2026 Yasushi Honda: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	72	1466	1391	16	15	323	29521

Overview

Yasushi Honda is affiliated with the University of Tsukuba in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant emphasis on health, toxicology, and mutagenesis. The scope of their work spans physiology, general health professions, and global and planetary change, covering aspects of health and environmental impacts within these fields.

The researcher's work extensively addresses topics related to climate change and health impacts, air quality and health impacts, and global health care issues. Additional areas of focus include thermoregulation and physiological responses, health disparities and outcomes, thermal regulation in medicine, and urban heat island mitigation.

Yasushi Honda has contributed to numerous publications, with frequent appearances in several key venues, including:

ISEE Conference Abstracts
The Lancet Planetary Health
Environment International
Environmental Research
BMJ

Collaborations form an important part of their research activity. Frequent co-authors include:

Masahiro Hashizume
Aurelio Tobı́as
Antonio Gasparrini
Ho Kim
Francesco Sera

Some of their recent papers illustrate the breadth of their research topics and the impact within their domain. These include:

The burden of heat-related mortality attributable to recent human-induced climate change, 2021, Nature Climate Change
Global, regional, and national burden of mortality associated with non-optimal ambient temperatures from 2000 to 2019: a three-stage modelling study, 2021, The Lancet Planetary Health
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
Short term association between ozone and mortality: global two stage time series study in 406 locations in 20 countries, 2020, BMJ

Best Publications

Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

3266
Citations
Mortality risk attributable to high and low ambient temperature: a multicountry observational study

Antonio Gasparrini;Yuming Guo;Masahiro Hashizume;Eric Lavigne

2946
Citations
Flood risk and climate change: global and regional perspectives

Zbigniew W Kundzewicz;Shinjiro Kanae;Sonia I Seneviratne;John W Handmer

1627
Citations
Ambient Particulate Air Pollution and Daily Mortality in 652 Cities

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

1599
Citations
The burden of heat-related mortality attributable to recent human-induced climate change

A. M. Vicedo-Cabrera;A. M. Vicedo-Cabrera;N. Scovronick;F. Sera;F. Sera;D. Royé

1169
Citations
Human health: impacts, adaptation, and co-benefits

K Smith;A Woodward;Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum;D Chadee

972
Citations
Projections of temperature-related excess mortality under climate change scenarios

Antonio Gasparrini;Yuming Guo;Yuming Guo;Francesco Sera;Ana Maria Vicedo-Cabrera

899
Citations
Global, regional, and national burden of mortality associated with non-optimal ambient temperatures from 2000 to 2019: a three-stage modelling study

Qi Zhao;Qi Zhao;Yuming Guo;Tingting Ye;Antonio Gasparrini

833
Citations
Global variation in the effects of ambient temperature on mortality: a systematic evaluation.

Yuming Guo;Antonio Gasparrini;Ben Armstrong;Shanshan Li

677
Citations
Reducing the health effects of hot weather and heat extremes: from personal cooling strategies to green cities.

Ollie Jay;Anthony Capon;Anthony Capon;Peter Berry;Carolyn Broderick;Carolyn Broderick

625
Citations
Heat Wave and Mortality: A Multicountry, Multicommunity Study.

Yuming Guo;Yuming Guo;Antonio Gasparrini;Ben G. Armstrong;Benjawan Tawatsupa

582
Citations
Temporal variation in heat-mortality associations: A multicountry study

Antonio Gasparrini;Yuming Guo;Masahiro Hashizume;Patrick L. Kinney

497
Citations
Quantifying excess deaths related to heatwaves under climate change scenarios: A multicountry time series modelling study

Yuming Guo;Antonio Gasparrini;Shanshan Li;Francesco Sera

418
Citations
Associations Between Extreme Temperatures and Cardiovascular Cause-Specific Mortality: Results From 27 Countries

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390
Citations
Climate change and health: on the latest IPCC report

Alistair Woodward;Kirk R Smith;Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum;Dave D Chadee

363
Citations
Changes in impacts of climate extremes: Human systems and ecosystems

John Handmer;Yasushi Honda;Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz;Nigel Arnell

362
Citations
Temperature Variability and Mortality: A Multi-Country Study.

Yuming Guo;Antonio Gasparrini;Ben G. Armstrong;Benjawan Tawatsupa

344
Citations
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

322
Citations
Hot weather and heat extremes: health risks.

Kristie L Ebi;Anthony Capon;Anthony Capon;Peter Berry;Carolyn Broderick;Carolyn Broderick

317
Citations
Human Health: Impacts, Adaptation, and Co-Benefits

Christopher B. Field;Vicente R. Barros;David Jon Dokken;Katharine J. Mach

107
Citations
Changes in impacts of climate extremes: human systems and ecosystems. A Special Report of Working Groups I and II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

J. Handmer;Y. Honda;Kundzewicz;N. Arnell

79
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Masahiro Hashizume University of Tokyo

Ho Kim Seoul National University

Eric Lavigne University of Ottawa

Shilu Tong Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Ben Armstrong London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Yuming Guo Monash University

Antonella Zanobetti Harvard University

Joel Schwartz Harvard University

Michelle L. Bell Yale University

Martina S. Ragettli University of Basel

External Links

Personal website of Yasushi Honda

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