Eric A. Whitsel

23.0k citations

226 papers · 9.2k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 42

Impact in

Aging top 0.5%
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis top 0.2%
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging

Papers in

Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 89
- Air Quality and Health Impacts 75
- Climate Change and Health Impacts 39
- Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging 15
Speech and Hearing 26
- Noise Effects and Management 23

Co-authors: James D. Stewart Lifang Hou Andrea Baccarelli Yun Li Steve Horvath Alex P. Reiner Themistocles L. Assimes Abraham Aviv
Journals: Circulation (15 papers)Environmental Health Perspectives (15 papers)Epidemiology (10 papers)Alzheimer s & Dementia (8 papers)Environmental Research (7 papers)
Partner nations: United States South Africa United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Eric A. Whitsel

199 papers receiving 9.0k citations

Hit Papers

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Variation in Population Attributable Fraction of Dementia Associated With Potentially Modifiable Risk Factors by Race and Ethnicity in the US 2022 · 105 citations

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it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2022 JAMA Network Open
2019 Aging
2019 International Journal of Epidemiology
2018 Aging

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1	Air Pollutants and Breast Cancer Risk: A Parallel Analysis of Five Large US Prospective Cohorts American Journal of Public Health ·Alexandra J. White, Jaime E. Hart, Sabah M. Quraishi, 敏雅高橋, 范明星, Elizabeth W. Spalt, Michael Hendryx, Veronica L. Irvin, Dorothy S. Lane, Aladdin H. Shadyab, Shawnita Sealy–Jefferson, Marian L. Neuhouser, Eric A. Whitsel, Joel D. Kaufman, Francine Laden, Dale P. Sandler	2025	0
2	Correlates and consequences of clonal hematopoiesis expansion rate: a 16-year longitudinal study of 6976 women Blood ·Yash Pershad, Md Mesbah Uddin, Charles J. Semowich, Jeffrey Haessler, Jason M. Collins, Taralynn Mack, Francis X. Connolly, V. M. Glaser, Troya Altamirano, Siddhartha Jaiswal, JoAnn E. Manson, Urvashi Pandey, Pinkal Desai, Pradeep Natarajan, Michael C. Honigberg, Charles Kooperberg, Eric A. Whitsel, Jacob O. Kitzman, Alexander G. Bick, Alex P. Reiner	2025	4
3	Radon Exposure and Incident Stroke Risk in the Women's Health Initiative. UNC Libraries ·David Huang, Rahul Gondalia, Justin Stander, Tohit Eusni Rahayu Mohd, James D. Stewart, Carmen M. Camacho Adarve, Eric A. Whitsel, Richard L. Smith, Jason M. Collins, R. Randall Schumann, Gary G. Schwartz, Mara Z. Vitolins, Alexander P. Reiner, JoAnn E. Manson	2025	0
4	Data Resource Profile: Add Health Mortality Outcomes Surveillance International Journal of Epidemiology ·Elizabeth Lawrence, Hendri Boy, Tohit Eusni Rahayu Mohd, Robert A. Hummer, A. Rodriguez-Vhzquez, Derrick Gilchrist Edward Manoharan, Laura R. Loehr, Kathleen Mullan Harris, Eric A. Whitsel	2024	1
5	Aircraft noise exposure and body mass index among female participants in two Nurses’ Health Study prospective cohorts living around 90 airports in the United States Environment International ·Apoorva BVS, Francine Laden, Jaime E. Hart, Susan Redline, Tianyi Huang, Eric A. Whitsel, J. Martínez-Gallego, Stephanie T. Grady, Jonathan I. Levy, Junenette L. Peters	2024	1
6	Radon Exposure and Incident Stroke Risk in the Women's Health Initiative Neurology ·Carmen M. Camacho Adarve, Jason M. Collins, Eglė Bakučionytė, Justin Stander, James D. Stewart, Rahul Gondalia, David Huang, JoAnn E. Manson, Alexander P. Reiner, Gary G. Schwartz, Mara Z. Vitolins, R. Randall Schumann, Richard L. Smith, Eric A. Whitsel	2024	3
