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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Occupational exposure to organic solvents during pregnancy and child behavior from early childhood to adolescence	246
The changing health effects of air pollution exposure for respiratory diseases: a multicity study during 2017–2022	95
Impacts of COVID-19 lockdown on PM2.5-bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in Hohhot, Northern China: characteristics, sources, and source-specific health risks	88
Prenatal exposure to essential and toxic elements in relation to infant growth trajectories	86
Arsenic modifies the effect of folic acid in spina bifida prevention, a large hospital-based case-control study in Bangladesh	75
Association between long-term exposure to PM2.5 and thyroid nodules in school-aged children and adolescents: a cross-sectional study in Eastern China	61
A science-based agenda for health-protective chemical assessments and decisions: overview and consensus statement	58
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	56
Maternal exposure to housing renovation during the periconceptional period and the risk of offspring with isolated congenital heart disease: a case-control study	54
Modification of associations between ambient PM2.5 and vital signs by β-blocker prescription status among individuals with heart failure	53
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	52
The association between newborn cord blood steroids and ambient prenatal exposure to air pollution: findings from the ENVIRONAGE birth cohort	52
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 physical activity and air pollution exposure with the risk of type 2 diabetes: a large population-based prospective cohort study	49
Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and adherence to Mediterranean diet in an adult population: the Mediterranean diet index as a pollution level index	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	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
Association of mold exposure and solid household fuel use with depression and anxiety among older adults in China	44
Relationship between radiofrequency-electromagnetic radiation from cellular phones and brain tumor: meta-analyses using various proxies for RF-EMR exposure-outcome assessment	44
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)	43
PM2.5 constituent exposures and maternal circulatory homocysteine in early pregnancy	42
Strategies to facilitate the report-back of research results: a systematic review of methods and evaluations	41
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
Correction: Childhood mercury exposure and early death in Grassy Narrows First Nation, Canada: a retrospective study	39
Improvement of several stress response and sleep quality hormones in men and women after sleeping in a bed that protects against electromagnetic fields	38

Wildfire smoke and pediatric asthma control in the Northeastern United States: a cross-sectional study	37
Long-term exposure to PM2.5 air pollution and mental health: a retrospective cohort study in Ireland	37
The sugar industry’s efforts to manipulate research on fluoride effectiveness and toxicity: a ninety-year history	37
Maternal urinary concentrations of bisphenol A during pregnancy and birth size in children from the Odense Child Cohort	37
Endocrine-disrupting chemicals and the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis	35
Chlordecone exposure in women and time to pregnancy: the Timoun cohort study in Guadeloupe, French West Indies	34
Occupational characteristics are missing from heat vulnerability indices: a study in New York and New Jersey	34
Correction: Relationship between radiofrequency-electromagnetic radiation from cellular phones and brain tumor: meta-analyses using various proxies for RF-EMR exposure-outcome assessment	34
A prospective study of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), stress, and birth size in a cohort of U.S. Black women	33