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October 30, 2024
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Impact of the mobility alteration on air pollution over different cities: A vision for citizen awareness

Publicated to: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH. 29 (53): 81048-81062 - 2022-01-01 29(53), DOI: 10.1007/s11356-022-21326-3

Authors:

Cárcel-Carrasco, Javier; Martínez-Corral, Aurora-María; Aparicio Fernandez, Carolina Sabina; Kaur, Jangveer
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Univ Politecn Valencia, Dept Architectural Construct, ITM - Author
Univ Politecn Valencia, ETSA - Author
Univ Politecn Valencia, ETSIE - Author
Univ Politecn Valencia, ITM - Author
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Abstract

Every year the concern from environmental pollution increases as it affects human health. In the current paper, it is analyzed the evolution of the air quality in different cities on international level related to the reduction in mobility trend due to the emergence of the pandemic. The air pollution is studied in order to achieve healthier cities in the future and create an awareness for the citizens. The COVID-19 pandemic situation was declared during the first months of 2020 and has shown (indirectly) the effects that restrictions on human activity and road traffic have on atmospheric pollutant values. This pandemic condition derived, in most cases, in mobility restrictions in order to decrease the spread of the virus through the density of population in different places and, as a result of these restrictions, pollutant presence decreased equally. This article analyzes some of the largest cities around the world, such as Tsuen Wan district in Hong Kong (China), Los Angeles (USA), London (UK), Sao Paulo (Brazil), Bangalore (India), Johannesburg (South Africa), and Sydney (Australia) in order to check the different mobility restriction policies established in each location, and how those restrictions led to decrease the levels of some pollutant particles such as NO2 in the atmosphere. This should serve as a focus of awareness of the city and political interests of how it affects human activity, and those measures should be taken to reduce pollutants.
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Keywords

Air pollutantAir pollutantsAir pollutionAtmospheric pollutionBengaluruBrazilCaliforniaChinaCitiesCityCovid-19Emission controlEnglandEnvironmental monitoringGautengHong kongHumanHuman activityHumansIndiaJohannesburgKarnatakaLondon [england]Los angeles [california]MobilityNew territoriesNitrogen dioxideNo2PandemicPandemicsParticulate matterPollutionRoad trafficSocial mobilitySouth africaTrafficTsuen wanUnited kingdomUnited states

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2022, it was in position 67/275, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Environmental Sciences.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2026-04-02:

  • WoS: 1
  • Scopus: 2
  • Europe PMC: 1
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-02:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 29.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 29 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 10.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 1 (Altmetric).
  • The number of mentions in news outlets: 1 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Germany.

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Cárcel Carrasco, Francisco Javier) and Last Author (Kaur, J).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Kaur, J.

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