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Jeffrey R. Brook

Jeffrey R. Brook

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
100
Citations
38181
World Ranking
375
National Ranking
16

Jeffrey R. Brook 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 Jeffrey R. Brook sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 384 publications — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jeffrey R. Brook 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 Jeffrey R. Brook sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 100 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Jeffrey R. Brook is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science, with a primary focus on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Their research spans several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Speech and Hearing, Environmental Engineering, and Atmospheric Science.

The core topics covered in their work include:

  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Vehicle emissions and performance
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Jeffrey R. Brook has published a number of recent papers, including:

  • Global fine-scale changes in ambient NO2 during COVID-19 lockdowns, 2022, Nature
  • Personal-Level Protective Actions Against Particulate Matter Air Pollution Exposure: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association, 2020, Circulation
  • How low can you go? Air pollution affects mortality at very low levels, 2022, Science Advances
  • Inferring ground-level nitrogen dioxide concentrations at fine spatial resolution applied to the TROPOMI satellite instrument, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Changes in preterm birth and stillbirth during COVID-19 lockdowns in 26 countries, 2023, Nature Human Behaviour

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Jeffrey R. Brook include:

  • Padmaja Subbarao
  • Theo J. Moraes
  • Stuart E. Turvey
  • Piush J. Mandhane
  • Tim K. Takaro

Publications by Jeffrey R. Brook appear regularly in several key venues such as:

  • Environmental Research
  • ISEE Conference Abstracts
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology

Best Publications

  • Particulate Matter Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Disease An Update to the Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

    Robert D. Brook;Sanjay Rajagopalan;C. Arden Pope;Jeffrey R. Brook

  • Inhalation of Fine Particulate Air Pollution and Ozone Causes Acute Arterial Vasoconstriction in Healthy Adults

    Robert D. Brook;Jeffrey R. Brook;Bruce Urch;Renaud Vincent

  • Risk of nonaccidental and cardiovascular mortality in relation to long-term exposure to low concentrations of fine particulate matter: a Canadian national-level cohort study.

    Dan L Crouse;Paul A Peters;Aaron van Donkelaar;Mark S Goldberg

  • Insights Into the Mechanisms and Mediators of the Effects of Air Pollution Exposure on Blood Pressure and Vascular Function in Healthy Humans

    Robert D. Brook;Bruce Urch;J. Timothy Dvonch;Robert L. Bard

  • Ambient PM2.5, O3, and NO2 Exposures and Associations with Mortality over 16 Years of Follow-Up in the Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohort (CanCHEC)

    Dan L. Crouse;Paul A. Peters;Perry Hystad;Jeffrey R. Brook;Jeffrey R. Brook

  • Effects of particulate and gaseous air pollution on cardiorespiratory hospitalizations.

    Richard T. Burnett;Marc Smith-doiron;Dave Stieb;Sabit Cakmak

  • Association between particulate- and gas-phase components of urban air pollution and daily mortality in eight Canadian cities.

    R. T. Burnett;J. Brook;T. Dann;C. Delocla

  • A GIS–Environmental Justice Analysis of Particulate Air Pollution in Hamilton, Canada:

    Michael Jerrett;Richard T Burnett;Pavlos Kanaroglou;John Eyles

  • Effects of low ambient levels of ozone and sulfates on the frequency of respiratory admissions to Ontario hospitals.

    R. T. Burnett;R. E. Dales;M. E. Raizenne;D. Krewski

  • Associations between Ambient Particulate Sulfate and Admissions to Ontario Hospitals for Cardiac and Respiratory Diseases

    Richard T. Burnett;Robert Dales;Daniel Krewski;Renaud Vincent

  • The role of particulate size and chemistry in the association between summertime ambient air pollution and hospitalization for cardiorespiratory diseases.

    Richard T. Burnett;Sabit Cakmak;Jeffrey R. Brook;Daniel Krewski

  • Acute blood pressure responses in healthy adults during controlled air pollution exposures.

    Bruce Urch;Frances Silverman;Paul Corey;Jeffrey R. Brook

  • Correlation of nitrogen dioxide with other traffic pollutants near a major expressway

    Bernardo Beckerman;Michael Jerrett;Michael Jerrett;Jeffrey R Brook;Dave K Verma

  • Exposure to ambient air pollution and the incidence of dementia: A population-based cohort study.

    Hong Chen;Jeffrey C. Kwong;Ray Copes;Perry Hystad

  • Global fine-scale changes in ambient NO2 during COVID-19 lockdowns

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  • The Relationship Among TSP, PM10, PM2.5, and Inorganic Constituents of Atmospheric Participate Matter at Multiple Canadian Locations

    Jeffrey R. Brook;Tom F. Dann;Richard T. Burnett

  • Establishing an air pollution monitoring network for intra-urban population exposure assessment: A location-allocation approach

    Pavlos S. Kanaroglou;Michael Jerrett;Jason Morrison;Bernardo Beckerman

  • Exposure to household furry pets influences the gut microbiota of infants at 3–4 months following various birth scenarios

    Hein M. Tun;Theodore Konya;Tim K. Takaro;Jeffrey R. Brook

  • Environmental stressors and cardio-metabolic disease: part I-epidemiologic evidence supporting a role for noise and air pollution and effects of mitigation strategies.

    Thomas Münzel;Mette Sørensen;Tommaso Gori;Frank P. Schmidt

  • Modeling the intraurban variability of ambient traffic pollution in Toronto, Canada.

    M Jerrett;M A Arain;P Kanaroglou;B Beckerman

  • Association between Ozone and Hospitalization for Respiratory Diseases in 16 Canadian Cities

    Richard T. Burnett;Jeffrey R. Brook;Wesley T. Yung;Robert E. Dales

  • A cohort study of traffic-related air pollution and mortality in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

    Michael Jerrett;Murray M. Finkelstein;Jeffrey R. Brook;M. Altaf Arain

  • The relationship between diabetes mellitus and traffic-related air pollution.

    Robert D. Brook;Michael Jerrett;Jeffrey R. Brook;Robert L. Bard

  • Assessing spatial variability of ambient nitrogen dioxide in Montréal, Canada, with a land-use regression model.

    Nicolas L. Gilbert;Mark S. Goldberg;Bernardo Beckerman;Jeffrey R. Brook

Frequent Co-Authors

Randall V. Martin
Randall V. Martin Washington University in St. Louis
Richard T. Burnett
Richard T. Burnett Health Canada
Michael Brauer
Michael Brauer University of British Columbia
Mark S. Goldberg
Mark S. Goldberg McGill University
Malcolm R. Sears
Malcolm R. Sears McMaster University
Aaron van Donkelaar
Aaron van Donkelaar Washington University in St. Louis
Stuart E. Turvey
Stuart E. Turvey University of British Columbia
Perry Hystad
Perry Hystad Oregon State University
Dan L. Crouse
Dan L. Crouse Health Effects Institute
Allan B. Becker
Allan B. Becker University of Manitoba

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