OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environment International is 89. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Plasticenta: First evidence of microplastics in human placenta	1283
Discovery and quantification of plastic particle pollution in human blood	1226
Airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2: The world should face the reality	1188
How can airborne transmission of COVID-19 indoors be minimised?	887
Estimation of airborne viral emission: Quanta emission rate of SARS-CoV-2 for infection risk assessment	519
Long-term exposure to PM and all-cause and cause-specific mortality: A systematic review and meta-analysis	440
Aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2? Evidence, prevention and control	407
Future perspectives of wastewater-based epidemiology: Monitoring infectious disease spread and resistance to the community level	403
Antibiotic residues in final effluents of European wastewater treatment plants and their impact on the aquatic environment	351
Short-term exposure to particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and ozone (O3) and all-cause and cause-specific mortality: Systematic review and meta-analysis	338
Influence of meteorological conditions on PM2.5 concentrations across China: A review of methodology and mechanism	292
Quantitative assessment of the risk of airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 infection: Prospective and retrospective applications	291
Interactions between microplastics, pharmaceuticals and personal care products: Implications for vector transport	290
A review of the removal of microplastics in global wastewater treatment plants: Characteristics and mechanisms	283
Transformation pathways and fate of engineered nanoparticles (ENPs) in distinct interactive environmental compartments: A review	244
Development, current state and future trends of sludge management in China: Based on exploratory data and CO2-equivaient emissions analysis	234
Global water shortage and potable water safety; Today’s concern and tomorrow’s crisis	222
Chemical pollution: A growing peril and potential catastrophic risk to humanity	215
Air pollution, physical activity and health: A mapping review of the evidence	214
Distribution, combined pollution and risk assessment of antibiotics in typical marine aquaculture farms surrounding the Yellow Sea, North China	213
Long-term exposure to NO2 and O3 and all-cause and respiratory mortality: A systematic review and meta-analysis	211
Urban and transport planning pathways to carbon neutral, liveable and healthy cities; A review of the current evidence	210
Plastic pollution solutions: emerging technologies to prevent and collect marine plastic pollution	210
Pathways linking biodiversity to human health: A conceptual framework	206
Phasing-out of legacy brominated flame retardants: The UNEP Stockholm Convention and other legislative action worldwide	187

The ChinaHighPM10 dataset: generation, validation, and spatiotemporal variations from 2015 to 2019 across China	179
Changes of nitrogen deposition in China from 1980 to 2018	175
Are bioplastics and plant-based materials safer than conventional plastics? In vitro toxicity and chemical composition	175
Abundance of kinless hubs within soil microbial networks are associated with high functional potential in agricultural ecosystems	167
Global, regional, and national burdens of ischemic heart disease and stroke attributable to exposure to long working hours for 194 countries, 2000–2016: A systematic analysis from the WHO/ILO Joint Es	163
Microplastics release phthalate esters and cause aggravated adverse effects in the mouse gut	163
Ten years of research on synergisms and antagonisms in chemical mixtures: A systematic review and quantitative reappraisal of mixture studies	161
The COVID-19 pandemic and global environmental change: Emerging research needs	153
Hazardous metal additives in plastics and their environmental impacts	145
Antimony contamination and its risk management in complex environmental settings: A review	140
Biodegradation of Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) in Tenebrio molitor (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) larvae	139
Bisphenol A and its analogues: A comprehensive review to identify and prioritize effect biomarkers for human biomonitoring	136
Suspect and non-targeted screening of chemicals of emerging concern for human biomonitoring, environmental health studies and support to risk assessment: From promises to challenges and harmonisation	135
Physiological factors characterizing heat-vulnerable older adults: A narrative review	130
Emerging health risks and underlying toxicological mechanisms of uranium contamination: Lessons from the past two decades	129
New urban models for more sustainable, liveable and healthier cities post covid19; reducing air pollution, noise and heat island effects and increasing green space and physical activity	126
Arsenic and antimony co-contamination influences on soil microbial community composition and functions: Relevance to arsenic resistance and carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur cycling	125
Green infrastructure for air quality improvement in street canyons	125
Spatiotemporal distributions of surface ozone levels in China from 2005 to 2017: A machine learning approach	125
