OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Health is 34. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Occupational exposure to organic solvents during pregnancy and child behavior from early childhood to adolescence	277
Impacts of COVID-19 lockdown on PM2.5-bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in Hohhot, Northern China: characteristics, sources, and source-specific health risks	105
Maternal exposure to housing renovation during the periconceptional period and the risk of offspring with isolated congenital heart disease: a case-control study	96
Association between long-term exposure to PM2.5 and thyroid nodules in school-aged children and adolescents: a cross-sectional study in Eastern China	86
Arsenic modifies the effect of folic acid in spina bifida prevention, a large hospital-based case-control study in Bangladesh	70
Prenatal exposure to essential and toxic elements in relation to infant growth trajectories	69
The changing health effects of air pollution exposure for respiratory diseases: a multicity study during 2017–2022	67
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	62
A science-based agenda for health-protective chemical assessments and decisions: overview and consensus statement	61
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	58
A co-created citizen science project on the short term effects of outdoor residential woodsmoke on the respiratory health of adults in the Netherlands	58
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	57
Association of physical activity and air pollution exposure with the risk of type 2 diabetes: a large population-based prospective cohort study	54
Modification of associations between ambient PM2.5 and vital signs by β-blocker prescription status among individuals with heart failure	51
Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and adherence to Mediterranean diet in an adult population: the Mediterranean diet index as a pollution level index	50
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	50
Association of mold exposure and solid household fuel use with depression and anxiety among older adults in China	47
Relationship between radiofrequency-electromagnetic radiation from cellular phones and brain tumor: meta-analyses using various proxies for RF-EMR exposure-outcome assessment	46
The association between newborn cord blood steroids and ambient prenatal exposure to air pollution: findings from the ENVIRONAGE birth cohort	45
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)	44
Heat alerts and emergency department utilization: evidence from San Diego County, California	44
PM2.5 constituent exposures and maternal circulatory homocysteine in early pregnancy	42
The sugar industry’s efforts to manipulate research on fluoride effectiveness and toxicity: a ninety-year history	42
Correction: Childhood mercury exposure and early death in Grassy Narrows First Nation, Canada: a retrospective study	40
Maternal urinary concentrations of bisphenol A during pregnancy and birth size in children from the Odense Child Cohort	40

Risk of hospitalization and mortality across US climate regions following extreme heat exposure in patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) receiving in-center hemodialysis: a space–time-stratifi	40
Occupational characteristics are missing from heat vulnerability indices: a study in New York and New Jersey	40
Strategies to facilitate the report-back of research results: a systematic review of methods and evaluations	40
Association between volatile organic compound concentrations in daycares and child wheeze: the French CRESPI study	39
Long-term exposure to PM2.5 air pollution and mental health: a retrospective cohort study in Ireland	37
Wildfire smoke and pediatric asthma control in the Northeastern United States: a cross-sectional study	37
Correction: Relationship between radiofrequency-electromagnetic radiation from cellular phones and brain tumor: meta-analyses using various proxies for RF-EMR exposure-outcome assessment	35
A prospective study of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), stress, and birth size in a cohort of U.S. Black women	34
Associations of urinary bisphenol A and its emerging substitutes with subfecundity in preconception couples: a prospective nested case-control study	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