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Francesca Dominici

Francesca Dominici

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
97
Citations
47121
World Ranking
428
National Ranking
194

Medicine

D-Index
101
Citations
48808
World Ranking
7843
National Ranking
4087

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Francesca Dominici is a researcher affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a significant number of publications specifically in the subfields of Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Statistics and Probability, General Health Professions, Global and Planetary Change, and Economics and Econometrics.

The main topics of Francesca Dominici's research include Air Quality and Health Impacts, Climate Change and Health Impacts, Global Health Care Issues, Advanced Causal Inference Techniques, COVID-19 impact on air quality, Energy and Environment Impacts, and Noise Effects and Management.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Joel Schwartz, Danielle Braun, Yaguang Wei, Xiao Wu, and Antonella Zanobetti.

Francesca Dominici has published extensively across various venues. Some of the most frequent publication platforms are ISEE Conference Abstracts, arXiv (Cornell University), Science Advances, Environmental Research, and Nature Communications.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Francesca Dominici include:

  • Air pollution and COVID-19 mortality in the United States: Strengths and limitations of an ecological regression analysis, 2020, Science Advances
  • Regional and global contributions of air pollution to risk of death from COVID-19, 2020, Cardiovascular Research
  • Evaluating the impact of long-term exposure to fine particulate matter on mortality among the elderly, 2020, Science Advances
  • Excess of COVID-19 cases and deaths due to fine particulate matter exposure during the 2020 wildfires in the United States, 2021, Science Advances
  • Air Pollution and Mortality at the Intersection of Race and Social Class, 2023, New England Journal of Medicine

In recognition of their contributions to the field, Francesca Dominici was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 2005.

Best Publications

  • Fine Particulate Air Pollution and Mortality in 20 U.S. Cities, 1987–1994

    Jonathan M. Samet;Francesca Dominici;Frank C. Curriero;Ivan Coursac

  • Fine Particulate Air Pollution and Hospital Admission for Cardiovascular and Respiratory Diseases

    Francesca Dominici;Roger D. Peng;Michelle L. Bell;Luu Pham

  • Ozone and short-term mortality in 95 US urban communities, 1987-2000.

    Michelle L. Bell;Aidan McDermott;Scott L. Zeger;Jonathan M. Samet

  • Air Pollution and Mortality in the Medicare Population.

    Qian Di;Yan Wang;Antonella Zanobetti;Yun Wang

  • Exposure measurement error in time-series studies of air pollution: concepts and consequences.

    Scott L. Zeger;Duncan Thomas;Francesca Dominici;Jonathan M. Samet

  • The national morbidity, mortality, and air pollution study

    Francesca Dominici;Antonella Zanobetti;Scott L Zeger;Joel Schwartz

  • Exposure to air pollution and COVID-19 mortality in the United States: A nationwide cross-sectional study

    Xiao Wu;Rachel C Nethery;M Benjamin Sabath;Danielle Braun

  • Air pollution and COVID-19 mortality in the United States: Strengths and limitations of an ecological regression analysis.

    X. Wu;R. C. Nethery;M. B. Sabath;D. Braun

  • On the use of generalized additive models in time-series studies of air pollution and health.

    Francesca Dominici;Aidan McDermott;Scott L. Zeger;Jonathan M. Samet

  • The National Morbidity, Mortality, and Air Pollution Study. Part II: Morbidity and mortality from air pollution in the United States.

    J M Samet;S L Zeger;F Dominici;F Curriero

  • A Meta-Analysis of Time-Series Studies of Ozone and Mortality With Comparison to the National Morbidity, Mortality, and Air Pollution Study

    Michelle L. Bell;Francesca Dominici;Jonathan M. Samet

  • Spatial and Temporal Variation in PM2.5 Chemical Composition in the United States for Health Effects Studies

    Michelle L. Bell;Francesca Dominici;Keita Ebisu;Scott L. Zeger

  • Association of Short-term Exposure to Air Pollution With Mortality in Older Adults

    Qian Di;Lingzhen Dai;Yun Wang;Antonella Zanobetti

  • Model choice in time series studies of air pollution and mortality

    Roger D. Peng;Francesca Dominici;Thomas A. Louis

  • Emergency Admissions for Cardiovascular and Respiratory Diseases and the Chemical Composition of Fine Particle Air Pollution

    Roger D. Peng;Michelle L. Bell;Alison S. Geyh;Aidan McDermott

  • Hospital admissions and chemical composition of fine particle air pollution.

    Michelle L. Bell;Keita Ebisu;Roger D. Peng;Jonathan M. Samet

  • The exposure-response curve for ozone and risk of mortality and the adequacy of current ozone regulations.

    Michelle L. Bell;Roger D. Peng;Francesca Dominici

  • Seasonal analyses of air pollution and mortality in 100 US cities

    Roger D. Peng;Francesca Dominici;Roberto Pastor-Barriuso;Scott L. Zeger

  • Effect of air pollution control on life expectancy in the United States: an analysis of 545 U.S. counties for the period from 2000 to 2007.

    Andrew W. Correia;C. Arden Pope;Douglas W. Dockery;Yun Wang

  • Protecting human health from air pollution: shifting from a single-pollutant to a multipollutant approach.

    Francesca Dominici;Roger D. Peng;Christopher D. Barr;Michelle L. Bell

  • Acute Effects of Ambient Particulate Matter on Mortality in Europe and North America: Results from the APHENA Study

    Evangelia Samoli;Roger Peng;Tim Ramsay;Marina Pipikou

  • Emergency Admissions for Cardiovascular and Respiratory Diseases and the Chemical Composition of Fine Particle Air Pollution

    Francesca Dominici;Roger Peng

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan M. Samet
Jonathan M. Samet Colorado School of Public Health
Michelle L. Bell
Michelle L. Bell Yale University
Joel Schwartz
Joel Schwartz Harvard University
Antonella Zanobetti
Antonella Zanobetti Harvard University
Giovanni Parmigiani
Giovanni Parmigiani Harvard University
Petros Koutrakis
Petros Koutrakis Harvard University
Martin A. Makary
Martin A. Makary Johns Hopkins University
Brent A. Coull
Brent A. Coull Harvard University
Jane E. Clougherty
Jane E. Clougherty Drexel University
Deborah Schrag
Deborah Schrag Harvard University

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