Santi Nonell

9.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
230 papers, 8.1k citations indexed

About

Santi Nonell is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Materials Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Santi Nonell has authored 230 papers receiving a total of 8.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 132 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 130 papers in Materials Chemistry and 88 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Santi Nonell's work include Photodynamic Therapy Research Studies (132 papers), Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry (85 papers) and Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (78 papers). Santi Nonell is often cited by papers focused on Photodynamic Therapy Research Studies (132 papers), Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry (85 papers) and Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (78 papers). Santi Nonell collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Italy and United States. Santi Nonell's co-authors include Montserrat Agut, Cristina Flors, Xavier Ragàs, Ana Jiménez-Banzo, Silvia E. Braslavsky, Rubén Ruiz‐González, Roger Bresolí‐Obach, Michael R. Hamblin, Dolores Velasco and Jaume García‐Amorós and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Accounts of Chemical Research.

In The Last Decade

Santi Nonell

227 papers receiving 8.0k 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.

Photoantimicrobials—are we afraid of the light?

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Santi Nonell Spain	48	4.3k	3.5k	3.5k	1.4k	1.4k	230	8.1k
Luı́s G. Arnaut Portugal	42	3.5k 0.8×	2.8k 0.8×	2.9k 0.8×	1.5k 1.0×	919 0.6×	182	7.1k
Edgardo N. Durantini Argentina	43	3.6k 0.8×	2.9k 0.8×	2.9k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	653 0.5×	191	5.8k
Charles Michael Drain United States	42	4.5k 1.1×	1.1k 0.3×	1.8k 0.5×	1.7k 1.2×	1.5k 1.1×	125	6.9k
Giulio Jori Italy	49	3.4k 0.8×	5.1k 1.4×	3.9k 1.1×	482 0.3×	1.8k 1.2×	180	7.7k
Mathias O. Senge Ireland	60	10.0k 2.3×	2.7k 0.8×	3.8k 1.1×	3.3k 2.3×	3.5k 2.5×	415	13.7k
Maria C. DeRosa Canada	40	2.4k 0.6×	1.1k 0.3×	3.2k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	3.1k 2.2×	120	7.9k
Augusto C. Tomé Portugal	46	4.6k 1.1×	3.4k 1.0×	2.6k 0.8×	1.7k 1.2×	1.2k 0.9×	235	6.8k
Meng Gao China	46	4.2k 1.0×	500 0.1×	2.5k 0.7×	2.0k 1.4×	1.7k 1.2×	177	7.4k
Rosângela Itri Brazil	38	1.2k 0.3×	627 0.2×	939 0.3×	1.2k 0.8×	2.3k 1.6×	151	4.7k
Xiaohe Tian China	45	2.5k 0.6×	373 0.1×	2.1k 0.6×	739 0.5×	2.0k 1.4×	241	6.9k

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Ortega, Enrique, Anna Rovira, E. Izquierdo, et al.. (2025). Achieving red-light anticancer photodynamic therapy under hypoxia using Ir(iii)–COUPY conjugates. Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers. 12(9). 3367–3383. 9 indexed citations

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Navío, Cristina, Luis Bañares, Roger Bresolí‐Obach, et al.. (2025). Pulsed Laser Synthesis of Carbon Nanostructures from Organic Molecular Liquids: Structure, Kinetics and Photophysical Properties. Advanced Science. 12(37). e05883–e05883.

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Ortega, Enrique, Anna Rovira, E. Izquierdo, et al.. (2023). A near-infrared light-activatable Ru(ii)-coumarin photosensitizer active under hypoxic conditions. Chemical Science. 14(26). 7170–7184. 51 indexed citations

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Hilgers, Fabienne, Gabriela N. Bosio, Joaquim Torra, et al.. (2022). Development and Characterization of Flavin-Binding Fluorescent Proteins, Part II: Advanced Characterization. Methods in molecular biology. 2564. 143–183. 3 indexed citations

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Hally, Cormac, Santi Nonell, Paolo Bianchini, et al.. (2022). Versatile Supramolecular Complex for Targeted Antimicrobial Photodynamic Inactivation. Bioconjugate Chemistry. 33(4). 666–676. 8 indexed citations

