International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health

Papers
(The TQCC of International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health is 10. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Association between serum elementomics of 48 elements and female fecundity: evidence from a nested case-control study in China347
Air pollution exposure and social responsiveness in childhood: The cincinnati combined childhood cohorts136
Prenatal exposure to solvents and fetal outcomes in a Canadian pregnancy cohort88
Drinking water sources, quality, and associated health outcomes in Appalachian Virginia: A risk characterization study in two counties72
Domestic water security in the Arctic: A scoping review64
Preconception mitochondrial DNA copy number plays a crucial role in linking prenatal air pollution with the risk of preterm birth59
Occurrence and genetic characteristics of multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli isolates co-harboring antimicrobial resistance genes and metal tolerance genes in aquatic ecosystems51
Rainfall and temperature influence effectiveness of on-site sanitation intervention against E. coli contamination in Bangladeshi households44
Enhancing data interoperability in human biomonitoring studies: the HBM data toolkit42
Higher serum concentrations of PFAS among pesticide exposed female greenhouse workers41
Effect of neighbourhood greenness on the association between air pollution and risk of stroke first onset: A case-crossover study in shandong province, China39
Do carbon dioxide, volatile organic compounds and atmospheric pressure affect the cognitive performance of occupants in indoor environments? Results of a large-scale experiment with simulated flights36
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)36
How to use human biomonitoring in chemical risk assessment: Methodological aspects, recommendations, and lessons learned from HBM4EU36
Individual and joint effects of organophosphate esters and hypertension or diabetes on renal injury among Chinese adults35
Molecular characterization of antimicrobial resistance in Escherichia coli from dairy farm environment34
Measurement in the study of human exposure to animal feces: A systematic review and audit34
Heat waves and mortality in the Brazilian Amazon: Effect modification by heat wave characteristics, population subgroup, and cause of death34
Influence of community-level sanitation coverage and population density on environmental fecal contamination and child health in a longitudinal cohort in rural Bangladesh31
Associations between exposure to blue spaces and natural and cause-specific mortality in Greece: An ecological study31
Prenatal exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and phthalate acid esters and gestational diabetes mellitus: A prospective cohort study31
Longitudinal measures of phthalate exposure and asthma exacerbation in a rural agricultural cohort of Latino children in Yakima Valley, Washington31
Fine particulate matter components and reproductive hormones in female adults: A 15-year longitudinal cohort study30
Biomonitoring for workplace exposure to copper and its compounds is currently not interpretable30
Editorial Board29
Gestational exposure to organophosphate esters and adiposity measures of children up to 6 years: Effect modification by breastfeeding29
Increased self-reported sensitivity to environmental stimuli and its effects on perception of air quality and well-being29
The effects of parental occupational exposures on autism spectrum disorder severity and skills in cognitive and adaptive domains in children with autism spectrum disorder29
Inhalation and dermal absorption as dominant pathways of PCB exposure for residents of contaminated apartment buildings29
Environmental exposures and fecundability: The Norwegian Mother, Father, and Child Cohort study28
Arsenic exposure alters the expression of genes related to metabolic diseases in differentiated adipocytes and in newborns and children28
Editorial Board28
Exposure to multiple trace elements and thyroid cancer risk in Chinese adults: A case-control study28
Association between ambient particulate matter and preterm birth stratified by temperature: A population-based pregnancy cohort study27
Hygiene system modeling for toileting in schools27
Differential metabolic profiles by training fire exposure in female firefighters27
Association between air temperature and self-perceived health status in Southern Germany: Results from KORA FIT study27
Residential proximity to conventional and unconventional wells and exposure to indoor air volatile organic compounds in the Exposures in the Peace River Valley (EXPERIVA) study27
Exposure to ambient PM2.5 constituents and semen quality in a retrospective cohort study: Windows of susceptibility and modification by greenness26
Gestational PBDE concentrations and functional connectivity in adolescents: The HOME Study26
The role of greenspace in vitamin D status: cross-sectional, observational evidence from the UK Biobank25
Inflammatory profiles, gut microbiome, and kidney function are impacted after high-fidelity firefighter training24
