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Relevance: 46.2% · 36 of 78 studies
36 of 78 unique titled OpenAlex article records linked by the researcher’s saved ORCID contain an eligible thermal or environmental title term. Percentage = matching titles ÷ unique titled articles × 100, rounded to one decimal. Case-insensitive, bounded word families: temperature/temperatures; heat/heated/heating, heatwave/heatwaves, heatstroke and heatstress/heatstrain; thermal/thermally, thermoregulation/thermoregulatory, thermophysiology/thermophysiological, thermogenesis/thermogenic, thermoneutral/thermoneutrality, hyperthermia/hyperthermic and hypothermia/hypothermic; hot/hotter/hottest; warm/warming/warmed/warmth and warmer/warmest; cold/colder/coldest/coldness; cool/cooling/cooled/cooler/coolers/coolest; sunlight, solar, sun exposure/sun exposures/sun-exposed; environment/environments/environmental/environmentally. Plural and inflected forms are included only where listed. Hyphens and punctuation separate words, so heat-extraction, heat-induced and cold-induced match. Arbitrary substrings do not match. Each title counts once, even with several keywords. Duplicate normalized titles and blank titles are excluded. 0 blank/untitled and 1 duplicate records excluded. Source updated 2026-10-21 UTC; analyzed 2026-10-21 UTC. Automatically refreshed weekly. OpenAlex coverage and ORCID links may be incomplete; this title keyword measure does not establish thermophysiology expertise.
Publication source ↗Population relevance
- Occupational0% (0/78)
- Sport10.3% (8/78)
- Military14.1% (11/78)
- Clinical10.3% (8/78)
- General populations65.4% (51/78)
Title-based estimate across all 78 unique titled ORCID-linked article records from OpenAlex, including titles without thermal keywords. General populations includes unspecified populations. Study participants are not verified; titles and source coverage may be incomplete.
Classification method
Automatic estimate of population relevance from every unique nonblank ORCID-linked article title, including titles without a thermal keyword. Each article enters exactly one category. Worker/occupation, athlete and military/patient population cues score 5; occupational settings, sport-specific activities, military service contexts, clinical care and specified disease or physiological-condition cues score 3 per matched concept group. Repeated synonyms in one group do not add points. The highest score wins; equal scores use Military, Occupational, Clinical, then Sport. The standalone word work is an Occupational setting cue, including when separated by hyphens. Finite role and condition terms include farming and construction work, labour/labor productivity, physical or simulated work, work-rest scheduling and protective equipment; running, cycling, named sports and Olympics; service personnel, defence/defense forces, Coast Guard and submarine escape; diabetes, hypertension, pregnancy and paraplegia with related conditions. Vocabulary is informed by NLM MeSH and research-title terminology; this is not MeSH indexing or a clinically validated classifier. General populations includes general-community wording and titles with insufficient population information. Generic exercise, training, performance or environment alone does not identify a population. Word boundaries prevent network, framework or artwork from matching work. Occupational therapy supplies clinical care evidence. Army ants/worms, soldier beetles, marine biology, running water, thermal cycling and stroke volume do not by themselves supply a population cue. No abstracts, full texts or participant data are examined; categories may be wrong or incomplete and are not verified study populations or expertise judgments.
Titles analysed 2026-10-21 UTC.
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Integrative thermoregulation
How heat production, circulation and heat loss interact.
Explore topicHeat adaptation
Physiological adaptation to repeated heat exposure.
Explore topicExercise and sport
Thermal demands of training and competition.
Explore topicOccupational heat and protection
Heat exposure during work and the effects of protective clothing.
Explore topicCold exposure and injury
Heat conservation and physiological strain in cold environments.
Explore topicThermal ergonomics and comfort
Thermal conditions in buildings and the environments people use.
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Aspetar
Aspetar’s clinical sports science research includes athlete responses to heat, heat-acclimation preparation, cooling countermeasures and altitude-related performance questions.
Canada
Environmental Ergonomics Lab
Brock’s Environmental Ergonomics Lab investigates how heat, cold, hydration and altitude affect human physiology and performance, applying findings to safe work, recreation and equipment design.
United Kingdom
Environmental Ergonomics Research Centre
The Environmental Ergonomics Research Centre studies human responses to heat and cold, thermal comfort, clothing, work and performance. Its facilities include climate chambers and thermal manikin testing.
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Impact of Burn Injury Size on Critical Environmental Limits during Exercise in the Heat in Young and Middle-Aged Adults. ↗
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