Irina S. Moreira

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
86 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Irina S. Moreira is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Irina S. Moreira has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Molecular Biology, 23 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 15 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Irina S. Moreira's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (29 papers), Computational Drug Discovery Methods (23 papers) and Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (20 papers). Irina S. Moreira is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (29 papers), Computational Drug Discovery Methods (23 papers) and Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (20 papers). Irina S. Moreira collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, United States and Netherlands. Irina S. Moreira's co-authors include Maria J. Ramos, Pedro Alexandrino Fernandes, António J. Preto, Harel Weinstein, Eneko Urizar, Yang Han, Jonathan A. Javitch, Alexandre M. J. J. Bonvin, Rui Miguel Ramos and Rita Melo and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Bioinformatics and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Irina S. Moreira

82 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

Hot spots—A review of the protein–protein interface determinant amino‐acid residues

2007 578 citations Irina S. Moreira, Pedro Alexandrino Fernandes et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Irina S. Moreira Portugal	26	2.1k	539	418	379	302	86	2.7k
Christina Kiel Spain	26	2.6k 1.2×	509 0.9×	203 0.5×	264 0.7×	163 0.5×	60	3.4k
Giuseppe Melacini Canada	38	3.1k 1.5×	491 0.9×	351 0.8×	388 1.0×	175 0.6×	131	4.2k
Jack Nguyen United States	27	3.8k 1.8×	239 0.4×	215 0.5×	313 0.8×	199 0.7×	45	5.0k
Sander B. Nabuurs Netherlands	28	2.8k 1.3×	635 1.2×	167 0.4×	555 1.5×	132 0.4×	45	4.0k
Steve W. Lockless United States	20	2.8k 1.3×	241 0.4×	303 0.7×	428 1.1×	115 0.4×	26	3.3k
Lidia Mosyak United States	29	2.1k 1.0×	446 0.8×	252 0.6×	235 0.6×	295 1.0×	45	3.4k
Nunilo Cremades Spain	35	2.2k 1.0×	208 0.4×	703 1.7×	318 0.8×	187 0.6×	49	4.8k
Hui Sun Lee United States	22	1.6k 0.8×	322 0.6×	131 0.3×	224 0.6×	143 0.5×	43	2.3k
Esther Kellenberger France	24	1.8k 0.9×	1.2k 2.2×	216 0.5×	238 0.6×	262 0.9×	65	2.6k
Albert J. Kooistra Netherlands	27	2.0k 1.0×	806 1.5×	662 1.6×	167 0.4×	343 1.1×	56	2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Irina S. Moreira

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Irina S. Moreira'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 Irina S. Moreira with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Irina S. Moreira more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Irina S. Moreira

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Irina S. Moreira. 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 Irina S. Moreira. The network helps show where Irina S. Moreira may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Irina S. Moreira

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Irina S. Moreira. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Irina S. Moreira 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 Irina S. Moreira. Irina S. Moreira 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

Moreira, Irina S., et al.. (2025). GPCR oligomerization across classes: A2AR-mediated regulation of mGlu5R activation. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 299. 139880–139880. 1 indexed citations

Portugal, Camila C., Tiago O. Almeida, Cátia Silva, et al.. (2025). Profilin 1 controls a microglial cytoskeleton checkpoint to prevent senescence and premature synaptic decline. Journal of Neuroinflammation. 22(1). 264–264.

Melo, Rita, et al.. (2025). Exploring the impact of the stargazin V143L mutation on the dynamics of the AMPA receptor: stargazin complex. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 18. 1505846–1505846.

Preto, António J., Francisco Duarte-Martínez, Hugo Fernandes, et al.. (2024). POSEIDON: Peptidic Objects SEquence-based Interaction with cellular DOmaiNs: a new database and predictor. Journal of Cheminformatics. 16(1). 18–18. 4 indexed citations

Preto, António J., et al.. (2023). DELFOS—drug efficacy leveraging forked and specialized networks—benchmarking scRNA-seq data in multi-omics-based prediction of cancer sensitivity. Bioinformatics. 39(11). 2 indexed citations

Moreira, Irina S., et al.. (2022). SARS-CoV-2 Membrane Protein: From Genomic Data to Structural New Insights. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(6). 2986–2986. 21 indexed citations

Machuqueiro, Miguel, et al.. (2022). Network biology and artificial intelligence drive the understanding of the multidrug resistance phenotype in cancer. Drug Resistance Updates. 60. 100811–100811. 30 indexed citations

Silva, Deolinda, Ana Marote, Rui Lima, et al.. (2022). Enhanced neuronal differentiation by dynamic piezoelectric stimulation. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A. 111(1). 35–44. 10 indexed citations

Costa, Vı́tor Santos, et al.. (2021). The Treasury Chest of Text Mining: Piling Available Resources for Powerful Biomedical Text Mining. MDPI (MDPI AG). 1(2). 60–80. 5 indexed citations

10.

Machuqueiro, Miguel, José Guilherme de Almeida, André Melo, et al.. (2019). Dynamical Rearrangement of Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 upon Antibody Binding: Effects on the Dimerization. Biomolecules. 9(11). 706–706. 7 indexed citations

11.

Moreira, Irina S., Panagiotis I. Koukos, Rita Melo, et al.. (2017). SpotOn: High Accuracy Identification of Protein-Protein Interface Hot-Spots. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 8007–8007. 61 indexed citations

12.

Şensoy, Özge, et al.. (2017). Computational studies of G protein-coupled receptor complexes: Structure and dynamics. Methods in cell biology. 142. 205–245. 7 indexed citations

13.

Moreira, Irina S.. (2015). The Role of Water Occlusion for the Definition of a Protein Binding Hot-Spot. Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry. 15(20). 2068–2079. 12 indexed citations

14.

Carneiro, João, Luı́sa Azevedo, L. Filipe C. Castro, et al.. (2013). The Evolutionary Portrait of Metazoan NAD Salvage. PLoS ONE. 8(5). e64674–e64674. 9 indexed citations

15.

Moreira, Irina S., João M. Martins, Rui Miguel Ramos, Pedro Alexandrino Fernandes, & Maria J. Ramos. (2012). Understanding the importance of the aromatic amino-acid residues as hot-spots. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics. 1834(1). 404–414. 38 indexed citations

16.

Thorsen, Thor S., Kenneth L. Madsen, Nelson Rebola, et al.. (2009). Identification of a small-molecule inhibitor of the PICK1 PDZ domain that inhibits hippocampal LTP and LTD. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(1). 413–418. 89 indexed citations

17.

Moreira, Irina S., Pedro Alexandrino Fernandes, & Maria J. Ramos. (2009). Protein–protein docking dealing with the unknown. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 31(2). 317–342. 98 indexed citations

18.

Moreira, Irina S., Pedro Alexandrino Fernandes, & Maria J. Ramos. (2008). Protein–protein recognition: a computational mutagenesis study of the MDM2–P53 complex. Theoretical Chemistry Accounts. 120(4-6). 533–542. 21 indexed citations

19.

Moreira, Irina S., Pedro Alexandrino Fernandes, & Maria J. Ramos. (2007). Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) Inhibition - A Critical Review. Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry. 7(2). 223–245. 82 indexed citations

20.

Moreira, Irina S., Pedro Alexandrino Fernandes, & Maria J. Ramos. (2006). Computational alanine scanning mutagenesis—An improved methodological approach. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 28(3). 644–654. 204 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