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International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health
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International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 103 124 214 35
Medicine 779 155 181 27

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 416
Documents by Best Scientists*: 419
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 14
SCIMAGO H-index: 126
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.313
Impact Factor: 4.4

Overview

Top Research Topics at International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health?

The concepts of Environmental health, Biomonitoring, Urine, Environmental chemistry and Public health are tackled in the journal. Environmental exposure is a primary topic of Environmental health research in International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health. It facilitates discussions on Urine that incorporate concepts from other fields like Phthalate, Toxicology, Metabolite, Urinary system and Physiology.

  • Environmental health (28.45%)
  • Biomonitoring (11.56%)
  • Urine (10.61%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Phthalates: Toxicology and exposure (967 citations)
  • Perfluorinated compounds--exposure assessment for the general population in Western countries. (719 citations)
  • Emerging pollutants in wastewater: a review of the literature (654 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health:

The most cited papers are mainly concerned with subjects like Environmental health, Biomonitoring, Urine, Environmental chemistry and Toxicology. The journal papers center on topics in Environmental health, with a focus on Environmental exposure. The journal papers explore research in Biomonitoring alongside concepts in Environmental medicine and other areas of study in Cadmium.

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Marike Kolossa-Gehring (64 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Michael Wilhelm (56 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Holger M. Koch (42 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Martin Exner (31 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Jürgen Angerer (31 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Ruhr University Bochum (110 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Environment Agency (108 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (67 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (66 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (54 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2022 edition, 0.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 0.00% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 0.00% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 0.00% of all publications and 100.00% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Health, work performance, and risk of infection in office-like environments: The role of indoor temperature, air humidity, and ventilation.

    Peder Wolkoff;Kenichi Azuma;Paolo Carrer

    (2021)
    245 Citations
  • Harmonized human biomonitoring in European children, teenagers and adults: EU-wide exposure data of 11 chemical substance groups from the HBM4EU Aligned Studies (2014-2021).

    Unknown

    (2023)
    167 Citations
  • Changes in urinary excretion of phthalates, phthalate substitutes, bisphenols and other polychlorinated and phenolic substances in young Danish men; 2009-2017.

    Hanne Frederiksen;Ole Nielsen;Holger M. Koch;Niels E. Skakkebaek

    (2020)
    160 Citations
  • Human biomonitoring initiative (HBM4EU) - Strategy to derive human biomonitoring guidance values (HBM-GVs) for health risk assessment.

    Petra Apel;Christophe Rousselle;Rosa Lange;Fatoumata Sissoko

    (2020)
    92 Citations
  • Emerging indoor pollutants.

    Tunga Salthammer

    (2020)
    91 Citations
  • The European human biomonitoring platform - Design and implementation of a laboratory quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) programme for selected priority chemicals

    Marta Esteban López;Thomas Göen;Hans Mol;Stefanie Nübler

    (2021)
    85 Citations
  • Phthalate metabolites in urine of children and adolescents in Germany. Human biomonitoring results of the German Environmental Survey GerES V, 2014-2017.

    Gerda Schwedler;Enrico Rucic;Rosa Lange;André Conrad

    (2020)
    85 Citations

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