Ana M. Valdes

46.4k total citations · 10 hit papers
308 papers, 19.8k citations indexed

About

Ana M. Valdes is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ana M. Valdes has authored 308 papers receiving a total of 19.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 95 papers in Molecular Biology, 90 papers in Physiology and 72 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Ana M. Valdes's work include Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms (58 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (49 papers) and Diabetes and associated disorders (40 papers). Ana M. Valdes is often cited by papers focused on Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms (58 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (49 papers) and Diabetes and associated disorders (40 papers). Ana M. Valdes collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Italy. Ana M. Valdes's co-authors include Tim D. Spector, Cristina Menni, Janelle A. Noble, Eran Segal, Jens Walter, Montgomery Slatkin, Nelson B. Freimer, Abraham Aviv, Masayuki Kimura and Michael Doherty and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Ana M. Valdes

295 papers receiving 19.3k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories sort by overperformance

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.

Role of the gut microbiota in nutrition and health

2018 1.6k citations Ana M. Valdes, Tim D. Spector et al. BMJ profile →
Mutational processes of simple-sequence repeat loci in human populations.

1994 1.3k citations Ana M. Valdes et al. profile →
Obesity, cigarette smoking, and telomere length in women

2005 1.1k citations Ana M. Valdes et al. profile →
Real-time tracking of self-reported symptoms to predict potential COVID-19

2020 847 citations Cristina Menni, Ana M. Valdes et al. profile →
HLA DR-DQ Haplotypes and Genotypes and Type 1 Diabetes Risk

2008 570 citations Ana M. Valdes et al. profile →
Human aging-associated DNA hypermethylation occurs preferentially at bivalent chromatin domains

2010 556 citations Ana M. Valdes et al. profile →
The role of short-chain fatty acids in the interplay between gut microbiota and diet in cardio-metabolic health

2021 548 citations Ana Nogal, Ana M. Valdes et al. profile →
The fecal metabolome as a functional readout of the gut microbiome

2018 481 citations Jonas Zierer, Matthew Jackson et al. profile →
COVID-19 vaccine waning and effectiveness and side-effects of boosters: a prospective community study from the ZOE COVID Study

2022 204 citations Cristina Menni, Panayiotis Louca et al. profile →
Effects of a personalized nutrition program on cardiometabolic health: a randomized controlled trial

2024 49 citations Jonathan Wolf, George Hadjigeorgiou et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ana M. Valdes United Kingdom	68	7.1k	5.0k	4.9k	2.7k	2.5k	308	19.8k
P. Eline Slagboom Netherlands	76	8.8k 1.2×	4.9k 1.0×	4.1k 0.8×	1.7k 0.6×	2.9k 1.1×	465	23.3k
Nicholas J. Timpson United Kingdom	62	5.2k 0.7×	3.2k 0.6×	9.3k 1.9×	2.0k 0.8×	1.9k 0.8×	250	22.6k
Stephen J. Chanock United States	88	11.5k 1.6×	3.0k 0.6×	6.3k 1.3×	2.4k 0.9×	1.5k 0.6×	588	28.5k
Shigeaki Kato Japan	93	16.4k 2.3×	2.2k 0.4×	7.7k 1.6×	2.4k 0.9×	1.3k 0.5×	478	31.8k
Daniel D. Bikle United States	87	7.1k 1.0×	3.1k 0.6×	2.8k 0.6×	1.5k 0.6×	948 0.4×	359	25.0k
Elizabeth A. Platz United States	82	6.0k 0.8×	1.9k 0.4×	1.9k 0.4×	2.4k 0.9×	1.4k 0.5×	441	22.9k
Julian Maller United States	14	11.0k 1.6×	2.5k 0.5×	17.9k 3.6×	1.9k 0.7×	1.7k 0.6×	15	35.6k
John Blangero United States	81	7.2k 1.0×	4.4k 0.9×	9.8k 2.0×	2.0k 0.8×	570 0.2×	644	28.6k
Alexandra Zhernakova Netherlands	59	8.7k 1.2×	3.2k 0.6×	2.5k 0.5×	1.9k 0.7×	951 0.4×	158	15.4k
Manuel A. R. Ferreira Australia	33	7.9k 1.1×	2.5k 0.5×	14.9k 3.0×	1.4k 0.5×	1.5k 0.6×	87	27.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Ana M. Valdes

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Ana M. Valdes's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Ana M. Valdes with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Ana M. Valdes more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Ana M. Valdes

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Ana M. Valdes. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Ana M. Valdes. The network helps show where Ana M. Valdes may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ana M. Valdes

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Moustafa, Julia S. El-Sayed, Craig A. Glastonbury, Tim D. Spector, et al.. (2025). Quantification of heavy metal exposure in a British population cohort links total mercury levels in plasma with skin tissue-specific changes in mitochondrial-related gene expression. The Science of The Total Environment. 963. 178427–178427.

