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Massimo Stafoggia

Massimo Stafoggia

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
82
Citations
25356
World Ranking
880
National Ranking
14

Massimo Stafoggia 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 Massimo Stafoggia sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 393 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.

Massimo Stafoggia 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 Massimo Stafoggia sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 82 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Massimo Stafoggia is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and has contributed extensively to research in environmental science, particularly focusing on the interplay between air quality and health. Their work encompasses a significant volume of publications centered around health, toxicology, mutagenesis, and environmental engineering, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to understanding environmental impacts on human health.

The main fields of study for Stafoggia include Environmental Science, with a notable focus on subfields such as Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, General Health Professions, Environmental Engineering, Pollution, and Speech and Hearing. Within these areas, their research frequently addresses the relationships between air quality and health outcomes, climate change effects on health, and broader global health care issues.

Key research topics are:

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

Stafoggia has coauthored work with several frequent collaborators, including Evangelia Samoli, Petter Ljungman, Kees de Hoogh, Klea Katsouyanni, and Francesco Forastiere. This network indicates a collaborative research environment across epidemiology, environmental research, and health impacts of pollution.

They have published frequently in venues such as ISEE Conference Abstracts, Environment International, Environmental Research, PubMed, and The Lancet Planetary Health. These journals and platforms reflect an emphasis on environmental health and epidemiology.

Among recent notable papers, the following stand out:

  • "Long-term exposure to low ambient air pollution concentrations and mortality among 28 million people: results from seven large European cohorts within the ELAPSE project," 2022, The Lancet Planetary Health
  • "Ambient air pollution and cardiovascular diseases: An umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses," 2022, Journal of Internal Medicine
  • "Associations Between Extreme Temperatures and Cardiovascular Cause-Specific Mortality: Results From 27 Countries," 2022, Circulation
  • "Mortality risk attributable to wildfire-related PM2·5 pollution: a global time series study in 749 locations," 2021, The Lancet Planetary Health
  • "Long term exposure to low level air pollution and mortality in eight European cohorts within the ELAPSE project: pooled analysis," 2021, BMJ

Best Publications

  • Air pollution and lung cancer incidence in 17 European cohorts : Prospective analyses from the European Study of Cohorts for Air Pollution Effects (ESCAPE)

    Ole Raaschou-Nielsen;Zorana Jovanovic Andersen;Rob Beelen;Evangelia Samoli

  • Ambient Particulate Air Pollution and Daily Mortality in 652 Cities

    Cong Liu;Renjie Chen;Francesco Sera;Ana M. Vicedo-Cabrera

  • Effects of long-term exposure to air pollution on natural-cause mortality : An analysis of 22 European cohorts within the multicentre ESCAPE project

    Rob Beelen;Ole Raaschou-Nielsen;Massimo Stafoggia;Zorana Jovanovic Andersen

  • Long term exposure to ambient air pollution and incidence of acute coronary events: prospective cohort study and meta-analysis in 11 European cohorts from the ESCAPE Project

    Giulia Cesaroni;Francesco Forastiere;Massimo Stafoggia;Zorana J Andersen

  • Long-Term Exposure to Urban Air Pollution and Mortality in a Cohort of More than a Million Adults in Rome

    Giulia Cesaroni;Chiara Badaloni;Claudio Gariazzo;Massimo Stafoggia

  • Vulnerability to heat-related mortality: a multicity, population-based, case-crossover analysis.

    Massimo Stafoggia;Francesco Forastiere;Daniele Agostini;Annibale Biggeri

  • African dust outbreaks over the Mediterranean Basin during 2001–2011: PM 10 concentrations, phenomenology and trends, and its relation with synoptic and mesoscale meteorology

    Jorge Pey;Xavier Querol;Andrés Alastuey;F. Forastiere

  • Long-term exposure to low ambient air pollution concentrations and mortality among 28 million people: results from seven large European cohorts within the ELAPSE project.

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  • Associations Between Extreme Temperatures and Cardiovascular Cause-Specific Mortality: Results From 27 Countries

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  • Long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and incidence of cerebrovascular events: results from 11 European cohorts within the ESCAPE project.

