Viral Shah

5.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
38 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Viral Shah is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Viral Shah has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Atmospheric Science, 23 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 18 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Viral Shah's work include Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (29 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (19 papers) and Air Quality and Health Impacts (18 papers). Viral Shah is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (29 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (19 papers) and Air Quality and Health Impacts (18 papers). Viral Shah collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Hong Kong. Viral Shah's co-authors include Daniel J. Jacob, Shixian Zhai, Ke Li, Qiang Zhang, Lyatt Jaeglé, Hong Liao, Kelvin H. Bates, Jia Zhu, Lu Shen and Robert Ries and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Viral Shah

36 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

A two-pollutant strategy for improving ozone and particulate air quality in China

2019 614 citations Daniel J. Jacob, Hong Liao et al. profile →
Source sector and fuel contributions to ambient PM2.5 and attributable mortality across multiple spatial scales

2021 373 citations Erin E. McDuffie, Randall V. Martin et al. profile →

Peers

Viral Shah

HTM

GPC

Erika von Schneidemesser Germany

Johan P. Beukes South Africa

Qin’geng Wang China

Dan Chen China

Lei Zhu China

Scott N. Spak United States

Shaojie Song China

Siyi Cai China

Tolga Elbir Türkiye

Min Zhou China

Erika von Schneidemesser Germany

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Citations per year, relative to Viral Shah Viral Shah (= 1×) peers Erika von Schneidemesser

Countries citing papers authored by Viral Shah

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Fields of papers citing papers by Viral Shah

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Viral Shah

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Viral Shah. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Viral Shah 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 Viral Shah. Viral Shah 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

Zhai, Shixian, Ke Li, Lei Zhu, et al.. (2025). Particulate matter (PM) and ozone air quality in Urumqi of Northwest China: Seasonality, trends, and sources. Atmospheric Environment. 350. 121150–121150. 2 indexed citations

Mao, Jingqiu, Xiaoyi Zhao, Apoorva Pandey, et al.. (2025). Summertime Diurnal Variability of Formaldehyde Over the Contiguous United States: Constraints From Pandonia Global Network. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(20).

Zhai, Shixian, Daniel J. Jacob, Bruno Franco, et al.. (2024). Transpacific Transport of Asian Peroxyacetyl Nitrate (PAN) Observed from Satellite: Implications for Ozone. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(22). 9760–9769. 6 indexed citations

Lee, Christopher F., Liji M. David, Ian B. McCubbin, et al.. (2024). Elevated Tropospheric Iodine Over the Central Continental United States: Is Iodine a Major Oxidant of Atmospheric Mercury?. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(17). 1 indexed citations

Yang, Laura Hyesung, Daniel J. Jacob, Nadia K. Colombi, et al.. (2023). Tropospheric NO ₂ vertical profiles over South Korea and their relation to oxidant chemistry: implications for geostationary satellite retrievals and the observation of NO ₂ diurnal variation from space. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 23(4). 2465–2481. 25 indexed citations

Colombi, Nadia K., Daniel J. Jacob, Laura Hyesung Yang, et al.. (2023). Why is ozone in South Korea and the Seoul metropolitan area so high and increasing?. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 23(7). 4031–4044. 41 indexed citations

Moch, Jonathan M., Loretta J. Mickley, Sebastian D. Eastham, et al.. (2023). Overlooked Long‐Term Atmospheric Chemical Feedbacks Alter the Impact of Solar Geoengineering: Implications for Tropospheric Oxidative Capacity. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(5). 2 indexed citations

Feinberg, Aryeh, et al.. (2022). Evaluating atmospheric mercury (Hg) uptake by vegetation in a chemistry-transport model. Environmental Science Processes & Impacts. 24(9). 1303–1318. 33 indexed citations

Green, Jaime R., Marc N. Fiddler, D. L. Fibiger, et al.. (2021). Wintertime Formaldehyde: Airborne Observations and Source Apportionment Over the Eastern United States. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(5). 13 indexed citations

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Shah, Viral, Daniel J. Jacob, Jonathan M. Moch, Xuan Wang, & Shixian Zhai. (2020). Global modeling of cloudwater acidity, rainwater acidity, and acid inputs to ecosystems. 3 indexed citations

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Shao, Jingyuan, Qianjie Chen, Yuxuan Wang, et al.. (2019). Heterogeneous sulfate aerosol formation mechanisms during wintertime Chinese haze events: air quality model assessment using observations of sulfate oxygen isotopes in Beijing. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 19(9). 6107–6123. 134 indexed citations

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Green, Jaime R., Marc N. Fiddler, J. S. Holloway, et al.. (2019). Rates of Wintertime Atmospheric SO₂ Oxidation based on Aircraft Observations during Clear‐Sky Conditions over the Eastern United States. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 124(12). 6630–6649. 17 indexed citations

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Shah, Viral, Lyatt Jaeglé, J. L. Jiménez, et al.. (2019). Widespread Pollution From Secondary Sources of Organic Aerosols During Winter in the Northeastern United States. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(5). 2974–2983. 19 indexed citations

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Sullivan, Amy P., Hongyu Guo, Jason C. Schroder, et al.. (2019). Biomass Burning Markers and Residential Burning in the WINTER Aircraft Campaign. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 124(3). 1846–1861. 32 indexed citations

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Jaeglé, Lyatt, et al.. (2018). Using CALIOP to constrain blowing snow emissions of sea salt aerosols over Arctic and Antarctic sea ice. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 18(22). 16253–16269. 21 indexed citations

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Lee, Ben H., Felipe D. Lopez‐Hilfiker, Jason C. Schroder, et al.. (2018). Airborne Observations of Reactive Inorganic Chlorine and Bromine Species in the Exhaust of Coal‐Fired Power Plants. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 123(19). 11225–11237. 40 indexed citations

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Marais, Eloïse A., Daniel J. Jacob, Sungyeon Choi, et al.. (2018). Nitrogen oxides in the global upper troposphere: interpreting cloud-sliced NO ₂ observations from the OMI satellite instrument. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 18(23). 17017–17027. 28 indexed citations

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Haskins, Jessica D., Lyatt Jaeglé, Viral Shah, et al.. (2018). Wintertime Gas‐Particle Partitioning and Speciation of Inorganic Chlorine in the Lower Troposphere Over the Northeast United States and Coastal Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 123(22). 25 indexed citations

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Chen, Qianjie, Johan A. Schmidt, Viral Shah, et al.. (2017). Sulfate production by reactive bromine: Implications for the global sulfur and reactive bromine budgets. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(13). 7069–7078. 62 indexed citations

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Shah, Viral & Lyatt Jaeglé. (2017). Subtropical subsidence and surface deposition of oxidized mercury produced in the free troposphere. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 17(14). 8999–9017. 20 indexed citations

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