Jha, Rakesh Roshan, Dong‐Hyun Kim, Aliya Sarmanova, et al.. (2024). Serum levels of hydroxylated metabolites of arachidonic acid cross-sectionally and longitudinally predict knee pain progression: an observational cohort study. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage. 32(8). 990–1000. 4 indexed citations

Mehta, Ojasvi, Amrita Vijay, Weiya Zhang, et al.. (2023). Serum Metabolome Analysis Identified Amino-Acid Metabolism Associated With Pain in People With Symptomatic Knee Osteoarthritis – A Cross-Sectional Study. Journal of Pain. 24(7). 1251–1261. 9 indexed citations

Ghosh, Tarini Shankar & Ana M. Valdes. (2023). Evidence for clinical interventions targeting the gut microbiome in cardiometabolic disease. BMJ. 383. e075180–e075180. 12 indexed citations

Louca, Panayiotis, Tamara Štambuk, Ana Nogal, et al.. (2023). Plasma protein N-glycome composition associates with postprandial lipaemic response. BMC Medicine. 21(1). 231–231. 1 indexed citations

Gibbons, Sean M., Thomas Gurry, Johanna W. Lampe, et al.. (2022). Perspective: Leveraging the Gut Microbiota to Predict Personalized Responses to Dietary, Prebiotic, and Probiotic Interventions. Advances in Nutrition. 13(5). 1450–1461. 59 indexed citations

Jha, Rakesh Roshan, Catherine A. Ortori, Eleanor Lunt, et al.. (2022). Serum Levels of Proinflammatory Lipid Mediators and Specialized Proresolving Molecules Are Increased in Patients With Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 and Correlate With Markers of the Adaptive Immune Response. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 225(12). 2142–2154. 17 indexed citations

Iwabuchi, Sarina J., William J. Cottam, Ali‐Reza Mohammadi‐Nejad, et al.. (2022). Medio‐dorsal thalamic dysconnectivity in chronic knee pain: A possible mechanism for negative affect and pain comorbidity. European Journal of Neuroscience. 57(2). 373–387. 8 indexed citations

Hall, Michelle, Reuben Ogollah, Ana M. Valdes, et al.. (2021). Fidelity assessment of nurse-led non-pharmacological package of care for knee pain in the package development phase of a feasibility randomised controlled trial based in secondary care: a mixed methods study. BMJ Open. 11(7). e045242–e045242. 5 indexed citations

10.

Urbanowicz, Richard A., Theocharis Tsoleridis, Hannah Jackson, et al.. (2021). Two doses of the SARS-CoV-2 BNT162b2 vaccine enhance antibody responses to variants in individuals with prior SARS-CoV-2 infection. Science Translational Medicine. 13(609). eabj0847–eabj0847. 20 indexed citations

11.

Iwabuchi, Sarina J., Yue Xing, William J. Cottam, et al.. (2020). Brain perfusion patterns are altered in chronic knee pain: a spatial covariance analysis of arterial spin labelling MRI. Pain. 161(6). 1255–1263. 13 indexed citations

12.

Miller, Rachel E., Rachel E. Miller, Phuong Bich Tran, et al.. (2020). Microarray analyses of the dorsal root ganglia support a role for innate neuro-immune pathways in persistent pain in experimental osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage. 28(5). 581–592. 33 indexed citations

13.

Mompeó, Olatz, Tim D. Spector, María Luisa Matey-Hernandez, et al.. (2020). Consumption of Stilbenes and Flavonoids is Linked to Reduced Risk of Obesity Independently of Fiber Intake. Nutrients. 12(6). 1871–1871. 23 indexed citations

14.

Romagnoli, Claudia, et al.. (2019). Qué son las habilidades socio afectivas y éticas. 3 indexed citations

15.

Valdes, Ana M., et al.. (2019). Clima social escolar.

16.

Blanco, Francisco J., Ana M. Valdes, & Ignacio Rego‐Pérez. (2018). Mitochondrial DNA variation and the pathogenesis of osteoarthritis phenotypes. Nature Reviews Rheumatology. 14(6). 327–340. 148 indexed citations

17.

Warner, Sophie C., Joyce B. J. van Meurs, D. Schiphof, et al.. (2017). Genome-wide association scan of neuropathic pain symptoms post total joint replacement highlights a variant in the protein-kinase C gene. European Journal of Human Genetics. 25(4). 446–451. 40 indexed citations

18.

Menni, Cristina, Jonas Zierer, Tess Pallister, et al.. (2017). Omega-3 fatty acids correlate with gut microbiome diversity and production of N-carbamylglutamate in middle aged and elderly women. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 11079–11079. 178 indexed citations

19.

Sarmanova, Aliya, Sophie C. Warner, Hugh H. Richardson, et al.. (2017). SAT0670 The prevalence of neuropathic pain-like symptoms and associated risk factors in the nottingham community: a cross-sectional study. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. 76. 1028–1028. 1 indexed citations

20.

Valdes, Ana M., Shannon K. McWeeney, & Glenys Thomson. (1999). Evidence for linkage and association to alcohol dependence on chromosome 19. Genetic Epidemiology. 17(S1). S367–72. 12 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact