Joan O. Grimalt

37.4k citations

596 papers · 29.8k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 87

Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis top 0.01%
Atmospheric Science top 0.05%
Ecology top 0.2%
Environmental Chemistry top 0.05%
Pollution top 0.05%

Co-authors: J. Albaigés Pilar Fernández Jordi Sunyer Isabel Cacho Miquel Canals Francisco Javier Sierro Carles Pelejero Barend L. van Drooge
Topics: Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (233 papers)Air Quality and Health Impacts (120 papers)Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (111 papers)
Cited by: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Atmospheric Science Environmental Chemistry
Journals: Nature Science Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Partner nations: Spain United Kingdom France

In The Last Decade

Joan O. Grimalt

587 papers receiving 28.8k citations

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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.

East Asian monsoon climate during the Late Pleistocene: high-resolution sediment records from the South China Sea

1999 640 citations Joan O. Grimalt et al. profile →
Aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons in different sized aerosols over the Mediterranean Sea: Occurrence and origin

1987 571 citations Marie‐Alexandrine Sicre, Joan O. Grimalt et al. profile →
Four Climate Cycles of Recurring Deep and Surface Water Destabilizations on the Iberian Margin

2007 553 citations Belén Martrat, Joan O. Grimalt et al. profile →
Dansgaard‐Oeschger and Heinrich event imprints in Alboran Sea paleotemperatures

