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ReviewCurrent environmental health reports2025

Open Air Quality Data Platforms for Environmental Health Research and Action.

Colleen Marciel Rosales, Jennifer R Bratburd, Sebastian Diez, Sara Duncan, Carl Malings, Pallavi Pant

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Review in Current environmental health reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
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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

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

6 authors.

Colleen Marciel RosalesOpenAQ, Washington, DC, USA. cfrosales@ucdavis.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8925-8352
Jennifer R BratburdUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5787-1470
Sebastian DiezCentro de Investigacion en Tecnologias para la Sociedad, Universidad del Desarollo, Santiago, Chile.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9659-0356
Sara DuncanSchool of Health Sciences, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9200-9680
Carl MalingsMorgan State University, Baltimore, MD, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2242-4328
Pallavi PantHealth Effects Institute, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0251-6580

Funding

Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo de Chile (ANID) through FONDECYT 1221951NASA Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team 80NSSC21K0427NASA Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team 80NSSC22K1473
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewAir pollution remains the greatest environmental threat to public health, and significantly impacts many aspects of human life. This review surveys digital platforms that provide data openly and make air quality data available for use and analysis by environmental health researchers for scientific research and to inform air quality action. RECENT

findingsSuccessful programs that rely on different types of open air quality data have been observed and exist as models for regions that have yet to improve their air quality. However, disparities remain in the availability and granularity of generated air quality data in resource-rich and resource-poor regions. Even if air quality data are made available and open, their usability and actionability still remain challenging. Determinants of usability may include the user’s technical know-how and ability to deal with disparate data; compute capabilities; barriers in data sharing and data generation; and misuse and misclassification of data and levels and sources of exposure. However, the synthesis of different sources of data and advancements in modeling may help fill in spatiotemporal gaps in many areas of the world. In addition, the democratization of air quality data is facilitated by advancements in air quality data generation (e.g., data collection by open-source air sensors) and the ability to contribute to global, open-access, publicly available repositories that openly share data. Many open data platforms exist for sharing and accessing ground-based/in-situ data, satellite remote sensing data, and modeled or otherwise derived outputs. Online platforms that allow visualization and analysis without the need to download software are also now widely available. Despite wide availability, disparities in accessibility exist—expansion and support through interdisciplinary collaboration and continuous funding support for air quality data is essential for the continuous global benefit and community-specific action to address air quality as an environmental health issue.

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Air PollutionEnvironmental HealthEnvironmental MonitoringInformation DisseminationAir PollutantsHumansAir PollutantsAir PollutionAir QualityAir Quality DatabasesAir Quality RepositoriesAir SensorsGround-level MonitoringOpen DataSatellite Remote Sensing Data

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PMID40748570
PMCPMC12316772

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