OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environmental Health is 13. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Synergistic health effects of air pollution, temperature, and pollen exposure: a systematic review of epidemiological evidence	87
Environmental chemicals, breast cancer progression and drug resistance	87
Associations between prenatal maternal exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and birth outcomes among pregnant women in San Francisco	49
Short-term exposure to air pollution and hospital admission for pneumonia: a systematic review and meta-analysis	48
Sustainable solutions to mitigate occupational heat strain – an umbrella review of physiological effects and global health perspectives	46
Biomarkers of environmental manganese exposure and associations with childhood neurodevelopment: a systematic review and meta-analysis	46
Bisphenol A shapes children’s brain and behavior: towards an integrated neurotoxicity assessment including human data	43
Road traffic noise, noise sensitivity, noise annoyance, psychological and physical health and mortality	41
Consideration of pathways for immunotoxicity of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)	41
Acute and chronic exposure to air pollution in relation with incidence, prevalence, severity and mortality of COVID-19: a rapid systematic review	41
Metabolomic signatures of the long-term exposure to air pollution and temperature	41
Perfluoroalkyl substances are associated with elevated blood pressure and hypertension in highly exposed young adults	40
A large prospective investigation of outdoor light at night and obesity in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study	38
A review of health effects associated with exposure to jet engine emissions in and around airports	35
Impacts of ambient air pollution on glucose metabolism in Korean adults: a Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey study	34
The first 1000 days of life: traffic-related air pollution and development of wheezing and asthma in childhood. A systematic review of birth cohort studies	34
Aspartame and cancer – new evidence for causation	33
Predictors and reproducibility of urinary organophosphate ester metabolite concentrations during pregnancy and associations with birth outcomes in an urban population	33
A systematic review and meta-analysis of haematological malignancies in residents living near petrochemical facilities	33
Prenatal metal mixtures and child blood pressure in the Rhea mother-child cohort in Greece	32
Perinatal oral exposure to low doses of bisphenol A, S or F impairs immune functions at intestinal and systemic levels in female offspring mice	31
Ambient particulate matter and biomass burning: an ecological time series study of respiratory and cardiovascular hospital visits in northern Thailand	31
Incident cardiovascular disease and particulate matter air pollution in South Korea using a population-based and nationwide cohort of 0.2 million adults	31
Endocrine-disrupting chemicals and the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis	31
Geospatial indicators of exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity to assess neighbourhood variation in vulnerability to climate change-related health hazards	30

A pathway level analysis of PFAS exposure and risk of gestational diabetes mellitus	30
Exposure to Perflouroalkyl acids and foetal and maternal thyroid status: a review	29
Effects of exposure to surrounding green, air pollution and traffic noise with non-accidental and cause-specific mortality in the Dutch national cohort	29
Climate factors and gestational diabetes mellitus risk – a systematic review	28
Electromagnetic hypersensitivity: a critical review of explanatory hypotheses	28
Prenatal exposure to bisphenol A and autistic- and ADHD-related symptoms in children aged 2 and5 years from the Odense Child Cohort	28
Scientific evidence invalidates health assumptions underlying the FCC and ICNIRP exposure limit determinations for radiofrequency radiation: implications for 5G	27
Particulate matter and emergency visits for asthma: a time-series study of their association in the presence and absence of wildfire smoke in Reno, Nevada, 2013–2018	27
Oxidative damage mediates the association between polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon exposure and lung function	27
Social inequalities in heat-attributable mortality in the city of Turin, northwest of Italy: a time series analysis from 1982 to 2018	25
Air pollution in association with mental and self-rated health and the mediating effect of physical activity	25
Bisphenol-A exposure and risk of breast and prostate cancer in the Spanish European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition study	25
The association between ambient temperature and sperm quality in Wuhan, China	25
Inferential challenges when assessing racial/ethnic health disparities in environmental research	25
What is the carbon footprint of primary care practices? A retrospective life-cycle analysis in Switzerland	25
Emulating causal dose-response relations between air pollutants and mortality in the Medicare population	24
The science of spin: targeted strategies to manufacture doubt with detrimental effects on environmental and public health	24
Using three statistical methods to analyze the association between exposure to 9 compounds and obesity in children and adolescents: NHANES 2005-2010	24
