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Article

Research Progress on Aerobiology in the Last 30 Years: A Focus on Methodology and Occupational Health

by
Andrea Lancia
1,2,
Pasquale Capone
1,
Nicoletta Vonesch
1,
Armando Pelliccioni
1,
Carlo Grandi
1,
Donatella Magri
2 and
Maria Concetta D’Ovidio
1,*
1
Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Epidemiology and Hygiene, Italian Workers’ Compensation Authority (INAIL), Monte Porzio Catone, 00078 Rome, Italy
2
Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Sustainability 2021, 13(8), 4337; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13084337
Submission received: 8 March 2021 / Revised: 8 April 2021 / Accepted: 9 April 2021 / Published: 13 April 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Integrated Evaluation of Indoor Particulate Matter (VIEPI) Project: Study Design, Results and Open Questions)
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Abstract

Aerobiology, as a scientific discipline, developed during the last century and has been applied to different types of organisms and scenarios. In the context of the Integrated Evaluation of Indoor Particulate Exposure (VIEPI) project, we conducted a bibliometric study of the scientific literature on aerobiology from the last three decades, establishing the recent advances and the critical issues regarding the application of aerobiological methods to occupational settings. The data were collected from Scopus, Web of Science and PubMed. We explored the distribution of the articles in different years and research areas and realized a bibliometric analysis using the CiteSpace software. The results indicated that the number of publications is increasing. The studies related to environmental sciences were the most represented, while the number of occupational studies was more limited. The most common keywords were related to pollen, fungal spores and their relation with phenology, climate change and human health. This article shows that aerobiology is not restricted to the study of pollen and spores, extending the discipline and the application of aerobiological methods to occupational settings, currently under-explored.
Keywords: aerobiology; systematic search; bibliometric analysis; databases; occupational health; methodology aerobiology; systematic search; bibliometric analysis; databases; occupational health; methodology

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Lancia, A.; Capone, P.; Vonesch, N.; Pelliccioni, A.; Grandi, C.; Magri, D.; D’Ovidio, M.C. Research Progress on Aerobiology in the Last 30 Years: A Focus on Methodology and Occupational Health. Sustainability 2021, 13, 4337. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13084337

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Lancia A, Capone P, Vonesch N, Pelliccioni A, Grandi C, Magri D, D’Ovidio MC. Research Progress on Aerobiology in the Last 30 Years: A Focus on Methodology and Occupational Health. Sustainability. 2021; 13(8):4337. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13084337

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Lancia, Andrea, Pasquale Capone, Nicoletta Vonesch, Armando Pelliccioni, Carlo Grandi, Donatella Magri, and Maria Concetta D’Ovidio. 2021. "Research Progress on Aerobiology in the Last 30 Years: A Focus on Methodology and Occupational Health" Sustainability 13, no. 8: 4337. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13084337

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Lancia, A., Capone, P., Vonesch, N., Pelliccioni, A., Grandi, C., Magri, D., & D’Ovidio, M. C. (2021). Research Progress on Aerobiology in the Last 30 Years: A Focus on Methodology and Occupational Health. Sustainability, 13(8), 4337. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13084337

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