Aitor Blanco‐Míguez

8.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
32 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Aitor Blanco‐Míguez is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Food Science and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Aitor Blanco‐Míguez has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Food Science and 6 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Aitor Blanco‐Míguez's work include Gut microbiota and health (17 papers), Probiotics and Fermented Foods (13 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (7 papers). Aitor Blanco‐Míguez is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (17 papers), Probiotics and Fermented Foods (13 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (7 papers). Aitor Blanco‐Míguez collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Portugal and Italy. Aitor Blanco‐Míguez's co-authors include Borja Sánchez, Anália Lourenço, Abelardo Margollés, Susana Delgado, Miguel Gueimonde, Nicola Segata, Mireia Valles‐Colomer, Francesco Asnicar, Paolo Manghi and Moreno Zolfo and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Aitor Blanco‐Míguez

31 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

Integrating taxonomic, functional, and strain-level profiling of diverse microbial communities with bioBakery 3

2021 1.2k citations Francesco Beghini, Lauren J. McIver et al. eLife profile →
Probiotics, gut microbiota, and their influence on host health and disease

2016 803 citations Borja Sánchez, Aitor Blanco‐Míguez et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aitor Blanco‐Míguez Spain	12	1.8k	620	398	375	275	32	2.5k
Doris Vandeputte Belgium	12	1.9k 1.1×	400 0.6×	682 1.7×	426 1.1×	311 1.1×	20	2.6k
Yong Su China	30	1.7k 0.9×	667 1.1×	368 0.9×	468 1.2×	355 1.3×	133	2.8k
Veera Kainulainen Finland	15	1.7k 1.0×	627 1.0×	421 1.1×	480 1.3×	303 1.1×	24	2.4k
Franziska Faber Germany	17	1.9k 1.0×	704 1.1×	401 1.0×	768 2.0×	217 0.8×	31	2.6k
Wenjing Zhao China	28	1.8k 1.0×	577 0.9×	205 0.5×	426 1.1×	238 0.9×	90	3.0k
Till Robin Lesker Germany	16	1.6k 0.9×	363 0.6×	340 0.9×	448 1.2×	186 0.7×	27	2.5k
Wayne Young New Zealand	27	1.3k 0.7×	414 0.7×	468 1.2×	420 1.1×	402 1.5×	106	2.3k
Fabian Rivera-Chávez United States	12	1.8k 1.0×	746 1.2×	407 1.0×	764 2.0×	244 0.9×	17	2.6k
Patrick Veiga France	18	1.6k 0.9×	682 1.1×	470 1.2×	307 0.8×	291 1.1×	27	2.2k
Joseph M. Pickard United States	13	1.6k 0.9×	440 0.7×	266 0.7×	619 1.7×	250 0.9×	15	2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Aitor Blanco‐Míguez

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Aitor Blanco‐Míguez

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Andreu‐Sánchez, Sergio, Aitor Blanco‐Míguez, Daoming Wang, et al.. (2025). Global genetic diversity of human gut microbiome species is related to geographic location and host health. Cell. 188(15). 3942–3959.e9. 9 indexed citations

Bazzani, Davide, Vitor Heidrich, Paolo Manghi, et al.. (2024). Favorable subgingival plaque microbiome shifts are associated with clinical treatment for peri-implant diseases. npj Biofilms and Microbiomes. 10(1). 12–12. 4 indexed citations

Valles‐Colomer, Mireia, Paolo Manghi, Fabio Cumbo, et al.. (2023). Neuroblastoma is associated with alterations in gut microbiome composition subsequent to maternal microbial seeding. EBioMedicine. 99. 104917–104917. 10 indexed citations

Blanco‐Míguez, Aitor, et al.. (2023). Towards the isolation of more robust next generation probiotics: The first aerotolerant Bifidobacterium bifidum strain. Food Research International. 165. 112481–112481. 5 indexed citations

Manara, Serena, Marta Selma‐Royo, Kun D. Huang, et al.. (2023). Maternal and food microbial sources shape the infant microbiome of a rural Ethiopian population. Current Biology. 33(10). 1939–1950.e4. 16 indexed citations

