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Papers

(The median citation count of Lancet Planetary Health is 6. 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
Correction to Lancet Planet Health 2021; 5: e426–35	1260
Considering health damages and co-benefits in climate change policy assessment	1144
Climate risks laid bare	566
Safeguarding planetary health for southeast Asia's future children	346
Healthy Environments and Lives (HEAL): Australian research network in human health and environmental change	309
Exposure to green spaces and all-cause mortality: limitations in measurement and definitions of exposure – Authors' reply	268
Correction to Lancet Planet Health 2024; 8: e754–65	220
Educational activism for planetary health—a case example from The Netherlands	215
Promising the Earth	203
A risky business	189
Mind the Gap	187
Physical activity in polluted air: an urgent call to study the health risks	169
Sustainable food profiling models to inform the development of food labels that account for nutrition and the environment: a systematic review	168
Liberating host–virus knowledge from biological dark data	165
Barriers and enablers around radical sharing	158
Wastewater surveillance: an effective and adaptable surveillance tool in settings with a low prevalence of COVID-19	156
Exposure to nature during the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated effect on mental health: a systematic review with meta-analysis	155
Scenarios of demographic distributional aspects of health co-benefits from decarbonising urban transport	154
Heat literacy and adaptation among semi-rural community in Malaysia	153
Systematic mapping of global research on climate and health: a machine learning review	143
Health and environmental impacts of plant-rich dietary patterns: a US prospective cohort study	141
Long-term exposure to ozone and cardiovascular mortality in China: a nationwide cohort study	135
An agenda for climate change and mental health in the Philippines	133
Climate change and child wellbeing: a systematic evidence and gap map on impacts, mitigation, and adaptation	133
The association of adverse birth outcomes with flood exposure before and during pregnancy in Australia: a cohort study	126

Adult Aedes albopictus in winter: implications for mosquito surveillance in southern Europe	126
Planetary Health Research Digest	126
Unbiased temperature-related mortality estimates using weekly and monthly health data: a new method for environmental epidemiology and climate impact studies	124
A human right to climate protection	123
Publishing at what cost?	123
Correction to Lancet Planet Health 2024; 8: e629–39	122
Paris's parking policy for healthier cities	112
The World Organization of Family Doctors Air Health Train the Trainer Program: lessons learned and implications for planetary health education	109
A planetary health perspective on synthetic methionine	107
Incorporating health co-benefits into technology pathways to achieve China's 2060 carbon neutrality goal: a modelling study	106
Placental DNA methylation signatures of prenatal air pollution exposure and potential effects on birth outcomes: an analysis of three prospective cohorts	103
The co-benefits of active travel interventions beyond physical activity: a systematic review	101
The effect of deforestation and climate change on all-cause mortality and unsafe work conditions due to heat exposure in Berau, Indonesia: a modelling study	99
The role of fats in the transition to sustainable diets	99
Effects of migration and vaccination on the spread and control of yellow fever in Latin American communities: a mathematical modelling study	98
Equity in planetary health education initiatives	95
Correction to Lancet Planet Health 2024; 8: e804–12	93
Urban Aedes aegypti suitability indicators: a study in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	89
Role of climate goals and clean-air policies on reducing future air pollution deaths in China: a modelling study	87
National and provincial burden of disease attributable to fine particulate matter air pollution in China, 1990–2021: an analysis of data from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021	81
A kilo for a tonne: the unmet need to address underuse in health care in a climate crisis	81
Correction to Lancet Planet Health 2019; 3: e469–77	77
Pre–post evaluation of the emotions and motivations for transformative action of medical students in Germany after two different planetary health educational interventions	77
Learning from the lobster and making space for transformation in planetary health	72
Global biodiversity deal is not pandemic proof	72
Optimising the deployment of vector control tools against malaria: a data-informed modelling study	70
Economics for people and planet—moving beyond the neoclassical paradigm	68
Less than fantastic plastic	67
Managing greenhouse gas emissions in the terminal year of life in an overwhelmed health system: a paradigm shift for people and our planet	67
