2026 Miguel López: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	78	18121	17027	249	245	301	20144

Overview

Miguel López is affiliated with the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain and has an extensive publication record across various fields related to medicine and biology. Their research primarily covers medicine, biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, and neuroscience, with a strong focus on physiology, endocrine and autonomic systems, molecular biology, epidemiology, and endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism.

The scientist's main topics of work include adipose tissue and metabolism, regulation of appetite and obesity, adipokines, inflammation, and metabolic diseases, circadian rhythm and melatonin, diet and metabolism studies, metabolism in relation to diabetes and cancer, and pancreatic function and diabetes.

Miguel López has published repeatedly in several notable venues. Frequent publication journals include Nature Communications, Molecular Metabolism, Cell Metabolism, Metabolism, and Frontiers in Endocrinology.

Recent publications demonstrate a varied and significant contribution to metabolic and physiological research. Selected papers include:

Inhibition of carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1A in hepatic stellate cells protects against fibrosis, 2022, Journal of Hepatology
Central Ceramide Signaling Mediates Obesity-Induced Precocious Puberty, 2020, Cell Metabolism
Multifaceted actions of melanin-concentrating hormone on mammalian energy homeostasis, 2021, Nature Reviews Endocrinology
Small extracellular vesicle-mediated targeting of hypothalamic AMPKα1 corrects obesity through BAT activation, 2021, Nature Metabolism
O-GlcNAcylated p53 in the liver modulates hepatic glucose production, 2021, Nature Communications

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Carlos Diéguez, Rubén Nogueiras, Ismael González-García, Edward Milbank, and Nathalia Romanelli Vicente Dragano.

Best Publications

Hypothalamic AMPK and fatty acid metabolism mediate thyroid regulation of energy balance

Miguel González López;Miguel González López;Luis Varela;María J. Sánchez Vazquez;Sergio Rodriguez-Cuenca

733
Citations
AMPK: a metabolic gauge regulating whole-body energy homeostasis.

Ricardo Lage;Carlos Diéguez;Antonio Vidal-Puig;Miguel López

633
Citations
BMP8B Increases Brown Adipose Tissue Thermogenesis through Both Central and Peripheral Actions

Andrew J. Whittle;Stefania Carobbio;Luís Martins;Marc Slawik;Marc Slawik

607
Citations
GLP-1 Agonism Stimulates Brown Adipose Tissue Thermogenesis and Browning Through Hypothalamic AMPK

Daniel Beiroa;Monica Imbernon;Rosalía Gallego;Ana Senra

559
Citations
Hypothalamic fatty acid metabolism mediates the orexigenic action of ghrelin.

Miguel Lopez;Ricardo Lage;Asish K Saha;Diego Perez-Tilve

516
Citations
The cellular and molecular bases of leptin and ghrelin resistance in obesity.

Huxing Cui;Huxing Cui;Miguel López;Kamal Rahmouni;Kamal Rahmouni

434
Citations
Estradiol regulates brown adipose tissue thermogenesis via hypothalamic AMPK

Pablo Blanco Martinez De Morentin;Ismael Gonzalez-Garcia;Luis Martins;Ricardo Lage

421
Citations
Ablation of PGC-1beta results in defective mitochondrial activity, thermogenesis, hepatic function, and cardiac performance.

Christopher J Lelliott;Christopher J Lelliott;Gema Medina-Gomez;Natasa Petrovic;Adrienn Kis

319
Citations
Agouti-related peptide, neuropeptide Y, and somatostatin-producing neurons are targets for ghrelin actions in the rat hypothalamus.

Luisa M. Seoane;Miguel López;Sulay Tovar;Felipe F. Casanueva

278
Citations
Hypothalamic AMPK: A canonical regulator of whole-body energy balance

Miguel López;Rubén Nogueiras;Manuel Tena-Sempere;Carlos Diéguez

267
Citations
AMPK and PFKFB3 mediate glycolysis and survival in response to mitophagy during mitotic arrest

Elena Doménech;Carolina Maestre;Lorena Esteban-Martínez;David Partida

262
Citations
Leptin regulation of prepro-orexin and orexin receptor mRNA levels in the hypothalamus.

Miguel López;Luisa Seoane;María del Carmen García;Francisca Lago

260
Citations
The Mammalian Target of Rapamycin as Novel Central Regulator of Puberty Onset via Modulation of Hypothalamic Kiss1 System

J Roa;D Garcia-Galiano;L Varela;M A Sánchez-Garrido

255
Citations
Energy balance regulation by thyroid hormones at central level

Miguel López;Clara V. Alvarez;Rubén Nogueiras;Carlos Diéguez

236
Citations
Central Ceramide-Induced Hypothalamic Lipotoxicity and ER Stress Regulate Energy Balance

Cristina Contreras;Ismael González-García;Noelia Martínez-Sánchez;Patricia Seoane-Collazo

233
Citations
Brain fatty acid synthase activates PPARα to maintain energy homeostasis

Manu V. Chakravarthy;Yimin Zhu;Miguel López;Li Yin

233
Citations
Hypothalamic AMPK-ER Stress-JNK1 Axis Mediates the Central Actions of Thyroid Hormones on Energy Balance

Noelia Martínez-Sánchez;Patricia Seoane-Collazo;Cristina Contreras;Luis Varela

228
Citations
Direct Control of Peripheral Lipid Deposition by CNS GLP-1 Receptor Signaling Is Mediated by the Sympathetic Nervous System and Blunted in Diet-Induced Obesity

Ruben Nogueiras;Diego Pérez-Tilve;Christelle Veyrat-Durebex;Donald A. Morgan

210
Citations
Nicotine Induces Negative Energy Balance Through Hypothalamic AMP-Activated Protein Kinase

Pablo Blanco Martinez De Morentin;Andrew J Whittle;Johan Fernø;Rubén Nogueiras

197
Citations
Tamoxifen-Induced Anorexia Is Associated With Fatty Acid Synthase Inhibition in the Ventromedial Nucleus of the Hypothalamus and Accumulation of Malonyl-CoA

Miguel López;Christopher J. Lelliott;Sulay Tovar;Wendy Kimber

181
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlos Dieguez University of Santiago de Compostela

Rubén Nogueiras University of Santiago de Compostela

Manuel Tena-Sempere University of Córdoba

Antonio Vidal-Puig University of Cambridge

Kamal Rahmouni University of Iowa Health Care

Juan Carlos Roa University of Córdoba

José Manuel Fernández-Real University of Girona

Leonor Pinilla University of Córdoba

Asish K. Saha Boston University

Vidar M. Steen University of Bergen

External Links

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