Sara Pinto

699 total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 406 citations indexed

About

Sara Pinto is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sara Pinto has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 406 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 11 papers in General Health Professions and 11 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Sara Pinto's work include Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (15 papers), Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (10 papers) and Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (7 papers). Sara Pinto is often cited by papers focused on Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (15 papers), Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (10 papers) and Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (7 papers). Sara Pinto collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, United Kingdom and United States. Sara Pinto's co-authors include Sílvia Caldeira, José Martins, Alessandra Mazzo, Laís Fumincelli, José Carlos Amado Martins, Beth Rodgers, Bárbara Gomes, Sílvia Lopes, Francisco Pimentel and José C. Martins and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, BMJ Open and Journal of Pain and Symptom Management.

In The Last Decade

Sara Pinto

28 papers receiving 390 citations

Hit Papers

Patient and Family Preferences About Place of End-of-Life... 2024 2026 2025 2024 10 20 30
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.

  1. Patient and Family Preferences About Place of End-of-Life Care and Death: An Umbrella Review
    2024 36 citations Sara Pinto, Sílvia Lopes et al. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sara Pinto Portugal 12 167 104 98 81 49 35 406
Breanne Hobden Australia 11 145 0.9× 138 1.3× 90 0.9× 44 0.5× 34 0.7× 45 373
Azam Shirinabadi Farahani Iran 10 119 0.7× 63 0.6× 159 1.6× 95 1.2× 76 1.6× 64 425
Suhair Hussni Al‐Ghabeesh Jordan 13 63 0.4× 123 1.2× 108 1.1× 46 0.6× 96 2.0× 38 403
Vanette McLennan Australia 10 84 0.5× 97 0.9× 66 0.7× 42 0.5× 30 0.6× 32 286
Andrew Harding United Kingdom 11 176 1.1× 239 2.3× 163 1.7× 39 0.5× 66 1.3× 29 497
Eun Joo Kim South Korea 12 83 0.5× 128 1.2× 149 1.5× 29 0.4× 49 1.0× 53 446
Geun Myun Kim South Korea 12 74 0.4× 132 1.3× 162 1.7× 46 0.6× 39 0.8× 47 458
Abdolghani Abdollahimohammad Iran 12 77 0.5× 92 0.9× 153 1.6× 26 0.3× 47 1.0× 85 462
Alison Rodriguez United Kingdom 10 125 0.7× 113 1.1× 170 1.7× 25 0.3× 89 1.8× 30 507
Sadat Seyed Bagher Maddah Iran 10 95 0.6× 91 0.9× 134 1.4× 63 0.8× 37 0.8× 34 331

Countries citing papers authored by Sara Pinto

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sara Pinto

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sara Pinto

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sara Pinto. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sara Pinto 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 Sara Pinto. Sara Pinto is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Gomes, Bárbara, Sara Pinto, Elizabeth Namukwaya, et al.. (2025). Places of end-of-life care and death in health policies of four countries (EOLinPLACE Project). Health & Place. 96. 103534–103534.
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Pinto, Sara, et al.. (2024). Patient and Family Preferences About Place of End-of-Life Care and Death: An Umbrella Review. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 67(5). e439–e452. 36 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lorenzo, Cristina de, et al.. (2023). Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in an Adolescent with Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children. Acta Médica Portuguesa. 36(11). 740–745.
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Pinto, Sara, et al.. (2023). Analysis of a telephone hotline for palliative care patients at home and their families. International Journal of Palliative Nursing. 29(12). 571–577. 2 indexed citations
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Pinto, Sara, et al.. (2023). Models of spiritual intelligence interventions: A scoping review. Nurse Education in Practice. 73. 103829–103829. 6 indexed citations
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Pinto, Sara, et al.. (2020). ADHERENCE TO THE MEDITERRANEAN DIET IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN (1ST CYCLE). Revista Paulista de Pediatria. 39. e2019259–e2019259. 12 indexed citations
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Pinto, Sara, et al.. (2020). From spiritual intelligence to spiritual care: A transformative approach to holistic practice. Nurse Education in Practice. 47. 102823–102823. 10 indexed citations
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Pinto, Sara, Sílvia Caldeira, & José Martins. (2018). The use of the Medical Research Council framework in the study of complex interventions in nursing: a literature review. Nurse Researcher. 1 indexed citations
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Pinto, Sara, et al.. (2018). Healthcare technologies: An ethical discussion. British Journal of Healthcare Management. 24(2). 65–70. 3 indexed citations
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Pinto, Sara, Sílvia Caldeira, José Martins, & Beth Rodgers. (2017). Evolutionary Analysis of the Concept of Comfort. Holistic Nursing Practice. 31(4). 243–252. 29 indexed citations
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Pinto, Sara, Sílvia Caldeira, & José Martins. (2017). A qualitative study about palliative care patients’ experiences of comfort: Implications for nursing diagnosis and interventions. Journal of Nursing Education and Practice. 7(8). 37–37. 5 indexed citations
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Caldeira, Sílvia & Sara Pinto. (2016). The competence for the spiritual care in nursing. Journal of Nursing Ufpe Online. 10(6). 4974–4975.
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Pinto, Sara, Sílvia Caldeira, José Carlos Amado Martins, & Katharine Kolcaba. (2016). Cultural adaptation and validation of the Portuguese End of Life Spiritual Comfort Questionnaire in Palliative Care patients. Porto Biomedical Journal. 1(4). 147–152. 13 indexed citations
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Pinto, Sara, Sílvia Caldeira, & José Carlos Amado Martins. (2015). Is Impaired Comfort a Nursing Diagnosis?. International Journal of Nursing Knowledge. 27(4). 205–209. 9 indexed citations
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Pinto, Sara, Sílvia Caldeira, & José Carlos Amado Martins. (2015). A Systematic Literature Review Toward the Characterization of Comfort. Holistic Nursing Practice. 30(1). 14–24. 21 indexed citations
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Pinto, Sara, et al.. (2014). Pedigree studies and evaluation of risk factors of breast cancer in Goa. Indian Journal of Cancer. 51(4). 600–600.
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Pinto, Sara, Sílvia Caldeira, & José C. Martins. (2012). A esperança da pessoa com cancro – estudo em contexto de quimioterapia. Revista de Enfermagem Referência. III Série(nº 7). 23–31. 11 indexed citations

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