Jeffrey R. Brook

31.7k total citations · 5 hit papers
310 papers, 23.2k citations indexed

About

Jeffrey R. Brook is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Atmospheric Science and Automotive Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Jeffrey R. Brook has authored 310 papers receiving a total of 23.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 266 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 108 papers in Atmospheric Science and 66 papers in Automotive Engineering. Recurrent topics in Jeffrey R. Brook's work include Air Quality and Health Impacts (250 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (110 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (106 papers). Jeffrey R. Brook is often cited by papers focused on Air Quality and Health Impacts (250 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (110 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (106 papers). Jeffrey R. Brook collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and China. Jeffrey R. Brook's co-authors include Richard T. Burnett, Robert D. Brook, Sanjay Rajagopalan, C. Arden Pope, Michael Jerrett, Murray A. Mittleman, Aruni Bhatnagar, Mark S. Goldberg, Sabit Cakmak and Ana V. Diez–Roux and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Circulation and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Jeffrey R. Brook

307 papers receiving 22.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Particulate Matter Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Disease

2010 5.0k citations Robert D. Brook, Sanjay Rajagopalan et al. Circulation profile →
Inhalation of Fine Particulate Air Pollution and Ozone Causes Acute Arterial Vasoconstriction in Healthy Adults

2002 651 citations Robert D. Brook, Jeffrey R. Brook et al. Circulation profile →
Risk of Nonaccidental and Cardiovascular Mortality in Relation to Long-term Exposure to Low Concentrations of Fine Particulate Matter: A Canadian National-Level Cohort Study

2012 489 citations Paul A. Peters, C. Arden Pope et al. profile →
Ambient PM _2.5 , O ₃ , and NO ₂ Exposures and Associations with Mortality over 16 Years of Follow-Up in the Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohort (CanCHEC)

2015 438 citations Paul A. Peters, Jeffrey R. Brook et al. profile →
Global fine-scale changes in ambient NO2 during COVID-19 lockdowns

2022 170 citations Jeffrey R. Brook et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jeffrey R. Brook Canada	75	19.2k	5.9k	5.2k	3.2k	3.0k	310	23.2k
Richard T. Burnett Canada	93	25.3k 1.3×	7.3k 1.2×	4.5k 0.9×	5.4k 1.7×	2.7k 0.9×	296	30.0k
Petros Koutrakis United States	90	25.9k 1.4×	10.1k 1.7×	7.9k 1.5×	4.1k 1.3×	3.4k 1.1×	600	31.2k
George D. Thurston United States	60	13.7k 0.7×	4.5k 0.8×	3.3k 0.6×	2.8k 0.9×	2.0k 0.7×	175	16.8k
Haidong Kan China	85	21.6k 1.1×	6.1k 1.0×	3.0k 0.6×	3.7k 1.2×	1.5k 0.5×	628	27.7k
Michelle L. Bell United States	75	19.4k 1.0×	5.0k 0.8×	3.5k 0.7×	3.2k 1.0×	1.3k 0.4×	376	23.7k
Gerard Hoek Netherlands	78	16.9k 0.9×	6.1k 1.0×	2.6k 0.5×	2.6k 0.8×	3.7k 1.2×	236	19.8k
Nino Künzli Switzerland	79	16.4k 0.9×	5.0k 0.8×	2.3k 0.4×	2.7k 0.9×	2.8k 0.9×	318	22.3k
Patrick L. Kinney United States	77	14.3k 0.7×	3.7k 0.6×	2.7k 0.5×	2.6k 0.8×	1.3k 0.4×	349	19.4k
Michael Jerrett United States	97	26.1k 1.4×	7.9k 1.3×	4.0k 0.8×	4.1k 1.3×	3.8k 1.3×	347	32.7k
Aaron van Donkelaar United States	82	17.3k 0.9×	6.2k 1.1×	8.2k 1.6×	3.1k 1.0×	1.4k 0.5×	248	22.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jeffrey R. Brook

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Ambalavanan, Amirthagowri, Yang Zhang, Charisse Petersen, et al.. (2025). Gene-by-environment interactions modulate the infant gut microbiota in asthma and atopy. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 156(2). 433–448. 1 indexed citations

Gladish, Nicole, Julia L. MacIsaac, Meaghan J. Jones, et al.. (2024). Association between maternal perinatal stress and depression and infant DNA methylation in the first year of life. Translational Psychiatry. 14(1). 445–445. 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Luyao, Ruixue Dai, Wendy Lou, et al.. (2024). Pets and related allergens modify the association between early life DEHP exposure and respiratory outcomes in children. Environmental Research. 267. 120664–120664. 2 indexed citations

