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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Environmental Sciences 115 160 150 9 9 608 49450
Medicine 129 2618 2443 268 259 691 57024

Francesco Forastiere publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Francesco Forastiere between 1983 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Francesco Forastiere published across 43 years, from 1983 to 2025, averaging 18.4 papers a year. Output peaked at 60 publications in 2016. 37 of the 790 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
20 40 60
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1983 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 60. Peak 60 publications in 2016. 1983: 1 publication 1984: 0 publications 1985: 1 publication 1986: 1 publication 1987: 2 publications 1988: 1 publication 1989: 2 publications 1990: 1 publication 1991: 3 publications 1992: 4 publications 1993: 6 publications 1994: 9 publications 1995: 8 publications 1996: 4 publications 1997: 8 publications 1998: 14 publications 1999: 9 publications 2000: 8 publications 2001: 9 publications 2002: 6 publications 2003: 21 publications 2004: 16 publications 2005: 31 publications 2006: 37 publications 2007: 26 publications 2008: 26 publications 2009: 41 publications 2010: 21 publications 2011: 38 publications 2012: 24 publications 2013: 44 publications 2014: 44 publications 2015: 33 publications 2016: 60 publications 2017: 25 publications 2018: 30 publications 2019: 31 publications 2020: 34 publications 2021: 33 publications 2022: 26 publications 2023: 15 publications 2024: 20 publications 2025: 17 publications
1983 2025

790 publications in total across all disciplines

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Francesco Forastiere: publications per year, 1983 to 2025
Year Publications
1983 1
1984 0
1985 1
1986 1
1987 2
1988 1
1989 2
1990 1
1991 3
1992 4
1993 6
1994 9
1995 8
1996 4
1997 8
1998 14
1999 9
2000 8
2001 9
2002 6
2003 21
2004 16
2005 31
2006 37
2007 26
2008 26
2009 41
2010 21
2011 38
2012 24
2013 44
2014 44
2015 33
2016 60
2017 25
2018 30
2019 31
2020 34
2021 33
2022 26
2023 15
2024 20
2025 17
Total 790
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Francesco Forastiere publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Francesco Forastiere sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600
Bar chart with 66 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 41–50 to 690+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 617. Most scientists, 617, have 121–130 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 601–610 publications, is where this scientist sits. 41–50 publications: 21 scientists 51–60 publications: 62 scientists 61–70 publications: 133 scientists 71–80 publications: 257 scientists 81–90 publications: 361 scientists 91–100 publications: 440 scientists 101–110 publications: 492 scientists 111–120 publications: 541 scientists 121–130 publications: 617 scientists 131–140 publications: 544 scientists 141–150 publications: 541 scientists 151–160 publications: 539 scientists 161–170 publications: 444 scientists 171–180 publications: 444 scientists 181–190 publications: 400 scientists 191–200 publications: 377 scientists 201–210 publications: 318 scientists 211–220 publications: 282 scientists 221–230 publications: 263 scientists 231–240 publications: 220 scientists 241–250 publications: 217 scientists 251–260 publications: 180 scientists 261–270 publications: 181 scientists 271–280 publications: 155 scientists 281–290 publications: 130 scientists 291–300 publications: 127 scientists 301–310 publications: 130 scientists 311–320 publications: 85 scientists 321–330 publications: 106 scientists 331–340 publications: 80 scientists 341–350 publications: 83 scientists 351–360 publications: 75 scientists 361–370 publications: 69 scientists 371–380 publications: 52 scientists 381–390 publications: 54 scientists 391–400 publications: 56 scientists 401–410 publications: 44 scientists 411–420 publications: 40 scientists 421–430 publications: 36 scientists 431–440 publications: 25 scientists 441–450 publications: 25 scientists 451–460 publications: 32 scientists 461–470 publications: 29 scientists 471–480 publications: 21 scientists 481–490 publications: 26 scientists 491–500 publications: 26 scientists 501–510 publications: 17 scientists 511–520 publications: 19 scientists 521–530 publications: 15 scientists 531–540 publications: 22 scientists 541–550 publications: 12 scientists 551–560 publications: 15 scientists 561–570 publications: 11 scientists 571–580 publications: 19 scientists 581–590 publications: 9 scientists 591–600 publications: 9 scientists 601–610 publications: 7 scientists 611–620 publications: 11 scientists 621–630 publications: 5 scientists 631–640 publications: 5 scientists 641–650 publications: 6 scientists 651–660 publications: 3 scientists 661–670 publications: 3 scientists 671–680 publications: 4 scientists 681–689 publications: 4 scientists 690+ publications: 100 scientists
41–50 publications 690+

