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Ana M. Valdes publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ana M. Valdes sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 490 publications — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Ana M. Valdes D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ana M. Valdes sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 112 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Ana M. Valdes is affiliated with the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to medical research. Their work spans a wide range of topics within medicine, focusing particularly on physiology, molecular biology, infectious diseases, rheumatology, and surgery.

Their research encompasses several main topics, including:

  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Osteoarthritis treatment and mechanisms
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Nutritional studies and diet
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research
  • COVID-19 clinical research studies
  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation

Ana M. Valdes has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, notably:

  • Tim D. Spector
  • Cristina Menni
  • Jonathan Wolf
  • Sarah Berry
  • Paul W. Franks

The scientist's publication record includes work in multiple academic venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Osteoarthritis and Cartilage
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Current Developments in Nutrition
  • Nutrients
  • Nature Medicine

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Ana M. Valdes include:

  • Real-time tracking of self-reported symptoms to predict potential COVID-19, 2020, Nature Medicine
  • Vaccine side-effects and SARS-CoV-2 infection after vaccination in users of the COVID Symptom Study app in the UK: a prospective observational study, 2021, The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • Microbiome connections with host metabolism and habitual diet from 1,098 deeply phenotyped individuals, 2021, Nature Medicine
  • Human postprandial responses to food and potential for precision nutrition, 2020, Nature Medicine
  • The role of short-chain fatty acids in the interplay between gut microbiota and diet in cardio-metabolic health, 2021, Gut Microbes

Best Publications

  • Role of the gut microbiota in nutrition and health

    Ana M Valdes;Jens Walter;Eran Segal;Tim D Spector

  • Mutational processes of simple-sequence repeat loci in human populations.

    A Di Rienzo;A C Peterson;J C Garza;A M Valdes

  • Real-time tracking of self-reported symptoms to predict potential COVID-19.

    Cristina Menni;Ana M. Valdes;Ana M. Valdes;Maxim B. Freidin;Carole H. Sudre

  • An atlas of genetic influences on human blood metabolites

    So-Youn Shin;Eric B Fauman;Ann-Kristin Petersen;Jan Krumsiek

  • Obesity, cigarette smoking, and telomere length in women.

    A. M. Valdes;T. Andrew;J. P. Gardner;M. Kimura

  • Vaccine side-effects and SARS-CoV-2 infection after vaccination in users of the COVID Symptom Study app in the UK: a prospective observational study.

    Cristina Menni;Kerstin Kläser;Anna C May;Lorenzo Polidori

  • Identification of seven loci affecting mean telomere length and their association with disease

    Veryan Codd;Christopher P Nelson;Eva Albrecht;Massimo Mangino

  • Microbiome connections with host metabolism and habitual diet from 1,098 deeply phenotyped individuals.

    Francesco Asnicar;Sarah E. Berry;Ana M. Valdes;Ana M. Valdes;Long H. Nguyen

  • HLA DR-DQ Haplotypes and Genotypes and Type 1 Diabetes Risk: Analysis of the Type 1 Diabetes Genetics Consortium Families

    Henry Erlich;Ana Maria Valdes;Janelle Noble;Joyce A. Carlson

  • Allele frequencies at microsatellite loci: the stepwise mutation model revisited.

    A M Valdes;M Slatkin;N B Freimer

  • Human aging-associated DNA hypermethylation occurs preferentially at bivalent chromatin domains

    Vardhman K. Rakyan;Thomas A. Down;Siarhei Maslau;Toby Andrew

  • Sequence variants at CHRNB3-CHRNA6 and CYP2A6 affect smoking behavior.

    Thorgeir E Thorgeirsson;Daniel F Gudbjartsson;Ida Surakka;Ida Surakka;Jacqueline M Vink

  • Bone mineral density, osteoporosis, and osteoporotic fractures : a genome-wide association study

    J.B. Richards;F. Rivadeneira;M. Inouye;T.M. Pastinen

  • Epigenome-Wide Scans Identify Differentially Methylated Regions for Age and Age-Related Phenotypes in a Healthy Ageing Population

    Jordana T. Bell;Pei-Chien Tsai;Tsun-Po Yang;Ruth Pidsley

  • The fecal metabolome as a functional readout of the gut microbiome.

    Jonas Zierer;Jonas Zierer;Matthew A. Jackson;Gabi Kastenmüller;Massimo Mangino;Massimo Mangino

  • The role of HLA class II genes in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus: molecular analysis of 180 Caucasian, multiplex families.

    J A Noble;A M Valdes;M Cook;W Klitz

  • Human postprandial responses to food and potential for precision nutrition.

    Sarah E. Berry;Ana M. Valdes;David A. Drew;Francesco Asnicar

  • Genetics of the HLA region in the prediction of type 1 diabetes.

    Janelle A. Noble;Ana M. Valdes

  • The UK10K project identifies rare variants in health and disease

    Klaudia Walter;Josine L. Min;Jie Huang;Lucy Crooks

  • The role of short-chain fatty acids in the interplay between gut microbiota and diet in cardio-metabolic health.

    Ana Nogal;Ana M Valdes;Ana M Valdes;Ana M Valdes;Cristina Menni

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim D. Spector
Tim D. Spector King's College London
Michael Doherty
Michael Doherty University of Nottingham
Nigel K. Arden
Nigel K. Arden University of Oxford
Weiya Zhang
Weiya Zhang University of Nottingham
Cristina Menni
Cristina Menni King's College London
Massimo Mangino
Massimo Mangino King's College London
Henry A. Erlich
Henry A. Erlich UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital
André G. Uitterlinden
André G. Uitterlinden Erasmus University Rotterdam
Cyrus Cooper
Cyrus Cooper University of Southampton
Ingrid Meulenbelt
Ingrid Meulenbelt Leiden University Medical Center

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