Michela Leone

5.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Michela Leone is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, General Health Professions and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michela Leone has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 9 papers in General Health Professions and 4 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Michela Leone's work include Climate Change and Health Impacts (13 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (9 papers) and Global Health Care Issues (8 papers). Michela Leone is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change and Health Impacts (13 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (9 papers) and Global Health Care Issues (8 papers). Michela Leone collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and Spain. Michela Leone's co-authors include Antonio Gasparrini, Paola Michelozzi, Ho Kim, Antonella Zanobetti, Éric Lavigne, Masahiro Hashizume, Yuming Guo, Manuela De Sario, Aurelio Tobı́as and Yasushi Honda and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, American Journal of Epidemiology and Environmental Health Perspectives.

In The Last Decade

Michela Leone

16 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

Attributable risk from distributed lag models 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 100 200 300 400 500
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.

  1. Attributable risk from distributed lag models
    2014 540 citations Antonio Gasparrini, Michela Leone BMC Medical Research Methodology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michela Leone Italy 11 1.3k 538 432 161 103 16 1.4k
Weiwei Yu Australia 19 1.5k 1.1× 573 1.1× 525 1.2× 160 1.0× 147 1.4× 35 1.8k
Blesson M. Varghese Australia 17 1.2k 0.9× 273 0.5× 557 1.3× 109 0.7× 121 1.2× 47 1.5k
Brooke Anderson United States 5 981 0.7× 414 0.8× 310 0.7× 108 0.7× 130 1.3× 13 1.1k
Elisaveta P. Petkova United States 17 986 0.8× 322 0.6× 237 0.5× 137 0.9× 166 1.6× 27 1.3k
D. Schram Netherlands 5 857 0.7× 361 0.7× 415 1.0× 76 0.5× 119 1.2× 6 1.2k
Galatea King United States 12 858 0.7× 229 0.4× 326 0.8× 89 0.6× 234 2.3× 19 1.1k
Francesca De’ Donato Italy 13 1.3k 1.0× 343 0.6× 294 0.7× 96 0.6× 401 3.9× 33 1.5k
Sam Pattenden United Kingdom 14 918 0.7× 391 0.7× 402 0.9× 164 1.0× 102 1.0× 19 1.6k
Micheline de Sousa Zanotti Stagliorio Coêlho Brazil 22 936 0.7× 267 0.5× 197 0.5× 96 0.6× 115 1.1× 47 1.2k
Jana Dáňová Czechia 12 700 0.5× 265 0.5× 201 0.5× 108 0.7× 157 1.5× 19 992

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michela Leone

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michela Leone

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

All Works

16 of 16 papers shown
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Badaloní, Chiara, Manuela De Sario, Nicola Caranci, et al.. (2023). A spatial indicator of environmental and climatic vulnerability in Rome. Environment International. 176. 107970–107970. 14 indexed citations
2.
Leone, Michela, et al.. (2019). Social network analysis to characterize women victims of violence. BMC Public Health. 19(1). 494–494. 5 indexed citations
3.
Scortichini, Matteo, Francesca de’Donato, Manuela De Sario, et al.. (2018). The inter-annual variability of heat-related mortality in nine European cities (1990–2010). Environmental Health. 17(1). 66–66. 17 indexed citations
4.
Schifano, Patrizia, Michela Leone, & Paola Michelozzi. (2017). [Cluster statistical analysis in epidemiology].. PubMed. 40(5Suppl2). 55–64. 1 indexed citations
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Gasparrini, Antonio, Yuming Guo, Masahiro Hashizume, et al.. (2016). Changes in Susceptibility to Heat During the Summer: A Multicountry Analysis. American Journal of Epidemiology. 183(11). 1027–1036. 113 indexed citations
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Gasparrini, Antonio, Yuming Guo, Masahiro Hashizume, et al.. (2015). Temporal Variation in Heat–Mortality Associations: A Multicountry Study. Environmental Health Perspectives. 123(11). 1200–1207. 326 indexed citations
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Gasparrini, Antonio, Yuming Guo, Masahiro Hashizume, et al.. (2015). Temporal Variation In Heat-Mortality Associations: A Multi-Country Study. ISEE Conference Abstracts. 2015(1). 10 indexed citations
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Donato, Francesca De’, Michela Leone, Matteo Scortichini, et al.. (2015). Changes in the Effect of Heat on Mortality in the Last 20 Years in Nine European Cities. Results from the PHASE Project. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 12(12). 15567–15583. 115 indexed citations
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Gasparrini, Antonio & Michela Leone. (2014). Attributable risk from distributed lag models. BMC Medical Research Methodology. 14(1). 55–55. 540 indexed citations breakdown →
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Leone, Michela, Daniela D’Ippoliti, Manuela De Sario, et al.. (2013). A time series study on the effects of heat on mortality and evaluation of heterogeneity into European and Eastern-Southern Mediterranean cities: results of EU CIRCE project. Environmental Health. 12(1). 55–55. 67 indexed citations
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de’Donato, Francesca, Michela Leone, Damia Noce, Marina Davoli, & Paola Michelozzi. (2013). The Impact of the February 2012 Cold Spell on Health in Italy Using Surveillance Data. PLoS ONE. 8(4). e61720–e61720. 44 indexed citations
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Gasparrini, Antonio, Michela Leone, Aurelio Tobı́as, & Ben Armstrong. (2013). Temporal variation in temperature-health associations: a multi-country study. ISEE Conference Abstracts. 2013(1). 1 indexed citations
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Schifano, Patrizia, Michela Leone, Manuela De Sario, et al.. (2012). Changes in the effects of heat on mortality among the elderly from 1998–2010: results from a multicenter time series study in Italy. Environmental Health. 11(1). 58–58. 93 indexed citations
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de’Donato, Francesca, et al.. (2011). URBAN HEAT ISLAND AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC POSITION AS FACTORS THAT INCREASE THE RISK OF HEAT-RELATED MORTALITY IN ROME, ITALY. ISEE Conference Abstracts. 2011(1). 2 indexed citations
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Leone, Michela, Daniela D’Ippoliti, Claudia Marino, et al.. (2011). SHORT TERM EFFECT OF HIGH TEMPERATURES ON MORTALITY IN MEDITERRANEAN CITIES: RESULTS FROM THE EU-FUNDED CIRCE PROJECT (CLIMATE CHANGE AND IMPACT RESEARCH: THE MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT). ISEE Conference Abstracts. 2011(1). 1 indexed citations
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Michelozzi, Paola, Francesca K. de’ Donato, Anna Maria Bargagli, et al.. (2010). Surveillance of Summer Mortality and Preparedness to Reduce the Health Impact of Heat Waves in Italy. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 7(5). 2256–2273. 63 indexed citations

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