Lea Steele

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Lea Steele is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, General Health Professions and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Lea Steele has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health, 13 papers in General Health Professions and 7 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Lea Steele's work include Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research (26 papers), Health, psychology, and well-being (12 papers) and Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue (6 papers). Lea Steele is often cited by papers focused on Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research (26 papers), Health, psychology, and well-being (12 papers) and Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue (6 papers). Lea Steele collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Algeria. Lea Steele's co-authors include Mary M. Gerkovich, Antonio Sastre, Mary R. Cook, James G. Dobbins, Jeff Levin, Keiji Fukuda, Michele Reyes, William C. Reeves, Kimberly Sullivan and Nancy G. Klimas and has published in prestigious journals such as Clinical Infectious Diseases, American Journal of Epidemiology and Environmental Health Perspectives.

In The Last Decade

Lea Steele

30 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Recent research on Gulf War illness and other health problems in veterans of the 1991 Gulf War: Effects of toxicant exposures during deployment

2015 321 citations Roberta F. White, Lea Steele et al. Cortex profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lea Steele United States	17	1.2k	398	209	196	182	33	1.6k
R. Petersen United States	11	1.1k 0.9×	79 0.2×	72 0.3×	94 0.5×	238 1.3×	22	1.9k
Claudia S. Miller United States	19	865 0.7×	111 0.3×	92 0.4×	383 2.0×	59 0.3×	50	1.6k
Vijay Chandra United States	19	721 0.6×	204 0.5×	87 0.4×	35 0.2×	129 0.7×	39	1.8k
Lauren Sham Canada	5	489 0.4×	247 0.6×	292 1.4×	39 0.2×	386 2.1×	9	3.7k
Olga J.G. Schiepers Netherlands	13	568 0.5×	112 0.3×	92 0.4×	88 0.4×	198 1.1×	18	2.0k
Eleonora Lacorte Italy	21	422 0.4×	126 0.3×	130 0.6×	38 0.2×	129 0.7×	68	1.2k
Rachel Grashow United States	19	271 0.2×	133 0.3×	68 0.3×	260 1.3×	180 1.0×	48	1.7k
Emanuele F. Osimo United Kingdom	16	435 0.4×	116 0.3×	105 0.5×	36 0.2×	240 1.3×	25	1.9k
Wolfgang Weidenhammer Germany	22	705 0.6×	129 0.3×	412 2.0×	54 0.3×	102 0.6×	78	3.1k
Greta Moorkens Belgium	21	718 0.6×	145 0.4×	255 1.2×	21 0.1×	106 0.6×	51	1.3k

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Ahmed, Sarah T., Ruosha Li, Lea Steele, et al.. (2025). Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease in Gulf War Veterans in Relation to Deployment Exposures. Cardiovascular Toxicology. 25(9). 1263–1271.

Steele, Lea, Rachel Quaden, Sarah T. Ahmed, et al.. (2024). Association of deployment characteristics and exposures with persistent ill health among 1990-1991 Gulf War veterans in the VA Million Veteran Program. Environmental Health. 23(1). 92–92.

Harrington, Kelly, Rachel Quaden, Lea Steele, et al.. (2024). The Million Veteran Program 1990–1991 Gulf War Era Survey: An Evaluation of Veteran Response, Characteristics, and Representativeness of the Gulf War Era Veteran Population. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 21(1). 72–72. 1 indexed citations

Wenker, Theresa Nguyen, Sarah T. Ahmed, Stephen H. Boyle, et al.. (2024). Irritable Bowel Syndrome in Veterans With Gulf War Illness Evaluated at VA’s War-Related Illness and Injury Study Center. Military Medicine. 189(11-12). e2644–e2654. 1 indexed citations

Steele, Lea, Clement E. Furlong, Rebecca J. Richter, et al.. (2024). PON1 Status in Relation to Gulf War Illness: Evidence of Gene–Exposure Interactions from a Multisite Case–Control Study of 1990–1991 Gulf War Veterans. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 21(8). 964–964. 2 indexed citations

