Patrick L. Kinney

33.5k total citations · 7 hit papers
349 papers, 19.4k citations indexed

About

Patrick L. Kinney is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick L. Kinney has authored 349 papers receiving a total of 19.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 303 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 66 papers in Environmental Engineering and 60 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Patrick L. Kinney's work include Air Quality and Health Impacts (261 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (167 papers) and Energy and Environment Impacts (57 papers). Patrick L. Kinney is often cited by papers focused on Air Quality and Health Impacts (261 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (167 papers) and Energy and Environment Impacts (57 papers). Patrick L. Kinney collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Ghana. Patrick L. Kinney's co-authors include Robin M. Whyatt, Frederica P. Perera, Steven N. Chillrud, David Camann, Darby Jack, Elisaveta P. Petkova, Diurka Díaz, Dana Boyd Barr, Kim Knowlton and Tiantian Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and JAMA.

In The Last Decade

Patrick L. Kinney

338 papers receiving 18.7k citations

Hit Papers

Estimated Global Mortality Attributable to Smoke from Lan... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 2017 2020 2019 2021 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. Estimated Global Mortality Attributable to Smoke from Landscape Fires
    2012 550 citations Patrick L. Kinney, Michael Bräuer et al. Environmental Health Perspectives profile →
  2. Particulate Matter Exposure and Stress Hormone Levels
    2017 383 citations Patrick L. Kinney et al. profile →
  3. Air pollution reduction and mortality benefit during the COVID-19 outbreak in China
    2020 319 citations Kai Chen, Patrick L. Kinney et al. profile →
  4. Association Between Long-term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution and Change in Quantitatively Assessed Emphysema and Lung Function
    2019 245 citations Patrick L. Kinney et al. profile →
  5. Anthropogenic climate change is worsening North American pollen seasons
    2021 158 citations Patrick L. Kinney et al. profile →
  6. The effects of night-time warming on mortality burden under future climate change scenarios: a modelling study
    2022 134 citations Patrick L. Kinney et al. profile →
  7. Mortality impacts of the most extreme heat events
    2025 16 citations Patrick L. Kinney, Radley M. Horton 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
Patrick L. Kinney United States 77 14.3k 3.7k 2.8k 2.7k 2.6k 349 19.4k
Daniel Krewski Canada 86 15.3k 1.1× 3.5k 1.0× 1.8k 0.7× 2.3k 0.8× 3.5k 1.3× 557 29.9k
Michelle L. Bell United States 75 19.4k 1.4× 5.0k 1.4× 3.4k 1.2× 3.5k 1.3× 3.2k 1.2× 376 23.7k
Francine Laden United States 73 14.3k 1.0× 3.6k 1.0× 1.4k 0.5× 1.7k 0.6× 2.6k 1.0× 324 20.0k
Yuming Guo China 79 15.6k 1.1× 3.9k 1.1× 2.4k 0.9× 1.8k 0.7× 2.0k 0.8× 831 25.4k
Itai Kloog Israel 66 11.0k 0.8× 4.1k 1.1× 2.2k 0.8× 2.5k 0.9× 2.2k 0.9× 309 14.6k
Brent A. Coull United States 89 21.5k 1.5× 5.3k 1.5× 1.8k 0.6× 2.6k 1.0× 4.4k 1.7× 664 32.8k
Antonella Zanobetti United States 91 21.0k 1.5× 4.7k 1.3× 1.6k 0.6× 1.8k 0.7× 3.8k 1.5× 266 25.3k
Jeffrey R. Brook Canada 75 19.2k 1.3× 5.9k 1.6× 2.7k 1.0× 5.2k 1.9× 3.2k 1.2× 310 23.2k
Francesco Forastiere Italy 82 13.1k 0.9× 3.0k 0.8× 1.4k 0.5× 1.6k 0.6× 2.2k 0.9× 463 21.4k
Joel D. Kaufman United States 73 17.4k 1.2× 5.2k 1.4× 1.3k 0.4× 1.5k 0.6× 3.2k 1.3× 417 23.7k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Patrick L. Kinney

