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ArticleAtmospheric measurement techniques2021

Development and Application of a United States wide correction for PM

Karoline K Barkjohn, Brett Gantt, Andrea L Clements

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Article in Atmospheric measurement techniques, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 94 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
94citing papers in PubMed
20.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

94 citing papers in PubMed, 324 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Wearable Personal PMmedRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026
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  10. Hourly PMACS ES&T air · 2026
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  11. PurpleAir Sensor Deployment Trends and Uncertainties.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  14. Field Evaluation of Community Condensation Particle Counters, Optical Particle Counters, and a Low-Cost Particle Sensor.Aerosol science and technology : the journal of the American Association for Aerosol Research · 2026
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  17. Ambient PMCurrent environmental health reports · 2026
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34 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

3 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Karoline K BarkjohnOffice of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 109 T.W. Alexander Drive Research Triangle Park, NC 27711.
Brett GanttOffice of Air Quality Planning and Standards, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 109 T.W. Alexander Drive Research Triangle Park, NC 27711.
Andrea L ClementsOffice of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 109 T.W. Alexander Drive Research Triangle Park, NC 27711.
Environmental Protection Agency · US

Funding

Intramural EPA EPA999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PurpleAir sensors, which measure particulate matter (PM), are widely used by individuals, community groups, and other organizations including state and local air monitoring agencies. PurpleAir sensors comprise a massive global network of more than 10,000 sensors. Previous performance evaluations have typically studied a limited number of PurpleAir sensors in small geographic areas or laboratory environments. While useful for determining sensor behavior and data normalization for these geographic areas, little work has been done to understand the broad applicability of these results outside these regions and conditions. Here, PurpleAir sensors operated by air quality monitoring agencies are evaluated in comparison to collocated ambient air quality regulatory instruments. In total, almost 12,000 24-hour averaged PM

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PMID34504625
PMCPMC8422884
OpenAlexW3109504479

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