Peng, Ye, Hein M. Tun, Siew C. Ng, et al.. (2024). Maternal smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of gut microbiome-associated childhood overweight and obesity. Gut Microbes. 16(1). 2323234–2323234. 7 indexed citations

Azab, Sandi M., Dany Doiron, Karleen Schulze, et al.. (2024). Exposure to air pollutants and subclinical carotid atherosclerosis measured by magnetic resonance imaging: A cross-sectional analysis. PLoS ONE. 19(10). e0309912–e0309912. 1 indexed citations

Cheng, Irene, Leiming Zhang, Zhuanshi He, et al.. (2022). Long-term declines in atmospheric nitrogen and sulfur deposition reduce critical loads exceedances at multiple Canadian rural sites, 2000–2018. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 22(22). 14631–14656. 17 indexed citations

Moussa, Samar G., Ralf M. Staebler, Yuan You, et al.. (2021). Fugitive Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds from a Tailings Pond in the Oil Sands Region of Alberta. Environmental Science & Technology. 55(19). 12831–12840. 14 indexed citations

Johnson, Markey, Jeffrey R. Brook, Robert D. Brook, et al.. (2020). Traffic‐Related Air Pollution and Carotid Plaque Burden in a Canadian City With Low‐Level Ambient Pollution. Journal of the American Heart Association. 9(7). e013400–e013400. 19 indexed citations

Rajagopalan, Sanjay, Michael Bräuer, Aruni Bhatnagar, et al.. (2020). Personal-Level Protective Actions Against Particulate Matter Air Pollution Exposure: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. Circulation. 142(23). e411–e431. 148 indexed citations

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Souza, Russell J. de, Ramandeep Singh Arora, Lise Gauvin, et al.. (2018). Development of an on-line interactive map to display environmental health assessments of Canadian communities: knowledge-translation to support collaborations for health. Cities & Health. 2(2). 123–129. 4 indexed citations

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Stroud, Craig, Michael D. Moran, Paul A. Makar, et al.. (2012). Evaluation of chemical transport model predictions of primary organic aerosol for air masses classified by particle component-based factor analysis. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 12(18). 8297–8321. 11 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jie, Xinghua Fan, Lisa Graham, Tak Wai Chan, & Jeffrey R. Brook. (2012). Evaluation of an annular denuder system for carbonaceous aerosol sampling of diesel engine emissions. Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association. 63(1). 87–99. 14 indexed citations

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Markovic, M. Z., Katherine Hayden, J. G. Murphy, et al.. (2011). The effect of meteorological and chemical factors on the agreement between observations and predictions of fine aerosol composition in southwestern Ontario during BAQS-Met. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 11(7). 3195–3210. 8 indexed citations

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Brook, Robert D., Sanjay Rajagopalan, C. Arden Pope, et al.. (2010). Particulate Matter Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Disease. Circulation. 121(21). 2331–2378. 4969 indexed citations breakdown →

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Urch, Bruce, Mary Speck, Paul Corey, et al.. (2010). Concentrated ambient fine particles and not ozone induce a systemic interleukin-6 response in humans. Inhalation Toxicology. 22(3). 210–218. 29 indexed citations

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Craig, Lorraine, Jeffrey R. Brook, Q. Chiotti, et al.. (2008). Air Pollution and Public Health: A Guidance Document for Risk Managers. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health. 71(9-10). 588–698. 108 indexed citations

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Burnett, Richard T., Barry Jessiman, Sabit Cakmak, et al.. (2005). Measuring Progress in the Management of Ambient Air Quality: The Case for Population Health. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health. 68(13-14). 1289–1300. 14 indexed citations

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Dales, Robert, Sabit Cakmak, Stan Judek, et al.. (2004). Influence of outdoor aeroallergens on hospitalization for asthma in Canada. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 113(2). 303–306. 146 indexed citations

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Zhang, Leiming, Jeffrey R. Brook, & Robert Vet. (2003). A revised parameterization for gaseous dry deposition in air-quality models. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 3(6). 2067–2082. 480 indexed citations

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Stieb, David M., Marc Smith‐Doiron, Jeffrey R. Brook, et al.. (2002). Air Pollution and Disability Days in Toronto: Results from the National Population Health Survey. Environmental Research. 89(3). 210–219. 18 indexed citations

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