OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Aerobiologia is 5. 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
Microscopic fungi and other contaminants on airborne pollen grains of ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.)	13
Diversity and spatial–temporal distribution of airborne fungi at the world culture heritage site Maijishan Grottoes in China	13
Atmospheric particulate matter deposition on birch catkins and pollen grains before pollination	11
Biological contaminants in indoor environments of educational institutions	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
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
Aeroflora and pollinosis in selected areas of Lagos, Nigeria	9
Characteristics of airborne microbial community in Hefei, eastern China, under a good quality in mid-spring	9
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-site monitoring of airborne pathogens: recent advances in bioaerosol collection and rapid detection	8
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
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
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
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
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
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