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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
75
Citations
20942
World Ranking
1270
National Ranking
19

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Internal medicine
  • Statistics
  • Cancer

His scientific interests lie mostly in Environmental health, Cohort study, Environmental exposure, Spatial variability and Pediatrics. The various areas that Tom Bellander examines in his Environmental health study include Birth cohort, Asthma, Allergy and Confidence interval. His Cohort study study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Heart failure, Relative risk, Emergency medicine, Myocardial infarction and Cohort.

His Environmental exposure research incorporates themes from Cause of death and Age distribution. His Spatial variability study combines topics in areas such as Urban background, Regression analysis, Meteorology and Cross-validation. His Pediatrics research includes themes of Odds ratio, Lung function and Confounding.

His most cited work include:

  • Air pollution from traffic and the development of respiratory infections and asthmatic and allergic symptoms in children (542 citations)
  • Development of Land Use Regression Models for PM2.5, PM2.5 Absorbance, PM10 and PMcoarse in 20 European Study Areas; Results of the ESCAPE Project (519 citations)
  • Development of NO2 and NOx land use regression models for estimating air pollution exposure in 36 study areas in Europe - The ESCAPE project (487 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

His primary areas of study are Environmental health, Epidemiology, Internal medicine, Cohort study and Myocardial infarction. His specific area of interest is Environmental health, where he studies Environmental exposure. Tom Bellander combines subjects such as Surgery and Poisson regression with his study of Epidemiology.

His biological study deals with issues like Cohort, which deal with fields such as Lung cancer and Cancer. His Myocardial infarction research incorporates elements of Inflammation and Emergency medicine. The Odds ratio study combines topics in areas such as Pediatrics and Confidence interval.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Environmental health (38.34%)
  • Epidemiology (13.44%)
  • Internal medicine (13.44%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2015-2021)?

  • Environmental health (38.34%)
  • Ultrafine particle (4.35%)
  • Epidemiology (13.44%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His primary scientific interests are in Environmental health, Ultrafine particle, Epidemiology, Environmental exposure and Air temperature. His research in Environmental health intersects with topics in Lung function, Incidence, Particulate air pollution and Confidence interval. His studies in Confidence interval integrate themes in fields like Population density, Metropolitan area and Myocardial infarction.

His research investigates the connection with Epidemiology and areas like Pediatrics which intersect with concerns in Prospective cohort study and Spirometry. His Environmental exposure study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Atmospheric dispersion modeling, Meteorology and Mixed model. Cohort study is closely connected to Cohort in his research, which is encompassed under the umbrella topic of Body mass index.

Between 2015 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Epigenome-Wide Meta-Analysis of Methylation in Children Related to Prenatal NO2 Air Pollution Exposure (115 citations)
  • Estimation of daily PM10 and PM2.5 concentrations in Italy, 2013-2015, using a spatiotemporal land-use random-forest model. (83 citations)
  • Genome-wide interaction analysis of air pollution exposure and childhood asthma with functional follow-up (65 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Internal medicine
  • Cancer
  • Statistics

Tom Bellander mainly focuses on Environmental health, Atmospheric dispersion modeling, Meteorology, Particulate air pollution and Environmental exposure. Environmental health and Ultrafine particle are two areas of study in which Tom Bellander engages in interdisciplinary research. Tom Bellander has researched Atmospheric dispersion modeling in several fields, including Epidemiology, Spirometry and Pediatrics.

His Meteorology study incorporates themes from Regression analysis, Linear regression, Air pollutant concentrations and Criteria air contaminants. His work investigates the relationship between Particulate air pollution and topics such as Air pollutants that intersect with problems in Stroke. The study incorporates disciplines such as Environmental monitoring, Prospective cohort study and Mixed model in addition to Environmental exposure.