Climate change, development, and resilience: a warning from Turkana, Kenya	66
Syntropic farming systems for reconciling productivity, ecosystem functions, and restoration	66
Adolescent psychological health, temporal discounting, and climate distress under increased flood exposure in Bangladesh: a mixed-methods cross-sectional study	65
Indigenous knowledge, community resilience, and health emergency preparedness	65
Expression of concern: Excess mortality attributed to heat and cold: a health impact assessment study in 854 cities in Europe	64
Effect of nature prescriptions on cardiometabolic and mental health, and physical activity: a systematic review	64
Biosecurity and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions in animal agricultural settings for reducing infection burden, antibiotic use, and antibiotic resistance: a One Health systematic re	64
Fostering planetary health in polluted environments: lessons from the Xonacatlán Indigenous Council in Mexico	63
Dutch Academy of Science proposes research agenda for planetary health	63
Planet-friendly school meals: opportunities to improve children's health and leverage change in food systems	62
Does climate change threaten human right to health?	61
Why gender matters for addressing chemical pollution	61
Health-care systems' resource footprints and their access and quality in 49 regions between 1995 and 2015: an input–output analysis	59
High ambient temperature in pregnancy and risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: an observational study	59
Impact of climate change on arsenic concentrations in paddy rice and the associated dietary health risks in Asia: an experimental and modelling study	58
Planetary Health Research Digest	58
The costs of climate activism for medical professionals: a case study of the USA, the UK, and Germany	57
Addressing climate anxiety among young people in the Philippines	57
The EAT–Lancet reference diet and cognitive function across the life course	57
Long-term exposure to wildfires and cancer incidence in Canada: a population-based observational cohort study	56
Estimating the effect of annual PM2·5 exposure on mortality in India: a difference-in-differences approach	55

Global health costs of ambient PM2·5 from combustion sources: a modelling study supporting air pollution control strategies	55
Correction to Lancet Planet Health 2022; 6: e243–56	54
The impact of urban configuration types on urban heat islands, air pollution, CO2 emissions, and mortality in Europe: a data science approach	53
The greenhouse gas emissions of pharmaceutical consumption and production: an input–output analysis over time and across global supply chains	52
Effect of heatwaves on daily hospital admissions in Portugal, 2000–18: an observational study	52
Acknowledging geodiversity in safeguarding biodiversity and human health	51
Global antibiotic consumption and usage in humans, 2000–18: a spatial modelling study	51
Ambient nitrogen dioxide in 47 187 neighbourhoods across 326 cities in eight Latin American countries: population exposures and associations with urban features	51
Influences of area-level sociodemographic factors on heat-related mortality in Europe: insights to guide adaptation strategies	51
Malaria transmission and prevalence in rice-growing versus non-rice-growing villages in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis	50
The public health co-benefits of strategies consistent with net-zero emissions: a systematic review	50
The COVID-19 pandemic is intricately linked to biodiversity loss and ecosystem health	49
The impacts of air pollution on mortality and hospital readmission among Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's disease-related dementias: a national retrospective cohort stud	49
Be prepared for more heat	49
Think global, act local: using a translocal approach to understand community-based organisations’ responses to planetary health crises during COVID-19	48
Nature prescriptions should address motivations and barriers to be effective, equitable, and sustainable	48
Projecting future excess deaths associated with extreme precipitation events in China under changing climate: an integrated modelling study	48
Public engagement with health and climate change around the world: a Google Trends analysis	48
Correction to Lancet Planet Health 2022; 6: e4–6	47
Is growth in consumption occurring where it is most needed? An empirical analysis of current energy and material trends	47
Co-benefits from sustainable dietary shifts for population and environmental health: an assessment from a large European cohort study	47
The role of languaging in planetary health	46
Nations prepare to give climate statements at world's top court	46
Somebody has to move first	45
Nature-based solutions to address climate change and antimicrobial resistance	45
City planning for the future	43
COP26 in review	42
Ecological economics and health: introducing an emerging literature	42
A model for comprehensive climate and medical education	41
