Joel Schwartz

119.6k citations

965 papers · 78.0k indexed · 23 hit papers · h-index 151

Impact in

Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis top 0.01%
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
Speech and Hearing top 0.01%
- Noise Effects and Management

Papers in

Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 827
- Air Quality and Health Impacts 722
- Climate Change and Health Impacts 532
- Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity 73
Speech and Hearing 129
- Noise Effects and Management 125

Co-authors: Antonella Zanobetti Douglas W. Dockery Brent A. Coull Petros Koutrakis Itai Kloog Pantel Vokonas Diane R. Gold Andrea Baccarelli
Journals: Environmental Health Perspectives (128 papers)Epidemiology (74 papers)Environmental Research (73 papers)Environment International (59 papers)Environmental Health (40 papers)
Partner nations: United States Israel Italy

In The Last Decade

Joel Schwartz

943 papers receiving 75.0k citations

Hit Papers

15 papers align trajectories log scale

Global mortality from outdoor fine particle pollution generated by fossil fuel combustion: Results from GEOS-Chem 2021 · 498 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2021 Environmental Research
2021 Nature Communications
2019 Environment International
2016 Environmental Science & Technology
2016 Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
2009 Environmental Health Perspectives
2009 American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
2009 Environmental Health Perspectives
2006 American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
2004 PEDIATRICS
2001 Epidemiology
2001 American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
2000 Circulation
2000 Epidemiology
2000 Epidemiology
2000 PubMed
1997 BMJ
1996 Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association
1995 Inhalation Toxicology
1994 Environmental Research
1994 Environmental Research
1993 American Review of Respiratory Disease
1992 Archives of Environmental Health An International Journal

