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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Agro-environmental contamination, food safety and human health: An introduction to the special issue	2379
Systematic evidence map (SEM) template: Report format and methods used for the US EPA Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) program, Provisional Peer Reviewed Toxicity Value (PPRTV) program, and o	521
Metal(loid)-gut microbiota interactions and microbiota-related protective strategies: A review	436
The role of heatwave characteristics in cardiovascular mortality in the Eastern Mediterranean region	344
Reduction of household air pollution through clean fuel intervention and recovery of cellular immune balance	258
Editorial Board	247
Biomonitoring of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) among hairdressers in salons primarily serving women of color: A pilot study	246
Long-term exposure to traffic-related air pollution is associated with impaired odor identification: Results from the population-based KORA FIT study in Augsburg, Germany	231
Development and calibration of a modifiable passive sampler for monitoring atmospheric tritiated water vapor in different environments	225
Crystallization-based upcycling of iron oxyhydroxide for efficient arsenic capture in contaminated soils	223
Impact of ultrafine particles and total particle number concentration on five cause-specific hospital admission endpoints in three German cities	220
Air quality and health-related impacts of traditional and alternate jet fuels from airport aircraft operations in the U.S.	216
Cadmium exposure causes transcriptomic dysregulation in adipose tissue and associated shifts in serum metabolites	212
Comparing “causal” and “traditional” approaches in the association of long-term exposure to ambient air pollution on mortality: How sensitive are the results?	205
Mortality risk and long-term exposure to ultrafine particles and primary fine particle components in a national U.S. Cohort	204
Dual-Hit: Glyphosate exposure at NOAEL level negatively impacts birth and glia-behavioural measures in heterozygous shank3 mutants	195
Effect of an aluminum foil-processed diet on internal human aluminum burden	194
Exposure to a human relevant mixture of persistent organic pollutants or to perfluorooctane sulfonic acid alone dysregulates the developing cerebellum of chicken embryo	193
Phototrophs as the central components of the plastisphere microbiome in coastal environments	192
Development of a neighborhood drivability index and its association with transportation behavior in Toronto	188
Valuing the health benefits of nature-based recreational physical activity in England	181
Greenness and equity: Complex connections between intra-neighborhood contexts and residential tree planting implementation	162
Comprehensive characterization and prioritization of halogenated organic compounds in fish and their implications for exposure	159
Pharmaceutical and transformation products during unplanned water reuse: Insights into natural attenuation, plant uptake and human health impact under field conditions	157
Artificial light at night and social vulnerability: An environmental justice analysis in the U.S. 2012–2019	150

Valley fever under a changing climate in the United States	148
Prenatal exposure to environmental phenols and fetal growth across pregnancy in the LIFECODES fetal growth study	144
Global health impacts of ambient fine particulate pollution associated with climate variability	143
Concentration, chemical composition and toxicological responses of the ultrafine fraction of urban air particles in PM1	142
Phthalate exposure in the neonatal intensive care unit is associated with development of bronchopulmonary dysplasia	141
Thallium isotopic compositions as tracers in environmental studies: A review	138
Systematic investigation of organochlorine pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls blood levels in Greek children from the Rhea birth cohort suggests historical exposure to DDT and through diet to DD	134
Prenatal exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances and child intelligence quotient: Evidence from the Shanghai birth cohort	134
Exposure assessment of PAHs on duplicate diet, indoor dust, and air measurements, and comparison with urinary biomonitoring: a family-based panel (CAFE-P) study	133
Human serum lipidomics analysis revealed glyphosate may lead to lipid metabolism disorders and health risks	133
Maternal urinary bisphenols and phthalates in relation to estimated fetal weight across mid to late pregnancy	132
A three-dimensional mouse liver organoid platform for assessing EDCs metabolites simulating liver metabolism	129
Associations between long-term exposure to low-level air pollution and risk of chronic kidney disease—findings from the Malmö Diet and Cancer cohort	128
Urinary profiles of bisphenol S derivatives and their exposure pathway analysis in maternal and infant populations of Beijing	127
Innovative analytical methodologies for characterizing chemical exposure with a view to next-generation risk assessment	125
The global spread of jellyfish hazards mirrors the pace of human imprint in the marine environment	124
Urban environment and health behaviours in children from six European countries	124
Photochemical behavior and photo-induced toxicity of chiral pesticides and their chiral monomers in aqueous environment	123
Long-term exposure to airborne metals and risk of cancer in the French cohort Gazel	122
Kinetics of 15 per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) after single oral application as a mixture – A pilot investigation in a male volunteer	121
