Johanna Lepeule

8.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
89 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Johanna Lepeule is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Johanna Lepeule has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 23 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 14 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Johanna Lepeule's work include Air Quality and Health Impacts (48 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (35 papers) and Birth, Development, and Health (23 papers). Johanna Lepeule is often cited by papers focused on Air Quality and Health Impacts (48 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (35 papers) and Birth, Development, and Health (23 papers). Johanna Lepeule collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Israel. Johanna Lepeule's co-authors include Douglas W. Dockery, Joel Schwartz, Francine Laden, Rémy Slama, Joel Schwartz, Olivier François, Pantel Vokonas, Basile Jumentier, Kévin Caye and Petros Koutrakis and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Johanna Lepeule

79 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

Chronic Exposure to Fine Particles and Mortality: An Exte... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 200 400 600
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  1. Chronic Exposure to Fine Particles and Mortality: An Extended Follow-up of the Harvard Six Cities Study from 1974 to 2009
    2012 745 citations Johanna Lepeule 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
Johanna Lepeule France 28 1.9k 454 398 342 297 89 2.8k
Paul English United States 31 2.1k 1.1× 609 1.3× 181 0.5× 296 0.9× 152 0.5× 84 4.1k
Domenico Maria Cavallo Italy 32 1.7k 0.9× 687 1.5× 229 0.6× 107 0.3× 425 1.4× 122 2.7k
Kathrin Wolf Germany 31 2.1k 1.1× 452 1.0× 227 0.6× 86 0.3× 248 0.8× 98 2.9k
Melissa Eliot United States 36 1.7k 0.9× 181 0.4× 194 0.5× 330 1.0× 337 1.1× 93 2.9k
Li‐Wen Hu China 28 1.4k 0.7× 285 0.6× 150 0.4× 184 0.5× 579 1.9× 107 2.6k
Muhammad T. Salam United States 33 1.3k 0.7× 235 0.5× 286 0.7× 310 0.9× 433 1.5× 58 3.0k
Edward G. Hughes Canada 38 1.1k 0.6× 296 0.7× 222 0.6× 1.5k 4.3× 293 1.0× 97 5.5k
Matthew S. Perzanowski United States 46 2.8k 1.5× 392 0.9× 201 0.5× 188 0.5× 203 0.7× 170 6.1k
Julia M. Gohlke United States 27 1.2k 0.6× 310 0.7× 141 0.4× 157 0.5× 254 0.9× 88 2.3k
Éric Lavigne Canada 40 3.7k 1.9× 816 1.8× 494 1.2× 138 0.4× 92 0.3× 152 4.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Johanna Lepeule

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Fields of papers citing papers by Johanna Lepeule

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Johanna Lepeule

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Johanna Lepeule. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Johanna Lepeule based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Johanna Lepeule. Johanna Lepeule is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Jumentier, Basile, et al.. (2025). hdmax2, an R package to perform high dimension mediation analysis. Peer Community Journal. 5.
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Mortamais, Marion, Ian Hough, Itai Kloog, et al.. (2025). Prenatal Exposure to Ambient Particulate Matter and Autism Spectrum Disorder in Children, a Case Control Study in France. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 1 indexed citations
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Lau, Chung‐Ho E., Sandra Andrušaitytė, Regina Gražulevičienė, et al.. (2025). Associations of family affluence with cortisol production and telomere length in European children. EBioMedicine. 117. 105793–105793.
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Jedynak, Paulina, Valérie Siroux, Jörg Tost, et al.. (2024). Epigenetic footprints: Investigating placental DNA methylation in the context of prenatal exposure to phenols and phthalates. Environment International. 189. 108763–108763. 8 indexed citations
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Lepeule, Johanna, et al.. (2024). Expositions environnementales et modifications de l’épigénome dans la période des 1000 premiers jours de vie. médecine/sciences. 40(12). 947–954. 1 indexed citations
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Savouré, Marine, Étienne Audureau, Christine Monfort, et al.. (2024). Associations of exposure to outdoor PM2.5 and NO2 during pregnancy with childhood asthma, rhinitis, and eczema in a predominantly rural French mother-child cohort. Environmental Pollution. 363(Pt 2). 125206–125206. 1 indexed citations
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Koch, Sarah, Sandra Márquez, Montserrat de Castro, et al.. (2024). Childhood exposure to outdoor air pollution in different microenvironments and cognitive and fine motor function in children from six European cohorts. Environmental Research. 247. 118174–118174. 5 indexed citations
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Nguyen, Tri‐Long, Johanna Lepeule, Aurélie Nakamura, et al.. (2023). Intergenerational transmission of tobacco smoking: The role of the child’s behavioral difficulties. Data from the Danish National Birth cohort (DNBC). Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 255. 111056–111056.
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Lepeule, Johanna, Isabelle Pin, Anne Boudier, et al.. (2023). Pre-natal exposure to NO2 and PM2.5 and newborn lung function: An approach based on repeated personal exposure measurements. Environmental Research. 226. 115656–115656. 7 indexed citations
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Bernard, Jonathan Y., Hugo Peyre, Nathalie Costet, et al.. (2023). Prenatal and childhood exposure to ambient air pollution and cognitive function in school-age children: Examining sensitive windows and sex-specific associations. Environmental Research. 235. 116557–116557. 14 indexed citations
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Nakamura, Aurélie, Jörg Tost, Daniel Vaiman, et al.. (2023). Epigenome-Wide Associations of Placental DNA Methylation and Behavioral and Emotional Difficulties in Children at 3 Years of Age. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(14). 11772–11772. 4 indexed citations
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Jumentier, Basile, Kévin Caye, Barbara Heude, Johanna Lepeule, & Olivier François. (2022). Sparse latent factor regression models for genome-wide and epigenome-wide association studies. Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology. 21(1). 2 indexed citations
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Cadiou, Solène, Xavier Basagaña, Juan R. González, et al.. (2021). Performance of approaches relying on multidimensional intermediary data to decipher causal relationships between the exposome and health: A simulation study under various causal structures. Environment International. 153. 106509–106509. 8 indexed citations
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Rivière, Emmanuel, Agnès Hulin, Marie‐Aline Charles, et al.. (2019). Air pollution modeling and exposure assessment during pregnancy in the French Longitudinal Study of Children (ELFE). Atmospheric Environment. 205. 103–114. 7 indexed citations
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Hough, Ian, Johanna Lepeule, Bin Zhou, Michael Dorman, & Itai Kloog. (2019). A multi-resolution daily air temperature model for France from MODIS and Landsat thermal data. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 10399. 1 indexed citations
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Clemente, Diana B.P., Léa Maître, Mariona Bustamante, et al.. (2019). Obesity is associated with shorter telomeres in 8 year-old children. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 18739–18739. 43 indexed citations
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Rousseaux, Sophie, Lydiane Agier, Lise Giorgis-Allemand, et al.. (2018). Pregnancy exposure to atmospheric pollution and meteorological conditions and placental DNA methylation. Environment International. 118. 334–347. 97 indexed citations
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Ouidir, Marion, Johanna Lepeule, Valérie Siroux, et al.. (2017). Is atmospheric pollution exposure during pregnancy associated with individual and contextual characteristics? A nationwide study in France. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 71(10). 1026–1036. 17 indexed citations
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Lepeule, Johanna, Augusto A. Litonjua, Brent A. Coull, et al.. (2014). Long-Term Effects of Traffic Particles on Lung Function Decline in the Elderly. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 190(5). 542–548. 70 indexed citations

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