OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Tobacco Control is 30. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Hookah Battle: the global sponsoring and brand marketing of smoking competitions	292
Standardised cigarettes: the next step for tobacco policy?	93
What happens in Vegas, stays in your lungs: an assessment of fine particulate matter in casinos that prohibit and allow smoking in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA	73
Towards tobacco-free retailers: feasibility of an intervention encouraging retailers to stop selling tobacco in Tasmania	70
Circumventing tobacco control and safety policies to promote waterpipe use in smoking venues: the perspective of staff in waterpipe smoking venues	70
IQOS and cigarette advertising across regulatory periods and population groups in Israel: a longitudinal analysis	68
Vaping in a heavily regulated setting: cross-sectional survey of e-cigarette use, perceptions and social media exposure	59
Tobacco industry interference to undermine the development and implementation of graphic health warnings in Bangladesh	52
Flavours, ingredients and flavour bans	52
Awareness of tobacco industry tactics among tobacco control communities in Thailand and its association with attitudes towards tobacco industry and perceptions of e-cigarettes	51
Economic costs of tobacco-related diseases in Hong Kong in 2021	50
Affordability of cigarettes in ten Southeastern European countries between 2008 and 2019	46
How do clinicians address vaping in an illegal context? A qualitative Singapore study	46
Understanding e-cigarette content and promotion on YouTube through machine learning	45
Industry response to strengthened regulations: amount and themes of flavoured electronic cigarette promotion by product vendors and manufacturers on Instagram	45
Where to next for countries with high tobacco taxes? The potential for greater control of tobacco pricing through licensing regulation	44
Cessation and knowledge-building messaging are associated with e-cigarette cessation intentions among youth and young adults in the USA	43
Nicotine levels in flavoured hookah (waterpipe) tobacco products: discrepancies between labelled and measured levels	40
Themes in e-liquid concept names as a marketing tactic: evidence from Premarket Tobacco Product Applications in the USA	40
Impact of Canada’s menthol cigarette ban on quitting among menthol smokers: pooled analysis of pre–post evaluation from the ITC Project and the Ontario Menthol Ban Study and projections of impact in t	38
Randomised experiment for the effect of ‘Tobacco-Free Nicotine’ messaging on current e-cigarette users’ perceptions, preferences and intentions	38
Oral nicotine product marketing expenditures in the USA from 2016 to 2023: trends over time by brand and targeted media outlets	38
Awareness and attitudes towards children’s cigarette card gaming behaviour among adults aged 15 and above in Shenzhen, China: a population representative cross-sectional study	37
Heavy metals in ENDS: a comparison of open versus closed systems purchased from the USA, England, Canada and Australia	35
Historical and political context for Philip Morris International’s continuing medical education courses on harm reduction	35

Naturally leading: a content analysis of terms, themes and word associations in Natural American Spirit advertising, 2000–2020	35
“I think we can do without [tobacco]”: support for policies to end the tobacco epidemic among California adolescents	34
Waterpipe tobacco smoking (WTS) control policies: global analysis of available legislation and equity considerations	33
Longitudinal impact of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship on perceptions of harmfulness of tobacco and uptake of heated tobacco products in Japan: findings from the JASTIS study	32
Advancing whole-of-government approaches to tobacco control: Article 5.3 and the challenge of policy coordination in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India and Uganda	30