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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Environmental Sciences 67 1916 1826 157 152 167 47787

Nigel Bruce publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Nigel Bruce between 1988 and 2023, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Nigel Bruce published across 36 years, from 1988 to 2023, averaging 5.7 papers a year. Output peaked at 20 publications in 2013. 3 of the 204 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1988 to 2023. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 20. Peak 20 publications in 2013. 1988: 1 publication 1989: 0 publications 1990: 3 publications 1991: 6 publications 1992: 3 publications 1993: 1 publication 1994: 2 publications 1995: 1 publication 1996: 0 publications 1997: 0 publications 1998: 1 publication 1999: 2 publications 2000: 6 publications 2001: 5 publications 2002: 5 publications 2003: 2 publications 2004: 8 publications 2005: 5 publications 2006: 8 publications 2007: 9 publications 2008: 13 publications 2009: 10 publications 2010: 4 publications 2011: 11 publications 2012: 1 publication 2013: 20 publications 2014: 14 publications 2015: 17 publications 2016: 13 publications 2017: 10 publications 2018: 13 publications 2019: 4 publications 2020: 1 publication 2021: 2 publications 2022: 2 publications 2023: 1 publication
1988 2023

204 publications in total across all disciplines

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Nigel Bruce: publications per year, 1988 to 2023
Year Publications
1988 1
1989 0
1990 3
1991 6
1992 3
1993 1
1994 2
1995 1
1996 0
1997 0
1998 1
1999 2
2000 6
2001 5
2002 5
2003 2
2004 8
2005 5
2006 8
2007 9
2008 13
2009 10
2010 4
2011 11
2012 1
2013 20
2014 14
2015 17
2016 13
2017 10
2018 13
2019 4
2020 1
2021 2
2022 2
2023 1
Total 204
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Nigel Bruce 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 Nigel Bruce sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600
Bar chart with 66 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 41–50 to 690+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 617. Most scientists, 617, have 121–130 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 161–170 publications, is where this scientist sits. 41–50 publications: 21 scientists 51–60 publications: 62 scientists 61–70 publications: 133 scientists 71–80 publications: 257 scientists 81–90 publications: 361 scientists 91–100 publications: 440 scientists 101–110 publications: 492 scientists 111–120 publications: 541 scientists 121–130 publications: 617 scientists 131–140 publications: 544 scientists 141–150 publications: 541 scientists 151–160 publications: 539 scientists 161–170 publications: 444 scientists 171–180 publications: 444 scientists 181–190 publications: 400 scientists 191–200 publications: 377 scientists 201–210 publications: 318 scientists 211–220 publications: 282 scientists 221–230 publications: 263 scientists 231–240 publications: 220 scientists 241–250 publications: 217 scientists 251–260 publications: 180 scientists 261–270 publications: 181 scientists 271–280 publications: 155 scientists 281–290 publications: 130 scientists 291–300 publications: 127 scientists 301–310 publications: 130 scientists 311–320 publications: 85 scientists 321–330 publications: 106 scientists 331–340 publications: 80 scientists 341–350 publications: 83 scientists 351–360 publications: 75 scientists 361–370 publications: 69 scientists 371–380 publications: 52 scientists 381–390 publications: 54 scientists 391–400 publications: 56 scientists 401–410 publications: 44 scientists 411–420 publications: 40 scientists 421–430 publications: 36 scientists 431–440 publications: 25 scientists 441–450 publications: 25 scientists 451–460 publications: 32 scientists 461–470 publications: 29 scientists 471–480 publications: 21 scientists 481–490 publications: 26 scientists 491–500 publications: 26 scientists 501–510 publications: 17 scientists 511–520 publications: 19 scientists 521–530 publications: 15 scientists 531–540 publications: 22 scientists 541–550 publications: 12 scientists 551–560 publications: 15 scientists 561–570 publications: 11 scientists 571–580 publications: 19 scientists 581–590 publications: 9 scientists 591–600 publications: 9 scientists 601–610 publications: 7 scientists 611–620 publications: 11 scientists 621–630 publications: 5 scientists 631–640 publications: 5 scientists 641–650 publications: 6 scientists 651–660 publications: 3 scientists 661–670 publications: 3 scientists 671–680 publications: 4 scientists 681–689 publications: 4 scientists 690+ publications: 100 scientists
41–50 publications 690+

This scientist: 167 publications — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