Physiologically based kinetic (PBK) modeling of propiconazole using a machine learning-enhanced read-across approach for interspecies extrapolation	120
Addressing climate change concerns in pediatric health care settings: exploring parental and physician perspectives	118
Interaction effects in microbiota-filter media-pharmaceutical in biofilm-based reactors: a case study of anoxic biofilters	118
A study on the roles of long non-coding RNA and circular RNA in the pulmonary injuries induced by polystyrene microplastics	116
A One-Health environmental risk assessment of contaminants of emerging concern in London’s waterways throughout the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic	116
Substantial decrease of PFAS with anion exchange resin treatment – A clinical cross-over trial	116
Immunosuppression induced by co-exposure to allergens and PM2.5 increases the risk of lung disease upon viral protein challenge	116
Health burden and costs attributable to the carbon footprint of the health sector in the European Union	114
Evaluating the risk of phthalate and non-phthalate plasticizers in dust samples from 100 Japanese houses	112
Dietary nitrate intake and vegetable consumption, ambient particulate matter, and risk of hypertension in the Nurses’ Health study	111
Human airway organoids and microplastic fibers: A new exposure model for emerging contaminants	110
Urban heat island impacts on heat-related cardiovascular morbidity: A time series analysis of older adults in US metropolitan areas	109
What is hiding below the surface – MPs including TWP in an urban lake	109
Charge-specific adverse effects of polystyrene nanoplastics on zebrafish (Danio rerio) development and behavior	106
Exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and high-throughput proteomics in Hispanic youth	105
Exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) and cardiometabolic indices during pregnancy: The HOME Study	105
Legacy and emerging per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the Bohai Sea and its inflow rivers	105
Advancing non-target analysis of emerging environmental contaminants with machine learning: Current status and future implications	104
Microplastics in human skeletal tissues: Presence, distribution and health implications	104
Effects of Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Field (RF-EMF) exposure on pregnancy and birth outcomes: A systematic review of experimental studies on non-human mammals	103
Reduced-form and complex ACTM modelling for air quality policy development: A model inter-comparison	103
Microplastics degradation stimulated by in-situ bioelectric field in agricultural soils	103
Organophosphate flame retardants and their metabolites in the Pearl River Estuary: Occurrence, influencing factors, and ecological risk control strategies based on a mass balance model	102
Alkyl organophosphate flame retardants (OPFRs) induce lung inflammation and aggravate OVA-simulated asthmatic response via the NF-кB signaling pathway	102
Metabolic perturbations in pregnant rats exposed to low-dose perfluorooctanesulfonic acid: An integrated multi-omics analysis	102
Complex intestinal and hepatic in vitro barrier models reveal information on uptake and impact of micro-, submicro- and nanoplastics	100
Mixture of environmental pollutants in breast milk from a Spanish cohort of nursing mothers	100
Prenatal exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, fetoplacental hemodynamics, and fetal growth	100
Passive eDNA sampling facilitates biodiversity monitoring and rare species detection	100
Volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds in landfill gas: Composition characteristics and health risks	100

Biotransformation of 2,4,6-tris(2,4,6-tribromophenoxy)-1,3,5-triazine (TTBP-TAZ) can contribute to high levels of 2,4,6-tribromophenol (2,4,6-TBP) in humans	98
Global water shortage and potable water safety; Today’s concern and tomorrow’s crisis	97
Assessment of human exposure to benzophenone-type UV filters: A review	97
Lifestyle interventions to reduce endocrine-disrupting phthalate and phenol exposures among reproductive age men and women: A review and future steps	97
New insight into biodegradation mechanism of phenylurea herbicides by cytochrome P450 enzymes: Successive N-demethylation mechanism	97
Multi-omics approach characterizes the role of Bisphenol F in disrupting hepatic lipid metabolism	97
Towards a comprehensive characterisation of the human internal chemical exposome: Challenges and perspectives	95
Beyond the single-outcome approach: A comparison of outcome-wide analysis methods for exposome research	95
Using the POD sampler for quantitative diffusive (passive) monitoring of volatile and very volatile organics in ambient air: Sampling rates and analytical performance	93
Dynamics of trace element enrichment in blue carbon ecosystems in relation to anthropogenic activities	93
Corrigendum to “Effects of Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Field (RF-EMF) exposure on pregnancy and birth outcomes: A systematic review of experimental studies on non-human mammals” [Environ. Inter. 18	92
Influence of folic acid and vitamin B12 supplementation on arsenic methylation: A double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial in Bangladeshi children	92
Maternal transfer of resorcinol-bis(diphenyl)-phosphate perturbs gut microbiota development and gut metabolism of offspring in rats	92
Associations between urinary hydroxylated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon biomarker concentrations and measures of timing of delivery and infant size at birth	91
DNA damage and its association with early-life exposome: Gene-environment analysis in Colombian children under five years old	89