Ana Quiroga‐Varela

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

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Ana Quiroga‐Varela is a scholar working on Neurology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Pathology and Forensic Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Ana Quiroga‐Varela has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Neurology, 12 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 5 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine. Recurrent topics in Ana Quiroga‐Varela's work include Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (15 papers), Neurological disorders and treatments (12 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (7 papers). Ana Quiroga‐Varela is often cited by papers focused on Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (15 papers), Neurological disorders and treatments (12 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (7 papers). Ana Quiroga‐Varela collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United States and Italy. Ana Quiroga‐Varela's co-authors include Inés Trigo‐Damas, Javier Blesa, Vernice Jackson‐Lewis, Concepció Marı́n, José Á. Obeso, María Rodríguez‐Oroz, Haritz Jiménez‐Urbieta, E. S. Brazhnik, Judith R. Walters and María J. Blanco‐Prieto and has published in prestigious journals such as Brain, Scientific Reports and Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Ana Quiroga‐Varela

23 papers receiving 1.2k citations

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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.

Oxidative stress and Parkinson’s disease

2015 677 citations Javier Blesa, Inés Trigo‐Damas et al. Frontiers in Neuroanatomy profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ana Quiroga‐Varela Spain	12	569	393	330	209	156	26	1.2k
Inés Trigo‐Damas Spain	11	606 1.1×	362 0.9×	331 1.0×	191 0.9×	163 1.0×	18	1.2k
Vedad Delic United States	13	501 0.9×	234 0.6×	300 0.9×	199 1.0×	303 1.9×	28	1.0k
Elżbieta Lorenc‐Koci Poland	22	410 0.7×	501 1.3×	299 0.9×	105 0.5×	142 0.9×	69	1.2k
Thomas S. Guillot United States	20	651 1.1×	796 2.0×	380 1.2×	164 0.8×	143 0.9×	24	1.8k
Sudhakar Subramaniam United States	11	798 1.4×	477 1.2×	570 1.7×	422 2.0×	377 2.4×	19	1.7k
Yuehang Xu United States	13	598 1.1×	472 1.2×	500 1.5×	212 1.0×	110 0.7×	18	1.6k
Eugene Bok South Korea	18	349 0.6×	357 0.9×	365 1.1×	443 2.1×	245 1.6×	26	1.2k
Tomoyuki Kanda Japan	20	405 0.7×	472 1.2×	419 1.3×	119 0.6×	92 0.6×	34	1.3k
Maria José Diógenes Portugal	22	286 0.5×	913 2.3×	461 1.4×	317 1.5×	315 2.0×	50	1.8k

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Quiroga‐Varela, Ana, et al.. (2025). Luminex Multiplex Immunoassay for Proteomic Profiling of Cerebrospinal Fluid. Methods in molecular biology. 2914. 41–50.

Guglielmini, Giuseppe, et al.. (2025). Assessment of clinical prognosis in autoimmune encephalitis: Girona score. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 16. 1447009–1447009.

Zamarbide, Marta, Belén Gago, Javier Blesa, et al.. (2025). Resilience of striatal synaptic plasticity over early structural adaptations in premotor parkinsonism. npj Parkinson s Disease. 11(1). 146–146.

Tamarit, Jordi, Elisa Cabiscol, Fabien Delaspre, et al.. (2024). Calcitriol Treatment Is Safe and Increases Frataxin Levels in Friedreich Ataxia Patients. Movement Disorders. 39(7). 1099–1108. 1 indexed citations

Coll, Clàudia, María Buxó, Ester Quintana, et al.. (2023). Differences in metacognition between multiple sclerosis phenotypes: cognitive impairment and fatigue are key factors. Frontiers in Psychology. 14. 1163112–1163112. 1 indexed citations

Quiroga‐Varela, Ana, et al.. (2023). Improving the efficiency of free kappa light chains as diagnostic biomarker of Multiple Sclerosis by using a novel algorithm. Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders. 79. 104997–104997. 4 indexed citations

