Graça Minas

4.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
165 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Graça Minas is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Bioengineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Graça Minas has authored 165 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 107 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 47 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 33 papers in Bioengineering. Recurrent topics in Graça Minas's work include Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications (58 papers), Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (46 papers) and Analytical Chemistry and Sensors (33 papers). Graça Minas is often cited by papers focused on Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications (58 papers), Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (46 papers) and Analytical Chemistry and Sensors (33 papers). Graça Minas collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, Spain and Netherlands. Graça Minas's co-authors include Rui Lima, Susana O. Catarino, Paulo Sousa, Vanessa F. Cardoso, S. Lanceros‐Méndez, Raquel O. Rodrigues, Vera Faustino, João Ribeiro, Elisabete M. S. Castanheira and Inês Miranda and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Engineering Journal, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics and Small.

In The Last Decade

Graça Minas

157 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Properties and Applications of PDMS for Biomedical Engineering: A Review

2021 467 citations Inês Miranda, Andrews Souza et al. Journal of Functional Biomaterials profile →
Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectroscopy to Analyse Human Blood over the Last 20 Years: A Review towards Lab-on-a-Chip Devices

2022 117 citations Diana Pinho, Susana O. Catarino et al. Micromachines profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Graça Minas	2.0k	591	273	232	213	165	2.9k
On Shun Pak	2.1k 1.0×	550 0.9×	317 1.2×	227 1.0×	179 0.8×	63	2.9k
Boris Stoeber	1.4k 0.7×	689 1.2×	206 0.8×	272 1.2×	92 0.4×	125	2.7k
Wouter van der Wijngaart	2.1k 1.1×	1.2k 2.0×	297 1.1×	316 1.4×	126 0.6×	167	3.2k
Jae Joon Kim	1.4k 0.7×	932 1.6×	256 0.9×	491 2.1×	142 0.7×	172	3.4k
Lei Mou	1.2k 0.6×	344 0.6×	260 1.0×	369 1.6×	57 0.3×	67	2.1k
Min‐Hsien Wu	2.7k 1.3×	901 1.5×	241 0.9×	602 2.6×	385 1.8×	150	4.3k
Muthukumaran Packirisamy	1.7k 0.8×	983 1.7×	390 1.4×	541 2.3×	166 0.8×	267	3.2k
Tijani Gharbi	851 0.4×	478 0.8×	422 1.5×	443 1.9×	146 0.7×	135	2.3k
Tsung-Han Tsai	1.6k 0.8×	789 1.3×	275 1.0×	301 1.3×	161 0.8×	125	2.9k
Zhaochu Yang	1.2k 0.6×	551 0.9×	515 1.9×	354 1.5×	92 0.4×	71	2.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Graça Minas

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Gonçalves, Inês M., Diana Pinho, Joel Borges, et al.. (2025). Long-term hydrophilic PDMS surfaces using Brij L4: A simple and robust approach for biomedical applications. Applied Surface Science Advances. 30. 100904–100904.

Sousa, Paulo, et al.. (2025). A Proof-of-Concept Study Aiming for the Integration of an Optical Biosensor in Advanced Microfluidic Devices for Alzheimer’s Disease Studies. Applied Sciences. 15(7). 3837–3837.

Pinto, Vânia Zanella, et al.. (2024). A portable and low-cost optical device for pigment-based taxonomic classification of microalgae using machine learning. Sensors and Actuators B Chemical. 423. 136819–136819. 3 indexed citations

Sousa, Paulo, Vânia Pinto, Delfim Soares, et al.. (2024). PDMS porous microneedles used as engineered tool in advanced microfluidic devices and their proof-of-concept for biomarker detection. Chemical Engineering Journal. 485. 149725–149725. 11 indexed citations

Sousa, Paulo, et al.. (2024). Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor-Based Optical Detection System for Fluidic Cellular Medium pH Quantification. Photonics. 11(12). 1130–1130. 2 indexed citations

