Manuel Irimia

15.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
120 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Manuel Irimia is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Manuel Irimia has authored 120 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 107 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Plant Science and 8 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Manuel Irimia's work include RNA Research and Splicing (65 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (44 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (41 papers). Manuel Irimia is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (65 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (44 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (41 papers). Manuel Irimia collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United States and Canada. Manuel Irimia's co-authors include Benjamin J. Blencowe, Scott William Roy, Qun Pan, Jordi García‐Fernàndez, Thomas Gonatopoulos-Pournatzis, Nuno L. Barbosa‐Morais, Brendan J. Frey, Ignacio Maeso, Mathieu Quesnel-Vallières and Ulrich Braunschweig and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Manuel Irimia

114 papers receiving 6.7k citations

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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.

The Evolutionary Landscape of Alternative Splicing in Vertebrate Species

2012 710 citations Nuno L. Barbosa‐Morais, Manuel Irimia et al. Science profile →
Widespread intron retention in mammals functionally tunes transcriptomes

2014 474 citations Nuno L. Barbosa‐Morais, Qun Pan et al. profile →
Genome-wide changes in lncRNA, splicing, and regional gene expression patterns in autism

2016 445 citations Manuel Irimia, Benjamin J. Blencowe et al. profile →
A Highly Conserved Program of Neuronal Microexons Is Misregulated in Autistic Brains

2014 443 citations Manuel Irimia, Jonathan D. Ellis et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Manuel Irimia Spain	43	5.9k	818	768	566	321	120	6.8k
Michael Hiller Germany	31	5.1k 0.9×	1.2k 1.5×	864 1.1×	604 1.1×	234 0.7×	100	6.9k
Alexei A. Sharov United States	40	4.7k 0.8×	977 1.2×	459 0.6×	438 0.8×	202 0.6×	128	7.2k
David Sims United Kingdom	31	2.7k 0.5×	842 1.0×	681 0.9×	542 1.0×	79 0.2×	70	4.6k
Paul Lasko Canada	51	7.2k 1.2×	1.9k 2.3×	484 0.6×	1.1k 1.9×	330 1.0×	125	8.8k
Joseph C. Corbo United States	41	5.1k 0.9×	994 1.2×	1.6k 2.0×	503 0.9×	687 2.1×	86	7.2k
José Luis Gómez-Skármeta Spain	47	5.2k 0.9×	1.3k 1.6×	400 0.5×	720 1.3×	408 1.3×	134	6.2k
Shigehiro Kuraku Japan	38	2.9k 0.5×	1.2k 1.4×	193 0.3×	766 1.4×	354 1.1×	143	5.0k
Sven Sagasser Sweden	13	3.7k 0.6×	412 0.5×	899 1.2×	294 0.5×	134 0.4×	13	5.2k
Carsten Russ United States	35	5.7k 1.0×	2.0k 2.4×	1.4k 1.8×	796 1.4×	107 0.3×	56	8.3k
Jennifer K. Grenier United States	26	4.1k 0.7×	860 1.1×	1.6k 2.0×	331 0.6×	229 0.7×	65	6.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Manuel Irimia

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Iñiguez, L., Luis Pardo-Marín, J. M. Castro Cerón, et al.. (2025). Timing of exercise differentially impacts adipose tissue gain in male adolescent rats. Molecular Metabolism. 93. 102100–102100.

Forstmeier, Wolfgang, Moritz Hertel, Manuel Irimia, et al.. (2025). The germline-restricted chromosome orchestrates germ cell development in passerine birds. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Nusspaumer, Gretel, et al.. (2025). Drosophila ovarian stem cell niche ageing involves coordinated changes in transcription and alternative splicing. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2596–2596. 1 indexed citations

Irimia, Manuel, et al.. (2025). ARC Expands the DAAM1 Microexon‐Mediated Actin– RHOA / ROCK Interplay. Cytoskeleton. 83(3). 123–127.

