OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Current Environmental Health Reports is 6. 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
Racial Disparities in Climate Change-Related Health Effects in the United States	101
Climate Change and Mental Health	84
Biodiversity and Health in the Urban Environment	73
Power Outages and Community Health: a Narrative Review	64
Fine-Scale Air Pollution Models for Epidemiologic Research: Insights From Approaches Developed in the Multi-ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and Air Pollution (MESA Air)	63
Breaking Down and Building Up: Gentrification, Its drivers, and Urban Health Inequality	62
Sex and Gender Differences in Occupational Hazard Exposures: a Scoping Review of the Recent Literature	58
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Pregnancy and Prenatal Exposure to Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals Commonly Used in Personal Care Products	56
Wildfire, Smoke Exposure, Human Health, and Environmental Justice Need to be Integrated into Forest Restoration and Management	54
Climate Change, Environmental Disasters, and Health Inequities: The Underlying Role of Structural Inequalities	52
A State-of-the-Science Review on Metal Biomarkers	52
The Placental Epigenome as a Molecular Link Between Prenatal Exposures and Fetal Health Outcomes Through the DOHaD Hypothesis	49
Built Environment, Transport, and COVID-19: a Review	49
A Review of the Effectiveness of Current US Policies on Antimicrobial Use in Meat and Poultry Production	47
Integrating DNA Methylation Measures of Biological Aging into Social Determinants of Health Research	45
Environmental Chemical Exposures and Mitochondrial Dysfunction: a Review of Recent Literature	43
Individual- and Household-Level Interventions to Reduce Air Pollution Exposures and Health Risks: a Review of the Recent Literature	42
Health Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Ambient PM2.5 in Asia-Pacific: a Systematic Review of Cohort Studies	40
Low-Level Cadmium Exposure and Atherosclerosis	39
The Changing Climate and Pregnancy Health	37
Prevalence and Implications of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Settled Dust	34
Environmental Exposures and Lung Aging: Molecular Mechanisms and Implications for Improving Respiratory Health	30
Healthy Aging Requires a Healthy Home Care Workforce: the Occupational Safety and Health of Home Care Aides	26
Environmental Exposures and Extracellular Vesicles: Indicators of Systemic Effects and Human Disease	26
“I Can’t Breathe”: Examining the Legacy of American Racism on Determinants of Health and the Ongoing Pursuit of Environmental Justice	23

Mental Health Impacts of Climate Change on Women: a Scoping Review	23
Relationship Between the Physical Environment and Physical Activity Levels in Preschool Children: A Systematic Review	23
Use of Untargeted Metabolomics to Explore the Air Pollution-Related Disease Continuum	22
Aquaculture Production and Value Chains in the COVID-19 Pandemic	22
Temporary Urbanisms as Policy Alternatives to Enhance Health and Well-Being in the Post-Pandemic City	22
Use of Exposomic Methods Incorporating Sensors in Environmental Epidemiology	21
Assessing the Public Health Implications of the Food Preservative Propylparaben: Has This Chemical Been Safely Used for Decades	21
Air Pollution and Environmental Justice in Latin America: Where Are We and How Can We Move Forward?	20
An Epidemiologic Review of Menstrual Blood Loss as an Excretion Route for Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances	20
Dairy and Plant-Based Milks: Implications for Nutrition and Planetary Health	19
The gut microbiome and arsenic-induced disease—iAs metabolism in mice	19
Evaluating Race in Air Pollution and Health Research: Race, PM2.5 Air Pollution Exposure, and Mortality as a Case Study	18
A Systematic Review of the Placental Translocation of Micro- and Nanoplastics	18
Environmental Metal Exposure, Neurodevelopment, and the Role of Iron Status: a Review	18
A Review on Climate, Air Pollution, and Health in North Africa	17
