OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Tobacco Control is 28. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Hookah Battle: the global sponsoring and brand marketing of smoking competitions	343
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	105
Circumventing tobacco control and safety policies to promote waterpipe use in smoking venues: the perspective of staff in waterpipe smoking venues	77
IQOS and cigarette advertising across regulatory periods and population groups in Israel: a longitudinal analysis	73
Vaping in a heavily regulated setting: cross-sectional survey of e-cigarette use, perceptions and social media exposure	72
Flavours, ingredients and flavour bans	66
Awareness of tobacco industry tactics among tobacco control communities in Thailand and its association with attitudes towards tobacco industry and perceptions of e-cigarettes	57
Affordability of cigarettes in ten Southeastern European countries between 2008 and 2019	55
Economic costs of tobacco-related diseases in Hong Kong in 2021	55
How do clinicians address vaping in an illegal context? A qualitative Singapore study	53
Themes in e-liquid concept names as a marketing tactic: evidence from Premarket Tobacco Product Applications in the USA	48
Cessation and knowledge-building messaging are associated with e-cigarette cessation intentions among youth and young adults in the USA	46
Towards tobacco-free retailers: feasibility of an intervention encouraging retailers to stop selling tobacco in Tasmania	43
Naturally leading: a content analysis of terms, themes and word associations in Natural American Spirit advertising, 2000–2020	43
Nicotine levels in flavoured hookah (waterpipe) tobacco products: discrepancies between labelled and measured levels	43
Tobacco industry interference to undermine the development and implementation of graphic health warnings in Bangladesh	41
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	40
Where to next for countries with high tobacco taxes? The potential for greater control of tobacco pricing through licensing regulation	38
Standardised cigarettes: the next step for tobacco policy?	38
Randomised experiment for the effect of ‘Tobacco-Free Nicotine’ messaging on current e-cigarette users’ perceptions, preferences and intentions	35
Industry response to strengthened regulations: amount and themes of flavoured electronic cigarette promotion by product vendors and manufacturers on Instagram	34
Oral nicotine product marketing expenditures in the USA from 2016 to 2023: trends over time by brand and targeted media outlets	34
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	34
Heavy metals in ENDS: a comparison of open versus closed systems purchased from the USA, England, Canada and Australia	33
Understanding e-cigarette content and promotion on YouTube through machine learning	30

Waterpipe tobacco smoking (WTS) control policies: global analysis of available legislation and equity considerations	29
“I think we can do without [tobacco]”: support for policies to end the tobacco epidemic among California adolescents	29
Historical and political context for Philip Morris International’s continuing medical education courses on harm reduction	29
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	28
Economic cost of cigarette smoking in China: a propensity score matching and DALY-based analysis (2014–2020)	28