OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine is 23. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Environmental factors involved in SARS-CoV-2 transmission: effect and role of indoor environmental quality in the strategy for COVID-19 infection control	161
Air pollution and children’s health—a review of adverse effects associated with prenatal exposure from fine to ultrafine particulate matter	138
Association between exposure to ambient air pollution and hospital admission, incidence, and mortality of stroke: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis of more than 23 million participants	96
Effects of the built environment on physical activity: a systematic review of longitudinal studies taking sex/gender into account	79
National, regional, and global prevalence of cigarette smoking among women/females in the general population: a systematic review and meta-analysis	60
Cross-sectional survey of depressive symptoms and suicide-related ideation at a Japanese national university during the COVID-19 stay-home order	59
COVID-19 pandemic-induced physical inactivity: the necessity of updating the Global Action Plan on Physical Activity 2018-2030	59
Anemia as a risk factor for tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis	53
Food safety knowledge, attitude, and hygiene practices of street-cooked food handlers in North Dayi District, Ghana	52
Early childhood screen time as a predictor of emotional and behavioral problems in children at 4 years: a birth cohort study in China	45
Students’ attitude and sleep pattern during school closure following COVID-19 pandemic quarantine: a web-based survey in south of Iran	42
Changes in health status, workload, and lifestyle after starting the COVID-19 pandemic: a web-based survey of Japanese men and women	32
Factors associated with food safety knowledge and practices among meat handlers in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study	32
Reproducibility and validity of food group intake in a short food frequency questionnaire for the middle-aged Japanese population	32
The role of Environmental Health in preventing antimicrobial resistance in low- and middle-income countries	31
Hokkaido birth cohort study on environment and children’s health: cohort profile 2021	31
Public perceptions, individual characteristics, and preventive behaviors for COVID-19 in six countries: a cross-sectional study	30
The mechanism of enriched environment repairing the learning and memory impairment in offspring of prenatal stress by regulating the expression of activity-regulated cytoskeletal-associated and insuli	29
Acute effect of ambient fine particulate matter on heart rate variability: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis of panel studies	29
Household air pollution and under-five mortality in sub-Saharan Africa: an analysis of 14 demographic and health surveys	29
Outdoor air pollution and diminished ovarian reserve among infertile Korean women	28
Associations between screen time, physical activity, and depressive symptoms during the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak among Chinese college students	26
Cross-sectional study of individual and environmental factors associated with life-space mobility among community-dwelling independent older people	25
Maternal metal concentration during gestation and pediatric morbidity in children: an exploratory analysis	23
Influence of height on endothelial maintenance activity: a narrative review	23

Effects of forest environment (Shinrin-yoku/Forest bathing) on health promotion and disease prevention —the Establishment of “Forest Medicine”—