David P. Laplante

6.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
91 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

David P. Laplante is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, David P. Laplante has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 53 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 42 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in David P. Laplante's work include Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (51 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (35 papers) and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (22 papers). David P. Laplante is often cited by papers focused on Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (51 papers), Birth, Development, and Health (35 papers) and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (22 papers). David P. Laplante collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Australia and United States. David P. Laplante's co-authors include Suzanne King, Alain Brunet, Guillaume Elgbeili, Kelsey N. Dancause, Franz Veru, Cathy Vaillancourt, Arnaud Charil, Antonio Ciampi, Lei Cao-Lei and Moshe Szyf and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and Biological Psychiatry.

In The Last Decade

David P. Laplante

88 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Prenatal stress and brain development

2010 413 citations Arnaud Charil, David P. Laplante et al. Brain Research Reviews profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David P. Laplante Canada	37	2.1k	1.9k	1.6k	823	671	91	4.6k
Kieran J. O’Donnell Canada	29	1.6k 0.8×	1.7k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	760 0.9×	593 0.9×	88	4.0k
Catherine Monk United States	41	2.1k 1.0×	3.0k 1.6×	2.1k 1.3×	618 0.8×	794 1.2×	151	5.4k
Kati Heinonen Finland	53	3.5k 1.6×	1.8k 0.9×	1.4k 0.9×	566 0.7×	570 0.8×	246	7.9k
Anu‐Katriina Pesonen Finland	54	3.5k 1.7×	1.9k 1.0×	1.6k 1.0×	610 0.7×	615 0.9×	238	7.9k
Suzanne King Canada	45	2.8k 1.3×	2.8k 1.5×	3.0k 1.9×	1.4k 1.8×	1.3k 1.9×	157	7.8k
Susanne R. de Rooij Netherlands	40	3.4k 1.6×	1.5k 0.8×	969 0.6×	903 1.1×	545 0.8×	127	6.6k
Rebecca M. Pearson United Kingdom	37	1.3k 0.6×	3.5k 1.8×	3.0k 1.8×	533 0.6×	1.2k 1.7×	141	6.5k
Bea Van den Bergh Belgium	40	2.7k 1.3×	3.6k 1.9×	2.9k 1.8×	839 1.0×	1.0k 1.6×	132	7.3k
Aleksandra Chicz-DeMet United States	30	1.5k 0.7×	1.9k 1.0×	1.1k 0.7×	899 1.1×	497 0.7×	52	4.0k
Anja C. Huizink Netherlands	45	2.7k 1.3×	3.1k 1.6×	3.7k 2.3×	997 1.2×	1.2k 1.8×	185	8.6k

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Qureshi, Muhammad Naveed Iqbal, David P. Laplante, Guillaume Elgbeili, et al.. (2023). Atypical brain structure and function in young adults exposed to disaster‐related prenatal maternal stress: Project Ice Storm. Journal of Neuroscience Research. 101(12). 1849–1863. 3 indexed citations

Kulesz, Paulina A., Guillaume Elgbeili, Brian Biekman, et al.. (2023). Maternal mental health mediates the effect of prenatal stress on infant temperament: The Harvey Mom Study. Development and Psychopathology. 36(2). 893–907. 3 indexed citations

Simcock, Gabrielle, Sue Kildea, Marie‐Paule Austin, et al.. (2023). Urinary 1H NMR Metabolomic Analysis of Prenatal Maternal Stress Due to a Natural Disaster Reveals Metabolic Risk Factors for Non-Communicable Diseases: The QF2011 Queensland Flood Study. Metabolites. 13(4). 579–579. 4 indexed citations

Paquin, Vincent, Johanna Bick, Guillaume Elgbeili, et al.. (2021). Unexpected effects of expressive writing on post-disaster distress in the Hurricane Harvey Study: a randomized controlled trial in perinatal women. Psychological Medicine. 52(16). 3895–3903. 10 indexed citations

