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Occupational exposure and asthma

Occupational exposure and asthma is a research topic within Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Science Explorer counts 17k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on occupational asthma, particularly related to work environments, exposure to various chemicals, and the associated health impacts. It covers topics such as diagnosis and management, chemical sensitization, environmental risk assessment, cleaning products, allergen exposure, respiratory symptoms, and prevention guidelines.

  • Occupational Asthma
  • Work-Related Exposure
  • Health Impact
  • Diagnosis and Management
  • Chemical Sensitization
  • Environmental Risk Assessment
  • Cleaning Products
  • Allergen Exposure
  • Respiratory Symptoms
  • Prevention Guidelines
Research works
17k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-2%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
28% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Occupational exposure and asthma

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Occupational exposure and asthma research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (396 and 212 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 396 works
  2. 2 China 212 works
  3. 3 Germany 163 works
  4. 4 France 129 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 112 works
  6. 6 Japan 96 works
  7. 7 India 92 works
  8. 8 Italy 81 works
  9. 9 Canada 69 works
  10. 10 Spain 60 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.

United States: 28.1%China: 15.1%Germany: 11.6%France: 9.1%6 others listed: 36.2%28%largest
United States396 · 28.1%China212 · 15.1%Germany163 · 11.6%France129 · 9.1%6 others listed510 · 36.2%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Occupational exposure and asthma research?

By volume in 2022-now, United States Department of Health and Human Services publishes the most Occupational exposure and asthma research, followed by Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres and Hôpital Charles-Nicolle.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States Department of Health and Human ServicesUnited States 25 works
  2. 2 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 20 works
  3. 3 Hôpital Charles-NicolleTunisia 18 works
  4. 4 InsermFrance 14 works
  5. 5 University of Occupational and Environmental Health JapanJapan 14 works
  6. 6 University of CopenhagenDenmark 13 works
  7. 7 Finnish Institute of Occupational HealthFinland 12 works
  8. 8 Harvard UniversityUnited States 11 works
  9. 9 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 10 works
  10. 10 Ruhr University BochumGermany 9 works

Who are the leading researchers in Occupational exposure and asthma?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Occupational exposure and asthma include Hermann Brenner, Mika Kivimäki and Amirhossein Sahebkar.

  1. 1 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
  2. 2 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k citations
  3. 3 Amirhossein Sahebkar Iran 258k citations
  4. 4 Carlo La Vecchia Italy 258k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Occupational exposure and asthma?

The most cited paper in Occupational exposure and asthma is "An Official ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT Statement: Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Evidence-based Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management" (Ganesh Raghu et al., 2011), with 7,347 citations. Next come "Half-Life of Serum Elimination of Perfluorooctanesulfonate,Perfluorohexanesulfonate, and Perfluorooctanoate in Retired Fluorochemical Production Workers" (2,048) and "Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA) guidelines—2016 revision" (2,043).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 An Official ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT Statement: Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Evidence-based Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management Ganesh Raghu et al. · American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine Open access Mar 2011 7,347
2 Half-Life of Serum Elimination of Perfluorooctanesulfonate,Perfluorohexanesulfonate, and Perfluorooctanoate in Retired Fluorochemical Production Workers Geary W. Olsen, Jean M. Burris, David J. Ehresman et al. · Environmental Health Perspectives Open access 11 Jun 2007 2,048
3 Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (ARIA) guidelines—2016 revision Jan Brożek et al. · Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Open access 8 Jun 2017 2,043
4 RAGE Mediates a Novel Proinflammatory Axis Marion A. Hofmann, Steven Drury, Caifeng Fu et al. · Cell Open access Jun 1999 1,871
5 Occupational and Environmental Medicine Linda Rosenstock, Kathleen M. Rest, JOHN A. BENSON et al. · New England Journal of Medicine 26 Sep 1991 1,637
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Occupational exposure and asthma research done?

The largest centres of Occupational exposure and asthma research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tunis (Tunisia), Paris (France) and Washington D.C. (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tunis.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 38 works
  2. 2 TunisTunisia 34 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 32 works
  4. 4 Washington D.C.United States 31 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 25 works
  6. 6 TokyoJapan 24 works
  7. 7 SeoulSouth Korea 22 works
  8. 8 CopenhagenDenmark 20 works
  9. 9 New YorkUnited States 18 works
  10. 10 TehranIran 18 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TunisTN · 33.6 works22×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Occupational exposure and asthma than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Occupational exposure and asthma?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Copenhagen, Harvard University and University of Occupational and Environmental Health Japan 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.

0%10%20%mean 11.8%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Copenh…Harvard UniversityUtrecht UniversityUniversity of Occupa…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of CopenhagenDenmark 87.223.2%7.1×13 -14.9%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 54.016.1%1.7×11 -8.1%
3University of Occupational and Environmental Health JapanJapan 50.07.7%121.5×14 +257.0%
4Utrecht UniversityNetherlands 35.99.5%5.7×8 -12.1%
5Akademie für GesundheitsberufeGermany 25.69.0%786.2×8 -
6Ruhr University BochumGermany 25.35.3%11.2×9 -38.4%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Occupational exposure and asthma, country by country

Is Occupational exposure and asthma research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Occupational exposure and asthma as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0078% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Occupational exposure and asthma0.0099% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Occupational exposure and asthma over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Occupational exposure and asthma10.4% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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