7	A comparison of PM2.5 exposure estimates from different estimation methods and their associations with cognitive testing and brain MRI outcomes Environmental Research ·Melinda C. Power, Belkis González Santos, Erin Bennett, Qi Ying, Eun Sug Park, Xiaohui Xu, Richard L. Smith, James D. Stewart, Jeff D. Yanosky, Duanping Liao, Aaron van Donkelaar, Joel D. Kaufman, Lianne Sheppard, Adam A. Szpiro, Eric A. Whitsel	2024	1
8	Association of midlife air pollution exposures and residential road proximity with incident dementia: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study Environmental Research ·David Cardona-Vasquez, Belkis González Santos, 卓郎和田, Erin Bennett, Xiaohui Xu, Eric A. Whitsel, Richard L. Smith, James D. Stewart, Eun Sug Park, Qi Ying, Melinda C. Power	2024	0
9	Air pollution and decreased bone mineral density among Women's Health Initiative participants EClinicalMedicine ·Diddier Prada, Carolyn Crandall, Allison Kupsco, Marianthi‐Anna Kioumourtzoglou, James D. Stewart, Duanping Liao, Jeff D. Yanosky, Andrea Ramírez Varela, Jean Wactawski‐Wende, Yike Shen, Gary W. Miller, Iuliana Ionita‐Laza, Eric A. Whitsel, Andrea Baccarelli	2023	21
10	Short-term Air Pollution Levels and Blood Pressure in Older Women Epidemiology ·Tong Wen, Duanping Liao, Gregory A. Wellenius, Eric A. Whitsel, Helene G. Margolis, Lesley F. Tinker, James D. Stewart, Lan Kong, Jeff D. Yanosky	2023	4
11	Quantifying structural racism in cohort studies to advance prospective evidence SSM - Population Health ·О В Шатаева, Khadijah Breathett, Lorena García, Monik C. Jiménez, Crystal W. Cené, Eric A. Whitsel, Haley Hedlin, Electra D. Paskett, Snor Bayazidi, Cynthia A. Thomson, Marcia L. Stefanick	2023	6
12	Associations between Ambient Air Pollutants and Clonal Hematopoiesis of Indeterminate Potential Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention ·Henry B. Dee, Eric A. Whitsel, Alexander P. Reiner, Stephen S. Rich, Jerome I. Rotter, Kent D. Taylor, Russell P. Tracy, Charles Kooperberg, Albert V. Smith, JoAnn E. Manson, Josyf C. Mychaleckyj, Alexander G. Bick, Adam A. Szpiro, Joel D. Kaufman	2023	0
13	Characteristics of movers and predictors of residential mobility in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) cohort Health & Place ·Erin Bennett, Belkis González Santos, Xiaohui Xu, Eun Sug Park, Ying Qi, Jingkai Wei, Richard L. Smith, James D. Stewart, Eric A. Whitsel, Melinda C. Power	2022	5
14	Fine particulate matter and incident coronary heart disease events up to 10 years of follow-up among Deepwater Horizon oil spill workers Environmental Research ·Kazumasa Sabao, Dale P. Sandler, Alexander P. Keil, Gerardo Heiss, Eric A. Whitsel, Gregory C. Pratt, Patricia A. Stewart, Mark Stenzel, Caroline P. Groth, Sudipto Banerjee, Tran Huynh, Jessie K. Edwards, Katie Shonk, Rizka M Imron, Richard K. Kwok, Emily J. Werder, Kaitlyn G. Lawrence, Lawrence S. Engel	2022	12
15	Epigenome-Wide Analysis of DNA Methylation and Optimism in Women and Men Psychosomatic Medicine ·Cuicui Wang, Dawn L. DeMeo, Eric S. Kim, Andrés Cárdenas, Kelvin C. Fong, Lewina O. Lee, Avron Spiro, Eric A. Whitsel, Steve Horvath, Lifang Hou, Andrea Baccarelli, Yun Li, James D. Stewart, JoAnn E. Manson, Francine Grodstein, Laura D. Kubzansky, Joel Schwartz	2022	3
