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ArticleAtmospheric pollution research2022

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on air pollution: A global assessment using machine learning techniques.

Jasper S Wijnands, Kerry A Nice, Sachith Seneviratne, Jason Thompson, Mark Stevenson

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Article in Atmospheric pollution research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
4.0field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Jasper S WijnandsTransport, Health and Urban Design Research Lab, Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC 3010, Australia.
Kerry A NiceTransport, Health and Urban Design Research Lab, Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC 3010, Australia.
Sachith SeneviratneTransport, Health and Urban Design Research Lab, Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC 3010, Australia.
Jason ThompsonTransport, Health and Urban Design Research Lab, Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC 3010, Australia.
Mark StevensonTransport, Health and Urban Design Research Lab, Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC 3010, Australia.
The University of Melbourne · AURoyal Netherlands Meteorological Institute · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, most countries implemented public health ordinances that resulted in restricted mobility and a resultant change in air quality. This has provided an opportunity to quantify the extent to which carbon-based transport and industrial activity affect air quality. However, quantification of these complex effects has proven to be difficult, depending on the stringency of restrictions, country-specific emission source profiles, long-term trends and meteorological effects on atmospheric chemistry, emission levels and in-flow from nearby countries. In this study, confounding factors were disentangled for a direct comparison of pandemic-related reductions in absolute pollutions levels, globally. The non-linear relationships between atmospheric processes and daily ground-level NO

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COVID-19Decision treesMobilityNitrogen dioxideOzoneParticulate matter

Identifiers

PMID35506000
PMCPMC9047632
OpenAlexW4225312687

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Registered trials

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