Effects of city design on transport mode choice and exposure to health risks during and after a crisis: a retrospective observational analysis	41
How different COVID-19 recovery paths affect human health, environmental sustainability, and food affordability: a modelling study	40
Quantifying the contribution of mangroves to local fish consumption in Indonesia: a cross-sectional spatial analysis	40
Can the planetary health concept save freshwater biodiversity and ecosystems?	39
Vulnerability and One Health assessment approaches for infectious threats from a social science perspective: a systematic scoping review	39
Physicians’ views of patient–planetary health co-benefit prescribing: a mixed methods systematic review	38
Impact on mortality of pathways to net zero greenhouse gas emissions in England and Wales: a multisectoral modelling study	38
Predicting malaria outbreaks using earth observation measurements and spatiotemporal deep learning modelling: a South Asian case study from 2000 to 2017	37
Financial influence on global risks of zoonotic emerging and re-emerging diseases: an integrative analysis	37
Ethical and economic implications of the adoption of novel plant-based beef substitutes in the USA: a general equilibrium modelling study	36
Reclaiming traditional, plant-based, climate-resilient food systems in small islands	36
Scope and applicability of social–ecological resilience to antimicrobial resistance	36
The True Cost Of Bottom Trawling In Europe	35
Environmental violence: a tool for planetary health research	35
Excess mortality attributed to heat and cold: a health impact assessment study in 854 cities in Europe	35
Monitoring persistent organic chemicals in Antarctica in support of global chemical policy: a horizon scan of priority actions and challenges	35
Correction to Lancet Planet Health 2024; 8: e574–87	34
An unclear inter-relation between particulate matter exposure and antimicrobial resistance	34
Planetary Health Research Digest	34
Future-proofing cities against negative city mobility and public health impacts of impending natural hazards: a system dynamics modelling study	33
Desertification, Drought, and Planetary Health: UNCCD COP16 and the Future of Land	33
The impact of ecosystem nitrogen enrichment on pollen allergy: a cross-sectional paired comparison study	33
Global health burden and cost of lead exposure in children and adults: a health impact and economic modelling analysis	32
Advancing disability-inclusive climate research and action, climate justice, and climate-resilient development	32
Climate-sensitive health counselling: a scoping review and conceptual framework	31
Prevent pandemics and halt climate change? Strengthen land rights for Indigenous peoples	31
Precipitation variability and risk of infectious disease in children under 5 years for 32 countries: a global analysis using Demographic and Health Survey data	31
Plant-based and planetary-health diets, environmental burden, and risk of mortality: a prospective cohort study of middle-aged and older adults in China	31
The Planetary Health Academy—a virtual lecture series for transformative education in Germany	31
The number of people exposed to water stress in relation to how much water is reserved for the environment: a global modelling study	31
Correction to Lancet Planet Health 2021; 5: e797–807	30
Thank you to The Lancet Planetary Health's statistical and peer reviewers in 2022	30
Health care with a view	30
Aiming to deliver more of what matters	30
Hope on the high seas	29
Correction to Lancet Planet Health 2023; 7: e172–78	28
Correction to Lancet Planet Health 2022; 6: e524–34	28
Correction to Lancet Planet Health 2023; 7: e570–79	28
Dengue diagnostic test use to identify Aedes-borne disease hotspots	28
Finding flow: exploring the potential for sustainable fulfilment	27
Effect of a novel house design (star home) on indoor malaria mosquito abundance in rural Tanzania: secondary outcomes of an open-label, household, randomised controlled trial	27
Correction to Lancet Planet Health 2023; 7: e706–17	27
Period poverty and menstrual belonging: a matter of climate justice	26
Impact of large-scale, government legislated and funded organic farming training on pesticide use in Andhra Pradesh, India: a cross-sectional study	26
Long-term air pollution exposure and incident dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis	26
The effect of extreme temperature and precipitation on cause-specific deaths in rural Burkina Faso: a longitudinal study	26
Indigenous communities and the mental health impacts of land dispossession related to industrial resource development: a systematic review	26
Climate anxiety does not need a diagnosis of a mental health disorder	25
Invasive alien species: a rising global threat that needs control	25
Putting food at the centre of learning: an evidence-based and practice-informed model of holistic food education in schools	25
Small-area assessment of temperature-related mortality risks in England and Wales: a case time series analysis	25

Eating a nutritionally adequate diet is possible without wrecking long-term health, the planet, or the pocket – Authors' reply	25