1999 518 citations Isabel Cacho, Joan O. Grimalt et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Origin, transport and processing of organic aerosols at different altitudes in coastal Mediterranean urban areas 2025 ·Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·(unknown),Mireia Udina,Roy M. Harrison,Joan O. Grimalt,Barend L. van Drooge	0
2	New age constraints for glacial terminations IV, III, and III.a based on western Mediterranean speleothem records 2025 ·Climate of the past ·(unknown),Isabel Cacho,Heather Stoll,Ana Moreno,Joan O. Grimalt,Francisco Javier Sierro,Joan J. Fornós,Hai Cheng,R. Lawrence Edwards	1
3	Investigating the relationship between non-occupational pesticide exposure and metabolomic biomarkers 2023 ·Frontiers in Public Health ·Saranya Palaniswamy,Khaled Abass,Jaana Rysä,Joan O. Grimalt,Jon Øyvind Odland,Arja Rautio,Marjo‐Riitta Järvelin	5
4	Prenatal exposure to multiple persistent organic pollutants in association with adiposity markers and blood pressure in preadolescents 2023 ·Environment International ·(unknown),Nathalie Costet,Christine Monfort,Karine Audouze,Lourdes Cirugeda,Éric Gaudreau,Joan O. Grimalt,Jesús Ibarluzea,Fabrice Lainé,Sabrina Llop,María-José López-Espinosa,Florence Rouget,Loreto Santa‐Marina,Martine Vrijheid,Cécile Chevrier,Maribel Casas,Charline Warembourg	8
5	Northern Hemisphere atmospheric pattern enhancing Eastern Mediterranean Transient-type events during the past 1000 years 2021 ·Climate of the past ·(unknown),Juan José Gómez‐Navarro,Belén Martrat,Juan Pedro Montávez,Alessandro Incarbona,Joan O. Grimalt,Marie‐Alexandrine Sicre,P. Graham Mortyn	3
6	Enhanced humidity in SW Iberia driven by the combination of insolation and ice-sheet forcing during MIS 13 interglacial 2021 ·Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)) ·Dulce Oliveira,Stéphanie Desprat,Qiuzhen Yin,Teresa Rodrigues,Filipa Naughton,Ricardo M. Trigo,(unknown),Joan O. Grimalt,Montserrat Alonso‐García,Antje H L Voelker,Fatima F Abrantes,Marı́a Fernanda Sánchez Goñi	1
7	Organic Air Quality Markers of Indoor and Outdoor PM2.5 Aerosols in Primary Schools from Barcelona 2020 ·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ·Barend L. van Drooge,Ioar Rivas,Xavier Querol,Jordi Sunyer,Joan O. Grimalt	10
8	Combination of insolation and ice-sheet forcing drive enhanced humidity in northern subtropical regions during MIS 13 2020 ·Quaternary Science Reviews ·Dulce Oliveira,Stéphanie Desprat,Qiuzhen Yin,Teresa Rodrigues,Filipa Naughton,Ricardo M. Trigo,(unknown),Joan O. Grimalt,Montserrat Alonso‐García,Antje H L Voelker,Fatima F Abrantes,Marı́a Fernanda Sánchez Goñi	9
9	Prenatal exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals and risk of being born small for gestational age: Pooled analysis of seven European birth cohorts 2018 ·Environment International ·Eva Govarts,Nina Iszatt,T. Trnovec,Marijke de Cock,Merete Eggesbø,Ľubica Palkovičová,Margot van de Bor,Mònica Guxens,Cécile Chevrier,(unknown),M.H. Lamoree,Irva Hertz‐Picciotto,María-José López-Espinosa,Aitana Lertxundi,Joan O. Grimalt,(unknown),Fernando Goñi,Roel Vermeulen,Juliette Legler,Greet Schoeters	61
10	Effect of exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons on basal ganglia and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms in primary school children 2017 ·Environment International ·Marion Mortamais,Jesús Pujol,Barend L. van Drooge,Dídac Macià,Gerard Martínez‐Vilavella,Christelle Reynès,Robert Sabatier,Ioar Rivas,Joan O. Grimalt,Joan Forns,Mar Álvarez‐Pedrerol,Xavier Querol,Jordi Sunyer	129
11	Variations in serum concentrations of selected organochlorines among delivering women in Argentina. The EMASAR study 2017 ·Environmental Science Processes & Impacts ·Solrunn Hansen,Evert Nieboer,Natalia Bravo,Inger Økland,(unknown),(unknown),Stein Tore Nilsen,Joan O. Grimalt,Jon Øyvind Odland	7
12	First report on organochlorine pesticides in water in a highly productive agro-industrial basin of the Central Valley, Chile 2016 ·Chemosphere ·Mónica Montory,Javier Ferrer,Diego Rivera,(unknown),Joan O. Grimalt	43
13	Parallelisms between sea surface temperature changes in the western tropical Atlantic (Guiana Basin) and high latitude climate signals over the last 140 000 years 2015 ·Climate of the past ·(unknown),Belén Martrat,Joan O. Grimalt,(unknown),José‐Abel Flores,Francisco Javier Sierro	19
14	Source apportionment of submicron organic aerosol at an urban background and a road site in Barcelona, Spain 2013 ·(unknown),Barend L. van Drooge,Manuel Dall’Osto,Xavier Querol,Joan O. Grimalt,Romá Tauler	0
15	Rapid deep water changes during abrupt climate transitions in glacial and interglacial periods 2010 ·DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)) ·Joan O. Grimalt,Belén Martrat,Isabel Cacho,Miquel Canals	1
16	Trihalomethane Exposure at Pregnancy, Birth Weight, and Duration of Gestation: Results From a Cohort Study in Spain 2010 ·Epidemiology ·Cristina M. Villanueva,Esther Gracia,Jesús Ibarluzea,Ljiljana Marina,Ferrán Ballester,Sabrina Llop,Adonina Tardón,Mariana F. Fernández,Carmen Íñiguez,Xavier Basagaña,Manolis Kogevinas,Joan O. Grimalt,Jordi Sunyer	1
17	In pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma coffee intake and serum concentrations of some organochlorine compounds are independently associated with the mutational activation of the K-ras oncogene. 2006 ·Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Biomarkers ·Miquel Porta,Manuel Jariod,Tomás López‐Jiménez,Núria Malats,Joan O. Grimalt,Francisco X. Real	1
18	Persistent organochlorine compounds in soils and sediments of European high altitude mountain lakes 2003 ·Chemosphere ·Joan O. Grimalt,Barend L. van Drooge,Alejandra Ribes,Rosa M. Vilanova,Pilar Fernández,P. G. Appleby	128
19	Saharan dust transport and high-latitude glacial climate variability: the Alboran Sea record 2002 ·Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) ·Ana Moreno,Isabel Cacho,Miquel Canals,Maarten A. Prins,Marı́a Fernanda Sánchez Goñi,Joan O. Grimalt,Gert Jan Weltje	178
20	Saharan dust transport and high latitude glacial climatic variability at millennial time-scale 2002 ·Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta ·(unknown),Isabel Cacho,Miquel Canals,Maarten A. Prins,Marı́a Fernanda Sánchez Goñi,Joan O. Grimalt	2

About Joan O. Grimalt

Joan O. Grimalt is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Atmospheric Science and Environmental Chemistry, having authored 596 papers that have together received 29.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact (233 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (120 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (111 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (13.2k citations), Atmospheric Science (11.0k citations) and Environmental Chemistry (4.4k citations). Joan O. Grimalt has collaborated with scholars based in Spain, United Kingdom and France. Frequent co-authors include J. Albaigés, Pilar Fernández, Jordi Sunyer, Isabel Cacho, Miquel Canals, Francisco Javier Sierro, Carles Pelejero, Barend L. van Drooge, José‐Abel Flores and N. J. Shackleton. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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