David Páez-Espino

11.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
43 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

David Páez-Espino is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, David Páez-Espino has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Ecology, 31 papers in Molecular Biology and 18 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in David Páez-Espino's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (26 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (17 papers) and Plant Virus Research Studies (16 papers). David Páez-Espino is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (26 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (17 papers) and Plant Virus Research Studies (16 papers). David Páez-Espino collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Spain. David Páez-Espino's co-authors include Nikos C. Kyrpides, Natalia Ivanova, Georgios A. Pavlopoulos, Jillian F. Banfield, Emiley A. Eloe‐Fadrosh, Marcel Huntemann, Jennifer A. Doudna, Lucas B. Harrington, Enbo Ma and Janice S. Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

David Páez-Espino

42 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

Programmed DNA destruction by miniature CRISPR-Cas14 enzymes

2018 895 citations Lucas B. Harrington, David Burstein et al. Science profile →
Uncovering Earth’s virome

2016 719 citations David Páez-Espino, Emiley A. Eloe‐Fadrosh et al. profile →
Metagenomic compendium of 189,680 DNA viruses from the human gut microbiome

2021 313 citations Stephen Nayfach, David Páez-Espino et al. Nature Microbiology profile →
IMG/VR v3: an integrated ecological and evolutionary framework for interrogating genomes of uncultivated viruses

2020 221 citations Simon Roux, David Páez-Espino et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Páez-Espino United States	30	3.0k	2.4k	987	516	377	43	4.8k
Dmitry Meleshko United States	9	2.4k 0.8×	1.8k 0.8×	839 0.9×	559 1.1×	294 0.8×	17	4.8k
Emiley A. Eloe‐Fadrosh United States	36	3.2k 1.1×	3.8k 1.5×	1.2k 1.2×	716 1.4×	314 0.8×	71	5.9k
Michael DiCuccio United States	15	3.6k 1.2×	1.8k 0.8×	1.2k 1.2×	481 0.9×	182 0.5×	22	5.8k
Marcel Huntemann United States	28	3.6k 1.2×	2.9k 1.2×	1.1k 1.1×	266 0.5×	510 1.4×	93	5.7k
Gordon D. Pusch United States	17	5.0k 1.6×	2.8k 1.1×	1.3k 1.3×	517 1.0×	298 0.8×	22	7.7k
Joshua Quick United Kingdom	13	2.5k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	422 0.4×	763 1.5×	273 0.7×	27	4.2k
Dawn Field United Kingdom	38	3.9k 1.3×	3.1k 1.2×	703 0.7×	252 0.5×	398 1.1×	102	6.5k
Einar Andreas Rødland Norway	19	4.1k 1.4×	1.7k 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	225 0.4×	154 0.4×	27	5.9k
Alex Copeland United States	19	3.1k 1.0×	1.5k 0.6×	1.6k 1.6×	262 0.5×	161 0.4×	31	5.2k
Andrew Millard United Kingdom	35	2.5k 0.8×	3.8k 1.6×	830 0.8×	596 1.2×	199 0.5×	121	4.8k

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Liang, Yantao, et al.. (2025). VITAP: a high precision tool for DNA and RNA viral classification based on meta-omic data. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2226–2226. 3 indexed citations

Liang, Yantao, Yan Zhang, David Páez-Espino, et al.. (2024). Diversity of reverse-transcriptase-containing viruses through global metagenomics. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 52–56.

Baltoumas, Fotis A., Evangelos Karatzas, David Páez-Espino, et al.. (2023). Exploring microbial functional biodiversity at the protein family level—From metagenomic sequence reads to annotated protein clusters. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 1157956–1157956. 3 indexed citations

Wu, Ruonan, Clyde A. Smith, Garry W. Buchko, et al.. (2022). Structural characterization of a soil viral auxiliary metabolic gene product – a functional chitosanase. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5485–5485. 35 indexed citations

