María Saura

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

María Saura is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, María Saura has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Genetics, 6 papers in Molecular Biology and 6 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in María Saura's work include Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (21 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (19 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (12 papers). María Saura is often cited by papers focused on Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (21 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (19 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (12 papers). María Saura collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United Kingdom and Brazil. María Saura's co-authors include Armando Caballero, Almudena Fernández, Beatriz Villanueva, Emilio Rolán‐Alvarez, Andrés Pérez‐Figueroa, Ana I. Fernández, C. Barragán, L. Varona, M. Cara and Enrique Santiago and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and Evolution.

In The Last Decade

María Saura

41 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

Recent Demographic History Inferred by High-Resolution Analysis of Linkage Disequilibrium

2020 200 citations Enrique Santiago, María Saura et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
María Saura Spain	18	1.1k	275	228	207	195	43	1.4k
Jesús Fernández Spain	33	2.2k 2.1×	333 1.2×	175 0.8×	260 1.3×	395 2.0×	122	2.7k
Marty Kardos United States	19	1.5k 1.4×	657 2.4×	259 1.1×	382 1.8×	133 0.7×	37	1.8k
Susan E. Johnston United Kingdom	23	1.4k 1.3×	277 1.0×	209 0.9×	487 2.4×	365 1.9×	53	1.9k
Mark D. Camara United States	21	415 0.4×	367 1.3×	254 1.1×	125 0.6×	189 1.0×	40	1.3k
Silvia Teresa Rodríguez‐Ramilo Spain	18	663 0.6×	152 0.6×	94 0.4×	95 0.5×	143 0.7×	43	823
Linda Hellborg Sweden	15	1.1k 1.0×	632 2.3×	192 0.8×	398 1.9×	192 1.0×	20	1.7k
Daniel Dieringer Austria	7	1.3k 1.2×	406 1.5×	311 1.4×	502 2.4×	424 2.2×	8	2.0k
P. L. Leberg United States	12	810 0.8×	620 2.3×	372 1.6×	158 0.8×	122 0.6×	18	1.3k
Ana Lúcia Lopes Portugal	8	709 0.7×	278 1.0×	292 1.3×	486 2.3×	326 1.7×	13	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by María Saura

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of María Saura's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by María Saura with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites María Saura more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by María Saura

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by María Saura. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by María Saura. The network helps show where María Saura may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of María Saura

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of María Saura. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of María Saura 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 Saura. María Saura is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Castaño, Roberto, et al.. (2025). 4CPS-093 Analysis of the impact of the omalizumab shortage in the allergy department. A81.2–A81.

Puente‐Sánchez, Fernando, et al.. (2025). Characterization of bacterial communities of ewe’s vaginal tract and its potential impact on reproductive efficiency. Animal Microbiome. 7(1). 48–48.

García-Fernández, Pablo, et al.. (2024). The skin microbiome as a new potential biomarker in the domestication and health status of Octopus vulgaris. Frontiers in Marine Science. 11. 1 indexed citations

Herranz-Jusdado, Juan Germán, Esther Morel, M. Camino Ordás, et al.. (2023). Yersinia ruckeri infection activates local skin and gill B cell responses in rainbow trout. Fish & Shellfish Immunology. 140. 108989–108989. 6 indexed citations

Saura, María, Óscar González-Recio, Carmen González, et al.. (2023). Impact of oestrus synchronization devices on ewes vaginal microbiota and artificial insemination outcome. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1063807–1063807. 12 indexed citations

Villanueva, Beatriz, Almudena Fernández, María Saura, et al.. (2021). The value of genomic relationship matrices to estimate levels of inbreeding. Genetics Selection Evolution. 53(1). 42–42. 45 indexed citations

Saura, María, Armando Caballero, Enrique Santiago, et al.. (2021). Estimates of recent and historical effective population size in turbot, seabream, seabass and carp selective breeding programmes. Genetics Selection Evolution. 53(1). 85–85. 32 indexed citations

Villanueva, Beatriz, et al.. (2019). Genetic differences in host infectivity affect disease spread and survival in epidemics. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 4924–4924. 1 indexed citations

Morán, Paloma, Ana I. Fernández, Beatriz Villanueva, et al.. (2019). Identification of genomic regions regulating sex determination in Atlantic salmon using high density SNP data. BMC Genomics. 20(1). 764–764. 17 indexed citations

10.

Rivas, María José, María Saura, Andrés Pérez‐Figueroa, et al.. (2018). Population genomics of parallel evolution in gene expression and gene sequence during ecological adaptation. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 16147–16147. 17 indexed citations

11.

Berton, Mariana Piatto, Rafael Medeiros de Oliveira Silva, Elisa Peripolli, et al.. (2017). Genomic regions and pathways associated with gastrointestinal parasites resistance in Santa Inês breed adapted to tropical climate. Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology. 8(1). 73–73. 42 indexed citations

12.

Saura, María, et al.. (2016). Historical Biogeography of the Marine Snail Littorina saxatilis Inferred from Haplotype and Shell Morphology Evolution in NW Spain. PLoS ONE. 11(8). e0161287–e0161287. 13 indexed citations

13.

Saura, María, et al.. (2015). Does DNA methylation regulate metamorphosis? The case of the sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) as an example. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 185. 42–46. 25 indexed citations

14.

Saura, María, Almudena Fernández, L. Varona, et al.. (2015). Detecting inbreeding depression for reproductive traits in Iberian pigs using genome-wide data. Genetics Selection Evolution. 47(1). 1–1. 257 indexed citations

15.

Saura, María, Albert Tenesa, John Woolliams, Almudena Fernández, & Beatriz Villanueva. (2015). Evaluation of the linkage-disequilibrium method for the estimation of effective population size when generations overlap: an empirical case. BMC Genomics. 16(1). 922–922. 29 indexed citations

16.

Saura, María. (2014). Estimation of ancient and recent effective population size from linkage disequilibrium in a closed herd of Iberian pigs. 1 indexed citations

17.

Saura, María, Almudena Fernández, M. Á. Toro, et al.. (2013). Genome-Wide Estimates of Coancestry and Inbreeding in a Closed Herd of Ancient Iberian Pigs. PLoS ONE. 8(10). e78314–e78314. 37 indexed citations

18.

Pérez‐Figueroa, Andrés, María Jesús García-Pereira, María Saura, Emilio Rolán‐Alvarez, & Armando Caballero. (2010). Comparing three different methods to detect selective loci using dominant markers. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 23(10). 2267–2276. 146 indexed citations

19.

Saura, María, Andrés Pérez‐Figueroa, Jesús Fernández, M. Á. Toro, & Armando Caballero. (2008). Preserving Population Allele Frequencies in Ex Situ Conservation Programs. Conservation Biology. 22(5). 1277–1287. 34 indexed citations

20.

Saura, María, et al.. (2004). Mutations including the promoter region of myocilin/TIGR gene. European Journal of Human Genetics. 13(3). 384–387. 9 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact