OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Current Environmental Health Reports is 5. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Current Trends and Future Directions in Urban Social Prescribing	139
Exposure Assessment for Tropical Cyclone Epidemiology	90
Mapping Heat Vulnerability and Heat Risk for Neighborhood Health Risk Management in Urban Environment? Challenges and Opportunities	90
Healthy Aging Requires a Healthy Home Care Workforce: the Occupational Safety and Health of Home Care Aides	89
Institutional Review Board Preparedness for Disaster Research: a Practical Approach	84
Zinc as a Mechanism-Based Strategy for Mitigation of Metals Toxicity	81
Biodiversity and Health in the Urban Environment	80
A Narrative Review of Spatial–Temporal Data Sources for Estimating Population-Level Exposures to Oil and Gas Development in the United States	78
Health Effects of Occupational and Environmental Exposures to Nuclear Power Plants: A Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression	71
Mechanism of Gene-Environment Interactions Driving Glial Activation in Parkinson’s Diseases	69
A scoping review of multigenerational impacts of grandparental exposures on mental health in grandchildren	62
Estimating Causal Effects of Interventions on Early-life Environmental Exposures Using Observational Data	59
Synthetic Chemicals: What We Have Learned and Still Need to Learn About Their Associations with Childhood Allergy and Asthma	53
Air Pollution and Environmental Justice in Latin America: Where Are We and How Can We Move Forward?	53
Validity of Geolocation and Distance to Exposure Sources from Geographical Information Systems for Environmental Monitoring of Toxic Metal Exposures Based on Correlation with Biological Samples: a Sys	47
Correction: The Health-Related and Learning Performance Effects of Air Pollution and Other Urban-Related Environmental Factors on School-Age Children and Adolescents—A Scoping Review of Systematic Rev	43
Assessing Differential Variability of High-Throughput DNA Methylation Data	37
Metabolic Perturbations Associated with both PFAS Exposure and Perinatal/Antenatal Depression in Pregnant Individuals: A Meet-in-the-Middle Scoping Review	34
Integrating DNA Methylation Measures of Biological Aging into Social Determinants of Health Research	33
Swimming Into View: Zebrafish Uncover Targets, Mechanisms, and Therapies for Cadmium Toxicity	33
Control Banding and the Global Rise of Qualitative Risk Assessment Strategies	31
Airborne Exposure to Pollutants and Mental Health: A Review with Implications for United States Veterans	31
The Application of Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Heat Island Mitigation in Asia: Progress, Challenges, and Recommendations	30
Correction: Tear Fluid as a Matrix for Biomonitoring Environmental and Chemical Exposures	29
An Overview of How the Built Environment Relates to Children’s Health	28

Dysregulation of Long Non-coding RNAs—the Novel lnc in Metal Toxicity and Carcinogenesis	26
Consideration on the Intergenerational Ethics on Uranium Waste Disposal	26
Current Understanding of Sex Differences in Metal-Induced Diseases	26
Epigenetic Responses to Nonchemical Stressors: Potential Molecular Links to Perinatal Health Outcomes	25
Toxicological Effects of Inhaled Crude Oil Vapor	24
Correction to: Prenatal Diet as a Modifier of Environmental Risk Factors for Autism and Related Neurodevelopmental Outcomes	24
Existing Challenges and Opportunities for Advancing Drought and Health Research	24
A Systematic Review of the Placental Translocation of Micro- and Nanoplastics	22
Opportunities and Challenges Associated with the Uptake of Residential Clean Fuel Usage	22
Effects of Early-life PFAS Exposure on Child Neurodevelopment: A Review of the Evidence and Research gaps	22
Correction to: Biodiversity and Health in the Urban Environment	22
The Environment and Headache: a Narrative Review	22
Air Pollution and Temperature: a Systematic Review of Ubiquitous Environmental Exposures and Sudden Cardiac Death	22
Mechanisms of Metal-Induced Hepatic Inflammation	22
Tear Fluid as a Matrix for Biomonitoring Environmental and Chemical Exposures	21
Early Environment and Telomeres: a Long-Term Toxic Relationship	21
What Is “Socioeconomic Position (SEP),” and How Might It Modify Air Pollution-Health Associations? Cohering Findings, Identifying Challenges, and Disentangling Effects of SEP and Race in US City Setti	21
Toxic Metals and Metalloids in Food: Current Status, Health Risks, and Mitigation Strategies	21
