María José León

820 total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 521 citations indexed

About

María José León is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, María José León has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 521 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Molecular Biology, 14 papers in Ecology and 3 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in María José León's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (16 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (14 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (4 papers). María José León is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (16 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (14 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (4 papers). María José León collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Italy and Germany. María José León's co-authors include António Ventosa, Cristina Sánchez‐Porro, Sergio Montserrat‐de la Paz, Fernando Rivero‐Pino, Francisco Rodríguez‐Valera, A Fernández, Fátima Morales, Rohit Ghai, María C. Millán-Linares and Johann Heider and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Scientific Reports and Trends in Food Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

María José León

22 papers receiving 519 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.

Effects of Malnutrition on the Immune System and Infection and the Role of Nutritional Strategies Regarding Improvements in Children’s Health Status: A Literature Review

2023 101 citations Fátima Morales, Sergio Montserrat‐de la Paz et al. Nutrients profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
María José León Spain	11	309	249	63	52	43	22	521
Alisha G. Campbell United States	8	517 1.7×	282 1.1×	67 1.1×	53 1.0×	12 0.3×	9	772
Madangchanok Imchen India	15	233 0.8×	188 0.8×	66 1.0×	28 0.5×	11 0.3×	30	527
Laura Lebrun Luxembourg	10	448 1.4×	245 1.0×	30 0.5×	19 0.4×	12 0.3×	15	680
Carmen María González-Domenech Spain	12	180 0.6×	186 0.7×	28 0.4×	18 0.3×	16 0.4×	29	442
Chaofang Zhong China	13	362 1.2×	103 0.4×	111 1.8×	18 0.3×	15 0.3×	28	584
Junqiang Xu China	14	158 0.5×	63 0.3×	74 1.2×	39 0.8×	36 0.8×	40	665
Julliane Dutra Medeiros Brazil	12	152 0.5×	99 0.4×	65 1.0×	34 0.7×	17 0.4×	26	376
Jorge Frías Spain	12	237 0.8×	61 0.2×	31 0.5×	32 0.6×	38 0.9×	23	632
Karin Schubert Germany	13	418 1.4×	285 1.1×	76 1.2×	41 0.8×	17 0.4×	16	695

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of María José León

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León, María José, et al.. (2025). Olive Leaf Protein Hydrolysate as a Novel Source of Antimicrobial Peptides: Peptidomic Characterization and In Silico Evaluation. Molecules. 30(16). 3382–3382. 1 indexed citations

León, María José, et al.. (2024). Exploring Tenebrio molitor as a source of low‐molecular‐weight antimicrobial peptides using a n in silico approach: correlation of molecular features and molecular docking. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. 105(3). 1711–1736. 4 indexed citations

León, María José, et al.. (2024). Integrating genomic evidence for an updated taxonomy of the bacterial genus Spiribacter. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 30057–30057. 1 indexed citations

Rivero‐Pino, Fernando, María José León, & Sergio Montserrat‐de la Paz. (2024). Potential applications of antimicrobial peptides from edible insects in the food supply chain: Uses in agriculture, packaging, and human nutrition. Food Bioscience. 62. 105396–105396. 4 indexed citations

León, María José, Cristina Sánchez‐Porro, Rafael R. de la Haba, et al.. (2024). Halobacterium hubeiense sp. nov., a haloarchaeal species isolated from a bore core drilled in Hubei Province, PR China. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 74(3). 3 indexed citations

Morales, Fátima, Sergio Montserrat‐de la Paz, María José León, & Fernando Rivero‐Pino. (2023). Effects of Malnutrition on the Immune System and Infection and the Role of Nutritional Strategies Regarding Improvements in Children’s Health Status: A Literature Review. Nutrients. 16(1). 1–1. 101 indexed citations breakdown →

Rosso-Fernández, Clara, Lorena López‐Cerero, Belén Gutiérrez‐Gutiérrez, et al.. (2021). Temocillin versus meropenem for the targeted treatment of bacteraemia due to third-generation cephalosporin-resistant Enterobacterales (ASTARTÉ): protocol for a randomised, pragmatic trial. BMJ Open. 11(9). e049481–e049481. 9 indexed citations

León, María José, et al.. (2020). Spiribacter aquaticus Leon et al. 2017 is a later heterotypic synonym of Spiribacter roseus Leon et al. 2016. Reclassification of Halopeptonella vilamensis Menes et al. 2016 as Spiribacter vilamensis comb. nov.. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 70(4). 2873–2878. 4 indexed citations

León, María José, Tamara Hoffmann, Cristina Sánchez‐Porro, et al.. (2018). Compatible Solute Synthesis and Import by the Moderate Halophile Spiribacter salinus: Physiology and Genomics. Frontiers in Microbiology. 9. 108–108. 50 indexed citations

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León, María José, Cristina Sánchez‐Porro, & António Ventosa. (2017). Marinobacter aquaticus sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium from a solar saltern. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 67(8). 2622–2627. 10 indexed citations

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León, María José, et al.. (2017). Spiribacter aquaticus sp. nov., a novel member of the genus Spiribacter isolated from a saltern. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 67(8). 2947–2952. 9 indexed citations

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León, María José, et al.. (2016). Spiribacter roseus sp. nov., a moderately halophilic species of the genus Spiribacter from salterns. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 66(10). 4218–4224. 14 indexed citations

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León, María José, Fernando Martínez‐Checa, António Ventosa, & Cristina Sánchez‐Porro. (2015). Idiomarina aquatica sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from salterns. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 65(Pt_12). 4595–4600. 15 indexed citations

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León, María José, Cristina Sánchez‐Porro, Rafael R. de la Haba, Inmaculada Llamas, & António Ventosa. (2014). Larsenia salina gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Halomonadaceae based on multilocus sequence analysis. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 37(7). 480–487. 8 indexed citations

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León, María José, A Fernández, Rohit Ghai, et al.. (2014). From Metagenomics to Pure Culture: Isolation and Characterization of the Moderately Halophilic Bacterium Spiribacter salinus gen. nov., sp. nov. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 80(13). 3850–3857. 62 indexed citations

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Ventosa, António, A Fernández, María José León, Cristina Sánchez‐Porro, & Francisco Rodríguez‐Valera. (2014). The Santa Pola saltern as a model for studying the microbiota of hypersaline environments. Extremophiles. 18(5). 811–824. 91 indexed citations

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Fernández, A, et al.. (2014). Metagenomic Sequence of Prokaryotic Microbiota from an Intermediate-Salinity Pond of a Saltern in Isla Cristina, Spain. Genome Announcements. 2(1). 16 indexed citations

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López‐Pérez, Mario, Rohit Ghai, María José León, et al.. (2013). Genomes of “Spiribacter”, a streamlined, successful halophilic bacterium. BMC Genomics. 14(1). 787–787. 40 indexed citations

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Haba, Rafael R. de la, Cristina Sánchez‐Porro, María José León, R. Thane Papke, & António Ventosa. (2013). Draft Genome Sequence of the Moderately Halophilic Bacterium Pseudoalteromonas ruthenica Strain CP76. Genome Announcements. 1(3). 2 indexed citations

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León, María José, Rohit Ghai, A Fernández, et al.. (2013). Draft Genome of Spiribacter salinus M19-40, an Abundant Gammaproteobacterium in Aquatic Hypersaline Environments. Genome Announcements. 1(1). 13 indexed citations

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