Mantica, Federica & Manuel Irimia. (2025). Gene Duplication and Alternative Splicing as Evolutionary Drivers of Proteome Specialization. BioEssays. 47(5). e202400202–e202400202. 4 indexed citations

García‐González, Judit, Manuel Irimia, William Norton, et al.. (2024). Pleiotropic contribution of rbfox1 to psychiatric and neurodevelopmental phenotypes in two zebrafish models. Translational Psychiatry. 14(1). 99–99. 2 indexed citations

Cruz, Josefa, Enric Ureña, L. Iñiguez, et al.. (2024). E93 controls adult differentiation by repressing broad in Drosophila. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(51). e2403162121–e2403162121.

López‐Oreja, Irene, André Gohr, Fabián Arenas, et al.. (2023). SF3B1mutation–mediated sensitization to H3B-8800 splicing inhibitor in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Life Science Alliance. 6(11). e202301955–e202301955. 8 indexed citations

Benisty, Hannah, Marc Weber, Federica Mantica, et al.. (2023). Genes enriched in A/T-ending codons are co-regulated and conserved across mammals. Cell Systems. 14(4). 312–323.e3. 14 indexed citations

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Torres-Méndez, Antonio, Sophie Bonnal, Isabel Almudí, et al.. (2022). Parallel evolution of a splicing program controlling neuronal excitability in flies and mammals. Science Advances. 8(4). eabk0445–eabk0445. 25 indexed citations

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Mantica, Federica, Jon Permanyer, Jingjing Zang, et al.. (2022). Specialization of the photoreceptor transcriptome by Srrm3 -dependent microexons is required for outer segment maintenance and vision. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(29). e2117090119–e2117090119. 19 indexed citations

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Nielsen, A., Albrecht Bindereif, Irene Bozzoni, et al.. (2022). Best practice standards for circular RNA research. Nature Methods. 19(10). 1208–1220. 124 indexed citations

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Head, Sarah A., Jae‐Seong Yang, Antonio Torres-Méndez, et al.. (2021). Silencing of SRRM4 suppresses microexon inclusion and promotes tumor growth across cancers. PLoS Biology. 19(2). e3001138–e3001138. 16 indexed citations

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Acemel, Rafael D., Panos Firbas, Silvia Naranjo, et al.. (2020). Ancient Genomic Regulatory Blocks Are a Source for Regulatory Gene Deserts in Vertebrates after Whole-Genome Duplications. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 37(10). 2857–2864. 9 indexed citations

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Fernández, Juan Pablo, et al.. (2018). RES complex is associated with intron definition and required for zebrafish early embryogenesis. PLoS Genetics. 14(7). e1007473–e1007473. 20 indexed citations

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Maeso, Ignacio, Thomas L. Dunwell, Christopher D. R. Wyatt, et al.. (2016). Evolutionary origin and functional divergence of totipotent cell homeobox genes in eutherian mammals. BMC Biology. 14(1). 45–45. 34 indexed citations

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Gueroussov, Serge, Thomas Gonatopoulos-Pournatzis, Manuel Irimia, et al.. (2015). An alternative splicing event amplifies evolutionary differences between vertebrates. Science. 349(6250). 868–873. 108 indexed citations

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Barbosa‐Morais, Nuno L., Manuel Irimia, Qun Pan, et al.. (2012). The Evolutionary Landscape of Alternative Splicing in Vertebrate Species. Science. 338(6114). 1587–1593. 710 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ellis, Jonathan D., Miriam Barrios‐Rodiles, Recep Çolak, et al.. (2012). Tissue-Specific Alternative Splicing Remodels Protein-Protein Interaction Networks. Molecular Cell. 46(6). 884–892. 299 indexed citations

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Royo, José Luís, Ignacio Maeso, Manuel Irimia, et al.. (2011). Transphyletic conservation of developmental regulatory state in animal evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(34). 14186–14191. 73 indexed citations

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