Odile Mekel

620 total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 424 citations indexed

About

Odile Mekel is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Odile Mekel has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 424 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in General Health Professions, 7 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 7 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Odile Mekel's work include Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (7 papers), Environmental and Social Impact Assessments (6 papers) and Air Quality and Health Impacts (5 papers). Odile Mekel is often cited by papers focused on Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (7 papers), Environmental and Social Impact Assessments (6 papers) and Air Quality and Health Impacts (5 papers). Odile Mekel collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Italy and Netherlands. Odile Mekel's co-authors include Claudia Hornberg, Thomas Claßen, Tek-Ang Lim, Anne Knol, André Conrad, Otto Hänninen, Paolo Carrer, Jurgen Buekers, Rokho Kim and Matti Jantunen and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Environmental Health Perspectives and BMC Public Health.

In The Last Decade

Odile Mekel

17 papers receiving 418 citations

Hit Papers

Environmental Burden of Disease in Europe: Assessing Nine... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 100 200 300
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. Environmental Burden of Disease in Europe: Assessing Nine Risk Factors in Six Countries
    2014 330 citations Otto Hänninen, Anne Knol et al. Environmental Health Perspectives profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Odile Mekel Germany 7 212 190 83 65 52 19 424
A.E.M. de Hollander Netherlands 9 357 1.7× 232 1.2× 111 1.3× 144 2.2× 22 0.4× 12 665
Dieter Schwela United Kingdom 9 163 0.8× 297 1.6× 70 0.8× 63 1.0× 98 1.9× 17 563
Marianne Rappolder Germany 4 205 1.0× 219 1.2× 81 1.0× 64 1.0× 50 1.0× 6 390
Tor H. Oiamo Canada 13 211 1.0× 239 1.3× 87 1.0× 51 0.8× 93 1.8× 26 478
Sophie Goudreau Canada 15 369 1.7× 382 2.0× 106 1.3× 107 1.6× 142 2.7× 29 747
Heike Köckler Germany 11 137 0.6× 152 0.8× 26 0.3× 51 0.8× 53 1.0× 36 333
Clare Pearson United Kingdom 9 151 0.7× 199 1.0× 79 1.0× 49 0.8× 33 0.6× 19 636
Norbert Kersten Germany 9 413 1.9× 204 1.1× 190 2.3× 161 2.5× 51 1.0× 30 687
Timo Lanki Finland 11 230 1.1× 586 3.1× 152 1.8× 55 0.8× 197 3.8× 33 800
Andrew W. Correia United States 5 128 0.6× 403 2.1× 90 1.1× 32 0.5× 107 2.1× 5 672

Countries citing papers authored by Odile Mekel

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Fields of papers citing papers by Odile Mekel

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Odile Mekel

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

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Haigh, Fiona, et al.. (2025). Global priorities in HIA research: a new agenda for the next decade. BMC Public Health. 25(1). 791–791.
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Haigh, Fiona, et al.. (2023). The future of health impact assessment- setting the Research Agenda. Population Medicine. 5(Supplement). 2 indexed citations
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Tobollik, Myriam, et al.. (2018). Übersicht zu Indikatoren im Kontext Umwelt und Gesundheit. Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz. 61(6). 710–719. 3 indexed citations
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Fehr, Rainer, Kristina Alexanderson, Carlo Favaretti, et al.. (2017). Health assessments for health governance—concepts and methodologies. European Journal of Public Health. 27(4). 609–616. 6 indexed citations
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Claßen, Thomas & Odile Mekel. (2016). Fachplan Gesundheit – ein neues Konzept für eine nachhaltige, gesundheitsförderliche Kommunalentwicklung. Public Health Forum. 24(4). 275–277. 1 indexed citations
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Fehr, Rainer, Odile Mekel, J F Hurley, & Johan P. Mackenbach. (2016). Health impact assessment – A survey on quantifying tools. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 57. 178–186. 6 indexed citations
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Hänninen, Otto, Anne Knol, Matti Jantunen, et al.. (2014). Environmental Burden of Disease in Europe: Assessing Nine Risk Factors in Six Countries. Environmental Health Perspectives. 122(5). 439–446. 330 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ádám, Balázs, Ágnes Molnár, Róza Ádány, et al.. (2014). Assessment of health risks of policies. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 48. 47–52. 7 indexed citations
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Steckling, Nadine, Odile Mekel, Myriam Tobollik, et al.. (2013). The health gains of maintaining a benzene threshold value in air in Germany below the European Union limit. The Lancet. 381. S138–S138. 1 indexed citations
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Hornberg, Claudia, Thomas Claßen, Myriam Tobollik, et al.. (2013). Quantifizierung der Auswirkungen verschiedener Umweltbelastungen auf die Gesundheit der Menschen in Deutschland unter Berücksichtigung der bevölkerungsbezogenen Expositionsermittlung - (Verteilungsbasierte Analyse gesundheitlicher Auswirkungen von Umwelt-Stressoren, VegAS). PUB – Publications at Bielefeld University (Bielefeld University). 6 indexed citations
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Steckling, Nadine, Thomas Claßen, Odile Mekel, et al.. (2013). The feasibility of estimating the total environmental burden of disease due to cadmium: experiences of the VegAS project. The Lancet. 381. S137–S137. 2 indexed citations
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Terschüren, Claudia, M Mensing, & Odile Mekel. (2012). Is telemonitoring an option against shortage of physicians in rural regions? attitude towards telemedical devices in the North Rhine-Westphalian health survey, Germany. BMC Health Services Research. 12(1). 95–95. 24 indexed citations
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Knol, Anne, Rokho Kim, Annette Prüss‐Üstün, et al.. (2010). Environmental Burden of Disease in European Countries—The EBoDE Project. Epidemiology. 22. S151–S151. 2 indexed citations
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Guliš, Gabriel, Julia J. C. Blau, K. Ernst, et al.. (2006). The Use of Health Impact Assessment across Europe. University of Southern Denmark Research Portal (University of Southern Denmark). 10 indexed citations
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Fehr, Rainer, et al.. (2003). Towards health impact assessment of drinking-water privatization--the example of waterborne carcinogens in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany).. PubMed. 81(6). 408–14. 14 indexed citations
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Mekel, Odile & Rainer Fehr. (2000). Berücksichtigung von Variabilität und Unsicherheit in quantitativen Risikoabschätzungen (QRA). Umweltwissenschaften und Schadstoff-Forschung. 12(1). 43–50. 2 indexed citations
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Fehr, Rainer & Odile Mekel. (2000). Probabilistische Expositionsabschätzung in Umweltmedizin und Verbraucherschutz (Workshop). Umweltwissenschaften und Schadstoff-Forschung. 12(2). 105–105. 1 indexed citations
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Wichmann, H.‐Erich, et al.. (1997). From Epidemiologic Exposure and Risk Assessment to Probabilistic Models: Experience with the Investigation of Health Effects of Soil Contamination in Germany. International Journal of Toxicology. 16(4-5). 391–418. 7 indexed citations

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