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72
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29521
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1466
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16

Yasushi Honda 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 Yasushi Honda sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 323 publications — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Yasushi Honda 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 Yasushi Honda sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 72 D-Index — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

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

    Antonio Gasparrini;Yuming Guo;Masahiro Hashizume;Eric Lavigne

  • Flood risk and climate change: global and regional perspectives

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

  • Ambient Particulate Air Pollution and Daily Mortality in 652 Cities

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

  • 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

  • Human health: impacts, adaptation, and co-benefits

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

  • Projections of temperature-related excess mortality under climate change scenarios

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

  • 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

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

    Yuming Guo;Antonio Gasparrini;Ben Armstrong;Shanshan Li

  • 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

  • Heat Wave and Mortality: A Multicountry, Multicommunity Study.

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

  • Temporal variation in heat-mortality associations: A multicountry study

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

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

    Yuming Guo;Antonio Gasparrini;Shanshan Li;Francesco Sera

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

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  • Climate change and health: on the latest IPCC report

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

  • Changes in impacts of climate extremes: Human systems and ecosystems

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

  • Temperature Variability and Mortality: A Multi-Country Study.

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

  • 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

  • Hot weather and heat extremes: health risks.

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

  • Human Health: Impacts, Adaptation, and Co-Benefits

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

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Masahiro Hashizume
Masahiro Hashizume University of Tokyo
Ho Kim
Ho Kim Seoul National University
Eric Lavigne
Eric Lavigne University of Ottawa
Shilu Tong
Shilu Tong Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Ben Armstrong
Ben Armstrong London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Yuming Guo
Yuming Guo Monash University
Antonella Zanobetti
Antonella Zanobetti Harvard University
Joel Schwartz
Joel Schwartz Harvard University
Michelle L. Bell
Michelle L. Bell Yale University
Martina S. Ragettli
Martina S. Ragettli University of Basel

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