Melissa Legrand

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Melissa Legrand is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, General Health Professions and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Melissa Legrand has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 2 papers in General Health Professions and 2 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Melissa Legrand's work include Mercury impact and mitigation studies (9 papers), Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity (9 papers) and Air Quality and Health Impacts (3 papers). Melissa Legrand is often cited by papers focused on Mercury impact and mitigation studies (9 papers), Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity (9 papers) and Air Quality and Health Impacts (3 papers). Melissa Legrand collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Denmark. Melissa Legrand's co-authors include Donna Mergler, David C. Bellinger, Benoît Barbeau, Thérèse Bouffard, Maryse F. Bouchard, Sébastien Sauvé, Élyse Limoges, Tye E. Arbuckle, Mandy Fisher and William D. Fraser and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, Environmental Health Perspectives and Chemosphere.

In The Last Decade

Melissa Legrand

18 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Intellectual Impairment in School-Age Children Exposed to Manganese from Drinking Water

2010 491 citations Maryse F. Bouchard, Sébastien Sauvé et al. Environmental Health Perspectives profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Melissa Legrand Canada	14	1.1k	324	263	122	98	18	1.5k
Christopher D. Palmer United States	24	1.0k 0.9×	221 0.7×	305 1.2×	36 0.3×	86 0.9×	54	1.7k
Lars Gerhardsson Sweden	31	1.6k 1.4×	620 1.9×	660 2.5×	39 0.3×	57 0.6×	85	2.5k
Brita Palm Sweden	18	1.3k 1.2×	442 1.4×	366 1.4×	20 0.2×	103 1.1×	27	1.8k
Hirokatsu Akagi Japan	34	2.5k 2.3×	206 0.6×	669 2.5×	41 0.3×	91 0.9×	90	3.0k
Nancy J. LoIacono United States	16	1.3k 1.2×	521 1.6×	391 1.5×	94 0.8×	108 1.1×	26	1.9k
Yinlong Jin China	19	753 0.7×	270 0.8×	302 1.1×	26 0.2×	92 0.9×	41	1.2k
Masazumi Harada Japan	17	1.9k 1.7×	184 0.6×	400 1.5×	20 0.2×	80 0.8×	26	2.6k
Victor Hugo Borja‐Aburto Mexico	19	770 0.7×	122 0.4×	210 0.8×	51 0.4×	73 0.7×	31	1.5k
Nancy J. Lolacono United States	11	966 0.9×	394 1.2×	346 1.3×	21 0.2×	41 0.4×	16	1.2k
Karen J. Mizon Australia	26	1.6k 1.4×	544 1.7×	1.1k 4.1×	95 0.8×	57 0.6×	52	2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Melissa Legrand

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Fields of papers citing papers by Melissa Legrand

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Melissa Legrand

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Melissa Legrand. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Melissa Legrand 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 Melissa Legrand. Melissa Legrand is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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18 of 18 papers shown

Fisher, Mandy, Cheryl Khoury, John Than, et al.. (2020). Temporal variation of total mercury levels in the hair of pregnant women from the Maternal-Infant Research on Environmental Chemicals (MIREC) study. Chemosphere. 264(Pt 1). 128402–128402. 9 indexed citations

Arbuckle, Tye E., Chun Lei Liang, Anne‐Sophie Morisset, et al.. (2016). Maternal and fetal exposure to cadmium, lead, manganese and mercury: The MIREC study. Chemosphere. 163. 270–282. 161 indexed citations

Oulhote, Youssef, Donna Mergler, Benoît Barbeau, et al.. (2014). Neurobehavioral Function in School-Age Children Exposed to Manganese in Drinking Water. Environmental Health Perspectives. 122(12). 1343–1350. 189 indexed citations

Arbuckle, Tye E., Karelyn Davis, Leonora Marro, et al.. (2014). Phthalate and bisphenol A exposure among pregnant women in Canada — Results from the MIREC study. Environment International. 68. 55–65. 160 indexed citations

Legrand, Melissa, et al.. (2013). Blood Total Mercury Concentrations in the Canadian Population: Canadian Health Measures Survey Cycle 1, 2007–2009. Canadian Journal of Public Health. 104(3). e246–e251. 36 indexed citations

Legrand, Melissa, et al.. (2011). Methylmercury blood guidance values for Canada.. PubMed. 101(1). 28–31. 69 indexed citations

Bouchard, Maryse F., Sébastien Sauvé, Benoît Barbeau, et al.. (2010). Intellectual Impairment in School-Age Children Exposed to Manganese from Drinking Water. Environmental Health Perspectives. 119(1). 138–143. 491 indexed citations breakdown →

Haines, Douglas, Tye E. Arbuckle, Melissa Legrand, et al.. (2010). Reporting results of human biomonitoring of environmental chemicals to study participants: a comparison of approaches followed in two Canadian studies. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 65(3). 191–198. 33 indexed citations

Legrand, Melissa, et al.. (2010). Methylmercury Blood Guidance Values for Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health. 101(1). 28–31. 72 indexed citations

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Arbuckle, Tye E., Russ Hauser, Shanna H. Swan, et al.. (2008). Meeting Report: Measuring Endocrine-Sensitive Endpoints within the First Years of Life. Environmental Health Perspectives. 116(7). 948–951. 34 indexed citations

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Arbuckle, Tye E., Russ Hauser, Matthew P. Longnecker, et al.. (2008). Meeting report: Measuring endocrine-sensitive endpoints within the first year of life. 1 indexed citations

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Legrand, Melissa, Rebecca Lam, Carlos José Sousa Passos, et al.. (2006). Analysis of Mercury in Sequential Micrometer Segments of Single Hair Strands of Fish-Eaters. Environmental Science & Technology. 41(2). 593–598. 21 indexed citations

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Legrand, Melissa, Carlos José Sousa Passos, Donna Mergler, & Hing Man Chan. (2005). Biomonitoring of Mercury Exposure with Single Human Hair Strand. Environmental Science & Technology. 39(12). 4594–4598. 36 indexed citations

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Legrand, Melissa, et al.. (2004). Direct detection of mercury in single human hair strands by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS). Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry. 19(10). 1287–1287. 70 indexed citations

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Legrand, Melissa, et al.. (2004). Mercury exposure in two coastal communities of the Bay of Fundy, Canada. Environmental Research. 98(1). 14–21. 42 indexed citations

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Mbongwe, Bontle, Melissa Legrand, Jules M. Blais, et al.. (2003). Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane in the aquatic ecosystem of the Okavango Delta, Botswana, South Africa. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 22(1). 7–19. 24 indexed citations

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Bruchet, A., et al.. (1991). Recent methods for the determination of volatile and non-volatile organic compounds in natural and purified drinking water. Journal of Chromatography B Biomedical Sciences and Applications. 562(1-2). 469–480. 12 indexed citations

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Bruchet, A., et al.. (1991). Variations in Organic and Organoleptic Water Quality During Treatment of Artificially Recharged Groundwater. American Water Works Association. 83(3). 63–70. 6 indexed citations

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