José Brás

43.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
146 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

José Brás is a scholar working on Neurology, Physiology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, José Brás has authored 146 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Neurology, 45 papers in Physiology and 44 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in José Brás's work include Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (27 papers), Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (25 papers) and Neurological diseases and metabolism (21 papers). José Brás is often cited by papers focused on Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (27 papers), Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (25 papers) and Neurological diseases and metabolism (21 papers). José Brás collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Portugal. José Brás's co-authors include Rita Guerreiro, John Hardy, Andrew Singleton, J.P. Richard van Merkesteyn, Catarina R. Oliveira, R.H. Groot, Nicholas Wood, Susanne A. Schneider, C.P. van Ooij and J. Raphael Gibbs and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

José Brás

145 papers receiving 5.9k 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.

Glucocerebrosidase mutations in clinical and pathologically proven Parkinson's disease

2009 509 citations José Brás, Emma Deas et al. Brain profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
José Brás United States	45	1.9k	1.9k	1.6k	1.4k	860	146	6.0k
Sjoerd G. van Duinen Netherlands	46	3.1k 1.6×	2.0k 1.1×	2.9k 1.8×	857 0.6×	770 0.9×	164	7.8k
Nikolaos Grigoriadis Greece	43	1.2k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	1.9k 1.2×	1.5k 1.0×	1.0k 1.2×	221	7.0k
Adolfo López de Munaín Spain	42	920 0.5×	1.9k 1.0×	3.1k 1.9×	720 0.5×	1.6k 1.8×	218	6.1k
Tetsumori Yamashima Japan	47	867 0.4×	1.3k 0.7×	2.6k 1.6×	803 0.6×	1.4k 1.7×	206	7.1k
Neil Scolding United Kingdom	52	981 0.5×	1.7k 0.9×	2.2k 1.3×	1.2k 0.8×	1.3k 1.5×	218	7.9k
Masanori Nakagawa Japan	48	1.3k 0.7×	2.4k 1.3×	3.0k 1.9×	908 0.6×	1.7k 2.0×	324	8.3k
Arndt Rolfs Germany	40	2.3k 1.2×	934 0.5×	2.3k 1.5×	418 0.3×	1.3k 1.5×	280	6.5k
Koichi Okamoto Japan	41	1.5k 0.8×	2.3k 1.2×	2.1k 1.3×	879 0.6×	1.0k 1.2×	216	5.5k
Christian Barro Switzerland	34	912 0.5×	2.9k 1.6×	1.8k 1.1×	869 0.6×	771 0.9×	72	7.2k
Dirk Troost Netherlands	59	1.6k 0.8×	3.0k 1.6×	4.4k 2.7×	1.7k 1.2×	2.5k 3.0×	197	11.3k

Countries citing papers authored by José Brás

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of José Brás

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Tábuas‐Pereira, Miguel, João Durães, Célia Kun‐Rodrigues, et al.. (2024). Exploring first-degree family history in a cohort of Portuguese Alzheimer’s disease patients: population evidence for X-chromosome linked and recessive inheritance of risk factors. Journal of Neurology. 271(10). 6983–6990. 1 indexed citations

Santos, Mariana, Joana Damásio, Susana Carmona, et al.. (2022). Molecular Characterization of Portuguese Patients with Hereditary Cerebellar Ataxia. Cells. 11(6). 981–981. 5 indexed citations

Tábuas‐Pereira, Miguel, Rita Guerreiro, Célia Kun‐Rodrigues, et al.. (2022). Whole-exome sequencing reveals PSEN1 and ATP7B combined variants as a possible cause of early-onset Lewy body dementia: a case study of genotype–phenotype correlation. Neurogenetics. 23(4). 279–283. 2 indexed citations

Tábuas‐Pereira, Miguel, Isabel Santana, Maria Rosário Almeida, et al.. (2022). Rare variants in TP73 in a frontotemporal dementia cohort link this gene with primary progressive aphasia phenotypes. European Journal of Neurology. 29(5). 1524–1528. 2 indexed citations

