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Joel Schwartz 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 Joel Schwartz sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 1,321 publications — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Joel Schwartz 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 Joel Schwartz sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 221 D-Index — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in United States Leader Award
  • 1991 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation

Overview

Joel Schwartz is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and specializes primarily in environmental science. Their research has a strong focus on intersections between environmental factors and health outcomes, with extensive work across several subfields.

The main areas of study for Joel Schwartz include:

  • Environmental Science

Within environmental science, they have contributed notably to subfields such as:

  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Pollution
  • General Health Professions
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Speech and Hearing

Their research covers important topics including:

  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging

Joel Schwartz has coauthored frequently with:

  • Yaguang Wei
  • Petros Koutrakis
  • Brent A. Coull
  • Antonella Zanobetti
  • Qian Di

Their work appears extensively in scientific venues including:

  • ISEE Conference Abstracts
  • Environmental Research
  • Environment International
  • Environmental Epidemiology
  • UNC Libraries

Recent publications authored or coauthored by Joel Schwartz include:

  • The burden of heat-related mortality attributable to recent human-induced climate change, 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • Global, regional, and national burden of mortality associated with non-optimal ambient temperatures from 2000 to 2019: a three-stage modelling study, 2021, The Lancet Planetary Health
  • Global mortality from outdoor fine particle pollution generated by fossil fuel combustion: Results from GEOS-Chem, 2021, Environmental Research
  • Quantification of the pace of biological aging in humans through a blood test, the DunedinPoAm DNA methylation algorithm, 2020, eLife
  • Associations Between Extreme Temperatures and Cardiovascular Cause-Specific Mortality: Results From 27 Countries, 2022, Circulation

Among their recognitions, Joel Schwartz was named a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation in 1991.

Best Publications

  • Mortality risk attributable to high and low ambient temperature: a multicountry observational study

    Antonio Gasparrini;Yuming Guo;Masahiro Hashizume;Eric Lavigne

  • Is Daily Mortality Associated Specifically with Fine Particles

    Joel Schwartz;Douglas W Dockery;Lucas M Neas

  • Reduction in fine particulate air pollution and mortality : Extended Follow-up of the Harvard Six Cities Study

    Francine Laden;Joel Schwartz;Frank E. Speizer;Douglas W. Dockery

  • Association of fine particulate matter from different sources with daily mortality in six U.S. cities.

    Francine Laden;Lucas M. Neas;Douglas W. Dockery;Joel Schwartz

  • Simultaneously Mitigating Near-Term Climate Change and Improving Human Health and Food Security

    Drew Shindell;Johan C. I. Kuylenstierna;Elisabetta Vignati;Rita van Dingenen

  • Increasing CO2 threatens human nutrition.

    Samuel S. Myers;Antonella Zanobetti;Itai Kloog;Peter Huybers

  • Air Pollution and Mortality in the Medicare Population.

    Qian Di;Yan Wang;Antonella Zanobetti;Yun Wang

  • Confounding and effect modification in the short-term effects of ambient particles on total mortality: Results from 29 European cities within the APHEA2 project

    Klea Katsouyanni;Giota Touloumi;Evangelia Samoli;Alexandros Gryparis

  • Air pollution and daily mortality: a review and meta analysis.

    J Schwartz

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

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

  • DNA methylation age of blood predicts all-cause mortality in later life.

    Riccardo E Marioni;Riccardo E Marioni;Sonia Shah;Allan F McRae;Brian H Chen

  • Short term effects of ambient sulphur dioxide and particulate matter on mortality in 12 European cities: Results from time series data from the APHEA project

    K Katsouyanni;G Touloumi;C Spix;J Schwartz

  • Chronic exposure to fine particles and mortality: an extended follow-up of the Harvard Six Cities study from 1974 to 2009.

    Johanna Lepeule;Francine Laden;Francine Laden;Douglas W. Dockery;Douglas W. Dockery;Joel David Schwartz;Joel David Schwartz

  • The burden of heat-related mortality attributable to recent human-induced climate change

    A. M. Vicedo-Cabrera;A. M. Vicedo-Cabrera;N. Scovronick;F. Sera;F. Sera;D. Royé

  • Increased mortality in Philadelphia associated with daily air pollution concentrations.

    Joel Schwartz;Douglas W. Dockery

  • DNA methylation-based measures of biological age: meta-analysis predicting time to death

    Brian H. Chen;Riccardo E. Marioni;Riccardo E. Marioni;Elena Colicino;Marjolein J. Peters

  • The national morbidity, mortality, and air pollution study

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

  • Ambient Pollution and Heart Rate Variability

    Diane R. Gold;Augusto Litonjua;Joel Schwartz;Eric Lovett

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

    RW Atkinson;HR Anderson;J Sunyer;J Ayres

  • REVIEW OF EPIDEMIOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF HEALTH EFFECTS OF PARTICULATE AIR POLLUTION

    C. Arden Pope;Douglas W. Dockery;Joel Schwartz

  • 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

  • Daily mortality and PM10 pollution in Utah Valley.

    C A Pope rd;J Schwartz;M R Ransom

  • Fine particulate air pollution and mortality in 20 U.S. cities.

    J A Sarnat;J Schwartz;H H Suh

Frequent Co-Authors

Brent A. Coull
Brent A. Coull Harvard University
Antonella Zanobetti
Antonella Zanobetti Harvard University
Pantel S. Vokonas
Pantel S. Vokonas Boston University
Andrea Baccarelli
Andrea Baccarelli Columbia University
Petros Koutrakis
Petros Koutrakis Harvard University
Diane R. Gold
Diane R. Gold Harvard University
David Sparrow
David Sparrow Boston University
Robert O. Wright
Robert O. Wright Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Itai Kloog
Itai Kloog Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Howard Hu
Howard Hu University of Southern California

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