Elvira Romero

2.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
43 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Elvira Romero is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Elvira Romero has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Plant Science and 6 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Elvira Romero's work include Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization (14 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (9 papers) and Enzyme-mediated dye degradation (6 papers). Elvira Romero is often cited by papers focused on Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization (14 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (9 papers) and Enzyme-mediated dye degradation (6 papers). Elvira Romero collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Italy and United States. Elvira Romero's co-authors include Marco W. Fraaije, Andrea Mattevi, J. Rúben Gómez Castellanos, Giovanni Gadda, Martin A. Hayes, Sabine L. Flitsch, Nicholas J. Turner, Sarah L. Lovelock, Anthony P. Green and Haruka Niikura and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Elvira Romero

40 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Biocatalysis

2021 455 citations Elizabeth L. Bell, William Finnigan et al. Nature Reviews Methods Primers profile →
Same Substrate, Many Reactions: Oxygen Activation in Flavoenzymes

2018 334 citations Elvira Romero, J. Rúben Gómez Castellanos et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Elvira Romero Netherlands	19	1.0k	364	281	217	200	43	1.8k
Diederik J. Opperman South Africa	24	1.3k 1.2×	355 1.0×	437 1.6×	193 0.9×	341 1.7×	59	2.0k
Rachel Codd Australia	28	868 0.8×	557 1.5×	201 0.7×	247 1.1×	466 2.3×	87	2.8k
Lian Wu China	23	876 0.8×	267 0.7×	156 0.6×	143 0.7×	105 0.5×	58	1.8k
Ge Qu China	24	1.8k 1.7×	332 0.9×	327 1.2×	281 1.3×	131 0.7×	92	2.4k
Karl Fisher United Kingdom	31	1.3k 1.2×	265 0.7×	336 1.2×	340 1.6×	506 2.5×	84	2.9k
Margarida Archer Portugal	24	1.1k 1.0×	166 0.5×	130 0.5×	263 1.2×	416 2.1×	66	2.1k
Volker Brecht Germany	18	794 0.8×	347 1.0×	103 0.4×	148 0.7×	264 1.3×	22	1.6k
Mark S. Dunstan United Kingdom	25	1.5k 1.4×	271 0.7×	202 0.7×	88 0.4×	78 0.4×	39	2.1k
Paola Pedrini Italy	27	822 0.8×	759 2.1×	240 0.9×	88 0.4×	133 0.7×	108	2.0k
Andreas Kiener Switzerland	19	2.3k 2.2×	429 1.2×	503 1.8×	401 1.8×	181 0.9×	35	2.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Elvira Romero

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Elvira Romero

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All Works

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Vicente, Marta de, et al.. (2026). Recent advances in microbial production of odd-chain fatty acids. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology. 42(1). 40–40.

Bell, Elizabeth L., William Finnigan, Scott P. France, et al.. (2021). Biocatalysis. Nature Reviews Methods Primers. 1(1). 455 indexed citations breakdown →

Romero, Elvira, Bethan S. Jones, Martin A. Hayes, et al.. (2021). Titelbild: Enzymkatalysierte späte Modifizierungen: Besser spät als nie (Angew. Chem. 31/2021). Angewandte Chemie. 133(31). 16853–16853. 1 indexed citations

Romero, Elvira, Bethan S. Jones, Martin A. Hayes, et al.. (2021). Enzymkatalysierte späte Modifizierungen: Besser spät als nie. Angewandte Chemie. 133(31). 16962–16993. 12 indexed citations

Romero, Elvira, Bethan S. Jones, Martin A. Hayes, et al.. (2021). Enzymatic Late‐Stage Modifications: Better Late Than Never. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(31). 16824–16855. 108 indexed citations

Romero, Elvira, et al.. (2021). Whole-cell screening of oxidative enzymes using genetically encoded sensors. Chemical Science. 12(44). 14766–14772. 8 indexed citations

David, Florian, A. M. Davis, Michael Gossing, et al.. (2021). A Perspective on Synthetic Biology in Drug Discovery and Development—Current Impact and Future Opportunities. SLAS DISCOVERY. 26(5). 581–603. 22 indexed citations

Romero, Elvira, Simone Savino, Marco W. Fraaije, & Nikola Lončar. (2020). Mechanistic and Crystallographic Studies of Azoreductase AzoA from Bacillus wakoensis A01. ACS Chemical Biology. 15(2). 504–512. 16 indexed citations

Pickl, Mathias, Elvira Romero, Christoph K. Winkler, et al.. (2018). Kinetic Resolution ofsec‐Thiols by Enantioselective Oxidation with Rationally Engineered 5‐(Hydroxymethyl)furfural Oxidase. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 57(11). 2864–2868. 16 indexed citations

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Goldman, Amy, Emily Graham, Alex R. Crump, et al.. (2017). Carbon cycling at the aquatic-terrestrial interface is linked toparafluvial hyporheic zone inundation history. 2 indexed citations

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Goldman, Amy, Emily Graham, Alex R. Crump, et al.. (2017). Biogeochemical cycling at the aquatic–terrestrial interface is linked to parafluvial hyporheic zone inundation history. Biogeosciences. 14(18). 4229–4241. 24 indexed citations

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Ewing, Tom A., Quoc‐Thai Nguyen, Gudrun Gygli, et al.. (2017). Two tyrosine residues, Tyr-108 and Tyr-503, are responsible for the deprotonation of phenolic substrates in vanillyl-alcohol oxidase. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 292(35). 14668–14679. 18 indexed citations

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Huang, Lei, Elvira Romero, Anna K. Ressmann, et al.. (2017). Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide‐Dependent Redox‐Neutral Convergent Cascade for Lactonizations with Type II Flavin‐Containing Monooxygenase. Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis. 359(12). 2142–2148. 26 indexed citations

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Beek, Hugo L. van, Elvira Romero, & Marco W. Fraaije. (2016). Engineering Cyclohexanone Monooxygenase for the Production of Methyl Propanoate. ACS Chemical Biology. 12(1). 291–299. 30 indexed citations

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Romero, Elvira, J. Rúben Gómez Castellanos, Andrea Mattevi, & Marco W. Fraaije. (2016). Characterization and Crystal Structure of a Robust Cyclohexanone Monooxygenase. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 55(51). 15852–15855. 103 indexed citations

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Romero, Elvira & Giovanni Gadda. (2014). Alcohol oxidation by flavoenzymes. BioMolecular Concepts. 5(4). 299–318. 35 indexed citations

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Robinson, Reeder M., S. Franceschini, Pedro Rodríguez, et al.. (2014). Arg279 is the key regulator of coenzyme selectivity in the flavin-dependent ornithine monooxygenase SidA. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics. 1844(4). 778–784. 17 indexed citations

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Romero, Elvira, Patrícia Ferreira, Ángel T. Martı́nez, & Marı́a Jesús Martı́nez. (2008). New oxidase from Bjerkandera arthroconidial anamorph that oxidizes both phenolic and nonphenolic benzyl alcohols. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics. 1794(4). 689–697. 36 indexed citations

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Romero, Elvira, et al.. (2007). An anamorph of the white-rot fungusBjerkandera adustacapable of colonizing and degrading compact disc components. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 275(1). 122–129. 26 indexed citations

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Fontana, Roberta, Giuliana Lo Cascio, E. Giacobone, et al.. (2002). Resistance Surveillance in Italy: Four-Year Results from the MYSTIC Program. Journal of Chemotherapy. 14(4). 323–331. 9 indexed citations

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