Ester Ballana

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
76 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Ester Ballana is a scholar working on Virology, Infectious Diseases and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ester Ballana has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Virology, 30 papers in Infectious Diseases and 26 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Ester Ballana's work include HIV Research and Treatment (41 papers), HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment (19 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (16 papers). Ester Ballana is often cited by papers focused on HIV Research and Treatment (41 papers), HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment (19 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (16 papers). Ester Ballana collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United States and Italy. Ester Ballana's co-authors include José A. Esté, Bonaventura Clotet, Roger Badía, Eva Riveira‐Muñoz, Eduardo Pauls, Marc Permanyer, Xavier Estivill, Edurne García-Vidal, Ifeanyi Jude Ezeonwumelu and Alba Ruiz and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Ester Ballana

75 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Transmission of COVID-19 in 282 clusters in Catalonia, Spain: a cohort study

2021 195 citations Ester Ballana, Bonaventura Clotet et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ester Ballana Spain	28	752	705	653	568	351	76	2.0k
Maya F. Kotturi United States	19	79 0.1×	470 0.7×	432 0.7×	724 1.3×	410 1.2×	37	1.6k
Jun Lai United States	22	2.8k 3.7×	499 0.7×	2.0k 3.0×	940 1.7×	584 1.7×	37	3.3k
Hashim Ali Italy	16	244 0.3×	963 1.4×	549 0.8×	195 0.3×	154 0.4×	35	1.8k
Silke Paust United States	22	118 0.2×	461 0.7×	201 0.3×	2.1k 3.8×	320 0.9×	44	3.0k
Alex A. Compton United States	19	364 0.5×	353 0.5×	518 0.8×	688 1.2×	351 1.0×	27	1.4k
Ricardo Soto‐Rifo Chile	26	272 0.4×	1.3k 1.8×	401 0.6×	263 0.5×	132 0.4×	64	2.0k
Heiner Schaal Germany	29	558 0.7×	1.8k 2.6×	661 1.0×	346 0.6×	222 0.6×	102	3.2k
Andrew N. Harman Australia	26	846 1.1×	500 0.7×	334 0.5×	1.3k 2.2×	545 1.6×	52	2.1k
David F. Boyd United States	15	149 0.2×	903 1.3×	355 0.5×	717 1.3×	325 0.9×	30	1.7k
Andrew W. Tai United States	29	160 0.2×	1.2k 1.7×	351 0.5×	326 0.6×	613 1.7×	55	2.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ester Ballana

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All Works

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Tarrés-Freixas, Ferran, Eva Riveira‐Muñoz, Dàlia Raϊch‐Regué, et al.. (2025). A human-ACE2 knock-in mouse model for SARS-CoV-2 infection recapitulates respiratory disorders but avoids neurological disease associated with the transgenic K18-hACE2 model. mBio. 16(5). e0072025–e0072025. 3 indexed citations

García-Vidal, Edurne, Eva Riveira‐Muñoz, Elisabet García, et al.. (2024). Nucleotide-Binding Oligomerization Domain 1 (NOD1) Agonists Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Human Lung Epithelial Cells through Harnessing the Innate Immune Response. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25(10). 5318–5318. 1 indexed citations

Riveira‐Muñoz, Eva, Edurne García-Vidal, Manuel Bañó‐Polo, et al.. (2023). Cetylpyridinium Chloride-Containing Mouthwashes Show Virucidal Activity against Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1. Viruses. 15(7). 1433–1433. 5 indexed citations

Ezeonwumelu, Ifeanyi Jude, Edurne García-Vidal, Eva Riveira‐Muñoz, et al.. (2022). Pharmacological Inhibition of IKK to Tackle Latency and Hyperinflammation in Chronic HIV-1 Infection. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(23). 15000–15000. 1 indexed citations

Riveira‐Muñoz, Eva, Clara Barrios, Vanesa Palau, et al.. (2021). SARS-CoV-2 Infection Modulates ACE2 Function and Subsequent Inflammatory Responses in Swabs and Plasma of COVID-19 Patients. Viruses. 13(9). 1715–1715. 15 indexed citations

