OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Aerobiologia is 1. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Obituary	35
Live oak pollen as a source of atmospheric particles	17
The course of birch pollen seasons in Sosnowiec (Southern Poland) in 1997–2020 in relation to meteorological conditions	15
Identification of culturable fungi in particulate matter (PM10) on a university campus in a peri-urban area of Northern South America	14
Modeling airborne pollen concentrations at an urban scale with pollen release from individual trees	13
Biological contaminants in indoor environments of educational institutions	12
Microscopic fungi and other contaminants on airborne pollen grains of ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.)	11
The role of wind in the spatiotemporal distribution of strawberry powdery mildew in high-tunnel growing systems	11
Culturable bacteria in clouds at Réunion, tropical island	10
Summer pollen flora in rural and urban central England dominated by nettle, ryegrass and other pollen missed by the national aerobiological network	10
Atmospheric particulate matter deposition on birch catkins and pollen grains before pollination	10
Aeroflora and pollinosis in selected areas of Lagos, Nigeria	9
On-site monitoring of airborne pathogens: recent advances in bioaerosol collection and rapid detection	9
Ragweed in South America: the relevance of aerobiology stations in Latin America	9
Initial comparison of pollen counting methods using precipitation and ambient air samples and automated artificial intelligence to support national monitoring objectives	9
Microbial composition of bioaerosols in indoor wastewater treatment plants	8
False positives: handling them operationally for automatic pollen monitoring	8
Report on rice diseases in Brunei Darussalam and their association with airborne fungal spores	8
Towards standardisation of automatic pollen and fungal spore monitoring: best practises and guidelines	8
The relationships between health risk and special weather conditions according to fungal community characteristics	8
Elemental composition of household dusts extracted in simulated body fluids and their impact on culturable pathogenic bacteria responses	7
Correction to: Variability between Hirst-type pollen traps is reduced by resistance-free flow adjustment	7
Accuracy of a hand-held resistance-free flowmeters for flow adjustments of Hirst-Type pollen traps	7
Counting sedimented Betula pollen grains by gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry	7
Manual and automatic quantification of airborne fungal spores during wheat harvest period	7

Spatial analysis of COVID-19 risk factors: a case study in Bangladesh	7
Air pollution may alter reproductive dynamics/efficacy in plants: correlative evidences from an urban sprawl in Eastern Indo-Gangetic plain	7
Investigating the interplay of indoor microbial diversity with pollutant variables and human health profile in Indian slums: a metagenomic approach	6
Airborne bacterial communities present in particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10) samples collected during different seasons in Temuco City in Chile	6
Concentration characteristics of culturable airborne microbes in family homes in Hangzhou, China	6
Storms facilitate airborne DNA from leaf fragments outside the main tree pollen season	6
Influence of meteorological parameters and PM2.5 on the level of culturable airborne bacteria and fungi in Abadan, Iran	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
Assessing the impact of climatic factors on dengue fever transmission in Bangladesh	5
New airborne fungal spores in the atmosphere of Havana, Cuba	5
Correction: Development and verification of a taxa‑specific gridded pollen modelling system for the UK	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
Allergenic pollen seasons and regional pollen calendars for Norway	5
Analyzing the airborne birch and grass pollen monitoring network of Belgium	5
Combined synoptic and regional weather patterns affecting atmospheric Poaceae pollen concentrations in Sydney, Australia	5
Unveiling the hidden hazards of smog: health implications and antibiotic resistance in perspective	4
Application of the HYSPLIT model for birch pollen modelling in Poland	4
Pathogenic bacteria in air samples: an appraisal of the African studies versus other continents	4
Observations from the USA National Phenology Network can be leveraged to model airborne pollen	4
Toward comprehensive airborne pathogen control in Indonesia’s tropical setting	4
Novel approaches to reduce airborne pathogen infestation through dust control systems of wheat thresher	4
Impact of climate change on the pollen season on relevant species in Iberian’s dehesa: a case study of Fraxinus sp.	4