Early Cardiovascular Risk in E-cigarette Users: the Potential Role of Metals	17
Intrauterine Exposure to Acetaminophen and Adverse Developmental Outcomes: Epidemiological Findings and Methodological Issues	17
Genetics and Epigenetics of Manganese Toxicity	16
Is Greenness Associated with Dementia? A Systematic Review and Dose–Response Meta-analysis	16
Chemical Effects on Breast Development, Function, and Cancer Risk: Existing Knowledge and New Opportunities	15
Assessing Exposure to Unconventional Oil and Gas Development: Strengths, Challenges, and Implications for Epidemiologic Research	15
Plastic Impacts in Argentina: a Critical Research Review Contributing to the Global Knowledge	15
Prenatal Diet as a Modifier of Environmental Risk Factors for Autism and Related Neurodevelopmental Outcomes	15
Select Early-Life Environmental Exposures and DNA Methylation in the Placenta	15
What Happens In Utero Does Not Stay In Utero: a Review of Evidence for Prenatal Epigenetic Programming by Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Infants, Children, and Adolescents	14
Occupational Exposures to Engineered Nanomaterials: a Review of Workplace Exposure Assessment Methods	14
A Systematic Review of Culture-Based Methods for Monitoring Antibiotic-Resistant Acinetobacter, Aeromonas, and Pseudomonas as Environmentally Relevant Pathogens in Wastewater and Surface Water	14
A Review of Dengue’s Historical and Future Health Risk from a Changing Climate	13
Mitochondrial DNA Mutagenesis: Feature of and Biomarker for Environmental Exposures and Aging	13
Sex Differences in Dopaminergic Vulnerability to Environmental Toxicants — Implications for Parkinson’s Disease	13
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	12
The Effects of Environmental Contaminant Exposure on Reproductive Aging and the Menopause Transition	12
Impacts of Environmental Insults on Cardiovascular Aging	12
Methods in Public Health Environmental Justice Research: a Scoping Review from 2018 to 2021	11
The Impacts of Car-Free Days and Events on the Environment and Human Health	11
Prenatal Maternal Smoke, DNA Methylation, and Multi-omics of Tissues and Child Health	11
Comparison of Recreational Fish Consumption Advisories Across the USA	10
Fluoride Exposure and Skeletal Fluorosis: a Systematic Review and Dose-response Meta-analysis	10
The Health Cost of Transport in Cities	10
Occurrence and Risks of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Shellfish	10
Childhood Trauma and Epigenetics: State of the Science and Future	10
Interventions to Reduce Exposure to Synthetic Phenols and Phthalates from Dietary Intake and Personal Care Products: a Scoping Review	9
Menstrual Products as a Source of Environmental Chemical Exposure: A Review from the Epidemiologic Perspective	9
Metals Exposures and DNA Methylation: Current Evidence and Future Directions	9
The Utility of Machine Learning Models for Predicting Chemical Contaminants in Drinking Water: Promise, Challenges, and Opportunities	9
Epigenetics as a Biomarker for Early-Life Environmental Exposure	9
Parental Occupational Exposure and Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Offspring: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis	8
Air (ine)quality in the European Union	8
Wearable Passive Samplers for Assessing Environmental Exposure to Organic Chemicals: Current Approaches and Future Directions	8
Phenols, Parabens, Phthalates and Puberty: a Systematic Review of Synthetic Chemicals Commonly Found in Personal Care Products and Girls’ Pubertal Development	7

PIWI-Interacting RNA (piRNA) and Epigenetic Editing in Environmental Health Sciences	7
Institutional Review Board Preparedness for Disaster Research: a Practical Approach	7
The Gut Microbiome and Residential Surrounding Greenness: a Systematic Review of Epidemiological Evidence	7
Public Health Risks of PFAS-Related Immunotoxicity Are Real	6
A Decision Framework for Selecting Critically Important Nutrients from Aquatic Foods	6
Epigenetics at the Intersection of COVID-19 Risk and Environmental Chemical Exposures	6