OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Environmental Health Reports is 18. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Perfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) and Their Effects on the Placenta, Pregnancy, and Child Development: a Potential Mechanistic Role for Placental Peroxisome Proliferator–Activated Receptors (PPARs)	122
Microbial Indicators of Fecal Pollution: Recent Progress and Challenges in Assessing Water Quality	74
Climate Change and Mental Health	60
Racial Disparities in Climate Change-Related Health Effects in the United States	52
Biodiversity and Health in the Urban Environment	52
Power Outages and Community Health: a Narrative Review	47
Built Environment, Transport, and COVID-19: a Review	46
Breaking Down and Building Up: Gentrification, Its drivers, and Urban Health Inequality	46
Fine-Scale Air Pollution Models for Epidemiologic Research: Insights From Approaches Developed in the Multi-ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and Air Pollution (MESA Air)	45
Cannabis Exposure During Critical Windows of Development: Epigenetic and Molecular Pathways Implicated in Neuropsychiatric Disease	44
Sex and Gender Differences in Occupational Hazard Exposures: a Scoping Review of the Recent Literature	43
A Review of the Effectiveness of Current US Policies on Antimicrobial Use in Meat and Poultry Production	42
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Pregnancy and Prenatal Exposure to Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals Commonly Used in Personal Care Products	42
Projections of Ambient Temperature- and Air Pollution-Related Mortality Burden Under Combined Climate Change and Population Aging Scenarios: a Review	41
Combined Impacts of Prenatal Environmental Exposures and Psychosocial Stress on Offspring Health: Air Pollution and Metals	37
Individual- and Household-Level Interventions to Reduce Air Pollution Exposures and Health Risks: a Review of the Recent Literature	36
Climate Change, Migration, and Civil Strife	36
Health Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Ambient PM2.5 in Asia-Pacific: a Systematic Review of Cohort Studies	35
Fisheries and Policy Implications for Human Nutrition	35
Integrating DNA Methylation Measures of Biological Aging into Social Determinants of Health Research	34
Challenges for Safe and Healthy Drinking Water in China	32
Environmental Chemical Exposures and Mitochondrial Dysfunction: a Review of Recent Literature	32
Wildfire, Smoke Exposure, Human Health, and Environmental Justice Need to be Integrated into Forest Restoration and Management	32
Climate Change, Environmental Disasters, and Health Inequities: The Underlying Role of Structural Inequalities	31
Low-Level Cadmium Exposure and Atherosclerosis	30

The Placental Epigenome as a Molecular Link Between Prenatal Exposures and Fetal Health Outcomes Through the DOHaD Hypothesis	30
Cyanide Contamination of the Puyango-Tumbes River Caused by Artisanal Gold Mining in Portovelo-Zaruma, Ecuador	28
Air Pollution and Adverse Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes: Mediation Analysis Using Metabolomic Profiles	28
The Changing Climate and Pregnancy Health	27
Cell Types in Environmental Epigenetic Studies: Biological and Epidemiological Frameworks	27
Prevalence and Implications of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Settled Dust	25
A State-of-the-Science Review on Metal Biomarkers	24
Use of Exposomic Methods Incorporating Sensors in Environmental Epidemiology	20
The Impact of Climate Change on Vaccine-Preventable Diseases: Insights From Current Research and New Directions	19
Healthy Aging Requires a Healthy Home Care Workforce: the Occupational Safety and Health of Home Care Aides	19
“I Can’t Breathe”: Examining the Legacy of American Racism on Determinants of Health and the Ongoing Pursuit of Environmental Justice	19
Assessing the Public Health Implications of the Food Preservative Propylparaben: Has This Chemical Been Safely Used for Decades	19
Environmental Exposures and Extracellular Vesicles: Indicators of Systemic Effects and Human Disease	19
Use of Untargeted Metabolomics to Explore the Air Pollution-Related Disease Continuum	18
The gut microbiome and arsenic-induced disease—iAs metabolism in mice	18