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Pšenčı́k, Jakub, et al.. (2021). Understanding delayed fluorescence and triplet decays of Protoporphyrin IX under hypoxic conditions. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences. 20(7). 843–857. 3 indexed citations

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Mascaraque, Marta, et al.. (2020). Assessing Amphiphilic ABAB Zn(II) Phthalocyanines with Enhanced Photosensitization Abilities in In Vitro Photodynamic Therapy Studies Against Cancer. Molecules. 25(1). 213–213. 11 indexed citations

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Hally, Cormac, Pietro Delcanale, Santi Nonell, Cristiano Viappiani, & Stefania Abbruzzetti. (2020). Photosensitizing proteins for antibacterial photodynamic inactivation. DAU - Digital Archive of URL. 2(1-2). 15 indexed citations

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Novohradský, Vojtěch, Anna Rovira, Cormac Hally, et al.. (2019). Towards Novel Photodynamic Anticancer Agents Generating Superoxide Anion Radicals: A Cyclometalated Ir^IIIComplex Conjugated to a Far‐Red Emitting Coumarin. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58(19). 6311–6315. 177 indexed citations

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Novohradský, Vojtěch, Anna Rovira, Cormac Hally, et al.. (2019). Towards Novel Photodynamic Anticancer Agents Generating Superoxide Anion Radicals: A Cyclometalated Ir^IIIComplex Conjugated to a Far‐Red Emitting Coumarin. Angewandte Chemie. 131(19). 6377–6381. 28 indexed citations

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Endres, Stephan, Joaquim Torra, Rubén Ruiz‐González, et al.. (2018). An optogenetic toolbox of LOV-based photosensitizers for light-driven killing of bacteria. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 15021–15021. 42 indexed citations

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Bresolí‐Obach, Roger, et al.. (2018). Triphenylphosphonium cation: A valuable functional group for antimicrobial photodynamic therapy. Journal of Biophotonics. 11(10). e201800054–e201800054. 28 indexed citations

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Rodríguez‐Pulido, Alberto, Joaquim Torra, Sara H. Mejías, et al.. (2018). Fluorescent Flavoprotein Heterodimers: Combining Photostability with Singlet Oxygen Generation. ChemPhotoChem. 2(7). 571–574. 8 indexed citations

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Planas, Oriol, et al.. (2017). Acid- and hydrogen-bonding-induced switching between 22-π and 18-π electron conjugations in 2-aminothiazolo[4,5-c]porphycenes. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 19(37). 25537–25543. 6 indexed citations

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Ruiz‐González, Rubén, Paula Milán-Rois, Roger Bresolí‐Obach, et al.. (2017). Photodynamic Synergistic Effect of Pheophorbide a and Doxorubicin in Combined Treatment against Tumoral Cells. Cancers. 9(2). 18–18. 43 indexed citations

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Font, Joan, Marc López‐Cano, Serena Notartomaso, et al.. (2017). Optical control of pain in vivo with a photoactive mGlu5 receptor negative allosteric modulator. eLife. 6. 45 indexed citations

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Ruiz‐González, Rubén, Òscar Gulías, Montserrat Agut, et al.. (2017). Cationic phthalocyanine dendrimers as potential antimicrobial photosensitisers. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 15(42). 9008–9017. 25 indexed citations

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Nonell, Santi, et al.. (2016). Effects of Visible‐Light Irradiation of Protoporphyrin IX on the Self‐Assembly of Tubulin Heterodimers. ChemPhysChem. 17(20). 3269–3282. 2 indexed citations

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García-Díaz, María, Paweł Mróz, M. Lluïsa Sagristá, et al.. (2012). Cellular and vascular effects of the photodynamic agent temocene are modulated by the delivery vehicle. Journal of Controlled Release. 162(2). 355–363. 30 indexed citations

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Rubio, Noemí, David Sánchez‐García, José I. Borrell, et al.. (2002). Porficenos para la fotoquimioterapia del cáncer y otras aplicaciones biomédicas. Afinidad. 59(500). 343–356. 3 indexed citations

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