OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environmental Health is 12. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Synergistic health effects of air pollution, temperature, and pollen exposure: a systematic review of epidemiological evidence	116
Environmental chemicals, breast cancer progression and drug resistance	105
Consideration of pathways for immunotoxicity of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)	74
Road traffic noise, noise sensitivity, noise annoyance, psychological and physical health and mortality	59
Short-term exposure to air pollution and hospital admission for pneumonia: a systematic review and meta-analysis	52
Metabolomic signatures of the long-term exposure to air pollution and temperature	49
Endocrine-disrupting chemicals and the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis	46
A review of health effects associated with exposure to jet engine emissions in and around airports	45
Acute and chronic exposure to air pollution in relation with incidence, prevalence, severity and mortality of COVID-19: a rapid systematic review	45
Aspartame and cancer – new evidence for causation	44
Effects of exposure to surrounding green, air pollution and traffic noise with non-accidental and cause-specific mortality in the Dutch national cohort	41
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	40
A pathway level analysis of PFAS exposure and risk of gestational diabetes mellitus	38
Prenatal exposure to bisphenol A and autistic- and ADHD-related symptoms in children aged 2 and5 years from the Odense Child Cohort	38
Air pollution in association with mental and self-rated health and the mediating effect of physical activity	37
Prenatal metal mixtures and child blood pressure in the Rhea mother-child cohort in Greece	36
Geospatial indicators of exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity to assess neighbourhood variation in vulnerability to climate change-related health hazards	36
Incident cardiovascular disease and particulate matter air pollution in South Korea using a population-based and nationwide cohort of 0.2 million adults	35
Scientific evidence invalidates health assumptions underlying the FCC and ICNIRP exposure limit determinations for radiofrequency radiation: implications for 5G	34
Potential impacts of synthetic food dyes on activity and attention in children: a review of the human and animal evidence	34
Emulating causal dose-response relations between air pollutants and mortality in the Medicare population	33
Bisphenol-A exposure and risk of breast and prostate cancer in the Spanish European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition study	32
Climate factors and gestational diabetes mellitus risk – a systematic review	32
Inferential challenges when assessing racial/ethnic health disparities in environmental research	31
Houston hurricane Harvey health (Houston-3H) study: assessment of allergic symptoms and stress after hurricane Harvey flooding	30

Severity of parkinsonism associated with environmental manganese exposure	29
Exposure to environmental phenols and parabens, and relation to body mass index, eczema and respiratory outcomes in the Norwegian RHINESSA study	29
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	29
Maternal bisphenol urine concentrations, fetal growth and adverse birth outcomes: A population-based prospective cohort	28
The effects of everyday-life exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons on biological age indicators	28
Social inequalities in heat-attributable mortality in the city of Turin, northwest of Italy: a time series analysis from 1982 to 2018	28
The science of spin: targeted strategies to manufacture doubt with detrimental effects on environmental and public health	28
Association between ambient particulate matter exposure and semen quality in fertile men	28
Prenatal exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances and thyroid hormone concentrations in cord plasma in a Chinese birth cohort	28
What is the carbon footprint of primary care practices? A retrospective life-cycle analysis in Switzerland	27
Prenatal exposure to ambient air pollution is associated with neurodevelopmental outcomes at 2 years of age	27
Relation of blood lead levels and lead in gasoline: an updated systematic review	27
Extended two-stage designs for environmental research	27
Effects of short-term ambient PM2.5 exposure on cardiovascular disease incidence and mortality among U.S. hemodialysis patients: a retrospective cohort study	26
Adverse Effects of fine particulate matter on human kidney functioning: a systematic review	26
Protocol for personal RF-EMF exposure measurement studies in 5th generation telecommunication networks	25
Neighborhood greenspace exposure as a protective factor in dementia risk among U.S. adults 75 years or older: a cohort study	25
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	25
Prenatal exposure to ambient air pollutants and early infant growth and adiposity in the Southern California Mother’s Milk Study	25