Editorial Board24
The relationship between working conditions, vehicle factors, and work-related musculoskeletal disorders affecting job satisfaction and job stress among motorcycle food delivery riders23
Comparison of urinary 3-hydroxybenzo(a)Pyrene (3-OHBaP) and trans-anti-7,8,9,10-tetrahydroxy-7,8,9,10-tetrahydrobenzo(a)Pyrene (TetraolBaP) as biomarkers of exposure to carcinogenic BaP23
Association of early life co-exposure to ambient PM2.5 and O3 with the offspring's growth within two years of age: A birth cohort study23
Associations of maternal gestational urinary environmental phenols concentrations with bone mineral density among 12-year-old children in the HOME Study23
What did we learn about changing behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic? A systematic review of interventions to change hand hygiene and mask use behaviour23
Urinary phthalate metabolite concentrations during four windows spanning puberty (prepuberty through sexual maturity) and association with semen quality among young Russian men22
Association between residential greenness and coronary heart disease: A proteomics and miRNA microarray analysis22
Mixture risk assessment and human biomonitoring: Lessons learnt from HBM4EU21
Risk perception or hazard perception? Examining misperceptions of miners’ personal exposures to noise21
Assessing the association between prenatal ambient temperature and extreme low birth weight in South Asia21
Prenatal exposure to phthalate mixtures and child neurodevelopment in toddlers aged 1–3 years from the PROTECT birth cohort20
Risks of misinterpretation of biomarker measurements in spot urine adjusted for creatinine – A problem especially for studies comparing plant based with omnivorous diets20
Urinary glyphosate kinetics after occupational exposure20
Health-based risk assessment and surveillance benchmarks for antibiotic-resistant E. coli in treated hospital effluents19
Infection prevention and control knowledge and educational needs among nurses in healthcare settings: results from the Hygeia European survey19
Biochemical and haematological effects of serum PFOA, ADV and cC6O4 in workers of a chemical company producing fluoropolymers, Italy, 2013–202218
Biomonitoring of DEET and DCBA in Canadian children following typical protective insect repellent use18
Editorial Board18
In utero and early childhood exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and use of antibiotics in children from the Odense Child Cohort: A Danish cohort study18
Editorial Board18
Exposure to outdoor ambient air toxics and risk of breast cancer: The multiethnic cohort18
HBM4EU-MOM: Prenatal methylmercury-exposure control in five countries through suitable dietary advice for pregnancy – Study design and characteristics of participants18
Influence of anthropogenic inputs on microbial risks and resistance genes in a riverine environment18
Household resilience and adaptation strategies for enhancing access to energy, water, and food during droughts and floods: A qualitative study18
Factors associated with internal contamination of nurses by antineoplastic drugs based on biomonitoring data from a previous study18
The dominance of co-circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants in wastewater18
HBM4EU from the Coordinator's perspective: lessons learnt from managing a large-scale EU project18
Bioaerosols from outdoor wastewater treatment facilities: dispersal behavior, exposure risks and protection strategies17
Sewage-based surveillance shows presence of Klebsiella pneumoniae resistant against last resort antibiotics in the population in Bergen, Norway17
Incidental nanoparticle characterisation in industrial settings to support risk assessment modelling17
Association of metals with early postnatal gut microbiota among infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit17
Assessing metal mixture effects on neuropsychological development: A trade-off between complexity and interpretability17
Systematic review of wild birds as reservoirs of antimicrobial resistance: Implications for roof-harvested rainwater safety17
Association between exposure to wind turbines and sleep disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis17
Pro-vegetarian dietary patterns and essential and heavy metal exposure in children of 4-5-years from the INfancia y medio Ambiente cohort (INMA)17
Metagenomics insights into microbiome and antibiotic resistance genes from free living amoeba in chlorinated wastewater effluents17
Analyzing long-term trends in cotinine concentrations among smokers and non-smokers under South Korea's tobacco control policies17
Implementing a multimodal intervention using local resources to improve hand hygiene compliance in a comprehensive specialized hospital in Mekelle, Northern Ethiopia16
Editorial Board16
Monitoring ambient air pollution and pulmonary function in asthmatic children by mobile applications in COVID-19 pandemic16
Maternal blood lead level and its association with birthweight and preterm birth in Adjara, Georgia: An inverse probability of selection weighting analysis of a population-based cohort study15