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Joel Schwartz, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1	Regional-specific trends of PM2.5 and O3 temperature sensitivity in the United States npj Climate and Atmospheric Science ·Lifei Yin, Bin Bai, Bingqing Zhang, Qiao Zhu, Qian Di, Weeberb J. Réquia, Joel Schwartz, Liuhua Shi, Pengfei Liu	2025	7
2	Exposure-response associations between chronic exposure to fine particulate matter and risks of hospital admission for major cardiovascular diseases: population based cohort study BMJ ·Yaguang Wei, Yijing Feng, Mahdieh Danesh Yazdi, Kanhua Yin, Edgar Castro, Alexandra Shtein, Xinye Qiu, Adjani A. Peralta, Brent A. Coull, Francesca Dominici, Joel Schwartz	2024	32
3	Long-term exposure to ambient PM2.5, particulate constituents and hospital admissions from non-respiratory infection Nature Communications ·Yijing Feng, Edgar Castro, Yaguang Wei, Tingfan Jin, Xinye Qiu, Francesca Dominici, Joel Schwartz	2024	30
4	The association of short-term increases in ambient PM2.5 and temperature exposures with stillbirth: racial/ethnic disparities among Medicaid recipients American Journal of Epidemiology ·Matthew Shupler, Krista F. Huybrechts, Michael Leung, Yaguang Wei, Joel Schwartz, Sonia Hernández–Dı́az, Stefania Papatheodorou	2024	2
5	Associations between greenness and kidney disease in Massachusetts: The US Medicare longitudinal cohort study Environment International ·Whanhee Lee, Seulkee Heo, Rory Stewart, Xiao Wu, Kelvin C. Fong, Ji-Young Son, Benjamin M. Sabath, Danielle Braun, Jung Tak Park, Yong Chul Kim, Jung Pyo Lee, Joel Schwartz, Ho Kim, Francesca Dominici, Michelle L. Bell	2023	7
6	Seasonal Temperature Variability and Mortality in the Medicare Population Environmental Health Perspectives ·James Healy, Mahdieh Danesh Yazdi, Yaguang Wei, Xinye Qiu, Alexandra Shtein, Francesca Dominici, Liuhua Shi, Joel Schwartz	2023	16
7	Association between gestational exposure to solar activity and pregnancy loss using live births from a Massachusetts-based medical center Environmental Research ·Veronica A. Wang, Michael Leung, Man Liu, Anna M. Modest, Michele R. Hacker, Megha Gupta, Carolina L. Zilli Vieira, Marc G. Weisskopf, Joel Schwartz, Brent A. Coull, Stefania Papatheodorou, Petros Koutrakis	2023	1
8	Prenatal exposure to air pollution and BWGA Z-score: Modifying effects of placenta leukocyte telomere length and infant sex Environmental Research ·Xueying Zhang, Elena Colicino, Whitney Cowell, Michelle Bosquet Enlow, Itai Kloog, Brent A. Coull, Joel Schwartz, Robert O. Wright, Rosalind J. Wright	2023	2
9	A better cost:benefit analysis yields better and fairer results: EPA’s lead and copper rule revision Environmental Research ·Ronnie Levin, Joel Schwartz	2023	3
10	Exposure to unconventional oil and gas development and all-cause mortality in Medicare beneficiaries Nature Energy ·Longxiang Li, Francesca Dominici, Annelise J. Blomberg, Falco J. Bargagli-Stoffi, Joel Schwartz, Brent A. Coull, John D. Spengler, Yaguang Wei, Joy Lawrence, Petros Koutrakis	2022	28
11	Extracellular Vesicle-Encapsulated microRNAs as Novel Biomarkers of Lung Health American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine ·C. Eckhardt, Simone Gambazza, Tessa R. Bloomquist, Peter De Hoff, Aishwarya Vuppala, Pantel Vokonas, Augusto A. Litonjua, David Sparrow, Faruque Parvez, Louise C. Laurent, Joel Schwartz, Andrea Baccarelli, Haotian Wu	2022	20
12	Lead contamination of public drinking water and academic achievements among children in Massachusetts: a panel study BMC Public Health ·Wenxin Lu, Ronnie Levin, Joel Schwartz	2022	21
13	Assessing mortality risk attributable to high ambient temperatures in Ahmedabad, 1987 to 2017 Environmental Research ·Yaguang Wei, Abhiyant Tiwari, Longxiang Li, Bhavin Solanki, Jayanta Sarkar, Dileep Mavalankar, Joel Schwartz	2021	15
14	Associations between acute and long-term exposure to PM2.5 components and temperature with QT interval length in the VA Normative Aging Study European Journal of Preventive Cardiology ·Adjani A. Peralta, Joel Schwartz, Diane R. Gold, Brent A. Coull, Petros Koutrakis	2021	6
15	Health effects of air pollutant mixtures on overall mortality among the elderly population using Bayesian kernel machine regression (BKMR) Chemosphere ·Haomin Li, Wenying Deng, Raphael Small, Joel Schwartz, Jeremiah Zhe Liu, Liuhua Shi	2021	25
16	Unconventional oil and gas development and ambient particle radioactivity Nature Communications ·Longxiang Li, Annelise J. Blomberg, John D. Spengler, Brent A. Coull, Joel Schwartz, Petros Koutrakis	2020	27
17	Associations of Plasma Folate and Vitamin B6 With Blood DNA Methylation Age: An Analysis of One-Carbon Metabolites in the VA Normative Aging Study The Journals of Gerontology Series A ·Jamaji C. Nwanaji‐Enwerem, Elena Colicino, Xu Gao, Cuicui Wang, Pantel Vokonas, Edward W. Boyer, Andrea Baccarelli, Joel Schwartz	2020	17
18	Long-Term Exposure to Air Pollution and Increased Risk of Membranous Nephropathy in China Journal of the American Society of Nephrology ·Xin Xu, Guobao Wang, Nan Chen, Tao Lu, Sheng Nie, Gang Xu, Ping Zhang, Yang Luo, Yong-Ping Wang, Xiaobin Wang, Joel Schwartz, Jian Geng, Fan Fan Hou Hit paper breakdown →	2016	338
19	Traffic-Related Air Pollution, Blood Pressure, and Adaptive Response of Mitochondrial Abundance Circulation ·Jia Zhong, Akın Çayır, Letizia Trevisi, Marco Sánchez-Guerra, Xinyi Lin, Cheng Peng, Marie‐Abèle Bind, Diddier Prada, Hannah E. Laue, Kasey Brennan, Alexandra E. Dereix, David Sparrow, Pantel Vokonas, Joel Schwartz, Andrea Baccarelli	2015	72
20	Cardiac Autonomic Dysfunction Circulation ·Andrea Baccarelli, Patricia A. Cassano, Augusto A. Litonjua, Sung Kyun Park, Helen Suh, David Sparrow, Pantel Vokonas, Joel Schwartz	2008	99

About Joel Schwartz

Joel Schwartz is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Speech and Hearing, Pollution, Environmental Engineering and General Health Professions, having authored 965 papers that have together received 78.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Air Quality and Health Impacts (722 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (532 papers), Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting (164 papers), Energy and Environment Impacts (164 papers), Noise Effects and Management (125 papers), Global Health Care Issues (115 papers), Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity (73 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (43 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (62.3k citations), Speech and Hearing (8.6k citations), Environmental Engineering (15.6k citations), Pollution (12.5k citations) and Automotive Engineering (4.8k citations). Joel Schwartz has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Israel and Italy. Frequent co-authors include Antonella Zanobetti, Douglas W. Dockery, Brent A. Coull, Petros Koutrakis, Itai Kloog, Pantel Vokonas, Diane R. Gold, Andrea Baccarelli, David Sparrow and Robert O. Wright. Their work appears in journals such as Environmental Health Perspectives, Epidemiology, Environmental Research, Environment International and Environmental Health.

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