Daniel Sobral

8.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Daniel Sobral is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel Sobral has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Genetics and 6 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Daniel Sobral's work include Marine Ecology and Invasive Species (5 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (5 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (4 papers). Daniel Sobral is often cited by papers focused on Marine Ecology and Invasive Species (5 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (5 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (4 papers). Daniel Sobral collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, France and United Kingdom. Daniel Sobral's co-authors include João Paulo Gomes, Vítor Borges, Miguel Pinto, Verónica Mixão, Daniela Santos, Alexandra Nunes, Luı́s Vieira, Rita Ferreira, Sílvia Duarte and Joana Isidro and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Medicine and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Daniel Sobral

42 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Phylogenomic characterization and signs of microevolution in the 2022 multi-country outbreak of monkeypox virus

2022 501 citations Joana Isidro, Vítor Borges et al. Nature Medicine profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Daniel Sobral Portugal	18	778	472	347	171	147	43	1.4k
Giuseppe Balistreri Finland	20	415 0.5×	89 0.2×	154 0.4×	68 0.4×	118 0.8×	28	1.2k
Jonathan C. Reed United States	15	276 0.4×	219 0.5×	87 0.3×	24 0.1×	264 1.8×	29	1.1k
Björn Peters Germany	24	1.5k 1.9×	117 0.2×	272 0.8×	58 0.3×	34 0.2×	47	2.4k
Murray E. Fowler United States	23	216 0.3×	120 0.3×	188 0.5×	528 3.1×	65 0.4×	113	2.3k
Andrew J. Yates United States	29	462 0.6×	188 0.4×	278 0.8×	365 2.1×	52 0.4×	82	2.5k
Joshua Chang Mell United States	22	799 1.0×	86 0.2×	268 0.8×	307 1.8×	180 1.2×	59	1.4k
Sergey Kryazhimskiy United States	21	1.2k 1.6×	88 0.2×	366 1.1×	1.3k 7.6×	310 2.1×	34	2.6k
Ivanela Kondova Netherlands	30	1.4k 1.9×	313 0.7×	525 1.5×	402 2.4×	172 1.2×	79	3.1k
Sascha Knauf Germany	19	172 0.2×	151 0.3×	210 0.6×	114 0.7×	56 0.4×	72	970
Paolo Marinho de Andrade Zanotto Brazil	32	924 1.2×	196 0.4×	274 0.8×	207 1.2×	382 2.6×	95	3.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Amado, Tiago, Ana Pamplona, Daniel Sobral, et al.. (2025). Signature cytokine-associated transcriptome analysis of effector γδ T cells identifies subset-specific regulators of peripheral activation. Nature Immunology. 26(3). 497–510. 7 indexed citations

Sobral, Daniel, Miguel Bernardes, Helena Santos, et al.. (2024). Molecular Profiling of Axial Spondyloarthritis Patients Reveals an Association between Innate and Adaptive Cell Populations and Therapeutic Response to Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitors. Biomolecules. 14(3). 382–382. 1 indexed citations

Ligeiro, Dário, Daniel Sobral, Carlos Penha‐Gonçalves, et al.. (2024). Whole Exome Sequencing in Children With Type 1 Diabetes Before Age 6 Years Reveals Insights Into Disease Heterogeneity. Journal of Diabetes Research. 2024(1). 3076895–3076895. 1 indexed citations

Sobral, Daniel, et al.. (2024). Transcriptomic analysis and epigenetic regulators in human oocytes at different stages of oocyte meiotic maturation. Developmental Biology. 519. 55–64. 2 indexed citations

Caramalho, Íris, Dário Ligeiro, Tiago Paixão, et al.. (2024). The rare DRB1*04:08-DQ8 haplotype is the main HLA class II genetic driver and discriminative factor of Early-onset Type 1 diabetes in the Portuguese population. Frontiers in Immunology. 14. 3 indexed citations

