Ana Colaço

5.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
99 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Ana Colaço is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Ana Colaço has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Ecology, 49 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 48 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Ana Colaço's work include Marine Biology and Ecology Research (41 papers), Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (28 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (19 papers). Ana Colaço is often cited by papers focused on Marine Biology and Ecology Research (41 papers), Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (28 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (19 papers). Ana Colaço collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, France and United Kingdom. Ana Colaço's co-authors include Ricardo S. Santos, Daniel Desbruyères, Pierre‐Marie Sarradin, Frank Dehairs, Inês Martins, Daphné Cuvelier, Jozée Sarrazin, Lisa A. Levin, Yves Fouquet and Raúl Bettencourt and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, PLoS ONE and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Ana Colaço

94 papers receiving 2.7k 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.

Hydrothermal Vents and Methane Seeps: Rethinking the Sphere of Influence

2016 301 citations Lisa A. Levin, Ana Colaço et al. Frontiers in Marine Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ana Colaço Portugal	33	1.5k	1.4k	993	351	348	99	2.8k
Baban Ingole India	28	1.5k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	1.0k 1.0×	275 0.8×	132 0.4×	177	2.8k
Lénàïck Menot France	22	1.6k 1.1×	1.6k 1.1×	833 0.8×	106 0.3×	214 0.6×	44	2.7k
Eva Ramírez-Llodra Spain	30	2.2k 1.5×	2.4k 1.7×	1.6k 1.6×	205 0.6×	312 0.9×	75	4.3k
Gotzon Basterretxea Spain	32	1.7k 1.1×	858 0.6×	672 0.7×	163 0.5×	332 1.0×	79	2.8k
J. Icarus Allen United Kingdom	31	2.2k 1.5×	1.2k 0.8×	1.7k 1.7×	638 1.8×	460 1.3×	57	4.2k
Andrew K. Sweetman United Kingdom	22	1.2k 0.8×	971 0.7×	663 0.7×	100 0.3×	205 0.6×	62	2.1k
Anastasios Tselepides Greece	39	2.8k 1.9×	2.6k 1.8×	1.5k 1.5×	329 0.9×	472 1.4×	80	4.4k
Timothy M. Shank United States	32	2.0k 1.4×	1.9k 1.3×	1.2k 1.2×	84 0.2×	498 1.4×	91	3.9k
Justus E. E. van Beusekom Germany	34	2.1k 1.4×	1.8k 1.3×	862 0.9×	91 0.3×	778 2.2×	78	3.6k
Laurenz Thomsen Germany	36	1.8k 1.2×	1.5k 1.0×	732 0.7×	113 0.3×	434 1.2×	124	3.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Ana Colaço

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ana Colaço

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Colaço, Ana, et al.. (2025). Prehabilitation: preoperative rehabilitation interventions for lung cancer – a scoping review. Frontiers in Aging. 6. 1665955–1665955.

Guerra, A., Joana Soares, Teresa Neuparth, et al.. (2024). Using a food web model to predict the effects of Hazardous and Noxious Substances (HNS) accidental spills on deep-sea hydrothermal vents from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR) region. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 199. 115974–115974. 1 indexed citations

Juliano, Manuela, et al.. (2024). Larval dispersal and physical connectivity of Pheronema carpenteri populations in the Azores. Frontiers in Marine Science. 11. 1 indexed citations

Galparsoro, Ibon, Iratxe Menchaca, María C. Uyarra, et al.. (2024). Research priorities and roadmap for deep-sea ecology in the Bay of Biscay (Northeast Atlantic). Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers. 208. 104324–104324. 2 indexed citations

Martins, Irene, A. Guerra, Cândida Gomes Vale, et al.. (2024). Developing a dynamic energy budget model to project potential effects of deep-sea mining plumes on the Atlantic deep-sea mussel, Bathymodiolus azoricus. Ecological Informatics. 83. 102803–102803. 1 indexed citations

Cuvelier, Daphné, et al.. (2023). Long-term trends in functional diversity of exploited marine fish in the Azores’ archipelago: past and present. Frontiers in Marine Science. 10. 3 indexed citations

Martins, Irene, A. Guerra, Ana Colaço, et al.. (2023). A modelling framework to assess multiple metals impacts on marine food webs: Relevance for assessing the ecological implications of deep-sea mining based on a systematic review. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 191. 114902–114902. 8 indexed citations

Silva, Mónica A., M. Pilar Olivar, Ainhoa Bernal, et al.. (2022). MesopTroph, a database of trophic parameters to study interactions in mesopelagic food webs. Scientific Data. 9(1). 716–716. 7 indexed citations

Sampaio, Íris, et al.. (2021). Reproductive biology of two deep-sea octocorals in the Azores Archipelago. Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers. 175. 103587–103587. 6 indexed citations

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Silva, Mónica A., Asunción Borrell, Rui Prieto, et al.. (2019). Stable isotopes reveal winter feeding in different habitats in blue, fin and sei whales migrating through the Azores. Royal Society Open Science. 6(8). 181800–181800. 33 indexed citations

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Dunn, Daniel C., Cindy Lee Van Dover, Ron J. Etter, et al.. (2018). A strategy for the conservation of biodiversity on mid-ocean ridges from deep-sea mining. Science Advances. 4(7). eaar4313–eaar4313. 75 indexed citations

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Martins, Inês, Eva Martins, Sergio Marín, et al.. (2017). Physiological impacts of acute Cu exposure on deep-sea vent mussel Bathymodiolus azoricus under a deep-sea mining activity scenario. Aquatic Toxicology. 193. 40–49. 37 indexed citations

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Cannat, Mathilde, Pierre‐Marie Sarradin, J. Blandin, et al.. (2016). EMSO-Azores : Monitoring seafloor and water column processes at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Institutional Archive of Ifremer (French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea).

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Rajasabapathy, Raju, Chellandi Mohandass, Ana Colaço, et al.. (2014). Culturable bacterial phylogeny from a shallow water hydrothermal vent of Espalamaca (Faial, Azores) reveals a variety of novel taxa. Current Science. 106(1). 58–69. 17 indexed citations

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Mestre, Nélia C., Delphine Cottin, Raúl Bettencourt, et al.. (2014). Is the deep-sea crab Chaceon affinis able to induce a thermal stress response?. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology. 181. 54–61. 10 indexed citations

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Ruhl, Henry A., Louis Géli, Johannes Karstensen, et al.. (2009). Science Objectives and Design of the European Seas Observatory NETwork (ESONET). The EGU General Assembly. 9909. 1 indexed citations

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Colaço, Ana, et al.. (2008). Seasonal variations in lipid composition of the hydrothermal vent mussel Bathymodiolus azoricus from the Menez Gwen vent field. Marine Environmental Research. 67(3). 146–152. 24 indexed citations

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Bettencourt, Raúl, P. R. Dando, Virginie Riou, et al.. (2008). Changes of gill and hemocyte-related bio-indicators during long term maintenance of the vent mussel Bathymodiolus azoricus held in aquaria at atmospheric pressure. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology. 150(1). 1–7. 21 indexed citations

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Dixon, David R., et al.. (2002). Towards unravelling the enigma of vent mussel reproduction on the Mid Atlantic Ridge, or when ATOS met CagesNF 0. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 5 indexed citations

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Colaço, Ana, Frank Dehairs, Daniel Desbruyères, Nadine Le Bris, & Pierre‐Marie Sarradin. (2002). d13C signature of hydrothermal mussels is related with the end-member fluid concentrations of H2S and CH4 at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge hydrothermal vent fields. Cahiers de biologie marine. 43. 259–262. 24 indexed citations

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