María Neira

7.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
49 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

María Neira is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Nutrition and Dietetics and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, María Neira has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 14 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics and 10 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in María Neira's work include Climate Change and Health Impacts (26 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (15 papers) and Child Nutrition and Water Access (13 papers). María Neira is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change and Health Impacts (26 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (15 papers) and Child Nutrition and Water Access (13 papers). María Neira collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Australia. María Neira's co-authors include Annette Prüss‐Üstün, Jennyfer Wolf, Diarmid Campbell‐Lendrum, Peter D. Sly, Tara Neville, Martin van den Berg, Rosana Norman, Donald R. Hopkins, Mercedes de Onís and Christian Schweizer and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Nature Medicine and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

María Neira

48 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Health consequences of exposure to e-waste: a systematic review

2013 455 citations Peter D. Sly, María Neira et al. The Lancet Global Health profile →
Systematic review: Assessing the impact of drinking water and sanitation on diarrhoeal disease in low‐ and middle‐income settings: systematic review and meta‐regression

2014 348 citations Jennyfer Wolf, Annette Prüss‐Üstün et al. profile →
Climate change and health: three grand challenges

2023 140 citations Diarmid Campbell‐Lendrum, Tara Neville et al. Nature Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
María Neira Switzerland	21	860	532	449	386	355	49	2.7k
Thomas Kistemann Germany	31	1.6k 1.8×	363 0.7×	216 0.5×	267 0.7×	419 1.2×	127	3.9k
Mahbubur Rahman Bangladesh	35	454 0.5×	1.4k 2.7×	250 0.6×	430 1.1×	660 1.9×	236	4.3k
Abera Kumie Ethiopia	35	498 0.6×	1.0k 1.9×	131 0.3×	513 1.3×	328 0.9×	131	2.9k
Lorna Fewtrell United Kingdom	25	711 0.8×	2.5k 4.6×	552 1.2×	442 1.1×	465 1.3×	50	4.8k
David Kay United Kingdom	37	962 1.1×	2.1k 4.0×	584 1.3×	296 0.8×	807 2.3×	122	6.0k
Michael Emch United States	40	534 0.6×	726 1.4×	117 0.3×	425 1.1×	854 2.4×	189	5.1k
Jay P. Graham United States	31	254 0.3×	851 1.6×	200 0.4×	182 0.5×	435 1.2×	97	3.3k
Joe Brown United States	35	354 0.4×	1.9k 3.6×	516 1.1×	389 1.0×	541 1.5×	140	3.5k
Rachel Kaufmann United States	25	1.2k 1.4×	1.4k 2.6×	178 0.4×	569 1.5×	204 0.6×	49	4.5k
Ayşe Ercümen United States	29	325 0.4×	1.2k 2.2×	155 0.3×	331 0.9×	360 1.0×	73	2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by María Neira

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of María Neira

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of María Neira. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of María Neira 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 María Neira. María Neira is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ji, John S., Francesca Dominici, Nélson Gouveia, Frank J. Kelly, & María Neira. (2025). Air pollution interventions for health. Nature Medicine. 31(9). 2888–2900. 1 indexed citations

Wolf, Jennyfer, et al.. (2024). World Health Organization repository of systematic reviews on interventions in environment, climate change and health: a new resource for decision makers, intervention implementers, and researchers. Environmental Health. 23(1). 88–88. 2 indexed citations

Campbell‐Lendrum, Diarmid, Tara Neville, Christian Schweizer, & María Neira. (2023). Climate change and health: three grand challenges. Nature Medicine. 29(7). 1631–1638. 140 indexed citations breakdown →

Pega, Frank, Natalie C. Momen, John Howard, et al.. (2023). Monitoring workers' health: focus on rights, determinants, and equity. The Lancet. 402(10410). 1306–1308. 9 indexed citations

Neira, María. (2020). Energy transition for better air quality: a public health issue. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

Neira, María, Annette Prüss‐Üstün, & Pierpaolo Mudu. (2018). Reduce air pollution to beat NCDs: from recognition to action. The Lancet. 392(10154). 1178–1179. 29 indexed citations

Ramanathan, V., et al.. (2018). Air Pollution, Climate Change, and Health: A Declaration from the Vatican. Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 15(9). 1027–1029. 2 indexed citations

Poore, Kirsten R., Mark A. Hanson, Elaine M. Faustman, & María Neira. (2017). Avoidable early life environmental exposures. The Lancet Planetary Health. 1(5). e172–e173. 11 indexed citations

Suk, William A., Mathuros Ruchirawat, Renato T. Stein, et al.. (2016). Health Consequences of Environmental Exposures in Early Life: Coping with a Changing World in the Post-MDG Era. Annals of Global Health. 82(1). 20–20. 8 indexed citations

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Moore, Sophie E., et al.. (2016). Children's Environmental Health Indicators in Australia. Annals of Global Health. 82(1). 156–168. 10 indexed citations

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Boisson, Sophie, Dirk Engels, Bruce Gordon, et al.. (2016). Water, sanitation and hygiene for accelerating and sustaining progress on neglected tropical diseases: a new Global Strategy 2015–20. International Health. 8(suppl 1). i19–i21. 92 indexed citations

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Rasanathan, Kumanan, Austen Davis, Carlos Dora, et al.. (2015). Ensuring multisectoral action on the determinants of reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health in the post-2015 era. BMJ. 351. h4213–h4213. 56 indexed citations

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Sly, Peter D., María Neira, Gwen W. Collman, et al.. (2014). Networking to advance progress in children's environmental health. The Lancet Global Health. 2(3). e129–e130. 10 indexed citations

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Dora, Carlos, Andy Haines, John Balbus, et al.. (2014). Indicators linking health and sustainability in the post-2015 development agenda. The Lancet. 385(9965). 380–391. 98 indexed citations

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Sly, Peter D., et al.. (2013). Health consequences of exposure to e-waste: a systematic review. The Lancet Global Health. 1(6). e350–e361. 455 indexed citations breakdown →

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Espina, Carolina, Miquel Porta, Joachim Schüz, et al.. (2013). Environmental and Occupational Interventions for Primary Prevention of Cancer: A Cross-Sectorial Policy Framework. ISEE Conference Abstracts. 2013(1). 4 indexed citations

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Espina, Carolina, Miquel Porta, Joachim Schüz, et al.. (2013). Environmental and Occupational Interventions for Primary Prevention of Cancer: A Cross-Sectorial Policy Framework. Environmental Health Perspectives. 121(4). 420–426. 49 indexed citations

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Campbell‐Lendrum, Diarmid, et al.. (2009). Health and climate change: a roadmap for applied research. The Lancet. 373(9676). 1663–1665. 45 indexed citations

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Neira, María, Roberto Bertollini, Diarmid Campbell‐Lendrum, & Dominique Heymann. (2008). The Year 2008. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 35(5). 424–425. 12 indexed citations

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Cline, Barnett L., Lorenzo Savioli, & María Neira. (2000). Introduction: Opportunities to work together: intestinal helminth control and programmes to eliminate lymphatic filariasis. Parasitology. 121(S1). S3–S4. 4 indexed citations

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