Erik Melén

25.4k citations

246 papers · 6.7k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 43

Impact in

Immunology and Allergy top 0.2%
- Allergic Rhinitis and Sensitization
- Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Research
Physiology top 0.5%
- Asthma and respiratory diseases

Papers in

Immunology and Allergy 48
- Allergic Rhinitis and Sensitization 40
- Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Research 24
Physiology 126
- Asthma and respiratory diseases 119

Co-authors: Inger Kull Göran Pershagen Anna Bergström Jenny Hallberg Magnus Wickman Olena Gruzieva Marianne van Hage Erica S. Schultz
Journals: Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (18 papers)Allergy (18 papers)European Respiratory Journal (14 papers)Pediatric Allergy and Immunology (9 papers)Clinical & Experimental Allergy (9 papers)
Partner nations: Sweden United States United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Erik Melén

231 papers receiving 6.6k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories log scale

Asthma 2023 · 275 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
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.

2023 The Lancet
2022 The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
2020 Nature Reviews Disease Primers

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Erik Melén

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Erik Melén's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Erik Melén with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Erik Melén more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Erik Melén

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Erik Melén. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Erik Melén. The network helps show where Erik Melén may publish in the future.

Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Erik Melén, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

Border = papers with Erik Melén Line = papers co-authored together Erik Melén links everyone, so they are left out of the graph.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work
1	Airway MMP-12 and DNA methylation in COPD: an integrative approach Respiratory Research ·贾绪计, Simon Kebede Merid, Marc-Antoine Chiasson, Jamshid Pourazar, Anne Lindberg, Erik Melén, Annelie Behndig	2025	2
2	Long-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution and Lower Respiratory Tract Infection in Adults: Danish Nationwide Evidence Annals of the American Thoracic Society ·Jiawei Zhang, G. Berlia, Rina So, Zhebin Yu, Л В Цибизов, 上官义勤, Tom Cole‐Hunter, George Napolitano, Laust Hvas Mortensen, Thomas Scheike, Steffen Loft, Kees de Hoogh, Gerard Hoek, Erik Melén, Zorana Jovanovic Andersen	2025	1
3	Childhood Asthma and Allergy Are Related to Accelerated Epigenetic Aging Allergy ·Fatih İlgen, Elisabeth Thiering, Zhebin Yu, Anke Hüls, 毛宗平, Simon Kebede Merid, Olena Gruzieva, Stephan Weidinger, Mélanie Waldenberger, Annette Peters, Erik Melén, Marie Standl	2025	1
4	Clinical implications of airway obstruction with normal or low FEV₁in childhood and adolescence Thorax ·Francesco Kostoris, Gang Wang, Ulrike Gehring, Sandra Ekström, Inger Kull, Roel Vermeulen, Jolanda M.A. Boer, Anna Bergström, Gerard H. Koppelman, Erik Melén, Judith M. Vonk, Jenny Hallberg	2024	3
5	Large airway T cells in adults with former bronchopulmonary dysplasia Respiratory Research ·Jing Gao, Petra Um‐Bergström, 春夫小笠原, Eva Berggren-Broström, Chuanxing Li, Heta Merikallio, Riitta Kaarteenaho, Leander Litov, Craig E. Wheelock, Erik Melén, Bao Jia-qi, Åsa M. Wheelock, Georgios Z. Rassidakis, Cristian Ortiz‐Villalón, Magnus Sköld	2024	2
6	Childhood PUFA levels in relation to allergic sensitization and rhinitis up to young adulthood Pediatric Allergy and Immunology ·Sandra Ekström, VJ Mar, Susanna Klevebro, P. De Mol, Marianne van Hage, Antonios Georgelis, Inger Kull, Erik Melén, Ulf Risérus, Anna Bergström	2024	0
7	Impact of Allergic Rhinitis on Academic Performance in Adolescents and Adults: a Bayesian Analysis of MASK-air® Real-world Direct Patient Data Journal of Investigational Allergology and Clinical Immunology ·Rafael José Vieira, 一宏堀江, Nikolaos G. Papadopoulos, Torsten Zuberbier, N. Pham‐Thi, Mattia Giovannini, Erik Melén, Luís Filipe Azevedo, João Fonseca, Jean Bousquet, Bernardo Sousa‐Pinto	2024	2
8	Successful strategies for expression and purification of ABC transporters Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes ·Irina Moskvichenko, 亮太神力, Erik Melén, 河野通, 江口立彦, Alice J. Rothnie, Kristina Hedfalk	2024	0
9	Health-related quality of life decreases in young people with asthma during the transition from adolescence to young adulthood: a birth cohort study BMC Pulmonary Medicine ·Alejandro M. Rosales, Niklas Andersson, Christer Janson, Erik Melén, Anna Bergström, Inger Kull	2023	4
