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2025

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53
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Masud Yunesian 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 Masud Yunesian sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 271 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Masud Yunesian 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 Masud Yunesian sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% 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

  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Iran Leader Award

Overview

Masud Yunesian is affiliated with Tehran University of Medical Sciences in Iran. Their research spans environmental science and medicine, with significant contributions in health, toxicology, mutagenesis, pollution, public health, environmental and occupational health, infectious diseases, and environmental engineering.

The scientist's work is primarily focused on topics related to air quality and health impacts, climate change and health impacts, air quality monitoring and forecasting, noise effects and management, energy and environment impacts, heavy metals in the environment, and toxic organic pollutants impact.

Masud Yunesian has published extensively across several prominent journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  • Journal of Environmental Health Science and Engineering
  • Heliyon
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Masud Yunesian are:

  • "A field indoor air measurement of SARS-CoV-2 in the patient rooms of the largest hospital in Iran," 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Reorganization of Substance Use Treatment and Harm Reduction Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Global Survey," 2021, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • "A Global Survey on Changes in the Supply, Price, and Use of Illicit Drugs and Alcohol, and Related Complications During the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic," 2021, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • "Prediction of human health risk and disability-adjusted life years induced by heavy metals exposure through drinking water in Fars Province, Iran," 2023, Scientific Reports
  • "The concentration of BTEX compounds and health risk assessment in municipal solid waste facilities and urban areas," 2020, Environmental Research

Collaboration forms an important part of their research. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Ramin Nabizadeh
  • Mohammad Sadegh Hassanvand
  • Kazem Naddafi
  • Mansour Shamsipour
  • Mina Aghaei

The scientist's broad fields of study cover:

  • Environmental Science
  • Medicine

Subfields addressed in their publications include:

  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Pollution
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Environmental Engineering

Masud Yunesian's research has explored multiple dimensions of environmental impacts on health, including measurement and risk assessment of pollutants indoors and in municipal environments, as well as alterations in substance use dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Best Publications

  • Health impact assessment of air pollution in megacity of Tehran, Iran

    Kazem Naddafi;Mohammad Sadegh Hassanvand;Masud Yunesian;Fatemeh Momeniha

  • The evaluation of PM10, PM2.5, and PM1 concentrations during the Middle Eastern Dust (MED) events in Ahvaz, Iran, from april through september 2010

    A. Shahsavani;K. Naddafi;N. Jafarzade Haghighifard;A. Mesdaghinia

  • A field indoor air measurement of SARS-CoV-2 in the patient rooms of the largest hospital in Iran.

    Sasan Faridi;Sadegh Niazi;Kaveh Sadeghi;Kazem Naddafi

  • Characterization of PAHs and metals in indoor/outdoor PM10/PM2.5/PM1 in a retirement home and a school dormitory.

    Mohammad Sadegh Hassanvand;Kazem Naddafi;Sasan Faridi;Ramin Nabizadeh

  • Occurrence and fate of most prescribed antibiotics in different water environments of Tehran, Iran

    Roya Mirzaei;Masud Yunesian;Simin Nasseri;Mitra Gholami

  • A novel approach in water quality assessment based on fuzzy logic.

    Hamed Gharibi;Amir Hossein Mahvi;Ramin Nabizadeh;Hossein Arabalibeik

  • Source-specific lung cancer risk assessment of ambient PM2.5-bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in central Tehran.

    Sina Taghvaee;Mohammad H. Sowlat;Mohammad Sadegh Hassanvand;Masud Yunesian

  • Indoor/outdoor relationships of PM10, PM2.5, and PM1 mass concentrations and their water-soluble ions in a retirement home and a school dormitory

    Mohammad Sadegh Hassanvand;Kazem Naddafi;Sasan Faridi;Mohammad Arhami

  • Drinking water quality and arsenic health risk assessment in Sistan and Baluchestan, Southeastern Province, Iran

    Majid Radfard;Masud Yunesian;Ramin Nabizadeh;Hamed Biglari

  • Source apportionment of ambient PM2.5 in two locations in central Tehran using the Positive Matrix Factorization (PMF) model.

    Sina Taghvaee;Mohammad H. Sowlat;Amirhosein Mousavi;Mohammad Sadegh Hassanvand

  • Land use regression models to estimate the annual and seasonal spatial variability of sulfur dioxide and particulate matter in Tehran, Iran

    Hassan Amini;Seyed Mahmood Taghavi-Shahri;Sarah B. Henderson;Kazem Naddafi

  • A novel, fuzzy-based air quality index (FAQI) for air quality assessment

    Mohammad Hossein Sowlat;Hamed Gharibi;Masud Yunesian;Maryam Tayefeh Mahmoudi

  • What do we know about exposure of Iranians to cadmium? Findings from a systematic review

    Mahboobeh Ghoochani;Noushin Rastkari;Masud Yunesian;Ramin Nabizadeh Nodehi

  • Assessment of bioaerosol contamination (bacteria and fungi) in the largest urban wastewater treatment plant in the Middle East

    Sadegh Niazi;Mohammad Sadegh Hassanvand;Amir Hossein Mahvi;Ramin Nabizadeh

  • Magnetic solid-phase extraction based on magnetic multi-walled carbon nanotubes for the determination of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in grilled meat samples

    Mojtaba Moazzen;Reza Ahmadkhaniha;Mohamad Es'haghi Gorji;Masud Yunesian

  • A systematic literature review for some toxic metals in widely consumed rice types (domestic and imported) in Iran: Human health risk assessment, uncertainty and sensitivity analysis.

    Kiomars Sharafi;Masud Yunesian;Ramin Nabizadeh Nodehi;Amir Hossein Mahvi

  • Potential impact of air pollution on multiple sclerosis in Tehran, Iran

    Pouria Heydarpour;Hassan Amini;Shayan Khoshkish;Hossein Seidkhani

  • Characterization of ionic composition of TSP and PM10 during the Middle Eastern Dust (MED) storms in Ahvaz, Iran

    Abbas Shahsavani;Kazem Naddafi;Nematollah Jaafarzadeh Haghighifard;Alireza Mesdaghinia

  • Spatiotemporal description of BTEX volatile organic compounds in a Middle Eastern megacity: Tehran Study of Exposure Prediction for Environmental Health Research (Tehran SEPEHR).

    Heresh Amini;Vahid Hosseini;Christian Schindler;Hossein Hassankhany

  • The study of TSP and PM10 concentration and their heavy metal content in central area of Tehran, Iran

    M. Leili;K. Naddafi;R. Nabizadeh;M. Yunesian

Frequent Co-Authors

Ramin Nabizadeh
Ramin Nabizadeh Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Kazem Naddafi
Kazem Naddafi Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Alireza Mesdaghinia
Alireza Mesdaghinia Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Amir Hossein Mahvi
Amir Hossein Mahvi Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Simin Nasseri
Simin Nasseri Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Shahrokh Nazmara
Shahrokh Nazmara Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Sarah B. Henderson
Sarah B. Henderson University of British Columbia
Nino Künzli
Nino Künzli University of Basel
Christian Schindler
Christian Schindler Columbia University
Farshad Farzadfar
Farshad Farzadfar Tehran University of Medical Sciences

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