Francisco Rodríguez‐Valera

26.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
252 papers, 17.7k citations indexed

About

Francisco Rodríguez‐Valera is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Francisco Rodríguez‐Valera has authored 252 papers receiving a total of 17.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 188 papers in Molecular Biology, 188 papers in Ecology and 25 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Francisco Rodríguez‐Valera's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (161 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (152 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (59 papers). Francisco Rodríguez‐Valera is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (161 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (152 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (59 papers). Francisco Rodríguez‐Valera collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United States and Russia. Francisco Rodríguez‐Valera's co-authors include Rohit Ghai, Purificación López‐García, Ana-Belén Martín-Cuadrado, Guadalupe Juez, António Ventosa, David Moreira, F. Ruiz‐Berraquero, Silvia G. Acinas, Carlos Pedrós‐Alió and A. Ramos‐Cormenzana and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Francisco Rodríguez‐Valera

249 papers receiving 17.3k citations

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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.

Comparison of prokaryotic diversity at offshore oceanic locations reveals a different microbiota in the Mediterranean Sea

2006 1.2k citations Sergio G. Bartual, Francisco Rodríguez‐Valera et al. profile →
Unexpected diversity of small eukaryotes in deep-sea Antarctic plankton

2001 701 citations Purificación López‐García, Francisco Rodríguez‐Valera et al. profile →
Development of a Multilocus Sequence Typing Scheme for Characterization of Clinical Isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii

2005 530 citations Sergio G. Bartual, Harald Seifert et al. Journal of Clinical Microbiology profile →
Numerical Taxonomy of Moderately Halophilic Gram-negative Rods

1982 449 citations Francisco Rodríguez‐Valera et al. Microbiology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Francisco Rodríguez‐Valera Spain	69	11.3k	11.1k	2.2k	1.7k	1.5k	252	17.7k
William B. Whitman United States	68	15.5k 1.4×	12.2k 1.1×	3.5k 1.6×	3.2k 1.9×	1.4k 0.9×	285	26.1k
Tanja Woyke United States	74	11.6k 1.0×	10.5k 0.9×	2.2k 1.0×	4.3k 2.6×	1.1k 0.7×	384	21.3k
Aharon Oren Israel	75	14.4k 1.3×	12.5k 1.1×	4.0k 1.8×	2.7k 1.6×	1.6k 1.1×	641	25.2k
Loren Hauser United States	39	8.1k 0.7×	6.4k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	1.8k 1.1×	630 0.4×	77	14.1k
Miriam Land United States	43	8.7k 0.8×	6.5k 0.6×	1.2k 0.6×	2.3k 1.4×	568 0.4×	108	15.3k
Rolf Daniel Germany	66	8.5k 0.8×	6.0k 0.5×	1.2k 0.5×	2.7k 1.6×	742 0.5×	444	16.8k
Ramon Rosselló‐Móra Spain	57	15.7k 1.4×	11.6k 1.0×	2.3k 1.0×	4.0k 2.4×	868 0.6×	208	24.2k
Martin F. Polz United States	58	6.6k 0.6×	7.5k 0.7×	910 0.4×	1.5k 0.9×	1.6k 1.1×	134	14.0k
Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis United States	58	12.9k 1.1×	10.6k 1.0×	2.1k 1.0×	3.5k 2.1×	675 0.5×	211	22.7k
Brian C. Thomas United States	60	9.6k 0.8×	7.7k 0.7×	2.5k 1.1×	1.8k 1.1×	422 0.3×	116	15.1k

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Cabello‐Yeves, Pedro J., et al.. (2025). The type IV secretion system of Patescibacteria is homologous to the bacterial monoderm conjugation machinery. Microbial Genomics. 11(5). 1 indexed citations

Haro-Moreno, José M., et al.. (2025). Extensive paralogism in the environmental pangenome: a key factor in the ecological success of natural SAR11 populations. Microbiome. 13(1). 41–41. 3 indexed citations

Haro-Moreno, José M., et al.. (2025). Large diversity in the O-chain biosynthetic cluster within populations of Pelagibacterales. mBio. 16(3). e0345524–e0345524. 2 indexed citations

