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Air Quality and Health Impacts

Most cited papers

  1. Toxic Potential of Materials at the NanolevelScience · 2006 · 9,354 citations
  2. Lung Cancer, Cardiopulmonary Mortality, and Long-term Exposure to Fine Particulate Air PollutionJAMA · 2002 · 8,648 citations
  3. Occurrence of the potent mutagens 2- nitrobenzanthrone and 3-nitrobenzanthrone in fine airborne particlesScientific Reports · 2019 · 8,528 citations
  4. An Association between Air Pollution and Mortality in Six U.S. CitiesNew England Journal of Medicine · 1993 · 8,208 citations
  5. Nanotoxicology: An Emerging Discipline Evolving from Studies of Ultrafine ParticlesEnvironmental Health Perspectives · 2005 · 7,940 citations
  6. Health Effects of Fine Particulate Air Pollution: Lines that ConnectJournal of the Air & Waste Management Association · 2006 · 6,840 citations
  7. Estimates and 25-year trends of the global burden of disease attributable to ambient air pollution: an analysis of data from the Global Burden of Diseases Study 2015The Lancet · 2017 · 6,800 citations
  8. Particulate Matter Air Pollution and Cardiovascular DiseaseCirculation · 2010 · 6,629 citations
  9. Environmental and Health Impacts of Air Pollution: A ReviewFrontiers in Public Health · 2020 · 5,302 citations
  10. The formation, properties and impact of secondary organic aerosol: current and emerging issuesAtmospheric chemistry and physics · 2009 · 4,605 citations
  11. Spirometric Reference Values from a Sample of the General U.S. PopulationAmerican Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine · 1999 · 4,286 citations
  12. Nanomaterials and nanoparticles: Sources and toxicityBiointerphases · 2007 · 3,798 citations
  13. Atmospheric Degradation of Volatile Organic CompoundsChemical Reviews · 2003 · 3,287 citations
  14. Trends in China's anthropogenic emissions since 2010 as the consequence of clean air actionsAtmospheric chemistry and physics · 2018 · 3,028 citations
  15. Ubiquity and dominance of oxygenated species in organic aerosols in anthropogenically‐influenced Northern Hemisphere midlatitudesGeophysical Research Letters · 2007 · 2,931 citations
  16. Particulate Air Pollution as a Predictor of Mortality in a Prospective Study of U.S. AdultsAmerican Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine · 1995 · 2,761 citations
  17. Atmospheric Aerosols: Composition, Transformation, Climate and Health EffectsAngewandte Chemie International Edition · 2005 · 2,734 citations
  18. A technology‐based global inventory of black and organic carbon emissions from combustionJournal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2004 · 2,705 citations
  19. Fine Particulate Air Pollution and Hospital Admission for Cardiovascular and Respiratory DiseasesJAMA · 2006 · 2,701 citations
  20. Field-Deployable, High-Resolution, Time-of-Flight Aerosol Mass SpectrometerAnalytical Chemistry · 2006 · 2,669 citations
  21. Review of the Governing Equations, Computational Algorithms, and Other Components of the Models-3 Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Modeling SystemApplied Mechanics Reviews · 2006 · 2,655 citations
  22. Cardiovascular Mortality and Long-Term Exposure to Particulate Air PollutionCirculation · 2003 · 2,631 citations
  23. Translocation of Inhaled Ultrafine Particles to the BrainInhalation Toxicology · 2004 · 2,630 citations
  24. Distributed lag non‐linear modelsStatistics in Medicine · 2010 · 2,598 citations
  25. Global estimates of mortality associated with long-term exposure to outdoor fine particulate matterProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2018 · 2,576 citations
  26. Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance Toxicity and Human Health Review: Current State of Knowledge and Strategies for Informing Future ResearchEnvironmental Toxicology and Chemistry · 2020 · 2,452 citations
  27. Air Pollution and Cardiovascular DiseaseCirculation · 2004 · 2,405 citations
  28. The Toxicology of Mercury and Its Chemical CompoundsCritical Reviews in Toxicology · 2006 · 2,389 citations
  29. Fine-Particulate Air Pollution and Life Expectancy in the United StatesNew England Journal of Medicine · 2009 · 2,333 citations
  30. Drivers of improved PM 2.5 air quality in China from 2013 to 2017Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2019 · 2,291 citations
  31. Rethinking Organic Aerosols: Semivolatile Emissions and Photochemical AgingScience · 2007 · 2,286 citations
  32. Chemical and microphysical characterization of ambient aerosols with the aerodyne aerosol mass spectrometerMass Spectrometry Reviews · 2007 · 2,286 citations
  33. An inventory of gaseous and primary aerosol emissions in Asia in the year 2000Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2003 · 2,271 citations
  34. Fine Particulate Air Pollution and Mortality in 20 U.S. Cities, 1987–1994New England Journal of Medicine · 2000 · 2,265 citations
  35. Death toll exceeded 70,000 in Europe during the summer of 2003Comptes Rendus Biologies · 2007 · 2,177 citations
  36. Pollution and health: a progress updateThe Lancet Planetary Health · 2022 · 2,154 citations
  37. Ultrafine particulate pollutants induce oxidative stress and mitochondrial damage.Environmental Health Perspectives · 2003 · 2,139 citations
  38. 8-hydroxy-2′ -deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG): A Critical Biomarker of Oxidative Stress and CarcinogenesisJournal of Environmental Science and Health Part C · 2009 · 2,009 citations
  39. Pulmonary Toxicity of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes in Mice 7 and 90 Days After Intratracheal InstillationToxicological Sciences · 2003 · 1,999 citations

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