Feijão, Tália, Bruno Marques, Rui D. Silva, et al.. (2022). Polycomb group (PcG) proteins prevent the assembly of abnormal synaptonemal complex structures during meiosis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(42). e2204701119–e2204701119. 4 indexed citations

Isidro, Joana, Vítor Borges, Miguel Pinto, et al.. (2022). Phylogenomic characterization and signs of microevolution in the 2022 multi-country outbreak of monkeypox virus. Nature Medicine. 28(8). 1569–1572. 501 indexed citations breakdown →

Sobral, Daniel, et al.. (2021). Comprehensive Detection of Pseudogenes Transcribed by Readthrough. Methods in molecular biology. 2324. 85–102. 1 indexed citations

Singh, Sumnima, Patricia Bastos-Amador, Jessica A. Thompson, et al.. (2021). Glycan-based shaping of the microbiota during primate evolution. eLife. 10. 10 indexed citations

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Póvoa, Vanda, et al.. (2021). Innate immune evasion revealed in a colorectal zebrafish xenograft model. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1156–1156. 53 indexed citations

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Wymeersch, Filip J., Ana Nóvoa, Anahí Binagui-Casas, et al.. (2020). A Tgfbr1/Snai1-dependent developmental module at the core of vertebrate axial elongation. eLife. 9. 38 indexed citations

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Wunderer, Julia, Willi Salvenmoser, Birgit Lengerer, et al.. (2019). Temporary adhesion of the proseriate flatworm Minona ileanae. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 374(1784). 20190194–20190194. 16 indexed citations

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Nitta, Kazuhiro R., Edwin Jacox, Yukio Ohtsuka, et al.. (2019). High-Throughput Protein Production Combined with High- Throughput SELEX Identifies an Extensive Atlas of Ciona robusta Transcription Factor DNA-Binding Specificities. Methods in molecular biology. 2025. 487–517. 16 indexed citations

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Bonnet, Marie, Daniel Sobral, Vasco M. Barreto, et al.. (2016). RAG Recombinase as a Selective Pressure for Genome Evolution. Genome Biology and Evolution. 8(11). 3364–3376. 5 indexed citations

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Gilchrist, Michael J., Daniel Sobral, Pierre Khoueiry, et al.. (2015). A pipeline for the systematic identification of non-redundant full-ORF cDNAs for polymorphic and evolutionary divergent genomes: Application to the ascidian Ciona intestinalis. Developmental Biology. 404(2). 149–163. 17 indexed citations

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Bergonier, Dominique, Daniel Sobral, Andrea T. Feßler, et al.. (2014). Staphylococcus aureus from 152 cases of bovine, ovine and caprine mastitis investigated by Multiple-locus variable number of tandem repeat analysis (MLVA). Veterinary Research. 45(1). 97–97. 30 indexed citations

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Sobral, Daniel, Štefan Schwarz, Dominique Bergonier, et al.. (2012). High Throughput Multiple Locus Variable Number of Tandem Repeat Analysis (MLVA) of Staphylococcus aureus from Human, Animal and Food Sources. PLoS ONE. 7(5). e33967–e33967. 36 indexed citations

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Sobral, Daniel, Patricia Mariani‐Kurkdjian, Édouard Bingen, et al.. (2012). A new highly discriminatory multiplex capillary-based MLVA assay as a tool for the epidemiological survey of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in cystic fibrosis patients. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases. 31(9). 2247–2256. 30 indexed citations

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Sobral, Daniel, Olivier Tassy, & Patrick Lemaire. (2009). Highly Divergent Gene Expression Programs Can Lead to Similar Chordate Larval Body Plans. Current Biology. 19(23). 2014–2019. 24 indexed citations

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Paiva, Ana, João Dias, Daniel Sobral, et al.. (2004). Caring for Agents and Agents that Care: Building Empathic Relations with Synthetic Agents. Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems. 2. 194–201. 95 indexed citations

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