Air Quality and Health Impacts
Air Quality and Health Impacts is a research topic within Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Science Explorer counts 84k research works in it since 1950. 24.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers focuses on the health effects of air pollution, particularly related to particulate matter and its impact on cardiovascular disease, mortality, and global burden of disease. The papers cover topics such as exposure assessment, oxidative stress, and the results of various epidemiological studies.
- Air Pollution
- Particulate Matter
- Health Effects
- Global Burden of Disease
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Fine Particulate Air Pollution
- Mortality
- Exposure Assessment
- Oxidative Stress
- Epidemiological Studies
- Research works
- 84k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 20k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 24.1% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +69% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Air Quality and Health Impacts research?
By volume, China and the United States publish the most (6k and 3.3k works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 6k works
- 2 United States 3.3k works
- 3 India 1.3k works
- 4 United Kingdom 720 works
- 5 South Korea 634 works
- 6 Italy 453 works
- 7 France 431 works
- 8 Germany 404 works
- 9 Spain 374 works
- 10 Canada 367 works
How concentrated that is
The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.
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Which institutions lead Air Quality and Health Impacts research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Air Quality and Health Impacts research, followed by Peking University and Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Chinese Academy of Sciences China 163 works
- 2 Peking University China 153 works
- 3 Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology China 102 works
- 4 Harvard University United States 94 works
- 5 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States 92 works
- 6 Fudan University China 91 works
- 7 Tsinghua University China 88 works
- 8 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences China 83 works
- 9 Sun Yat-sen University China 81 works
- 10 Imperial College London United Kingdom 61 works
Who are the leading researchers in Air Quality and Health Impacts?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Air Quality and Health Impacts include Dan J. Stein, Chuanhua Yu and Lídia Morawska.
- 1 Dan J. Stein 7.7k citations
- 2 Chuanhua Yu 7.4k citations
- 3 Lídia Morawska 6.4k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Air Quality and Health Impacts research done?
The largest centres of Air Quality and Health Impacts research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Guangzhou (China) and Nanjing (China).
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where is the best place to study Air Quality and Health Impacts?
Among universities, judged by research, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Jinan University and Guangdong-Hongkong-Macau Joint Laboratory of Collaborative Innovation for Environmental Quality score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology China | 76.6 | 29.9% | 13.0× | 102 | +346.3% |
| 2 | Jinan University China | 61.5 | 33.6% | 5.6× | 48 | +2188.6% |
| 3 | Guangdong-Hongkong-Macau Joint Laboratory of Collaborative Innovation for Environmental Quality China | 59.3 | 36.7% | 57.5× | 12 | — |
| 4 | Nanjing University China | 58.6 | 41.5% | 3.0× | 44 | +316.1% |
| 5 | Anhui Medical University China | 57.5 | 21.2% | 7.5× | 42 | +237.3% |
| 6 | Zhejiang Environmental Monitoring Center China | 57.5 | 28.2% | 63.1× | 21 | +84.9% |
| 7 | Peking University China | 56.7 | 27.9% | 5.1× | 153 | +52.4% |
| 8 | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences China | 55.8 | 34.0% | 2.6× | 83 | +169.7% |
| 9 | University of Phayao Thailand | 55.7 | 38.7% | 10.0× | 9 | — |
| 10 | Fudan University China | 55.5 | 33.8% | 4.2× | 91 | +81.9% |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Air Quality and Health Impacts research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 69% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2022. The fastest-growing topics are Air Quality and Health Impacts.
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Which topics inside it are moving
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