grains before pollination	11
Biological contaminants in indoor environments of educational institutions	11
Summer pollen flora in rural and urban central England dominated by nettle, ryegrass and other pollen missed by the national aerobiological network	10
Ragweed in South America: the relevance of aerobiology stations in Latin America	10
Initial comparison of pollen counting methods using precipitation and ambient air samples and automated artificial intelligence to support national monitoring objectives	10
Characteristics of airborne microbial community in Hefei, eastern China, under a good quality in mid-spring	9
Aeroflora and pollinosis in selected areas of Lagos, Nigeria	9
On-site monitoring of airborne pathogens: recent advances in bioaerosol collection and rapid detection	8
Towards standardisation of automatic pollen and fungal spore monitoring: best practises and guidelines	8
The relationships between health risk and special weather conditions according to fungal community characteristics	8
On the measurement uncertainty of Hirst-type volumetric pollen and spore samplers	7
Counting sedimented Betula pollen grains by gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry	7
Aspergillus and Penicillium spores as urban pathogens of the Havana atmosphere, Cuba	7
Microbial composition of bioaerosols in indoor wastewater treatment plants	7

False positives: handling them operationally for automatic pollen monitoring	7
Spatial analysis of COVID-19 risk factors: a case study in Bangladesh	7
Seasonal bioaerosol load and statistical analysis within different microenvironments of an academic institute situated in the Indo-Gangetic Plain	7
Elemental composition of household dusts extracted in simulated body fluids and their impact on culturable pathogenic bacteria responses	7
Use of weather types to analyze the simultaneous abundance of ozone, PM2.5 and allergenic tree pollen: focusing on the potential impact on asthma hospitalization in Montreal, Canada	7
Manual and automatic quantification of airborne fungal spores during wheat harvest period	6
Concentration characteristics of culturable airborne microbes in family homes in Hangzhou, China	6
Influence of meteorological parameters and PM2.5 on the level of culturable airborne bacteria and fungi in Abadan, Iran	6
Correction to: Variability between Hirst-type pollen traps is reduced by resistance-free flow adjustment	6
Accuracy of a hand-held resistance-free flowmeters for flow adjustments of Hirst-Type pollen traps	6
Storms facilitate airborne DNA from leaf fragments outside the main tree pollen season	6
Air pollution may alter reproductive dynamics/efficacy in plants: correlative evidences from an urban sprawl in Eastern Indo-Gangetic plain	5
Assessment of fungal aerosols in a public library with natural ventilation	5
Long-read sequencing of metagenomes from wet deposition samples in the Western USA during an elevated precipitation in February 2019	5
Assessing the impact of climatic factors on dengue fever transmission in Bangladesh	5
Allergenic pollen seasons and regional pollen calendars for Norway	5
First volumetric records of airborne Cladosporium and Alternaria spores in the atmosphere of Al Khor (northern Qatar): a preliminary survey	5
Development and verification of a taxa-specific gridded pollen modelling system for the UK	5
Combined synoptic and regional weather patterns affecting atmospheric Poaceae pollen concentrations in Sydney, Australia	5
New airborne fungal spores in the atmosphere of Havana, Cuba	5
Analyzing the airborne birch and grass pollen monitoring network of Belgium	5
Spatiotemporal distribution and the passive dispersal of fungal spores through HVAC systems	4
Novel approaches to reduce airborne pathogen infestation through dust control systems of wheat thresher	4
Impact of climate change on the pollen season on relevant species in Iberian’s dehesa: a case study of Fraxinus sp.	4
Automatically counting pollen and measuring pollen production in some common grasses	4
Pathogenic bacteria in air samples: an appraisal of the African studies versus other continents	4
Unveiling the hidden hazards of smog: health implications and antibiotic resistance in perspective	4
Observations from the USA National Phenology Network can be leveraged to model airborne pollen	4
Antibiotic resistance and biofilm synthesis genes in airborne Staphylococcus in commercial aircraft cabins	4
Environmental factors that modulate the release and transport of airborne urediniospores Hemileia vastatrix (Berk. & Broome) in coffee crops in Veracruz México	4
Application of the HYSPLIT model for birch pollen modelling in Poland	4
The calcium-antagonist activity of the material released by olive pollen (PMR), tested on Ca2+-cytosolic of PE/CA-PJ15 cells	4
Exposure to ragweed pollen and Amb a 1 allergens in central Anatolia, Türkiye, and immunolabeling of Amb a 1 in pollen	4
Seasonal variation and size distribution in the airborne indoor microbial concentration of residential houses in Delhi and its impact on health	4
Plants on the ground, pollen in the air: how much do they match?	4
A review on indoor air quality monitoring system: a mechatronics approach	3
The dispersal and deposition characteristics of airborne pollen and its response to meteorological factors in northern Beijing, China	3
The real hues of Red Rain-Kerala, India	3
Correction to: False positives: handling them operationally for automatic pollen monitoring	3
Ecological behavior of Drechslera/Helminthosporium spores in a wheat crop in NW Spain	3
Trends in pollen season characteristics of Alnus, Poaceae and Artemisia allergenic taxa in Bratislava, central Europe	3
Analysis of the annual pollen integral in Albuquerque, New Mexico, shows a negative trend with temperatures for Juniper, Cottonwood, Elm, and Mulberry	3
Comparison of computer vision models in application to pollen classification using light scattering	3
Trends in airborne grass pollen in Évora City (Portugal)	3
Comparison of the characterization of allergenic protein 3 (Pla a3) released from Platanus pollen grains collected in Shanghai during the spring of 2019 and 2020	3
Spline interpolation as a way of mapping pollen emission sources	2
Spore dispersal patterns of the ascomycete fungus Ramularia collo-cygni and their influence on disease epidemics	2
Characterization of bioaerosols in and around a landfill site in Delhi	2
Simultaneous monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 and bacterial profiles from the air of hospital environments with COVID-19-affected patients	2
Airborne sub-pollen particles from rupturing giant ragweed pollen	2

Digitally accessible knowledge about airborne pollen data in Spain	2
Five ways to define a pollen season: exploring congruence and disparity in its attributes and their long-term trends	2
Halophytic palynomorphs morphology unraveling the links between palynology and aerobiology	2
Chilling and heat requirements for woody taxa in Tétouan (NW Morocco)	2
Identification of airborne Penicillium and their association with outdoor air quality in a middle Eastern city	2
Spatial variation of airborne bacterial heterogeneity and potential opportunistic human pathogens: a comparative study of sites in Korea and Japan	2
Variability in Alternaria alternata spore characteristics under different culture conditions: implications for automatic detection using air flow cytometry	2
Fungal diversity in Sahara dust: Aspergillus sydowii and other opportunistic pathogens	2
Variability between Hirst-type pollen traps is reduced by resistance-free flow adjustment	2