María de Toro

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
77 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

María de Toro is a scholar working on Molecular Medicine, Molecular Biology and Food Science. According to data from OpenAlex, María de Toro has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Molecular Medicine, 24 papers in Molecular Biology and 22 papers in Food Science. Recurrent topics in María de Toro's work include Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (28 papers), Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology (16 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (12 papers). María de Toro is often cited by papers focused on Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (28 papers), Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology (16 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (12 papers). María de Toro collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Germany and United Kingdom. María de Toro's co-authors include Fernando de la Cruz, M. Pilar Garcillán‐Barcia, Luis Vielva, Val F. Lanza, Raúl Fernández-López, Yolanda Sáenz, Cármen Torres, Santiago Redondo, Raúl Ruiz and Eduardo P. C. Rocha and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Bioinformatics and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

María de Toro

67 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Pathways for horizontal gene transfer in bacteria revealed by a global map of their plasmids

2020 264 citations Santiago Redondo, Raúl Fernández-López et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Maria Hoffmann United States

Agnès Perrin‐Guyomard France

Valérie Gautier France

Kangmin Duan Canada

Lucía Blasco Spain

John B. Barrett United States

Jae Young Oh South Korea

Atsushi Hinenoya Japan

Massimo Merighi United States

Piero Cappuccinelli Italy

Maria Hoffmann United States

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of María de Toro

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of María de Toro. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of María de Toro based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with María de Toro. María de Toro is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Polo, David, et al.. (2025). Monitoring the Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 VOCs in Wastewater and Clinical Samples—A One-Year Study in Santiago de Compostela (Spain). Viruses. 17(4). 489–489.

Tronchoni, Jordi, et al.. (2025). Vineyard mycobiota shows a local and long-term response to the organic mulches application. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 382. 109506–109506. 3 indexed citations

Izco, María, Carme Solà, Martin Schleef, et al.. (2025). Development of human targeted extracellular vesicles loaded with shRNA minicircles to prevent parkinsonian pathology. Translational Neurodegeneration. 14(1). 26–26.

López, Rosario, et al.. (2024). Unprocessed snRNAs Are a Prognostic Biomarker and Correlate with a Poorer Prognosis in Colorectal Cancer. Cancers. 16(13). 2340–2340. 3 indexed citations

López, María, et al.. (2023). Spread of Pseudomonas aeruginosa ST274 Clone in Different Niches: Resistome, Virulome, and Phylogenetic Relationship. Antibiotics. 12(11). 1561–1561. 10 indexed citations

Toro, María de, et al.. (2022). ExplorePipolin: reconstruction and annotation of piPolB-encoding bacterial mobile elements from draft genomes. Bioinformatics Advances. 2(1). vbac056–vbac056. 1 indexed citations

Fernández, Javier, et al.. (2022). Detection of the optrA Gene Among Polyclonal Linezolid-Susceptible Isolates of Enterococcus faecalis Recovered from Community Patients. Microbial Drug Resistance. 28(7). 773–779. 12 indexed citations

García, Vanesa, Javier Fernández, María de Toro, et al.. (2022). Colistin Resistance in Monophasic Isolates of Salmonella enterica ST34 Collected From Meat-Derived Products in Spain, With or Without CMY-2 Co-production. Frontiers in Microbiology. 12. 735364–735364. 18 indexed citations

Santibáñez, Paula, Aránzazu Portillo, Sonia Santibáñez, et al.. (2021). What Does 16S rRNA Gene-Targeted Next Generation Sequencing Contribute to the Study of Infective Endocarditis in Heart-Valve Tissue?. Pathogens. 11(1). 34–34. 10 indexed citations

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Álvarez-Molina, Adrián, José F. Cobo‐Díaz, Mercedes López, et al.. (2021). Unraveling the emergence and population diversity of Listeria monocytogenes in a newly built meat facility through whole genome sequencing. International Journal of Food Microbiology. 340. 109043–109043. 44 indexed citations

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Redondo, Santiago, Raúl Fernández-López, Raúl Ruiz, et al.. (2020). Pathways for horizontal gene transfer in bacteria revealed by a global map of their plasmids. Nature Communications. 11(1). 264 indexed citations breakdown →

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Barbeito‐Castiñeiras, Gema, et al.. (2020). Leprosy in the twenty-first century: a microbiological, clinical, and epidemiological study in northwestern Spain. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases. 39(10). 1831–1835. 3 indexed citations

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Gómez‐Orte, Eva, Beatriz Sáenz‐Narciso, María de Toro, et al.. (2019). Disruption of the Caenorhabditis elegans Integrator complex triggers a non-conventional transcriptional mechanism beyond snRNA genes. PLoS Genetics. 15(2). e1007981–e1007981. 31 indexed citations

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Portillo, Aránzazu, Ana M. Palomar, María de Toro, et al.. (2019). Exploring the bacteriome in anthropophilic ticks: To investigate the vectors for diagnosis. PLoS ONE. 14(3). e0213384–e0213384. 33 indexed citations

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Fernández-López, Raúl, María de Toro, Gabriel Moncalián, M. Pilar Garcillán‐Barcia, & Fernando de la Cruz. (2016). Comparative Genomics of the Conjugation Region of F-like Plasmids: Five Shades of F. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. 3. 71–71. 50 indexed citations

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Schaufler, Katharina, Torsten Semmler, Derek Pickard, et al.. (2016). Carriage of Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase-Plasmids Does Not Reduce Fitness but Enhances Virulence in Some Strains of Pandemic E. coli Lineages. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7. 336–336. 82 indexed citations

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Magalhães, Pedro, Luís Pinto, Alexandre Gonçalves, et al.. (2016). Could transformation mechanisms of acetylase-harboring pMdT1 plasmid be evaluated through proteomic tools in Escherichia coli?. Journal of Proteomics. 145. 103–111.

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Pinto, Luís, Hugo M. Santos, María de Toro, et al.. (2014). Complete Proteome of a Quinolone-Resistant Salmonella Typhimurium Phage Type DT104B Clinical Strain. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 15(8). 14191–14219. 12 indexed citations

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Soufi, Leila, Yolanda Sáenz, María de Toro, et al.. (2011). Phenotypic and Genotypic Characterization of Salmonella enterica Recovered from Poultry Meat in Tunisia and Identification of New Genetic Traits. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. 12(1). 10–16. 16 indexed citations

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Toro, María de, et al.. (2002). Tuberculosis in elderly patients: Forms of presentation. Anales de Medicina Interna. 19(3). 11–18.

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