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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Obituary	37
Live oak pollen as a source of atmospheric particles	18
The course of birch pollen seasons in Sosnowiec (Southern Poland) in 1997–2020 in relation to meteorological conditions	15
Modeling airborne pollen concentrations at an urban scale with pollen release from individual trees	14
Identification of culturable fungi in particulate matter (PM10) on a university campus in a peri-urban area of Northern South America	13
Biological contaminants in indoor environments of educational institutions	12
Microscopic fungi and other contaminants on airborne pollen grains of ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.)	12
The role of wind in the spatiotemporal distribution of strawberry powdery mildew in high-tunnel growing systems	11
Culturable bacteria in clouds at Réunion, tropical island	11
Summer pollen flora in rural and urban central England dominated by nettle, ryegrass and other pollen missed by the national aerobiological network	10
Atmospheric particulate matter deposition on birch catkins and pollen grains before pollination	10
Initial comparison of pollen counting methods using precipitation and ambient air samples and automated artificial intelligence to support national monitoring objectives	10
Ragweed in South America: the relevance of aerobiology stations in Latin America	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	9
Report on rice diseases in Brunei Darussalam and their association with airborne fungal spores	8
False positives: handling them operationally for automatic pollen monitoring	8
Microbial composition of bioaerosols in indoor wastewater treatment plants	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
Counting sedimented Betula pollen grains by gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry	8
Spatial analysis of COVID-19 risk factors: a case study in Bangladesh	7
Accuracy of a hand-held resistance-free flowmeters for flow adjustments of Hirst-Type pollen traps	7
Concentration characteristics of culturable airborne microbes in family homes in Hangzhou, China	7
Elemental composition of household dusts extracted in simulated body fluids and their impact on culturable pathogenic bacteria responses	7

Manual and automatic quantification of airborne fungal spores during wheat harvest period	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
Correction to: Variability between Hirst-type pollen traps is reduced by resistance-free flow adjustment	7
Storms facilitate airborne DNA from leaf fragments outside the main tree pollen season	7
Correction: Development and verification of a taxa‑specific gridded pollen modelling system for the UK	6
Air pollution may alter reproductive dynamics/efficacy in plants: correlative evidences from an urban sprawl in Eastern Indo-Gangetic plain	6
Combined synoptic and regional weather patterns affecting atmospheric Poaceae pollen concentrations in Sydney, Australia	6
Influence of meteorological parameters and PM2.5 on the level of culturable airborne bacteria and fungi in Abadan, Iran	6
Investigating the interplay of indoor microbial diversity with pollutant variables and human health profile in Indian slums: a metagenomic approach	6
Airborne bacterial communities present in particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10) samples collected during different seasons in Temuco City in Chile	6
Development and verification of a taxa-specific gridded pollen modelling system for the UK	5
Assessment of fungal aerosols in a public library with natural ventilation	5
Analyzing the airborne birch and grass pollen monitoring network of Belgium	5
Toward comprehensive airborne pathogen control in Indonesia’s tropical setting	5
Allergenic pollen seasons and regional pollen calendars for Norway	5
Assessing the impact of climatic factors on dengue fever transmission in Bangladesh	5
New airborne fungal spores in the atmosphere of Havana, Cuba	5
Long-read sequencing of metagenomes from wet deposition samples in the Western USA during an elevated precipitation in February 2019	4
The calcium-antagonist activity of the material released by olive pollen (PMR), tested on Ca2+-cytosolic of PE/CA-PJ15 cells	4
Correction to: False positives: handling them operationally for automatic pollen monitoring	4
Topical collection: aerobiology and planetary health	4
Pathogenic bacteria in air samples: an appraisal of the African studies versus other continents	4
Application of the HYSPLIT model for birch pollen modelling in Poland	4
Novel approaches to reduce airborne pathogen infestation through dust control systems of wheat thresher	4
Exposure to ragweed pollen and Amb a 1 allergens in central Anatolia, Türkiye, and immunolabeling of Amb a 1 in pollen	4
Impact of climate change on the pollen season on relevant species in Iberian’s dehesa: a case study of Fraxinus sp.	4
Unveiling the hidden hazards of smog: health implications and antibiotic resistance in perspective	4
First volumetric records of airborne Cladosporium and Alternaria spores in the atmosphere of Al Khor (northern Qatar): a preliminary survey	4
Observations from the USA National Phenology Network can be leveraged to model airborne pollen	4
Composition and spatiotemporal variations in the indoor airborne bacterial communities in two Chilean medical centers	4
Environmental factors that modulate the release and transport of airborne urediniospores Hemileia vastatrix (Berk. & Broome) in coffee crops in Veracruz México	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
Trends in airborne grass pollen in Évora City (Portugal)	3
Plants on the ground, pollen in the air: how much do they match?	3
Bioaerosol concentration and health implication for children in daycare centers	3
Comparison of computer vision models in application to pollen classification using light scattering	3
Recommended terminology for aerobiological studies: automatic and real-time monitoring methods	3
Automatically counting pollen and measuring pollen production in some common grasses	3
Ecological behavior of Drechslera/Helminthosporium spores in a wheat crop in NW Spain	3
Operational pollen classification using digital holography and fluorescence	3
Comparison of the spectrum and quantity of airborne bioparticles above morphologically typical populations of Ambrosia artemisiifolia and those with reduced male flower production	2
Identification of airborne Penicillium and their association with outdoor air quality in a middle Eastern city	2
Ragweed (Ambrosia) pollen transport and seed production in Finland during 1990–2022	2
The real hues of Red Rain-Kerala, India	2
Simultaneous monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 and bacterial profiles from the air of hospital environments with COVID-19-affected patients	2
Bifurcation and control of xanthomonas infectious disease spread in banana plants under hypersensitive response	2
Halophytic palynomorphs morphology unraveling the links between palynology and aerobiology	2
Analysis of the annual pollen integral in Albuquerque, New Mexico, shows a negative trend with temperatures for Juniper, Cottonwood, Elm, and Mulberry	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
Chilling and heat requirements for woody taxa in Tétouan (NW Morocco)	2
Spatial variation of airborne bacterial heterogeneity and potential opportunistic human pathogens: a comparative study of sites in Korea and Japan	2
Temporal variations in airborne Alternaria and Cladosporium spores and the effect of meteorological factors: three years study from a metropolis on the West Anatolian coast	2
Investigating the relationship between atmospheric concentrations of fungal spores and local meteorological variables in Kastamonu, Türkiye	2