José Luís Balcázar

16.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
192 papers, 12.4k citations indexed

About

José Luís Balcázar is a scholar working on Immunology, Pollution and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, José Luís Balcázar has authored 192 papers receiving a total of 12.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Immunology, 61 papers in Pollution and 56 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in José Luís Balcázar's work include Aquaculture disease management and microbiota (66 papers), Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (54 papers) and Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (44 papers). José Luís Balcázar is often cited by papers focused on Aquaculture disease management and microbiota (66 papers), Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (54 papers) and Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (44 papers). José Luís Balcázar collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Mexico and China. José Luís Balcázar's co-authors include Elisabet Marti, Ignacio de Blas, Imanol Ruiz‐Zarzuela, Carles Borrego, Daniel Vendrell, José Luis Múzquiz, Alexandre Sànchez-Melsió, Jéssica Subirats, Sara Rodríguez‐Mozaz and Tania Pérez and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Environmental Science & Technology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

José Luís Balcázar

180 papers receiving 12.0k 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.

Occurrence of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes in hospital and urban wastewaters and their impact on the receiving river

2014 1.3k citations Sara Rodríguez‐Mozaz, Alexandre Sànchez-Melsió et al. profile →
The role of probiotics in aquaculture

2006 1.0k citations José Luís Balcázar et al. profile →
A review on the interactions between gut microbiota and innate immunity of fish: Table 1

2008 557 citations José Luís Balcázar et al. profile →
The role of aquatic ecosystems as reservoirs of antibiotic resistance

2013 547 citations José Luís Balcázar et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
José Luís Balcázar Spain	54	5.1k	4.4k	3.6k	2.6k	2.3k	192	12.4k
Tom Defoirdt Belgium	43	4.1k 0.8×	850 0.2×	3.1k 0.9×	2.8k 1.1×	1.3k 0.5×	112	8.6k
Henning Sørum Norway	38	2.1k 0.4×	2.3k 0.5×	485 0.1×	1.8k 0.7×	1.0k 0.5×	145	6.5k
Brian Austin United Kingdom	67	11.5k 2.3×	1.1k 0.2×	5.6k 1.6×	4.9k 1.8×	2.6k 1.1×	289	16.9k
Basanta Kumar Das India	40	2.9k 0.6×	1.2k 0.3×	2.9k 0.8×	1.1k 0.4×	1.4k 0.6×	557	8.1k
Lone Gram Denmark	70	3.8k 0.8×	634 0.1×	2.1k 0.6×	7.8k 2.9×	3.1k 1.4×	285	17.6k
Baskaralingam Vaseeharan India	59	2.6k 0.5×	617 0.1×	1.7k 0.5×	1.4k 0.5×	469 0.2×	247	10.2k
Craig Baker‐Austin United Kingdom	38	1.7k 0.3×	2.1k 0.5×	106 0.0×	1.7k 0.7×	1.2k 0.5×	91	7.1k
Felipe C. Cabello United States	29	1.8k 0.3×	835 0.2×	828 0.2×	496 0.2×	701 0.3×	66	4.5k
Sharon L. Abbott United States	39	3.3k 0.6×	379 0.1×	507 0.1×	2.2k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	93	7.8k
Se Chang Park South Korea	43	2.9k 0.6×	289 0.1×	1.1k 0.3×	1.5k 0.6×	1.9k 0.9×	275	6.6k

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Xia, Rong, Xiaole Yin, José Luís Balcázar, et al.. (2025). Bacterium-Phage Symbiosis Facilitates the Enrichment of Bacterial Pathogens and Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria in the Plastisphere. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(6). 2948–2960. 6 indexed citations

Huang, Dan, Jingqiu Liao, José Luís Balcázar, et al.. (2025). Adaptive modification of antiviral defense systems in microbial community under Cr-induced stress. Microbiome. 13(1). 34–34. 6 indexed citations

Comas‐Cufí, Marc, José Luís Balcázar, Sı́lvia Bofill-Mas, et al.. (2025). Tracking Age-Linked Antibiotic Resistance Patterns through Building-Level Wastewater Analysis. ACS ES&T Water. 5(12). 7141–7151.

