OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environmental Health is 16. 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
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
Chlordecone exposure in women and time to pregnancy: the Timoun cohort study in Guadeloupe, French West Indies	34
A prospective study of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), stress, and birth size in a cohort of U.S. Black women	33
Long-term exposure to residential greenness and neurodegenerative disease mortality among older adults: a 13-year follow-up cohort study	32
Dose-response relationship between lung function and chest imaging response to silica exposures in artificial stone manufacturing workers	31
High arsenic contamination in the breast milk of mothers inhabiting the Gangetic plains of Bihar: a major health risk to infants	30
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	30
Association between acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and short-term exposure to ambient air pollutants in France	30
Integrated analysis of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and plasma lipidomics profiles in multi-ethnic Asian subjects for exposome research	29
Serum concentrations of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in Danish pregnant women—temporal trends during pregnancy, correlations with partners, associations with physical activity, and bloo	29
A call from 40 public health scientists for an end to the continuing humanitarian and environmental catastrophe in Gaza	29
Spatial variation of asthma rates in Los Angeles County by environmental and socioeconomic indicators	28
Fluoride-related changes in the fetal cord blood proteome; a pilot study	27
Cadmium exposures and deteriorations of cognitive abilities: estimation of a reference dose for mixture risk assessments based on a systematic review and confidence rating	27
Quantifying the association between PM2.5 air pollution and IQ loss in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis	27
Pre-natal and early life lead exposure and childhood inhibitory control: an item response theory approach to improve measurement precision of inhibitory control	27
Associations of urinary bisphenol A and its emerging substitutes with subfecundity in preconception couples: a prospective nested case-control study	27
The health impacts of Indonesian peatland fires	26
Assessing ambient air pollution’s effects on birth outcomes: a Scottish IVF cohort study (2010 -2018)	26
Residential green space improves cognitive performances in primary schoolchildren independent of traffic-related air pollution exposure	26
CVD Environmental Health Disparities Tool: systematic evidence mapping of psychosocial stressors, environmental exposures, and cardiovascular diseases to inform disparities research and action	26
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	26
Scientific evidence invalidates health assumptions underlying the FCC and ICNIRP exposure limit determinations for radiofrequency radiation: implications for 5G	26
Perinatal exposure to ambient fine particle air pollution and risk of childhood ewing sarcoma in a population-based case-control study in California (1988–2015)	26
Characterizing visual field loss from past mercury exposure in an Indigenous riverine community (Grassy Narrows First Nation, Canada): a cluster-based approach	25
Conducting evaluations of evidence that are transparent, timely and can lead to health-protective actions	25
Association of multiple environmental toxicants with markers of early kidney injury in pregnant women: an exposome approach	25
Residential proximity to active and abandoned oil and gas development and risk of childhood Ewing sarcoma in California	25
Associations between urinary concentrations of bisphenols and serum concentrations of sex hormones among US. Males	24
Evaluation of mortality among Marines, Navy personnel, and civilian workers exposed to contaminated drinking water at USMC base Camp Lejeune: a cohort study	23
Early-life residential green spaces and traffic exposure in association with young adult body composition: a longitudinal birth cohort study of twins	23
Estimating the burden of diseases attributable to lead exposure in the North Africa and Middle East region, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease study 2019	23
Potential benefits of joint hypothetical interventions on diet, lead, and cadmium on mortality in US adults	23
Activation of anti-inflammatory pathways by polyunsaturated fatty acid signaling may protect neurodevelopment in children prenatally exposed to methylmercury	23
Dietary pesticide exposure and non-communicable diseases and mortality: a systematic review of prospective studies among adults	23
Association of oil spill cleanup-related hydrocarbon exposure with incident hypertension up to 11 years after exposure in the Gulf Long-term Follow-up Study	23
In utero particulate matter exposure in association with newborn mitochondrial ND4L10550A>G heteroplasmy and its role in overweight during early childhood	22
Correction: Bone mass density following developmental exposures to perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS): a longitudinal cohort study	22