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Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
41–50 21
51–60 62
61–70 133
71–80 257
81–90 361
91–100 440
101–110 492
111–120 541
121–130 617
131–140 544
141–150 541
151–160 539
161–170 444 167
171–180 444
181–190 400
191–200 377
201–210 318
211–220 282
221–230 263
231–240 220
241–250 217
251–260 180
261–270 181
271–280 155
281–290 130
291–300 127
301–310 130
311–320 85
321–330 106
331–340 80
341–350 83
351–360 75
361–370 69
371–380 52
381–390 54
391–400 56
401–410 44
411–420 40
421–430 36
431–440 25
441–450 25
451–460 32
461–470 29
471–480 21
481–490 26
491–500 26
501–510 17
511–520 19
521–530 15
531–540 22
541–550 12
551–560 15
561–570 11
571–580 19
581–590 9
591–600 9
601–610 7
611–620 11
621–630 5
631–640 5
641–650 6
651–660 3
661–670 3
671–680 4
681–689 4
690+ 100
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Nigel Bruce 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 Nigel Bruce sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 97 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 126+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 348. Most scientists, 348, have 45 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 67 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 12 scientists 31 D-Index: 26 scientists 32 D-Index: 51 scientists 33 D-Index: 88 scientists 34 D-Index: 123 scientists 35 D-Index: 163 scientists 36 D-Index: 206 scientists 37 D-Index: 267 scientists 38 D-Index: 265 scientists 39 D-Index: 275 scientists 40 D-Index: 321 scientists 41 D-Index: 343 scientists 42 D-Index: 305 scientists 43 D-Index: 336 scientists 44 D-Index: 330 scientists 45 D-Index: 348 scientists 46 D-Index: 291 scientists 47 D-Index: 275 scientists 48 D-Index: 272 scientists 49 D-Index: 273 scientists 50 D-Index: 263 scientists 51 D-Index: 232 scientists 52 D-Index: 266 scientists 53 D-Index: 217 scientists 54 D-Index: 198 scientists 55 D-Index: 177 scientists 56 D-Index: 202 scientists 57 D-Index: 204 scientists 58 D-Index: 166 scientists 59 D-Index: 177 scientists 60 D-Index: 166 scientists 61 D-Index: 152 scientists 62 D-Index: 143 scientists 63 D-Index: 150 scientists 64 D-Index: 124 scientists 65 D-Index: 119 scientists 66 D-Index: 120 scientists 67 D-Index: 118 scientists 68 D-Index: 82 scientists 69 D-Index: 98 scientists 70 D-Index: 94 scientists 71 D-Index: 105 scientists 72 D-Index: 74 scientists 73 D-Index: 84 scientists 74 D-Index: 70 scientists 75 D-Index: 67 scientists 76 D-Index: 78 scientists 77 D-Index: 60 scientists 78 D-Index: 59 scientists 79 D-Index: 52 scientists 80 D-Index: 47 scientists 81 D-Index: 38 scientists 82 D-Index: 48 scientists 83 D-Index: 42 scientists 84 D-Index: 42 scientists 85 D-Index: 43 scientists 86 D-Index: 29 scientists 87 D-Index: 37 scientists 88 D-Index: 29 scientists 89 D-Index: 30 scientists 90 D-Index: 34 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 22 scientists 93 D-Index: 17 scientists 94 D-Index: 19 scientists 95 D-Index: 24 scientists 96 D-Index: 21 scientists 97 D-Index: 20 scientists 98 D-Index: 24 scientists 99 D-Index: 17 scientists 100 D-Index: 17 scientists 101 D-Index: 21 scientists 102 D-Index: 25 scientists 103 D-Index: 18 scientists 104 D-Index: 26 scientists 105 D-Index: 20 scientists 106 D-Index: 15 scientists 107 D-Index: 10 scientists 108 D-Index: 13 scientists 109 D-Index: 15 scientists 110 D-Index: 12 scientists 111 D-Index: 8 scientists 112 D-Index: 7 scientists 113 D-Index: 9 scientists 114 D-Index: 6 scientists 115 D-Index: 12 scientists 116 D-Index: 7 scientists 117 D-Index: 8 scientists 118 D-Index: 3 scientists 119 D-Index: 5 scientists 120 D-Index: 7 scientists 121 D-Index: 2 scientists 122 D-Index: 4 scientists 123 D-Index: 8 scientists 124 D-Index: 7 scientists 125 D-Index: 9 scientists 126+ D-Index: 92 scientists
30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 67 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

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Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 12
31 26
32 51
33 88
34 123
35 163
36 206
37 267
38 265
39 275
40 321
41 343
42 305
43 336
44 330
45 348
46 291
47 275
48 272
49 273
50 263
51 232
52 266
53 217
54 198
55 177
56 202
57 204
58 166
59 177
60 166
61 152
62 143
63 150
64 124
65 119
66 120
67 118 67
68 82
69 98
70 94
71 105
72 74
73 84
74 70
75 67
76 78
77 60
78 59
79 52
80 47
81 38
82 48
83 42
84 42
85 43
86 29
87 37
88 29
89 30
90 34
91 20
92 22
93 17
94 19
95 24
96 21
97 20
98 24
99 17
100 17
101 21
102 25
103 18
104 26
105 20
106 15
107 10
108 13
109 15
110 12
111 8
112 7
113 9
114 6
115 12
116 7
117 8
118 3
119 5
120 7
121 2
122 4
123 8
124 7
125 9
126+ 92
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Overview

Nigel Bruce is affiliated with the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily centers around environmental science and social sciences, with a significant focus on pollution and its health impacts. Within these broad fields, they have contributed to subfields including pollution, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, law, global and planetary change, and sociology and political science.

