OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Tobacco Control is 29. 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
Economic costs of tobacco-related diseases in Hong Kong in 2021	373
Hookah Battle: the global sponsoring and brand marketing of smoking competitions	114
Cessation and knowledge-building messaging are associated with e-cigarette cessation intentions among youth and young adults in the USA	81
Affordability of cigarettes in ten Southeastern European countries between 2008 and 2019	79
Flavours, ingredients and flavour bans	76
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	74
IQOS and cigarette advertising across regulatory periods and population groups in Israel: a longitudinal analysis	61
Awareness of tobacco industry tactics among tobacco control communities in Thailand and its association with attitudes towards tobacco industry and perceptions of e-cigarettes	61
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	56
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	55
Naturally leading: a content analysis of terms, themes and word associations in Natural American Spirit advertising, 2000–2020	51
Tobacco industry interference to undermine the development and implementation of graphic health warnings in Bangladesh	50
Standardised cigarettes: the next step for tobacco policy?	49
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	46
Oral nicotine product marketing expenditures in the USA from 2016 to 2023: trends over time by brand and targeted media outlets	45
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	45
Heavy metals in ENDS: a comparison of open versus closed systems purchased from the USA, England, Canada and Australia	42
Where to next for countries with high tobacco taxes? The potential for greater control of tobacco pricing through licensing regulation	37
Availability of flavoured tobacco in San Francisco Bay Area stores after California’s statewide sales restriction	37
Understanding e-cigarette content and promotion on YouTube through machine learning	36
Industry response to strengthened regulations: amount and themes of flavoured electronic cigarette promotion by product vendors and manufacturers on Instagram	34
Randomised experiment for the effect of ‘Tobacco-Free Nicotine’ messaging on current e-cigarette users’ perceptions, preferences and intentions	34
Towards tobacco-free retailers: feasibility of an intervention encouraging retailers to stop selling tobacco in Tasmania	33
How do clinicians address vaping in an illegal context? A qualitative Singapore study	32

Vaping in a heavily regulated setting: cross-sectional survey of e-cigarette use, perceptions and social media exposure	31
“I think we can do without [tobacco]”: support for policies to end the tobacco epidemic among California adolescents	31
Cigarette unit sales volume for brands using ‘natural’, ‘organic’ and ‘tobacco and water’ pack terms in the USA, 2018–2022	30
Longitudinal impact of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship on perceptions of harmfulness of tobacco and uptake of heated tobacco products in Japan: findings from the JASTIS study	30
Economic cost of cigarette smoking in China: a propensity score matching and DALY-based analysis (2014–2020)	29