Chao, Linda L., Kimberly Sullivan, Maxine Krengel, et al.. (2024). The prevalence of mild cognitive impairment in Gulf War veterans: a follow-up study. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 17. 1301066–1301066. 5 indexed citations

Ahmed, Sarah T., Ruosha Li, Peter Richardson, et al.. (2023). Association of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease, Hypertension, Diabetes, and Hyperlipidemia With Gulf War Illness Among Gulf War Veterans. Journal of the American Heart Association. 12(19). e029575–e029575. 3 indexed citations

Li, Ruosha, Alexandra Price, Lea Steele, et al.. (2023). Hormonal changes in veterans with Gulf War Illness. Life Sciences. 328. 121908–121908. 1 indexed citations

Krengel, Maxine, Julien Dugas, Rosemary Toomey, et al.. (2023). Cognitive decrements in 1991 Gulf War veterans: associations with Gulf War illness and neurotoxicant exposures in the Boston Biorepository, Recruitment, and Integrative Network (BBRAIN) cohorts. Environmental Health. 22(1). 68–68. 4 indexed citations

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Duong, Linh M., Lea Steele, Rachel Quaden, et al.. (2022). Association of Gulf War Illness with Characteristics in Deployed vs. Non-Deployed Gulf War Era Veterans in the Cooperative Studies Program 2006/Million Veteran Program 029 Cohort: A Cross-Sectional Analysis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20(1). 258–258. 8 indexed citations

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Gifford, Elizabeth J., Elizabeth R. Hauser, Kellie J. Sims, et al.. (2021). Gulf War illness in the Gulf War Era Cohort and Biorepository: The Kansas and Centers for Disease Control definitions. Life Sciences. 278. 119454–119454. 20 indexed citations

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Koo, Bang‐Bon, Samantha Calderazzo, Emily Quinn, et al.. (2020). Alterations in high-order diffusion imaging in veterans with Gulf War Illness is associated with chemical weapons exposure and mild traumatic brain injury. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 89. 281–290. 19 indexed citations

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White, Roberta F., Lea Steele, James P. O’Callaghan, et al.. (2015). Recent research on Gulf War illness and other health problems in veterans of the 1991 Gulf War: Effects of toxicant exposures during deployment. Cortex. 74. 449–475. 321 indexed citations breakdown →

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Steele, Lea, Antonio Sastre, Mary M. Gerkovich, & Mary R. Cook. (2011). Complex Factors in the Etiology of Gulf War Illness: Wartime Exposures and Risk Factors in Veteran Subgroups. Environmental Health Perspectives. 120(1). 112–118. 144 indexed citations

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Levin, Jeff & Lea Steele. (2005). The transcendent experience: Conceptual, theoretical, and epidemiologic perspectives. EXPLORE. 1(2). 89–101. 56 indexed citations

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Steele, Lea. (2000). Prevalence and Patterns of Gulf War Illness in Kansas Veterans: Association of Symptoms with Characteristics of Person, Place, and Time of Military Service. American Journal of Epidemiology. 152(10). 992–1002. 435 indexed citations

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Steele, Lea, et al.. (1998). The epidemiology of chronic fatigue in San Francisco. The American Journal of Medicine. 105(3). 83S–90S. 141 indexed citations

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Shefer, Abigail, James G. Dobbins, Keiji Fukuda, et al.. (1997). Fatiguing illness among employees in three large state office buildings, California, 1993: Was there an outbreak?. Journal of Psychiatric Research. 31(1). 31–43. 17 indexed citations

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Mawle, Alison C., Rosane Nisenbaum, James G. Dobbins, et al.. (1997). Immune Responses Associated with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Case-Control Study. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 175(1). 136–141. 85 indexed citations

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Steele, Lea, et al.. (1994). Promoting the health of aging adults in the community. Journal of Community Health. 19(6). 389–393. 5 indexed citations

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