Exposure to ragweed pollen and Amb a 1 allergens in central Anatolia, Türkiye, and immunolabeling of Amb a 1 in pollen	4
The calcium-antagonist activity of the material released by olive pollen (PMR), tested on Ca2+-cytosolic of PE/CA-PJ15 cells	4
First volumetric records of airborne Cladosporium and Alternaria spores in the atmosphere of Al Khor (northern Qatar): a preliminary survey	4
Long-read sequencing of metagenomes from wet deposition samples in the Western USA during an elevated precipitation in February 2019	4
Composition and spatiotemporal variations in the indoor airborne bacterial communities in two Chilean medical centers	4
Topical collection: aerobiology and planetary health	4
Plants on the ground, pollen in the air: how much do they match?	3
Bioaerosol concentration and health implication for children in daycare centers	3
Operational pollen classification using digital holography and fluorescence	3
Environmental factors that modulate the release and transport of airborne urediniospores Hemileia vastatrix (Berk. & Broome) in coffee crops in Veracruz México	3
Automatically counting pollen and measuring pollen production in some common grasses	3
Ecological behavior of Drechslera/Helminthosporium spores in a wheat crop in NW Spain	3
The dispersal and deposition characteristics of airborne pollen and its response to meteorological factors in northern Beijing, China	3
Correction to: False positives: handling them operationally for automatic pollen monitoring	3
A review on indoor air quality monitoring system: a mechatronics approach	3
Comparison of computer vision models in application to pollen classification using light scattering	3
Recommended terminology for aerobiological studies: automatic and real-time monitoring methods	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
Temporal variations in airborne Alternaria and Cladosporium spores and the effect of meteorological factors: three years study from a metropolis on the West Anatolian coast	2
Fungal diversity in Sahara dust: Aspergillus sydowii and other opportunistic pathogens	2
Investigating the relationship between atmospheric concentrations of fungal spores and local meteorological variables in Kastamonu, Türkiye	2
Halophytic palynomorphs morphology unraveling the links between palynology and aerobiology	2
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	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
Chilling and heat requirements for woody taxa in Tétouan (NW Morocco)	2

Trends in airborne grass pollen in Évora City (Portugal)	2
The real hues of Red Rain-Kerala, India	2
The contribution of aphids (Aphidoidea) to atmospheric concentrations of Alternaria and Cladosporium spores	1
Comparison of airborne pollen and total stellate hair counts for six years between two sites in Sapporo	1
A comprehensive aerobiological study of the airborne pollen in the Irish environment	1
Spore dispersal patterns of the ascomycete fungus Ramularia collo-cygni and their influence on disease epidemics	1
Variability in Alternaria alternata spore characteristics under different culture conditions: implications for automatic detection using air flow cytometry	1
Digitally accessible knowledge about airborne pollen data in Spain	1
Assessing bacterial bioaerosol and environmental variables of critical hospitalization units of a tertiary hospital	1
Comparison of the spectrum and quantity of airborne bioparticles above morphologically typical populations of Ambrosia artemisiifolia and those with reduced male flower production	1
Chemical and biological components of atmospheric particulate matter and their impacts on human health and crops: a review	1
Air pollution effects on Datura innoxia mill. pollen structure, protein and germination	1
Seasonal pattern of Alternaria airborne spores in Santiago de Chile, Chile (2005–2015 period): first Alternaria spore calendar	1
Spatial variation of airborne bacterial heterogeneity and potential opportunistic human pathogens: a comparative study of sites in Korea and Japan	1
Editorial: Effects of pollution on pollen special issue	1
40 years of Aerobiologia, the international journal of aerobiology	1
Self-supervised and few-shot learning for robust bioaerosol monitoring	1
Seasonal variability in abundance and diversity of airborne pollen grains in the foothills of the Western Himalayas	1
Identification of airborne Penicillium and their association with outdoor air quality in a middle Eastern city	1
DeepPollenCount: a swin-transformer-YOLOv5-based deep learning method for pollen counting in various plant species	1
Ragweed (Ambrosia) pollen transport and seed production in Finland during 1990–2022	1
Five ways to define a pollen season: exploring congruence and disparity in its attributes and their long-term trends	1