Sonia Fernández‐Veledo

8.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
106 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Sonia Fernández‐Veledo is a scholar working on Physiology, Molecular Biology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sonia Fernández‐Veledo has authored 106 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Physiology, 46 papers in Molecular Biology and 29 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Sonia Fernández‐Veledo's work include Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (35 papers), Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases (23 papers) and Diet and metabolism studies (19 papers). Sonia Fernández‐Veledo is often cited by papers focused on Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (35 papers), Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases (23 papers) and Diet and metabolism studies (19 papers). Sonia Fernández‐Veledo collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United States and Netherlands. Sonia Fernández‐Veledo's co-authors include Joan Vendrell, Rocío Vila‐Bedmar, Margarita Lorenzo, Victòria Ceperuelo‐Mallafré, Iria Nieto-Vázquez, Lucía García‐Guerra, Carolina Serena, Miriam Ejarque, David Kramer and Francisco J. Tinahones and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Clinical Investigation and Nature Immunology.

In The Last Decade

Sonia Fernández‐Veledo

104 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

  1. Elevated circulating levels of succinate in human obesity are linked to specific gut microbiota
    2018 287 citations Carolina Serena, Victòria Ceperuelo‐Mallafré et al. The ISME Journal profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sonia Fernández‐Veledo Spain 32 1.8k 1.4k 950 590 463 106 4.0k
Jun Eguchi Japan 29 1.3k 0.7× 1.0k 0.8× 1.1k 1.2× 504 0.9× 587 1.3× 68 3.5k
Guang Ning China 33 1.4k 0.8× 993 0.7× 1.1k 1.1× 410 0.7× 757 1.6× 112 4.4k
Colleen M. Croniger United States 34 1.9k 1.1× 1.1k 0.8× 766 0.8× 543 0.9× 445 1.0× 71 3.8k
Gregory Alexander Raciti Italy 26 1.2k 0.7× 1.2k 0.9× 977 1.0× 373 0.6× 431 0.9× 51 3.3k
Karim Bouzakri France 25 1.6k 0.9× 1.2k 0.9× 776 0.8× 788 1.3× 473 1.0× 59 3.3k
Pradip Saha United States 36 2.1k 1.2× 1.8k 1.3× 1.7k 1.8× 785 1.3× 544 1.2× 76 5.5k
Tetsuya Kubota Japan 32 1.7k 1.0× 1.3k 0.9× 1.5k 1.6× 733 1.2× 717 1.5× 91 4.3k
Meilian Liu China 35 1.5k 0.8× 1.6k 1.2× 1.8k 1.9× 443 0.8× 260 0.6× 95 4.4k
Hyun Jin Kim South Korea 29 1.3k 0.7× 757 0.6× 715 0.8× 385 0.7× 517 1.1× 166 3.3k
Ville Wallenius Sweden 27 1.1k 0.6× 1.4k 1.1× 1.1k 1.2× 576 1.0× 1.0k 2.2× 76 3.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Sonia Fernández‐Veledo

