Julián Ávila-Pacheco

13.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
49 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Julián Ávila-Pacheco is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Julián Ávila-Pacheco has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Plant Science and 8 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Julián Ávila-Pacheco's work include Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (14 papers), Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (9 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (8 papers). Julián Ávila-Pacheco is often cited by papers focused on Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (14 papers), Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (9 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (8 papers). Julián Ávila-Pacheco collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and China. Julián Ávila-Pacheco's co-authors include Clary B. Clish, Timothy P. Devarenne, Cheng Cheng, Ping He, Antje Heese, Shu-Jing Wu, Dongping Lu, Xiquan Gao, Libo Shan and Aleksandar D. Kostic and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Julián Ávila-Pacheco

45 papers receiving 2.8k 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.

Meta-omics analysis of elite athletes identifies a performance-enhancing microbe that functions via lactate metabolism

2019 579 citations Loc−Duyen D. Pham, Julián Ávila-Pacheco et al. Nature Medicine profile →
Direct Ubiquitination of Pattern Recognition Receptor FLS2 Attenuates Plant Innate Immunity

2011 484 citations Julián Ávila-Pacheco, Timothy P. Devarenne et al. profile →
Gut microbial metabolism of 5-ASA diminishes its clinical efficacy in inflammatory bowel disease

2023 95 citations Raaj S. Mehta, Jared R. Mayers et al. Nature Medicine profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Julián Ávila-Pacheco United States	24	1.8k	888	537	239	238	49	2.9k
Jörg Hofmann Germany	28	1.7k 1.0×	1.1k 1.2×	313 0.6×	253 1.1×	171 0.7×	60	3.0k
Shengli Ding United States	22	1.4k 0.8×	771 0.9×	465 0.9×	236 1.0×	424 1.8×	65	2.5k
Dong-Hyun Kim South Korea	34	1.3k 0.8×	297 0.3×	384 0.7×	424 1.8×	227 1.0×	145	3.1k
Xiu-Min Li United States	37	1.8k 1.0×	404 0.5×	893 1.7×	579 2.4×	535 2.2×	140	5.1k
Wenyi Wang China	27	1.4k 0.8×	484 0.5×	196 0.4×	332 1.4×	90 0.4×	83	2.7k
Huiling Zhu China	32	1.2k 0.7×	261 0.3×	489 0.9×	498 2.1×	142 0.6×	97	3.0k
Xihong Zhou China	34	1.3k 0.8×	217 0.2×	556 1.0×	246 1.0×	169 0.7×	101	2.9k
Chien‐An Andy Hu United States	32	1.5k 0.9×	255 0.3×	458 0.9×	354 1.5×	203 0.9×	68	3.3k
Yun Ji China	31	1.4k 0.8×	204 0.2×	654 1.2×	237 1.0×	180 0.8×	93	3.0k
Lilly Ganju India	29	865 0.5×	345 0.4×	273 0.5×	254 1.1×	94 0.4×	117	2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Julián Ávila-Pacheco

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Julián Ávila-Pacheco

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Hitchcock, Daniel S., et al.. (2025). Eclipse : a Python package for alignment of two or more nontargeted LC-MS metabolomics datasets. Bioinformatics. 41(6). 1 indexed citations

Maes, Michal, Julián Ávila-Pacheco, Jan Sklenář, et al.. (2025). Preventing inappropriate signals pre- and post-ligand perception by a toggle switch mechanism of ERECTA. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(4). e2420196122–e2420196122. 2 indexed citations

Zhu, Yiwen, Tianyi Huang, Raji Balasubramanian, et al.. (2025). Persistent PTSD symptoms are associated with plasma metabolic alterations relevant to long-term health: A metabolome-wide investigation in women. Psychological Medicine. 55. e30–e30.