Sousa, Paulo, Vânia Pinto, Joel Borges, et al.. (2024). Critical Issues on the Surface Functionalization of Plasmonic Au-Ag/TiO2 Thin Films with Thiolated Oligonucleotide-Based Biorecognition Elements. Biosensors. 14(4). 159–159. 1 indexed citations

Gonçalves, Inês M., Joel Borges, Vera Faustino, et al.. (2024). Polydimethylsiloxane Surface Modification of Microfluidic Devices for Blood Plasma Separation. Polymers. 16(10). 1416–1416. 16 indexed citations

Carvalho, Violeta, Inês M. Gonçalves, Paulo Sousa, et al.. (2023). Numerical evaluation and experimental validation of fluid flow behavior within an organ-on-a-chip model. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. 243. 107883–107883. 14 indexed citations

Carvalho, Violeta, Manuel Bañobre‐López, Graça Minas, et al.. (2022). The integration of spheroids and organoids into organ-on-a-chip platforms for tumour research: A review. Bioprinting. 27. e00224–e00224. 26 indexed citations

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Gonçalves, Inês M., Raquel O. Rodrigues, Ana Moita, et al.. (2022). Recent trends of biomaterials and biosensors for organ-on-chip platforms. Bioprinting. 26. e00202–e00202. 34 indexed citations

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Carvalho, Violeta, Bernardo Faria, Inês Miranda, et al.. (2022). Diagnosis Methods for COVID-19: A Systematic Review. Micromachines. 13(8). 1349–1349. 25 indexed citations

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Gonçalves, Inês M., Inês Castro, Vera Faustino, et al.. (2022). Experimental Characterization of a Microfluidic Device Based on Passive Crossflow Filters for Blood Fractionation. Processes. 10(12). 2698–2698. 5 indexed citations

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Gonçalves, Inês M., Violeta Carvalho, Raquel O. Rodrigues, et al.. (2022). Organ-on-a-Chip Platforms for Drug Screening and Delivery in Tumor Cells: A Systematic Review. Cancers. 14(4). 935–935. 46 indexed citations

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Martins, M.S., Paulo Sousa, Vânia Pinto, et al.. (2021). PtOEP–PDMS-Based Optical Oxygen Sensor. Sensors. 21(16). 5645–5645. 11 indexed citations

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Miranda, Inês, Andrews Souza, Paulo Sousa, et al.. (2021). Properties and Applications of PDMS for Biomedical Engineering: A Review. Journal of Functional Biomaterials. 13(1). 2–2. 467 indexed citations breakdown →

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Souza, Reinaldo Rodrigues de, Inês M. Gonçalves, Raquel O. Rodrigues, et al.. (2021). Recent advances on the thermal properties and applications of nanofluids: From nanomedicine to renewable energies. Applied Thermal Engineering. 201. 117725–117725. 74 indexed citations

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Rodrigues, Raquel O., Patrícia C. Sousa, J. Gaspar, et al.. (2020). Organ‐on‐a‐Chip: A Preclinical Microfluidic Platform for the Progress of Nanomedicine. Small. 16(51). e2003517–e2003517. 103 indexed citations

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Catarino, Susana O., Raquel O. Rodrigues, Diana Pinho, et al.. (2019). Blood Cells Separation and Sorting Techniques of Passive Microfluidic Devices: From Fabrication to Applications. Micromachines. 10(9). 593–593. 114 indexed citations

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Faustino, Vera, Rui Lima, J.M. Miranda, et al.. (2018). Assessment of the Deformability and Velocity of Healthy and Artificially Impaired Red Blood Cells in Narrow Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) Microchannels. Micromachines. 9(8). 384–384. 39 indexed citations

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Pimenta, Sara, et al.. (2017). CMOS Integrated Photodetectors and Light-to-Frequency Converters for Spectrophotometric Measurements. IEEE Sensors Journal. 17(11). 3438–3445. 12 indexed citations

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