Michael Bräuer

176.9k total citations · 23 hit papers
450 papers, 37.0k citations indexed

About

Michael Bräuer is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering and Speech and Hearing. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Bräuer has authored 450 papers receiving a total of 37.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 362 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 106 papers in Environmental Engineering and 87 papers in Speech and Hearing. Recurrent topics in Michael Bräuer's work include Air Quality and Health Impacts (323 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (141 papers) and Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting (91 papers). Michael Bräuer is often cited by papers focused on Air Quality and Health Impacts (323 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (141 papers) and Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting (91 papers). Michael Bräuer collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Michael Bräuer's co-authors include Randall V. Martin, Aaron van Donkelaar, Aaron Cohen, Sarah B. Henderson, Julian Marshall, Perry Hystad, Lillian Tamburic, Joshua S. Apte, Mieke Koehoorn and Michael Jerrett and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Michael Bräuer

432 papers receiving 36.0k 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.

  1. Exploring pathways linking greenspace to health: Theoretical and methodological guidance
    2017 1.7k citations Michael Bräuer et al. profile →
  2. Global Estimates of Ambient Fine Particulate Matter Concentrations from Satellite-Based Aerosol Optical Depth: Development and Application
    2010 1.3k citations Aaron van Donkelaar, Randall V. Martin et al. Environmental Health Perspectives profile →
  3. Woodsmoke Health Effects: A Review
    2006 1.2k citations Luke P. Naeher, Michael Bräuer et al. Inhalation Toxicology profile →
  4. Global Estimates of Fine Particulate Matter using a Combined Geophysical-Statistical Method with Information from Satellites, Models, and Monitors
    2016 881 citations Aaron van Donkelaar, Randall V. Martin et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  5. Critical Review of Health Impacts of Wildfire Smoke Exposure
    2016 835 citations Michael Bräuer, Fay H. Johnston et al. Environmental Health Perspectives profile →
  6. Addressing Global Mortality from Ambient PM2.5
    2015 785 citations Michael Bräuer et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  7. Use of Satellite Observations for Long-Term Exposure Assessment of Global Concentrations of Fine Particulate Matter
    2014 712 citations Aaron van Donkelaar, Randall V. Martin et al. Environmental Health Perspectives profile →
  8. Exposure Assessment for Estimation of the Global Burden of Disease Attributable to Outdoor Air Pollution
    2011 572 citations Michael Bräuer, Majid Ezzati et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  9. Global Estimates and Long-Term Trends of Fine Particulate Matter Concentrations (1998–2018)
    2020 566 citations Aaron van Donkelaar, Michael Bräuer et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  10. Estimated Global Mortality Attributable to Smoke from Landscape Fires
    2012 550 citations Fay H. Johnston, Sarah B. Henderson et al. Environmental Health Perspectives profile →
  11. High-Resolution Air Pollution Mapping with Google Street View Cars: Exploiting Big Data
    2017 538 citations Michael Bräuer et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  12. Air Pollution from Traffic and the Development of Respiratory Infections and Asthmatic and Allergic Symptoms in Children
