María Roca

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
76 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

María Roca is a scholar working on Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, María Roca has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Biochemistry, 33 papers in Molecular Biology and 28 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in María Roca's work include Antioxidant Activity and Oxidative Stress (31 papers), Edible Oils Quality and Analysis (26 papers) and Algal biology and biofuel production (13 papers). María Roca is often cited by papers focused on Antioxidant Activity and Oxidative Stress (31 papers), Edible Oils Quality and Analysis (26 papers) and Algal biology and biofuel production (13 papers). María Roca collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Brazil and China. María Roca's co-authors include Antonio Pérez‐Gálvez, Isabel Viera, María Isabel Mínguez‐Mosquera, Beatriz Gandul‐Rojas, Kewei Chen, José Julián Ríos, Adriana Pružinská, Stefan Hörtensteiner, Iwona Anders and Lourdes Gallardo‐Guerrero and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY and Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

María Roca

74 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

Carotenoids and Chlorophylls as Antioxidants 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 100 200 300
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.

  1. Carotenoids and Chlorophylls as Antioxidants
    2020 322 citations Antonio Pérez‐Gálvez, Isabel Viera et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
María Roca Spain 29 1.1k 1.0k 764 595 550 76 2.7k
Antonio Pérez‐Gálvez Spain 28 694 0.7× 684 0.7× 1.2k 1.6× 763 1.3× 329 0.6× 87 3.0k
Catherine Caris‐Veyrat France 29 855 0.8× 1.0k 1.0× 1.8k 2.4× 541 0.9× 439 0.8× 56 3.3k
Raffaele Sacchi Italy 38 868 0.8× 603 0.6× 797 1.0× 1.5k 2.5× 1.5k 2.6× 116 3.9k
Jiřı́ Grúz Czechia 34 987 0.9× 1.8k 1.8× 791 1.0× 760 1.3× 195 0.4× 92 3.2k
Vassilia J. Sinanoglou Greece 27 404 0.4× 492 0.5× 742 1.0× 753 1.3× 280 0.5× 90 2.2k
Kim Wei Chan Malaysia 28 537 0.5× 457 0.5× 530 0.7× 586 1.0× 153 0.3× 71 2.5k
Mahesha M. Poojary Denmark 29 796 0.8× 525 0.5× 481 0.6× 895 1.5× 121 0.2× 69 2.6k
J. López‐Hernández Spain 31 800 0.8× 708 0.7× 464 0.6× 840 1.4× 164 0.3× 93 3.3k
Hitoshi Takamura Japan 23 833 0.8× 771 0.8× 1.0k 1.3× 886 1.5× 346 0.6× 82 3.0k
María Isabel Mínguez‐Mosquera Spain 40 831 0.8× 1.3k 1.3× 2.2k 2.9× 1.2k 2.0× 1.7k 3.1× 89 4.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by María Roca

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of María Roca

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Nascimento, Tatiele Casagrande do, Mariany Costa Deprá, Rafaela Basso Sartori, et al.. (2025). Photoperiod strategies to increase microalgae-pigment content: A new level-up to natural food colorants production. Algal Research. 90. 104185–104185.
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Fernandes, Andrêssa S., et al.. (2025). Bioactive compound-loaded food-grade bigels: (I) Characterization and study of colorimetry and 3d-printing capability. Food Hydrocolloids. 168. 111486–111486. 4 indexed citations
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Serra, Maria, Antonio Pérez‐Gálvez, & María Roca. (2025). A new biochemical pathway in chlorophyll degradation in melon fruit. Food Chemistry. 475. 143316–143316.
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Roca, María & Antonio Pérez‐Gálvez. (2024). Application of EFSA EU menu database and R computing language to calculate the green chlorophyll intake in the European population. Food Chemistry. 461. 140912–140912. 1 indexed citations
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Viera, Isabel, et al.. (2022). Influence of food composition on chlorophyll bioaccessibility. Food Chemistry. 386. 132805–132805. 17 indexed citations
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Pérez‐Gálvez, Antonio, et al.. (2020). HPLC-hrTOF-MS study of copper chlorophylls: Composition of food colorants and biochemistry after ingestion. Food Chemistry. 321. 126721–126721. 11 indexed citations
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Maroneze, Mariana Manzoni, Eduardo Jacob‐Lopes, Leila Queiroz Zepka, María Roca, & Antonio Pérez‐Gálvez. (2019). Esterified carotenoids as new food components in cyanobacteria. Food Chemistry. 287. 295–302. 20 indexed citations
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Pérez‐Gálvez, Antonio, Isabel Viera, & María Roca. (2019). Acquisition of Mass Spectrometry Data of Carotenoids: A Focus on Big Data Management. Methods in molecular biology. 2083. 135–144. 3 indexed citations
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Chen, Kewei & María Roca. (2019). Cooking effects on bioaccessibility of chlorophyll pigments of the main edible seaweeds. Food Chemistry. 295. 101–109. 27 indexed citations
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Chen, Kewei & María Roca. (2018). Cooking effects on chlorophyll profile of the main edible seaweeds. Food Chemistry. 266. 368–374. 34 indexed citations
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Roca, María, et al.. (2017). Non-fluorescent and yellow chlorophyll catabolites in Japanese plum fruits (Prunus salicina, Lindl.). Food Research International. 100(Pt 3). 332–338. 13 indexed citations
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Chen, Kewei, José Julián Ríos, Antonio Pérez‐Gálvez, & María Roca. (2015). Development of an accurate and high-throughput methodology for structural comprehension of chlorophylls derivatives. (I) Phytylated derivatives. Journal of Chromatography A. 1406. 99–108. 43 indexed citations
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Roca, María, et al.. (2013). Characterisation of chlorophyll oxidation mediated by peroxidative activity in olives (Olea europaea L.) cv. Hojiblanca. Food Chemistry. 139(1-4). 786–795. 12 indexed citations
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Gay, Alan, Howard Thomas, María Roca, et al.. (2008). Nondestructive analysis of senescence in mesophyll cells by spectral resolution of protein synthesis‐dependent pigment metabolism. New Phytologist. 179(3). 663–674. 10 indexed citations
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Roca, María, Caron James, Adriana Pružinská, et al.. (2004). Analysis of the chlorophyll catabolism pathway in leaves of an introgression senescence mutant of Lolium temulentum. Phytochemistry. 65(9). 1231–1238. 54 indexed citations
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Gandul‐Rojas, Beatriz, María Roca, & María Isabel Mínguez‐Mosquera. (2004). Chlorophyll and carotenoid degradation mediated by thylakoid-associated peroxidative activity in olives (Olea europaea) cv. Hojiblanca. Journal of Plant Physiology. 161(5). 499–507. 30 indexed citations
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Pružinská, Adriana, et al.. (2003). Chlorophyll breakdown: Pheophorbide a oxygenase is a Rieske-type iron–sulfur protein, encoded by the accelerated cell death 1 gene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100(25). 15259–15264. 388 indexed citations
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Roca, María & María Isabel Mínguez‐Mosquera. (2003). Involvement of chlorophyllase in chlorophyll metabolism in olive varieties with high and low chlorophyll content. Physiologia Plantarum. 117(4). 459–466. 39 indexed citations
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Roca, María & María Isabel Mínguez‐Mosquera. (2003). Carotenoid levels during the period of growth and ripening in fruits of different olive varieties (Hojiblanca, Picual and Arbequina). Journal of Plant Physiology. 160(5). 451–459. 17 indexed citations

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