Alexandre Ferrão Santos

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Alexandre Ferrão Santos is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexandre Ferrão Santos has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 3 papers in Developmental Neuroscience and 2 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Alexandre Ferrão Santos's work include Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (4 papers), Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (3 papers) and Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (2 papers). Alexandre Ferrão Santos is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (4 papers), Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (3 papers) and Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (2 papers). Alexandre Ferrão Santos collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and Netherlands. Alexandre Ferrão Santos's co-authors include Pico Caroni, San Pun, Smita Saxena, Lan Xu, Mark Hübener, Sonja B. Hofer, Thomas Hendel, Marco Mank, Dierk F. Reiff and Oliver Griesbeck and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Neuron and The EMBO Journal.

In The Last Decade

Alexandre Ferrão Santos

7 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Selective vulnerability and pruning of phasic motoneuron ... 2006 2026 2012 2019 2006 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. Selective vulnerability and pruning of phasic motoneuron axons in motoneuron disease alleviated by CNTF
    2006 515 citations San Pun, Alexandre Ferrão Santos et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alexandre Ferrão Santos Switzerland 6 574 477 419 303 161 7 1.2k
Giada Spigolon Sweden 14 490 0.9× 474 1.0× 227 0.5× 74 0.2× 172 1.1× 22 1.0k
Erica Korb United States 11 417 0.7× 801 1.7× 362 0.9× 194 0.6× 149 0.9× 20 1.4k
Giulio Srubek Tomassy United States 15 628 1.1× 854 1.8× 157 0.4× 128 0.4× 191 1.2× 19 1.6k
Mackenzie W. Amoroso United States 9 505 0.9× 1.5k 3.2× 329 0.8× 291 1.0× 181 1.1× 9 2.1k
Alissa L. Nana United States 16 310 0.5× 421 0.9× 544 1.3× 134 0.4× 105 0.7× 27 1.1k
Wangcai Gao United States 15 725 1.3× 701 1.5× 145 0.3× 67 0.2× 138 0.9× 18 1.1k
Shalaka Mulherkar United States 16 321 0.6× 516 1.1× 115 0.3× 34 0.1× 122 0.8× 17 875
Diana Yu United States 14 700 1.2× 2.0k 4.2× 100 0.2× 158 0.5× 349 2.2× 23 2.7k
Toshihiko Kuriu Japan 9 995 1.7× 807 1.7× 75 0.2× 165 0.5× 179 1.1× 19 1.9k
Gabriele Lignani Italy 22 679 1.2× 829 1.7× 63 0.2× 42 0.1× 174 1.1× 38 1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Alexandre Ferrão Santos

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alexandre Ferrão Santos

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexandre Ferrão Santos

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

All Works

7 of 7 papers shown
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Santos, Alexandre Ferrão & Mark Hübener. (2014). Chronic Calcium Imaging of Neurons in the Mouse Visual Cortex Using a Troponin C–Based Indicator. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. 2014(5). pdb.prot081737–pdb.prot081737. 3 indexed citations
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Djurišić, Maja, George S. Vidal, Taeho Kim, et al.. (2013). PirB regulates a structural substrate for cortical plasticity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(51). 20771–20776. 62 indexed citations
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Mank, Marco, Alexandre Ferrão Santos, Thomas D. Mrsic‐Flogel, et al.. (2008). A genetically encoded calcium indicator for chronic in vivo two-photon imaging. Nature Methods. 5(9). 805–811. 376 indexed citations
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Galimberti, Ivan, Nadine Gogolla, Stefano Alberi, et al.. (2006). Long-Term Rearrangements of Hippocampal Mossy Fiber Terminal Connectivity in the Adult Regulated by Experience. Neuron. 50(5). 749–763. 125 indexed citations
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Willmann, Raffaella, et al.. (2006). Cholesterol and lipid microdomains stabilize the postsynapse at the neuromuscular junction. The EMBO Journal. 25(17). 4050–4060. 85 indexed citations
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Pun, San, Alexandre Ferrão Santos, Smita Saxena, Lan Xu, & Pico Caroni. (2006). Selective vulnerability and pruning of phasic motoneuron axons in motoneuron disease alleviated by CNTF. Nature Neuroscience. 9(3). 408–419. 515 indexed citations breakdown →
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Santos, Alexandre Ferrão & Pico Caroni. (2003). Assembly, plasticity and selective vulnerability to disease of mouse neuromuscular junctions. Journal of Neurocytology. 32(5-8). 849–862. 29 indexed citations

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