Álvaro Sánchez

5.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
58 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Álvaro Sánchez is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Álvaro Sánchez has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Molecular Biology, 26 papers in Genetics and 16 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Álvaro Sánchez's work include Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (21 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (19 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (15 papers). Álvaro Sánchez is often cited by papers focused on Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (21 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (19 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (15 papers). Álvaro Sánchez collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Netherlands. Álvaro Sánchez's co-authors include Djordje Bajić, Jané Kondev, Ido Golding, Sylvie Estrela, Alicia Sánchez-Gorostiaga, Jean C. C. Vila, Joshua E. Goldford, Mikhail Tikhonov, Nanxi Lu and Pankaj Mehta and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Álvaro Sánchez

57 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

Emergent simplicity in microbial community assembly 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 2023 200 400 600
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.

  1. Emergent simplicity in microbial community assembly
    2018 643 citations Joshua E. Goldford, Nanxi Lu et al. Science profile →
  2. Emergent coexistence in multispecies microbial communities
    2023 75 citations Chang‐Yu Chang, Djordje Bajić et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Álvaro Sánchez United States 30 2.1k 914 692 420 281 58 3.1k
William R. Harcombe United States 27 1.5k 0.7× 900 1.0× 680 1.0× 497 1.2× 233 0.8× 50 3.1k
Wenying Shou United States 27 2.6k 1.2× 708 0.8× 398 0.6× 490 1.2× 511 1.8× 45 3.4k
Christopher J. Marx United States 37 3.2k 1.5× 1.6k 1.7× 677 1.0× 482 1.1× 450 1.6× 85 4.6k
Wook Kim South Korea 28 1.6k 0.7× 913 1.0× 426 0.6× 249 0.6× 609 2.2× 84 2.9k
Éric Bapteste France 36 3.4k 1.6× 1.2k 1.3× 1.7k 2.5× 220 0.5× 744 2.6× 99 4.8k
Rolf Kümmerli Switzerland 30 1.5k 0.7× 1.5k 1.6× 606 0.9× 936 2.2× 858 3.1× 91 3.8k
Christoph Kaleta Germany 30 2.1k 1.0× 498 0.5× 407 0.6× 179 0.4× 154 0.5× 90 3.0k
Djordje Bajić United States 15 818 0.4× 349 0.4× 439 0.6× 249 0.6× 159 0.6× 22 1.4k
Orkun S. Soyer United Kingdom 26 1.4k 0.7× 462 0.5× 339 0.5× 166 0.4× 245 0.9× 73 2.1k
Christian Kost Germany 32 1.8k 0.9× 1.3k 1.4× 926 1.3× 508 1.2× 1.1k 4.0× 53 4.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Álvaro Sánchez

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Álvaro Sánchez

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Álvaro Sánchez. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Álvaro Sánchez based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Álvaro Sánchez. Álvaro Sánchez is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sánchez, Álvaro, et al.. (2024). The optimization of microbial functions through rational environmental manipulations. Molecular Microbiology. 122(3). 294–303. 11 indexed citations
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DelaFuente, Javier, Juan Díaz‐Colunga, Álvaro Sánchez, & Álvaro San Millán. (2024). Global epistasis in plasmid-mediated antimicrobial resistance. Molecular Systems Biology. 20(4). 311–320. 4 indexed citations
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Baquero, Fernando, et al.. (2023). Bacterial Subcellular Architecture, Structural Epistasis, and Antibiotic Resistance. Biology. 12(5). 640–640. 10 indexed citations
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Díaz‐Colunga, Juan, Álvaro Sánchez, & C. Brandon Ogbunugafor. (2023). Environmental modulation of global epistasis in a drug resistance fitness landscape. Nature Communications. 14(1). 8055–8055. 10 indexed citations
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Díaz‐Colunga, Juan, Karna Gowda, Ramón Díaz‐Uriarte, et al.. (2023). Global epistasis on fitness landscapes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 378(1877). 20220053–20220053. 26 indexed citations
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Ruíz, Javier, Miguel de Celis, Juan Díaz‐Colunga, et al.. (2023). Predictability of the community‐function landscape in wine yeast ecosystems. Molecular Systems Biology. 19(9). e11613–e11613. 16 indexed citations
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Chang, Chang‐Yu, Djordje Bajić, Jean C. C. Vila, Sylvie Estrela, & Álvaro Sánchez. (2023). Emergent coexistence in multispecies microbial communities. Science. 381(6655). 343–348. 75 indexed citations breakdown →
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Chang, Chang‐Yu, Jean C. C. Vila, Richard Li, et al.. (2021). Engineering complex communities by directed evolution. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 5(7). 1011–1023. 68 indexed citations
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Dukovski, Ilija, Djordje Bajić, Jeremy M. Chacón, et al.. (2021). A metabolic modeling platform for the computation of microbial ecosystems in time and space (COMETS). Nature Protocols. 16(11). 5030–5082. 106 indexed citations
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Weiß, Anna S., Anna G. Burrichter, Abilash Chakravarthy Durai Raj, et al.. (2021). In vitro interaction network of a synthetic gut bacterial community. The ISME Journal. 16(4). 1095–1109. 93 indexed citations
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Estrela, Sylvie, Jean C. C. Vila, Nanxi Lu, et al.. (2021). Functional attractors in microbial community assembly. Cell Systems. 13(1). 29–42.e7. 69 indexed citations
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Vila, Jean C. C., Yang‐Yu Liu, & Álvaro Sánchez. (2020). Dissimilarity–Overlap analysis of replicate enrichment communities. The ISME Journal. 14(10). 2505–2513. 16 indexed citations
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Goldford, Joshua E., Nanxi Lu, Djordje Bajić, et al.. (2018). Emergent simplicity in microbial community assembly. Science. 361(6401). 469–474. 643 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bajić, Djordje, Jean C. C. Vila, Zachary D. Blount, & Álvaro Sánchez. (2018). On the deformability of an empirical fitness landscape by microbial evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(44). 11286–11291. 40 indexed citations
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Choubey, Sandeep, Jané Kondev, & Álvaro Sánchez. (2018). Distribution of Initiation Times Reveals Mechanisms of Transcriptional Regulation in Single Cells. Biophysical Journal. 114(9). 2072–2082. 10 indexed citations
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Chen, Andrew, Álvaro Sánchez, Lei Dai, & Jeff Gore. (2014). Dynamics of a producer-freeloader ecosystem on the brink of collapse. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 1 indexed citations
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Sánchez, Álvaro, Sandeep Choubey, & Jané Kondev. (2013). Stochastic models of transcription: From single molecules to single cells. Methods. 62(1). 13–25. 46 indexed citations
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García, Hernán G., Álvaro Sánchez, Thomas E. Kuhlman, Jané Kondev, & Rob Phillips. (2010). Transcription by the numbers redux: experiments and calculations that surprise. Trends in Cell Biology. 20(12). 723–733. 33 indexed citations
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Sánchez, Álvaro. (1962). El porvenir del espíritu. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(5). 523–527.
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Sánchez, Álvaro. (1961). HIstoria general de las civilizaciones. Bogotá (Banco de la República). 4(8). 758–760. 6 indexed citations

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