This scientist: 608 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

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Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
41–50 21
51–60 62
61–70 133
71–80 257
81–90 361
91–100 440
101–110 492
111–120 541
121–130 617
131–140 544
141–150 541
151–160 539
161–170 444
171–180 444
181–190 400
191–200 377
201–210 318
211–220 282
221–230 263
231–240 220
241–250 217
251–260 180
261–270 181
271–280 155
281–290 130
291–300 127
301–310 130
311–320 85
321–330 106
331–340 80
341–350 83
351–360 75
361–370 69
371–380 52
381–390 54
391–400 56
401–410 44
411–420 40
421–430 36
431–440 25
441–450 25
451–460 32
461–470 29
471–480 21
481–490 26
491–500 26
501–510 17
511–520 19
521–530 15
531–540 22
541–550 12
551–560 15
561–570 11
571–580 19
581–590 9
591–600 9
601–610 7 608
611–620 11
621–630 5
631–640 5
641–650 6
651–660 3
661–670 3
671–680 4
681–689 4
690+ 100
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Francesco Forastiere D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Francesco Forastiere sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 97 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 126+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 348. Most scientists, 348, have 45 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 115 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 12 scientists 31 D-Index: 26 scientists 32 D-Index: 51 scientists 33 D-Index: 88 scientists 34 D-Index: 123 scientists 35 D-Index: 163 scientists 36 D-Index: 206 scientists 37 D-Index: 267 scientists 38 D-Index: 265 scientists 39 D-Index: 275 scientists 40 D-Index: 321 scientists 41 D-Index: 343 scientists 42 D-Index: 305 scientists 43 D-Index: 336 scientists 44 D-Index: 330 scientists 45 D-Index: 348 scientists 46 D-Index: 291 scientists 47 D-Index: 275 scientists 48 D-Index: 272 scientists 49 D-Index: 273 scientists 50 D-Index: 263 scientists 51 D-Index: 232 scientists 52 D-Index: 266 scientists 53 D-Index: 217 scientists 54 D-Index: 198 scientists 55 D-Index: 177 scientists 56 D-Index: 202 scientists 57 D-Index: 204 scientists 58 D-Index: 166 scientists 59 D-Index: 177 scientists 60 D-Index: 166 scientists 61 D-Index: 152 scientists 62 D-Index: 143 scientists 63 D-Index: 150 scientists 64 D-Index: 124 scientists 65 D-Index: 119 scientists 66 D-Index: 120 scientists 67 D-Index: 118 scientists 68 D-Index: 82 scientists 69 D-Index: 98 scientists 70 D-Index: 94 scientists 71 D-Index: 105 scientists 72 D-Index: 74 scientists 73 D-Index: 84 scientists 74 D-Index: 70 scientists 75 D-Index: 67 scientists 76 D-Index: 78 scientists 77 D-Index: 60 scientists 78 D-Index: 59 scientists 79 D-Index: 52 scientists 80 D-Index: 47 scientists 81 D-Index: 38 scientists 82 D-Index: 48 scientists 83 D-Index: 42 scientists 84 D-Index: 42 scientists 85 D-Index: 43 scientists 86 D-Index: 29 scientists 87 D-Index: 37 scientists 88 D-Index: 29 scientists 89 D-Index: 30 scientists 90 D-Index: 34 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 22 scientists 93 D-Index: 17 scientists 94 D-Index: 19 scientists 95 D-Index: 24 scientists 96 D-Index: 21 scientists 97 D-Index: 20 scientists 98 D-Index: 24 scientists 99 D-Index: 17 scientists 100 D-Index: 17 scientists 101 D-Index: 21 scientists 102 D-Index: 25 scientists 103 D-Index: 18 scientists 104 D-Index: 26 scientists 105 D-Index: 20 scientists 106 D-Index: 15 scientists 107 D-Index: 10 scientists 108 D-Index: 13 scientists 109 D-Index: 15 scientists 110 D-Index: 12 scientists 111 D-Index: 8 scientists 112 D-Index: 7 scientists 113 D-Index: 9 scientists 114 D-Index: 6 scientists 115 D-Index: 12 scientists 116 D-Index: 7 scientists 117 D-Index: 8 scientists 118 D-Index: 3 scientists 119 D-Index: 5 scientists 120 D-Index: 7 scientists 121 D-Index: 2 scientists 122 D-Index: 4 scientists 123 D-Index: 8 scientists 124 D-Index: 7 scientists 125 D-Index: 9 scientists 126+ D-Index: 92 scientists
30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 115 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