16	Long-term aircraft noise exposure and risk of hypertension in postmenopausal women Environmental Research ·Daniel Nguyen, Eric A. Whitsel, Gregory A. Wellenius, Jonathan I. Levy, Jessica H. Leibler, Stephanie T. Grady, James D. Stewart, Matthew P. Fox, Jason M. Collins, Melissa Eliot, Andrew Malwitz, JoAnn E. Manson, Junenette L. Peters	2022	11
17	Aging-Related Multisystem Dysregulation Over the Adult Life Span and Physical Function in Later Life: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study The Journals of Gerontology Series A ·Yifei Lü, James Russell Pike, Anna Kucharska‐Newton, Priya Palta, Eric A. Whitsel, Huaichang Cheng, Anthony S. Zannas, B. Gwen Windham, Keenan A. Walker, Michael Griswold, Gerardo Heiss	2022	0
18	Healthy Lifestyle and Clonal Hematopoiesis of Indeterminate Potential: Results From the Women's Health Initiative Journal of the American Heart Association ·Bernhard Haring, Alexander P. Reiner, Jingmin Liu, Deirdre K. Tobias, Eric A. Whitsel, Jeffrey S. Berger, Pinkal Desai, Sylvia Wassertheil‐Smoller, Michael J. LaMonte, Kathleen M. Hayden, Alexander G. Bick, Pradeep Natarajan, Joshua Weinstock, Patricia K. Nguyen, Marcia L. Stefanick, Michael S. Simon, Charles B. Eaton, Charles Kooperberg, JoAnn E. Manson	2021	60
19	Premature Menopause, Clonal Hematopoiesis, and Coronary Artery Disease in Postmenopausal Women Circulation ·Michael C. Honigberg, Seyedeh M. Zekavat, Abhishek Niroula, Gabriel K. Griffin, Alexander G. Bick, James P. Pirruccello, Tetsushi Nakao, Eric A. Whitsel, Leslie V. Farland, Cecelia Laurie, Charles Kooperberg, JoAnn E. Manson, Stacey Gabriel, Peter Libby, Alexander P. Reiner, Benjamin L. Ebert, (unknown), (unknown)	2020	96
20	Meta-analysis of genome wide association studies on heart rate variability Digital Academic REpository of VU University Amsterdam (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) ·I Nolte, (unknown), Eric A. Whitsel, Kathleen F. Kerr, Brenda W.J.H. Penninx, Albertine J. Oldehinkel, Joshua C. Bis, Jouke‐Jan Hottenga, Bram Dierckx, Joop D. Lefrandt, Gary Pence, Christian Gieger, Harriëtte Riese, Susan R. Heckbert, Harold Snieder, (unknown)	2011	1

About Eric A. Whitsel

Eric A. Whitsel is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Speech and Hearing, Health, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Environmental Engineering, having authored 226 papers that have together received 9.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Air Quality and Health Impacts (75 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (39 papers), Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting (28 papers), Health disparities and outcomes (26 papers), Noise Effects and Management (23 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (21 papers), Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control (20 papers) and Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging (15 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Aging (375 citations), Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (2.3k citations), Health (749 citations), Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (1.6k citations) and Speech and Hearing (457 citations). Eric A. Whitsel has collaborated with scholars based in United States, South Africa and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include James D. Stewart, Lifang Hou, Andrea Baccarelli, Yun Li, Steve Horvath, Alex P. Reiner, Themistocles L. Assimes, Abraham Aviv, Austin Quach and Luigi Ferrucci. Their work appears in journals such as Circulation, Environmental Health Perspectives, Epidemiology, Alzheimer s & Dementia and Environmental Research.

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