Francisco Barona‐Gómez

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
61 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Francisco Barona‐Gómez is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pharmacology and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Francisco Barona‐Gómez has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Molecular Biology, 26 papers in Pharmacology and 11 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Francisco Barona‐Gómez's work include Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (26 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (21 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (13 papers). Francisco Barona‐Gómez is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (26 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (21 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (13 papers). Francisco Barona‐Gómez collaborates with scholars based in Mexico, United States and United Kingdom. Francisco Barona‐Gómez's co-authors include Gregory L. Challis, Pablo Cruz‐Morales, Nelly Sélem‐Mójica, Hilda E. Ramos‐Aboites, Peter J. Derrick, David A. Hodgson, Anastassios E. Giannakopulos, Satria A. Kautsar, Anthony W. Goering and Jorge C. Navarro-Muñoz and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Journal of Biological Chemistry and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Francisco Barona‐Gómez

61 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

A computational framework to explore large-scale biosynthetic diversity

2019 590 citations Jorge C. Navarro-Muñoz, Nelly Sélem‐Mójica et al. Nature Chemical Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Francisco Barona‐Gómez Mexico	23	1.6k	1.2k	428	414	252	61	2.4k
Sébastien Rigali Belgium	31	1.9k 1.1×	1.3k 1.1×	751 1.8×	562 1.4×	348 1.4×	74	3.0k
Flavia Marinelli Italy	33	1.9k 1.2×	1.2k 1.0×	598 1.4×	654 1.6×	503 2.0×	127	3.3k
Aiying Li China	23	1.2k 0.7×	748 0.6×	351 0.8×	390 0.9×	197 0.8×	77	1.9k
Emmanuel L. C. de los Santos United Kingdom	12	1.5k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	385 0.9×	359 0.9×	263 1.0×	18	2.1k
Till F. Schäberle Germany	27	885 0.5×	878 0.7×	241 0.6×	569 1.4×	288 1.1×	108	2.1k
Xiaoying Bian China	28	1.9k 1.2×	1.2k 1.0×	380 0.9×	444 1.1×	218 0.9×	91	2.7k
Marc G. Chevrette United States	20	1.4k 0.9×	994 0.8×	439 1.0×	376 0.9×	404 1.6×	42	2.3k
Mamoru Komatsu Japan	22	1.6k 1.0×	1.3k 1.1×	205 0.5×	387 0.9×	122 0.5×	45	2.2k
John Cullum Germany	29	2.0k 1.2×	1.1k 0.9×	718 1.7×	357 0.9×	566 2.2×	106	2.8k
Margherita Sosio Italy	31	2.2k 1.3×	1.9k 1.6×	360 0.8×	584 1.4×	411 1.6×	98	3.2k

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Salzman, Shayla, et al.. (2025). Chemical ecology of symbioses in cycads, an ancient plant lineage. New Phytologist. 246(4). 1494–1504. 4 indexed citations

Sélem‐Mójica, Nelly, Alberto Torres, Angélica Cibrián‐Jaramillo, et al.. (2024). A host shift as the origin of tomato bacterial canker caused by Clavibacter michiganensis. Microbial Genomics. 10(10). 3 indexed citations

D’Agostino, Paul M., et al.. (2024). Phylometagenomics of cycad coralloid roots reveals shared symbiotic signals. Microbial Genomics. 10(3). 3 indexed citations

Gutiérrez-García, Karina, Shayla Salzman, Hilda E. Ramos‐Aboites, et al.. (2023). Gut microbiomes of cycad-feeding insects tolerant to β-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA) are rich in siderophore biosynthesis. ISME Communications. 3(1). 122–122. 5 indexed citations

Sánchez, Susan, Zhao Chen, Rebecca Bell, et al.. (2022). Genomic Epidemiology of Salmonella enterica Circulating in Surface Waters Used in Agriculture and Aquaculture in Central Mexico. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 88(5). e0214921–e0214921. 14 indexed citations

