Howard H. Chang

18.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
317 papers, 10.5k citations indexed

About

Howard H. Chang is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Howard H. Chang has authored 317 papers receiving a total of 10.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 180 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 52 papers in Environmental Engineering and 37 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Howard H. Chang's work include Air Quality and Health Impacts (166 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (117 papers) and Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting (49 papers). Howard H. Chang is often cited by papers focused on Air Quality and Health Impacts (166 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (117 papers) and Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting (49 papers). Howard H. Chang collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Howard H. Chang's co-authors include Michael R. Lieber, Yang Liu, Noritaka Adachi, Nicholas R. Pannunzio, James A. Mulholland, Matthew J. Strickland, Armistead G. Russell, Stefanie Ebelt Sarnat, Guannan Geng and Paige E. Tolbert and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Howard H. Chang

292 papers receiving 10.1k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Non-homologous DNA end joining and alternative pathways to double-strand break repair

2017 1.2k citations Howard H. Chang, Michael R. Lieber et al. profile →
Interventions to improve water quality for preventing diarrhoea

2015 273 citations Thomas Clasen, Howard H. Chang et al. profile →
A national cohort study (2000–2018) of long-term air pollution exposure and incident dementia in older adults in the United States

2021 156 citations Liuhua Shi, Kyle Steenland et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Howard H. Chang United States	52	5.1k	2.2k	1.7k	1.6k	1.1k	317	10.5k
Lei Huang China	51	4.0k 0.8×	1.3k 0.6×	2.1k 1.3×	895 0.5×	796 0.7×	287	13.5k
Shanshan Li China	64	8.7k 1.7×	2.5k 1.1×	1.4k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	1.6k 1.5×	700	16.0k
Michael Davies United Kingdom	63	3.2k 0.6×	2.9k 1.3×	918 0.6×	675 0.4×	788 0.7×	515	15.2k
Lili Wang China	54	4.3k 0.8×	1.9k 0.8×	913 0.5×	4.8k 2.9×	2.5k 2.3×	356	9.5k
Ting Wang China	58	2.5k 0.5×	849 0.4×	1.1k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	420 0.4×	469	11.5k
Bing Xu China	55	3.3k 0.6×	2.5k 1.1×	413 0.2×	2.0k 1.2×	4.0k 3.7×	334	11.8k
Anthony J. McMichael Australia	76	7.8k 1.5×	785 0.3×	836 0.5×	398 0.2×	1.5k 1.4×	293	22.4k
Xiaoping Liu China	64	2.0k 0.4×	2.8k 1.3×	2.9k 1.7×	1.7k 1.0×	5.2k 4.8×	511	15.3k
Paulo Hilário Nascimento Saldiva Brazil	70	10.5k 2.1×	2.0k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	730	21.0k
Shilu Tong Australia	70	11.9k 2.3×	1.8k 0.8×	294 0.2×	1.0k 0.6×	1.6k 1.5×	409	21.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Hsiao, Thomas, Audrey J. Gaskins, Joshua L. Warren, et al.. (2025). A time-to-event analysis of the association between ambient air pollution and risk of spontaneous abortion using vital records in the U.S. state of Georgia (2005-2014). American Journal of Epidemiology. 195(1). 60–69.

Nagy, Zsolt, Daniel B. Shapiro, Howard H. Chang, et al.. (2025). The influence of ambient air pollution during folliculogenesis, endometrial development, and spermatogenesis on fertility: A study among patients using vitrified donor oocyte in vitro fertilization. Environmental Research. 285(Pt 4). 122576–122576.

Couture, Alexia, A. Danielle Iuliano, Howard H. Chang, et al.. (2025). State-Level Influenza Hospitalization Burden in the United States, 2022–2023. American Journal of Public Health. 115(4). 546–554.

Moon, Joon Ho, Hun Jee Choe, Howard H. Chang, et al.. (2025). Longitudinal insights into the natural history of Type 2 diabetes among Koreans: A 20‐year community‐based prospective cohort study. Journal of Internal Medicine. 298(4). 336–348.

Li, Zhenjiang, Anne L. Dunlop, Jeremy A. Sarnat, et al.. (2025). Unraveling the Molecular Links between Fine Particulate Matter Exposure and Early Birth Risks in African American Mothers: A Metabolomics Study in the Atlanta African American Maternal-Child Cohort. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(22). 10905–10918. 2 indexed citations

Christensen, Grace M., Michele Marcus, Petrus J.W. Naudé, et al.. (2024). Joint effects of prenatal exposure to indoor air pollution and psychosocial factors on early life inflammation. Environmental Research. 252(Pt 1). 118822–118822. 3 indexed citations

Kondal, Dimple, Ashish Awasthi, Shivani A. Patel, et al.. (2024). Evaluating bias with loss to follow-up in a community-based cohort: empirical investigation from the CARRS Study. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 78(4). 220–227. 4 indexed citations

Holzhausen, Elizabeth A., Youran Tan, Frederick Lurmann, et al.. (2024). Prenatal and Early Life Exposure to Ambient Air Pollutants Is Associated with the Fecal Metabolome in the First Two Years of Life. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(32). 14121–14134. 5 indexed citations

Ebelt, Stefanie, Arie Manangan, Claudia Brown, et al.. (2023). Pollen and asthma morbidity in Atlanta: A 26-year time-series study. Environment International. 177. 107998–107998. 10 indexed citations

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Nagy, Z.P., Daniel B. Shapiro, Howard H. Chang, et al.. (2023). Ambient traffic related air pollution in relation to ovarian reserve and oocyte quality in young, healthy oocyte donors. Environment International. 183. 108382–108382. 7 indexed citations

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Chang, Howard H., et al.. (2022). A Hierarchical Model for Analyzing Multisite Individual-Level Disease Surveillance Data from Multiple Systems. Biometrics. 79(2). 1507–1519. 1 indexed citations

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Ebelt, Stefanie, et al.. (2022). Short-term associations between warm-season ambient temperature and emergency department visits for Alzheimer's disease and related dementia in five US states. Environmental Research. 220. 115176–115176. 20 indexed citations

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Cheng, Qu, Philip A. Collender, Alexandra K. Heaney, et al.. (2022). Optimizing laboratory-based surveillance networks for monitoring multi-genotype or multi-serotype infections. PLoS Computational Biology. 18(9). e1010575–e1010575. 3 indexed citations

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Sclar, Gloria D., et al.. (2022). Study design and rationale for a cluster randomized trial of a safe child feces management intervention in rural Odisha, India. BMC Public Health. 22(1). 106–106. 7 indexed citations

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Duan, Rui, Chongliang Luo, Martijn J. Schuemie, et al.. (2020). Learning from local to global: An efficient distributed algorithm for modeling time-to-event data. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 27(7). 1028–1036. 43 indexed citations

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Liang, Donghai, Liuhua Shi, Jingxuan Zhao, et al.. (2020). Urban Air Pollution May Enhance COVID-19 Case-Fatality and Mortality Rates in the United States. The Innovation. 1(3). 100047–100047. 195 indexed citations

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Fuller, Christina H., Marie S. O’Neill, Jeremy A. Sarnat, et al.. (2018). Short-and medium-term associations of particle number concentration with cardiovascular markers in a Puerto Rican cohort. Environmental Research. 166. 595–601. 5 indexed citations

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Russell, Armistead G., Paige E. Tolbert, Joseph Y. Abrams, et al.. (2018). Impacts of Regulations on Air Quality and Emergency Department Visits in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area, 1999-2013.. PubMed. 1–93. 14 indexed citations

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Reese, Heather E., Parimita Routray, Belén Torondel, et al.. (2017). Design and rationale of a matched cohort study to assess the effectiveness of a combined household-level piped water and sanitation intervention in rural Odisha, India. BMJ Open. 7(3). e012719–e012719. 18 indexed citations

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Reid, Dylan A., Sarah Keegan, Alejandra Leo‐Macías, et al.. (2015). Organization and dynamics of the nonhomologous end-joining machinery during DNA double-strand break repair. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(20). E2575–84. 131 indexed citations

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