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sonia Fernández‐Veledo

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sonia Fernández‐Veledo

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

All Works

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Maymó‐Masip, Elsa, Mónica Ballesteros, Marta Inglés, et al.. (2025). Impaired angiogenesis in gestational diabetes is linked to succinate/SUCNR1 axis dysregulation in late gestation. The Journal of Physiology. 1 indexed citations
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Martínez‐Téllez, Borja, Huiwen Xu, Lourdes Ortiz-Alvarez, et al.. (2025). Effect of a 24-week supervised concurrent exercise intervention on fecal microbiota diversity and composition in young sedentary adults: The ACTIBATE randomized controlled trial. Clinical Nutrition. 49. 128–137. 3 indexed citations
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Astiarraga, Brenno, Carlos Castaño, Miriam Ejarque, et al.. (2024). SUCNR1 regulates insulin secretion and glucose elevates the succinate response in people with prediabetes. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 134(12). 9 indexed citations
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Ceperuelo‐Mallafré, Victòria, Sandra Guaita, Elsa Maymó‐Masip, et al.. (2024). Survivin/BIRC5 as a novel molecular effector at the crossroads of glucose metabolism and radioresistance in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. Head & Neck. 46(7). 1752–1765. 4 indexed citations
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Naón, Déborah, María Isabel Hernández‐Álvarez, Satoko Shinjo, et al.. (2023). Splice variants of mitofusin 2 shape the endoplasmic reticulum and tether it to mitochondria. Science. 380(6651). eadh9351–eadh9351. 86 indexed citations
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Puig, Rocío, Brenno Astiarraga, Fernando Guerrero‐Pérez, et al.. (2023). A specific gut microbiota signature is associated with an enhanced GLP-1 and GLP-2 secretion and improved metabolic control in patients with type 2 diabetes after metabolic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. Frontiers in Endocrinology. 14. 1181744–1181744. 17 indexed citations
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Terra, Ximena, Victòria Ceperuelo‐Mallafré, Ramón Bosch, et al.. (2021). Succinate Pathway in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Potential as a Diagnostic and Prognostic Marker. Cancers. 13(7). 1653–1653. 21 indexed citations
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Guzmán‐Ruiz, Rocío, Oriol Alberto Rangel-Zúñiga, Mercedes del Río-Moreno, et al.. (2021). Impaired mRNA splicing and proteostasis in preadipocytes in obesity-related metabolic disease. eLife. 10. 14 indexed citations
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Madeira, Ana, Carolina Serena, Miriam Ejarque, et al.. (2021). Crohn’s Disease Increases the Mesothelial Properties of Adipocyte Progenitors in the Creeping Fat. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(8). 4292–4292. 5 indexed citations
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López‐Cano, Carolina, Liliana Gutiérrez-Carrasquilla, Ferrán Barbé, et al.. (2020). Effect of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus on the Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1-Alpha Expression. Is There a Relationship with the Clock Genes?. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 9(8). 2632–2632. 9 indexed citations
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Llauradó, Gemma, Lara Albert, Brenno Astiarraga, et al.. (2020). Utility of Insulin Resistance in Estimating Cardiovascular Risk in Subjects with Type 1 Diabetes According to the Scores of the Steno Type 1 Risk Engine. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 9(7). 2192–2192. 9 indexed citations
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Serena, Carolina, Victòria Ceperuelo‐Mallafré, Noelia Keiran, et al.. (2018). Elevated circulating levels of succinate in human obesity are linked to specific gut microbiota. The ISME Journal. 12(7). 1642–1657. 287 indexed citations breakdown →
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Osorio-Conles, Óscar, María Guitart, José María Moreno‐Navarrete, et al.. (2017). Adipose Tissue and Serum CCDC80 in Obesity and Its Association with Related Metabolic Disease. Molecular Medicine. 23(1). 225–234. 18 indexed citations
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Bekay, Rajaa El, Leticia Coín‐Aragüez, Diego Fernández‐García, et al.. (2016). Effects of glucagon‐like peptide‐1 on the differentiation and metabolism of human adipocytes. British Journal of Pharmacology. 173(11). 1820–1834. 52 indexed citations
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Ejarque, Miriam, Cristina Gutiérrez, Catalina Núñez‐Roa, et al.. (2016). Angiopoietin-like protein 8 (ANGPTL8) in pregnancy: a brown adipose tissue–derived endocrine factor with a potential role in fetal growth. Translational research. 178. 1–12. 30 indexed citations
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Cheng, Yong-Sheng, Nora Klöting, Arne Dietrich, et al.. (2015). PPP2R5C Couples Hepatic Glucose and Lipid Homeostasis. PLoS Genetics. 11(10). e1005561–e1005561. 31 indexed citations
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Llauradó, Gemma, Ana Megía, Olga Giménez‐Palop, et al.. (2015). FGF-23/Vitamin D Axis in Type 1 Diabetes: The Potential Role of Mineral Metabolism in Arterial Stiffness. PLoS ONE. 10(10). e0140222–e0140222. 17 indexed citations
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Fernández‐Veledo, Sonia, Iria Nieto-Vázquez, Rocío Vila‐Bedmar, et al.. (2009). Molecular mechanisms involved in obesity-associated insulin resistance: Therapeutical approach. Archives of Physiology and Biochemistry. 115(4). 227–239. 42 indexed citations

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