UK lawyers' climate pledge reverberates around the world	25
The inadequacy of current pesticide regulations for protecting brain health: the case of glyphosate and Parkinson's disease	25
Are there more cold deaths than heat deaths?	25
Environmentally sustainable opportunities for health systems: metered-dose inhaler prescribing, dispensing, usage, and waste at The Ottawa Hospital	24
The time to act is now: a call to action on planetary health and sustainable surgical systems	23
The burden of disease attributable to indoor air pollutants in China from 2000 to 2017	23
Planetary health learning objectives: foundational knowledge for global health education in an era of climate change	23
Can One Health fight H5N1 avian influenza?	23
Associations between residential greenspace exposure and mortality in 4 645 581 adults living in London, UK: a longitudinal study	23
Climate finance and conflict: adaptation amid instability	23
COP27 establishes loss and damage fund to respond to human cost of climate change	22
Environmental impact, micronutrient adequacy, protein quality, and fatty acid profiles of plant-based beverages compared with cow's milk: a sustainability assessment	22
Eating a nutritionally adequate diet is possible without wrecking long-term health, the planet, or the pocket	22
Spatiotemporal variation and environmental sensitivity of childhood enteric pathogen infection risk: a Planetary Health approach to predictive modelling and risk mapping	22
The global and regional costs of healthy and sustainable dietary patterns: a modelling study	22
Projecting future risk of dengue related to hydrometeorological conditions in mainland China under climate change scenarios: a modelling study	22
COP27 Climate Change Conference: urgent action needed for Africa and the world	22
A qualitative exploration of barriers, enablers, and implementation strategies to replace disposable medical devices with reusable alternatives	21
Embedding Indigenous knowledges and voices in planetary health education	21
New national climate plans offer the best opportunity yet to secure a healthy and stable future	21
COVID-19, climate change, and communities	21
The compatibility of circularity and national dietary recommendations for animal products in five European countries: a modelling analysis on nutritional feasibility, climate impact, and land use	21
Investigating intervention components and their effectiveness in promoting environmentally sustainable diets: a systematic review	21
An economic lens for sustainable dietary guidelines	21
Effectiveness of Wolbachia-mediated sterility coupled with sterile insect technique to suppress adult Aedes aegypti populations in Singapore: a synthetic control study	21
Promoting health through climate change mitigation in Europe	21
Changing food systems and infectious disease risks in low-income and middle-income countries	21
Considerations for improving the relevance, use, and robustness of projections of the health risks of climate change	20
Climate change and health: a 2-week course for medical students to inspire change	20
Synergies between environmental degradation and climate variation on malaria re-emergence in southern Venezuela: a spatiotemporal modelling study	20
Seasons of smoke and fire: preparing health systems for improved performance before, during, and after wildfires	19
Mortality risk attributable to wildfire-related PM2·5 pollution: a global time series study in 749 locations	19
Investigating the contextual factors and mechanisms associated with implementing Blue Prescription Programmes in health and social care settings: a systematic review using realist synthesis	19
Impact of price reductions, subsidies, or financial incentives on healthy food purchases and consumption: a systematic review and meta-analysis	19
Trends in population exposure to compound extreme-risk temperature and air pollution across 35 European countries: a modelling study	19
Air pollution and development in Africa: impacts on health, the economy, and human capital	19
Clinician education on climate change and health: virtual learning community models	19
Lonelygenic environments: a call for research on multilevel determinants of loneliness	19
From health assemblies to climate negotiations: youth perspectives on existing gaps in global climate action	19
Environmental sustainability in national food-based dietary guidelines: a global review	19
Correction to Lancet Planet Health 2023; 7: e251–64	19
Correction to Lancet Planet Health 2024; 8: e41–50	18
Climate anxiety: trigger or threat for mental disorders?	18
Diminishing marginal returns and sufficiency in health-care resource use: an exploratory analysis of outcomes, expenditure, and emissions	18
Learning to treat the climate emergency together: social tipping interventions by the health community	18
Interactions between climate and COVID-19	18
One Health education should be early, inclusive, and holistic	18