Nayfach, Stephen, David Páez-Espino, Soo Jen Low, et al.. (2021). Metagenomic compendium of 189,680 DNA viruses from the human gut microbiome. Nature Microbiology. 6(7). 960–970. 313 indexed citations breakdown →

Pons, Joan Carles, et al.. (2021). VPF-Class: taxonomic assignment and host prediction of uncultivated viruses based on viral protein families. Bioinformatics. 37(13). 1805–1813. 75 indexed citations

Mangalea, Mihnea R., David Páez-Espino, Kristopher Kieft, et al.. (2021). Individuals at risk for rheumatoid arthritis harbor differential intestinal bacteriophage communities with distinct metabolic potential. Cell Host & Microbe. 29(5). 726–739.e5. 67 indexed citations

Chen, Yiqiang, Yulin Wang, David Páez-Espino, Martin F. Polz, & Tong Zhang. (2021). Prokaryotic viruses impact functional microorganisms in nutrient removal and carbon cycle in wastewater treatment plants. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5398–5398. 91 indexed citations

Džunková, Mária, Frederik Schulz, Simon Roux, et al.. (2020). Insights into the dynamics between viruses and their hosts in a hot spring microbial mat. The ISME Journal. 14(10). 2527–2541. 47 indexed citations

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Páez-Espino, David, Pablo I. Nikel, Max Chavarría, & Vı́ctor de Lorenzo. (2020). ArsH protects Pseudomonas putida from oxidative damage caused by exposure to arsenic. Environmental Microbiology. 22(6). 2230–2242. 31 indexed citations

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Allen, Michelle A., Timothy J. Williams, Alyce M. Hancock, et al.. (2020). Influence of the polar light cycle on seasonal dynamics of an Antarctic lake microbial community. Microbiome. 8(1). 116–116. 46 indexed citations

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Wright, Addison V., Joy Y. Wang, David Burstein, et al.. (2019). A Functional Mini-Integrase in a Two-Protein Type V-C CRISPR System. Molecular Cell. 73(4). 727–737.e3. 16 indexed citations

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Harrington, Lucas B., David Burstein, Janice S. Chen, et al.. (2018). Programmed DNA destruction by miniature CRISPR-Cas14 enzymes. Science. 362(6416). 839–842. 895 indexed citations breakdown →

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Duerkop, Breck A., Manuel Kleiner, David Páez-Espino, et al.. (2018). Murine colitis reveals a disease-associated bacteriophage community. Nature Microbiology. 3(9). 1023–1031. 121 indexed citations

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Harrington, Lucas B., David Páez-Espino, Brett T. Staahl, et al.. (2017). A thermostable Cas9 with increased lifetime in human plasma. Nature Communications. 8(1). 1424–1424. 141 indexed citations

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Huntemann, Marcel, Natalia Ivanova, Konstantinos Mavromatis, et al.. (2016). The standard operating procedure of the DOE-JGI Metagenome Annotation Pipeline (MAP v.4). Standards in Genomic Sciences. 11(1). 93 indexed citations

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Eloe‐Fadrosh, Emiley A., David Páez-Espino, Jessica K. Jarett, et al.. (2016). Global metagenomic survey reveals a new bacterial candidate phylum in geothermal springs. Nature Communications. 7(1). 10476–10476. 95 indexed citations

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Páez-Espino, David, Itai Sharon, Wesley Morovic, et al.. (2015). CRISPR Immunity Drives Rapid Phage Genome Evolution in Streptococcus thermophilus. mBio. 6(2). 160 indexed citations

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Páez-Espino, David, Max Chavarría, & Vı́ctor de Lorenzo. (2015). The two paralogue phoN (phosphinothricin acetyl transferase) genes of P seudomonas putida encode functionally different proteins. Environmental Microbiology. 17(9). 3330–3340. 6 indexed citations

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Zafra, Olga, Sofı́a Fraile, Carlos Gutiérrez, et al.. (2011). Monitoring biodegradative enzymes with nanobodies raised in Camelus dromedarius with mixtures of catabolic proteins. Environmental Microbiology. 13(4). 960–974. 22 indexed citations

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