    Massimo Stafoggia;Giulia Cesaroni;Annette Peters;Zorana Jovanovic Andersen

  • Estimation of daily PM10 and PM2.5 concentrations in Italy, 2013-2015, using a spatiotemporal land-use random-forest model.

    Massimo Stafoggia;Tom Bellander;Simone Bucci;Marina Davoli

  • Long-term exposure to air pollution and cardiovascular mortality: an analysis of 22 European cohorts.

    Rob Beelen;Massimo Stafoggia;Ole Raaschou-Nielsen;Zorana Jovanovic Andersen

  • Does Temperature Modify the Association between Air Pollution and Mortality? A Multicity Case-Crossover Analysis in Italy

    M. Stafoggia;J. Schwartz;F. Forastiere;C. A. Perucci

  • Spatial PM2.5, NO2, O3 and BC models for Western Europe - Evaluation of spatiotemporal stability.

    Kees de Hoogh;Kees de Hoogh;Jie Chen;John Gulliver;Barbara Hoffmann

  • Particulate matter air pollution components and risk for lung cancer

    Ole Raaschou-Nielsen;Rob Beelen;Meng Wang;Gerard Hoek

  • Socioeconomic status, particulate air pollution, and daily mortality: differential exposure or differential susceptibility.

    Francesco Forastiere;Massimo Stafoggia;Carola Tasco;Sally Picciotto

  • A comparison of linear regression, regularization, and machine learning algorithms to develop Europe-wide spatial models of fine particles and nitrogen dioxide.

    Jie Chen;Kees de Hoogh;Kees de Hoogh;John Gulliver;Barbara Hoffmann

  • Mortality risk attributable to wildfire-related PM2·5 pollution: a global time series study in 749 locations.

    Gongbo Chen;Yuming Guo;Xu Yue;Shilu Tong

  • Saharan Dust and Associations between Particulate Matter and Daily Mortality in Rome, Italy

    Sandra Mallone;Massimo Stafoggia;Annunziata Faustini;Gian Paolo Gobbi

  • Associations between Fine and Coarse Particles and Mortality in Mediterranean Cities: Results from the MED-PARTICLES Project

    Evangelia Samoli;Massimo Stafoggia;Sophia Rodopoulou;Bart Ostro

  • Long term exposure to low level air pollution and mortality in eight European cohorts within the ELAPSE project: pooled analysis.

    Maciej Strak;Gudrun Weinmayr;Sophia Rodopoulou;Jie Chen

  • Impact of fine and ultrafine particles on emergency hospital admissions for cardiac and respiratory diseases.

    Valeria Belleudi;Annunziata Faustini;Massimo Stafoggia;Giorgio Cattani

  • Short-term Associations between Fine and Coarse Particulate Matter and Hospitalizations in Southern Europe: Results from the MED-PARTICLES Project

    Massimo Stafoggia;Evangelia Samoli;Ester Alessandrini;Ennio Cadum

  • A Case-Crossover Analysis of Out-of-Hospital Coronary Deaths and Air Pollution in Rome, Italy

    Francesco Forastiere;Massimo Stafoggia;Sally Picciotto;Tom Bellander

  • Ambient air pollution and cardiovascular diseases: an Umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses

    Suganthi Jaganathan;Jeroen De Bont;Marcus Dahlquist;Åsa Persson

Frequent Co-Authors

Francesco Forastiere
Francesco Forastiere Imperial College London
Kees de Hoogh
Kees de Hoogh Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Giulia Cesaroni
Giulia Cesaroni Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Bert Brunekreef
Bert Brunekreef Utrecht University
Gerard Hoek
Gerard Hoek Utrecht University
Ming-Yi Tsai
Ming-Yi Tsai University of Washington
Klea Katsouyanni
Klea Katsouyanni National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Evangelia Samoli
Evangelia Samoli National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Zorana Jovanovic Andersen
Zorana Jovanovic Andersen University of Copenhagen
Annette Peters
Annette Peters Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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