OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Health Perspectives is 49. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Disinfection By-Products in Drinking Water and Bladder Cancer: Evaluation of Risk Modification by Common Genetic Polymorphisms in Two Case–Control Studies	274
Comment on “COVID-19, the Built Environment, and Health”	262
Comment on “Application of an in Vitro Assay to Identify Chemicals That Increase Estradiol and Progesterone Synthesis and Are Potential Breast Cancer Risk Factors”	140
Prolonged Cadmium Exposure and Osteoclastogenesis: A Mechanistic Mouse and in Vitro Study	129
Concentration–Response Functions Relating Concentration and Duration of Ambient Traffic-Related Air Pollution Exposure to Systolic Blood Pressure	123
Mortality Risk from PM2.5: A Comparison of Modeling Approaches to Identify Disparities across Racial/Ethnic Groups in Policy Outcomes	121
Role of Hepatocyte- and Macrophage-Specific PPARγ in Hepatotoxicity Induced by Diethylhexyl Phthalate in Mice	117
Evaluation of FXR Activity in Pollutants Identified in Sewage Sludge and Subsequent in Vitro and in Vivo Characterization of Metabolic Eff	114
Mapping Climate-Related Hazards along Migration Routes: A Mixed Methods Study of Hypertensive Syrian and Iraqi Refugees Resettled in San Diego, California	93
Madagascar’s Plague: One Health Research Aims to Slow Its Spread	93
The Parallel Transformations of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in the Body and in the Atmosphere	88
Effects of Gestational Arsenic Exposures on Placental and Fetal Development in Mice: The Role of Cyr61 m6A	88
Calibration of Toenail Metal Concentrations for Sample Mass Heterogeneity and Between-Batch Variability: The COMET Approach	82
Association of Ambient Air Pollution and Temperature Exposure with Placental Abruption: A Nested Case–Control Study Based on Live Birth Registrations	81
Prenatal and Early Postnatal Exposure to Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs): What Is the Correlation between Dioxins and Long-Chain Per- and Polyfluorinated Alkyl Substances (PFAS)?	76
Invited Perspective: Prenatal PM2.5 Exposure Associated with Adverse Birth Outcomes Requiring Medical Interventions	75
Erratum: “Association of Temperature Thresholds with Heat Illness– and Cardiorespiratory-Related Emergency Visits during Summer Months in Alaska”	73
An Exploration of Cultural–Environmental Interactions with Native American Health Literacy	73
Maternal Phthalate and Bisphenol Urine Concentrations during Pregnancy and Early Markers of Arterial Health in Children	71
Marking Time: Epigenetic Aging May Partially Explain the Arsenic–Cardiovascular Disease Link	69
Invited Perspective: Inroads to Biology-Informed Exposomics	69
Use of Mixture Dosing and Nonlinear Mixed Effect Modeling of Eight Environmental Contaminants in Rabbits to Improve Extrapolation Value of Toxicokinetic Data	67
Invited Perspective: Metals and Menarche	64
Long-Term Exposure to Road Traffic Noise and Air Pollution, and Incident Atrial Fibrillation in the Danish Nurse Cohort	64
Identifying the Optimal Heat Exposure Metric for Predicting the Physiological Response to Dry or Humid Heat Stress in Young and Older Adults: A Randomized Controlled Study	64

Invited Perspective: Important New Evidence for Glyphosate Hazard Assessment	63
Estimating the Effects of Hypothetical Ambient PM2.5 Interventions on the Risk of Dementia Using the Parametric g-Formula in the UK Biobank Cohort	61
Erratum: “Climate Change, Summer Temperature, and Heat-Related Mortality in Finland: Multicohort Study with Projections for a Sustainable vs. Fossil-Fueled Future to 2050”	59
Perinatal Exposure to Lead or Diethylhexyl Phthalate in Mice: Sex-Specific Effects on Cardiac DNA Methylation and Gene Expression across Time	59
Long-Term Exposure to Low-Level PM2.5 and Mortality: Investigation of Heterogeneity by Harmonizing Analyses in Large Cohort Studies in Canada, United States, and Europe	59
Nutritional Modulation of Associations between Prenatal Exposure to Persistent Organic Pollutants and Childhood Obesity: A Prospective Cohort Study	59
A Machine Learning–Based Clustering Analysis to Explore Bisphenol A and Phthalate Exposure from Medical Devices in Infants with Congenital Heart Defects	58
The Conflict between Regulatory Agencies over the 20,000-Fold Lowering of the Tolerable Daily Intake (TDI) for Bisphenol A (BPA) by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)	58
A Hazard-Based Framework for Identifying Safer Alternatives to Classes of Chemicals: A Case Study on Phthalates in Consumer Products	58
Associations between Maternal Urinary Metabolite Concentrations of Selected Volatile Organic Compounds and Child Neurocognitive Development at Two Years of Age	58
Erratum: “Associations of Organophosphate Ester Flame Retardant Exposures during Pregnancy with Gestational Duration and Fetal Growth: The Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Prog	58
Invited Perspective: Uncovering Harmful Exposures in Carceral Environments	58
Charting a Path Forward: Assessing the Science of Chemical Risk Evaluations under the Toxic Substances Control Act in the Context of Recent National Academies Recommendations	57
Invited Perspective: Challenges and Opportunities for Missing Data in the Context of Environmental Mixture Methods	57
Comment on “Charting a Path Forward: Assessing the Science of Chemical Risk Evaluations under the Toxic Substances Control Act in the Context of Recent National Academies Recommendations”	56
Trends in serum levels of emerging and legacy per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances from 2008 to 2018: a longitudinal study in China	55
Exposure to Perfluoroalkyl Substances and Associations with Pubertal Onset and Serum Reproductive Hormones in a Longitudinal Study of Young Girls in Greater Cincinnati and the San Francisco Bay Area	55
Invited Perspective: Drilling Down into the Mechanisms Linking Oil and Gas Development to Adverse Perinatal Health Outcomes	55
Ambient Air Pollution in Relation to SARS-CoV-2 Infection, Antibody Response, and COVID-19 Disease: A Cohort Study in Catalonia, Spain (COVICAT Study)	54
Invited Perspective: Causal Implications of Gene by Environment Studies Applied to Gulf War Illness	54
Estimated Transfer of Perfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) from Maternal Serum to Breast Milk in Women Highly Exposed from Contaminated Drinking Water: A Study in the Ronneby Mother–Child Cohort	52
Targeting the Macrophage: Immune Cells May Be the Key to Phthalate-Induced Liver Toxicity	52
Associations of Pregnancy Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance Concentrations and Uterine Fibroid Changes across Pregnancy: NICHD Fetal Growth Studies – Singletons Cohort	51
Prenatal and Childhood Exposure to Fluoride and Cognitive Development: Findings from the Longitudinal MINIMat Cohort in Rural Bangladesh	49
Comment on “Occupational Benzene Exposure and Lung Cancer in Human Studies: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis”	49