Simon Lea

1.9k total citations
46 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Simon Lea is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Physiology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Lea has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 18 papers in Physiology and 15 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Simon Lea's work include Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research (23 papers), Asthma and respiratory diseases (16 papers) and Neonatal Respiratory Health Research (8 papers). Simon Lea is often cited by papers focused on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research (23 papers), Asthma and respiratory diseases (16 papers) and Neonatal Respiratory Health Research (8 papers). Simon Lea collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland. Simon Lea's co-authors include Dave Singh, Philip M. Preshaw, John J. Taylor, Jonathan Plumb, Andrew Higham, Hannah Metcalfe, George Booth, Augusta Beech, Thomas Southworth and Josiah Dungwa and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.

In The Last Decade

Simon Lea

45 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Simon Lea United Kingdom 24 631 490 431 396 148 46 1.4k
Isabelle Guénon France 18 590 0.9× 401 0.8× 485 1.1× 221 0.6× 81 0.5× 21 1.6k
Takumi Kiwamoto Japan 19 377 0.6× 470 1.0× 698 1.6× 340 0.9× 97 0.7× 43 1.5k
Sook Young Lee South Korea 24 658 1.0× 534 1.1× 305 0.7× 884 2.2× 116 0.8× 74 1.7k
Sally E. Wenzel United States 21 846 1.3× 514 1.0× 296 0.7× 1.1k 2.8× 110 0.7× 36 1.9k
Giuseppina Chiappara Italy 23 882 1.4× 546 1.1× 429 1.0× 1.0k 2.6× 159 1.1× 50 2.0k
Art J. Heires United States 18 471 0.7× 294 0.6× 280 0.6× 258 0.7× 112 0.8× 41 1.2k
Haijin Zhao China 21 439 0.7× 312 0.6× 449 1.0× 537 1.4× 99 0.7× 97 1.4k
Suzanne Traves Canada 23 679 1.1× 471 1.0× 317 0.7× 613 1.5× 254 1.7× 32 1.5k
Olivier Tabary France 27 1.3k 2.1× 324 0.7× 610 1.4× 253 0.6× 188 1.3× 56 2.1k
Huahao Shen China 22 269 0.4× 354 0.7× 260 0.6× 526 1.3× 58 0.4× 49 1.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Simon Lea

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Lea

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Beech, Augusta, et al.. (2025). Sputum Cytokine Repeatability in COPD. International Journal of COPD. Volume 20. 3779–3790.
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Lea, Simon, et al.. (2025). Anti-oxidative and anti-inflammatory effects of the phosphodiesterase 3/4 inhibitor ensifentrine. International Immunopharmacology. 168(Pt 1). 115814–115814. 1 indexed citations
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Lea, Simon, Andrew Higham, Augusta Beech, & Dave Singh. (2023). How inhaled corticosteroids target inflammation in COPD. European Respiratory Review. 32(170). 230084–230084. 42 indexed citations
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Lea, Simon, et al.. (2022). Differential responses of COPD macrophages to respiratory bacterial pathogens. ERJ Open Research. 8(3). 44–2022. 8 indexed citations
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Li, Jian, James Baker, Andrew Higham, et al.. (2022). COPD lung studies of Nrf2 expression and the effects of Nrf2 activators. Inflammopharmacology. 30(4). 1431–1443. 29 indexed citations
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Singh, Dave, Simon Lea, & Alexander G. Mathioudakis. (2021). Inhaled Phosphodiesterase Inhibitors for the Treatment of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Drugs. 81(16). 1821–1830. 21 indexed citations
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Lea, Simon, Li J, Jonathan Plumb, et al.. (2020). P38 MAPK and glucocorticoid receptor crosstalk in bronchial epithelial cells. Journal of Molecular Medicine. 98(3). 361–374. 24 indexed citations
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Beech, Augusta, Simon Lea, Umme Kolsum, et al.. (2020). Bacteria and sputum inflammatory cell counts; a COPD cohort analysis. Respiratory Research. 21(1). 289–289. 40 indexed citations
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Wang, Zhang, Barbara Maschera, Simon Lea, et al.. (2019). Airway host-microbiome interactions in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Respiratory Research. 20(1). 113–113. 99 indexed citations
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Lea, Simon, Aleksandra Metryka, Jian Li, et al.. (2019). The modulatory effects of the PDE4 inhibitors CHF6001 and roflumilast in alveolar macrophages and lung tissue from COPD patients. Cytokine. 123. 154739–154739. 31 indexed citations
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Lea, Simon, Manminder Kaur, Karen D. Simpson, et al.. (2018). The effects of repeated Toll-like receptors 2 and 4 stimulation in COPD alveolar macrophages. International Journal of COPD. Volume 13. 771–780. 25 indexed citations
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Lea, Simon, et al.. (2017). Alveolar macrophage size is increased in COPD patients compared to controls. PA1011–PA1011. 3 indexed citations
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Lea, Simon, Hannah Metcalfe, Jonathan Plumb, et al.. (2016). Neutral sphingomyelinase-2, acid sphingomyelinase, and ceramide levels in COPD patients compared to controls. International Journal of COPD. Volume 11. 2139–2147. 14 indexed citations
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Lea, Simon, Aleksandra Metryka, Fabrizio Facchinetti, et al.. (2014). Anti-inflammatory effects of the novel phosphodiesterase type 4 inhibitor CHF6001 on COPD alveolar macrophages and lung tissue. European Respiratory Journal. 44(Suppl 58). 4861–4861. 1 indexed citations
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Grundy, Seamus, Jonathan Plumb, Manminder Kaur, Simon Lea, & Dave Singh. (2014). Additive anti-inflammatory effect of glucocorticoids and PDE4 inhibitors on COPD CD8 cells. European Respiratory Journal. 44(Suppl 58). P1515–P1515. 1 indexed citations
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Higham, Andrew, Simon Lea, David Ray, & Dave Singh. (2014). Corticosteroid effects on COPD alveolar macrophages: Dependency on cell culture methodology. Journal of Immunological Methods. 405. 144–153. 14 indexed citations
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Higham, Andrew, Simon Lea, Jonathan Plumb, et al.. (2013). The role of the liver X receptor in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Respiratory Research. 14(1). 106–106. 29 indexed citations
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Lea, Simon, Jonathan Plumb, Hannah Metcalfe, et al.. (2013). The effect of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ ligands onin vitroandin vivomodels of COPD. European Respiratory Journal. 43(2). 409–420. 89 indexed citations
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Chaudhuri, Nazia, Hannah Jary, Simon Lea, et al.. (2012). Diesel Exhaust Particle Exposure In Vitro Alters Monocyte Differentiation and Function. PLoS ONE. 7(12). e51107–e51107. 26 indexed citations
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Lea, Simon, Aleksandra Metryka, Fabrizio Facchinetti, & Dave Singh. (2011). Increased expression of phosphodiesterase 4 (PDE4) A, B and D in alveolar macrophages from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients. European Respiratory Journal. 38(Suppl 55). 217–217. 1 indexed citations

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