Alexandre P. Francisco

4.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
47 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Alexandre P. Francisco is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexandre P. Francisco has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Molecular Biology, 17 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 10 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Alexandre P. Francisco's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (10 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (7 papers) and Algorithms and Data Compression (5 papers). Alexandre P. Francisco is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (10 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (7 papers) and Algorithms and Data Compression (5 papers). Alexandre P. Francisco collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, Spain and Chile. Alexandre P. Francisco's co-authors include João André Carriço, Mário Ramirez, Cátia Vaz, Miguel Bugalho, Pedro T. Monteiro, Nabil-Fareed Alikhan, Mark Achtman, Martin J. Sergeant, Zhemin Zhou and Nina Luhmann and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Bioinformatics and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Alexandre P. Francisco

44 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

GrapeTree: visualization of core genomic relationships among 100,000 bacterial pathogens

2018 636 citations Cátia Vaz, Alexandre P. Francisco et al. profile →
Global optimal eBURST analysis of multilocus typing data using a graphic matroid approach

2009 477 citations Alexandre P. Francisco, Mário Ramirez et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexandre P. Francisco Portugal	16	1.1k	573	512	509	488	47	2.9k
Aidan Delaney United Kingdom	8	757 0.7×	681 1.2×	521 1.0×	513 1.0×	773 1.6×	20	2.6k
Pengcheng Du China	30	667 0.6×	764 1.3×	397 0.8×	492 1.0×	623 1.3×	152	2.7k
Cátia Vaz Portugal	6	452 0.4×	407 0.7×	393 0.8×	323 0.6×	394 0.8×	11	1.5k
William Hsiao Canada	24	1.5k 1.4×	428 0.7×	404 0.8×	326 0.6×	296 0.6×	61	2.8k
Zamin Iqbal United Kingdom	28	1.9k 1.7×	674 1.2×	288 0.6×	635 1.2×	695 1.4×	61	3.6k
Zuowei Wu China	28	554 0.5×	634 1.1×	729 1.4×	170 0.3×	747 1.5×	100	2.6k
Bhushan M. Jayarao United States	33	705 0.6×	883 1.5×	1.4k 2.7×	426 0.8×	353 0.7×	118	3.8k
Tim Carver United Kingdom	12	2.3k 2.1×	509 0.9×	467 0.9×	464 0.9×	333 0.7×	24	5.1k
Paul F. Harrison Australia	24	1.2k 1.1×	782 1.4×	125 0.2×	332 0.7×	835 1.7×	46	2.5k
Khalil Abudahab United Kingdom	9	543 0.5×	749 1.3×	216 0.4×	267 0.5×	333 0.7×	17	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexandre P. Francisco

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Vaz, Cátia, et al.. (2026). ViralBindPredict: empowering viral protein–ligand binding sites through deep learning and protein sequence-derived insights. GigaScience. 15. 1 indexed citations

Francisco, Alexandre P., et al.. (2025). Development of artificial intelligence-based algorithms for the process of human identification through dental evidence. International Journal of Legal Medicine. 139(4). 1835–1850. 1 indexed citations

Figueira, José Rui, et al.. (2023). A multi-objective mixed integer linear programming model for thesis defence scheduling. European Journal of Operational Research. 312(1). 92–116. 2 indexed citations

S.Russo, Luís M., et al.. (2023). A Novel Triangular Space-Filling Curve for Cache-Oblivious In-Place Transposition of Square Matrices. 368–378.

Francisco, Alexandre P., et al.. (2022). Graph Compression for Adjacency-Matrix Multiplication. SN Computer Science. 3(3). 2 indexed citations

S.Russo, Luís M., Diogo Andrade Costa, Rui Henriques, Hideo Bannai, & Alexandre P. Francisco. (2022). Order-preserving pattern matching indeterminate strings. Information and Computation. 289. 104924–104924. 1 indexed citations

Madeira, Sara C., et al.. (2022). Shapelets to Classify Energy Demand Time Series. Energies. 15(8). 2960–2960. 2 indexed citations

Madeira, Sara C., et al.. (2022). Short-term electricity load forecasting—A systematic approach from system level to secondary substations. Applied Energy. 332. 120493–120493. 47 indexed citations

Santos, Francisco C., et al.. (2021). Eliciting Fairness in N‐Player Network Games through Degree‐Based Role Assignment. Complexity. 2021(1). 9 indexed citations

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S.Russo, Luís M. & Alexandre P. Francisco. (2021). Small Longest Tandem Scattered Subsequences. 31(1). 79–110. 1 indexed citations

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Francisco, Alexandre P., et al.. (2021). An analysis of the graph processing landscape. Journal Of Big Data. 8(1). 55–55. 12 indexed citations

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Selimi, Mennan, et al.. (2018). Gelly-scheduling. arXiv (Cornell University). 151–160. 10 indexed citations

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Monteiro, Miguel, Ana Catarina Fonseca, Ana T. Freitas, et al.. (2018). Using Machine Learning to Improve the Prediction of Functional Outcome in Ischemic Stroke Patients. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. 15(6). 1953–1959. 92 indexed citations

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Francisco, Alexandre P., Marta Nascimento, & Cátia Vaz. (2017). Dynamic Phylogenetic Inference for Sequence-based Typing Data. 604–604. 2 indexed citations

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Francisco, Alexandre P., et al.. (2017). Modeling by correlation of the human hand for application in the robotic hand. 103. 1–2.

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Ribeiro-Gonçalves, Bruno, Alexandre P. Francisco, Cátia Vaz, Mário Ramirez, & João André Carriço. (2016). PHYLOViZ Online: web-based tool for visualization, phylogenetic inference, analysis and sharing of minimum spanning trees. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(W1). W246–W251. 126 indexed citations

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Vaz, Cátia, Alexandre P. Francisco, Keith A. Jolley, et al.. (2014). TypOn: the microbial typing ontology. Journal of Biomedical Semantics. 5(1). 43–43. 6 indexed citations

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Gonçalves, Joana P., Alexandre P. Francisco, Yves Moreau, & Sara C. Madeira. (2012). Interactogeneous: Disease Gene Prioritization Using Heterogeneous Networks and Full Topology Scores. PLoS ONE. 7(11). e49634–e49634. 31 indexed citations

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Monteiro, Pedro T., Miguel C. Teixeira, Nuno P. Mira, et al.. (2010). YEASTRACT: providing a programmatic access to curated transcriptional regulatory associations in Saccharomyces cerevisiae through a web services interface. Nucleic Acids Research. 39(Database). D136–D140. 146 indexed citations

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Francisco, Alexandre P. & Henrique A. Matos. (2004). Multiperiod synthesis and operational planning of utility systems with environmental concerns. Computers & Chemical Engineering. 28(5). 745–753. 23 indexed citations

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