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ArticleThe Science of the total environment2021

Ambient PM

Rajan K Chakrabarty, Payton Beeler, Pai Liu, Spondita Goswami, Richard D Harvey, Shamsh Pervez, Aaron van Donkelaar, Randall V Martin

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Article in The Science of the total environment, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
30citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.5field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 65 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  6. Air pollution and respiratory infections: the past, present, and future.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2023
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  11. Cumulative effects of air pollution and climate drivers on COVID-19 multiwaves in Bucharest, Romania.Process safety and environmental protection : transactions of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, Part B · 2022
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  18. COVID-19 mortality and exposure to airborne PMThe Science of the total environment · 2022
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  20. Effect of environmental pollutants PM2.5, CO, OJournal of King Saud University. Science · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Rajan K ChakrabartyCenter for Aerosol Science and Engineering, Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA; Institute for Public Health, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA. Electronic address: chakrabarty@wustl.edu.
Payton BeelerCenter for Aerosol Science and Engineering, Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA.
Pai LiuCenter for Aerosol Science and Engineering, Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA.
Spondita GoswamiExperimental Psychology Program, Department of Psychology, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA.
Richard D HarveyExperimental Psychology Program, Department of Psychology, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO 63108, USA.
Shamsh PervezSchool of Studies in Chemistry, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, Chhattisgarh 492010, India.
Aaron van DonkelaarCenter for Aerosol Science and Engineering, Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA; Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada.
Randall V MartinCenter for Aerosol Science and Engineering, Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA.
Washington University in St. Louis · USSaint Louis University · USDalhousie University · CAPandit Ravishankar Shukla University · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It has been posited that populations being exposed to long-term air pollution are more susceptible to COVID-19. Evidence is emerging that long-term exposure to ambient PM

Indexed as

Air PollutantsAir PollutionCOVID-19Environmental ExposureHumansParticulate MatterSARS-CoV-2United StatesAir PollutantsParticulate MatterBlack carbonCOVID-19NAAQSParticulate matterReproduction ratioSulfate nitrate ammonium

Identifiers

PMID33250247
PMCPMC7651233
OpenAlexW3104205111

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Registered trials

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