Ambient temperature and mental health: a systematic review and meta-analysis	18
Reducing global inequality to secure human wellbeing and climate safety: a modelling study	18
Teaching skills for sustainable health care	18
A planetary health perspective on menstruation: menstrual equity and climate action	17
Education for Planetary Health: a call for papers	17
Disentangling the contributions of anthropogenic climate change, greenhouse gases, and aerosols to heat-related mortality in Great Britain: a climate change impact attribution study	17
Pathways between fishery access and early childhood development: a longitudinal cohort study	17
A role for provocative protest	17
Sand and dust storms: a growing global health threat calls for international health studies to support policy action	16
Estimates, trends, and drivers of the global burden of type 2 diabetes attributable to PM2·5 air pollution, 1990–2019: an analysis of data from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019	16
Nipah spillover risk and large-scale spatial modelling studies	16
Outdoor air pollution exposure and cognitive performance: findings from the enrolment phase of the CONSTANCES cohort	16
Environmentally sustainable surgical health systems: an analysis of policies, tools, and guidelines	16
Ecological and socioeconomic factors associated with the human burden of environmentally mediated pathogens: a global analysis	16
The differential effect of ambient temperature on age-specific and sex-specific mortality in the 300 largest cities of Russia, 2000–19: a first national time-series study	16
The role of vector population variation and climate in Zika virus transmission patterns in Africa: a modelling study	16
Drowning and disasters: climate change priorities	16
Environmental heat stress on maternal physiology and fetal blood flow in pregnant subsistence farmers in The Gambia, west Africa: an observational cohort study	16
Impact of tree-based interventions in addressing health and wellbeing outcomes in rural low-income and middle-income settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis	16
Less is more	15
How are health systems in sub-Saharan Africa adapting to protect human health from climate change threats? A scoping review and case study	15
Effects of global change on snakebite envenoming incidence up to 2050: a modelling assessment	15
Correction to Lancet Planet Health 2022; 6: e632–39	15
Residential green space and waist circumference affect telomere shortening in childhood: the longitudinal ChiBS study	15
Correction to Lancet Planet Health 2022; 6: e968–76	15
Environmental defenders: public health champions	15
All lead exposures matter – Authors' reply	15
On CRDPs and CRPD: why the rights of people with disabilities are crucial for understanding climate-resilient development pathways	15
Mapping local variation in household overcrowding across Africa from 2000 to 2018: a modelling study	15
Health benefits of Open Streets programmes in Latin America: a quantitative health impact assessment	14
Determinants of worldwide antibiotic resistance dynamics across drug-bacterium pairs: a multivariable spatial-temporal analysis using ATLAS	14
Temperature impacts on hate speech online: evidence from 4 billion geolocated tweets from the USA	14
Correction to Lancet Planet Health 2018; 2: e438–50	14
Mobility data to aid assessment of human responses to extreme environmental conditions	14
The Planetary Health Report Card: a student-led initiative to inspire planetary health in medical schools	14
Putting planetary health at the core of the medical curriculum in Amsterdam	14
Dietary greenhouse gas emissions and the risk of coronary heart disease and type 2 diabetes	14
Inequality in behavioural heat adaptation: an empirical study with mobility data from the transport system in New York City, NY, USA	14
Impacts of heat stress on global cattle production during the 21st century: a modelling study	14
Crisis in the air: the mental health implications of the 2023 Canadian wildfires	14
Global estimates of daily ambient fine particulate matter concentrations and unequal spatiotemporal distribution of population exposure: a machine learning modelling study	14
Associations between outdoor air pollutants and non-viral asthma exacerbations and airway inflammatory responses in children and adolescents living in urban areas in the USA: a retrospective secondary	13
Indigenous Elders' voices on health-systems change informed by planetary health: a qualitative and relational systems mapping inquiry	13
Policy approaches to decarbonising the transport sector in Aotearoa New Zealand: modelling equity, population health, and health-system effects	13
The effects of night-time warming on mortality burden under future climate change scenarios: a modelling study	13
An objective assessment of children's exposure to brand marketing in New Zealand (Kids'Cam): a cross-sectional study	13
Leveraging implementation science to solve the big problems: a scoping review of health system preparations for the effects of pandemics and climate change	13