Gilles Pison

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
138 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Gilles Pison is a scholar working on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, General Health Professions and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Gilles Pison has authored 138 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, 44 papers in General Health Professions and 32 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Gilles Pison's work include Global Maternal and Child Health (43 papers), Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues (19 papers) and Child Nutrition and Water Access (17 papers). Gilles Pison is often cited by papers focused on Global Maternal and Child Health (43 papers), Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues (19 papers) and Child Nutrition and Water Access (17 papers). Gilles Pison collaborates with scholars based in France, Senegal and United States. Gilles Pison's co-authors include Catherine Enel, Emmanuel Lagarde, Annabel Desgrées du Loû, Peter Aaby, Valérie Delaunay, Christiaan Monden, Jeroen Smits, Jean‐François Trape, Marie‐Pierre Préziosi and Badara Samb and has published in prestigious journals such as Clinical Infectious Diseases, American Journal of Epidemiology and PLoS Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Gilles Pison

126 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

Twin Peaks: more twinning in humans than ever before 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 25 50 75
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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.

  1. Twin Peaks: more twinning in humans than ever before
    2021 99 citations Gilles Pison et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gilles Pison France 26 782 618 571 415 393 138 2.4k
Anrudh K. Jain United States 29 1.3k 1.6× 726 1.2× 686 1.2× 239 0.6× 444 1.1× 84 2.3k
Stella Babalola United States 28 1.3k 1.6× 1.1k 1.8× 507 0.9× 471 1.1× 286 0.7× 82 2.5k
Shelley Clark Canada 26 861 1.1× 884 1.4× 342 0.6× 564 1.4× 660 1.7× 70 2.7k
Ulla Larsen United States 30 972 1.2× 713 1.2× 626 1.1× 273 0.7× 557 1.4× 69 2.9k
Philip Anglewicz United States 21 551 0.7× 694 1.1× 369 0.6× 421 1.0× 402 1.0× 87 1.6k
Rachel Tolhurst United Kingdom 29 1.2k 1.5× 887 1.4× 740 1.3× 498 1.2× 263 0.7× 97 3.0k
Sally Guttmacher United States 20 334 0.4× 789 1.3× 490 0.9× 370 0.9× 314 0.8× 62 1.7k
Gavin Yamey United States 26 928 1.2× 846 1.4× 819 1.4× 467 1.1× 281 0.7× 189 3.3k
Paul Hutchinson United States 25 696 0.9× 948 1.5× 615 1.1× 194 0.5× 365 0.9× 63 2.2k
Vibeke Rasch Denmark 32 1.2k 1.6× 1.3k 2.0× 1.0k 1.8× 287 0.7× 431 1.1× 145 3.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gilles Pison

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gilles Pison

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Toulemon, Laurent & Gilles Pison. (2025). La population de la France va-t-elle diminuer ?. Population & Sociétés. n° 631(3). 1–4.
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Alam, Nurul, Daniel J. Erchick, Patrick Gerland, et al.. (2022). Divergent age patterns of under-5 mortality in south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa: a modelling study. The Lancet Global Health. 10(11). e1566–e1574. 8 indexed citations
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Masquelier, Bruno, Mufaro Kanyangarara, Gilles Pison, et al.. (2021). Errors in reported ages and dates in surveys of adult mortality: A record linkage study in Niakhar (Senegal). Population Studies. 75(2). 269–287. 12 indexed citations
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Pison, Gilles. (2020). France has the highest fertility in Europe. Population & Sociétés. 1–4.
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Masquelier, Bruno, et al.. (2019). Estimating cause-specific mortality in Madagascar: an evaluation of death notification data from the capital city. Population Health Metrics. 17(1). 8–8. 12 indexed citations
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Pison, Gilles, et al.. (2019). La France a la plus forte fécondité d’Europe. Est-ce dû aux immigrées ?. Population & Sociétés. N° 568(7). 1–4. 2 indexed citations
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Duthé, Géraldine, et al.. (2010). Changement de protocole dans la méthode d’autopsie verbale et mesure de la mortalité palustre en milieu rural sénégalais. Bulletin de la Société de pathologie exotique. 103(5). 327–332. 6 indexed citations
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Pison, Gilles, et al.. (2004). More than half of the global population lives where fertility is below replacement level. Population & Sociétés. 12 indexed citations
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Pison, Gilles, et al.. (2004). La fréquence des accouchements gémellaires en France. Population. 59(6). 877–877. 4 indexed citations
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Lagarde, Emmanuel, Maarten F. Schim van der Loeff, Catherine Enel, et al.. (2003). Mobility and the spread of human immunodeficiency virus into rural areas of West Africa. International Journal of Epidemiology. 32(5). 744–752. 124 indexed citations
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Trape, Jean‐François, et al.. (2002). [Mortality from snake bites, wild and domestic animal bites and arthropod stings in the savannah zone of eastern Senegal].. PubMed. 95(3). 154–6. 3 indexed citations
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Pison, Gilles. (2001). La population de la France en 2000. Population & Sociétés. N° 366(3). 1–4.
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Dray‐Spira, Rosemary, Emmanuel Lagarde, Jean Bouyer, et al.. (2000). Preventive Attitudes Towards the Threat of AIDS: Process and Determinants in Rural Senegal. AIDS Education and Prevention. 12(6). 544–556. 8 indexed citations
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Pison, Gilles. (2000). Près de la moitié des jumeaux naissent en Afrique. Population & Sociétés. N° 360(8). 1–4. 5 indexed citations
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Lagarde, Emmanuel, Catherine Enel, Karim Seck, et al.. (2000). Religion and protective behaviours towards AIDS in rural Senegal. AIDS. 14(13). 2027–2033. 63 indexed citations
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Trape, Jean‐François, Gilles Pison, Marie‐Pierre Préziosi, et al.. (1998). Impact of chloroquine resistance on malaria mortality. Comptes Rendus de l Académie des Sciences - Series III - Sciences de la Vie. 321(8). 689–697. 351 indexed citations
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Lagarde, Emmanuel, Gilles Pison, & Catherine Enel. (1996). A Study of Sexual Behavior Change in Rural Senegal. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes & Human Retrovirology. 11(3). 282–287. 23 indexed citations
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Pison, Gilles. (1988). Mortalité et société en Afrique au Sud du Sahara : Présentation d'un Cahier de l'INED. Persée (Ministère de lEnseignement supérieur et de la Recherche). 3 indexed citations
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Pison, Gilles & Noël Bonneuil. (1988). Increased Risk of Measles Mortality for Children with Siblings Among the Fula Bande, Senegal. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 10(2). 468–470. 25 indexed citations
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