OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health is 30. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Extreme weather events in europe and their health consequences – A systematic review	145
Prevalence of ESKAPE pathogens in the environment: Antibiotic resistance status, community-acquired infection and risk to human health	128
Health, work performance, and risk of infection in office-like environments: The role of indoor temperature, air humidity, and ventilation	127
The European human biomonitoring platform - Design and implementation of a laboratory quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) programme for selected priority chemicals	77
SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater: Challenges for developing countries	71
HBM4EU combines and harmonises human biomonitoring data across the EU, building on existing capacity – The HBM4EU survey	69
Chemical prioritisation strategy in the European Human Biomonitoring Initiative (HBM4EU) – Development and results	60
Lead (Pb) and neurodevelopment: A review on exposure and biomarkers of effect (BDNF, HDL) and susceptibility	56
Harmonized human biomonitoring in European children, teenagers and adults: EU-wide exposure data of 11 chemical substance groups from the HBM4EU Aligned Studies (2014–2021)	55
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)	50
Human experimental exposure to glyphosate and biomonitoring of young Swedish adults	50
From spontaneous to strategic natural window ventilation: Improving indoor air quality in Swiss schools	48
Household water insecurity will complicate the ongoing COVID-19 response: Evidence from 29 sites in 23 low- and middle-income countries	46
The European Human Biomonitoring Initiative (HBM4EU): Human biomonitoring guidance values for selected phthalates and a substitute plasticizer	44
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	42
Exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and volatile organic compounds is associated with a risk of obesity and diabetes mellitus among Korean adults: Korean National Environmental Health Survey	41
The association between natural environments and childhood mental health and development: A systematic review and assessment of different exposure measurements	41
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	39
PFAS levels and determinants of variability in exposure in European teenagers – Results from the HBM4EU aligned studies (2014–2021)	38
Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies among hospital workers in a German tertiary care center: A sequential follow-up study	37
Concentrations of perfluoroalkyl substances in donor breast milk in Southern Spain and their potential determinants	35
Ventilation conditions and their influence on thermal comfort in examination classrooms in times of COVID-19. A case study in a Spanish area with Mediterranean climate	34
Chlorination for low-cost household water disinfection – A critical review and status in three Latin American countries	33
Fate of faecal pathogen indicators during faecal sludge composting with different bulking agents in tropical climate	33
Quality assurance and harmonization for targeted biomonitoring measurements of environmental organic chemicals across the Children's Health Exposure Analysis Resource laboratory network	33

Detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA on contact surfaces within shared sanitation facilities	32
Impact of heat waves and cold spells on cause-specific mortality in the city of São Paulo, Brazil	31
Modelling faecal pathogen flows and health risks in urban Bangladesh: Implications for sanitation decision making	30
Lead exposure and its association with cardiovascular disease and diabetic kidney disease in middle-aged and elderly diabetic patients	30
Serum concentration trends and apparent half-lives of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in Australian firefighters	30
Assessing the efficiency of constructed wetlands in removing PPCPs from treated wastewater and mitigating the ecotoxicological impacts	30