A global observational analysis to understand changes in air quality during exceptionally low anthropogenic emission conditions	125
Comparing the long-term responses of soil microbial structures and diversities to polyethylene microplastics in different aggregate fractions	125
Speciation, transportation, and pathways of cadmium in soil-rice systems: A review on the environmental implications and remediation approaches for food safety	125
Design and application of metal-organic frameworks and derivatives as heterogeneous Fenton-like catalysts for organic wastewater treatment: A review	124
Microplastic residues in wetland ecosystems: Do they truly threaten the plant-microbe-soil system?	122
Changes in spatial patterns of PM2.5 pollution in China 2000–2018: Impact of clean air policies	121
Recent advances in biocatalysts engineering for polyethylene terephthalate plastic waste green recycling	121
Microplastics enhance the developmental toxicity of synthetic phenolic antioxidants by disturbing the thyroid function and metabolism in developing zebrafish	120
Tracing surface and airborne SARS-CoV-2 RNA inside public buses and subway trains	118
Size-dependent adverse effects of microplastics on intestinal microbiota and metabolic homeostasis in the marine medaka (Oryzias melastigma)	117
Is there an association between hot weather and poor mental health outcomes? A systematic review and meta-analysis	117
Protist taxonomic and functional diversity in soil, freshwater and marine ecosystems	115
Exposure to a mixture of legacy, alternative, and replacement per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) results in sex-dependent modulation of cholesterol metabolism and liver injury	115
Soil bacterial taxonomic diversity is critical to maintaining the plant productivity	115
Understanding global PM2.5 concentrations and their drivers in recent decades (1998–2016)	114
Soil vanadium(V)-reducing related bacteria drive community response to vanadium pollution from a smelting plant over multiple gradients	113
Observed inequality in urban greenspace exposure in China	113
Nano-enabled improvements of growth and nutritional quality in food plants driven by rhizosphere processes	113
Human health impacts of exposure to phthalate plasticizers: An overview of reviews	111
What is new in the exposome?	111
Coronaviruses in wastewater processes: Source, fate and potential risks	108
Highly stable AgNPs prepared via a novel green approach for catalytic and photocatalytic removal of biological and non-biological pollutants	107
Microalgae-based technology for antibiotics removal: From mechanisms to application of innovational hybrid systems	107
Transfer of environmental microbes to the skin and respiratory tract of humans after urban green space exposure	105
Emerging risks of toxic metal(loid)s in soil-vegetables influenced by steel-making activities and isotopic source apportionment	105
Redox-induced mobilization of Ag, Sb, Sn, and Tl in the dissolved, colloidal and solid phase of a biochar-treated and un-treated mining soil	104
Human biomonitoring of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in German blood plasma samples from 1982 to 2019	103
Airborne bacterial communities of outdoor environments and their associated influencing factors	101
Prenatal exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and maternal and neonatal thyroid function in the Project Viva Cohort: A mixtures approach	100
Air pollution exposure is associated with the gut microbiome as revealed by shotgun metagenomic sequencing	100
Mercury: What can we learn from the Amazon?	99

Long-term exposure to air-pollution and COVID-19 mortality in England: A hierarchical spatial analysis	99
Comparison of Machine Learning and Land Use Regression for fine scale spatiotemporal estimation of ambient air pollution: Modeling ozone concentrations across the contiguous United States	97
Short-term exposure to ozone, nitrogen dioxide, and sulphur dioxide and emergency department visits and hospital admissions due to asthma: A systematic review and meta-analysis	97
Cadmium exposure and risk of breast cancer: A dose-response meta-analysis of cohort studies	97
Current understanding of hexavalent chromium [Cr(VI)] neurotoxicity and new perspectives	95
Wastewater treatment plants as a reservoir of integrase and antibiotic resistance genes – An epidemiological threat to workers and environment	94
Bacillus subtilis biofertilizer mitigating agricultural ammonia emission and shifting soil nitrogen cycling microbiomes	94
Low dose ionizing radiation effects on the immune system	94
Organophosphate esters and their metabolites in paired human whole blood, serum, and urine as biomarkers of exposure	93
Nano and microplastic interactions with freshwater biota – Current knowledge, challenges and future solutions	93
Glyphosate damages blood-testis barrier via NOX1-triggered oxidative stress in rats: Long-term exposure as a potential risk for male reproductive health	92
A novel stabilized carbon-coated nZVI as heterogeneous persulfate catalyst for enhanced degradation of 4-chlorophenol	91
Phytoremediation potential of twelve wild plant species for toxic elements in a contaminated soil	90
A critical review of pollutant emission factors from fuel combustion in home stoves	89