OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Health is 33. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Impacts of COVID-19 lockdown on PM2.5-bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in Hohhot, Northern China: characteristics, sources, and source-specific health risks	190
Maternal exposure to housing renovation during the periconceptional period and the risk of offspring with isolated congenital heart disease: a case-control study	82
Arsenic modifies the effect of folic acid in spina bifida prevention, a large hospital-based case-control study in Bangladesh	79
Association between long-term exposure to PM2.5 and thyroid nodules in school-aged children and adolescents: a cross-sectional study in Eastern China	69
The changing health effects of air pollution exposure for respiratory diseases: a multicity study during 2017–2022	66
Per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in circulation in a Canadian population: their association with serum-liver enzyme biomarkers and piloting a novel method to reduce serum-PFAS	66
Occupational exposure to organic solvents during pregnancy and child behavior from early childhood to adolescence	63
A science-based agenda for health-protective chemical assessments and decisions: overview and consensus statement	62
Association of mold exposure and solid household fuel use with depression and anxiety among older adults in China	51
Modification of associations between ambient PM2.5 and vital signs by β-blocker prescription status among individuals with heart failure	49
Relationship between radiofrequency-electromagnetic radiation from cellular phones and brain tumor: meta-analyses using various proxies for RF-EMR exposure-outcome assessment	48
World Health Organization repository of systematic reviews on interventions in environment, climate change and health: a new resource for decision makers, intervention implementers, and researchers	48
Association of physical activity and air pollution exposure with the risk of type 2 diabetes: a large population-based prospective cohort study	47
Impact of prenatal and postnatal household air pollution exposure on respiratory morbidity and lung function in sub-Saharan African children: a systematic review and meta-analysis	47
A co-created citizen science project on the short term effects of outdoor residential woodsmoke on the respiratory health of adults in the Netherlands	45
Ambient nitrogen dioxide is associated with emergency hospital visits for atrial fibrillation: a population-based case-crossover study in Reykjavik, Iceland	43
The association between newborn cord blood steroids and ambient prenatal exposure to air pollution: findings from the ENVIRONAGE birth cohort	42
Study Protocol. Evaluating the life-course health impact of a city-wide system approach to improve air quality in Bradford, UK: A quasi-experimental study with implementation and process evaluation	42
Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and adherence to Mediterranean diet in an adult population: the Mediterranean diet index as a pollution level index	42
Exposing additional authors who suppress evidence about radiation-induced thyroid cancer in children: a Comment adding to Tsuda et al.’s response to Schüz et al. (2023)	40
Correction: Childhood mercury exposure and early death in Grassy Narrows First Nation, Canada: a retrospective study	40
Improvement of several stress response and sleep quality hormones in men and women after sleeping in a bed that protects against electromagnetic fields	40
Maternal urinary concentrations of bisphenol A during pregnancy and birth size in children from the Odense Child Cohort	37
Association between increasing agricultural use of 2,4-D and population biomarkers of exposure: findings from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2001–2014	36
Endocrine-disrupting chemicals and the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis	35

The sugar industry’s efforts to manipulate research on fluoride effectiveness and toxicity: a ninety-year history	35
Correction: Relationship between radiofrequency-electromagnetic radiation from cellular phones and brain tumor: meta-analyses using various proxies for RF-EMR exposure-outcome assessment	34
High arsenic contamination in the breast milk of mothers inhabiting the Gangetic plains of Bihar: a major health risk to infants	34
PM2.5 constituent exposures and maternal circulatory homocysteine in early pregnancy	34
Correction: Epidemiologic and clinical features of cyanobacteria harmful algal bloom exposures reported to the National Poison Data System, United States, 2010–2022: a descriptive analysis	34
Long-term exposure to PM2.5 air pollution and mental health: a retrospective cohort study in Ireland	34
Association and mediation analyses among multiple metals exposure, plasma folate, and community-based impaired estimated glomerular filtration rate in central Taiwan	33
Serum concentrations of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in Danish pregnant women—temporal trends during pregnancy, correlations with partners, associations with physical activity, and bloo	33
Chlordecone exposure in women and time to pregnancy: the Timoun cohort study in Guadeloupe, French West Indies	33