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Aaron van Donkelaar

Aaron van Donkelaar

Washington University in St. Louis

ORCID: 0000-0002-2998-8521

Also affiliated with Department of Energy and Environment

Environmental ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences

Pilot corpus only

This score is computed over theSindex pilot corpus and does not cover the full scientific literature. Scores are relative to papers we have ingested — papers, authors, and institutions outside the pilot are not represented. Methodology.

Top 1%percentile

10.4Author DataRank

Indexed papers

1in pilot corpus

datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6· scope data_onlyMethodology

Why this DataRank?

An author's DataRank is the sum of the DataRanks of all 1 indexed paper attributed to them. A prolific author with many moderate-impact papers can outrank one with a single high-impact paper.

Author scores recompute whenever paper DataRanks are refreshed, so this number lags the underlying paper scores by at most one batch run.

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Top data-sharing exemplar

The highest-impact dataset this researcher has shared, ranked by DataRank — the single contribution doing the most to lift their data-sharing standing.

Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

The Lancet(2020)10.1016/s0140-6736(20)30752-2

Top 1%

10.4DataRank

Top 1%9671 citations

Aleksandr Y. Aravkin, Cristiana Abbafati, Kaja M Abbas, Mohsen Abbasi-Kangevari, Foad Abd-Allah +997 more

Papers

Driven by 11 papers — median percentile 99. Top paper: “Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019”.

Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

The Lancet(2020)10.1016/s0140-6736(20)30752-2

Top 1%

10.4DataRank

Top 1%9671 citations

Aleksandr Y. Aravkin, Cristiana Abbafati, Kaja M Abbas, Mohsen Abbasi-Kangevari, Foad Abd-Allah +997 more

A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

The Lancet(2012)10.1016/s0140-6736(12)61766-8

N/A

1.4DataRank · unranked

11963 citations

Theo Vos, Abraham D Flaxman, Goodarz Danaei, Abbas Sheikhtaheri, Heather Adair-Rohani +254 more

Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

The Lancet(2016)10.1016/s0140-6736(16)31679-8

N/A

1.3DataRank · unranked

7768 citations

Ashkan Afshin, Lily T Alexander, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Stan Biryukov, Michael Brauer +928 more

Fine Particle Exposure and Clinical Aggravation in Neurodegenerative Diseases in New York State

Environmental Health Perspectives(2021)10.1289/ehp7425

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

53 citations

Amelia K. Boehme, Marc G. Weisskopf, Diane B. Ré, Ana Navas‐Acién, Aaron van Donkelaar +3 more

Incident dementia and long-term exposure to constituents of fine particle air pollution: A national cohort study in the United States

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(2022)10.1073/pnas.2211282119

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

143 citations

Qiao Zhu, Yifan Wang, Hua Hao, Haisu Zhang, Joel Schwartz +16 more

Fine particulate matter composition in American Indian vs. Non-American Indian communities

Environmental Research(2023)10.1016/j.envres.2023.117091

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

3 citations

Vivian Do, Jada L. Brooks, Markus Hilpert, Jeff Goldsmith, Steven N. Chillrud +9 more

Comparison of PM2.5 Air Pollution Exposures and Health Effects Associations Using 11 Different Modeling Approaches in the Women’s Health Initiative Memory Study (WHIMS)

Environmental Health Perspectives(2024)10.1289/ehp12995

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

10 citations

Erin Bennett, Katie M. Lynch, James D. Stewart, Xiaohui Xu, Eun Sug Park +16 more

Associations of exposure to PM2.5 and its compounds with carotid intima-media thickness among middle-aged adults

The Science of The Total Environment(2024)10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.177098

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

5 citations

Jie Yao, DAVID R. JACOBS, Randall V. Martin, Aaron van Donkelaar, Wei‐Chung Su +8 more

Estimates of submicron particulate matter (PM1) concentrations for 1998–2022 across the contiguous USA: leveraging measurements of PM1 with nationwide PM2·5 component data

The Lancet Planetary Health(2025)10.1016/s2542-5196(25)00094-4

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

6 citations

Randall V. Martin, Aaron van Donkelaar, J. L. Jiménez, Qi Zhang, Jay R. Turner +6 more

A Hybrid Approach to Estimating National Scale Spatiotemporal Variability of PM 2.5 in the Contiguous United States

Figshare(2020)10.17615/geqv-xq68

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

14 citations

Aaron van Donkelaar, Zev Ross, Marc L. Serre, Randall V. Martin, Seung‐Jae Lee +4 more

Long-term exposure to PM2.5 major components and mortality in the southeastern United States

Environment International(2021)10.1016/j.envint.2021.106969

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

111 citations

Siyao Xiao, Yuhan Zhang, Howard H. Chang, Randall V. Martin, Aaron van Donkelaar +5 more