Quiroz‐Guzmán, Eduardo, et al.. (2025). Ecological Drivers of Plasmid-Mediated Antimicrobial Resistance in Aquaculture. Microbial Ecology. 89(1). 28–28.

López‐Doval, Julio C., Sergio Ponsá, Victòria Salvadó, et al.. (2025). Improving small urban wastewater treatment plants with a nature-based reactor for tertiary treatment. Journal of Environmental Management. 393. 126983–126983.

Balcázar, José Luís, et al.. (2025). Global Transcriptomic Profiling Reveals Conserved and Phage-specific Responses to Phage Infection in Escherichia Coli. Microbial Ecology. 89(1). 23–23.

Zhang, Wen, Danrui Wang, José Luís Balcázar, et al.. (2025). Bacteriophage–Bacteria Interactions Promote Ecological Multifunctionality in Compost‐Applied Soils. Environmental Microbiology. 27(3). e70074–e70074. 2 indexed citations

Calero‐Cáceres, William, et al.. (2024). Advances and challenges in assessing antimicrobial resistance in environmental settings. Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health. 41. 100571–100571. 7 indexed citations

Sacristán‐Soriano, Oriol, Carles Borrego, Francisco Hortas, et al.. (2024). Variability of faecal microbiota and antibiotic resistance genes in flocks of migratory gulls and comparison with the surrounding environment. Environmental Pollution. 359. 124563–124563. 4 indexed citations

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Pijuan, Maite, et al.. (2024). Draft genome sequence of Methyloversatilis sp. strain NSM2, isolated from a wastewater treatment plant. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 13(11). e0095224–e0095224. 1 indexed citations

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Friman, Ville‐Petri, José Luís Balcázar, Xiaoxuan Zheng, et al.. (2023). Viral and Bacterial Communities Collaborate through Complementary Assembly Processes in Soil to Survive Organochlorine Contamination. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 89(3). e0181022–e0181022. 15 indexed citations

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Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Carlos E., Didier Ramírez-Morales, Mario Masís-Mora, et al.. (2023). Occurrence and risk assessment of pharmaceuticals in hospital wastewater in Costa Rica. Chemosphere. 339. 139746–139746. 26 indexed citations

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Xia, Rong, Mingming Sun, José Luís Balcázar, et al.. (2023). Benzo[a]pyrene stress impacts adaptive strategies and ecological functions of earthworm intestinal viromes. The ISME Journal. 17(7). 1004–1014. 50 indexed citations

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Balcázar, José Luís, et al.. (2021). Identification of pathogenic bacteria in fishes caught in the Pacific off Nicaragua. Ciencias Marinas. 47(3). 175–184. 1 indexed citations

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Pantanella, Fabrizio, Itziar Lekunberri, Antonella Gagliardi, et al.. (2020). Effect of Urban Wastewater Discharge on the Abundance of Antibiotic Resistance Genes and Antibiotic-Resistant Escherichia coli in Two Italian Rivers. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17(18). 6813–6813. 18 indexed citations

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Calero‐Cáceres, William & José Luís Balcázar. (2018). Antibiotic resistance genes in bacteriophages from diverse marine habitats. The Science of The Total Environment. 654. 452–455. 44 indexed citations

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Balcázar, José Luís. (2017). How do bacteriophages promote antibiotic resistance in the environment?. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 24(5). 447–449. 42 indexed citations

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Sabater, Sergi, Vicenç Acuña, Ramón J. Batalla, et al.. (2014). Water research in the Mediterranean: challenges and perspectives. The Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA). DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)). 10(2). 207–220. 1 indexed citations

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Balcázar, José Luís, et al.. (2003). Inhibición de vibrios patógenos de camarón por mezclas de cepas probióticas. Hispana. 9–15. 6 indexed citations

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Rendón, L. & José Luís Balcázar. (2003). Inmunología de camarones: Conceptos básicos y recientes avances. Hispana. 27–33. 19 indexed citations

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