OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Tobacco Control is 28. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Economic costs of tobacco-related diseases in Hong Kong in 2021	357
Hookah Battle: the global sponsoring and brand marketing of smoking competitions	112
How do clinicians address vaping in an illegal context? A qualitative Singapore study	80
Cessation and knowledge-building messaging are associated with e-cigarette cessation intentions among youth and young adults in the USA	76
Affordability of cigarettes in ten Southeastern European countries between 2008 and 2019	75
Circumventing tobacco control and safety policies to promote waterpipe use in smoking venues: the perspective of staff in waterpipe smoking venues	69
Flavours, ingredients and flavour bans	60
What happens in Vegas, stays in your lungs: an assessment of fine particulate matter in casinos that prohibit and allow smoking in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA	56
Naturally leading: a content analysis of terms, themes and word associations in Natural American Spirit advertising, 2000–2020	55
Tobacco industry interference to undermine the development and implementation of graphic health warnings in Bangladesh	55
Standardised cigarettes: the next step for tobacco policy?	50
Nicotine levels in flavoured hookah (waterpipe) tobacco products: discrepancies between labelled and measured levels	47
Themes in e-liquid concept names as a marketing tactic: evidence from Premarket Tobacco Product Applications in the USA	45
Randomised experiment for the effect of ‘Tobacco-Free Nicotine’ messaging on current e-cigarette users’ perceptions, preferences and intentions	44
Oral nicotine product marketing expenditures in the USA from 2016 to 2023: trends over time by brand and targeted media outlets	44
Industry response to strengthened regulations: amount and themes of flavoured electronic cigarette promotion by product vendors and manufacturers on Instagram	43
Heavy metals in ENDS: a comparison of open versus closed systems purchased from the USA, England, Canada and Australia	43
Awareness and attitudes towards children’s cigarette card gaming behaviour among adults aged 15 and above in Shenzhen, China: a population representative cross-sectional study	41
Where to next for countries with high tobacco taxes? The potential for greater control of tobacco pricing through licensing regulation	35
Awareness of tobacco industry tactics among tobacco control communities in Thailand and its association with attitudes towards tobacco industry and perceptions of e-cigarettes	34
IQOS and cigarette advertising across regulatory periods and population groups in Israel: a longitudinal analysis	34
Availability of flavoured tobacco in San Francisco Bay Area stores after California’s statewide sales restriction	34
Cannabis use and progression to regular tobacco use among United States youth and young adults: evidence from the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) study, 2017–2021	33
Towards tobacco-free retailers: feasibility of an intervention encouraging retailers to stop selling tobacco in Tasmania	32
Impact of Canada’s menthol cigarette ban on quitting among menthol smokers: pooled analysis of pre–post evaluation from the ITC Project and the Ontario Menthol Ban Study and projections of impact in t	31

Understanding e-cigarette content and promotion on YouTube through machine learning	30
Ambiguity around assessment of exposure to cigarette advertising: the need for an updated measure	29
Vaping in a heavily regulated setting: cross-sectional survey of e-cigarette use, perceptions and social media exposure	29
“I think we can do without [tobacco]”: support for policies to end the tobacco epidemic among California adolescents	28