Evaluating Race in Air Pollution and Health Research: Race, PM2.5 Air Pollution Exposure, and Mortality as a Case Study	21
Environmental Exposure Disparities and Neurodevelopmental Risk: a Review	19
Methods for Evaluating Environmental Health Impacts at Different Stages of the Policy Process in Cities	19
Influence of Air Pollution Exposures on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors: a Review	18
The Association Between High Ambient Temperature and Mortality in the Mediterranean Basin: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis	18
The Association Between Personal Air Pollution Exposures and Fractional Exhaled Nitric Oxide (FeNO): A Systematic Review	17
Strengthening Rigor and Reproducibility in Epigenome-Wide Association Studies of Social Exposures and Brain-Based Health Outcomes	17
Childhood Trauma and Epigenetics: State of the Science and Future	17
Correction: Carcinogenic Mechanisms of Hexavalent Chromium: from DNA Breaks to Chromosome Instability and Neoplastic Transformation	16
Parking and Public Health	16
Occupational Heat Exposure & Mental Health Outcomes: A Review and Framework Incorporating Social Determinants of Health to Guide Future Research	16
Air Pollution and Lung Cancer: Contributions of Extracellular Vesicles as Pathogenic Mechanisms and Clinical Utility	15
Impacts of Environmental Insults on Cardiovascular Aging	14
Air (ine)quality in the European Union	14
A Review on The Role of Environmental Exposures in IgG4-Related Diseases	14
Supporting Decarbonization of Health Systems—A Review of International Policy and Practice on Health Care and Climate Change	13
Prenatal Maternal Smoke, DNA Methylation, and Multi-omics of Tissues and Child Health	13
A Review on Climate, Air Pollution, and Health in North Africa	13
Dairy and Plant-Based Milks: Implications for Nutrition and Planetary Health	12
Exposure to Synthetic Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals in Relation to Maternal and Fetal Sex Steroid Hormones: A Scoping Review	11
Occupational Heat Stress Among Migrant and Ethnic Minority Outdoor Workers: A Scoping Review	11
Prenatal Exposure to Nitrate in Drinking Water and Adverse Health Outcomes in the Offspring: a Review of Current Epidemiological Research	10
The Health-Related and Learning Performance Effects of Air Pollution and Other Urban-Related Environmental Factors on School-Age Children and Adolescents—A Scoping Review of Systematic Reviews	9
Challenges of Air Pollution and Health in East Asia	9
Environmental Metal Exposure, Neurodevelopment, and the Role of Iron Status: a Review	8
Reproductive and Social Policies, Sociopolitical Stress, and Implications for Maternal and Child Health Equity	8
Hurricanes and Health Equity: A Review of Structural Determinants of Vulnerability for Climate and Health Research	8
Prenatal Diet as a Modifier of Environmental Risk Factors for Autism and Related Neurodevelopmental Outcomes	8
Using Geovisualizations to Educate the Public About Environmental Health Hazards: What Works and Why	8
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Pregnancy and Prenatal Exposure to Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals Commonly Used in Personal Care Products	7
Assessing Exposure to Unconventional Oil and Gas Development: Strengths, Challenges, and Implications for Epidemiologic Research	7
Racial Disparities in Climate Change-Related Health Effects in the United States	7

The Utility of Machine Learning Models for Predicting Chemical Contaminants in Drinking Water: Promise, Challenges, and Opportunities	7
Genetics and Epigenetics of Manganese Toxicity	7
The Role of Community Science in Addressing Policy Change: A Critical Review of Air Pollution Literature	7
Climate Change, Environmental Disasters, and Health Inequities: The Underlying Role of Structural Inequalities	7
Prevalence and Implications of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Settled Dust	6
A Review of the Interactive Effects of Climate and Air Pollution on Human Health in China	5
Mental Health Impacts of Climate Change on Women: a Scoping Review	5
Role of Climate Change in Changing Hepatic Health Maps	5
Occurrence and Risks of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Shellfish	5
A State-of-the-Science Review on Metal Biomarkers	5
Comparison of Recreational Fish Consumption Advisories Across the USA	5
Association between Asbestos Exposure and the Incidence of Kidney Cancer: a Weight-of-Evidence Evaluation and Meta-analysis	5