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2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
113
Citations
66810
World Ranking
170
National Ranking
80

Kirk R. Smith 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 Kirk R. Smith sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 405 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Kirk R. Smith 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 Kirk R. Smith sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 113 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% 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

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

Overview

Kirk R. Smith was affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research focused extensively on environmental science, with particular attention to pollution and health-related impacts of air quality.

The main fields of study included environmental science, with subfields in pollution, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, nutrition and dietetics, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, as well as safety research.

Key topics addressed in their work encompassed energy and environmental impacts, air quality and health impacts, child nutrition and water access, energy, environment and transportation policies, poverty, education and child welfare, electric vehicles and infrastructure, and the impact of COVID-19 on air quality.

Their research was frequently published in several venues, notably:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The Lancet Global Health
  • Environment International
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Nature Human Behaviour

Some of the recent papers included:

  • "The quest for improved air quality may push China to continue its CO 2 reduction beyond the Paris Commitment" (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Global impact of atmospheric arsenic on health risk: 2005 to 2015" (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Towards safe drinking water and clean cooking for all" (2021), published in The Lancet Global Health
  • "Increased air pollution exposure among the Chinese population during the national quarantine in 2020" (2021), published in Nature Human Behaviour
  • "LPG stove and fuel intervention among pregnant women reduce fine particle air pollution exposures in three countries: Pilot results from the HAPIN trial" (2021), published in Environmental Pollution

Their frequent collaborators consisted of Ajay Pillarisetti, Lisa M. Thompson, Eduardo Canúz, John P. McCracken, and Anaité Díaz-Artiga.

Best Publications

  • A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Stephen S. Lim;Theo Vos;Abraham D. Flaxman;Goodarz Danaei

  • The Lancet Commission on pollution and health

    Philip J Landrigan;Richard Fuller;Nereus J R Acosta;Olusoji Adeyi

  • Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

  • An Integrated Risk Function for Estimating the Global Burden of Disease Attributable to Ambient Fine Particulate Matter Exposure

    Richard T. Burnett;C. Arden Pope;Majid Ezzati;Casey Olives

  • Woodsmoke Health Effects: A Review

    Luke P. Naeher;Michael Brauer;Michael Lipsett;Judith T. Zelikoff

  • The Global Burden of Disease Due to Outdoor Air Pollution

    Aaron J Cohen;H Ross Anderson;Bart Ostro;Kiran Dev Pandey

  • Indoor air pollution in developing countries and acute lower respiratory infections in children

    Kirk R Smith;Jonathan M Samet;Isabelle Romieu;Nigel Bruce

  • Solid fuel use for household cooking: country and regional estimates for 1980-2010.

    Sophie Bonjour;Heather Adair-Rohani;Jennyfer Wolf;Nigel G. Bruce

  • Human health: impacts, adaptation, and co-benefits

    K Smith;A Woodward;Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum;D Chadee

  • Household air pollution from coal and biomass fuels in China: measurements, health impacts, and interventions.

    Junfeng Jim Zhang;Kirk R Smith

  • Millions Dead: How Do We Know and What Does It Mean? Methods Used in the Comparative Risk Assessment of Household Air Pollution

    Kirk R. Smith;Nigel Bruce;Kalpana Balakrishnan;Heather Adair-Rohani

  • Indoor air pollution from unprocessed solid fuel use and pneumonia risk in children aged under five years: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Mukesh Dherani;Daniel Pope;Maya Mascarenhas;Kirk R Smith

  • Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: overview and implications for policy makers

    Andy Haines;Anthony J McMichael;Kirk R Smith;Ian Roberts

  • Greenhouse Gases and other Airborne Pollutants from Household Stoves in China: a Database for Emission Factors

    J Zhang;K.R Smith;Y Ma;S Ye

  • Effect of reduction in household air pollution on childhood pneumonia in Guatemala (RESPIRE): a randomised controlled trial

    Kirk R Smith;John P McCracken;John P McCracken;Martin W Weber;Alan Hubbard

  • National burden of disease in India from indoor air pollution

    Kirk R. Smith

  • Pollutant emissions and energy efficiency under controlled conditions for household biomass cookstoves and implications for metrics useful in setting international test standards.

    James Jetter;Yongxin Zhao;Kirk R. Smith;Bernine Khan

  • Fuel Combustion, Air Pollution Exposure, and Health: The Situation in Developing Countries

    Kirk R. Smith

  • Household cooking with solid fuels contributes to ambient PM2.5 air pollution and the burden of disease.

    Zoë A. Chafe;Michael Brauer;Zbigniew Klimont;Rita Van Dingenen

  • The burden of disease from indoor air pollution in developing countries: comparison of estimates

    Kirk R. Smith;Sumi Mehta

  • Human Health: Impacts, Adaptation, and Co-Benefits

    Christopher B. Field;Vicente R. Barros;David Jon Dokken;Katharine J. Mach

  • The health impacts of exposure to indoor air pollution from solid fuels in developing countries: knowledge gaps and data needs.

    Ezzati M;Kammen Dm;Smith Kr;Lee Be

Frequent Co-Authors

Nigel Bruce
Nigel Bruce University of Liverpool
John R. Balmes
John R. Balmes University of California, Berkeley
Rufus Edwards
Rufus Edwards University of California, Irvine
Kalpana Balakrishnan
Kalpana Balakrishnan Sri Ramachandra University
Andy Haines
Andy Haines London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Paul Wilkinson
Paul Wilkinson London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Junfeng Zhang
Junfeng Zhang Duke University
Shu Tao
Shu Tao Peking University
Huizhong Shen
Huizhong Shen Southern University of Science and Technology
Keywan Riahi
Keywan Riahi International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

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