Damásio, Joana, Diana Santos, Sara Morais, et al.. (2021). Congenital ataxia due to novel variant in ATP8A2 . Clinical Genetics. 100(1). 79–83. 6 indexed citations

Tábuas‐Pereira, Miguel, Isabel Santana, Rita Guerreiro, & José Brás. (2020). Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics: Review of Novel Loci Associated with Disease. 8(1). 1–16. 20 indexed citations

Balint, Bettina, Joana Damásio, Francesca Magrinelli, et al.. (2020). Psychiatric Manifestations of ATP13A2 Mutations. Movement Disorders Clinical Practice. 7(7). 838–841. 4 indexed citations

Faller, Kiterie M. E., Alison E. Ridyard, Rodrigo Gutierrez‐Quintana, et al.. (2020). A deletion of IDUA exon 10 in a family of Golden Retriever dogs with an attenuated form of mucopolysaccharidosis type I. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine. 34(5). 1813–1824. 3 indexed citations

Orme, Tatiana, Rita Guerreiro, & José Brás. (2018). The Genetics of Dementia with Lewy Bodies: Current Understanding and Future Directions. Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports. 18(10). 67–67. 72 indexed citations

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Brás, José, Ruth Djaldetti, Simon Mead, et al.. (2016). Exome sequencing in a consanguineous family clinically diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease identifies a homozygous CTSF mutation. Neurobiology of Aging. 46. 236.e1–236.e6. 18 indexed citations

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Boutoleau‐Bretonnière, Claire, Agnès Camuzat, Isabelle Le Ber, et al.. (2014). A Phenotype of Atypical Apraxia of Speech in a Family Carrying SQSTM1 Mutation. Journal of Alzheimer s Disease. 43(2). 625–630. 14 indexed citations

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Guerreiro, Rita, Ebba Lohmann, José Brás, et al.. (2013). Using Exome Sequencing to Reveal Mutations in TREM2 Presenting as a Frontotemporal Dementia–like Syndrome Without Bone Involvement. JAMA Neurology. 70(1). 78–78. 262 indexed citations

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Forabosco, Paola, Adaikalavan Ramasamy, Daniah Trabzuni, et al.. (2013). Insights into TREM2 biology by network analysis of human brain gene expression data. Neurobiology of Aging. 34(12). 2699–2714. 138 indexed citations

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Brás, José, Rita Guerreiro, & John Hardy. (2012). Use of next-generation sequencing and other whole-genome strategies to dissect neurological disease. Nature reviews. Neuroscience. 13(7). 453–464. 78 indexed citations

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Brás, José, Emma Deas, Sean S. O’Sullivan, et al.. (2009). Glucocerebrosidase mutations in clinical and pathologically proven Parkinson's disease. Brain. 132(7). 1783–1794. 509 indexed citations breakdown →

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Brás, José, Javier Simón‐Sánchez, Monica Federoff, et al.. (2008). Lack of replication of association between GIGYF2 variants and Parkinson disease. Human Molecular Genetics. 18(2). 341–346. 48 indexed citations

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Brás, José, Rita Guerreiro, Maria Helena Ribeiro, et al.. (2005). G2019S dardarin substitution is a common cause of Parkinson's disease in a Portuguese cohort. Movement Disorders. 20(12). 1653–1655. 83 indexed citations

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Merkesteyn, J.P. Richard van, R.H. Groot, José Brás, R. S. McCARROLL, & D.J. Bakker. (1990). Diffuse sclerosing osteomyelitis of the mandible: A new concept of its etiology. Oral Surgery Oral Medicine Oral Pathology. 70(4). 414–419. 70 indexed citations

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Groot, R.H., J.P. Richard van Merkesteyn, & José Brás. (1990). Oral manifestations of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in HIV-infected patients. International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. 19(4). 194–196. 32 indexed citations

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HABETS, L. L. M. H., José Brás, & J.P. Richard van Merkesteyn. (1988). Mandibular atrophy and metabolic bone loss. International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. 17(5). 325–329. 22 indexed citations

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