Alejandro Lucía

39.3k total citations · 11 hit papers
572 papers, 25.2k citations indexed

About

Alejandro Lucía is a scholar working on Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Physiology and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Alejandro Lucía has authored 572 papers receiving a total of 25.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 131 papers in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, 130 papers in Physiology and 126 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Alejandro Lucía's work include Sports Performance and Training (121 papers), Cardiovascular and exercise physiology (90 papers) and Genetics and Physical Performance (81 papers). Alejandro Lucía is often cited by papers focused on Sports Performance and Training (121 papers), Cardiovascular and exercise physiology (90 papers) and Genetics and Physical Performance (81 papers). Alejandro Lucía collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United States and Sweden. Alejandro Lucía's co-authors include Nuria Garatachea, Carmen Fiuza‐Luces, Jonatan R. Ruiz, Alejandro Santos‐Lozano, Pedro L. Valenzuela, Fabián Sanchis‐Gomar, Margarita Pérez, Conrad P. Earnest, Carl Foster and Pedro Carrera‐Bastos and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and JAMA.

In The Last Decade

Alejandro Lucía

555 papers receiving 24.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Chronic inflammation in the etiology of disease across the life span

2019 3.0k citations Pedro Carrera‐Bastos, Alejandro Lucía et al. profile →
American College of Sports Medicine Roundtable on Exercise Guidelines for Cancer Survivors

2010 2.1k citations Alejandro Lucía et al. profile →
Epidemiology of coronary heart disease and acute coronary syndrome

2016 819 citations Alejandro Lucía et al. profile →
Exercise benefits in cardiovascular disease: beyond attenuation of traditional risk factors

2018 544 citations Carmen Fiuza‐Luces, Alejandro Santos‐Lozano et al. profile →
Exercise is the Real Polypill

2013 510 citations Carmen Fiuza‐Luces, Nuria Garatachea et al. profile →
Healthspan and lifespan extension by fecal microbiota transplantation into progeroid mice

2019 452 citations Nuria Garatachea, Alejandro Lucía et al. profile →
Effect of Exercise Intervention on Functional Decline in Very Elderly Patients During Acute Hospitalization

2018 300 citations Alejandro Lucía, Míkel Izquierdo et al. profile →
Obesity and the risk of cardiometabolic diseases

2023 231 citations Pedro L. Valenzuela, Pedro Carrera‐Bastos et al. profile →
Exercise benefits on Alzheimer’s disease: State-of-the-science

2020 228 citations Pedro L. Valenzuela, Harald Hampel et al. Ageing Research Reviews profile →
Lifestyle interventions for the prevention and treatment of hypertension

2020 209 citations Pedro L. Valenzuela, Pedro Carrera‐Bastos et al. profile →
Association of physical behaviours with sarcopenia in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies

2024 39 citations Alejandro Lucía, Pedro L. Valenzuela et al. profile →

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Marc C. Hochberg United States

Tamara B. Harris United States

Elizabeth Barrett‐Connor United States

Marcia L. Stefanick United States

Andrea Z. LaCroix United States

L. Adrienne Cupples United States

Arthur S. Leon United States

Linda S. Pescatello United States

Stephen B. Kritchevsky United States

Tamara B. Harris United States

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alejandro Lucía

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20 of 20 papers shown

López‐Ortiz, Susana, José Pinto-Fraga, Claudia Ceci, et al.. (2025). Physical exercise and breast cancer-related lymphedema: an umbrella review, systematic review and meta-analysis. Disability and Rehabilitation. 48(2). 259–275.

Santos‐Lozano, Alejandro, et al.. (2024). Colorectal cancer risk mapping through Bayesian networks. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. 257. 108407–108407. 5 indexed citations

Borba, Vânia Vieira, Pedro Carrera‐Bastos, Gisele Zandman‐Goddard, Alejandro Lucía, & Yehuda Shoenfeld. (2024). Prolactin's paradox: Friend, foe, or both in immune regulation?. Autoimmunity Reviews. 23(11). 103643–103643. 3 indexed citations

López‐Ortiz, Susana, Sergio Maroto‐Izquierdo, Héctor Menéndez, et al.. (2023). Winners do what they fear: exercise and peripheral arterial disease—an umbrella review. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. 31(4). 380–388. 8 indexed citations