Zamarbide, Marta, Belén Gago, Enrique Santamaría, et al.. (2023). Hippocampal synaptic failure is an early event in experimental parkinsonism with subtle cognitive deficit. Brain. 146(12). 4949–4963. 11 indexed citations

Coll, Clàudia, Ester Quintana, María Buxó, et al.. (2022). Oligoclonal IgM bands are a promising biomarker for long-term cognitive outcomes in multiple sclerosis. Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders. 68. 104397–104397. 4 indexed citations

Jiménez‐Urbieta, Haritz, Belén Gago, Ana Quiroga‐Varela, et al.. (2020). Motor impulsivity and delay intolerance are elicited in a dose-dependent manner with a dopaminergic agonist in parkinsonian rats. Psychopharmacology. 237(8). 2419–2431. 5 indexed citations

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Quiroga‐Varela, Ana, et al.. (2020). [18F]-DPA-714 PET as a specific in vivo marker of early microglial activation in a rat model of progressive dopaminergic degeneration. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 47(11). 2602–2612. 21 indexed citations

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Paz‐Alonso, Pedro M., Irene Navalpotro‐Gómez, Rosalía Dacosta‐Aguayo, et al.. (2019). Functional Inhibitory Control Dynamics in Impulse Control Disorders in Parkinson's Disease. Movement Disorders. 35(2). 316–325. 23 indexed citations

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Navalpotro‐Gómez, Irene, Rosalía Dacosta‐Aguayo, Antonio Martín‐Bastida, et al.. (2019). Nigrostriatal dopamine transporter availability, and its metabolic and clinical correlates in Parkinson’s disease patients with impulse control disorders. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 46(10). 2065–2076. 10 indexed citations

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Navalpotro‐Gómez, Irene, Jinhee Kim, Pedro M. Paz‐Alonso, et al.. (2019). Disrupted salience network dynamics in Parkinson's disease patients with impulse control disorders. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders. 70. 74–81. 39 indexed citations

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Jiménez‐Urbieta, Haritz, Belén Gago, Ana Quiroga‐Varela, et al.. (2018). Pramipexole-induced impulsivity in mildparkinsonian rats: a model of impulse control disorders in Parkinson's disease. Neurobiology of Aging. 75. 126–135. 22 indexed citations

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Rey, Natalia López‐González del, Ana Quiroga‐Varela, Elisa Garbayo, et al.. (2018). Advances in Parkinson’s Disease: 200 Years Later. Frontiers in Neuroanatomy. 12. 113–113. 104 indexed citations

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Quiroga‐Varela, Ana, Esther Aguilar, Elena Iglesias, José Á. Obeso, & Concepció Marı́n. (2017). Short- and long-term effects induced by repeated 6-OHDA intraventricular administration: A new progressive and bilateral rodent model of Parkinson’s disease. Neuroscience. 361. 144–156. 11 indexed citations

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Filippo, Massimiliano Di, Antonio de Iure, Carmela Giampà, et al.. (2016). Persistent activation of microglia and NADPH oxidase drive hippocampal dysfunction in experimental multiple sclerosis. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 20926–20926. 78 indexed citations

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Gago, Belén, Ana Quiroga‐Varela, Carlos Juri, et al.. (2015). Monoaminergic PET imaging and histopathological correlation in unilateral and bilateral 6-hydroxydopamine lesioned rat models of Parkinson's disease: A longitudinal in-vivo study. Neurobiology of Disease. 77. 165–172. 17 indexed citations

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Tozzi, Alessandro, Antonio de Iure, Michela Tantucci, et al.. (2015). Endogenous 17Î²-estradiol is required for activity-dependent long-term potentiation in the striatum: interaction with the dopaminergic system. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 9. 192–192. 44 indexed citations

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Quiroga‐Varela, Ana, Judith R. Walters, E. S. Brazhnik, Concepció Marı́n, & José Á. Obeso. (2013). What basal ganglia changes underlie the parkinsonian state? The significance of neuronal oscillatory activity. Neurobiology of Disease. 58. 242–248. 65 indexed citations

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