Ioar Rivas

5.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
68 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Ioar Rivas is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Speech and Hearing and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ioar Rivas has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 25 papers in Speech and Hearing and 18 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ioar Rivas's work include Air Quality and Health Impacts (53 papers), Noise Effects and Management (25 papers) and Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting (17 papers). Ioar Rivas is often cited by papers focused on Air Quality and Health Impacts (53 papers), Noise Effects and Management (25 papers) and Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting (17 papers). Ioar Rivas collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United Kingdom and United States. Ioar Rivas's co-authors include Jordi Sunyer, Xavier Querol, Mar Álvarez‐Pedrerol, Joan Forns, Andrés Alástuey, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Xavier Basagaña, Mar Viana, Payam Dadvand and Mònica López-Vicente and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Environmental Science & Technology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Ioar Rivas

65 papers receiving 4.3k 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.

Green spaces and cognitive development in primary schoolchildren

2015 628 citations Payam Dadvand, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Association between Traffic-Related Air Pollution in Schools and Cognitive Development in Primary School Children: A Prospective Cohort Study

2015 418 citations Jordi Sunyer, Mikel Esnaola et al. PLoS Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ioar Rivas Spain	34	3.7k	1.3k	1.3k	644	556	68	4.3k
Timo Lanki Finland	40	4.8k 1.3×	1.1k 0.8×	1.5k 1.1×	646 1.0×	567 1.0×	107	5.7k
Jane E. Clougherty United States	40	3.5k 0.9×	916 0.7×	939 0.7×	267 0.4×	546 1.0×	116	4.7k
Audrey Smargiassi Canada	39	3.2k 0.9×	920 0.7×	793 0.6×	356 0.6×	323 0.6×	139	4.6k
Grace K. LeMasters United States	47	3.6k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	825 0.6×	392 0.6×	281 0.5×	179	6.5k
Danielle Vienneau Switzerland	45	4.1k 1.1×	2.7k 2.0×	1.5k 1.2×	1.5k 2.3×	389 0.7×	168	6.4k
David M. Stieb Canada	39	4.8k 1.3×	785 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	389 0.6×	1.1k 2.1×	93	5.8k
Ryan W. Allen Canada	38	3.4k 0.9×	942 0.7×	1.3k 1.0×	495 0.8×	703 1.3×	76	4.0k
Jason Su United States	43	5.0k 1.3×	1.4k 1.1×	2.0k 1.5×	522 0.8×	508 0.9×	113	6.9k
Ralph J. Delfino United States	48	5.7k 1.5×	1.2k 0.9×	2.1k 1.6×	1.2k 1.9×	878 1.6×	90	7.3k

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Pujol, Jesús, Gerard Martínez‐Vilavella, Ioar Rivas, et al.. (2025). Unraveling the impact of prenatal air pollution for neonatal brain maturation. Environment International. 204. 109801–109801.

Rivas, Ioar, Anne-Claire Binter, Marisa Estarlich, et al.. (2025). Windows of susceptibility of prenatal and childhood exposure to air pollution and lung function at 6–8 years in the Spanish INMA (INfancia y Medio Ambiente) birth cohort. Environmental Research. 285(Pt 4). 122585–122585. 1 indexed citations

Cosín‐Tomás, Marta, Olga Sánchez, María Foraster, et al.. (2025). Epigenome-wide association study of pregnancy exposure to green space and placental DNA methylation. Environmental Research. 274. 121286–121286.

Gimeno‐Santos, Elena, Victoria Alcaraz-Serrano, Joren Buekers, et al.. (2025). Effects of the inhaled dose of air pollution on health: a systematic review. European Respiratory Review. 34(177). 250042–250042.

Sáinz-Aja, José A., J. Pombo, Isidro Carrascal, et al.. (2024). Machine Learning-Based Parametric Analysis of Railway Systems. 7. 1–10. 1 indexed citations

Pujol, Jesús, Laura Blanco‐Hinojo, Gerard Martínez‐Vilavella, et al.. (2024). Functional structure of local connections and differentiation of cerebral cortex areas in the neonate. NeuroImage. 298. 120780–120780. 1 indexed citations

Foraster, María, Mikel Esnaola, Mònica López-Vicente, et al.. (2022). Exposure to road traffic noise and cognitive development in schoolchildren in Barcelona, Spain: A population-based cohort study. PLoS Medicine. 19(6). e1004001–e1004001. 30 indexed citations

Drooge, Barend L. van, Ioar Rivas, Xavier Querol, Jordi Sunyer, & Joan O. Grimalt. (2020). Organic Air Quality Markers of Indoor and Outdoor PM2.5 Aerosols in Primary Schools from Barcelona. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17(10). 3685–3685. 10 indexed citations

Bont, Jeroen de, Maribel Casas, Jose Barrera‐Gómez, et al.. (2019). Ambient air pollution and overweight and obesity in school-aged children in Barcelona, Spain. Environment International. 125. 58–64. 100 indexed citations

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Rivas, Ioar, Xavier Querol, John Wright, & Jordi Sunyer. (2018). How to protect school children from the neurodevelopmental harms of air pollution by interventions in the school environment in the urban context. Environment International. 121(Pt 1). 199–206. 49 indexed citations

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Rivas, Ioar, Prashant Kumar, & Alex Hagen‐Zanker. (2017). Exposure to air pollutants during commuting in London: Are there inequalities among different socio-economic groups?. Environment International. 101. 143–157. 110 indexed citations

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Mortamais, Marion, Jesús Pujol, Barend L. van Drooge, et al.. (2017). Effect of exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons on basal ganglia and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms in primary school children. Environment International. 105. 12–19. 129 indexed citations

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Rivas, Ioar, Mandana Mazaheri, Mar Viana, et al.. (2017). Identification of technical problems affecting performance of DustTrak DRX aerosol monitors. The Science of The Total Environment. 584-585. 849–855. 58 indexed citations

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Álvarez‐Pedrerol, Mar, Ioar Rivas, Mònica López-Vicente, et al.. (2017). Impact of commuting exposure to traffic-related air pollution on cognitive development in children walking to school. Environmental Pollution. 231(Pt 1). 837–844. 78 indexed citations

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Sunyer, Jordi, Elisabet Suades-González, Raquel García‐Esteban, et al.. (2016). Traffic-related Air Pollution and Attention in Primary School Children. Epidemiology. 28(2). 181–189. 75 indexed citations

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Rivas, Ioar, David Donaire-González, Laura Bouso, et al.. (2015). Spatiotemporally resolved black carbon concentration, schoolchildren's exposure and dose in B arcelona. Indoor Air. 26(3). 391–402. 71 indexed citations

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Dadvand, Payam, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Mikel Esnaola, et al.. (2015). Green spaces and cognitive development in primary schoolchildren. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(26). 7937–7942. 628 indexed citations breakdown →

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Viana, Mar, Ioar Rivas, Xavier Querol, et al.. (2014). Indoor/outdoor relationships and mass closure of quasi-ultrafine, accumulation and coarse particles in Barcelona schools. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 14(9). 4459–4472. 59 indexed citations

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Viana, Mar, Ioar Rivas, Xavier Querol, et al.. (2014). Partitioning of trace elements and metals between quasi-ultrafine, accumulation and coarse aerosols in indoor and outdoor air in schools. Atmospheric Environment. 106. 392–401. 41 indexed citations

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Viana, Mar, Ioar Rivas, Xavier Querol, et al.. (2013). Indoor/outdoor relationships of quasi-ultrafine, accumulation and coarse mode particles in school environments in Barcelona: chemical composition and sources. 12 indexed citations

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