Beyond E. coli monitoring: a framework to inform decision-making to address fecal contamination in recreational freshwater15
Assessment of exposure to pesticide mixtures in five European countries by a harmonized urinary suspect screening approach15
Reducing the complexity of high-dimensional environmental data: An analytical framework using LASSO with considerations of confounding for statistical inference15
Maternal residential exposure to solvents from industrial sources during pregnancy and childhood cancer risk in California15
Association of serum polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) with anemia and erythrocytosis in Korean adults: Data from Korean National Environmental Health Survey cycle 4 (2018–2020)15
Effects of different laying periods on airborne bacterial diversity and antibiotic resistance genes in layer hen houses15
Neighborhood environment and cognitive functioning in middle-aged and older population: A mediating role of physical activity15
Corrigendum to: “The effects of parental occupational exposures on autism spectrum disorder severity and skills in cognitive and adaptive domains in children with autism spectrum disorder” [Int. J. Hy15
Gestational organophosphate ester exposure and preschool attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in the Norwegian Mother, Father, and Child cohort study15
Who benefits from green spaces? Surrounding greenness and incidence of cardiovascular disease in a population-based electronic medical records cohort in Madrid15
Regulatory framework of phthalates and two common alternatives: A review of the European Union legislation15
Face mask performance related to potentially infectious aerosol particles, breathing mode and facial leakage15
Association between occupational noise exposure and diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis15
Predicting high exposure of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in Korean adults using machine learning14
Public health performance of sanitation technologies in Tamil Nadu, India: Initial perspectives based on E. coli release14
Epidemiological insights into neonatal deaths: The role of cooking fuel pollution in Colombia14
Maternal serum polybrominated diphenyl ether concentrations during pregnancy and adolescent bone mineral density at age 12 years14
Defining alarm thresholds for the load of pathogenic viruses in wastewater for decision making: An application to three French cities13
Special issue editorial: Key results of the european human biomonitoring initiative - HBM4EU13
Associations between exposure to environmental pollutants, metabolic syndrome risk, and obesity-related anthropometric indices13
Multiple mycotoxin exposure assessment through human biomonitoring in an esophageal cancer case-control study in the Arsi-Bale districts of Oromia region of Ethiopia13
Children's exposure risk toward brominated flame retardants and organophosphate esters during preschool attendance and potential contamination sources13
Assessing welding fume exposure in professional welders: An exploratory study of biomarkers and metabolomic profiles13
“Residential greenness, gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and microbiome diversity during pregnancy”13
Interpreting biomonitoring data: Introducing the international human biomonitoring (i-HBM) working group's health-based guidance value (HB2GV) dashboard13
Effects of particulate air pollution on BPDE-DNA adducts, telomere length, and mitochondrial DNA copy number in human exhaled breath condensate and BEAS-2B cells13
Changes in water treatment, hygiene practices, household floors, and child health in times of Covid-19: A longitudinal cross-sectional survey in Surkhet District, Nepal13
Outdoor air pollution as a risk factor for testing positive for SARS-CoV-2: A nationwide test-negative case-control study in the Netherlands13
Blood lead, cadmium and hair mercury concentrations and association with soil, dust and occupational factors in e-waste recycling workers in Bangladesh13
Chlorination for low-cost household water disinfection – A critical review and status in three Latin American countries12
Household water use and greywater management in Khulna city, Bangladesh12
Aging of drinking water transmission pipes during long-term operation as a potential source of nano- and microplastics12
Ambient ozone exposure and depression among middle-aged and older adults: Nationwide longitudinal evidence in China12
Urinary neonicotinoid insecticides and adiposity measures among 7-year-old children in northern China: A cross-sectional study12
Organic waste treatment: Biomonitoring of workers exposed to mycotoxins12
Letter to the editor12
Exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons assessed by biomonitoring of firefighters during fire operations in Germany12
Long-term exposure to green and blue space and incidence of cardiovascular disease: A Danish Nurse Cohort study12
Wastewater reduction of Salmonella Typhimurium and H2S by using TiO2 films deposited by spin coating or magnetron sputtering12
Gas cooking indoors and respiratory symptoms in the ECRHS cohort12