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Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 12
31 26
32 51
33 88
34 123
35 163
36 206
37 267
38 265
39 275
40 321
41 343
42 305
43 336
44 330
45 348
46 291
47 275
48 272
49 273
50 263
51 232
52 266
53 217
54 198
55 177
56 202
57 204
58 166
59 177
60 166
61 152
62 143
63 150
64 124
65 119
66 120
67 118
68 82
69 98
70 94
71 105
72 74
73 84
74 70
75 67
76 78
77 60
78 59
79 52
80 47
81 38
82 48
83 42
84 42
85 43
86 29
87 37
88 29
89 30
90 34
91 20
92 22
93 17
94 19
95 24
96 21
97 20
98 24
99 17
100 17
101 21
102 25
103 18
104 26
105 20
106 15
107 10
108 13
109 15
110 12
111 8
112 7
113 9
114 6
115 12 115
116 7
117 8
118 3
119 5
120 7
121 2
122 4
123 8
124 7
125 9
126+ 92
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Francesco Forastiere is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant body of work related to health, toxicology, and mutagenesis. Their contributions span multiple subfields including environmental engineering, speech and hearing, pollution, and automotive engineering.

Their research extensively covers topics such as air quality and health impacts, climate change and health impacts, air quality monitoring and forecasting, noise effects and management, energy and environment impacts, vehicle emissions and performance, and occupational and environmental lung diseases.

Among the recent publications authored or co-authored by Francesco Forastiere are the following:

  • Long-term exposure to low ambient air pollution concentrations and mortality among 28 million people: results from seven large European cohorts within the ELAPSE project, 2022, The Lancet Planetary Health
  • Long term exposure to low level air pollution and mortality in eight European cohorts within the ELAPSE project: pooled analysis, 2021, BMJ
  • Long-term exposure to traffic-related air pollution and selected health outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis, 2022, Environment International
  • Long-term exposure to low-level ambient air pollution and incidence of stroke and coronary heart disease: a pooled analysis of six European cohorts within the ELAPSE project, 2021, The Lancet Planetary Health
  • WHO Air Quality Guidelines 2021-Aiming for Healthier Air for all: A Joint Statement by Medical, Public Health, Scientific Societies and Patient Representative Organisations, 2021, International Journal of Public Health

Frequently collaborating co-authors include:

  • Massimo Stafoggia
  • Barbara Hoffmann
  • Zorana Jovanovic Andersen
  • Evangelia Samoli
  • Bert Brunekreef

Their work is published in various academic venues, with a notable number of publications in:

  • PubMed
  • Environment International
  • Environmental Research
  • ISEE Conference Abstracts
  • European Respiratory Journal

Best Publications

  • Radon in homes and risk of lung cancer: collaborative analysis of individual data from 13 European case-control studies.

    S. Darby;D. Hill;A. Auvinen;J. M. Barros-Dios

  • Global estimates of mortality associated with long-term exposure to outdoor fine particulate matter

    Richard Burnett;Hong Chen;Mieczysław Szyszkowicz;Neal Fann

  • Air pollution and lung cancer incidence in 17 European cohorts : Prospective analyses from the European Study of Cohorts for Air Pollution Effects (ESCAPE)

    Ole Raaschou-Nielsen;Zorana Jovanovic Andersen;Rob Beelen;Evangelia Samoli

  • Effects of long-term exposure to air pollution on natural-cause mortality : An analysis of 22 European cohorts within the multicentre ESCAPE project