Acute association between heatwaves and stillbirth in six US states	22
Estimating cardiovascular health gains from eradicating indoor cold in Australia	22
Exposure limits to radiofrequency EMF do not account for cancer risk or reproductive toxicity assessed from data in experimental animals	22
Ambient long-term exposure to organophosphorus pesticides and the human gut microbiome: an observational study	22
Evaluation of the evidence on acetaminophen use and neurodevelopmental disorders using the Navigation Guide methodology	22
Household air pollution and risk of pulmonary tuberculosis in HIV-Infected adults	22

Temporal and Spatial Effects of Extreme Drought Events on Human Epidemics over Ancient China in 1784–1787 CE	21
Short-term exposure to PM2.5 and 1.5 million deaths: a time-stratified case-crossover analysis in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area	21
The burden and trend prediction of ischemic heart disease associated with lead exposure: Insights from the Global Burden of Disease study 2021	21
Association of longitudinal pet ownership with wheezing in 3-year-old children using the distributed lag model: the Japan Environment and Children’s Study	20
Projecting tick-borne encephalitis risk in Sweden under climate change scenarios: a high-resolution spatio-temporal modeling approach	20
Relationship of prenatal methylmercury exposure and language/verbal function: a meta-analysis	20
Quantifying the climate benefits of a virtual versus an in-person format for an international conference	20
Correction: Immune biomarkers link air pollution exposure to blood pressure in adolescents	20
Mapping heat-related morbidity burden attributable to human-induced climate change across 460 communities of Victoria, Australia	20
Per and poly-fluoroalkyl substances and respiratory health in an Inuit community	20
Exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, heavy metals, and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and their associations with serum lipid profiles in the general Korean adult population	20
A large language model-based tool for identifying relationships to industry in research on the carcinogenicity of benzene, cobalt, and aspartame	19
Association between organophosphorus pesticides and obesity among American adults	19
Carcinogenicity of vinyl acetate: evidence from multiple data streams	18
How criminology can support environmental health: the case of PFAS	18
Titanium exposure and gestational diabetes mellitus: associations and potential mediation by perturbation of amino acids in early pregnancy	18
Assessing the health risk of living near composting facilities on lung health, fungal and bacterial disease in cystic fibrosis: a UK CF Registry study	18
Anthroposomics: integrating anthropological methods into exposome research	18
Air pollution and mortality in a University of Michigan amyotrophic lateral sclerosis cohort: a survival analysis	18
Association of Ozone Exposures with the risk of thyroid nodules in Hunan Province: a population-based cohort study	17
Relationship between freshwater harmful algal blooms and neurodegenerative disease incidence rates in South Korea	17
The evolution of an epidemic: age-period-cohort modelling of mesothelioma in Casale Monferrato, 1990–2021, with projections to 2042	17
Ambient air pollution and thyroid function in Spanish adults. A nationwide population-based study ([email protected] study)	17
Advancing environmental health sciences through implementation science	17
The WHO-commissioned systematic reviews on health effects of radiofrequency radiation provide no assurance of safety	17
Identifying pre-conception and pre-natal periods in which ambient air pollution exposure affects fetal growth in the predominately Hispanic MADRES cohort	17
Association between annual concentration of air pollutants and incidence of metabolic syndrome among Korean adults: Korean Genome and Epidemiology Study (KoGES)	17
Non-disclosure of developmental neurotoxicity studies obstructs the safety assessment of pesticides in the European Union	17
Engaging communities in addressing air quality: a scoping review	16
The association of in-utero exposure to air pollution and atherogenic index of plasma in newborns	16
Use of biomarkers of metals to improve prediction performance of cardiovascular disease mortality	16
Sex differences in the impact of extreme heat on cardiovascular disease outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis	16
Occupational heat exposure and chronic kidney disease risk under climate warming: a retrospective cohort study of petrochemical workers with mechanistic insights	16
Maternal serum concentrations of one-carbon metabolism factors modify the association between biomarkers of arsenic methylation efficiency and birth weight	16
Changes in the short-term relationship between air pollution and mortality in New York City, 1990–2019	16
The last decade of air pollution epidemiology and the challenges of quantitative risk assessment	16
Diabetes mellitus and serum organochlorine pesticides mixtures in Mexican women	16
Residential proximity to nuclear power plants and cancer incidence in Massachusetts, USA (2000–2018)	16