    2002 528 citations Michael Bräuer et al. profile →
  13. A Cohort Study of Traffic-Related Air Pollution Impacts on Birth Outcomes
    2008 498 citations Michael Bräuer et al. Environmental Health Perspectives profile →
  14. Risk of Nonaccidental and Cardiovascular Mortality in Relation to Long-term Exposure to Low Concentrations of Fine Particulate Matter: A Canadian National-Level Cohort Study
    2012 489 citations Dan L. Crouse, Aaron van Donkelaar et al. Environmental Health Perspectives profile →
  15. Effect of Early Life Exposure to Air Pollution on Development of Childhood Asthma
    2009 452 citations Michael Bräuer et al. Environmental Health Perspectives profile →
  16. The effect of air pollution on deaths, disease burden, and life expectancy across China and its provinces, 1990–2017: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
    2020 447 citations Michael Bräuer, Richard T. Burnett et al. profile →
  17. Ambient PM 2.5 , O 3 , and NO 2 Exposures and Associations with Mortality over 16 Years of Follow-Up in the Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohort (CanCHEC)
    2015 438 citations Dan L. Crouse, Jeffrey R. Brook et al. Environmental Health Perspectives profile →
  18. Monthly Global Estimates of Fine Particulate Matter and Their Uncertainty
    2021 414 citations Aaron van Donkelaar, Michael Bräuer et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
  19. Ambient PM2.5 Reduces Global and Regional Life Expectancy
    2018 378 citations Michael Bräuer, Majid Ezzati et al. profile →
  20. Source sector and fuel contributions to ambient PM2.5 and attributable mortality across multiple spatial scales
    2021 373 citations Randall V. Martin, Richard T. Burnett et al. profile →
  21. A global anthropogenic emission inventory of atmospheric pollutants from sector- and fuel-specific sources (1970–2017): an application of the Community Emissions Data System (CEDS)
    2020 328 citations Michael Bräuer, Randall V. Martin et al. profile →
  22. Global, national, and urban burdens of paediatric asthma incidence attributable to ambient NO2 pollution: estimates from global datasets
    2019 304 citations Michael Bräuer et al. profile →
  23. Estimating the cause-specific relative risks of non-optimal temperature on daily mortality: a two-part modelling approach applied to the Global Burden of Disease Study
    2021 240 citations Katrin Burkart, Michael Bräuer et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael Bräuer Canada 98 28.1k 9.6k 6.8k 6.0k 5.8k 450 37.0k
Michael Jerrett United States 97 26.1k 0.9× 7.9k 0.8× 4.0k 0.6× 3.7k 0.6× 4.1k 0.7× 347 32.7k
C. Arden Pope United States 73 43.9k 1.6× 13.9k 1.4× 11.5k 1.7× 5.1k 0.9× 9.1k 1.6× 167 52.5k
Richard T. Burnett Canada 93 25.3k 0.9× 7.3k 0.8× 4.5k 0.7× 2.7k 0.4× 5.4k 0.9× 296 30.0k
Douglas W. Dockery United States 95 37.0k 1.3× 11.4k 1.2× 8.8k 1.3× 3.3k 0.6× 6.9k 1.2× 244 47.6k
Bert Brunekreef Netherlands 106 31.5k 1.1× 9.6k 1.0× 4.8k 0.7× 2.0k 0.3× 4.8k 0.8× 653 44.1k
Petros Koutrakis United States 90 25.9k 0.9× 10.1k 1.0× 7.9k 1.2× 4.1k 0.7× 4.1k 0.7× 600 31.2k
John D. Spengler United States 86 24.1k 0.9× 7.5k 0.8× 4.6k 0.7× 2.0k 0.3× 4.5k 0.8× 459 32.7k
Joel Schwartz United States 151 62.3k 2.2× 15.6k 1.6× 6.7k 1.0× 4.9k 0.8× 12.5k 2.1× 965 78.0k
Aaron van Donkelaar United States 82 17.3k 0.6× 6.2k 0.6× 8.2k 1.2× 6.0k 1.0× 3.1k 0.5× 248 22.6k
Jeffrey R. Brook Canada 75 19.2k 0.7× 5.9k 0.6× 5.2k 0.8× 2.7k 0.5× 3.2k 0.5× 310 23.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Bräuer