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ma, Yiqun, Robert Dubrow, Patrick L. Kinney, et al.. (2025). Short-term exposure to ambient nitrogen dioxide and fine particulate matter and cause-specific mortality: A causal modeling approach in four regions. Environmental Pollution. 372. 126059–126059.
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Arunachalam, Saravanan, C. Efstathiou, Mary D. Willis, et al.. (2025). A high resolution multipollutant assessment of health damages due to the onroad sector in Boston, Massachusetts. The Science of The Total Environment. 969. 178847–178847.
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Josey, Kevin, et al.. (2025). Equity in the Distribution of Regulatory PM2.5 Monitors. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(30). 15843–15852. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Ting, et al.. (2024). Fine particulate matter and ozone variability with regional and local meteorology in Beijing, China. Atmospheric Environment. 338. 120793–120793. 1 indexed citations
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deSouza, Priyanka, Susan C. Anenberg, Neal Fann, et al.. (2024). Evaluating the sensitivity of mortality attributable to pollution to modeling Choices: A case study for Colorado. Environment International. 185. 108416–108416. 3 indexed citations
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Hagen, Michael D., et al.. (2024). Extreme Heat and Air Quality: Community Leader Perspectives on Information Barriers and Opportunities in Two Environmental Justice Communities. NEW SOLUTIONS A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy. 34(4). 256–267. 1 indexed citations
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Stowell, Jennifer, et al.. (2024). Emergency department visits in California associated with wildfire PM2.5: differing risk across individuals and communities. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 15002–15002.
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Asante, Kwaku Poku, Blair J. Wylie, Felix Boakye Oppong, et al.. (2023). Association between malaria and household air pollution interventions in a predominantly rural area of Ghana. Malaria Journal. 22(1). 106–106. 1 indexed citations
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Jack, Darby, Seyram Kaali, Elena Colicino, et al.. (2023). Household Air Pollution and Child Lung Function: The Ghana Randomized Air Pollution and Health Study. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 209(6). 716–726. 5 indexed citations
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Stowell, Jennifer, Catherine Ngo, Marcia Pescador Jimenez, Patrick L. Kinney, & Peter James. (2023). Development of a global urban greenness indicator dataset for 1,000+ cities. Data in Brief. 48. 109140–109140. 6 indexed citations
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Anenberg, Susan C., et al.. (2020). Synergistic health effects of air pollution, temperature, and pollen exposure: a systematic review of epidemiological evidence. Environmental Health. 19(1). 130–130. 148 indexed citations
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Schnell, Jordan, Daniel R. Peters, David C. Wong, et al.. (2020). Potential for Electric Vehicle Adoption to Mitigate Extreme Air Quality Events in China. Earth s Future. 9(2). 26 indexed citations
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Peters, Daniel R., Jordan Schnell, Patrick L. Kinney, Vaishali Naïk, & Daniel E. Horton. (2020). Public Health and Climate Benefits and Trade‐Offs of U.S. Vehicle Electrification. GeoHealth. 4(10). e2020GH000275–e2020GH000275. 46 indexed citations
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Wang, Jiaonan, Tiantian Li, Yuebin Lv, et al.. (2020). Fine Particulate Matter and Poor Cognitive Function among Chinese Older Adults: Evidence from a Community-Based, 12-Year Prospective Cohort Study. Environmental Health Perspectives. 128(6). 67013–67013. 79 indexed citations
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Anenberg, Susan C., Daven K. Henze, Patrick L. Kinney, et al.. (2018). Estimates of the Global Burden of Ambient PM2.5, Ozone, and NO2 on Asthma Incidence and Emergency Room Visits. Environmental Health Perspectives. 126(10). 107004–107004. 234 indexed citations
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Schwartz, Joel, Mihye Lee, Patrick L. Kinney, et al.. (2015). Projections of temperature-attributable premature deaths in 209 U.S. cities using a cluster-based Poisson approach. Environmental Health. 14(1). 85–85. 56 indexed citations
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Yan, Beizhan, Daniel Kennedy, Rachel L. Miller, et al.. (2011). Validating a nondestructive optical method for apportioning colored particulate matter into black carbon and additional components. Atmospheric Environment. 45(39). 7478–7486. 47 indexed citations
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Sax, Sonja N., Deborah H. Bennett, Steven N. Chillrud, et al.. (2006). A Cancer Risk Assessment of Inner-City Teenagers Living in New York City and Los Angeles. Environmental Health Perspectives. 114(10). 1558–1566. 81 indexed citations
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Whyatt, Robin M., David Camann, Patrick L. Kinney, et al.. (2002). Residential pesticide use during pregnancy among a cohort of urban minority women.. Environmental Health Perspectives. 110(5). 507–514. 191 indexed citations
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Miller, Rachel L., Ginger L. Chew, Courtney Bell, et al.. (2001). Prenatal Exposure, Maternal Sensitization, and Sensitization In Utero to Indoor Allergens in an Inner-City Cohort. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 164(6). 995–1001. 98 indexed citations

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