Iñaki Comas

11.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
114 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Iñaki Comas is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Iñaki Comas has authored 114 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 92 papers in Infectious Diseases, 83 papers in Epidemiology and 36 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Iñaki Comas's work include Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (77 papers), Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (75 papers) and SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (13 papers). Iñaki Comas is often cited by papers focused on Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (77 papers), Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (75 papers) and SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (13 papers). Iñaki Comas collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Iñaki Comas's co-authors include Sébastien Gagneux, Stefan Niemann, Fernando Gónzález‐Candelas, Douglas B. Young, James E. Galagan, Graham Rose, Susanne Homolka, J. Ernst, Peter M. Small and Kristin Kremer and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Iñaki Comas

109 papers receiving 4.2k 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.

Human T cell epitopes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis are evolutionarily hyperconserved

2010 507 citations Iñaki Comas, James E. Galagan et al. Nature Genetics profile →
Whole-genome sequencing of rifampicin-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains identifies compensatory mutations in RNA polymerase genes

2011 410 citations Iñaki Comas, Sònia Borrell et al. Nature Genetics profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Iñaki Comas	3.1k	2.8k	1.5k	1.1k	659	114	4.3k
Karin Eiglmeier	2.5k 0.8×	2.1k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	883 0.8×	412 0.6×	45	3.8k
J van Embden	3.0k 1.0×	3.0k 1.1×	894 0.6×	1.7k 1.5×	274 0.4×	24	4.1k
Janet Fyfe	1.4k 0.5×	2.7k 1.0×	1.0k 0.7×	474 0.4×	420 0.6×	93	4.2k
Angel Cataldi	2.7k 0.9×	2.5k 0.9×	884 0.6×	831 0.8×	160 0.2×	100	3.3k
Desmond M. Collins	2.6k 0.9×	2.9k 1.1×	1000 0.7×	546 0.5×	159 0.2×	82	3.7k
Richard Frothingham	2.1k 0.7×	2.1k 0.7×	610 0.4×	911 0.8×	173 0.3×	62	3.2k
Deborah D. Crane	1.2k 0.4×	1.7k 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	358 0.3×	336 0.5×	38	3.3k
Paul Warrener	1.4k 0.5×	1.3k 0.5×	1.6k 1.1×	195 0.2×	391 0.6×	42	4.2k
Geoffrey W. de Lisle	3.7k 1.2×	3.8k 1.4×	1.0k 0.7×	633 0.6×	146 0.2×	109	5.2k
Diana L. Williams	2.9k 1.0×	2.4k 0.9×	475 0.3×	1.3k 1.2×	163 0.2×	73	3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Iñaki Comas

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Fields of papers citing papers by Iñaki Comas

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Iñaki Comas

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All Works

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Stritt, Christoph, Galo A. Goig, Sònia Borrell, et al.. (2025). Gene conversion and duplication contribute to genetic variation in an outbreak of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Microbial Genomics. 11(5). 1 indexed citations

Ruiz-Rodríguez, Paula, María Alma Bracho, Manuel Guerreiro, et al.. (2025). Genome data artifacts and functional studies of deletion repair in the BA.1 SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. Virus Evolution. 11(1). veaf015–veaf015.

Chiner‐Oms, Álvaro, Ainhoa Lucía, Jesús Blázquez, et al.. (2025). The emergence of resistance to the antiparasitic selamectin in Mycobacterium smegmatis is improbable and contingent on cell wall integrity. Microbiology Spectrum. 13(5). e0233224–e0233224.