Houston hurricane Harvey health (Houston-3H) study: assessment of allergic symptoms and stress after hurricane Harvey flooding	24
Prenatal exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances and thyroid hormone concentrations in cord plasma in a Chinese birth cohort	24
Association between ambient particulate matter exposure and semen quality in fertile men	24
The effects of everyday-life exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons on biological age indicators	24
Maternal bisphenol urine concentrations, fetal growth and adverse birth outcomes: A population-based prospective cohort	23
Long-term exposure to a mixture of industrial SO2, NO2, and PM2.5 and anti-citrullinated protein antibody positivity	23
DNA methylation of insulin-like growth factor 2 and H19 cluster in cord blood and prenatal air pollution exposure to fine particulate matter	22
Long-term exposure to PM2.5 and cardiovascular disease incidence and mortality in an Eastern Mediterranean country: findings based on a 15-year cohort study	22
Severity of parkinsonism associated with environmental manganese exposure	22
Prenatal exposure to ambient air pollutants and early infant growth and adiposity in the Southern California Mother’s Milk Study	22
Leaving no one behind – understanding environmental inequality in Europe	22
Exposure to environmental phenols and parabens, and relation to body mass index, eczema and respiratory outcomes in the Norwegian RHINESSA study	22
Immune biomarkers link air pollution exposure to blood pressure in adolescents	22
Greenness, civil environment, and pregnancy outcomes: perspectives with a systematic review and meta-analysis	21
Can climatic factors explain the differences in COVID-19 incidence and severity across the Spanish regions?: An ecological study	21
Occupational pesticide exposure and the risk of death in patients with Parkinson’s disease: an observational study in southern Brazil	21
Perfluoroalkyl substances exposure in early pregnancy and preterm birth in singleton pregnancies: a prospective cohort study	21
Reducing exposure to high levels of perfluorinated compounds in drinking water improves reproductive outcomes: evidence from an intervention in Minnesota	21
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	21
Long-term personal air pollution exposure and risk for acute exacerbation of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis	20
Prenatal exposure to pesticides and risk for holoprosencephaly: a case-control study	20
Effects of short-term ambient PM2.5 exposure on cardiovascular disease incidence and mortality among U.S. hemodialysis patients: a retrospective cohort study	20
Associations of ambient air pollutants with regional pulmonary tuberculosis incidence in the central Chinese province of Hubei: a Bayesian spatial-temporal analysis	20
Metal air pollution partnership solutions: building an academic-government-community-industry collaboration to improve air quality and health in environmental justice communities in Houston	19
Extended two-stage designs for environmental research	19
Protocol for personal RF-EMF exposure measurement studies in 5th generation telecommunication networks	19
Associations between blood cadmium and endocrine features related to PCOS-phenotypes in healthy women of reproductive age: a prospective cohort study	19
Adverse Effects of fine particulate matter on human kidney functioning: a systematic review	19
Health consequences of drought in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region: hotspot areas and needed actions	18
Neighborhood greenspace exposure as a protective factor in dementia risk among U.S. adults 75 years or older: a cohort study	18
Pregnancy-induced changes in serum concentrations of perfluoroalkyl substances and the influence of kidney function	18
Pervasive structural racism in environmental epidemiology	18

Preconception air pollution exposure and glucose tolerance in healthy pregnant women in a middle-income country	17
Exposure to traffic-related air pollution and changes in exhaled nitric oxide and DNA methylation in arginase and nitric oxide synthase in children with asthma	17
Maternal urinary concentrations of organophosphate ester metabolites: associations with gestational weight gain, early life anthropometry, and infant eating behaviors among mothers-infant pairs in Rho	17
Maternal and fetal exposures to fluoride during mid-gestation among pregnant women in northern California	17
The dietary risk index system: a tool to track pesticide dietary risks	17
Acute associations between heatwaves and preterm and early-term birth in 50 US metropolitan areas: a matched case-control study	17
Randomized trial of a portable HEPA air cleaner intervention to reduce asthma morbidity among Latino children in an agricultural community	17
Role of epidemiology in risk assessment: a case study of five ortho-phthalates	16
Climate change, extreme events, and increased risk of salmonellosis: foodborne diseases active surveillance network (FoodNet), 2004-2014	16
Addressing systemic problems with exposure assessments to protect the public’s health	16
Evaluating the effects between metal mixtures and serum vaccine antibody concentrations in children: a prospective birth cohort study	16
Potential impacts of synthetic food dyes on activity and attention in children: a review of the human and animal evidence	16
Severe volcanic SO2 exposure and respiratory morbidity in the Icelandic population – a register study	16
Metal biomarker mixtures and blood pressure in the United States: cross-sectional findings from the 1999-2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)	16
