Kyle Steenland

37.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
314 papers, 17.7k citations indexed

About

Kyle Steenland is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Kyle Steenland has authored 314 papers receiving a total of 17.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 185 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 58 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 47 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Kyle Steenland's work include Air Quality and Health Impacts (139 papers), Occupational and environmental lung diseases (54 papers) and Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment (46 papers). Kyle Steenland is often cited by papers focused on Air Quality and Health Impacts (139 papers), Occupational and environmental lung diseases (54 papers) and Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment (46 papers). Kyle Steenland collaborates with scholars based in United States, Peru and United Kingdom. Kyle Steenland's co-authors include Andrea Winquist, Paolo Boffetta, David A. Savitz, Tony Fletcher, Vaughn Barry, James A. Deddens, Leslie Stayner, Elizabeth Ward, Allan I. Levey and Alan Ducatman and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, Circulation and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Kyle Steenland

310 papers receiving 16.9k 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.

Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) Exposures and Incident Cancers among Adults Living Near a Chemical Plant

2013 578 citations Andrea Winquist, Kyle Steenland et al. Environmental Health Perspectives profile →
Epidemiologic Evidence on the Health Effects of Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA)

2010 531 citations Kyle Steenland et al. Environmental Health Perspectives profile →
PFAS and cancer, a scoping review of the epidemiologic evidence

2020 283 citations Kyle Steenland, Andrea Winquist Environmental Research profile →
A national cohort study (2000–2018) of long-term air pollution exposure and incident dementia in older adults in the United States

2021 156 citations Liuhua Shi, Kyle Steenland et al. Nature Communications profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kyle Steenland United States	78	9.1k	4.5k	2.9k	1.8k	1.8k	314	17.7k
Dana Loomis United States	61	6.5k 0.7×	768 0.2×	2.0k 0.7×	1.8k 1.0×	2.4k 1.3×	229	17.9k
David A. Savitz United States	85	5.9k 0.6×	2.0k 0.4×	1.3k 0.5×	1.1k 0.6×	4.3k 2.4×	461	22.2k
Margaret R. Karagas United States	77	6.5k 0.7×	3.7k 0.8×	1.3k 0.4×	1.6k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	490	21.6k
Roel Vermeulen Netherlands	69	10.0k 1.1×	610 0.1×	2.1k 0.7×	2.9k 1.6×	2.5k 1.4×	675	20.5k
Irva Hertz‐Picciotto United States	82	7.3k 0.8×	2.0k 0.4×	628 0.2×	1.1k 0.6×	1.9k 1.1×	380	22.5k
Philippe Grandjean Denmark	92	21.1k 2.3×	6.1k 1.4×	504 0.2×	1.9k 1.0×	1.9k 1.1×	491	33.9k
Matthew P. Longnecker United States	65	6.3k 0.7×	2.2k 0.5×	461 0.2×	1.8k 1.0×	2.8k 1.6×	242	15.8k
Louise Ryan United States	74	4.7k 0.5×	922 0.2×	2.5k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	339	18.1k
David C. Christiani United States	88	10.9k 1.2×	2.0k 0.5×	13.4k 4.6×	6.5k 3.5×	3.5k 2.0×	904	44.5k
Robert O. Wright United States	74	13.8k 1.5×	1.0k 0.2×	1.2k 0.4×	877 0.5×	1.7k 0.9×	498	22.1k

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Steenland, Kyle, Ajay Pillarisetti, Michael L. Johnson, et al.. (2025). Optimizing Exposure Measures in Large-Scale Household Air Pollution Studies: Results from the Multicountry HAPIN Trial. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(3). 1693–1699. 1 indexed citations

Puttaswamy, Naveen, Andrés Cárdenas, Kyle Steenland, et al.. (2025). Association of prenatal and early-life polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons exposure with dental caries in childhood. Environmental Research. 282. 122021–122021.