Best Publications

  • Development of Land Use Regression Models for PM2.5, PM2.5 Absorbance, PM10 and PMcoarse in 20 European Study Areas; Results of the ESCAPE Project

    Marloes Eeftens;Rob Beelen;Kees de Hoogh;Tom Bellander

  • Development of NO2 and NOx land use regression models for estimating air pollution exposure in 36 study areas in Europe - The ESCAPE project

    Rob Beelen;Gerard Hoek;Danielle Vienneau;Marloes Eeftens

  • Air pollution from traffic and the development of respiratory infections and asthmatic and allergic symptoms in children

    Michael Brauer;Gerard Hoek;Patricia Van Vliet;Kees Meliefste

  • Estimating long-term average particulate air pollution concentrations: application of traffic indicators and geographic information systems.

    Michael Brauer;Gerard Hoek;Patricia van Vliet;Kees Meliefste

  • Urban Air Pollution and Lung Cancer in Stockholm

    Fredrik Nyberg;Per Gustavsson;Lars Järup;Tom Bellander

  • Mortality related to air pollution with the moscow heat wave and wildfire of 2010.

    Dmitry Shaposhnikov;Boris Revich;Tom Bellander;Getahun Bero Bedada

  • Spatial variation of PM2.5, PM10, PM2.5 absorbance and PMcoarse concentrations between and within 20 European study areas and the relationship with NO2 : results of the ESCAPE project

    Marloes Eeftens;Ming-Yi Tsai;Ming-Yi Tsai;Ming-Yi Tsai;Christophe Ampe;Bernhard Anwander

  • 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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  • Traffic-related air pollution and respiratory health during the first 2 yrs of life

    U. Gehring;J. Cyrys;G. Sedlmeir;B. Brunekreef

  • Variation of NO2 and NOx concentrations between and within 36 European study areas: Results from the ESCAPE study

    Josef Cyrys;Marloes Eeftens;Joachim Heinrich;Christophe Ampe

  • Air pollution and inflammation (interleukin-6, C-reactive protein, fibrinogen) in myocardial infarction survivors.

    Regina Rückerl;Sonja Greven;Petter Ljungman;Pasi Aalto

  • 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

  • Traffic-related air pollution and childhood respiratory symptoms, function and allergies.

    Emma Nordling;Niklas Berglind;Erik Melén;Gunnel Emenius

  • Ambient Air Pollution Is Associated With Increased Risk of Hospital Cardiac Readmissions of Myocardial Infarction Survivors in Five European Cities

    Stephanie von Klot;Annette Peters;Pasi Aalto;Tom Bellander

  • 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

  • Using geographic information systems to assess individual historical exposure to air pollution from traffic and house heating in Stockholm.

    Tom Bellander;Niklas Berglind;Per Gustavsson;Tage Jonson

  • 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

  • Comparison between different traffic-related particle indicators: elemental carbon (EC), PM2.5 mass, and absorbance.

    Josef Cyrys;Joachim Heinrich;Gerard Hoek;Kees Meliefste

  • 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

  • Prevalence of self-reported hypersensitivity to electric or magnetic fields in a population-based questionnaire survey.

    Lena Hillert;Niklas Berglind;Bengt B Arnetz;Tom Bellander

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

    Francesco Forastiere;Massimo Stafoggia;Sally Picciotto;Tom Bellander

  • Spatial variation of PM2.5, PM10, PM2.5 absorbance and PMcoarse concentrations between and within 20 European study areas and the relationship with NO2 - Results of the ESCAPE project

    Marloes Eeftens;Ming-Yi Tsai;Christophe Ampe;Bernhard Anwander

Frequent Co-Authors

Göran Pershagen
Göran Pershagen Karolinska Institute
Bert Brunekreef
Bert Brunekreef Utrecht University
Annette Peters
Annette Peters Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Gerard Hoek
Gerard Hoek Utrecht University
Klea Katsouyanni
Klea Katsouyanni National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Josef Cyrys
Josef Cyrys Helmholtz Zentrum München
Timo Lanki
Timo Lanki Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
Erik Melén
Erik Melén Karolinska Institute
Kees de Hoogh
Kees de Hoogh Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Francesco Forastiere
Francesco Forastiere Imperial College London

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