Concentrations of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances and blood glucose in pregnant women	16
Occupational exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and risk of prostate cancer	16
Multiple neonicotinoids in children’s cerebro-spinal fluid, plasma, and urine	16
Individual and mixture associations of perfluoroalkyl substances on liver function biomarkers in the Canadian Health Measures Survey	16
Residential exposure to air pollution and access to neighborhood greenspace in relation to hair cortisol concentrations during the second and third trimester of pregnancy	15
Prenatal ambient air pollution and maternal depression at 12 months postpartum in the MADRES pregnancy cohort	15
The short-term effects and burden of particle air pollution on hospitalization for coronary heart disease: a time-stratified case-crossover study in Sichuan, China	15
Associations between polyfluoroalkyl substance and organophosphate flame retardant exposures and telomere length in a cohort of women firefighters and office workers in San Francisco	15
Correlation between exposure to fine particulate matter and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy in Shanghai, China	15
Weight and head circumference at birth in function of placental paraben load in Belgium: an ENVIRONAGE birth cohort study	15
Reducing disease and death from Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) - the urgent need for responsible mining in the context of growing global demand for minerals and metals for climate change mitig	15
Effects of particulate matter on hospital admissions for respiratory diseases: an ecological study based on 12.5 years of time series data in Shanghai	15
Prenatal exposure to ambient air pollution is associated with neurodevelopmental outcomes at 2 years of age	15
Mixture effects of prenatal exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and polybrominated diphenyl ethers on maternal and newborn telomere length	15
Comparison of life loss per death attributable to ambient temperature among various development regions: a nationwide study in 364 locations in China	15
Persistent organic pollutants, pre-pregnancy use of combined oral contraceptives, age, and time-to-pregnancy in the SELMA cohort	15
Plasma concentration of brominated flame retardants and postmenopausal breast cancer risk: a nested case-control study in the French E3N cohort	14
Long-term exposure to residential greenness and neurodegenerative disease mortality among older adults: a 13-year follow-up cohort study	14
Exposure to arsenic at different life-stages and DNA methylation meta-analysis in buccal cells and leukocytes	14
Impacts of dietary exposure to pesticides on faecal microbiome metabolism in adult twins	14
Prenatal exposure to consumer product chemical mixtures and size for gestational age at delivery	14
Air pollution and biomarkers of cardiovascular disease and inflammation in the Malmö Diet and Cancer cohort	14
Lead exposure and serum metabolite profiles in pregnant women in Mexico City	14
Risk assessment of temperature and air pollutants on hospitalizations for mental and behavioral disorders in Curitiba, Brazil	14
Neighborhood greenspace and risk of type 2 diabetes in a prospective cohort: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis	14
Long-term exposure to road traffic noise and stroke incidence: a Danish Nurse Cohort study	14
Update on human exposure to glyphosate, with a complete review of exposure in children	14
Maternal methylmercury exposure through rice ingestion and child neurodevelopment in the first three years: a prospective cohort study in rural China	14
The health impacts of Indonesian peatland fires	13
Dose–response evaluation of urinary cadmium and kidney injury biomarkers in Chinese residents and dietary limit standards	13
The association between the seasonality of pediatric pandemic influenza virus outbreak and ambient meteorological factors in Shanghai	13
Systematic review and meta-analysis of case-crossover and time-series studies of short term outdoor nitrogen dioxide exposure and ischemic heart disease morbidity	13
Drought severity and all-cause mortality rates among adults in the United States: 1968–2014	13
NO2 and PM2.5 air pollution co-exposure and temperature effect modification on pre-mature mortality in advanced age: a longitudinal cohort study in China	13
Association between biomass fuel use and the risk of cognitive impairment among older populations in China: a population-based cohort study	13
Extreme temperature and out-of-hospital-cardiac-arrest. Nationwide study in a hot climate country	13
A tiered approach to prioritizing registered pesticides for potential cancer hazard evaluations: implications for decision making	13
The interplay between environmental exposures and COVID-19 risks in the health of children	13
Toolkit for detecting misused epidemiological methods	13
Reduced neurobehavioral functioning in agricultural workers and rural inhabitants exposed to pesticides in northern Chile and its association with blood biomarkers inhibition	13
Epigenome-wide association study for pesticide (Permethrin and DEET) induced DNA methylation epimutation biomarkers for specific transgenerational disease	13
Spatio-temporal associations of air pollutant concentrations, GP respiratory consultations and respiratory inhaler prescriptions: a 5-year study of primary care in the borough of Lambeth, South London	13