Zhu, Qiao, Yan-Ling Deng, Yang Liu, & Kyle Steenland. (2025). Associations between Ultrafine Particles and Incident Dementia in Older Adults. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(11). 5443–5451. 2 indexed citations

Bartell, Scott M., Mark P. Purdue, Jongeun Rhee, et al.. (2024). How well does a single blood sample represent long-term exposure for epidemiological studies of PFOA among men in the general population?. Environment International. 192. 109056–109056. 1 indexed citations

Taibl, Kaitlin R., Donghai Liang, Anne L. Dunlop, et al.. (2023). Pregnancy-related hemodynamic biomarkers in relation to trimester-specific maternal per - and polyfluoroalkyl substances exposures and adverse birth outcomes. Environmental Pollution. 323. 121331–121331. 21 indexed citations

Nicolaou, Laura, Lindsay J. Underhill, Shakir Hossen, et al.. (2022). Cross-sectional analysis of the association between personal exposure to household air pollution and blood pressure in adult women: Evidence from the multi-country Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) trial. Environmental Research. 214(Pt 4). 114121–114121. 6 indexed citations

Glover, Frank, Kyle Steenland, Michael L. Eisenberg, et al.. (2022). The association between organophosphate insecticides, blood pressure dysregulation, and metabolic syndrome among U.S. Adults: NHANES 2015-2016. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 100035–100035. 3 indexed citations

Fandiño‐Del‐Rio, Magdalena, Josiah L. Kephart, Kendra N. Williams, et al.. (2022). Household Air Pollution Concentrations after Liquefied Petroleum Gas Interventions in Rural Peru: Findings from a One-Year Randomized Controlled Trial Followed by a One-Year Pragmatic Crossover Trial. Environmental Health Perspectives. 130(5). 57007–57007. 5 indexed citations

Steenland, Kyle, Jonathan N. Hofmann, Debra T. Silverman, & Scott M. Bartell. (2022). Risk assessment for PFOA and kidney cancer based on a pooled analysis of two studies. Environment International. 167. 107425–107425. 19 indexed citations

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Ebelt, Stefanie, et al.. (2022). Short-term associations between warm-season ambient temperature and emergency department visits for Alzheimer's disease and related dementia in five US states. Environmental Research. 220. 115176–115176. 20 indexed citations

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Wang, Mingrui, Haomin Li, Shiwen Huang, et al.. (2021). Short-term exposure to nitrogen dioxide and mortality: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Environmental Research. 202. 111766–111766. 37 indexed citations

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Fandiño‐Del‐Rio, Magdalena, Josiah L. Kephart, Kendra N. Williams, et al.. (2021). Household air pollution and blood markers of inflammation: A cross‐sectional analysis. Indoor Air. 31(5). 1509–1521. 14 indexed citations

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Shi, Liuhua, Kyle Steenland, Haomin Li, et al.. (2021). A national cohort study (2000–2018) of long-term air pollution exposure and incident dementia in older adults in the United States. Nature Communications. 12(1). 6754–6754. 156 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dodge, Hiroko H., Felicia C. Goldstein, Tamar Gefen, et al.. (2020). Differentiating among stages of cognitive impairment: Comparisons of versions two and three of the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center (NACC) Uniform Data Set (UDS) neuropsychological test battery. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 16(S10). 1 indexed citations

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Stayner, Leslie, James J. Collins, Yue Leon Guo, et al.. (2017). Challenges and Opportunities for Occupational Epidemiology in the Twenty-first Century. Current Environmental Health Reports. 4(3). 319–324. 7 indexed citations

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Chowdhury, Ritam, Stefanie Ebelt Sarnat, Lyndsey A. Darrow, William McClellan, & Kyle Steenland. (2014). Mortality among participants in a lead surveillance program. Environmental Research. 132. 100–104. 27 indexed citations

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Karnes, Conny, Andrea Winquist, & Kyle Steenland. (2013). Incidence of type II diabetes in a cohort with substantial exposure to perfluorooctanoic acid. Environmental Research. 128. 78–83. 61 indexed citations

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Cain, Loretta, A. Shankar, Alan Ducatman, & Kyle Steenland. (2010). The relationship between serum uric acid and chronic kidney disease among Appalachian adults. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation. 25(11). 3593–3599. 33 indexed citations

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Steenland, Kyle, Pier Alberto Bertazzi, Andrea Baccarelli, & Manolis Kogevinas. (2004). Dioxin Revisited: Developments Since the 1997 IARC Classification of Dioxin as a Human Carcinogen. Environmental Health Perspectives. 112(13). 1265–1268. 188 indexed citations

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Steenland, Kyle & Elizabeth Ward. (1991). Lung Cancer Incidence Among Patients With Beryllium Disease: A Cohort Mortality Study. JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 83(19). 1380–1385. 60 indexed citations

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