Blanco‐Míguez, Aitor, Lucía Guadamuro, Florentino Fdez‐Riverola, et al.. (2023). Targeted depletion of pks + bacteria from a fecal microbiota using specific antibodies. mSystems. 8(3). e0007923–e0007923. 4 indexed citations

Signorini, Lorenzo, Aitor Blanco‐Míguez, Moreno Zolfo, et al.. (2022). Automated identification of sequence-tailored Cas9 proteins using massive metagenomic data. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6474–6474. 11 indexed citations

Beghini, Francesco, Lauren J. McIver, Aitor Blanco‐Míguez, et al.. (2021). Integrating taxonomic, functional, and strain-level profiling of diverse microbial communities with bioBakery 3. eLife. 10. 1173 indexed citations breakdown →

Ruíz, Lorena, et al.. (2021). Precision modification of the human gut microbiota targeting surface-associated proteins. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 1270–1270. 8 indexed citations

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Blanco‐Míguez, Aitor, Hector Tamés, Patricia Ruas‐Madiedo, & Borja Sánchez. (2021). Microbiota-Derived β-Amyloid-like Peptides Trigger Alzheimer’s Disease-Related Pathways in the SH-SY5Y Neural Cell Line. Nutrients. 13(11). 3868–3868. 4 indexed citations

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Tomasi, Michele, Francesco Beghini, Ilaria Zanella, et al.. (2021). Commensal Bifidobacterium Strains Enhance the Efficacy of Neo-Epitope Based Cancer Vaccines. Vaccines. 9(11). 1356–1356. 14 indexed citations

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Blanco‐Míguez, Aitor, et al.. (2019). Computational prediction of the bioactivity potential of proteomes based on expert knowledge. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 91. 103121–103121. 1 indexed citations

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Pérez‐Pérez, Martín, Gael Pérez‐Rodríguez, Aitor Blanco‐Míguez, et al.. (2019). Next generation community assessment of biomedical entity recognition web servers: metrics, performance, interoperability aspects of BeCalm. Journal of Cheminformatics. 11(1). 42–42. 2 indexed citations

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Blanco‐Míguez, Aitor, Florentino Fdez‐Riverola, Anália Lourenço, & Borja Sánchez. (2019). In silico prediction reveals the existence of potential bioactive neuropeptides produced by the human gut microbiota. Food Research International. 119. 221–226. 10 indexed citations

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Blanco‐Míguez, Aitor, Florentino Fdez‐Riverola, Borja Sánchez, & Anália Lourenço. (2018). BlasterJS: A novel interactive JavaScript visualisation component for BLAST alignment results. PLoS ONE. 13(10). e0205286–e0205286. 19 indexed citations

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Blanco‐Míguez, Aitor, Florentino Fdez‐Riverola, Anália Lourenço, & Borja Sánchez. (2017). P4P: a peptidome-based strain-level genome comparison web tool. Nucleic Acids Research. 45(W1). W265–W269. 1 indexed citations

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Ruíz, Lorena, Claudio Hidalgo-Cantabrana, Aitor Blanco‐Míguez, et al.. (2016). Tackling probiotic and gut microbiota functionality through proteomics. Journal of Proteomics. 147. 28–39. 41 indexed citations

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Blanco‐Míguez, Aitor, et al.. (2016). MAHMI database: a comprehensive MetaHit-based resource for the study of the mechanism of action of the human microbiota. Database. 2017. baw157–baw157. 26 indexed citations

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Blanco‐Míguez, Aitor, Jan P. Meier‐Kolthoff, Markus Göker, et al.. (2016). Improving Phylogeny Reconstruction at the Strain Level Using Peptidome Datasets. PLoS Computational Biology. 12(12). e1005271–e1005271. 4 indexed citations

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Blanco‐Míguez, Aitor, et al.. (2016). A peptidome-based phylogeny pipeline reveals differential peptides at the strain level within Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis. Food Microbiology. 60. 137–141. 5 indexed citations

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