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D-Index
53
Citations
23972
World Ranking
4132
National Ranking
1561

J. Jason West 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 J. Jason West sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 146 publications — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

J. Jason West 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 J. Jason West sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

J. Jason West is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research encompasses multiple subfields including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

The primary research topics associated with West include:

  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis
  • Vehicle emissions and performance

West has contributed to the academic community with research published in several key venues, notably:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Heart Rhythm
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • GeoHealth

Frequent collaborators in West's publications include:

  • Marc L. Serre
  • Kai-Lan Chang
  • Owen R. Cooper
  • Marissa N. DeLang
  • Jacob S. Becker

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by West include:

  • Global trends in ozone concentration and attributable mortality for urban, peri-urban, and rural areas between 2000 and 2019: a modelling study, 2022, The Lancet Planetary Health
  • Mapping Yearly Fine Resolution Global Surface Ozone through the Bayesian Maximum Entropy Data Fusion of Observations and Model Output for 1990-2017, 2021, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Satellite Monitoring for Air Quality and Health, 2021, Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science
  • Air pollution control strategies directly limiting national health damages in the US, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Estimates of ozone concentrations and attributable mortality in urban, peri-urban and rural areas worldwide in 2019, 2022, Environmental Research Letters

Best Publications

  • Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Christopher J.L. Murray;Christopher J.L. Murray;Christopher J.L. Murray;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Aleksandr Y. Aravkin;Peng Zheng;Peng Zheng;Peng Zheng;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati;Cristiana Abbafati

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017 : a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Jeffrey D. Stanaway;Ashkan Afshin;Emmanuela Gakidou;Stephen S. Lim

  • An estimate of the global burden of anthropogenic ozone and fine particulate matter on premature human mortality using atmospheric modeling.

    Susan C. Anenberg;Larry W. Horowitz;Daniel Q. Tong;J. Jason West

  • Co-benefits of mitigating global greenhouse gas emissions for future air quality and human health

    J. Jason West;Steven J. Smith;Raquel A. Silva;Vaishali Naik

  • Global premature mortality due to anthropogenic outdoor air pollution and the contribution of past climate change

    Raquel A. Silva;J. Jason West;Yuqiang Zhang;Susan C. Anenberg

  • Global Air Quality and Health Co-Benefits of Mitigating Near-Term Climate Change through Methane and Black Carbon Emission Controls

    Susan C. Anenberg;Joel Schwartz;Drew Todd Shindell;Markus Amann

  • "What We Breathe Impacts Our Health: Improving Understanding of the Link between Air Pollution and Health"

    J. Jason West;Aaron Cohen;Frank Dentener;Bert Brunekreef

  • Global health benefits of mitigating ozone pollution with methane emission controls

    J. Jason West;Arlene M. Fiore;Larry W. Horowitz;Denise Leonore Mauzerall

  • Future global mortality from changes in air pollution attributable to climate change

    Raquel A. Silva;J. Jason West;Jean François Lamarque;Drew T. Shindell

  • Tropospheric ozone change from 1980 to 2010 dominated by equatorward redistribution of emissions

    Yuqiang Zhang;Yuqiang Zhang;Owen R. Cooper;Owen R. Cooper;Audrey Gaudel;Audrey Gaudel;Anne M. Thompson

  • Data integration model for air quality: a hierarchical approach to the global estimation of exposures to ambient air pollution

    Gavin Shaddick;Gavin Shaddick;Matthew L. Thomas;Amelia Green;Michael Brauer

  • The Impact of Individual Anthropogenic Emissions Sectors on the Global Burden of Human Mortality due to Ambient Air Pollution

    Raquel A. Silva;Zachariah Adelman;Meridith M. Fry;J. Jason West

  • Characterizing the tropospheric ozone response to methane emission controls and the benefits to climate and air quality

    Arlene M. Fiore;J. Jason West;J. Jason West;Larry W. Horowitz;Vaishali Naik

  • Marginal PM25: Nonlinear Aerosol Mass Response to Sulfate Reductions in the Eastern United States

    James Jason West;Asif S. Ansari;Spyros N. Pandis

  • Intercontinental Impacts of Ozone Pollution on Human Mortality

    Susan Casper Anenberg;J. Jason West;Arlene M. Fiore;Daniel A. Jaffe

  • The effect of grid resolution on estimates of the burden of ozone and fine particulate matter on premature mortality in the USA

    Elizabeth M. Punger;J. Jason West

  • Erratum: Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 (The Lancet (2018) 392(10159) (1923–1994), (S0140673618322256), (10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32225-6))

    Jeffrey D. Stanaway;Ashkan Afshin;Emmanuela Gakidou;Stephen S. Lim

  • The effect of future ambient air pollution on human premature mortality to 2100 using output from the ACCMIP model ensemble

    Raquel A. Silva;J. Jason West;Jean François Lamarque;Drew T. Shindell

  • Global and regional temperature-change potentials for near-term climate forcers

    W. J. Collins;W. J. Collins;M. M. Fry;H. Yu;H. Yu;J. S. Fuglestvedt

  • Global trends in ozone concentration and attributable mortality for urban, peri-urban, and rural areas between 2000 and 2019: a modelling study.

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  • Climate warming, water storage, and Chinook salmon in California’s Sacramento Valley

    David Yates;Hector Galbraith;D. Purkey;A. Huber-Lee

Frequent Co-Authors

Larry W. Horowitz
Larry W. Horowitz Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Vaishali Naik
Vaishali Naik Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Susan C. Anenberg
Susan C. Anenberg George Washington University
Drew T. Shindell
Drew T. Shindell Duke University
Kengo Sudo
Kengo Sudo Nagoya University
Michael Brauer
Michael Brauer University of British Columbia
Steven J. Smith
Steven J. Smith Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Owen R. Cooper
Owen R. Cooper Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Toshihiko Takemura
Toshihiko Takemura Kyushu University

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