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Environmental Sciences
USA
2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
117
Citations
58338
World Ranking
137
National Ranking
64

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award

Overview

John D. Spengler is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and specializes in Environmental Science, producing a substantial body of work focused on the intersection of environment and public health.

The scientist's research encompasses several primary topics:

  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Spengler's publications have appeared frequently in notable venues, including:

  • Building and Environment
  • Indoor Air
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology
  • Sustainability

The scientist's recent papers demonstrate a focus on air pollution, transportation emissions, environmental exposure, and psychological impacts of environmental surroundings. These include:

  • "Assessing the health impacts of electric vehicles through air pollution in the United States" (2020, Environment International)
  • "Health benefits of decreases in on-road transportation emissions in the United States from 2008 to 2017" (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "The Relationship between Nature Deprivation and Individual Wellbeing across Urban Gradients under COVID-19" (2021, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health)
  • "Home is Where the Pipeline Ends: Characterization of Volatile Organic Compounds Present in Natural Gas at the Point of the Residential End User" (2022, Environmental Science & Technology)
  • "Stress recovery from virtual exposure to a brown (desert) environment versus a green environment" (2022, Journal of Environmental Psychology)

In terms of collaborative work, Spengler has frequently published with several co-authors, including:

  • José Guillermo Cedeño Laurent
  • Chih-Da Wu
  • Linda Powers Tomasso
  • Huey-Jen Su
  • Chia-Pin Yu

The scientist's subfields of study illustrate a broad range in environmental research, with particular attention to health and toxicology, engineering applications, planetary change, auditory science, and plant science:

  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Speech and Hearing
  • Plant Science

Best Publications

  • An Association between Air Pollution and Mortality in Six U.S. Cities

    D W Dockery;C A Pope rd;X Xu;J D Spengler

  • Phthalates, alkylphenols, pesticides, polybrominated diphenyl ethers, and other endocrine-disrupting compounds in indoor air and dust.

    Ruthann A Rudel;David E Camann;John D Spengler;Leo R Korn

  • A QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF SOURCE CONTRIBUTIONS TO INHALABLE PARTICULATE MATTER POLLUTION IN METROPOLITAN BOSTON

    George D. Thurston;John D. Spengler

  • Associations of Cognitive Function Scores with Carbon Dioxide, Ventilation, and Volatile Organic Compound Exposures in Office Workers: A Controlled Exposure Study of Green and Conventional Office Environments.

    Joseph G. Allen;Piers MacNaughton;Usha Satish;Suresh Santanam

  • Effects of inhalable particles on respiratory health of children.

    Douglas W. Dockery;Frank E. Speizer;Daniel O. Stram;James H. Ware

  • Respiratory Health and PM10 Pollution: A Daily Time Series Analysis

    C. Arden Pope;Douglas W. Dockery;John D. Spengler;Mark E. Raizenne

  • Ventilation rates and health: multidisciplinary review of the scientific literature

    J. Sundell;H. Levin;W. W. Nazaroff;W. S. Cain

  • Air pollution and daily mortality: associations with particulates and acid aerosols.

    Douglas W. Dockery;Joel Schwartz;John D. Spengler

  • Indoor air pollution: a public health perspective

    John D. Spengler;Ken Sexton

  • Health Effects and Sources of Indoor Air Pollution. Part I

    Jonathan M. Samet;Marian C. Marbury;John D. Spengler

  • Personal exposure to airborne particles and metals: Results from the Particle TEAM Study in Riverside, California

    H Ozkaynak;J Xue;J Spengler;L Wallace

  • Distribution of heavy metals in road dust along an urban-rural gradient in Massachusetts

    Eric Apeagyei;Michael S. Bank;John D. Spengler

  • Indoor Air Quality Handbook

    John D. Spengler;John F. McCarthy;Jonathan M. Samet

  • Home dampness and respiratory morbidity in children.

    Bert Brunekreef;Douglas W. Dockery;Frank E. Speizer;James H. Ware

  • Health effects of acid aerosols on North American children: respiratory symptoms.

    Douglas W. Dockery;Joan Cunningham;Andrew I. Damokosh;Lucas M. Neas

  • Physiological and cognitive performance of exposure to biophilic indoor environment

    Jie Yin;Shihao Zhu;Piers MacNaughton;Joseph G. Allen

  • Indoor-outdoor relationships of respirable sulfates and particles

    Douglas W. Dockery;John D. Spengler

  • Effects of biophilic indoor environment on stress and anxiety recovery: A between-subjects experiment in virtual reality.

    Jie Yin;Jing Yuan;Nastaran Arfaei;Paul J. Catalano

  • Low Flow Rate Sharp Cut Impactors for Indoor Air Sampling: Design and Calibration

    Virgil A. Marple;Kenneth L. Rubow;William Turner;John D. Spengler

  • Health effects of acid aerosols on North American children: pulmonary function.

    Mark Raizenne;Lucas M. Neas;Andrew I. Damokosh;Douglas W. Dockery

  • Effects of ambient sulfur oxides and suspended particles on respiratory health of preadolescent children.

    J.H. Ware;B.G. Ferris;D.W. Dockery;J.D. Spengler

  • Particle Total Exposure Assessment Methodology (PTEAM) study: distributions of aerosol and elemental concentrations in personal, indoor, and outdoor air samples in a southern California community.

    C Clayton;Rebecca Perritt;E Pellizzari;Kent Thomas

  • WHO guidelines for indoor air quality: dampness and mould

    Alireza Afshari;Hugh Ross Anderson;Aaron Cohen;Eduardo de Oliveira Fernandes

Frequent Co-Authors

Halûk Özkaynak
Halûk Özkaynak Environmental Protection Agency
Douglas W. Dockery
Douglas W. Dockery Harvard University
Joseph G. Allen
Joseph G. Allen Harvard University
Frederica P. Perera
Frederica P. Perera Columbia University
Petros Koutrakis
Petros Koutrakis Harvard University
Hermann Kolanoski
Hermann Kolanoski Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
D. Wegener
D. Wegener TU Dortmund University
H. Schröder
H. Schröder University of Rostock
Werner Hofmann
Werner Hofmann Max Planck Society
Jonathan M. Samet
Jonathan M. Samet Colorado School of Public Health

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