Bárbara Costa

714 total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 419 citations indexed

About

Bárbara Costa is a scholar working on Psychiatry and Mental health, Molecular Biology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Bárbara Costa has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 419 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health, 6 papers in Molecular Biology and 6 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Bárbara Costa's work include Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies (4 papers), Pregnancy and Medication Impact (4 papers) and Cancer, Stress, Anesthesia, and Immune Response (3 papers). Bárbara Costa is often cited by papers focused on Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies (4 papers), Pregnancy and Medication Impact (4 papers) and Cancer, Stress, Anesthesia, and Immune Response (3 papers). Bárbara Costa collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, United States and Germany. Bárbara Costa's co-authors include Nuno Vale, Irina Amorim, Fátima Gärtner, Isabel Silva, Lara Marques, Abigail Silva, Mariana Pereira, Joana Santos, Stephan Schmidt and Maria João Gouveia and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, International Journal of Molecular Sciences and Pharmacological Research.

In The Last Decade

Bárbara Costa

21 papers receiving 410 citations

Hit Papers

Advancing Precision Medicine: A Review of Innovative In S... 2024 2026 2025 2024 40 80 120
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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. Advancing Precision Medicine: A Review of Innovative In Silico Approaches for Drug Development, Clinical Pharmacology and Personalized Healthcare
    2024 124 citations Lara Marques, Bárbara Costa et al. Pharmaceutics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Bárbara Costa Portugal 9 158 71 47 43 40 27 419
Yi-Cheng Chen Taiwan 12 254 1.6× 50 0.7× 33 0.7× 29 0.7× 45 1.1× 39 570
Fatemeh Faramarzi Iran 13 194 1.2× 115 1.6× 21 0.4× 69 1.6× 12 0.3× 33 543
Mohd Imran Khan India 13 153 1.0× 34 0.5× 31 0.7× 20 0.5× 62 1.6× 40 401
Jing Ye China 13 226 1.4× 34 0.5× 59 1.3× 29 0.7× 22 0.6× 52 570
Luka Peternel Slovenia 11 100 0.6× 47 0.7× 42 0.9× 13 0.3× 17 0.4× 21 376
Chenyang Li China 14 178 1.1× 103 1.5× 79 1.7× 61 1.4× 27 0.7× 58 542
Paola Misiano Italy 12 254 1.6× 100 1.4× 19 0.4× 20 0.5× 33 0.8× 20 481
Sheng Dai China 13 219 1.4× 50 0.7× 16 0.3× 23 0.5× 18 0.5× 42 454
Nirav Shah United States 14 277 1.8× 93 1.3× 26 0.6× 137 3.2× 13 0.3× 22 587
Joe Gomez United States 12 165 1.0× 19 0.3× 30 0.6× 22 0.5× 12 0.3× 14 386

Countries citing papers authored by Bárbara Costa

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bárbara Costa

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bárbara Costa

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

All Works

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Costa, Bárbara & Nuno Vale. (2024). Virus-Induced Epilepsy vs. Epilepsy Patients Acquiring Viral Infection: Unravelling the Complex Relationship for Precision Treatment. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25(7). 3730–3730. 8 indexed citations
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Costa, Bárbara, Maria João Gouveia, & Nuno Vale. (2024). Oxidative Stress Induced by Antivirals: Implications for Adverse Outcomes During Pregnancy and in Newborns. Antioxidants. 13(12). 1518–1518.
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Marques, Lara, Bárbara Costa, Mariana Pereira, et al.. (2024). Advancing Precision Medicine: A Review of Innovative In Silico Approaches for Drug Development, Clinical Pharmacology and Personalized Healthcare. Pharmaceutics. 16(3). 332–332. 124 indexed citations breakdown →
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Costa, Bárbara & Nuno Vale. (2023). Understanding Lamotrigine’s Role in the CNS and Possible Future Evolution. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(7). 6050–6050. 40 indexed citations
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Costa, Bárbara & Nuno Vale. (2023). Exploring HERV-K (HML-2) Influence in Cancer and Prospects for Therapeutic Interventions. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(19). 14631–14631. 7 indexed citations
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Vale, Nuno, et al.. (2023). New Perspective for Using Antimicrobial and Cell-Penetrating Peptides to Increase Efficacy of Antineoplastic 5-FU in Cancer Cells. Journal of Functional Biomaterials. 14(12). 565–565. 2 indexed citations
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Silva, Abigail, et al.. (2023). New Perspective for Drug–Drug Interaction in Perioperative Period. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 12(14). 4810–4810. 5 indexed citations
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Costa, Bárbara, et al.. (2023). In Vitro Drug Repurposing: Focus on Vasodilators. Cells. 12(4). 671–671. 8 indexed citations
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Costa, Bárbara & Nuno Vale. (2023). Modulating Immune Response in Viral Infection for Quantitative Forecasts of Drug Efficacy. Pharmaceutics. 15(1). 167–167.
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Costa, Bárbara, et al.. (2023). Validation Rules as a First Step for Data Quality: Pharmacovigilance Application in Portugal. Studies in health technology and informatics. 302. 382–383.
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Costa, Bárbara & Nuno Vale. (2022). Efavirenz: History, Development and Future. Biomolecules. 13(1). 88–88. 30 indexed citations
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Marques, Lara, Bárbara Costa, & Nuno Vale. (2022). New Data for Nebivolol after In Silico PK Study: Focus on Young Patients and Dosage Regimen. Pharmaceutics. 14(9). 1911–1911. 2 indexed citations
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Costa, Bárbara & Nuno Vale. (2022). Drug Metabolism for the Identification of Clinical Biomarkers in Breast Cancer. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(6). 3181–3181. 9 indexed citations
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Costa, Bárbara, Joana Mourão, & Nuno Vale. (2022). Personalized Medicine for Classical Anesthesia Drugs and Cancer Progression. Journal of Personalized Medicine. 12(11). 1846–1846. 3 indexed citations
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Costa, Bárbara & Nuno Vale. (2022). Dostarlimab: A Review. Biomolecules. 12(8). 1031–1031. 36 indexed citations
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Costa, Bárbara, et al.. (2021). New Insight into Breast Cancer Cells Involving Drug Combinations for Dopamine and Serotonin Receptors. Applied Sciences. 11(13). 6082–6082. 5 indexed citations
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Costa, Bárbara, Irina Amorim, Fátima Gärtner, & Nuno Vale. (2020). Understanding Breast cancer: from conventional therapies to repurposed drugs. European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. 151. 105401–105401. 70 indexed citations

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