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Noise dose: what the evidence base looks like

11 publications, 0 of them trials and 0 syntheses. This page describes the shape of that literature rather than summarising its conclusions.

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What the evidence on noise dose is made of Of 11 publications on this topic, the breakdown by study type: 11 other. 11other (11)
11 publications, by study type. Volume is not strength — the same count can be a settled question or a pile of commentary, and which one it is depends almost entirely on this breakdown. Harvested from PubMed and Crossref; publication type as recorded by the source.

What this literature is made of

A reasonable volume of literature, but weighted towards reviews and observational work rather than trials. That is enough to describe a phenomenon and rarely enough to establish that an intervention works.

The distinction that matters most is between synthesis and primary research. A meta-analysis pools trials and is the closest thing to a settled answer a field produces. A narrative review is one group's reading of the same material and can be selective without being dishonest. Counting them together, which most citation counts do, obscures exactly the thing you want to know.

When the noise dose literature was published Publication years for the 11 papers on this topic, grouped into bands from before 2015 through to 2023 onwards. 2023 onwards7 papers2015-20193 papers2020-20221 papers
Still active. The most recent paper here is from 2026, so this is a field where an answer written today may not hold for long. Publication years as recorded by PubMed and Crossref.

How this page is built

Everything above is computed from the citations this site harvested from PubMed and Crossref, not written by hand. When the weekly harvest finds a new paper on this topic, these counts change and the characterisation changes with them. That is the point: a hand-written claim about how strong an evidence base is starts decaying the day it is written.

Publication type is taken as the source records it. That is imperfect — journals label inconsistently, and a paper indexed as a "review" may be a systematic one — so treat the bands as approximate. They are accurate enough to distinguish a trial literature from a commentary literature, which is the distinction that matters.

The strongest work on this topic

Ordered by study design first, then recency. The full set is listed in the references below.

  1. Association between Noise Exposure and Occupational Stress among Coal Miners — Jiang W, Li X, Yu C et al., 2026, journal article
  2. Occupational Noise Exposure of Farm Operators: Hazards and Controls — McCullagh M, 2025, journal article
  3. ASSESSMENT OF HEARING LOSS RISK DUE TO OCCUPATIONAL AND NON-OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE TO NOISE — Jović O, Beha A, Huremović A, 2025, journal article
  4. P-568 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OCCUPATIONAL NOISE EXPOSURE AND BINAURAL HEARING LOSS — Zhang J, Zhou Z, 2024, journal article
  5. Correlation between Occupational Noise Exposure and Renal Dysfunction in Male Workers — Zhang S, Shen L, Wang Q et al., 2024, journal article
  6. The 2023 Technology for a Quieter America Workshop: occupational noise exposure - risks and controls — Thompson J, 2024, journal article
  7. Middle Ear Muscle Reflex in Normal-Hearing Individuals with Occupational Noise Exposure — Vasudevamurthy S, Kumar A, 2023, journal article
  8. Auditory and non-auditory effects, monitoring and mapping of occupational exposure to noise — Luzzi S, Vasilyev A, 2022, journal article
  9. Everyday Exposure to Occupational/Non-Occupational Infrasound Noise in Our Life — Zagubień A, Wolniewicz K, 2016, journal article
  10. Noise and low‐frequency sound levels due to aerial fireworks and prediction of the occupational exposure of pyrotechnicians to noise — Tanaka T, Inaba R, Aoyama A, 2016, journal article
How much research is there on noise dose?
11 publications are indexed here, of which 0 are trials and 0 are syntheses.
Does more research mean a stronger conclusion?
No. Composition matters more than volume — five randomised trials support a claim far better than fifty commentaries, and citation counts do not distinguish between them.
How current is this?
The most recent paper indexed here is from 2026. The set is refreshed weekly from PubMed and Crossref.
Why does this page not tell me the answer?
Because summarising a literature into a conclusion requires reading it, and doing that automatically is how confident nonsense gets published. This page tells you how much weight a conclusion could bear; the articles on this site do the interpreting.

References

Every citation below links to the original peer-reviewed record on PubMed or via DOI. Nothing here is a substitute for medical advice.

  1. Association between Noise Exposure and Occupational Stress among Coal Miners Jiang W, Li X, Yu C, et al. · Noise and Health · 2026 · Journal article DOI
  2. Occupational Noise Exposure of Farm Operators: Hazards and Controls McCullagh M · Noise Control Engineering Journal · 2025 · Journal article DOI
  3. ASSESSMENT OF HEARING LOSS RISK DUE TO OCCUPATIONAL AND NON-OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE TO NOISE Jović O, Beha A, Huremović A · Research in Education and Rehabilitation · 2025 · Journal article DOI
  4. P-568 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OCCUPATIONAL NOISE EXPOSURE AND BINAURAL HEARING LOSS Zhang J, Zhou Z · Occupational Medicine · 2024 · Journal article DOI
  5. The 2023 Technology for a Quieter America Workshop: occupational noise exposure - risks and controls Thompson J · INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings · 2024 · Journal article DOI
  6. Correlation between Occupational Noise Exposure and Renal Dysfunction in Male Workers Zhang S, Shen L, Wang Q, et al. · Noise and Health · 2024 · Journal article DOI
  7. Middle Ear Muscle Reflex in Normal-Hearing Individuals with Occupational Noise Exposure Vasudevamurthy S, Kumar A · Noise and Health · 2023 · Journal article DOI
  8. Auditory and non-auditory effects, monitoring and mapping of occupational exposure to noise Luzzi S, Vasilyev A · Noise Mapping · 2022 · Journal article DOI
  9. Everyday Exposure to Occupational/Non-Occupational Infrasound Noise in Our Life Zagubień A, Wolniewicz K · Archives of Acoustics · 2016 · Journal article DOI
  10. Noise and low‐frequency sound levels due to aerial fireworks and prediction of the occupational exposure of pyrotechnicians to noise Tanaka T, Inaba R, Aoyama A · Journal of Occupational Health · 2016 · Journal article DOI
  11. Age-related hearing decline in individuals with and without occupational noise exposure Hederstierna C, Rosenhall U · Noise and Health · 2016 · Journal article DOI