OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Health is 32. 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.)

Article	Citations
Occupational exposure to organic solvents during pregnancy and child behavior from early childhood to adolescence	256
Impacts of COVID-19 lockdown on PM2.5-bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in Hohhot, Northern China: characteristics, sources, and source-specific health risks	92
Maternal exposure to housing renovation during the periconceptional period and the risk of offspring with isolated congenital heart disease: a case-control study	91
Association between long-term exposure to PM2.5 and thyroid nodules in school-aged children and adolescents: a cross-sectional study in Eastern China	81
Prenatal exposure to essential and toxic elements in relation to infant growth trajectories	67
Arsenic modifies the effect of folic acid in spina bifida prevention, a large hospital-based case-control study in Bangladesh	60
A science-based agenda for health-protective chemical assessments and decisions: overview and consensus statement	60
The changing health effects of air pollution exposure for respiratory diseases: a multicity study during 2017–2022	56
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	55
Modification of associations between ambient PM2.5 and vital signs by β-blocker prescription status among individuals with heart failure	54
Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and adherence to Mediterranean diet in an adult population: the Mediterranean diet index as a pollution level index	53
Association of mold exposure and solid household fuel use with depression and anxiety among older adults in China	52
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	52
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	49
Relationship between radiofrequency-electromagnetic radiation from cellular phones and brain tumor: meta-analyses using various proxies for RF-EMR exposure-outcome assessment	49
A co-created citizen science project on the short term effects of outdoor residential woodsmoke on the respiratory health of adults in the Netherlands	49
Association of physical activity and air pollution exposure with the risk of type 2 diabetes: a large population-based prospective cohort study	46
The association between newborn cord blood steroids and ambient prenatal exposure to air pollution: findings from the ENVIRONAGE birth cohort	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
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	43
Occupational characteristics are missing from heat vulnerability indices: a study in New York and New Jersey	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	39
Wildfire smoke and pediatric asthma control in the Northeastern United States: a cross-sectional 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	39
Correction: Childhood mercury exposure and early death in Grassy Narrows First Nation, Canada: a retrospective study	38

The sugar industry’s efforts to manipulate research on fluoride effectiveness and toxicity: a ninety-year history	38
Strategies to facilitate the report-back of research results: a systematic review of methods and evaluations	38
PM2.5 constituent exposures and maternal circulatory homocysteine in early pregnancy	36
Association between volatile organic compound concentrations in daycares and child wheeze: the French CRESPI study	35
Long-term exposure to PM2.5 air pollution and mental health: a retrospective cohort study in Ireland	34
Maternal urinary concentrations of bisphenol A during pregnancy and birth size in children from the Odense Child Cohort	33
Correction: Relationship between radiofrequency-electromagnetic radiation from cellular phones and brain tumor: meta-analyses using various proxies for RF-EMR exposure-outcome assessment	32
Dose-response relationship between lung function and chest imaging response to silica exposures in artificial stone manufacturing workers	32
Chlordecone exposure in women and time to pregnancy: the Timoun cohort study in Guadeloupe, French West Indies	32
A prospective study of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), stress, and birth size in a cohort of U.S. Black women	32
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	32