10	Precision medicine in complex diseases—Molecular subgrouping for improved prediction and treatment stratification Journal of Internal Medicine ·Åsa Johansson, Ole A. Andreassen, Søren Brunak, Paul W. Franks, Harald Hedman, Ruth J. F. Loos, Benjamin Meder, Erik Melén, Craig E. Wheelock, Bo Jacobsson	2023	35
11	Gene‐environment interactions in childhood asthma revisited; expanding the interaction concept Pediatric Allergy and Immunology ·Natalia Hernandez‐Pacheco, A. Chmielarz, Erik Melén	2022	33
12	DNA methylation and aeroallergen sensitization: The chicken or the egg? Clinical Epigenetics ·I. T. Shamshidinov, Simon Kebede Merid, Suely Carvalho, Adam Abdullah, Elisabeth Thiering, Mélanie Waldenberger, Erik Melén, Annette Peters, Marie Standl, Anke Hüls	2022	4
13	Development of sensitization to peanut and storage proteins and relation to markers of airway and systemic inflammation: A 24‐year follow‐up Allergy ·Sandra G. Tedner, Susanna Klevebro, Anna Bergström, Inger Kull, Niklas Andersson, Magnus P. Borres, Natalia Ballardini, Marit Westman, Jon R. Konradsen, Marianne van Hage, Caroline Nilsson, Erik Melén, Anna Asarnoj	2022	10
14	Risk of SARS-CoV-2 exposure among hospital healthcare workers in relation to patient contact and type of care Scandinavian Journal of Public Health ·Susanna Klevebro, LANDAUER WALTER, K. Miriam Elfström, Ольга Владимировна Четверикова, Sophia Hober, Simon Kebede Merid, Inger Kull, Peter Nilsson, Per Tornvall, Gang Wang, Kalle Conneryd Lundgren, Sari Ponzer, Joakim Dillner, Erik Melén	2021	10
15	Intake ofn-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in childhood,FADSgenotype and incident asthma European Respiratory Journal ·Mohammad Talaei, VJ Mar, Philip C. Calder, Louise Jones, Pauline Emmett, Raquel Granell, Anna Bergström, Erik Melén, Seif O. Shaheen	2021	24
16	Male sex is strongly associated with IgE-sensitization to airborne but not food allergens: results up to age 24 years from the BAMSE birth cohort Clinical and Translational Allergy ·Erik Melén, Anna Bergström, Inger Kull, Catarina Almqvist, Niklas Andersson, Anna Asarnoj, Magnus P. Borres, Antonis Georgellis, Göran Pershagen, Marit Westman, Marianne van Hage, Natalia Ballardini	2020	59
17	Adverse pregnancy outcomes and risk of later allergic rhinitis—Nationwide Swedish cohort study Pediatric Allergy and Immunology ·Fuadatus Salimah, Jenny Hallberg, Olof Stephansson, Catarina Almqvist, Erik Melén, Jonas F. Ludvigsson	2020	16
18	Nocturnal asthma is affected by genetic interactions between RORA and NPSR1 Pediatric Pulmonology ·Vincent D. Gaertner, Sven Michel, John A. Curtin, Ville Pulkkinen, Nathalie Acevedo, Cilla Söderhäll, Andrea von Berg, Albrecht Bufe, Otto Laub, Ernst Rietschel, Andrea Heinzmann, Burkhard Simma, Christian Vogelberg, Göran Pershagen, Erik Melén, Angela Simpson, Adnan Ćustović, Juha Kere, Michael Kabesch	2019	5
19	Early life exposure to traffic-related air pollution and lung function in adolescence European Respiratory Journal ·Erica S. Schultz, Jenny Hallberg, Tom Bellander, Anna Bergström, Matteo Bottai, Olena Gruzieva, Per Thunqvist, Magnus Wickman, Göran Pershagen, Erik Melén	2013	1
20	The chitinase-like protein YKL-40: A possible biomarker of inflammation and airway remodeling in severe pediatric asthma Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology ·Jon R. Konradsen, Anna James, Björn Nordlund, Lovisa E. Reinius, Cilla Söderhäll, Erik Melén, Åsa M. Wheelock, Karin C. Lødrup Carlsen, Marika Lidegran, Marri Verhoek, Rolf G. Boot, Barbro Dahlén, Sven Erik Dahlén, Gunilla Hedlin	2013	100

About Erik Melén

Erik Melén is a scholar working on Immunology and Allergy, Physiology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Speech and Hearing and Emergency Medical Services, having authored 246 papers that have together received 6.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Asthma and respiratory diseases (119 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (44 papers), Allergic Rhinitis and Sensitization (40 papers), Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research (40 papers), Neonatal Respiratory Health Research (38 papers), Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Research (24 papers), Respiratory and Cough-Related Research (23 papers) and Pediatric health and respiratory diseases (21 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Immunology and Allergy (1.6k citations), Physiology (3.0k citations), Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (1.5k citations), Speech and Hearing (640 citations) and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (1.9k citations). Erik Melén has collaborated with scholars based in Sweden, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Inger Kull, Göran Pershagen, Anna Bergström, Jenny Hallberg, Magnus Wickman, Olena Gruzieva, Marianne van Hage, Erica S. Schultz, Tom Bellander and Dominick Shaw. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Allergy, European Respiratory Journal, Pediatric Allergy and Immunology and Clinical & Experimental Allergy.

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact