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World J Cardiol. Jan 26, 2025; 17(1): 102409
Published online Jan 26, 2025. doi: 10.4330/wjc.v17.i1.102409
Published online Jan 26, 2025. doi: 10.4330/wjc.v17.i1.102409
Table 1 Main information from bibliometric analysis
| Category and description | Values |
| Time span | 1999-2022 |
| References | 75629 |
| Authors (n) | |
| Authors | 8924 |
| Authors of single-authored documents | 54 |
| Author collaboration | |
| Single-authored documents (n) | 59 |
| Coauthors per document (mean) | 7.23 |
| International coauthorships (%) | 31.5 |
| Document contents (n) | |
| Keywords plus | 3941 |
| Author keywords | 3152 |
| Documents | |
| Total documents (n) | 1640 |
| Age of document (mean) | 7.84 |
| Citations per document (mean) | 58.12 |
Table 2 Top 10 coauthorships by country using Biblioshiny
| Country rank | Country | Number of documents | Total citations (n) |
| 1 | United States | 555 | 37601 |
| 2 | China | 257 | 8169 |
| 3 | Italy | 87 | 3542 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 79 | 4877 |
| 5 | Germany | 70 | 9852 |
| 6 | Canada | 55 | 4951 |
| 7 | Brazil | 49 | 1127 |
| 8 | Iran | 45 | 2078 |
| 9 | Korea | 38 | 1257 |
| 10 | Spain | 34 | 1303 |
Table 3 Top 10 institutions in environmental exposure in cardiovascular disease
| Affiliation | Articles | Total local citation score | Total global citation score |
| Harvard University | 66 | 366 | 6967 |
| University Michigan | 55 | 315 | 4062 |
| Columbia University | 41 | 124 | 4550 |
| University Washington | 41 | 185 | 5523 |
| Johns Hopkins University | 34 | 155 | 4714 |
| University N Carolina | 34 | 35 | 989 |
| United States Environmental Protection Agency | 34 | 59 | 3412 |
| Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz | 28 | 187 | 1404 |
| New York University | 27 | 106 | 3098 |
| Karolinska Inst | 26 | 104 | 3204 |
Table 4 Top 15 journals on environmental exposure and cardiovascular disease, n (%)
| Journals | Total publications (n = 1657) | Total citations | CiteScore 2022 | Ranking based on citation | Citation Per document | Most cited article | Times cited | Publisher |
| Environmental Research | 76 (4.59) | 2615 | 1.78 | 3 | 34.41 | Road traffic noise effects on cardiovascular, respiratory, and metabolic health: An integrative model of biological mechanisms | 182 | Elsevier |
| Environmental Health Perspectives | 74 (4.47) | 8516 | 2.29 | 1 | 115.08 | The Broad Scope of Health Effects from Chronic Arsenic Exposure: Update on a Worldwide Public Health Problem | 820 | Res Triangle PK |
| International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | 56 (3.38) | 1811 | 4.61 | 6 | 32.34 | World Health Organization Environmental Noise Guidelines for the European Region: A systematic review on environmental noise and cardiovascular and metabolic effects: A summary | 301 | MDPI |
| Science of the Total Environment | 50 (3.02) | 2610 | 10.75 | 4 | 52.20 | Is low-level environmental mercury exposure of concern to human health | 294 | Elsevier |
| Environmental Science and Pollution Research | 44 (2.66) | 672 | 3.28 | 15 | 15.27 | Exposure to PM10, NO2, and O3 and impacts on human health | 155 | Springer |
| Environment International | 39 (2.35) | 1355 | 22.00 | 8 | 34.74 | Long-term residential exposure to PM2.5, PM10, black carbon, NO2, and ozone and mortality in a Danish cohort | 138 | Elsevier |
| Environmental Pollution | 37 (2.23) | 1215 | 14.90 | 9 | 32.84 | Exposure to PM10, NO2, and O3 and impacts on human health | 155 | Springer |
| Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology | 32 (1.93) | 2069 | 7.20 | 5 | 64.66 | Pesticides and human chronic diseases: Evidences, mechanisms, and perspectives | 687 | Elsevier |
| Plos One | 30 (1.81) | 712 | 6.00 | 12 | 23.73 | Built environment, selected risk factors and major cardiovascular disease outcomes: A systematic review | 152 | Public Library of Science |
| Environmental Health | 25 (1.51) | 936 | 9.40 | 10 | 37.44 | Knowns and unknowns on burden of disease due to chemicals: A systematic review | 212 | BioMed Central |
| Journal of the American Heart Association | 22 (1.33) | 705 | 8.60 | 13 | 32.05 | Cardiovascular effects of long-term exposure to air pollution: A population-based study with 900845 person-years of follow-up | 115 | Wiley |
| Circulation | 21 (1.27) | 5046 | 42.10 | 2 | 240.29 | Air pollution and cardiovascular disease | 1661 | Lippincott Williams and Wilkins |
| Chemosphere | 20 (1.21) | 693 | 13.30 | 14 | 34.65 | Children with health impairments by heavy metals in an e-waste recycling area | 150 | Elsevier |
| American Journal of Epidemiology | 19 (1.15) | 1674 | 7.00 | 7 | 88.11 | Health effects of dioxin exposure: A 20-year mortality study | 158 | Oxford University Press |
| Bmc Public Health | 18 (1.09) | 757 | 6.10 | 11 | 42.06 | The association between green space and cause-specific mortality in urban New Zealand: An ecological analysis of green space utility | 310 | BioMed Central |
- Citation: Zhang XJ, Tan Q, Xu ZY, Wen S, Chen SB. Global hotspots and trends on environmental exposure and cardiovascular disease from 1999 to 2022. World J Cardiol 2025; 17(1): 102409
- URL: https://www.wjgnet.com/1949-8462/full/v17/i1/102409.htm
- DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4330/wjc.v17.i1.102409