Muñoz, Vítor Rosetto, F. Moreau, Marion Soto, et al.. (2025). Portal vein-enriched metabolites as intermediate regulators of the gut microbiome in insulin resistance. Cell Metabolism. 37(10). 2048–2065.e6. 1 indexed citations

Bhosle, Amrisha, Sena Bae, Yancong Zhang, et al.. (2024). Integrated annotation prioritizes metabolites with bioactivity in inflammatory bowel disease. Molecular Systems Biology. 20(4). 338–361. 3 indexed citations

Mehta, Raaj S., Jared R. Mayers, Yancong Zhang, et al.. (2023). Gut microbial metabolism of 5-ASA diminishes its clinical efficacy in inflammatory bowel disease. Nature Medicine. 29(3). 700–709. 95 indexed citations breakdown →

Fanning, Saranna, Jooyoung Jeong, Joon Yoon, et al.. (2022). Lipase regulation of cellular fatty acid homeostasis as a Parkinson’s disease therapeutic strategy. npj Parkinson s Disease. 8(1). 74–74. 13 indexed citations

Rojas‐Tapias, Daniel F., Eric Brown, Ahmed M. Mohamed, et al.. (2022). Inflammation-associated nitrate facilitates ectopic colonization of oral bacterium Veillonella parvula in the intestine. Nature Microbiology. 7(10). 1673–1685. 87 indexed citations

Cubillos-Ruiz, Andrés, et al.. (2022). An engineered live biotherapeutic for the prevention of antibiotic-induced dysbiosis. Nature Biomedical Engineering. 6(7). 910–921. 66 indexed citations

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Yao, Lina, Gabriel D. D’Agostino, Jinseok Park, et al.. (2022). A biosynthetic pathway for the selective sulfonation of steroidal metabolites by human gut bacteria. Nature Microbiology. 7(9). 1404–1418. 54 indexed citations

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Zeleznik, Oana A., Raji Balasubramanian, Deirdre K. Tobias, et al.. (2021). Branched-Chain Amino Acids and Risk of Breast Cancer. JNCI Cancer Spectrum. 5(5). 21 indexed citations

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Sidhom, Eriene-Heidi, Choah Kim, Maria Kost‐Alimova, et al.. (2021). Targeting a Braf/Mapk pathway rescues podocyte lipid peroxidation in CoQ-deficiency kidney disease. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 131(5). 30 indexed citations

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Crevel, Reinout van, Julián Ávila-Pacheco, Nguyễn Thụy Thương Thương, et al.. (2021). Improving host-directed therapy for tuberculous meningitis by linking clinical and multi-omics data. Tuberculosis. 128. 102085–102085. 6 indexed citations

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Zeleznik, Oana A., A. Heather Eliassen, Peter Kraft, et al.. (2020). A Prospective Analysis of Circulating Plasma Metabolites Associated with Ovarian Cancer Risk. Cancer Research. 80(6). 1357–1367. 63 indexed citations

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Fornelos, Nadine, Eric A. Franzosa, Jason Bishai, et al.. (2020). Growth effects of N-acylethanolamines on gut bacteria reflect altered bacterial abundances in inflammatory bowel disease. Nature Microbiology. 5(3). 486–497. 74 indexed citations

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Zeleznik, Oana A., Clary B. Clish, Peter Kraft, et al.. (2019). Circulating Lysophosphatidylcholines, Phosphatidylcholines, Ceramides, and Sphingomyelins and Ovarian Cancer Risk: A 23-Year Prospective Study. JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 112(6). 628–636. 39 indexed citations

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Pirhaji, Leila, Pamela Milani, Timothy G. Curran, et al.. (2016). Revealing disease-associated pathways by network integration of untargeted metabolomics. Nature Methods. 13(9). 770–776. 123 indexed citations

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Lee, Jin‐Suk, Marketa Hnilova, Michal Maes, et al.. (2015). Competitive binding of antagonistic peptides fine-tunes stomatal patterning. Nature. 522(7557). 439–443. 228 indexed citations

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Ek‐Ramos, María Julissa, et al.. (2014). The Tomato Cell Death Suppressor Adi3 Is Restricted to the Endosomal System in Response to the Pseudomonas syringae Effector Protein AvrPto. PLoS ONE. 9(10). e110807–e110807. 8 indexed citations

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Ávila-Pacheco, Julián, Sixue Chen, Cecilia Silva-Sánchez, et al.. (2012). The β-Subunit of the SnRK1 Complex Is Phosphorylated by the Plant Cell Death Suppressor Adi3 . PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 159(3). 1277–1290. 33 indexed citations

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