OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Tobacco Control is 31. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Hookah Battle: the global sponsoring and brand marketing of smoking competitions	280
Naturally leading: a content analysis of terms, themes and word associations in Natural American Spirit advertising, 2000–2020	87
Standardised cigarettes: the next step for tobacco policy?	72
Circumventing tobacco control and safety policies to promote waterpipe use in smoking venues: the perspective of staff in waterpipe smoking venues	65
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	65
Underutilisation of no-tobacco-sale orders against retailers that repeatedly sell to minors, 2015–2019, USA	64
Industry response to strengthened regulations: amount and themes of flavoured electronic cigarette promotion by product vendors and manufacturers on Instagram	56
Towards tobacco-free retailers: feasibility of an intervention encouraging retailers to stop selling tobacco in Tasmania	51
IQOS and cigarette advertising across regulatory periods and population groups in Israel: a longitudinal analysis	49
Flavours, ingredients and flavour bans	49
Vaping in a heavily regulated setting: cross-sectional survey of e-cigarette use, perceptions and social media exposure	49
Tobacco industry interference to undermine the development and implementation of graphic health warnings in Bangladesh	47
Economic costs of tobacco-related diseases in Hong Kong in 2021	45
Awareness of tobacco industry tactics among tobacco control communities in Thailand and its association with attitudes towards tobacco industry and perceptions of e-cigarettes	45
Affordability of cigarettes in ten Southeastern European countries between 2008 and 2019	44
Cessation and knowledge-building messaging are associated with e-cigarette cessation intentions among youth and young adults in the USA	43
Nicotine levels in flavoured hookah (waterpipe) tobacco products: discrepancies between labelled and measured levels	43
How do clinicians address vaping in an illegal context? A qualitative Singapore study	43
Where to next for countries with high tobacco taxes? The potential for greater control of tobacco pricing through licensing regulation	42
Randomised experiment for the effect of ‘Tobacco-Free Nicotine’ messaging on current e-cigarette users’ perceptions, preferences and intentions	39
Themes in e-liquid concept names as a marketing tactic: evidence from Premarket Tobacco Product Applications in the USA	38
Oral nicotine product marketing expenditures in the USA from 2016 to 2023: trends over time by brand and targeted media outlets	38
Understanding e-cigarette content and promotion on YouTube through machine learning	37
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	36
Heavy metals in ENDS: a comparison of open versus closed systems purchased from the USA, England, Canada and Australia	35

“I think we can do without [tobacco]”: support for policies to end the tobacco epidemic among California adolescents	34
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	34
Economic cost of cigarette smoking in China: a propensity score matching and DALY-based analysis (2014–2020)	34
Historical and political context for Philip Morris International’s continuing medical education courses on harm reduction	34
Waterpipe tobacco smoking (WTS) control policies: global analysis of available legislation and equity considerations	31
Correction:Tobacco industry accountability for marine pollution: country and global estimates	31
Quasi-experimental evaluation of Kenya’s pictorial health warnings versus Zambia’s single text-only warning: findings from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Project	31