Antonio Salas

24.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
314 papers, 12.3k citations indexed

About

Antonio Salas is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, Antonio Salas has authored 314 papers receiving a total of 12.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 179 papers in Genetics, 135 papers in Molecular Biology and 33 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in Antonio Salas's work include Forensic and Genetic Research (135 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (64 papers) and Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications (43 papers). Antonio Salas is often cited by papers focused on Forensic and Genetic Research (135 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (64 papers) and Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications (43 papers). Antonio Salas collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United Kingdom and Germany. Antonio Salas's co-authors include Ángel Carracedo, Hans‐Jürgen Bandelt, Vincent Macaulay, M.V. Lareu, Martin Richards, Christopher Phillips, Francisco Guarner, Federico Martinón‐Torres, Yong‐Gang Yao and Antonio Torroni and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Antonio Salas

301 papers receiving 12.0k citations

Hit Papers

Correcting for Purifying ... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 2016 100 200 300 400 500
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. Correcting for Purifying Selection: An Improved Human Mitochondrial Molecular Clock
    2009 534 citations Antonio Salas et al. profile →
  2. HaploGrep 2: mitochondrial haplogroup classification in the era of high-throughput sequencing
    2016 518 citations Hansi Weißensteiner, Antonio Salas et al. profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Antonio Salas 7.1k 4.9k 1.8k 976 929 314 12.3k
António Amorim 5.5k 0.8× 3.9k 0.8× 1.1k 0.6× 538 0.6× 465 0.5× 451 9.4k
Lluís Quintana‐Murci 5.5k 0.8× 3.3k 0.7× 1.1k 0.6× 1.1k 1.1× 356 0.4× 195 10.8k
Martin Kircher 6.4k 0.9× 9.0k 1.8× 759 0.4× 448 0.5× 519 0.6× 71 15.1k
Ángel Carracedo 10.9k 1.5× 8.6k 1.8× 1.6k 0.9× 476 0.5× 336 0.4× 696 17.9k
Yong‐Gang Yao 3.6k 0.5× 5.3k 1.1× 799 0.5× 713 0.7× 176 0.2× 305 10.6k
Ryk Ward 7.9k 1.1× 4.0k 0.8× 528 0.3× 782 0.8× 601 0.6× 79 14.5k
Ranajit Chakraborty 13.6k 1.9× 6.8k 1.4× 867 0.5× 685 0.7× 650 0.7× 373 22.4k
Sarah A. Tishkoff 5.9k 0.8× 3.0k 0.6× 660 0.4× 437 0.4× 197 0.2× 112 10.6k
Lynn B. Jorde 7.7k 1.1× 5.9k 1.2× 367 0.2× 574 0.6× 530 0.6× 222 15.2k
Ulf Gyllensten 4.0k 0.6× 6.0k 1.2× 321 0.2× 3.0k 3.0× 1.4k 1.5× 237 13.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Antonio Salas

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Fields of papers citing papers by Antonio Salas

