William W. Nazaroff

28.5k total citations · 11 hit papers
261 papers, 19.6k citations indexed

About

William W. Nazaroff is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering and Radiological and Ultrasound Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, William W. Nazaroff has authored 261 papers receiving a total of 19.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 157 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 72 papers in Environmental Engineering and 33 papers in Radiological and Ultrasound Technology. Recurrent topics in William W. Nazaroff's work include Air Quality and Health Impacts (129 papers), Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure (90 papers) and Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting (36 papers). William W. Nazaroff is often cited by papers focused on Air Quality and Health Impacts (129 papers), Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure (90 papers) and Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting (36 papers). William W. Nazaroff collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and Singapore. William W. Nazaroff's co-authors include Charles J. Weschler, Alvin C.K. Lai, A.V. Nero, Glen R. Cass, Brett C. Singer, Mark Nicas, Allen H. Goldstein, Alan Hubbard, Hugo Destaillats and Alfred T. Hodgson and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

William W. Nazaroff

258 papers receiving 18.8k 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.

Toward Understanding the Risk of Secondary Airborne Infection: Emission of Respirable Pathogens

2005 650 citations William W. Nazaroff et al. profile →
Semivolatile organic compounds in indoor environments

2008 646 citations William W. Nazaroff et al. Atmospheric Environment profile →
Cleaning products and air fresheners: exposure to primary and secondary air pollutants

2004 637 citations William W. Nazaroff et al. Atmospheric Environment profile →
MODELING INDOOR PARTICLE DEPOSITION FROM TURBULENT FLOW ONTO SMOOTH SURFACES

2000 570 citations William W. Nazaroff et al. profile →
Radon transport from soil to air

1992 555 citations William W. Nazaroff Reviews of Geophysics profile →
Ventilation rates and health: multidisciplinary review of the scientific literature

2010 541 citations William W. Nazaroff, D.T. Grimsrud et al. Indoor Air profile →
Indoor particle dynamics

2004 507 citations William W. Nazaroff Indoor Air profile →
Transmission of SARS‐CoV‐2 by inhalation of respiratory aerosol in the Skagit Valley Chorale superspreading event

2020 474 citations William W. Nazaroff et al. Indoor Air profile →
Radon and its decay products in indoor air

1988 438 citations William W. Nazaroff, A.V. Nero profile →
Human Occupancy as a Source of Indoor Airborne Bacteria

2012 406 citations William W. Nazaroff et al. profile →
Dismantling myths on the airborne transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2)

2021 239 citations William W. Nazaroff et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
William W. Nazaroff United States	76	12.3k	5.3k	3.5k	2.1k	1.8k	261	19.6k
Lídia Morawska Australia	85	16.7k 1.4×	8.2k 1.5×	7.5k 2.1×	5.7k 2.8×	1.8k 1.0×	559	28.6k
John D. Spengler United States	86	24.1k 2.0×	7.5k 1.4×	2.2k 0.6×	4.6k 2.2×	2.2k 1.2×	459	32.7k
Teresa Moreno Spain	65	7.7k 0.6×	3.0k 0.6×	471 0.1×	3.9k 1.9×	609 0.3×	194	12.4k
Bin Zhao China	54	4.8k 0.4×	3.5k 0.7×	2.5k 0.7×	656 0.3×	1.5k 0.8×	323	10.8k
Giorgio Buonanno Italy	50	4.5k 0.4×	2.2k 0.4×	2.5k 0.7×	667 0.3×	948 0.5×	186	7.9k
Prashant Kumar United Kingdom	67	10.0k 0.8×	6.7k 1.3×	530 0.2×	3.4k 1.7×	1.1k 0.6×	466	15.7k
Christopher Y.H. Chao Hong Kong	59	2.6k 0.2×	2.9k 0.5×	4.3k 1.2×	367 0.2×	1.9k 1.1×	289	13.3k
Ben Armstrong United Kingdom	85	14.9k 1.2×	1.7k 0.3×	1.5k 0.4×	872 0.4×	472 0.3×	306	24.9k
Petros Koutrakis United States	90	25.9k 2.1×	10.1k 1.9×	1.6k 0.4×	7.9k 3.8×	218 0.1×	600	31.2k
Douglas W. Dockery United States	95	37.0k 3.0×	11.4k 2.1×	5.1k 1.4×	8.8k 4.3×	369 0.2×	244	47.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William W. Nazaroff

