Fernando Santos

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
123 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Fernando Santos is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Nephrology and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. According to data from OpenAlex, Fernando Santos has authored 123 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Molecular Biology, 44 papers in Nephrology and 31 papers in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. Recurrent topics in Fernando Santos's work include Ion Transport and Channel Regulation (28 papers), Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factors (23 papers) and Parathyroid Disorders and Treatments (22 papers). Fernando Santos is often cited by papers focused on Ion Transport and Channel Regulation (28 papers), Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factors (23 papers) and Parathyroid Disorders and Treatments (22 papers). Fernando Santos collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United States and Germany. Fernando Santos's co-authors include Helena Gil‐Peña, Julián Rodrı́guez, Flor Á. Ordóñez, Natalia Mejía, James C.M. Chan, Salette Reis, Marcela A. Segundo, Luís M. Magalhães, José L. F. C. Lima and Eliécer Coto and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and PEDIATRICS.

In The Last Decade

Fernando Santos

119 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Clinical practice recommendations for the diagnosis and management of X-linked hypophosphataemia

2019 316 citations Dieter Haffner, Francesco Emma et al. Nature Reviews Nephrology profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Fernando Santos	1.0k	956	437	402	370	123	2.7k
Isao Matsui	1.6k 1.6×	1.6k 1.6×	283 0.6×	394 1.0×	651 1.8×	130	4.3k
Shunya Uchida	1.3k 1.3×	1.1k 1.1×	174 0.4×	456 1.1×	510 1.4×	140	3.2k
Terezila Machado Coimbra	826 0.8×	783 0.8×	404 0.9×	267 0.7×	525 1.4×	105	2.9k
Raimund Hirschberg	1.7k 1.7×	1.5k 1.6×	568 1.3×	532 1.3×	360 1.0×	81	4.3k
B. Baggio	1.1k 1.1×	702 0.7×	348 0.8×	888 2.2×	263 0.7×	126	3.2k
Hideyuki Yamato	1.0k 1.0×	677 0.7×	161 0.4×	135 0.3×	396 1.1×	74	2.4k
Andreas Pasch	2.2k 2.2×	847 0.9×	260 0.6×	818 2.0×	497 1.3×	134	4.5k
Tatsuo Yamamoto	677 0.7×	551 0.6×	240 0.5×	268 0.7×	181 0.5×	82	2.4k
Constantine S. Anast	791 0.8×	765 0.8×	228 0.5×	285 0.7×	455 1.2×	78	2.5k
Adrián M. Ramos	870 0.9×	1.3k 1.3×	136 0.3×	328 0.8×	277 0.7×	62	3.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fernando Santos

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Fernando Santos. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Fernando 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 Fernando Santos. Fernando Santos 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

Nóvoa, Eva, Ana Senra, Javier Baltar, et al.. (2025). Hepatic Olfr734 Deficiency Worsens Hepatic Glucose Metabolism and Induces MASLD in Mice. Nutrients. 17(15). 2426–2426. 1 indexed citations

Lago‐Baameiro, Nerea, Alma Vázquez‐Durán, Aurelio M. Sueiro, et al.. (2025). Intra and inter-organ communication through extracellular vesicles in obesity: functional role of obesesomes and steatosomes. Journal of Translational Medicine. 23(1). 207–207. 5 indexed citations

Villalón, Manuel, Cintia Folgueira, Silvia Barja-Fernández, et al.. (2023). Gastric GDF15 levels are regulated by age, sex, and nutritional status in rodents and humans. Journal of Endocrinological Investigation. 47(5). 1139–1154. 5 indexed citations

Mughal, M.Z., Giampiero I. Baroncelli, Carmen de Lucas Collantes, et al.. (2023). Burosumab for X-linked hypophosphatemia in children and adolescents: Opinion based on early experience in seven European countries. Frontiers in Endocrinology. 13. 1034580–1034580. 13 indexed citations

Trepiccione, Francesco, Gema Ariceta, Olivia Boyer, et al.. (2021). Distal renal tubular acidosis: ERKNet/ESPN clinical practice points. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation. 36(9). 1585–1596. 25 indexed citations

Gil‐Peña, Helena, et al.. (2020). Urinary ammonium: Paediatric reference values. Acta Paediatrica. 110(2). 659–660. 1 indexed citations

Lago‐Baameiro, Nerea, Susana B. Bravo, Aurelio M. Sueiro, et al.. (2020). Vesicles Shed by Pathological Murine Adipocytes Spread Pathology: Characterization and Functional Role of Insulin Resistant/Hypertrophied Adiposomes. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 21(6). 2252–2252. 45 indexed citations

Haffner, Dieter, Francesco Emma, Deborah M. Eastwood, et al.. (2019). Clinical practice recommendations for the diagnosis and management of X-linked hypophosphataemia. Nature Reviews Nephrology. 15(7). 435–455. 316 indexed citations breakdown →

Martínez‐Morillo, Eduardo, et al.. (2018). Marker of vitamin D status in healthy children: Free or total 25-hydroxyvitamin D?. PLoS ONE. 13(8). e0202237–e0202237. 13 indexed citations

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Santos, Fernando, et al.. (2015). Clinical and laboratory approaches in the diagnosis of renal tubular acidosis. Pediatric Nephrology. 30(12). 2099–2107. 40 indexed citations

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Tavira, Beatriz, Juan Gómez, S Málaga, et al.. (2015). A labor and cost effective next generation sequencing of PKHD1 in autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease patients. Gene. 561(1). 165–169. 4 indexed citations

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Rodrı́guez, Julián, et al.. (2014). Can vitamin D status be assessed by serum 25OHD in children?. Pediatric Nephrology. 30(2). 327–332. 12 indexed citations

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Rodrı́guez, Julián, et al.. (2011). Prophylactic vitamin D in healthy infants: assessing the need. Metabolism. 60(12). 1719–1725. 29 indexed citations

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Rodrı́guez, Julián, Eliécer Coto, Victoria Álvarez, et al.. (2010). Gitelman syndrome in Gypsy paediatric patients carrying the same intron 9 + 1 G>T mutation. Clinical features and impact on quality of life. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation. 26(1). 151–155. 14 indexed citations

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Alvarez-Garcia, O., et al.. (2010). Rapamycin induces growth retardation by disrupting angiogenesis in the growth plate. Kidney International. 78(6). 561–568. 37 indexed citations

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Magalhães, Luís M., Fernando Santos, Marcela A. Segundo, Salette Reis, & José L. F. C. Lima. (2010). Rapid microplate high-throughput methodology for assessment of Folin-Ciocalteu reducing capacity. Talanta. 83(2). 441–447. 182 indexed citations

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Santos, Fernando, et al.. (2006). Catch-up growth follows an abnormal pattern in experimental renal insufficiency and growth hormone treatment normalizes it. Kidney International. 70(11). 1955–1961. 15 indexed citations

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Fernández-Fuente, Marta, et al.. (2004). Chondromodulin-I expression in the growth plate of young uremic rats. Kidney International. 66(1). 51–59. 8 indexed citations

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Santos, Fernando, et al.. (1996). Ressecçäo cirúrgica em bloco de melanoma maligno de coróide. Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia. 88–91.

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Santos, Fernando, et al.. (1995). Insulin-like growth factor-I gene expression in the tibial epiphyseal growth plate of growth hormone-treated uremic rats. Kidney International. 47(5). 1374–1382. 40 indexed citations

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