Their work spans several main topics such as energy and environment impacts, air quality and health impacts, the COVID-19 impact on air quality, participatory visual research methods, aging and gerontology research, health disparities and outcomes, and food security and health in diverse populations.

Nigel Bruce has collaborated frequently with several researchers including Daniel Pope, Mukesh Dherani, Terence Tafatatha, Ellen Heinsbroek, and Ryan Chartier.

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Nigel Bruce include:

  • Are cleaner cooking solutions clean enough? A systematic review and meta-analysis of particulate and carbon monoxide concentrations and exposures (2021, Environmental Research Letters)
  • How is Respect and Social Inclusion Conceptualised by Older Adults in an Aspiring Age-Friendly City? A Photovoice Study in the North-West of England (2020, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health)
  • Association between household air pollution and nasopharyngeal pneumococcal carriage in Malawian infants (MSCAPE): a nested, prospective, observational study (2022, The Lancet Global Health)
  • Household air pollution in low- and middle-income countries: health risks and research priorities (2022, UNC Libraries)
  • Household Air Pollution (HAP) is Associated With Increased Pneumococcal Carriage in Malawian Infants - Malawi Streptococcus pneumoniae Carriage and Air Pollution Exposure (MSCAPE) Study (2021, SSRN Electronic Journal)

Their work has appeared in a range of journals, including:

  • Environmental Research Letters
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • The Lancet Global Health
  • UNC Libraries
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

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

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohammad H Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H Ross Anderson;Victoria F Bachman

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013

    Mohammad H. Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H. Ross Anderson;Victoria F. Bachman

  • Indoor air pollution in developing countries: a major environmental and public health challenge

    Nigel Bruce;Rogelio Perez-Padilla;Rachel Albalak

  • 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

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

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

  • Respiratory risks from household air pollution in low and middle income countries

    Stephen B. Gordon;Nigel G. Bruce;Jonathan Grigg;Patricia L. Hibberd

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

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

  • Indoor air pollution from biomass fuel smoke is a major health concern in the developing world

    Duncan G. Fullerton;Nigel Bruce;Stephen B. Gordon

  • 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

  • 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

  • Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: household energy

    Paul Wilkinson;Kirk R Smith;Michael Davies;Heather Adair

  • Risk of low birth weight and stillbirth associated with indoor air pollution from solid fuel use in developing countries

    Daniel P. Pope;Vinod Mishra;Lisa Thompson;Amna Rehana Siddiqui

  • Birth weight and exposure to kitchen wood smoke during pregnancy in rural Guatemala.

    Erick Boy;Nigel Bruce;Hernán Delgado

  • A cleaner burning biomass-fuelled cookstove intervention to prevent pneumonia in children under 5 years old in rural Malawi (the Cooking and Pneumonia Study): a cluster randomised controlled trial.

    Kevin Mortimer;Kevin Mortimer;Chifundo B Ndamala;Andrew W Naunje;Jullita Malava

  • Enablers and Barriers to Large-Scale Uptake of Improved Solid Fuel Stoves: A Systematic Review

    Eva Annette Rehfuess;Elisa Puzzolo;Debbi Stanistreet;Daniel Pope

  • Clean fuels for resource-poor settings: A systematic review of barriers and enablers to adoption and sustained use.

    Elisa Puzzolo;Daniel Pope;Debbi Stanistreet;Eva A. Rehfuess

  • Effect of Reducing Indoor Air Pollution on Women's Respiratory Symptoms and Lung Function: The RESPIRE Randomized Trial, Guatemala

    Tone Smith-Sivertsen;Esperanza Díaz;Dan Pope;Rolv T. Lie

  • Quantitative Methods for Health Research

    Nigel Bruce;Daniel Pope;Debbi Stanistreet

Frequent Co-Authors

Kirk R. Smith
Kirk R. Smith University of California, Berkeley
John R. Balmes
John R. Balmes University of California, Berkeley
Eva Rehfuess
Eva Rehfuess Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Charles R. Newton
Charles R. Newton University of Oxford
Christopher J L Murray
Christopher J L Murray University of Washington
Neil Pearce
Neil Pearce London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
David Gunnell
David Gunnell University of Bristol
Anthony D. Woolf
Anthony D. Woolf Royal Cornwall Hospital
Kalpana Balakrishnan
Kalpana Balakrishnan Sri Ramachandra University
Theo Vos
Theo Vos Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

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