Paul A. Demers

11.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
279 papers, 7.3k citations indexed

About

Paul A. Demers is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul A. Demers has authored 279 papers receiving a total of 7.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 122 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 89 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 64 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Paul A. Demers's work include Air Quality and Health Impacts (109 papers), Occupational and environmental lung diseases (81 papers) and Occupational Health and Safety Research (44 papers). Paul A. Demers is often cited by papers focused on Air Quality and Health Impacts (109 papers), Occupational and environmental lung diseases (81 papers) and Occupational Health and Safety Research (44 papers). Paul A. Demers collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and France. Paul A. Demers's co-authors include Michael Bräuer, Mieke Koehoorn, Hugh Davies, Lillian Tamburic, Catherine J. Karr, Cornel Lencar, Kay Teschke, Wenqi Gan, Susan Kennedy and Perry Hystad and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Paul A. Demers

266 papers receiving 7.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A Cohort Study of Traffic-Related Air Pollution Impacts on Birth Outcomes

2008 498 citations Michael Bräuer, Cornel Lencar et al. profile →
Effect of Early Life Exposure to Air Pollution on Development of Childhood Asthma

2009 452 citations Paul A. Demers, Catherine J. Karr et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Paul A. Demers Canada	46	3.2k	1.4k	1.1k	889	735	279	7.3k
Richard Hornung United States	50	6.2k 1.9×	1.3k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	930 1.0×	679 0.9×	138	12.7k
Marc B. Schenker United States	45	2.8k 0.9×	1.6k 1.2×	1.1k 1.0×	430 0.5×	639 0.9×	235	7.3k
Kay Teschke Canada	47	2.2k 0.7×	830 0.6×	1.9k 1.7×	556 0.6×	634 0.9×	217	7.5k
Bengt Järvholm Sweden	44	2.5k 0.8×	2.1k 1.5×	1.3k 1.1×	483 0.5×	569 0.8×	197	7.4k
Malcolm Sim Australia	45	2.7k 0.8×	786 0.6×	794 0.7×	207 0.2×	540 0.7×	290	6.9k
Grace K. LeMasters United States	47	3.6k 1.1×	935 0.7×	887 0.8×	1.2k 1.3×	209 0.3×	179	6.5k
Leslie Stayner United States	49	2.7k 0.8×	2.0k 1.5×	1.3k 1.2×	208 0.2×	628 0.9×	161	6.9k
S. Katharine Hammond United States	52	4.7k 1.4×	850 0.6×	996 0.9×	1.3k 1.4×	280 0.4×	200	8.1k
Per Gustavsson Sweden	37	2.6k 0.8×	947 0.7×	540 0.5×	394 0.4×	232 0.3×	144	5.2k
Torben Sigsgaard Denmark	52	6.8k 2.1×	1.9k 1.4×	2.2k 2.0×	1.2k 1.4×	491 0.7×	387	11.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul A. Demers

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Pahwa, Manisha, Julia Abelson, Lisa Schwartz, et al.. (2025). Public perspectives on ethical issues in lung cancer screening policy design and implementation in Ontario, Canada. Ethics Medicine and Public Health. 33. 101061–101061.

Arrandale, Victoria H, et al.. (2024). Risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in a large cohort of Ontario, Canada workers. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 8756–8756. 2 indexed citations

Kreuzer, Michaela, Markus J. Sommer, Veronika Deffner, et al.. (2024). Lifetime excess absolute risk for lung cancer due to exposure to radon: results of the pooled uranium miners cohort study PUMA. Radiation and Environmental Biophysics. 63(1). 7–16. 8 indexed citations

Demers, Paul A., et al.. (2024). Sex-differences in the risk of carpal tunnel syndrome: results from a large Ontario, Canada worker cohort. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders. 25(1). 1098–1098.

Kelly‐Reif, Kaitlin, Stephen Bertke, Estelle Rage, et al.. (2023). Radon and lung cancer in the pooled uranium miners analysis (PUMA): highly exposed early miners and all miners. Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 80(7). 385–391. 11 indexed citations

DeBono, Nathan, Robert D. Daniels, Laura E. Beane Freeman, et al.. (2023). Firefighting and Cancer: A Meta-analysis of Cohort Studies in the Context of Cancer Hazard Identification. Safety and Health at Work. 14(2). 141–152. 25 indexed citations

MacLeod, Jill, et al.. (2021). Aluminum dust exposure and risk of neurodegenerative diseases in a cohort of male miners in Ontario, Canada. Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & Health. 47(7). 531–539. 17 indexed citations

Tompa, Emile, et al.. (2021). Break-even Analysis of Respirable Crystalline Silica (RCS) Exposure Interventions in the Construction Sector. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 63(11). e792–e800.

Demers, Paul A., Barbara Neis, Victoria H Arrandale, et al.. (2020). A scoping review to identify strategies that work to prevent four important occupational diseases. American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 63(6). 490–516. 6 indexed citations

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Tompa, Emile, et al.. (2020). A probabilistic approach for economic evaluation of occupational health and safety interventions: a case study of silica exposure reduction interventions in the construction sector. BMC Public Health. 20(1). 210–210. 12 indexed citations

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DeBono, Nathan, et al.. (2020). Cancer surveillance among workers in plastics and rubber manufacturing in Ontario, Canada. Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 77(12). 847–856. 5 indexed citations

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Pahwa, Manisha, Laura E. Beane Freeman, John J. Spinelli, et al.. (2019). Glyphosate use and associations with non-Hodgkin lymphoma major histological sub-types: findings from the North American Pooled Project. Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & Health. 45(6). 600–609. 18 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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Pukkala, Eero, Jan Ivar Martinsen, Elisabete Weiderpass, et al.. (2014). Cancer incidence among firefighters: 45 years of follow-up in five Nordic countries. Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 71(6). 398–404. 128 indexed citations

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Hystad, Perry, Richard M. Carpiano, Paul A. Demers, Kenneth C. Johnson, & Michael Bräuer. (2013). Neighbourhood socioeconomic status and individual lung cancer risk: Evaluating long-term exposure measures and mediating mechanisms. Social Science & Medicine. 97. 95–103. 52 indexed citations

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Koehoorn, Mieke, et al.. (2011). Exposure to Pesticides and Metal Contaminants of Fertilizer among Tree Planters. The Annals of Occupational Hygiene. 55(7). 752–63. 13 indexed citations

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Karr, Catherine J., Paul A. Demers, Mieke Koehoorn, et al.. (2009). Influence of Ambient Air Pollutant Sources on Clinical Encounters for Infant Bronchiolitis. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 180(10). 995–1001. 65 indexed citations

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Demers, Paul A., Hugh Davies, Melissa C. Friesen, et al.. (2006). Cancer and Occupational Exposure to Pentachlorophenol and Tetrachlorophenol (Canada). Cancer Causes & Control. 17(6). 749–758. 54 indexed citations

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Ostry, Aleck, Stephen A. Marion, Paul A. Demers, et al.. (2001). Comparison of expert-rater methods for assessing psychosocial job strain. Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & Health. 27(1). 70–75. 15 indexed citations

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Weill, Hans, et al.. (1998). Radiographic Evidence of Silicosis Risk in the Diatomaceous Earth Industry. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 158(3). 807–814. 59 indexed citations

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