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Xavier Basagaña

Xavier Basagaña

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
95
Citations
25227
World Ranking
489
National Ranking
12

Xavier Basagaña 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 Xavier Basagaña sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 374 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Xavier Basagaña 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 Xavier Basagaña sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 95 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Xavier Basagaña is affiliated with Pompeu Fabra University in Spain. Their research spans extensively across environmental science and medicine, with a notable emphasis on the intersections of health and environmental factors.

Their recent papers include:

  • Heat-related mortality in Europe during the summer of 2022, 2023, published in Nature Medicine
  • Early-Life Environmental Exposures and Childhood Obesity: An Exposome-Wide Approach, 2020, published in Environmental Health Perspectives
  • The LifeCycle Project-EU Child Cohort Network: a federated analysis infrastructure and harmonized data of more than 250,000 children and parents, 2020, published in European Journal of Epidemiology
  • Prenatal Exposure to Perfluoroalkyl Substances Associated With Increased Susceptibility to Liver Injury in Children, 2020, published in Hepatology
  • Association between ambient temperature and heat waves with mortality in South Asia: Systematic review and meta-analysis, 2020, published in Environment International

The frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Xavier Basagaña include:

  • Martine Vrijheid
  • Mark Nieuwenhuijsen
  • Léa Maître
  • Regina Gražulevičienė
  • John Wright

Xavier Basagaña publishes frequently in venues such as:

  • ISEE Conference Abstracts
  • Environment International
  • Environmental Research
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

The main fields of study for Xavier Basagaña comprise:

  • Environmental Science
  • Medicine

Their research also addresses several subfields, including:

  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • Physiology
  • General Health Professions

Key topics in Xavier Basagaña's work are:

  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Global Health Care Issues

Best Publications

  • Green spaces and cognitive development in primary schoolchildren

    Payam Dadvand;Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen;Mikel Esnaola;Joan Forns

  • Heat-related mortality in Europe during the summer of 2022

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  • Natural outdoor environments and mental and physical health: relationships and mechanisms.

    Margarita Triguero-Mas;Payam Dadvand;Marta Cirach;David Martínez

  • Association between Traffic-Related Air Pollution in Schools and Cognitive Development in Primary School Children: A Prospective Cohort Study

    Jordi Sunyer;Mikel Esnaola;Mar Alvarez-Pedrerol;Joan Forns

  • Green spaces and General Health: Roles of mental health status, social support, and physical activity.

    Payam Dadvand;Xavier Bartoll;Xavier Basagaña;Albert Dalmau-Bueno

  • Green and blue spaces and behavioral development in Barcelona schoolchildren: the BREATHE project

    Elmira Amoly;Payam Dadvand;Joan Forns;Mónica López-Vicente

  • The Human Early-Life Exposome (HELIX): Project Rationale and Design

    Martine Vrijheid;Rémy Slama;Oliver Robinson;Leda Chatzi

  • Risks and benefits of green spaces for children: a cross-sectional study of associations with sedentary behavior, obesity, asthma, and allergy

    Payam Dadvand;Cristina M. Villanueva;Laia Font-Ribera;David Martinez

  • Heat waves and cause-specific mortality at all ages.

    Xavier Basagaña;Claudio Sartini;Jose Barrera-Gómez;Payam Dadvand

  • Green space, health inequality and pregnancy

    Payam Dadvand;Audrey de Nazelle;Francesc Figueras;Xavier Basagaña

  • Ambient air pollution and the progression of atherosclerosis in adults.

    Nino Künzli;Michael Jerrett;Raquel Garcia-Esteban;Xavier Basagaña

  • Surrounding greenness and pregnancy outcomes in four Spanish birth cohorts.

    Payam Dadvand;Jordi Sunyer;Xavier Basagaña;Ferran Ballester

  • Urban and Transport Planning Related Exposures and Mortality: A Health Impact Assessment for Cities

    Natalie Mueller;David Rojas-Rueda;Xavier Basagaña;Marta Cirach

  • Surrounding greenness and exposure to air pollution during pregnancy: an analysis of personal monitoring data.

    Payam Dadvand;Audrey de Nazelle;Margarita Triguero-Mas;Anna Schembari

  • Socioeconomic Status and Asthma Prevalence in Young Adults The European Community Respiratory Health Survey

    Xavier Basagaña;Jordi Sunyer;Manolis Kogevinas;Jan-Paul Zock

  • Human Early Life Exposome (HELIX) study: A European population-based exposome cohort

    Léa Maitre;Jeroen de Bont;Maribel Casas;Oliver Robinson

  • Effects of heat waves on mortality: effect modification and confounding by air pollutants.

    Antonis Analitis;Paola Michelozzi;Daniela D’Ippoliti;Francesca de’Donato

  • Inequality, green spaces, and pregnant women: roles of ethnicity and individual and neighbourhood socioeconomic status.

    Payam Dadvand;John Wright;David Martinez;Xavier Basagaña

  • Desert Dust Outbreaks in Southern Europe: Contribution to Daily PM10 Concentrations and Short-Term Associations with Mortality and Hospital Admissions

    Massimo Stafoggia;Stefano Zauli-Sajani;Jorge Pey;Evangelia Samoli

  • Early-Life Environmental Exposures and Childhood Obesity: An Exposome-Wide Approach

    Martine Vrijheid;Serena Fossati;Léa Maitre;Sandra Márquez

  • A systematic comparison of linear regression-based statistical methods to assess exposome-health associations

    Lydiane Agier;Lützen Portengen;Marc Chadeau-Hyam;Xavier Basagaña

  • Long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and traffic noise and incident hypertension in seven cohorts of the European study of cohorts for air pollution effects (ESCAPE)

    Kateryna B Fuks;Gudrun Weinmayr;Xavier Basagaña;Olena Gruzieva

  • Positive health effects of the natural outdoor environment in typical populations in different regions in Europe (PHENOTYPE): A study programme protocol

    Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen;Hanneke Kruize;Christopher Gidlow;Sandra Andrusaityte

  • Effect of the number of measurement sites on land use regression models in estimating local air pollution

    Xavier Basagaña;Marcela Rivera;Inmaculada Aguilera;David Agis

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen
Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen Barcelona Institute for Global Health
Jordi Sunyer
Jordi Sunyer Pompeu Fabra University
Payam Dadvand
Payam Dadvand Barcelona Institute for Global Health
Josep M. Antó
Josep M. Antó Pompeu Fabra University
Nino Künzli
Nino Künzli University of Basel
Martine Vrijheid
Martine Vrijheid Pompeu Fabra University
John Wright
John Wright National Health Service
Valérie Siroux
Valérie Siroux Grenoble Alpes University
Jean Bousquet
Jean Bousquet University of Montpellier
Marta Cirach
Marta Cirach Pompeu Fabra University

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