    Rob Beelen;Ole Raaschou-Nielsen;Massimo Stafoggia;Zorana Jovanovic Andersen

  • Outdoor Particulate Matter Exposure and Lung Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Ghassan B. Hamra;Neela Guha;Aaron Cohen;Francine Laden

  • Acute effects of particulate air pollution on respiratory admissions - Results from APHEA 2 project

    RW Atkinson;HR Anderson;J Sunyer;J Ayres

  • Expert position paper on air pollution and cardiovascular disease

    David E. Newby;Pier M. Mannucci;Grethe S. Tell;Andrea A. Baccarelli

  • Long term exposure to ambient air pollution and incidence of acute coronary events: prospective cohort study and meta-analysis in 11 European cohorts from the ESCAPE Project

    Giulia Cesaroni;Francesco Forastiere;Massimo Stafoggia;Zorana J Andersen

  • High Temperature and Hospitalizations for Cardiovascular and Respiratory Causes in 12 European Cities

    Paola Michelozzi;Gabriele Accetta;Manuela De Sario;Daniela D'Ippoliti

  • Ambient air pollution and low birthweight: a European cohort study (ESCAPE)

    Marie Pedersen;Lise Giorgis-Allemand;Claire Bernard;Inmaculada Aguilera

  • Long-Term Exposure to Urban Air Pollution and Mortality in a Cohort of More than a Million Adults in Rome

    Giulia Cesaroni;Chiara Badaloni;Claudio Gariazzo;Massimo Stafoggia

  • Co-morbidity contributes to predict mortality of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

    R Antonelli Incalzi;L Fuso;M De Rosa;F Forastiere

  • Vulnerability to heat-related mortality: a multicity, population-based, case-crossover analysis.

    Massimo Stafoggia;Francesco Forastiere;Daniele Agostini;Annibale Biggeri

  • Impact of maternal body mass index and gestational weight gain on pregnancy complications: An individual participant data meta-analysis of European, North American and Australian cohorts

    Susana Santos;Ellis Voerman;Pilar Amiano;Henrique Barros

  • A joint ERS/ATS policy statement: what constitutes an adverse health effect of air pollution? An analytical framework

    George D. Thurston;Howard Kipen;Isabella Annesi-Maesano;John Balmes;John Balmes

  • Maternal body mass index, gestational weight gain and the risk of overweight and obesity across childhood: An individual participant data meta-analysis

    Ellis Voerman;Susana Santos;Bernadeta Patro Golab;Bernadeta Patro Golab;Pilar Amiano

  • African dust outbreaks over the Mediterranean Basin during 2001–2011: PM 10 concentrations, phenomenology and trends, and its relation with synoptic and mesoscale meteorology

    Jorge Pey;Xavier Querol;Andrés Alastuey;F. Forastiere

  • Short-Term Effects of Ambient Particles on Cardiovascular and Respiratory Mortality

    Antonis Analitis;Klea Katsouyanni;Konstantina Dimakopoulou;Evangelia Samoli

  • Nitrogen dioxide and mortality: review and meta-analysis of long-term studies.

    Annunziata Faustini;Regula Rapp;Francesco Forastiere

  • Short-Term Effects of PM10 and NO2 on Respiratory Health among Children with Asthma or Asthma-like Symptoms: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Gudrun Weinmayr;Elisa Romeo;Manuela De Sario;Stephan K. Weiland

  • Preterm birth, infant weight gain, and childhood asthma risk : A meta-analysis of 147,000 European children

    Agnes M M Sonnenschein-Van Der Voort;Lidia R. Arends;Johan C. De Jongste;Isabella Annesi-Maesano

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlo A. Perucci
Carlo A. Perucci National Health Service
Massimo Stafoggia
Massimo Stafoggia Karolinska Institute
Giulia Cesaroni
Giulia Cesaroni Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Bert Brunekreef
Bert Brunekreef Utrecht University
Jordi Sunyer
Jordi Sunyer Pompeu Fabra University
Klea Katsouyanni
Klea Katsouyanni National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Kees de Hoogh
Kees de Hoogh Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Gerard Hoek
Gerard Hoek Utrecht University
Andrea Ranzi
Andrea Ranzi Arpae Emilia-Romagna
Annette Peters
Annette Peters Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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