OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health is 37. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Metropolitan wastewater analysis for COVID-19 epidemiological surveillance	173
Relationship between COVID-19 and weather: Case study in a tropical country	168
Estimation of the time-varying reproduction number of COVID-19 outbreak in China	156
Short-term effects of ambient PM1 and PM2.5 air pollution on hospital admission for respiratory diseases: Case-crossover evidence from Shenzhen, China	108
Extreme weather events in europe and their health consequences – A systematic review	107
Manure-borne pathogens as an important source of water contamination: An update on the dynamics of pathogen survival/transport as well as practical risk mitigation strategies	94
Environmental contamination of SARS-CoV-2 on surfaces, air-conditioner and ventilation systems	89
Health, work performance, and risk of infection in office-like environments: The role of indoor temperature, air humidity, and ventilation	87
The determinants of handwashing behaviour in domestic settings: An integrative systematic review	86
First respiratory transmitted food borne outbreak?	85
Urine glyphosate level as a quantitative biomarker of oral exposure	79
Human biomonitoring initiative (HBM4EU) - Strategy to derive human biomonitoring guidance values (HBM-GVs) for health risk assessment	78
Emerging indoor pollutants	69
The European human biomonitoring platform - Design and implementation of a laboratory quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) programme for selected priority chemicals	69
Phthalate metabolites in urine of children and adolescents in Germany. Human biomonitoring results of the German Environmental Survey GerES V, 2014–2017	67
Prevalence of ESKAPE pathogens in the environment: Antibiotic resistance status, community-acquired infection and risk to human health	64
SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater: Challenges for developing countries	63
HBM4EU combines and harmonises human biomonitoring data across the EU, building on existing capacity – The HBM4EU survey	59
The investigation of antibiotic residues, antibiotic resistance genes and antibiotic-resistant organisms in a drinking water reservoir system in Germany	58
Chemical prioritisation strategy in the European Human Biomonitoring Initiative (HBM4EU) – Development and results	55
Chemicals inhaled from spray cleaning and disinfection products and their respiratory effects. A comprehensive review	53
Human fecal contamination of water, soil, and surfaces in households sharing poor-quality sanitation facilities in Maputo, Mozambique	53
Effects of ambient temperature and humidity on droplet lifetime – A perspective of exhalation sneeze droplets with COVID-19 virus transmission	49
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) in urine of children and adolescents in Germany – human biomonitoring results of the German Environmental Survey 2014–2017 (GerES V)	48
Filtration performances of non-medical materials as candidates for manufacturing facemasks and respirators	47

Lead (Pb) and neurodevelopment: A review on exposure and biomarkers of effect (BDNF, HDL) and susceptibility	47
Biomonitoring of occupational exposure to phthalates: A systematic review	44
From spontaneous to strategic natural window ventilation: Improving indoor air quality in Swiss schools	43
Impacts of transportation and meteorological factors on the transmission of COVID-19	43
Lead, cadmium, mercury, and chromium in urine and blood of children and adolescents in Germany – Human biomonitoring results of the German Environmental Survey 2014–2017 (GerES V)	43
Hexamoll® DINCH and DPHP metabolites in urine of children and adolescents in Germany. Human biomonitoring results of the German Environmental Survey GerES V, 2014–2017	41
Human experimental exposure to glyphosate and biomonitoring of young Swedish adults	40
Prenatal pesticide exposure and childhood leukemia – A California statewide case-control study	39
Household water insecurity will complicate the ongoing COVID-19 response: Evidence from 29 sites in 23 low- and middle-income countries	39
The European Human Biomonitoring Initiative (HBM4EU): Human biomonitoring guidance values for selected phthalates and a substitute plasticizer	38
Long-term time trend of lead exposure in young German adults – Evaluation of more than 35 Years of data of the German Environmental Specimen Bank	37
Epidemiological surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 by genome quantification in wastewater applied to a city in the northeast of France: Comparison of ultrafiltration- and protein precipitation-based methods	37