Pervasive structural racism in environmental epidemiology	25
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	24
DNA methylation of insulin-like growth factor 2 and H19 cluster in cord blood and prenatal air pollution exposure to fine particulate matter	24
Determinants of maternal and neonatal PFAS concentrations: a review	24
Multiple neonicotinoids in children’s cerebro-spinal fluid, plasma, and urine	24
Health consequences of drought in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region: hotspot areas and needed actions	23
Individual and mixture associations of perfluoroalkyl substances on liver function biomarkers in the Canadian Health Measures Survey	23
Long-term personal air pollution exposure and risk for acute exacerbation of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis	22
Randomized trial of a portable HEPA air cleaner intervention to reduce asthma morbidity among Latino children in an agricultural community	21
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	21
Climate change, extreme events, and increased risk of salmonellosis: foodborne diseases active surveillance network (FoodNet), 2004-2014	21
Prenatal ambient air pollution and maternal depression at 12 months postpartum in the MADRES pregnancy cohort	21
Associations between blood cadmium and endocrine features related to PCOS-phenotypes in healthy women of reproductive age: a prospective cohort study	21
Prenatal exposure to consumer product chemical mixtures and size for gestational age at delivery	20
Addressing systemic problems with exposure assessments to protect the public’s health	20
Air pollution and biomarkers of cardiovascular disease and inflammation in the Malmö Diet and Cancer cohort	19
Neighborhood greenspace and risk of type 2 diabetes in a prospective cohort: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis	19
Preconception air pollution exposure and glucose tolerance in healthy pregnant women in a middle-income country	19
Severe volcanic SO2 exposure and respiratory morbidity in the Icelandic population – a register study	18
Long-term exposure to residential greenness and neurodegenerative disease mortality among older adults: a 13-year follow-up cohort study	18
Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and adherence to Mediterranean diet in an adult population: the Mediterranean diet index as a pollution level index	18
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	18
Acute associations between heatwaves and preterm and early-term birth in 50 US metropolitan areas: a matched case-control study	18
Occupational exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and risk of prostate cancer	18
Metal biomarker mixtures and blood pressure in the United States: cross-sectional findings from the 1999-2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)	18
The health impacts of Indonesian peatland fires	18
Maternal methylmercury exposure through rice ingestion and child neurodevelopment in the first three years: a prospective cohort study in rural China	18
Impacts of dietary exposure to pesticides on faecal microbiome metabolism in adult twins	18
Dose–response evaluation of urinary cadmium and kidney injury biomarkers in Chinese residents and dietary limit standards	17
Temperature-related mortality and associated vulnerabilities: evidence from Scotland using extended time-series datasets	17
Time-series analysis of daily ambient temperature and emergency department visits in five US cities with a comparison of exposure metrics derived from 1-km meteorology products	17

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	17
Update on human exposure to glyphosate, with a complete review of exposure in children	17
Effects of particulate matter on hospital admissions for respiratory diseases: an ecological study based on 12.5 years of time series data in Shanghai	17
Endocrine disrupting chemical-associated hair product use during pregnancy and gestational age at delivery: a pilot study	17
Role of epidemiology in risk assessment: a case study of five ortho-phthalates	17
Engaging communities in addressing air quality: a scoping review	17
Lead exposure and serum metabolite profiles in pregnant women in Mexico City	17
Glyphosate exposure in early pregnancy and reduced fetal growth: a prospective observational study of high-risk pregnancies	17
Extreme temperature and out-of-hospital-cardiac-arrest. Nationwide study in a hot climate country	16
Emerging environmental health risks associated with the land application of biosolids: a scoping review	16
Residential greenness, asthma, and lung function among children at high risk of allergic sensitization: a prospective cohort study	16
A tiered approach to prioritizing registered pesticides for potential cancer hazard evaluations: implications for decision making	16
Associations between polyfluoroalkyl substance and organophosphate flame retardant exposures and telomere length in a cohort of women firefighters and office workers in San Francisco	16