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All Works

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Brussoni, Mariana, et al.. (2025). Development and application of a geospatial index of urban playability for young children. Cities. 170. 106642–106642.
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Zhang, Qiang, Qingyang Xiao, Guannan Geng, et al.. (2025). Long-range PM2.5 pollution and health impacts from the 2023 Canadian wildfires. Nature. 645(8081). 672–678. 4 indexed citations
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Steinmetz, Jaimie D, Elizabeth K. Marsh, Aleksandr Y. Aravkin, et al.. (2025). A systematic review with a Burden of Proof meta-analysis of health effects of long-term ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) exposure on dementia. Nature Aging. 5(5). 897–908. 12 indexed citations
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Hosford, Kate, et al.. (2024). Characterizing Older Adults’ Travel Behaviour and Unmet Needs: Findings from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA). Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement. 44(1). 26–40. 1 indexed citations
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Sbihi, Hind, Julia L. MacIsaac, Robert Balshaw, et al.. (2024). Persistent DNA Methylation Changes across the First Year of Life and Prenatal NO2 Exposure in a Canadian Prospective Birth Study. Environmental Health Perspectives. 132(4). 47004–47004. 2 indexed citations
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Azab, Sandi M., Dany Doiron, Karleen Schulze, et al.. (2024). Exposure to air pollutants and subclinical carotid atherosclerosis measured by magnetic resonance imaging: A cross-sectional analysis. PLoS ONE. 19(10). e0309912–e0309912. 1 indexed citations
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Sorek‐Hamer, Meytar, Ata Akbari Asanjan, Esra Süel, et al.. (2023). Using deep transfer learning and satellite imagery to estimate urban air quality in data-poor regions. Environmental Pollution. 342. 122914–122914. 3 indexed citations
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Süel, Esra, Meytar Sorek‐Hamer, Ata Akbari Asanjan, et al.. (2022). What You See Is What You Breathe? Estimating Air Pollution Spatial Variation Using Street-Level Imagery. Remote Sensing. 14(14). 3429–3429. 9 indexed citations
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Sorek‐Hamer, Meytar, Ata Akbari Asanjan, Esra Süel, et al.. (2022). A Deep Learning Approach for Meter-Scale Air Quality Estimation in Urban Environments Using Very High-Spatial-Resolution Satellite Imagery. Atmosphere. 13(5). 696–696. 9 indexed citations
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Cromar, Kevin, B. N. Duncan, Alena Bartoňová, et al.. (2019). Air Pollution Monitoring for Health Research and Patient Care. An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report. Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 16(10). 1207–1214. 26 indexed citations
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Yao, Jiayun, Michael Bräuer, Sean Raffuse, & Sarah B. Henderson. (2018). Machine Learning Approach To Estimate Hourly Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter for Urban, Rural, and Remote Populations during Wildfire Seasons. Environmental Science & Technology. 52(22). 13239–13249. 36 indexed citations
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Krishna, Bhargav, et al.. (2017). Tackling the health burden of air pollution in South Asia. BMJ. 359. j5209–j5209. 38 indexed citations
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Yao, Jiayun, Sean Raffuse, Michael Bräuer, et al.. (2017). Predicting the minimum height of forest fire smoke within the atmosphere using machine learning and data from the CALIPSO satellite. Remote Sensing of Environment. 206. 98–106. 54 indexed citations
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Winters, Meghan, Kay Teschke, Michael Bräuer, & Daniel Fuller. (2016). Bike Score®: Associations between urban bikeability and cycling behavior in 24 cities. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. 13(1). 18–18. 91 indexed citations
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Pinault, Lauren, Michael Tjepkema, Dan L. Crouse, et al.. (2016). Risk estimates of mortality attributed to low concentrations of ambient fine particulate matter in the Canadian community health survey cohort. Environmental Health. 15(1). 18–18. 164 indexed citations
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Sbihi, Hind, Jeffrey R. Brook, Ryan W. Allen, et al.. (2013). A new exposure metric for traffic-related air pollution? An analysis of determinants of hopanes in settled indoor house dust. Environmental Health. 12(1). 48–48. 5 indexed citations
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Su, Jason, et al.. (2007). Spatial Modeling for Air Pollution Monitoring Network Design: Example of Residential Woodsmoke. Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association. 57(8). 893–900. 22 indexed citations
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Naeher, Luke P., Michael Bräuer, Michael Lipsett, et al.. (2006). Woodsmoke Health Effects: A Review. Inhalation Toxicology. 19(1). 67–106. 1183 indexed citations breakdown →
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Koutrakis, Petros, Jack M. Wolfson, Michael Bräuer, & John D. Spengler. (1990). Design of a Glass Impactor for an Annular Denuder/Filter Pack System. Aerosol Science and Technology. 12(3). 607–612. 25 indexed citations

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