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Antonio Salas

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Antonio Salas. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Antonio Salas 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 Antonio Salas. Antonio Salas is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Pardo‐Seco, Jacobo, Xabier Bello, Alberto Gómez‐Carballa, et al.. (2025). Whole‐Genome Sequencing in Galicia Reveals Male‐Biased Pre‐Islamic North African Ancestry, Subtle Population Structure, and Microgeographic Patterns of Disease Risk. The FASEB Journal. 39(24). e71253–e71253.
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Gómez‐Carballa, Alberto, et al.. (2023). Sensogenomics of music and Alzheimer’s disease: An interdisciplinary view from neuroscience, transcriptomics, and epigenomics. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. 15. 1063536–1063536. 12 indexed citations
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Gómez‐Carballa, Alberto, María José Currás-Tuala, Sara Pischedda, et al.. (2023). Multi-tissue transcriptomics of a unique monozygotic discordant twin case of severe progressive osseous heteroplasia. Genes & Diseases. 11(3). 100981–100981. 1 indexed citations
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Mallah, Narmeen, Jacobo Pardo‐Seco, Carmen Durán‐Parrondo, et al.. (2022). Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccine booster in the general population and in subjects with comorbidities. A population-based study in Spain. Environmental Research. 215(Pt 2). 114252–114252. 16 indexed citations
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Pardo‐Seco, Jacobo, Xabier Bello, Alberto Gómez‐Carballa, et al.. (2022). A Timeframe for SARS-CoV-2 Genomes: A Proof of Concept for Postmortem Interval Estimations. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(21). 12899–12899. 1 indexed citations
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Gómez‐Carballa, Alberto, Jacobo Pardo‐Seco, Sara Pischedda, et al.. (2022). Sex-biased expression of the TLR7 gene in severe COVID-19 patients: Insights from transcriptomics and epigenomics. Environmental Research. 215(Pt 2). 114288–114288. 9 indexed citations
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Gómez‐Carballa, Alberto, Ruth Barral‐Arca, Miriam Cebey‐López, et al.. (2021). Identification of a Minimal 3-Transcript Signature to Differentiate Viral from Bacterial Infection from Best Genome-Wide Host RNA Biomarkers: A Multi-Cohort Analysis. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(6). 3148–3148. 4 indexed citations
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Gómez‐Carballa, Alberto, Jacobo Pardo‐Seco, Xabier Bello, Federico Martinón‐Torres, & Antonio Salas. (2021). Superspreading in the emergence of COVID-19 variants. Trends in Genetics. 37(12). 1069–1080. 29 indexed citations
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Martinón‐Torres, Federico, et al.. (2021). Sensogenomics and the Biological Background Underlying Musical Stimuli: Perspectives for a New Era of Musical Research. Genes. 12(9). 1454–1454. 10 indexed citations
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Bello, Xabier, Jacobo Pardo‐Seco, Alberto Gómez‐Carballa, et al.. (2021). CovidPhy: A tool for phylogeographic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 variation. Environmental Research. 204(Pt A). 111909–111909. 5 indexed citations
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Rial, José Gómez, Irene Rivero‐Calle, Antonio Salas, & Federico Martinón‐Torres. (2020). <p>Role of Monocytes/Macrophages in Covid-19 Pathogenesis: Implications for Therapy</p>. Infection and Drug Resistance. Volume 13. 2485–2493. 89 indexed citations
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Barral‐Arca, Ruth, Alberto Gómez‐Carballa, Miriam Cebey‐López, et al.. (2020). A Meta-Analysis of Multiple Whole Blood Gene Expression Data Unveils a Diagnostic Host-Response Transcript Signature for Respiratory Syncytial Virus. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 21(5). 1831–1831. 15 indexed citations
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Gómez‐Carballa, Alberto, Xabier Bello, Jacobo Pardo‐Seco, Federico Martinón‐Torres, & Antonio Salas. (2020). Mapping genome variation of SARS-CoV-2 worldwide highlights the impact of COVID-19 super-spreaders. Genome Research. 30(10). 1434–1448. 69 indexed citations
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Coelho, Carolina, Emma Camacho, Antonio Salas, Alexandre Alanio, & Arturo Casadevall. (2019). Intranasal Inoculation of Cryptococcus neoformans in Mice Produces Nasal Infection with Rapid Brain Dissemination. mSphere. 4(4). 30 indexed citations
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Rivero‐Calle, Irene, et al.. (2019). Routine infant vaccination of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines has decreased pneumonia across all age groups in Northern Spain. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics. 16(6). 1446–1453. 4 indexed citations
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Rial, José Gómez, et al.. (2018). Rotavirus infection beyond the gut. Infection and Drug Resistance. Volume 12. 55–64. 33 indexed citations
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Parson, Walther, Leonor Gusmão, Douglas R. Hares, et al.. (2014). DNA Commission of the International Society for Forensic Genetics: Revised and extended guidelines for mitochondrial DNA typing. Forensic Science International Genetics. 13. 134–142. 230 indexed citations
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Lobo, Víctor J. Sánchez‐Arévalo, Matthias Sendler, Antonio Salas, et al.. (2014). Mnk1 is a novel acinar cell-specific kinase required for exocrine pancreatic secretion and response to pancreatitis in mice. Gut. 64(6). 937–947. 13 indexed citations
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Salas, Antonio, et al.. (2012). Long-Term Outcome of Aortic Dissection With Patent False Lumen: Predictive Role of Entry Tear Size and Location. Journal of Vascular Surgery. 56(5). 1472–1473. 26 indexed citations

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