Epigenome-wide association study for pesticide (Permethrin and DEET) induced DNA methylation epimutation biomarkers for specific transgenerational disease	16
Long-term exposure to road traffic noise and stroke incidence: a Danish Nurse Cohort study	16
Association between biomass fuel use and the risk of cognitive impairment among older populations in China: a population-based cohort study	16
Mixture effects of prenatal exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and polybrominated diphenyl ethers on maternal and newborn telomere length	16
What agro-input dealers know, sell and say to smallholder farmers about pesticides: a mystery shopping and KAP analysis in Uganda	15
Exposure to arsenic at different life-stages and DNA methylation meta-analysis in buccal cells and leukocytes	15
Birch pollen, air pollution and their interactive effects on airway symptoms and peak expiratory flow in allergic asthma during pollen season – a panel study in Northern and Southern Sweden	15
Sex-dependent dysregulation of human neutrophil responses by bisphenol A	15
Ambient air pollutants are associated with morning serum cortisol in overweight and obese Latino youth in Los Angeles	15
Prenatal exposure to heavy metal mixtures and anthropometric birth outcomes: a cross-sectional study	15
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
Toolkit for detecting misused epidemiological methods	14
Childhood traffic-related air pollution and adverse changes in subclinical atherosclerosis measures from childhood to adulthood	14
The interplay between environmental exposures and COVID-19 risks in the health of children	14
Short-term effects and economic burden of air pollutants on acute lower respiratory tract infections in children in Southwest China: a time-series study	14
Joint effect of 25-hydroxyvitamin D and secondhand smoke exposure on hypertension in non-smoking women of childbearing age: NHANES 2007-2014	14
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	14
Industrial odour pollution and human health: a systematic review and meta-analysis	14
The association between organophosphate insecticides and blood pressure dysregulation: NHANES 2013–2014	14
Human-Biomonitoring derived exposure and Daily Intakes of Bisphenol A and their associations with neurodevelopmental outcomes among children of the Polish Mother and Child Cohort Study	14
Critical windows of exposure to air pollution and gestational diabetes: assessing effect modification by maternal pre-existing conditions and environmental factors	13
In utero and peripubertal metals exposure in relation to reproductive hormones and sexual maturation and progression among boys in Mexico City	13
Low-level plasticizer exposure and all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality in the general population	13
Prospective association between dietary pesticide exposure profiles and type 2 diabetes risk in the NutriNet-Santé cohort	13
The risk of perchlorate and iodine on the incidence of thyroid tumors and nodular goiter: a case-control study in southeastern China	13
Multigenerational endometriosis : consequence of fetal exposure to diethylstilbestrol ?	13
Exposure to second-hand smoke during early life and subsequent sleep problems in children: a population-based cross-sectional study	13
A science-based agenda for health-protective chemical assessments and decisions: overview and consensus statement	13
Effect of short-term exposure to particulate air pollution on heart rate variability in normal-weight and obese adults	13
Impact of long-term exposure to PM2.5 and temperature on coronavirus disease mortality: observed trends in France	12
Associations between long-term exposures to airborne PM2.5 components and mortality in Massachusetts: mixture analysis exploration	12
Effects of long-term PM2.5 exposure on metabolic syndrome among adults and elderly in Guangdong, China	12
Quantifying the short-term effects of air pollution on health in the presence of exposure measurement error: a simulation study of multi-pollutant model results	12
Current practice and recommendations for advancing how human variability and susceptibility are considered in chemical risk assessment	12
Association of indoor microbial aerosols with respiratory symptoms among under-five children: a systematic review and meta-analysis	12
Mixture toxicity, cumulative risk, and environmental justice in United States federal policy, 1980–2016	12
Urinary polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon excretion and regional body fat distribution: evidence from the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2001–2016	12
The effect of high polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon exposure on biological aging indicators	12
Long-term ambient air pollution exposure and cardio-respiratory disease in China: findings from a prospective cohort study	12
Neighborhood infrastructure-related risk factors and non-communicable diseases: a systematic meta-review	12