Simcock, Gabrielle, Vanessa E. Cobham, David P. Laplante, et al.. (2019). A cross-lagged panel analysis of children's sleep, attention, and mood in a prenatally stressed cohort: The QF2011 Queensland flood study. Journal of Affective Disorders. 255. 96–104. 23 indexed citations

Simcock, Gabrielle, Sue Kildea, Sue Kruske, et al.. (2018). Disaster in pregnancy: midwifery continuity positively impacts infant neurodevelopment, QF2011 study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 18(1). 309–309. 22 indexed citations

Laplante, David P., et al.. (2018). Prenatal Maternal Stress from a Natural Disaster Alters Urinary Metabolomic Profiles in Project Ice Storm Participants. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 12932–12932. 29 indexed citations

Moss, Katrina M., Gabrielle Simcock, Vanessa E. Cobham, et al.. (2018). Continuous, emerging, and dissipating associations between prenatal maternal stress and child cognitive and motor development: The QF2011 Queensland Flood Study. Early Human Development. 119. 29–37. 12 indexed citations

Simcock, Gabrielle, Sue Kildea, Guillaume Elgbeili, et al.. (2017). Prenatal maternal stress shapes children’s theory of mind: the QF2011 Queensland Flood Study. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. 8(4). 483–492. 26 indexed citations

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Cao-Lei, Lei, Franz Veru, Guillaume Elgbeili, et al.. (2016). Additional file 1: of DNA methylation mediates the effect of exposure to prenatal maternal stress on cytokine production in children at age 13½ years: Project Ice Storm. Figshare. 1 indexed citations

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Dancause, Kelsey N., Guillaume Elgbeili, David P. Laplante, et al.. (2016). Dietary change mediates relationships between stress during pregnancy and infant head circumference measures: the QF2011 study. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 13(3). 30 indexed citations

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Brock, Rebecca L., Michael W. O’Hara, Kimberly J. Hart, et al.. (2015). Peritraumatic Distress Mediates the Effect of Severity of Disaster Exposure on Perinatal Depression: The Iowa Flood Study. Journal of Traumatic Stress. 28(6). 515–522. 36 indexed citations

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Cao-Lei, Lei, Guillaume Elgbeili, Renaud Massart, et al.. (2015). Pregnant women’s cognitive appraisal of a natural disaster affects DNA methylation in their children 13 years later: Project Ice Storm. Translational Psychiatry. 5(2). e515–e515. 65 indexed citations

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Laplante, David P., Alain Brunet, & Suzanne King. (2015). The effects of maternal stress and illness during pregnancy on infant temperament: Project Ice Storm. Pediatric Research. 79(1). 107–113. 76 indexed citations

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Turcotte‐Tremblay, Anne‐Marie, Robert H. Lim, David P. Laplante, et al.. (2014). Prenatal Maternal Stress Predicts Childhood Asthma in Girls: Project Ice Storm. BioMed Research International. 2014. 1–10. 52 indexed citations

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Cao, Xiujing, David P. Laplante, Alain Brunet, Antonio Ciampi, & Suzanne King. (2012). Prenatal maternal stress affects motor function in 5½‐year‐old children: Project Ice Storm. Developmental Psychobiology. 56(1). 117–125. 65 indexed citations

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Dancause, Kelsey N., David P. Laplante, Sarah Fraser, et al.. (2011). Prenatal exposure to a natural disaster increases risk for obesity in 5½-year-old children. Pediatric Research. 71(1). 126–131. 84 indexed citations

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Charil, Arnaud, David P. Laplante, Cathy Vaillancourt, & Suzanne King. (2010). Prenatal stress and brain development. Brain Research Reviews. 65(1). 56–79. 413 indexed citations breakdown →

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Laplante, David P., Ronald G. Barr, Alain Brunet, et al.. (2004). Stress During Pregnancy Affects General Intellectual and Language Functioning in Human Toddlers. Pediatric Research. 56(3). 400–410. 333 indexed citations

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Kisilevsky, Barbara S., et al.. (1999). Newborns discriminate schematic faces from scrambled faces.. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale. 53(3). 231–241. 19 indexed citations

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