Luis Castillo

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 875 citations indexed

About

Luis Castillo is a scholar working on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Luis Castillo has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 875 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, 15 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 9 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Luis Castillo's work include Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life (14 papers), Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research (12 papers) and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (4 papers). Luis Castillo is often cited by papers focused on Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life (14 papers), Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research (12 papers) and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (4 papers). Luis Castillo collaborates with scholars based in Uruguay, United States and Spain. Luis Castillo's co-authors include Ronald D. Barr, Federico Antillón, Catharina Wesseling, C G Elinder, Carlos Rodríguez‐Galindo, Patricia Alcasabas, Shripad Banavali, Paola Friedrich, Thomas G. Gross and Catherine Patte and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Oncology, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Cancer.

In The Last Decade

Luis Castillo

38 papers receiving 861 citations

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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.

Toward the Cure of All Children With Cancer Through Collaborative Efforts: Pediatric Oncology As a Global Challenge

2015 280 citations Federico Antillón, Luis Castillo et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Luis Castillo Uruguay	14	453	431	155	88	72	43	875
Juan José Parrilla Spain	21	544 1.2×	270 0.6×	79 0.5×	78 0.9×	89 1.2×	56	1.2k
Helen Kosmidis Greece	18	516 1.1×	459 1.1×	221 1.4×	72 0.8×	105 1.5×	48	1.1k
Debra Kennedy Australia	18	394 0.9×	758 1.8×	72 0.5×	32 0.4×	135 1.9×	43	1.3k
Christina Ullrich United States	20	855 1.9×	662 1.5×	124 0.8×	57 0.6×	175 2.4×	51	1.4k
Clare Frobisher United Kingdom	25	949 2.1×	832 1.9×	349 2.3×	237 2.7×	163 2.3×	37	1.7k
Luís M. Graça Portugal	15	354 0.8×	257 0.6×	86 0.6×	111 1.3×	94 1.3×	63	891
Øjvind Lidegaard Denmark	19	566 1.2×	911 2.1×	144 0.9×	63 0.7×	43 0.6×	59	1.9k
Mine Kanat-Pektaş Türkiye	19	323 0.7×	452 1.0×	85 0.5×	31 0.4×	48 0.7×	81	1.0k
Ramy Sedhom United States	14	146 0.3×	229 0.5×	289 1.9×	148 1.7×	64 0.9×	82	696
Amy R. MacKenzie United States	13	66 0.1×	186 0.4×	243 1.6×	108 1.2×	50 0.7×	32	709

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Luis Castillo

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20 of 20 papers shown

Mantel, Carsten, Carlo Federici, Luis Castillo, et al.. (2025). Impact of electronic immunization registries and electronic logistics management information systems in four low-and middle-income countries: Guinea, Honduras, Rwanda, and Tanzania. Vaccine. 54. 127066–127066.

Castillo, Luis. (2024). Élites agrarias y paramilitares en el magdalena: el caso del sector cafetero. Análisis Político. 36(107). 224–247.

Vargas, Diana, et al.. (2024). Real-world implementation of North American and SIOP strategies for the treatment of Wilms tumor in Uruguay. Pediatric Hematology and Oncology. 41(6). 449–454.

Castillo, Luis, et al.. (2023). Incidence, Mortality and Survival of Pediatric Cancer in Uruguay 2011-2015. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 69(1). 2 indexed citations

Castillo, Luis, et al.. (2023). Pharmacogenetics of pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia in Uruguay: adverse events related to induction phase drugs. Frontiers in Pharmacology. 14. 1278769–1278769. 2 indexed citations

Gutiérrez, José Marı́a, et al.. (2020). Epidemiology of snakebites in El Salvador (2014–2019). Toxicon. 186. 26–28. 5 indexed citations

Bertoni, Bernardo, et al.. (2020). Ancestry and TPMT-VNTR Polymorphism: Relationship with Hematological Toxicity in Uruguayan Patients with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Frontiers in Pharmacology. 11. 594262–594262. 1 indexed citations

Valenzuela, María Teresa, et al.. (2019). Plan de acción nacional frente a la emergencia de la cepa W-135 responsable de enfermedad meningocócica invasora en Chile, 2012-2013. Revista médica de Chile. 147(6). 776–786. 8 indexed citations

Fernández-Olivares, Juan, et al.. (2018). Personalized conciliation of clinical guidelines for comorbid patients through multi-agent planning. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. 96. 167–186. 13 indexed citations

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Gracia, Fernando, et al.. (2014). Prevalencia Estimada de la Neuromielitis Óptica en Panamá. 34(3). 8–11. 1 indexed citations

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Koop, Klaas, et al.. (2011). Successful treatment of metastatic retinoblastoma with high-dose chemotherapy and autologous stem cell rescue in South America. Bone Marrow Transplantation. 47(4). 522–527. 28 indexed citations

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Froňková, Eva, Ester Mejstříková, Smadar Avigad, et al.. (2008). Minimal residual disease (MRD) analysis in the non-MRD-based ALL IC-BFM 2002 protocol for childhood ALL: is it possible to avoid MRD testing?. Leukemia. 22(5). 989–997. 50 indexed citations

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Castillo, Luis, et al.. (2007). Criopreservación de corteza ovárica en pacientes jóvenes con cáncer e indicación de tratamiento gonadotóxico. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

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Castillo, Luis, et al.. (2007). Análisis y evaluación de los coeficientes de ajuste del valor inmobiliario de la parcela urbana. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 30. 300–308. 1 indexed citations

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Fluchel, Mark, et al.. (2007). Self and proxy‐reported health status and health‐related quality of life in survivors of childhood cancer in Uruguay. Pediatric Blood & Cancer. 50(4). 838–843. 31 indexed citations

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Howard, Scott C., Luis Castillo, Miguel Bonilla, et al.. (2006). Improving outcomes for children with cancer in low‐income countries in Latin America: A report on the recent meetings of the Monza International School of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology (MISPHO)‐Part I. Pediatric Blood & Cancer. 48(3). 364–369. 122 indexed citations

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Barr, Ronald D., Alejandro Gonzalez, William Furlong, et al.. (2001). Health status and health-related quality of life in survivors of cancer in childhood in Latin America: A MISPHO feasibility study. International Journal of Oncology. 19(2). 413–21. 29 indexed citations

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Castillo, Luis, et al.. (2001). Childhood cancer in Uruguay: 1992–1994. Incidence and mortality. Medical and Pediatric Oncology. 37(4). 400–404. 11 indexed citations

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Castillo, Luis, et al.. (2000). False-Positive I-131 Whole-Body Scan in Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma Caused by Frontal Sinus Mucocele. Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 25(2). 137–137. 10 indexed citations

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Wesseling, Catharina, Luis Castillo, & C G Elinder. (1993). Pesticide poisonings in Costa Rica.. Scandinavian Journal of Work Environment & Health. 19(4). 227–235. 60 indexed citations

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