Torcato Santos

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 754 citations indexed

About

Torcato Santos is a scholar working on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Ophthalmology and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Torcato Santos has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 754 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, 35 papers in Ophthalmology and 4 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Torcato Santos's work include Retinal Imaging and Analysis (36 papers), Retinal Diseases and Treatments (31 papers) and Glaucoma and retinal disorders (27 papers). Torcato Santos is often cited by papers focused on Retinal Imaging and Analysis (36 papers), Retinal Diseases and Treatments (31 papers) and Glaucoma and retinal disorders (27 papers). Torcato Santos collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, United States and Switzerland. Torcato Santos's co-authors include José Cunha‐Vaz, Mary K Durbin, Catarina Neves, Mário Soares, Inês Marques, Marta Lopes, Lin An, Nathan D. Shemonski, Ana Rita Santos and Conceição Lobo and has published in prestigious journals such as Diabetes, European Journal of Pharmacology and Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science.

In The Last Decade

Torcato Santos

39 papers receiving 739 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.

Quantification of Retinal Microvascular Density in Optical Coherence Tomographic Angiography Images in Diabetic Retinopathy

2017 280 citations Mary K Durbin, Lin An et al. profile →

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Jesper Leth Hougaard Denmark

Devrım Toslak Türkiye

João Barbosa‐Breda Portugal

Jost Lennart Lauermann Germany

Mohammed Riyazuddin India

Zaid Mammo Canada

Srilakshmi Dasari India

Weihong Yu China

Sunee Chansangpetch Thailand

Rita Laiginhas Portugal

Jesper Leth Hougaard Denmark

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430 ×0.6

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367 ×0.6

RNMI

100 ×1.4

29 ×1.0

23 ×0.9

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20 of 20 papers shown

Almeida, Glaucia M., et al.. (2025). TNF-alpha mediates airway hyperreactivity in silicotic mice: Effect of thalidomide treatment. European Journal of Pharmacology. 990. 177263–177263. 1 indexed citations

Dias, Daniel, et al.. (2025). SAÚDE PÚBLICA E SISTEMA ÚNICO DE SAÚDE (SUS): CAMINHOS PARA A UNIVERSALIDADE E A INTEGRALIDADE DOS SERVIÇOS. 22(82). e3445–e3445.

Farooq, Asim V., Sumanpreet Kaur, Anita Zahlten‐Kumeli, et al.. (2025). Advancing Ocular Safety Profile Assessment: A Novel Grading Scale for Ocular Adverse Reactions Associated with Bemarituzumab. Ophthalmology and Therapy. 14(7). 1349–1356.

Santos, Torcato, et al.. (2025). Ozonized water as a promising strategy to remove biofilm formed by Pseudomonas spp. on polyethylene and polystyrene surfaces. Biofouling. 41(2). 144–156. 2 indexed citations

Santos, Ana Rita, et al.. (2024). ETDRS grading with CLARUS ultra-widefield images shows agreement with 7-fields colour fundus photography. BMC Ophthalmology. 24(1). 387–387. 1 indexed citations

Marques, Inês, Torcato Santos, Luís Mendes, et al.. (2024). Progression of Capillary Hypoperfusion in Advanced Stages of Nonproliferative Diabetic Retinopathy: 6-month Analysis of RICHARD Study. Ophthalmology Science. 5(2). 100632–100632.

Santos, Torcato, Inês Marques, Luísa Ribeiro, et al.. (2024). Characterization of central-involved diabetic macular edema using OCT and OCTA. European Journal of Ophthalmology. 35(1). 290–297. 1 indexed citations

Marques, Inês, Torcato Santos, Luísa Ribeiro, et al.. (2023). Retinal neurodegeneration in eyes with NPDR risk phenotypes: A two‐year longitudinal study. Acta Ophthalmologica. 102(4). e539–e547. 1 indexed citations

Santos, Torcato, Ana Rita Santos, Ana C. Almeida, et al.. (2023). Retinal Capillary Nonperfusion in Preclinical Diabetic Retinopathy. Ophthalmic Research. 66(1). 1327–1334. 8 indexed citations

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Marques, Inês, Luísa Ribeiro, Torcato Santos, et al.. (2022). Different Risk Profiles for Progression of Nonproliferative Diabetic Retinopathy: A 2-Year Study. Ophthalmology and Therapy. 12(1). 485–500. 7 indexed citations

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Lobo, Conceição, Torcato Santos, Inês Marques, et al.. (2022). Characterisation of progression of macular oedema in the initial stages of diabetic retinopathy: a 3-year longitudinal study. Eye. 37(2). 313–319. 8 indexed citations

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Madeira, Maria, Inês Marques, Sónia Ferreira, et al.. (2021). Retinal Neurodegeneration in Different Risk Phenotypes of Diabetic Retinal Disease. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 15. 800004–800004. 9 indexed citations

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Marques, Inês, Maria Madeira, Ana Messias, et al.. (2020). Different retinopathy phenotypes in type 2 diabetes predict retinopathy progression. Acta Diabetologica. 58(2). 197–205. 17 indexed citations

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Marques, Inês, Dalila Alves, Torcato Santos, et al.. (2018). Multimodal Imaging of the Initial Stages of Diabetic Retinopathy: Different Disease Pathways in Different Patients. Diabetes. 68(3). 648–653. 36 indexed citations

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Farinha, Cláudia, Torcato Santos, Inês Marques, et al.. (2017). OCT-Leakage Mapping. Ophthalmology Retina. 1(6). 486–496. 7 indexed citations

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Cunha‐Vaz, José, Torcato Santos, Dalila Alves, et al.. (2017). Agreement between OCT Leakage and Fluorescein Angiography to Identify Sites of Alteration of the Blood–Retinal Barrier in Diabetes. Ophthalmology Retina. 1(5). 395–403. 15 indexed citations

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Durbin, Mary K, Mário Soares, Lin An, et al.. (2016). Methods for Quantification of Retinal Microvascular Density in Cirrus AngioPlex OCT Angiography (OCTA) Images. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 57(12). 5958–5958. 2 indexed citations

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Santos, Torcato, A. Correia, Catarina Neves, et al.. (2015). Feasibility of automated interface segmentation of Cirrus HD-OCT data in normal and mild non proliferative diabetic retinopathy eyes. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 56(7). 5953–5953. 4 indexed citations

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Bernardes, Rui, et al.. (2012). Optical Coherence Tomography ? Automatic Retina Classification Through Support Vector Machines. European Ophthalmic Review. 6(4). 200–200. 11 indexed citations

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Bernardes, Rui, Torcato Santos, Pedro Serranho, Conceição Lobo, & José Cunha‐Vaz. (2011). Noninvasive Evaluation of Retinal Leakage Using Optical Coherence Tomography. Ophthalmologica. 226(2). 29–36. 11 indexed citations

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