Municipal sewage as a pathway for multidrug-resistant KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae from hospital effluent to urban stream: challenges for wastewater management12
Short-term ambient temperature variations and incidence of preterm birth: A systematic review and meta-analysis12
Editorial Board12
Biodegradation of trimethoprim and sulfamethoxazole in secondary effluent by microalgae-bacteria consortium12
Assessment of passive human exposure to tobacco smoke by environmental and biological monitoring in different public places in Wuhan, central China12
Open defaecation by proxy: Tackling the increase of disposable diapers in waste piles in informal settlements12
Association of urinary levels of trace metals with type 2 diabetes and obesity in postmenopausal women in Korea: A community-based cohort study12
Why did notifiable intestinal diseases persist while respiratory infections plummeted? Unraveling the divergent environmental drivers across the COVID-19 pandemic12
Plasma per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance mixtures during pregnancy and duration of breastfeeding in the New Hampshire birth cohort study12
Adolescent sleep disturbances and road traffic noise: a Swiss cohort study11
Assessing occupational styrene exposure in the European and US Glass Reinforced Plastics Industry for the period between 1947 and 202011
Editorial Board11
Systematic review of impacts of occupational exposure to wildfire smoke on respiratory function, symptoms, measures and diseases11
Exposure characteristics of legacy PFAS, and their precursors and alternatives among children and adolescents of Korea11
Sex-specific effect of perfluoroalkyl substances exposure on liver and thyroid function biomarkers: A mixture approach11
Informal E-waste recycling practices and environmental pollution in Africa: What is the way forward?11
Seawater from Bergen harbor is a reservoir of conjugative multidrug-resistance plasmids carrying genes for virulence11
Higher proportion of agricultural land use around the residence is associated with higher urinary concentrations of AMPA, a glyphosate metabolite11
Copper and zinc status in cord blood and breast milk and child's neurodevelopment at 18 months: Results of the Italian PHIME cohort11
Prenatal per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and blood pressure trajectories in the New Hampshire Birth Cohort Study11
Prenatal acute thermophysiological stress and spontaneous preterm birth in Western Australia, 2000–2015: A space-time-stratified case-crossover analysis11
Long-term nighttime aircraft noise exposure and risk of hypertension in a prospective cohort of female nurses11
Serum concentration trends and apparent half-lives of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in Australian firefighters11
Exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals including phthalates, phenols, and parabens in infancy: Associations with neurodevelopmental outcomes in the MARBLES study11
Exposure to phthalates and DiNCH among preschool children in Sweden: Urinary metabolite concentrations and predictors of exposure11
Corrigendum to “Substitutes mimic the exposure behaviour of REACH regulated phthalates – A review of the German HBM system on the example of plasticizers” [Int. J. Hyg. Environ. Health 236 (2021) 113711
Joint association of air pollution exposure and inflammation-related proteins in relation to infant lung function11
Comparative evaluation of decay characteristics of commonly used genetic faecal markers crAssphage and Bacteroides in complex river water microcosms11
Is local air pollution concentration a moderator or mediator of the association between residential greenspace and pediatric asthma exacerbations? A longitudinal study of pediatric patients in Philade11
Serum concentrations of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) among men from the Danish fire services and Armed Forces11
Air pollution and stroke; effect modification by sociodemographic and environmental factors. A cohort study from Denmark10
The metalloid antimony in urine of children and adolescents in Germany – human biomonitoring results of the German Environmental Survey 2014–2017 (GerES V)10
“Is my tap water safe to drink?”: Examining the quality of a national sample of United States drinking water reports10
Prenatal mercury exposure and body mass index at 2 and 4 years: The Japan Environment and Children's Study10
A review of latrine front-end characteristics associated with microbial infection risk; reveals a lack of pathogen density data10
Corrigendum to “Exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals including phthalates, phenols, and parabens in infancy: Associations with neurodevelopmental outcomes in the MARBLES study” [IJHEH 261 (2024)10
Association between mixed exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and metabolic syndrome in Korean adults: Data from the Korean National environmental health survey cycle 410
Does exposure to nature make children more intelligent? Analysis in Polish children with and without ADHD10
Cadmium exposure in adults across Europe: Results from the HBM4EU Aligned Studies survey 2014–202010
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