Alberto Ferrús

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
83 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

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Alberto Ferrús is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alberto Ferrús has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Molecular Biology, 50 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 15 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Alberto Ferrús's work include Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (43 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (10 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (10 papers). Alberto Ferrús is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (43 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (10 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (10 papers). Alberto Ferrús collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United States and France. Alberto Ferrús's co-authors include Ángel Acebes, Mark A. Tanouye, Seymour Benzer, S.C. Fujita, S Lawrence Zipursky, Olaf Pongs, Jean‐Marc Devaud, Ignacio Marı́n, Arnd Baumann and Julio A. Barbas and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Alberto Ferrús

83 papers receiving 3.7k 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.

Monoclonal antibodies against the Drosophila nervous system.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alberto Ferrús Spain	35	2.4k	2.2k	639	572	396	83	3.8k
Mani Ramaswami United States	41	3.3k 1.4×	2.5k 1.2×	759 1.2×	1.2k 2.0×	203 0.5×	90	5.3k
Mark A. Tanouye United States	32	2.9k 1.2×	2.8k 1.3×	711 1.1×	378 0.7×	848 2.1×	63	4.3k
Paul M. Salvaterra United States	38	3.5k 1.5×	3.6k 1.7×	613 1.0×	600 1.0×	104 0.3×	72	6.5k
William J. Joiner United States	27	1.7k 0.7×	1.9k 0.9×	481 0.8×	152 0.3×	450 1.1×	39	3.6k
Krystyna Keleman Austria	20	2.6k 1.1×	2.4k 1.1×	725 1.1×	1.0k 1.8×	75 0.2×	24	4.3k
Bruce L. Tempel United States	36	4.6k 1.9×	3.8k 1.8×	625 1.0×	318 0.6×	1.5k 3.8×	64	6.5k
Karen Ocorr United States	36	2.4k 1.0×	1.5k 0.7×	305 0.5×	461 0.8×	725 1.8×	88	4.4k
Baruch Minke Israel	42	2.8k 1.2×	4.0k 1.8×	276 0.4×	383 0.7×	92 0.2×	125	5.9k
Maximilian H. Ulbrich Germany	22	1.7k 0.7×	1.2k 0.5×	540 0.8×	187 0.3×	310 0.8×	41	2.6k
Alex P. Gould United Kingdom	37	3.8k 1.6×	1.5k 0.7×	903 1.4×	682 1.2×	50 0.1×	63	5.6k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Casas‐Tintó, Sergio & Alberto Ferrús. (2021). The haplolethality paradox of the wupA gene in Drosophila. PLoS Genetics. 17(3). e1009108–e1009108. 5 indexed citations

Casas‐Tintó, Sergio & Alberto Ferrús. (2019). Troponin-I mediates the localization of selected apico-basal cell polarity signaling proteins. Journal of Cell Science. 132(8). 5 indexed citations

Casas‐Tintó, Sergio, et al.. (2019). PI3K activation prevents Aβ42-induced synapse loss and favors insoluble amyloid deposit formation. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 31(4). 244–260. 9 indexed citations

Martín‐Peña, Alfonso & Alberto Ferrús. (2019). CCB is Involved in Actin-Based Axonal Transport of Selected Synaptic Proteins. Journal of Neuroscience. 40(3). 542–556. 2 indexed citations

Casas‐Tintó, Sergio, et al.. (2017). Drosophilaenhancer-Gal4 lines show ectopic expression during development. Royal Society Open Science. 4(3). 170039–170039. 30 indexed citations

Chaves-Sanjuán, Antonio, et al.. (2014). Frq2 fromDrosophila melanogaster: cloning, expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis. Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology Communications. 70(4). 530–534. 6 indexed citations

Acebes, Ángel, Alfonso Martín‐Peña, Valérie Chevalier, & Alberto Ferrús. (2011). Synapse Loss in Olfactory Local Interneurons Modifies Perception. Journal of Neuroscience. 31(8). 2734–2745. 36 indexed citations

Sánchez‐Gracia, Alejandro, Jesús Romero‐Pozuelo, & Alberto Ferrús. (2010). Two Frequenins in Drosophila: unveiling the evolutionary history of an unusual Neuronal Calcium Sensor (NCS) duplication. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 10(1). 54–54. 15 indexed citations

Rodrı́guez, José-Rodrigo, et al.. (2004). Transcription ofDrosophilaTroponin I Gene Is Regulated by Two Conserved, Functionally Identical, Synergistic Elements. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 15(3). 1185–1196. 34 indexed citations

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Ferrús, Alberto, et al.. (2003). MOLECULAR GENETICS OF ACTIVITY-DEPENDENT STRUCTURAL CHANGES AT THE SYNAPSE. Journal of Neurogenetics. 17(4). 271–293. 1 indexed citations

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Devaud, Jean‐Marc, Ángel Acebes, Mani Ramaswami, & Alberto Ferrús. (2003). Structural and functional changes in the olfactory pathway of adult Drosophila take place at a critical age. Journal of Neurobiology. 56(1). 13–23. 91 indexed citations

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Marı́n, Ignacio & Alberto Ferrús. (2002). Comparative Genomics of the RBR Family, Including the Parkinson's Disease–Related Gene Parkin and the Genes of the Ariadne Subfamily. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 19(12). 2039–2050. 85 indexed citations

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Naïmi, Benyoussef, Andrew Harrison, Upendra Nongthomba, et al.. (2001). A Tropomyosin-2 Mutation Suppresses a Troponin I Myopathy inDrosophila. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 12(5). 1529–1539. 31 indexed citations

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Morales, Miguel, et al.. (1999). Presynaptic calcium‐channel currents in normal and csp mutant Drosophila peptidergic terminals. European Journal of Neuroscience. 11(5). 1818–1826. 34 indexed citations

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Canal, Inmaculada, et al.. (1999). The Haplolethal Region at the 16F Gene Cluster of Drosophila melanogaster: Structure and Function. Genetics. 151(1). 163–175. 19 indexed citations

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Canal, Inmaculada, et al.. (1995). Functional recovery of troponin I in a Drosophila heldup mutant after a second site mutation.. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 6(11). 1433–1441. 17 indexed citations

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Fariñas, Isabel, et al.. (1994). The Presynaptic Cell Determines the Number of Synapses in the Drosophila Optic Ganglia. European Journal of Neuroscience. 6(9). 1423–1431. 18 indexed citations

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Angaut‐Petit, D., Alberto Ferrús, & Lucette Faille. (1993). Plasticity of motor nerve terminals in Drosophila T(X, Y) V7 mutant: Effect of deregulation of the novel calcium-binding protein frequenin. Neuroscience Letters. 153(2). 227–231. 14 indexed citations

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Orgad, Sara, Salud Llamazares, Yadin Dudai, & Alberto Ferrús. (1989). The Drosophila Mutant tetanic Interacts with a Gene Complex Including the Structural Locus of K⁺ Channels and Shows Altered Dephosphorylation and Learning. European Journal of Neuroscience. 1(4). 367–373. 4 indexed citations

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Ferrús, Alberto & Antonio Garcı́a-Bellido. (1977). Minute mosaics caused by early chromosome loss. Development Genes and Evolution. 183(4). 337–349. 9 indexed citations

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