Isabel Rocha

5.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
147 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Isabel Rocha is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Isabel Rocha has authored 147 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 130 papers in Molecular Biology, 58 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 12 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Isabel Rocha's work include Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (109 papers), Biofuel production and bioconversion (55 papers) and Viral Infectious Diseases and Gene Expression in Insects (34 papers). Isabel Rocha is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (109 papers), Biofuel production and bioconversion (55 papers) and Viral Infectious Diseases and Gene Expression in Insects (34 papers). Isabel Rocha collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, United States and Germany. Isabel Rocha's co-authors include Eugénio C. Ferreira, Miguel Rocha, Kiran Raosaheb Patil, Jens Nielsen, Daniel Machado, Jochen Förster, Paulo Maia, Sónia Carneiro, Rafael S. Costa and Óscar Dias and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Bioinformatics and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Isabel Rocha

143 papers receiving 3.2k 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.

Ecological modelling approaches for predicting emergent properties in microbial communities

2022 135 citations Daniel Machado, Isabel Rocha et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Isabel Rocha Portugal	32	2.6k	1.2k	254	224	218	147	3.3k
Ralf Takors Germany	37	4.0k 1.5×	1.6k 1.3×	196 0.8×	431 1.9×	203 0.9×	181	4.9k
Dong‐Yup Lee Singapore	38	4.1k 1.6×	1.2k 1.0×	209 0.8×	418 1.9×	222 1.0×	201	5.3k
Stephan Noack Germany	30	2.4k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	94 0.4×	282 1.3×	140 0.6×	115	3.0k
Taizo Hanai Japan	29	3.5k 1.3×	2.0k 1.6×	168 0.7×	270 1.2×	143 0.7×	100	4.5k
Toshiomi Yoshida Japan	31	2.1k 0.8×	943 0.8×	294 1.2×	166 0.7×	532 2.4×	120	3.3k
Jonathan M. Monk United States	31	3.6k 1.4×	1.0k 0.8×	80 0.3×	481 2.1×	83 0.4×	97	4.3k
Christopher S. Henry United States	34	5.0k 1.9×	1.7k 1.3×	242 1.0×	449 2.0×	106 0.5×	88	6.0k
Markus J. Herrgård Denmark	41	6.5k 2.5×	2.3k 1.8×	226 0.9×	899 4.0×	249 1.1×	84	7.3k
Kazuyuki Shimizu Japan	45	4.7k 1.8×	1.4k 1.1×	344 1.4×	1.1k 4.7×	318 1.5×	176	5.9k
Christophe H. Schilling United States	21	4.8k 1.8×	1.7k 1.4×	271 1.1×	378 1.7×	51 0.2×	23	5.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Isabel Rocha

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Fields of papers citing papers by Isabel Rocha

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Isabel Rocha

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20 of 20 papers shown

Sveshnikova, Anastasia, Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Paulo Vilaça, et al.. (2024). Computer-aided design and implementation of efficient biosynthetic pathways to produce high added-value products derived from tyrosine in Escherichia coli. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. 12. 1360740–1360740. 3 indexed citations

Chaves, Inês, et al.. (2023). The first multi-tissue genome-scale metabolic model of a woody plant highlights suberin biosynthesis pathways in Quercus suber. PLoS Computational Biology. 19(9). e1011499–e1011499. 10 indexed citations

Viana, Romeu, et al.. (2023). Metabolic reconstruction of the human pathogen Candida auris: using a cross-species approach for drug target prediction. FEMS Yeast Research. 23. 5 indexed citations

Machado, Daniel, Isabel Rocha, Jeremy M. Chacón, et al.. (2022). Ecological modelling approaches for predicting emergent properties in microbial communities. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(7). 855–865. 135 indexed citations breakdown →

Hanscho, Michael, et al.. (2021). Inclusion of maintenance energy improves the intracellular flux predictions of CHO. PLoS Computational Biology. 17(6). e1009022–e1009022. 7 indexed citations

Pereira, Rui, Paulo Vilaça, Paulo Maia, Jens Nielsen, & Isabel Rocha. (2019). Turnover Dependent Phenotypic Simulation: A Quantitative Constraint-Based Simulation Method That Accommodates All Main Strain Design Strategies. ACS Synthetic Biology. 8(5). 976–988. 1 indexed citations

Fernandes, Bruna Soares, Óscar Dias, Gisela Lara da Costa, et al.. (2019). Genome-wide sequencing and metabolic annotation of Pythium irregulare CBS 494.86: understanding Eicosapentaenoic acid production. BMC Biotechnology. 19(1). 9 indexed citations

Pereira, Bruno, et al.. (2018). Reconstruction of a genome-scale metabolic model for Actinobacillus succinogenes 130Z. BMC Systems Biology. 12(1). 61–61. 24 indexed citations

Borges, Nuno, et al.. (2018). Production of mannosylglycerate in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by metabolic engineering and bioprocess optimization. Microbial Cell Factories. 17(1). 178–178. 9 indexed citations

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Faria, José P., James J. Davis, Janaka N. Edirisinghe, et al.. (2016). Computing and Applying Atomic Regulons to Understand Gene Expression and Regulation. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7. 1819–1819. 5 indexed citations

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Faria, José P., Ross Overbeek, Ronald C. Taylor, et al.. (2016). Reconstruction of the Regulatory Network for Bacillus subtilis and Reconciliation with Gene Expression Data. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7. 275–275. 12 indexed citations

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Dias, Óscar, Rui Pereira, Andreas Gombert, Eugénio C. Ferreira, & Isabel Rocha. (2014). iOD907, the first genome‐scale metabolic model for the milk yeast Kluyveromyces lactis. Biotechnology Journal. 9(6). 776–790. 39 indexed citations

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Gonçalves, Emanuel, Rui Pereira, Isabel Rocha, & Miguel Rocha. (2012). Optimization Approaches for the In Silico Discovery of Optimal Targets for Gene Over/Underexpression. Journal of Computational Biology. 19(2). 102–114. 9 indexed citations

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Machado, Daniel, Rafael S. Costa, Miguel Rocha, et al.. (2011). Modeling formalisms in Systems Biology. AMB Express. 1(1). 45–45. 122 indexed citations

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Carneiro, Sónia, Silas G. Villas‐Bôas, Eugénio C. Ferreira, & Isabel Rocha. (2010). Metabolic footprint analysis of recombinant Escherichia coli strains during fed-batch fermentations. Molecular BioSystems. 7(3). 899–910. 30 indexed citations

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Rocha, Isabel, Paulo Maia, Pedro Evangelista, et al.. (2010). OptFlux: an open-source software platform for in silico metabolic engineering. BMC Systems Biology. 4(1). 45–45. 260 indexed citations

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Carneiro, Sónia, A. L. Amaral, Ana C. A. Veloso, et al.. (2009). Assessment of physiological conditions in E. coli fermentations by epifluorescent microscopy and image analysis. Biotechnology Progress. 25(3). 882–891. 8 indexed citations

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Nobre, Clarisse, Maria João Santos, Duarte Torres, et al.. (2009). Comparison of adsorption equilibrium of fructose, glucose and sucrose on potassium gel-type and macroporous sodium ion-exchange resins. Analytica Chimica Acta. 654(1). 71–76. 55 indexed citations

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Lourenço, Anália, et al.. (2008). A tool for the automatic and manual annotation of biomedical documents. RepositóriUM (Universidade do Minho). 85–92. 1 indexed citations

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Rocha, Miguel, Rui Mendes, Paulo Maia, et al.. (2007). Evaluating simulated annealing algorithms in the optimization of bacterial strains. 4874. 473–484. 2 indexed citations

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