Panayiotis Louca

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 731 citations indexed

About

Panayiotis Louca is a scholar working on Physiology, Molecular Biology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Panayiotis Louca has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 731 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Physiology, 15 papers in Molecular Biology and 13 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Panayiotis Louca's work include Diet and metabolism studies (14 papers), Nutritional Studies and Diet (13 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (10 papers). Panayiotis Louca is often cited by papers focused on Diet and metabolism studies (14 papers), Nutritional Studies and Diet (13 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (10 papers). Panayiotis Louca collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Italy. Panayiotis Louca's co-authors include Cristina Menni, Tim D. Spector, Ana M. Valdes, Claire J. Steves, Jonathan Wolf, Ana Nogal, Lorenzo Polidori, Sébastien Ourselin, Joan Capdevila Pujol and Anna May and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Diabetologia and The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

In The Last Decade

Panayiotis Louca

25 papers receiving 726 citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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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.

COVID-19 vaccine waning and effectiveness and side-effects of boosters: a prospective community study from the ZOE COVID Study

2022 204 citations Cristina Menni, Anna May et al. The Lancet Infectious Diseases profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Panayiotis Louca United Kingdom	13	337	239	204	105	98	30	731
Pradipta Paul Qatar	15	180 0.5×	242 1.0×	87 0.4×	86 0.8×	26 0.3×	32	686
Ying Wen China	20	256 0.8×	234 1.0×	161 0.8×	42 0.4×	95 1.0×	78	1.2k
Birhanu Ayelign Ethiopia	15	140 0.4×	208 0.9×	66 0.3×	61 0.6×	51 0.5×	24	911
Jackie Dekens Netherlands	8	586 1.7×	103 0.4×	306 1.5×	26 0.2×	95 1.0×	8	912
Ricardo Fernandes Brazil	17	236 0.7×	182 0.8×	272 1.3×	20 0.2×	131 1.3×	36	872
Amrita Vijay United Kingdom	12	307 0.9×	104 0.4×	205 1.0×	13 0.1×	56 0.6×	32	603
Fatima Khan Pakistan	9	424 1.3×	132 0.6×	90 0.4×	13 0.1×	36 0.4×	22	663
Ricardo Wesley Alberca Brazil	15	112 0.3×	227 0.9×	94 0.5×	17 0.2×	50 0.5×	43	687
Angela Balena Italy	7	44 0.1×	215 0.9×	172 0.8×	39 0.4×	49 0.5×	12	496
Dalia Zakaria Qatar	12	93 0.3×	289 1.2×	31 0.2×	86 0.8×	19 0.2×	24	534

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Pope, Richard S., Alessia Visconti, Xinyuan Zhang, et al.. (2025). Faecal metabolites as a readout of habitual diet capture dietary interactions with the gut microbiome. Nature Communications. 16(1). 10051–10051.

Dunneram, Yashvee, Mark A. Hull, Suparna Mitra, et al.. (2025). Systematic Review: The Relationship Between the Faecal Microbiome and Colorectal Neoplasia in Shotgun Metagenomic Studies. Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics. 62(6). 568–584.

Kirk, Daniel, Panayiotis Louca, Ilias Attaye, et al.. (2025). Multifluid Metabolomics Identifies Novel Biomarkers for Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Metabolites. 15(2). 121–121. 3 indexed citations

Louca, Panayiotis, Juan M. Pericàs, Yu Lin, et al.. (2025). The gut–liver axis in progressive steatotic liver disease: A focus on bile acid dysregulation. The journal of nutrition health & aging. 29(11). 100671–100671.

Lin, Yu, Panayiotis Louca, Ruth C. E. Bowyer, et al.. (2025). Common inflammatory proteins linking frailty and area-level deprivation as key drivers of cardiovascular risk in women. Communications Medicine. 5(1). 301–301.

Nogal, Ana, Panayiotis Louca, Amrita Vijay, et al.. (2024). Machine Learning Metabolomics Profiling of Dietary Interventions from a Six-Week Randomised Trial. Metabolites. 14(6). 311–311. 2 indexed citations

Attaye, Ilias, Panayiotis Louca, Ana Nogal, et al.. (2024). Cross-sectional analyses of metabolites across biological samples mediating dietary acid load and chronic kidney disease. iScience. 27(3). 109132–109132. 5 indexed citations

Louca, Panayiotis, et al.. (2023). Effect of Sodium Bicarbonate on Systolic Blood Pressure in CKD. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 18(4). 435–445. 12 indexed citations

Louca, Panayiotis, Tamara Štambuk, Ana Nogal, et al.. (2023). Plasma protein N-glycome composition associates with postprandial lipaemic response. BMC Medicine. 21(1). 231–231. 1 indexed citations

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Leeming, Emily R., Olatz Mompeó, Ruth C. E. Bowyer, et al.. (2022). Characterisation, procedures and heritability of acute dietary intake in the Twins UK cohort: an observational study. Nutrition Journal. 21(1). 13–13. 4 indexed citations

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Charng, Jason, Nicola P. Bondonno, Michael Hunter, et al.. (2022). Association between dietary niacin and retinal nerve fibre layer thickness in healthy eyes of different ages. Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology. 50(7). 736–744. 3 indexed citations

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Menni, Cristina, Anna May, Lorenzo Polidori, et al.. (2022). COVID-19 vaccine waning and effectiveness and side-effects of boosters: a prospective community study from the ZOE COVID Study. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 22(7). 1002–1010. 204 indexed citations breakdown →

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Leeming, Emily R., Panayiotis Louca, Rachel Gibson, et al.. (2021). The complexities of the diet-microbiome relationship: advances and perspectives. Genome Medicine. 13(1). 10–10. 69 indexed citations

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Menni, Cristina, Panayiotis Louca, Sarah Berry, et al.. (2021). High intake of vegetables is linked to lower white blood cell profile and the effect is mediated by the gut microbiome. BMC Medicine. 19(1). 37–37. 34 indexed citations

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Louca, Panayiotis, Ana Nogal, Philippa M. Wells, et al.. (2021). Gut microbiome diversity and composition is associated with hypertension in women. Journal of Hypertension. 39(9). 1810–1816. 31 indexed citations

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Menni, Cristina, Anna May, Lorenzo Polidori, et al.. (2021). COVID-19 Vaccine Waning and Effectiveness and Side Effects of Boosters: A Prospective Community Study From the ZOE COVID Study. SSRN Electronic Journal. 20 indexed citations

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Tettamanzi, Francesca, Vincenzo Bagnardi, Panayiotis Louca, et al.. (2021). A High Protein Diet Is More Effective in Improving Insulin Resistance and Glycemic Variability Compared to a Mediterranean Diet—A Cross-Over Controlled Inpatient Dietary Study. Nutrients. 13(12). 4380–4380. 47 indexed citations

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Zouiouich, Sémi, Erikka Loftfield, Inge Huybrechts, et al.. (2021). Markers of metabolic health and gut microbiome diversity: findings from two population-based cohort studies. Diabetologia. 64(8). 1749–1759. 38 indexed citations

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Nogal, Ana, Panayiotis Louca, Xinyuan Zhang, et al.. (2021). Circulating Levels of the Short-Chain Fatty Acid Acetate Mediate the Effect of the Gut Microbiome on Visceral Fat. Frontiers in Microbiology. 12. 711359–711359. 125 indexed citations

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Vijay, Amrita, Stuart Astbury, Panayiotis Louca, et al.. (2021). Dietary Interventions Reduce Traditional and Novel Cardiovascular Risk Markers by Altering the Gut Microbiome and Their Metabolites. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine. 8. 691564–691564. 33 indexed citations

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