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Lunderberg, David M., Eva Y. Pfannerstill, Erin F. Katz, et al.. (2025). Influence of Cleaning on Indoor Air Concentrations of Volatile and Semivolatile Organic Compounds in Residences. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(20). 10022–10031. 3 indexed citations

Alves, Michael R., Yutong Liang, David M. Lunderberg, et al.. (2024). Characterizing PM_2.5 Emissions and Temporal Evolution of Organic Composition from Incense Burning in a California Residence. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(11). 5047–5057. 8 indexed citations

Lunderberg, David M., Yutong Liang, Brett C. Singer, et al.. (2023). Assessing residential PM _2.5 concentrations and infiltration factors with high spatiotemporal resolution using crowdsourced sensors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(50). e2308832120–e2308832120. 26 indexed citations

Nazaroff, William W.. (2021). Residential air‐change rates: A critical review. Indoor Air. 31(2). 282–313. 92 indexed citations

Arata, Caleb, Pawel K. Misztal, Yilin Tian, et al.. (2021). Volatile organic compound emissions during HOMEChem. Indoor Air. 31(6). 2099–2117. 81 indexed citations

Wang, Chen, Douglas B. Collins, Caleb Arata, et al.. (2020). Surface reservoirs dominate dynamic gas-surface partitioning of many indoor air constituents. Science Advances. 6(8). eaay8973–eaay8973. 132 indexed citations

Tian, Yilin, Caleb Arata, Erin K. Boedicker, et al.. (2020). Indoor emissions of total and fluorescent supermicron particles during HOMEChem. Indoor Air. 31(1). 88–98. 19 indexed citations

Licina, Dusan, Yilin Tian, & William W. Nazaroff. (2017). Inhalation intake fraction of particulate matter from localized indoor emissions. Building and Environment. 123. 14–22. 45 indexed citations

Weekly, Kevin, Donghyun Rim, Lin Zhang, et al.. (2013). Low-cost coarse airborne particulate matter sensing for indoor occupancy detection. 32–37. 38 indexed citations

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Shehabi, Arman, et al.. (2008). Energy Implications of Economizer Use in California Data Centers. University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas). 24 indexed citations

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Heath, Garvin, et al.. (2005). Quantifying the Air Pollution Exposure Consequences of Distributed Electricity Generation. Poultry Science. 101(7). 101860–101860. 9 indexed citations

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Chan, Wanyu R., Phillip N. Price, Ashok Gadgil, et al.. (2003). Modeling shelter-in-place including sorption on indoor surfaces. University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas). 5 indexed citations

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Singer, Brett C., Alfred T. Hodgson, & William W. Nazaroff. (2003). Gas-phase organics in environmental tobacco smoke: 2. Exposure-relevant emission factors and indirect exposures from habitual smoking. Atmospheric Environment. 37(39-40). 5551–5561. 106 indexed citations

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Webb, Adrian, Brett C. Singer, & William W. Nazaroff. (2002). Effect of gaseous ammonia on nicotine sorption. University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas). 7 indexed citations

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Nazaroff, William W.. (1992). Radon transport from soil to air. Reviews of Geophysics. 30(2). 137–160. 555 indexed citations breakdown →

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Nazaroff, William W. & A.V. Nero. (1984). Transport of radon from soil into residences. University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas). 7 indexed citations

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Grimsrud, D.T., William W. Nazaroff, A.V. Nero, & K.L. Revzan. (1983). Continuous measurements of radon entry in a single-family house. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 1 indexed citations

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Nazaroff, William W., et al.. (1981). Instrumentation for a radon research house. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 2 indexed citations

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Hollowell, C.D., et al.. (1979). RADON-222 IN ENERGY EFFICIENT BUILDINGS. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 33. 1 indexed citations

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Hollowell, C.D., et al.. (1979). Impact of energy conservation in buildings on health. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 43(3). 263–4. 6 indexed citations

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