Federico Abascal

14.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
37 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Federico Abascal is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Federico Abascal has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Genetics and 7 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Federico Abascal's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (12 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (9 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (7 papers). Federico Abascal is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (12 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (9 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (7 papers). Federico Abascal collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United Kingdom and United States. Federico Abascal's co-authors include Rafael Zardoya, David Posada, Alfonso Valencia, Iñigo Martincorena, Peter J. Campbell, Iker Irisarri, Michael R. Stratton, Andrew Lawson, Philip H. Jones and Krishnaa T. Mahbubani and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Federico Abascal

36 papers receiving 5.2k 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.

ProtTest: selection of best-fit models of protein evolution

2005 2.7k citations Federico Abascal, Rafael Zardoya et al. Computer applications in the biosciences profile →
Somatic mutant clones colonize the human esophagus with age

2018 651 citations Iñigo Martincorena, Joanna C. Fowler et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Federico Abascal Spain	23	3.2k	920	836	795	646	37	5.3k
Nives Škunca Switzerland	12	3.1k 1.0×	1.2k 1.3×	772 0.9×	504 0.6×	399 0.6×	15	5.3k
Andrew Whitwham United Kingdom	4	3.6k 1.1×	1.5k 1.6×	1.8k 2.2×	865 1.1×	553 0.9×	4	6.8k
John Marshall United Kingdom	6	3.5k 1.1×	1.4k 1.6×	1.8k 2.2×	829 1.0×	562 0.9×	11	6.6k
Martin Pollard United States	8	3.5k 1.1×	1.4k 1.6×	1.9k 2.2×	852 1.1×	563 0.9×	12	6.7k
Valeriu Ohan United Kingdom	2	3.5k 1.1×	1.4k 1.5×	1.8k 2.1×	829 1.0×	550 0.9×	2	6.5k
Robert M. Davies United Kingdom	8	3.8k 1.2×	1.5k 1.6×	2.0k 2.3×	851 1.1×	569 0.9×	11	6.9k
Max Käller Sweden	12	2.6k 0.8×	693 0.8×	746 0.9×	679 0.9×	470 0.7×	31	5.0k
Måns Magnusson Sweden	6	2.4k 0.8×	636 0.7×	713 0.9×	640 0.8×	437 0.7×	7	4.7k
Konstantin Okonechnikov Germany	10	2.1k 0.7×	829 0.9×	823 1.0×	641 0.8×	302 0.5×	30	4.2k
Ting‐Fung Chan Hong Kong	41	3.3k 1.0×	947 1.0×	657 0.8×	649 0.8×	906 1.4×	189	5.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Federico Abascal

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Jiang, Yang, Moritz J. Przybilla, Linda V. Bakker, et al.. (2025). Tissue-specific mutagenesis from endogenous guanine damage is suppressed by Polκ and DNA repair. Nature Communications. 17(1). 436–436.

Ólafsson, Sigurgeir, Elke Rodríguez, Andrew Lawson, et al.. (2023). Effects of psoriasis and psoralen exposure on the somatic mutation landscape of the skin. Nature Genetics. 55(11). 1892–1900. 4 indexed citations

Mazouzi, Abdelghani, Sarah C. Moser, Federico Abascal, et al.. (2023). FIRRM/C1orf112 mediates resolution of homologous recombination intermediates in response to DNA interstrand crosslinks. Science Advances. 9(22). eadf4409–eadf4409. 10 indexed citations

Lobón, Irene, Manuel Solís-Moruno, David Juan, et al.. (2022). Somatic Mutations Detected in Parkinson Disease Could Affect Genes With a Role in Synaptic and Neuronal Processes. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 851039–851039. 9 indexed citations

Robinson, Philip S., Tim Coorens, Claire Palles, et al.. (2021). Increased somatic mutation burdens in normal human cells due to defective DNA polymerases. Nature Genetics. 53(10). 1434–1442. 94 indexed citations

Robinson, Philip S., Tim Coorens, Claire Palles, et al.. (2021). Increased somatic mutation burdens in normal human cells due to defective DNA polymerases. EUR Research Repository (Erasmus University Rotterdam). 1 indexed citations

Gómez, Laura Martínez, Fernando Campo del Pozo, Thomas Walsh, Federico Abascal, & Michael L. Tress. (2021). The clinical importance of tandem exon duplication-derived substitutions. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(14). 8232–8246. 10 indexed citations

Volkova, Nadezda, Bettina Meier, Víctor González‐Huici, et al.. (2020). Mutational signatures are jointly shaped by DNA damage and repair. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2169–2169. 137 indexed citations

Brunner, Simon, Nicola D. Roberts, Luke A. Wylie, et al.. (2019). Somatic mutations and clonal dynamics in healthy and cirrhotic human liver. Nature. 574(7779). 538–542. 218 indexed citations

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Martincorena, Iñigo, Joanna C. Fowler, Agnieszka Wabik, et al.. (2018). Somatic mutant clones colonize the human esophagus with age. Science. 362(6417). 911–917. 651 indexed citations breakdown →

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Abascal, Federico, David Juan, Irwin Jungreis, et al.. (2018). Loose ends: almost one in five human genes still have unresolved coding status. Nucleic Acids Research. 46(14). 7070–7084. 39 indexed citations

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Abascal, Federico, Michael L. Tress, & Alfonso Valencia. (2015). The Evolutionary Fate of Alternatively Spliced Homologous Exons after Gene Duplication. Genome Biology and Evolution. 7(6). 1392–1403. 24 indexed citations

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Abascal, Federico, Iakes Ezkurdia, Juan Rodriguez-Rivas, et al.. (2015). Alternatively Spliced Homologous Exons Have Ancient Origins and Are Highly Expressed at the Protein Level. PLoS Computational Biology. 11(6). e1004325–e1004325. 54 indexed citations

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Irisarri, Iker, Diego San Mauro, Federico Abascal, et al.. (2012). The origin of modern frogs (Neobatrachia) was accompanied by acceleration in mitochondrial and nuclear substitution rates. BMC Genomics. 13(1). 626–626. 54 indexed citations

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Abascal, Federico & Rafael Zardoya. (2012). Evolutionary analyses of gap junction protein families. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1828(1). 4–14. 102 indexed citations

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Abascal, Federico & Rafael Zardoya. (2012). LRRC8 proteins share a common ancestor with pannexins, and may form hexameric channels involved in cell‐cell communication. BioEssays. 34(7). 551–560. 137 indexed citations

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Abascal, Federico, Rafael Zardoya, & David Posada. (2009). Genetic Code Prediction for Metazoan Mitochondria with GenDecoder. Methods in molecular biology. 537. 233–242. 6 indexed citations

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Nogales‐Cadenas, Rubén, Federico Abascal, Javier Díez Pérez, J.M. Carazo, & A. Pascual-Montano. (2008). CentrosomeDB: a human centrosomal proteins database. Nucleic Acids Research. 37(Database). D175–D180. 58 indexed citations

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Abascal, Federico, Rafael Zardoya, & David Posada. (2005). ProtTest: selection of best-fit models of protein evolution. Computer applications in the biosciences. 21(9). 2104–2105. 2712 indexed citations breakdown →

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Abascal, Federico & Alfonso Valencia. (2003). Automatic annotation of protein function based on family identification. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 53(3). 683–692. 37 indexed citations

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