Joana C. Xavier

1.9k total citations
22 papers, 672 citations indexed

About

Joana C. Xavier is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Joana C. Xavier has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 672 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Molecular Biology, 14 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 8 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Joana C. Xavier's work include Origins and Evolution of Life (14 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (8 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (8 papers). Joana C. Xavier is often cited by papers focused on Origins and Evolution of Life (14 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (8 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (8 papers). Joana C. Xavier collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Portugal and United Kingdom. Joana C. Xavier's co-authors include William Martin, Martina Preiner, Kiran Raosaheb Patil, Isabel Rocha, Mike Steel, Stuart Kauffman, Wim Hordijk, Verena Zimorski, Madeline C. Weiss and Karl Kleinermanns and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews and Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Joana C. Xavier

22 papers receiving 658 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Joana C. Xavier Germany 14 418 328 105 76 59 22 672
Víctor Sojo Germany 13 375 0.9× 392 1.2× 150 1.4× 87 1.1× 72 1.2× 17 816
Noam Prywes United States 14 749 1.8× 306 0.9× 90 0.9× 61 0.8× 40 0.7× 17 876
Betül Kaçar United States 16 350 0.8× 208 0.6× 33 0.3× 145 1.9× 51 0.9× 45 678
Kosuke Fujishima Japan 19 668 1.6× 169 0.5× 30 0.3× 140 1.8× 39 0.7× 53 879
Eiichi Imai Japan 12 293 0.7× 495 1.5× 106 1.0× 71 0.9× 57 1.0× 35 668
Aubrey R. Hill United States 9 615 1.5× 677 2.1× 152 1.4× 32 0.4× 111 1.9× 12 901
Bradley T. Burcar United States 10 215 0.5× 332 1.0× 79 0.8× 27 0.4× 71 1.2× 15 414
András Szilágyi Hungary 14 312 0.7× 277 0.8× 109 1.0× 131 1.7× 16 0.3× 40 712
Elisa Biondi United States 13 353 0.8× 178 0.5× 36 0.3× 48 0.6× 47 0.8× 20 461
Henrike Niederholtmeyer United States 10 911 2.2× 67 0.2× 90 0.9× 103 1.4× 75 1.3× 18 1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joana C. Xavier

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Huson, Daniel H., Joana C. Xavier, & Mike Steel. (2024). Self-generating autocatalytic networks: structural results, algorithms and their relevance to early biochemistry. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 21(214). 20230732–20230732. 1 indexed citations
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Lane, Nick & Joana C. Xavier. (2024). To unravel the origin of life, treat findings as pieces of a bigger puzzle. Nature. 626(8001). 948–951. 11 indexed citations
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Xavier, Joana C. & Stuart Kauffman. (2022). Small-molecule autocatalytic networks are universal metabolic fossils. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 380(2227). 20210244–20210244. 19 indexed citations
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Xavier, Joana C., et al.. (2022). What Wilhelm Ostwald meant by “Autokatalyse” and its significance to origins‐of‐life research. BioEssays. 44(9). e2200098–e2200098. 5 indexed citations
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Tria, Fernando D. K., Josip Skejo, Joana C. Xavier, et al.. (2021). Gene Duplications Trace Mitochondria to the Onset of Eukaryote Complexity. Genome Biology and Evolution. 13(5). 28 indexed citations
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Xavier, Joana C., et al.. (2021). Energy at Origins: Favorable Thermodynamics of Biosynthetic Reactions in the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA). Frontiers in Microbiology. 12. 793664–793664. 28 indexed citations
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Vieira‐Baptista, Pedro, et al.. (2021). G-spot: Fact or Fiction?: A Systematic Review. Sexual Medicine. 9(5). 1–1. 13 indexed citations
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Xavier, Joana C., et al.. (2021). The metabolic network of the last bacterial common ancestor. Communications Biology. 4(1). 413–413. 36 indexed citations
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Steel, Mike, Joana C. Xavier, & Daniel H. Huson. (2020). The structure of autocatalytic networks, with application to early biochemistry. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 17(171). 20200488–20200488. 9 indexed citations
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Xavier, Joana C., Wim Hordijk, Stuart Kauffman, Mike Steel, & William Martin. (2020). Autocatalytic chemical networks at the origin of metabolism. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 287(1922). 20192377–20192377. 106 indexed citations
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Preiner, Martina, et al.. (2019). Catalysts, autocatalysis and the origin of metabolism. Interface Focus. 9(6). 20190072–20190072. 30 indexed citations
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Steel, Mike, Wim Hordijk, & Joana C. Xavier. (2019). Autocatalytic networks in biology: structural theory and algorithms. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 16(151). 20180808–20180808. 28 indexed citations
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Nelson‐Sathi, Shijulal, Barbara Schönfeld, Einat Hazkani‐Covo, et al.. (2018). Failure to Recover Major Events of Gene Flux in Real Biological Data Due to Method Misapplication. Genome Biology and Evolution. 10(5). 1198–1209. 6 indexed citations
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Weiss, Madeline C., Martina Preiner, Joana C. Xavier, Verena Zimorski, & William Martin. (2018). The last universal common ancestor between ancient Earth chemistry and the onset of genetics. PLoS Genetics. 14(8). e1007518–e1007518. 117 indexed citations
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Xavier, Joana C., et al.. (2018). Elusive data underlying debate at the prokaryote-eukaryote divide. Biology Direct. 13(1). 21–21. 5 indexed citations
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Xavier, Joana C., Kiran Raosaheb Patil, & Isabel Rocha. (2018). Metabolic models and gene essentiality data reveal essential and conserved metabolism in prokaryotes. PLoS Computational Biology. 14(11). e1006556–e1006556. 12 indexed citations
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Xavier, Joana C., Martina Preiner, & William Martin. (2018). Something special about CO‐dependent CO2 fixation. FEBS Journal. 285(22). 4181–4195. 27 indexed citations
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Preiner, Martina, Joana C. Xavier, Filipa L. Sousa, et al.. (2018). Serpentinization: Connecting Geochemistry, Ancient Metabolism and Industrial Hydrogenation. Life. 8(4). 41–41. 64 indexed citations
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Xavier, Joana C., Kiran Raosaheb Patil, & Isabel Rocha. (2016). Integration of Biomass Formulations of Genome-Scale Metabolic Models with Experimental Data Reveals Universally Essential Cofactors in Prokaryotes. Metabolic Engineering. 39. 200–208. 54 indexed citations
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Xavier, Joana C., Kiran Raosaheb Patil, & Isabel Rocha. (2014). Systems Biology Perspectives on Minimal and Simpler Cells. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews. 78(3). 487–509. 45 indexed citations

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