Haro-Moreno, José M., et al.. (2024). Microdiversity in marine pelagic ammonia‐oxidizing archaeal populations in a Mediterranean long‐read metagenome. Environmental Microbiology. 26(8). e16684–e16684. 4 indexed citations

Haro-Moreno, José M., Mario López‐Pérez, Alexey Alekseev, et al.. (2023). Flotillin-associated rhodopsin (FArhodopsin), a widespread paralog of proteorhodopsin in aquatic bacteria with streamlined genomes. mSystems. 8(3). e0000823–e0000823. 2 indexed citations

Wietz, Matthias, Mario López‐Pérez, Daniel Sher, Steven J. Biller, & Francisco Rodríguez‐Valera. (2022). Microbe Profile: Alteromonas macleodii − a widespread, fast-responding, ‘interactive’ marine bacterium. Microbiology. 168(11). 6 indexed citations

Roda‐Garcia, Juan J., et al.. (2021). Phylogenomics of SAR116 Clade Reveals Two Subclades with Different Evolutionary Trajectories and an Important Role in the Ocean Sulfur Cycle. mSystems. 6(5). e0094421–e0094421. 19 indexed citations

Cabello‐Yeves, Pedro J., Cristiana Callieri, Antonio Picazo, et al.. (2021). The microbiome of the Black Sea water column analyzed by shotgun and genome centric metagenomics. Environmental Microbiome. 16(1). 5–5. 41 indexed citations

Kovalev, Kirill, Roman Astashkin, Alexey Alekseev, et al.. (2020). High-resolution structural insights into the heliorhodopsin family. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(8). 4131–4141. 58 indexed citations

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Hou, Shengwei, Mario López‐Pérez, Ulrike Pfreundt, et al.. (2018). Benefit from decline: the primary transcriptome of Alteromonas macleodii str. Te101 during Trichodesmium demise. The ISME Journal. 12(4). 981–996. 27 indexed citations

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Melnikov, Igor, Vitaly Polovinkin, Kirill Kovalev, et al.. (2017). Fast iodide-SAD phasing for high-throughput membrane protein structure determination. Science Advances. 3(5). e1602952–e1602952. 33 indexed citations

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Vavourakis, Charlotte D., Rohit Ghai, Francisco Rodríguez‐Valera, et al.. (2016). Metagenomic Insights into the Uncultured Diversity and Physiology of Microbes in Four Hypersaline Soda Lake Brines. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7. 211–211. 140 indexed citations

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Martín-Cuadrado, Ana-Belén, Inmaculada García-Heredia, R. García López, et al.. (2014). A new class of marine Euryarchaeota group II from the mediterranean deep chlorophyll maximum. The ISME Journal. 9(7). 1619–1634. 65 indexed citations

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Martín-Cuadrado, Ana-Belén, Purificación López‐García, David Moreira, et al.. (2007). Metagenomics of the Deep Mediterranean, a Warm Bathypelagic Habitat. PLoS ONE. 2(9). e914–e914. 170 indexed citations

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Bartual, Sergio G., et al.. (2005). Development of a Multilocus Sequence Typing Scheme for Characterization of Clinical Isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 43(9). 4382–4390. 530 indexed citations breakdown →

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López‐García, Purificación, Céline Brochier‐Armanet, David Moreira, & Francisco Rodríguez‐Valera. (2003). Comparative analysis of a genome fragment of an uncultivated mesopelagic crenarchaeote reveals multiple horizontal gene transfers. Environmental Microbiology. 6(1). 19–34. 66 indexed citations

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Rodríguez‐Valera, Francisco, et al.. (1992). Halobacteria as producers of polyhydroxyalkanoates. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 103(2-4). 181–186. 60 indexed citations

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Meseguer, Inmaculada & Francisco Rodríguez‐Valera. (1985). Production and purification of halocin H4. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 28(2). 177–182. 47 indexed citations

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Juez, Guadalupe & Francisco Rodríguez‐Valera. (1984). A mutant ofHalobacterium halobiumwith constitutive production of bacteriorhodopsin. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 23(2-3). 167–170. 2 indexed citations

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Rodríguez‐Valera, Francisco. (1982). Effect of light on growing and starved populations of extremely halophilic bacteria. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 14(3). 155–158. 1 indexed citations

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