Walter, Katharine S., Ted Cohen, Barun Mathema, et al.. (2024). Signatures of transmission in within-host Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex variation: a retrospective genomic epidemiology study. The Lancet Microbe. 6(1). 100936–100936. 2 indexed citations

Chiner‐Oms, Álvaro, Rafael Torres‐Pérez, Iñaki Comas, et al.. (2023). Selective Pressure by Rifampicin Modulates Mutation Rates and Evolutionary Trajectories of Mycobacterial Genomes. Microbiology Spectrum. 11(4). e0101723–e0101723. 4 indexed citations

Saavedra, Belén, Luis M. Villamayor, Irving Cancino‐Muñoz, et al.. (2023). Monitoring of First-line Drug Resistance Mutations Outside the Scope of Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra is Needed for Successful Control of DR-TB in Southern Mozambique. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 78(4). 842–845. 1 indexed citations

López, Mariana G., Manuela Torres‐Puente, Fernando Cañas, et al.. (2023). Deciphering the Tangible Spatio-Temporal Spread of a 25-Year Tuberculosis Outbreak Boosted by Social Determinants. Microbiology Spectrum. 11(2). e0282622–e0282622. 2 indexed citations

Chiner‐Oms, Álvaro, et al.. (2022). Gene evolutionary trajectories in Mycobacterium tuberculosis reveal temporal signs of selection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(17). e2113600119–e2113600119. 21 indexed citations

Saavedra, Belén, Mariana G. López, Álvaro Chiner‐Oms, et al.. (2022). Fine-grain population structure and transmission patterns of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in southern Mozambique, a high TB/HIV burden area. Microbial Genomics. 8(7). 8 indexed citations

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Yerbanga, Rakiswendé Serge, Manuela Torres‐Puente, Jean‐Bosco Ouédraogo, et al.. (2022). Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 and co-infection with malaria during the first wave of the pandemic (the Burkina Faso case). Frontiers in Public Health. 10. 1048404–1048404. 4 indexed citations

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Comas, Iñaki, et al.. (2021). SplitStrains, a tool to identify and separate mixed Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections from WGS data. Microbial Genomics. 7(6). 13 indexed citations

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Goig, Galo A., Manuela Torres‐Puente, Luis M. Villamayor, et al.. (2021). Accuracy of an amplicon-sequencing nanopore approach to identify variants in tuberculosis drug-resistance-associated genes. Microbial Genomics. 7(12). 19 indexed citations

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Pérez‐Latorre, Leire, Marta Herránz, Francisco Tejerina, et al.. (2021). Complete Analysis of the Epidemiological Scenario around a SARS-CoV-2 Reinfection: Previous Infection Events and Subsequent Transmission. mSphere. 6(5). e0059621–e0059621. 2 indexed citations

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Castañeda-García, Alfredo, et al.. (2020). Specificity and mutagenesis bias of the mycobacterial alternative mismatch repair analyzed by mutation accumulation studies. Science Advances. 6(7). eaay4453–eaay4453. 25 indexed citations

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López, Mariana G., Manuela Torres‐Puente, Galo A. Goig, et al.. (2020). Tuberculosis in Liberia: high multidrug-resistance burden, transmission and diversity modelled by multiple importation events. Microbial Genomics. 6(1). 11 indexed citations

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Chiner‐Oms, Álvaro, Leonor Sánchez-Busó, Jukka Corander, et al.. (2019). Genomic determinants of speciation and spread of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. Science Advances. 5(6). eaaw3307–eaaw3307. 57 indexed citations

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Goig, Galo A., Manuela Torres‐Puente, Luis M. Villamayor, et al.. (2019). Towards next-generation diagnostics for tuberculosis: identification of novel molecular targets by large-scale comparative genomics. Bioinformatics. 36(4). 985–989. 14 indexed citations

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Cancino‐Muñoz, Irving, Vanessa González-Covarrubias, Xavier Soberón, et al.. (2019). Whole genomic sequencing as a tool for diagnosis of drug and multidrug-resistance tuberculosis in an endemic region in Mexico. PLoS ONE. 14(6). e0213046–e0213046. 21 indexed citations

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Perez-Navarro, L. M., Blanca I. Restrepo, Ravindranath Duggirala, et al.. (2017). The effect size of type 2 diabetes mellitus on tuberculosis drug resistance and adverse treatment outcomes. Tuberculosis. 103. 83–91. 34 indexed citations

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Comas, Iñaki, Sònia Borrell, Andreas Roetzer, et al.. (2011). Whole-genome sequencing of rifampicin-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains identifies compensatory mutations in RNA polymerase genes. Nature Genetics. 44(1). 106–110. 410 indexed citations breakdown →

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