Ka Yan Lai

704 total citations
24 papers, 463 citations indexed

About

Ka Yan Lai is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Health and Speech and Hearing. According to data from OpenAlex, Ka Yan Lai has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 463 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 7 papers in Health and 7 papers in Speech and Hearing. Recurrent topics in Ka Yan Lai's work include Urban Green Space and Health (10 papers), Noise Effects and Management (7 papers) and Urban Transport and Accessibility (7 papers). Ka Yan Lai is often cited by papers focused on Urban Green Space and Health (10 papers), Noise Effects and Management (7 papers) and Urban Transport and Accessibility (7 papers). Ka Yan Lai collaborates with scholars based in Hong Kong, United Kingdom and China. Ka Yan Lai's co-authors include Chinmoy Sarkar, Chris Webster, Sarika Kumari, John Gallacher, Michael Y. Ni, Ziwen Sun, Iain Scott, Lydia W.T. Cheung, Rong Zhang and Wenhui Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Ka Yan Lai

24 papers receiving 459 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ka Yan Lai Hong Kong 13 248 134 80 57 54 24 463
Grete E. Wilt United States 8 391 1.6× 91 0.7× 38 0.5× 91 1.6× 9 0.2× 21 652
Jinglu Song China 11 190 0.8× 131 1.0× 38 0.5× 29 0.5× 2 0.0× 16 352
Olta Braçe Spain 11 152 0.6× 79 0.6× 43 0.5× 41 0.7× 5 0.1× 27 334
Seyed-Abbas Yazdanfar Iran 9 121 0.5× 42 0.3× 20 0.3× 33 0.6× 6 0.1× 38 344
Richard W. Christiana United States 13 316 1.3× 122 0.9× 93 1.2× 47 0.8× 16 0.3× 24 615
Faysal Kabir Shuvo Australia 10 232 0.9× 69 0.5× 164 2.0× 79 1.4× 16 0.3× 17 400
Pablo Knobel United States 11 417 1.7× 136 1.0× 70 0.9× 143 2.5× 5 0.1× 24 498
Hannah Cohen‐Cline United States 11 236 1.0× 70 0.5× 63 0.8× 69 1.2× 12 0.2× 23 538
Juliana Martins United Kingdom 3 245 1.0× 66 0.5× 147 1.8× 69 1.2× 12 0.2× 5 569
Kristoffer Mattisson Sweden 12 216 0.9× 64 0.5× 193 2.4× 68 1.2× 12 0.2× 27 550

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ka Yan Lai

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ka Yan Lai

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ka Yan Lai. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ka Yan Lai based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ka Yan Lai. Ka Yan Lai is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lai, Ka Yan, Sarika Kumari, John Gallacher, Chris Webster, & Chinmoy Sarkar. (2024). Nexus between residential air pollution and physiological stress is moderated by greenness. Nature Cities. 1(3). 225–237. 20 indexed citations
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Lai, Ka Yan, Sarika Kumari, John Gallacher, Chris Webster, & Chinmoy Sarkar. (2024). Association between Residential Greenness and Allostatic Load: A Cohort Study. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(11). 4884–4893. 2 indexed citations
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Sarkar, Chinmoy, et al.. (2024). Architectural design and epidemic prevalence: Insights from Hong Kong's fifth wave. Building and Environment. 256. 111516–111516. 1 indexed citations
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Lai, Ka Yan, Chris Webster, Sarika Kumari, John Gallacher, & Chinmoy Sarkar. (2023). The associations of socioeconomic status with incident dementia and Alzheimer’s disease are modified by leucocyte telomere length: a population-based cohort study. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 6163–6163. 13 indexed citations
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Zhang, Rong, Ka Yan Lai, Wenhui Liu, et al.. (2023). Associations between Short-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution and Influenza: An Individual-Level Case-Crossover Study in Guangzhou, China. Environmental Health Perspectives. 131(12). 127009–127009. 13 indexed citations
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Lai, Ka Yan, et al.. (2023). Associations of Urban Built Environment with Cardiovascular Risks and Mortality: a Systematic Review. Journal of Urban Health. 100(4). 745–787. 29 indexed citations
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Lai, Ka Yan, Sarika Kumari, Chris Webster, John Gallacher, & Chinmoy Sarkar. (2023). Neighbourhood residential density, urbanicity and incident dementia and Alzheimer's disease: A 12-year prospective cohort study from the UK Biobank. Environmental Research. 226. 115627–115627. 6 indexed citations
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Sarkar, Chinmoy & Ka Yan Lai. (2023). Urban built environments: interventions for reducing cardiometabolic risks. Nature Reviews Endocrinology. 19(6). 315–316. 2 indexed citations
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Zhang, Rong, Ka Yan Lai, Wenhui Liu, et al.. (2023). Association of climatic variables with risk of transmission of influenza in Guangzhou, China, 2005–2021. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health. 252. 114217–114217. 7 indexed citations
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Sarkar, Chinmoy, et al.. (2022). The association between workplace built environment and metabolic health: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Health & Place. 76. 102829–102829. 6 indexed citations
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Zhang, Rong, Ka Yan Lai, Wenhui Liu, et al.. (2022). Community-level ambient fine particulate matter and seasonal influenza among children in Guangzhou, China: A Bayesian spatiotemporal analysis. The Science of The Total Environment. 826. 154135–154135. 18 indexed citations
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Sarkar, Chinmoy, Ka Yan Lai, Michael Y. Ni, et al.. (2021). Liveable residential space, residential density, and hypertension in Hong Kong: A population-based cohort study. PLoS Medicine. 18(11). e1003824–e1003824. 8 indexed citations
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Sarkar, Chinmoy, Ka Yan Lai, Sarika Kumari, et al.. (2021). Characteristics of the Residential Environment and Their Association With Depression in Hong Kong. JAMA Network Open. 4(10). e2130777–e2130777. 16 indexed citations
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Lai, Ka Yan, Sarika Kumari, John Gallacher, Chris Webster, & Chinmoy Sarkar. (2021). Associations of residential walkability and greenness with arterial stiffness in the UK Biobank. Environment International. 158. 106960–106960. 26 indexed citations
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Lai, Ka Yan, Chris Webster, Sarika Kumari, & Chinmoy Sarkar. (2020). The nature of cities and the Covid-19 pandemic. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 46. 27–31. 102 indexed citations
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Lai, Ka Yan, Chinmoy Sarkar, Michael Y. Ni, et al.. (2020). Exposure to light at night (LAN) and risk of breast cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis. The Science of The Total Environment. 762. 143159–143159. 47 indexed citations
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Lai, Ka Yan, Chinmoy Sarkar, Ziwen Sun, & Iain Scott. (2020). Are greenspace attributes associated with perceived restorativeness? A comparative study of urban cemeteries and parks in Edinburgh, Scotland. Urban forestry & urban greening. 53. 126720–126720. 35 indexed citations
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Lai, Ka Yan, Chinmoy Sarkar, Michael Y. Ni, John Gallacher, & Chris Webster. (2020). Exposure to light at night (LAN) and risk of obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies. Environmental Research. 187. 109637–109637. 50 indexed citations
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Lai, Ka Yan, Iain Scott, & Ziwen Sun. (2019). Everyday Use of the City Cemetery: A Study of Environmental Qualities and Perceived Restorativeness in a Scottish Context. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(3). 72–72. 13 indexed citations

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