Aitor Martinez

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 766 citations indexed

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Aitor Martinez is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Aitor Martinez has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 766 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Epidemiology, 9 papers in Molecular Biology and 3 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Aitor Martinez's work include Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (10 papers), Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (7 papers) and Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (3 papers). Aitor Martinez is often cited by papers focused on Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (10 papers), Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (7 papers) and Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (3 papers). Aitor Martinez collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Spain and Germany. Aitor Martinez's co-authors include Michael J. Clague, Ugo Mayor, Alexander J. Whitworth, Sylvie Urbé, Álvaro Sánchez-Martínez, Juliette J. Lee, Cristiane Benincá, Jin Rui Liang, Jon D. Lane and Juan Manuel Falcón‐Pérez and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Cell Biology, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Aitor Martinez

13 papers receiving 759 citations

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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.

Basal mitophagy is widespread in Drosophila but minimally affected by loss of Pink1 or parkin

2018 250 citations Juliette J. Lee, Álvaro Sánchez-Martínez et al. The Journal of Cell Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aitor Martinez United Kingdom	9	537	415	174	123	102	14	766
Chiu-Hui Huang Taiwan	8	494 0.9×	323 0.8×	185 1.1×	116 0.9×	99 1.0×	12	749
Dean C. Pask United Kingdom	6	438 0.8×	427 1.0×	121 0.7×	114 0.9×	178 1.7×	6	905
Jonathan Nardozzi United States	11	427 0.8×	137 0.3×	307 1.8×	180 1.5×	122 1.2×	13	847
Alberto Danieli Austria	7	473 0.9×	599 1.4×	61 0.4×	90 0.7×	348 3.4×	8	877
Jaclyn Nicole Le Grand France	8	365 0.7×	214 0.5×	64 0.4×	39 0.3×	68 0.7×	8	566
Marie Ménade Canada	9	553 1.0×	291 0.7×	174 1.0×	59 0.5×	100 1.0×	9	713
Dimitri Krainc United States	3	448 0.8×	408 1.0×	136 0.8×	108 0.9×	216 2.1×	3	775
Evgeny Shlevkov United States	8	429 0.8×	146 0.4×	110 0.6×	71 0.6×	184 1.8×	10	631
Marina Pantazopoulou France	8	382 0.7×	121 0.3×	114 0.7×	74 0.6×	206 2.0×	9	543
Patrick Ejlerskov Denmark	11	220 0.4×	173 0.4×	160 0.9×	120 1.0×	79 0.8×	16	610

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Sánchez-Martínez, Álvaro, Aitor Martinez, & Alexander J. Whitworth. (2024). Analysis of Mitophagy Reporters in Drosophila. Methods in molecular biology. 2845. 79–93.

Martinez, Aitor, Álvaro Sánchez-Martínez, Ana Terriente-Félix, et al.. (2024). Mitochondrial CISD1/Cisd accumulation blocks mitophagy and genetic or pharmacological inhibition rescues neurodegenerative phenotypes in Pink1/parkin models. Molecular Neurodegeneration. 19(1). 12–12. 14 indexed citations

Martinez, Aitor, Marta Trevisan, Gaël Cobraiville, et al.. (2023). USP8 Down-Regulation Promotes Parkin-Independent Mitophagy in the Drosophila Brain and in Human Neurons. Cells. 12(8). 1143–1143. 6 indexed citations

Sánchez-Martínez, Álvaro, Aitor Martinez, & Alexander J. Whitworth. (2023). FBXO7/ntc and USP30 antagonistically set the ubiquitination threshold for basal mitophagy and provide a target for Pink1 phosphorylation in vivo. PLoS Biology. 21(8). e3002244–e3002244. 15 indexed citations

Torner, Núria, Laia Curto‐Barredo, Joaquím Sol, et al.. (2021). Measles outbreak related to healthcare transmission. 22(1). 20–27. 1 indexed citations

Williams, C. B., Raquel Pazos, Félix Royo, et al.. (2019). Assessing the role of surface glycans of extracellular vesicles on cellular uptake. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 11920–11920. 125 indexed citations

Lee, Juliette J., Álvaro Sánchez-Martínez, Aitor Martinez, et al.. (2018). Basal mitophagy is widespread in Drosophila but minimally affected by loss of Pink1 or parkin. The Journal of Cell Biology. 217(5). 1613–1622. 250 indexed citations breakdown →

Marcassa, Elena, Emma V. Rusilowicz-Jones, Aitor Martinez, et al.. (2018). Dual role of USP 30 in controlling basal pexophagy and mitophagy. EMBO Reports. 19(7). 119 indexed citations

Martinez, Aitor, Juanma Ramírez, Nerea Osinalde, Jesús M. Arizmendi, & Ugo Mayor. (2018). Neuronal Proteomic Analysis of the Ubiquitinated Substrates of the Disease-Linked E3 Ligases Parkin and Ube3a. BioMed Research International. 2018. 1–14. 12 indexed citations

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Martinez, Aitor, Benoît Lectez, Juanma Ramírez, et al.. (2017). Quantitative proteomic analysis of Parkin substrates in Drosophila neurons. Molecular Neurodegeneration. 12(1). 29–29. 60 indexed citations

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Liang, Jin Rui, Aitor Martinez, Jon D. Lane, et al.. (2015). USP 30 deubiquitylates mitochondrial P arkin substrates and restricts apoptotic cell death. EMBO Reports. 16(5). 618–627. 133 indexed citations

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Ramírez, Juanma, Aitor Martinez, Benoît Lectez, et al.. (2015). Proteomic Analysis of the Ubiquitin Landscape in the Drosophila Embryonic Nervous System and the Adult Photoreceptor Cells. PLoS ONE. 10(10). e0139083–e0139083. 26 indexed citations

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Martinez, Aitor, et al.. (2013). Manejo de las complicaciones postoperatorias en las derivaciones urinarias. Revista Mexicana de Urología. 73(3). 136–139. 2 indexed citations

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Martinez, Aitor, et al.. (2001). Síndrome de McKittrick-Wheelock. A propósito de 2 casos. Cirugía Española. 69(6). 613–615. 3 indexed citations

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