Lista, Simone, Raúl González‐Domínguez, Susana López‐Ortiz, et al.. (2023). Integrative metabolomics science in Alzheimer’s disease: Relevance and future perspectives. Ageing Research Reviews. 89. 101987–101987. 41 indexed citations

Valenzuela, Pedro L., et al.. (2023). Pre-sleep protein supplementation in professional cyclists during a training camp: a three-arm randomized controlled trial. Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition. 20(1). 2166366–2166366. 5 indexed citations

Alejo, Lidia B., et al.. (2023). Time-course Changes of Field- and Laboratory-based Performance Indicators in Junior Cyclists Through a Season. International Journal of Sports Medicine. 45(6). 443–449. 1 indexed citations

Serrano‐Lorenzo, Pablo, Jesús Esteban‐Pérez, Cristina Domínguez‐González, et al.. (2022). Clinical, Biochemical, and Molecular Characterization of Two Families with Novel Mutations in the LDHA Gene (GSD XI). Genes. 13(10). 1835–1835. 5 indexed citations

García‐Consuegra, Inés, Tomàs Pinós, Cristina Domínguez‐González, et al.. (2022). Identification of Potential Muscle Biomarkers in McArdle Disease: Insights from Muscle Proteome Analysis. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(9). 4650–4650. 1 indexed citations

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Laine-Menéndez, Sara, Carmen Fiuza‐Luces, Aitor Delmiro, et al.. (2022). Apoptosis-Inducing Factor Deficiency Induces Tissue-Specific Alterations in Autophagy: Insights from a Preclinical Model of Mitochondrial Disease and Exercise Training Effects. Antioxidants. 11(3). 510–510. 1 indexed citations

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Hampel, Harald, Robert Nisticò, Nicholas T. Seyfried, et al.. (2021). Omics sciences for systems biology in Alzheimer’s disease: State-of-the-art of the evidence. Ageing Research Reviews. 69. 101346–101346. 97 indexed citations

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Pintos‐Morell, Guillem, J Coll, Míriam Almendrote, et al.. (2020). The Need for Establishing a Universal CTG Sizing Method in Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1. Genes. 11(7). 757–757. 7 indexed citations

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Coso, Juan Del, et al.. (2020). Interindividual Variation in Cardiorespiratory Fitness: A Candidate Gene Study in Han Chinese People. Genes. 11(5). 555–555. 7 indexed citations

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Foster, Carl, James D. Anholm, Daniel Bok, et al.. (2020). Generalized Approach to Translating Exercise Tests and Prescribing Exercise. Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology. 5(3). 63–63. 15 indexed citations

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Rodríguez‐Gómez, Irene, Alfredo Santalla, Diego Munguía‐Izquierdo, et al.. (2020). Sex Differences and the Influence of an Active Lifestyle on Adiposity in Patients with McArdle Disease. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17(12). 4334–4334. 3 indexed citations

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Coso, Juan Del, Victor Moreno, Jorge Gutiérrez‐Hellín, et al.. (2019). ACTN3 R577X Genotype and Exercise Phenotypes in Recreational Marathon Runners. Genes. 10(6). 413–413. 28 indexed citations

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Álvarez, Cristián, Robinson Ramírez‐Vélez, Rodrigo Ramírez‐Campillo, et al.. (2019). Improvements cardiometabolic risk factors in Latin American Amerindians (the Mapuche) with concurrent training. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports. 29(6). 886–896. 10 indexed citations

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Álvarez, Cristián, Alejandro Lucía, Rodrigo Ramírez‐Campillo, et al.. (2019). Low sleep time is associated with higher levels of blood pressure and fat mass in Amerindian schoolchildren. American Journal of Human Biology. 31(6). e23303–e23303. 14 indexed citations

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Fiuza‐Luces, Carmen, Alejandro Santos‐Lozano, Francisco Llavero, et al.. (2018). Muscle molecular adaptations to endurance exercise training are conditioned by glycogen availability: a proteomics‐based analysis in the McArdle mouse model. The Journal of Physiology. 596(6). 1035–1061. 21 indexed citations

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Ruiz‐Casado, Ana, Carmen Fiuza‐Luces, Lidia B. Alejo, et al.. (2013). Objectively Assessed Physical Activity Levels in Spanish Cancer Survivors. Oncology nursing forum. 41(1). E12–E20. 16 indexed citations

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