Sélem‐Mójica, Nelly, et al.. (2021). ActDES – a curated Actinobacterial Database for Evolutionary Studies. Microbial Genomics. 7(1). 3 indexed citations

Barona‐Gómez, Francisco, et al.. (2021). Microbial Diversity in Cultivated and Feral Vanilla Vanilla planifolia Orchids Affected by Stem and Rot Disease. Microbial Ecology. 84(3). 821–833. 13 indexed citations

Barona‐Gómez, Francisco, Luis Delaye, Fabien Plisson, et al.. (2021). Phylogenomics and population genomics of SARS-CoV-2 in Mexico during the pre-vaccination stage reveals variants of interest B.1.1.28.4 and B.1.1.222 or B.1.1.519 and the nucleocapsid mutation S194L associated with symptoms. Microbial Genomics. 7(11). 17 indexed citations

Gutiérrez-García, Karina, Polpass Arul Jose, Thangadurai Thinesh, et al.. (2021). Desert Environments Facilitate Unique Evolution of Biosynthetic Potential in Streptomyces. Molecules. 26(3). 588–588. 19 indexed citations

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Chevrette, Marc G., et al.. (2021). The confluence of big data and evolutionary genome mining for the discovery of natural products. Natural Product Reports. 38(11). 2024–2040. 30 indexed citations

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Vovides, Andrew P., et al.. (2019). Unlocking a high bacterial diversity in the coralloid root microbiome from the cycad genus Dioon. PLoS ONE. 14(2). e0211271–e0211271. 32 indexed citations

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Navarro-Muñoz, Jorge C., Nelly Sélem‐Mójica, Michael W. Mullowney, et al.. (2019). A computational framework to explore large-scale biosynthetic diversity. Nature Chemical Biology. 16(1). 60–68. 590 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cruz‐Morales, Pablo, Nelly Sélem‐Mójica, Lorena T. Fernández‐Martínez, et al.. (2018). Expanding Primary Metabolism Helps Generate the Metabolic Robustness To Facilitate Antibiotic Biosynthesis in Streptomyces. mBio. 9(1). 33 indexed citations

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Gutiérrez-García, Karina, Hilda E. Ramos‐Aboites, Nelly Sélem‐Mójica, et al.. (2018). Cycad Coralloid Roots Contain Bacterial Communities Including Cyanobacteria and Caulobacter spp. That Encode Niche-Specific Biosynthetic Gene Clusters. Genome Biology and Evolution. 11(1). 319–334. 54 indexed citations

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Navarro-Muñoz, Jorge C., Nelly Sélem‐Mójica, Michael W. Mullowney, et al.. (2018). Genomic data for "A computational framework to explore large-scale biosynthetic diversity". Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

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Noda‐García, Lianet, María C. Ávila‐Arcos, Gabriela M. Montero-Morán, et al.. (2015). Insights into the evolution of enzyme substrate promiscuity after the discovery of (βα)8 isomerase evolutionary intermediates from a diverse metagenome. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 15(1). 107–107. 13 indexed citations

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Espinosa‐Cantú, Adriana, Diana Ascencio, Francisco Barona‐Gómez, & Alexander DeLuna. (2015). Gene duplication and the evolution of moonlighting proteins. Frontiers in Genetics. 6. 227–227. 72 indexed citations

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Ochoa‐Leyva, Adrián, et al.. (2011). Exploring the Structure–Function Loop Adaptability of a (β/α)8-Barrel Enzyme through Loop Swapping and Hinge Variability. Journal of Molecular Biology. 411(1). 143–157. 35 indexed citations

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Wright, Helena, Lianet Noda‐García, Adrián Ochoa‐Leyva, et al.. (2007). The structure/function relationship of a dual-substrate (βα)8-isomerase. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 365(1). 16–21. 14 indexed citations

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Barona‐Gómez, Francisco & David A. Hodgson. (2003). Occurrence of a putative ancient‐like isomerase involved in histidine and tryptophan biosynthesis. EMBO Reports. 4(3). 296–300. 71 indexed citations

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