Felip, Eudald, et al.. (2021). Cyclin-dependent Kinases as Emerging Targets for Developing Novel Antiviral Therapeutics. Trends in Microbiology. 29(9). 836–848. 32 indexed citations

Felip, Eudald, Clara Pérez‐Mañá, Mireia Margelí Vila, et al.. (2019). New Drugs, Old Toxicities: Pneumonitis Related to Palbociclib – A Case Report. Breast Care. 15(5). 548–552. 6 indexed citations

Bray, Mike, Graciela Andreï, Ester Ballana, et al.. (2018). Meeting report: 31st International Conference on Antiviral Research. Antiviral Research. 158. 88–102. 8 indexed citations

Badía, Roger, Ester Ballana, José A. Esté, & Eva Riveira‐Muñoz. (2017). Antiviral treatment strategies based on gene silencing and genome editing. Current Opinion in Virology. 24. 46–54. 12 indexed citations

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Badía, Roger, Maria Pujantell, Eva Riveira‐Muñoz, et al.. (2016). The G1/S Specific Cyclin D2 Is a Regulator of HIV-1 Restriction in Non-proliferating Cells. PLoS Pathogens. 12(8). e1005829–e1005829. 34 indexed citations

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Badía, Roger, Eva Riveira‐Muñoz, Maria Pujantell, et al.. (2015). Inhibition of herpes simplex virus type 1 by the CDK6 inhibitor PD-0332991 (palbociclib) through the control of SAMHD1. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 71(2). 387–394. 36 indexed citations

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Ballana, Ester & José A. Esté. (2015). SAMHD1: At the Crossroads of Cell Proliferation, Immune Responses, and Virus Restriction. Trends in Microbiology. 23(11). 680–692. 73 indexed citations

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Ruiz, Alba, Eduardo Pauls, Roger Badía, et al.. (2014). Characterization of the Influence of Mediator Complex in HIV-1 Transcription. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289(40). 27665–27676. 25 indexed citations

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Pauls, Eduardo, Roger Badía, Javier Torres‐Torronteras, et al.. (2014). Palbociclib, a selective inhibitor of cyclin-dependent kinase4/6, blocks HIV-1 reverse transcription through the control of sterile α motif and HD domain-containing protein-1 (SAMHD1) activity. AIDS. 28(15). 2213–2222. 44 indexed citations

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Permanyer, Marc, Eduardo Pauls, Roger Badía, José A. Esté, & Ester Ballana. (2013). The Cortical Actin Determines Different Susceptibility of Naïve and Memory CD4+ T Cells to HIV-1 Cell-to-Cell Transmission and Infection. PLoS ONE. 8(11). e79221–e79221. 7 indexed citations

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Ballana, Ester, Jing Wang, F. Venail, et al.. (2008). Efficient and specific transduction of cochlear supporting cells by adeno-associated virus serotype 5. Neuroscience Letters. 442(2). 134–139. 27 indexed citations

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Moncunill, Gemma, Mercedes Armand‐Ugón, Imma Clotet‐Codina, et al.. (2008). Anti-HIV Activity and Resistance Profile of the CXC Chemokine Receptor 4 Antagonist POL3026. Molecular Pharmacology. 73(4). 1264–1273. 44 indexed citations

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Ballana, Ester, et al.. (2007). Inter-population variability of DEFA3 gene absence: correlation with haplotype structure and population variability. BMC Genomics. 8(1). 14–14. 22 indexed citations

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Guipponi, Michel, Justin Tan, Daeho Park, et al.. (2007). An integrated genetic and functional analysis of the role of type II transmembrane serine proteases (TMPRSSs) in hearing loss. Human Mutation. 29(1). 130–141. 58 indexed citations

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Ballana, Ester, Josep M. Mercader, Nathan Fischel‐Ghodsian, & Xavier Estivill. (2007). MRPS18CP2 alleles and DEFA3absence as putative chromosome 8p23.1 modifiers of hearing loss due to mtDNA mutation A1555G in the 12S rRNA gene. BMC Medical Genetics. 8(1). 81–81. 8 indexed citations

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