OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Aerobiologia is 2. 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
Obituary	36
Live oak pollen as a source of atmospheric particles	32
The course of birch pollen seasons in Sosnowiec (Southern Poland) in 1997–2020 in relation to meteorological conditions	24
Modeling airborne pollen concentrations at an urban scale with pollen release from individual trees	18
Identification of culturable fungi in particulate matter (PM10) on a university campus in a peri-urban area of Northern South America	17
Microscopic fungi and other contaminants on airborne pollen grains of ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.)	15
Analysis of quality control outcomes of grass pollen identification and enumeration: experience matters	14
Biological contaminants in indoor environments of educational institutions	11
A first evaluation of multiple automatic pollen monitors run in parallel	11
Culturable bacteria in clouds at Réunion, tropical island	10
Atmospheric particulate matter deposition on birch catkins and pollen grains before pollination	10
The role of wind in the spatiotemporal distribution of strawberry powdery mildew in high-tunnel growing systems	10
Initial comparison of pollen counting methods using precipitation and ambient air samples and automated artificial intelligence to support national monitoring objectives	9
Summer pollen flora in rural and urban central England dominated by nettle, ryegrass and other pollen missed by the national aerobiological network	9
Aeroflora and pollinosis in selected areas of Lagos, Nigeria	8
The relationships between health risk and special weather conditions according to fungal community characteristics	8
On the measurement uncertainty of Hirst-type volumetric pollen and spore samplers	8
On-site monitoring of airborne pathogens: recent advances in bioaerosol collection and rapid detection	8
Towards standardisation of automatic pollen and fungal spore monitoring: best practises and guidelines	8
Ragweed in South America: the relevance of aerobiology stations in Latin America	8
Microbial composition of bioaerosols in indoor wastewater treatment plants	8
False positives: handling them operationally for automatic pollen monitoring	7
Air pollution may alter reproductive dynamics/efficacy in plants: correlative evidences from an urban sprawl in Eastern Indo-Gangetic plain	7
Counting sedimented Betula pollen grains by gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry	7
Correction to: Variability between Hirst-type pollen traps is reduced by resistance-free flow adjustment	7

Spatial analysis of COVID-19 risk factors: a case study in Bangladesh	7
Elemental composition of household dusts extracted in simulated body fluids and their impact on culturable pathogenic bacteria responses	7
Manual and automatic quantification of airborne fungal spores during wheat harvest period	6
Use of weather types to analyze the simultaneous abundance of ozone, PM2.5 and allergenic tree pollen: focusing on the potential impact on asthma hospitalization in Montreal, Canada	6
Accuracy of a hand-held resistance-free flowmeters for flow adjustments of Hirst-Type pollen traps	6
Concentration characteristics of culturable airborne microbes in family homes in Hangzhou, China	6
Combined synoptic and regional weather patterns affecting atmospheric Poaceae pollen concentrations in Sydney, Australia	5
Analyzing the airborne birch and grass pollen monitoring network of Belgium	5
Long-read sequencing of metagenomes from wet deposition samples in the Western USA during an elevated precipitation in February 2019	5
Storms facilitate airborne DNA from leaf fragments outside the main tree pollen season	5
Investigating the interplay of indoor microbial diversity with pollutant variables and human health profile in Indian slums: a metagenomic approach	5
New airborne fungal spores in the atmosphere of Havana, Cuba	5
Allergenic pollen seasons and regional pollen calendars for Norway	5
Assessing the impact of climatic factors on dengue fever transmission in Bangladesh	5
Development and verification of a taxa-specific gridded pollen modelling system for the UK	5
Assessment of fungal aerosols in a public library with natural ventilation	5
Influence of meteorological parameters and PM2.5 on the level of culturable airborne bacteria and fungi in Abadan, Iran	5
Application of the HYSPLIT model for birch pollen modelling in Poland	4
Novel approaches to reduce airborne pathogen infestation through dust control systems of wheat thresher	4
Environmental factors that modulate the release and transport of airborne urediniospores Hemileia vastatrix (Berk. & Broome) in coffee crops in Veracruz México	4
Unveiling the hidden hazards of smog: health implications and antibiotic resistance in perspective	4
Spatiotemporal distribution and the passive dispersal of fungal spores through HVAC systems	4
Exposure to ragweed pollen and Amb a 1 allergens in central Anatolia, Türkiye, and immunolabeling of Amb a 1 in pollen	4
Pathogenic bacteria in air samples: an appraisal of the African studies versus other continents	4
First volumetric records of airborne Cladosporium and Alternaria spores in the atmosphere of Al Khor (northern Qatar): a preliminary survey	4
The calcium-antagonist activity of the material released by olive pollen (PMR), tested on Ca2+-cytosolic of PE/CA-PJ15 cells	4
Observations from the USA National Phenology Network can be leveraged to model airborne pollen	4
Automatically counting pollen and measuring pollen production in some common grasses	3
The dispersal and deposition characteristics of airborne pollen and its response to meteorological factors in northern Beijing, China	3
Trends in airborne grass pollen in Évora City (Portugal)	3
Ecological behavior of Drechslera/Helminthosporium spores in a wheat crop in NW Spain	3
Impact of climate change on the pollen season on relevant species in Iberian’s dehesa: a case study of Fraxinus sp.	3
A review on indoor air quality monitoring system: a mechatronics approach	3
Correction to: False positives: handling them operationally for automatic pollen monitoring	3
Comparison of the characterization of allergenic protein 3 (Pla a3) released from Platanus pollen grains collected in Shanghai during the spring of 2019 and 2020	3
Plants on the ground, pollen in the air: how much do they match?	3
Comparison of computer vision models in application to pollen classification using light scattering	3
Bioaerosol concentration and health implication for children in daycare centers	3
The real hues of Red Rain-Kerala, India	3
Ragweed (Ambrosia) pollen transport and seed production in Finland during 1990–2022	2
Spore dispersal patterns of the ascomycete fungus Ramularia collo-cygni and their influence on disease epidemics	2
Identification of airborne Penicillium and their association with outdoor air quality in a middle Eastern city	2
Bifurcation and control of xanthomonas infectious disease spread in banana plants under hypersensitive response	2
Simultaneous monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 and bacterial profiles from the air of hospital environments with COVID-19-affected patients	2
Halophytic palynomorphs morphology unraveling the links between palynology and aerobiology	2
Digitally accessible knowledge about airborne pollen data in Spain	2
Five ways to define a pollen season: exploring congruence and disparity in its attributes and their long-term trends	2
Investigating the relationship between atmospheric concentrations of fungal spores and local meteorological variables in Kastamonu, Türkiye	2
Fungal diversity in Sahara dust: Aspergillus sydowii and other opportunistic pathogens	2
Chilling and heat requirements for woody taxa in Tétouan (NW Morocco)	2

Spatial variation of airborne bacterial heterogeneity and potential opportunistic human pathogens: a comparative study of sites in Korea and Japan	2
Self-supervised and few-shot learning for robust bioaerosol monitoring	2
Analysis of the annual pollen integral in Albuquerque, New Mexico, shows a negative trend with temperatures for Juniper, Cottonwood, Elm, and Mulberry	2
Variability between Hirst-type pollen traps is reduced by resistance-free flow adjustment	2