Marta Riutort

6.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
97 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Marta Riutort is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Marta Riutort has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 87 papers in Molecular Biology, 62 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 58 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Marta Riutort's work include Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation (73 papers), Marine Ecology and Invasive Species (62 papers) and Parasite Biology and Host Interactions (53 papers). Marta Riutort is often cited by papers focused on Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation (73 papers), Marine Ecology and Invasive Species (62 papers) and Parasite Biology and Host Interactions (53 papers). Marta Riutort collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Marta Riutort's co-authors include Jaume Baguñà, Salvador Carranza, Carles Ribera, Gonzalo Giribet, Iñaki Ruiz‐Trillo, Marta Álvarez‐Presas, Jordi Paps, D. Timothy J. Littlewood, Ronald Sluys and Elisabeth A. Herniou and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Marta Riutort

92 papers receiving 3.6k 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.

First molecular evidence for the existence of a Tardigrada + Arthropoda clade

1996 521 citations Gonzalo Giribet, Salvador Carranza et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Marta Riutort Spain	32	2.4k	1.6k	1.6k	775	672	97	3.7k
Ulf Jondelius Sweden	30	1.7k 0.7×	1.6k 1.0×	986 0.6×	797 1.0×	1.0k 1.5×	76	3.4k
Jaume Baguñà Spain	45	3.9k 1.6×	1.3k 0.8×	2.6k 1.7×	1.5k 1.9×	794 1.2×	79	5.6k
Reinhard M. Rieger Austria	35	1.5k 0.6×	976 0.6×	1.0k 0.7×	546 0.7×	1.1k 1.6×	82	2.9k
Kevin M. Kocot United States	27	1.2k 0.5×	923 0.6×	772 0.5×	799 1.0×	998 1.5×	81	3.1k
Michaël Manuel France	33	2.0k 0.8×	807 0.5×	1.1k 0.7×	1.8k 2.3×	441 0.7×	67	4.1k
Matthias Obst Sweden	20	1.2k 0.5×	855 0.5×	887 0.6×	1.1k 1.4×	638 0.9×	47	2.9k
Guillaume Balavoine France	25	1.9k 0.8×	449 0.3×	880 0.6×	617 0.8×	439 0.7×	38	2.9k
James M. Turbeville United States	17	1.2k 0.5×	726 0.5×	502 0.3×	416 0.5×	782 1.2×	33	2.5k
Dorothée Huchon Israel	30	1.2k 0.5×	1.2k 0.7×	544 0.3×	1.1k 1.5×	209 0.3×	69	3.4k
Sandie M. Degnan Australia	32	1.0k 0.4×	1.2k 0.7×	914 0.6×	464 0.6×	329 0.5×	82	3.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marta Riutort

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Giannelli, F., Josephine R. Paris, Karen Bourgeois, et al.. (2025). Pervasive and recurrent hybridization prevents inbreeding in Europe’s most threatened seabird. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(34). e2427223122–e2427223122.

Stocchino, Giacinta Angela, et al.. (2024). The long-eared freshwater planarians of Madagascar form a separate phylogenetic clade within the genus Dugesia (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida), with the description of two new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 202(4).

Stocchino, Giacinta Angela, et al.. (2024). New insights into the evolution and biogeography of freshwater planarians on islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea, Western Mediterranean Basin, with the integrative description of a new endemic species from Corsica (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Dugesia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 201(4). 1 indexed citations

Riutort, Marta, et al.. (2024). Treasure island: DNA data reveals unknown diversity in Cuban freshwater planarians (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida). Zoologia (Curitiba). 41.

Stocchino, Giacinta Angela, et al.. (2023). Fantastic beasts and how to delimit them: an integrative approach using multispecies coalescent methods reveals two new, endemic Dugesia species (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida) from Corsica and Sardinia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 201(3). 4 indexed citations

Álvarez‐Presas, Marta, et al.. (2023). Phylogenetic relationships of the Geoplaninae land planarians (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida) assessed with a total evidence approach, with the description of a new species of Gigantea. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 184. 107750–107750. 3 indexed citations

Sluys, Ronald, et al.. (2022). First molecular phylogeny of the freshwater planarian genus Girardia (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida) unveils hidden taxonomic diversity and initiates resolution of its historical biogeography. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 197(1). 1–19. 5 indexed citations

Mateos, Eduardo, et al.. (2022). The expansion continues: Girardia arrives in Africa. First record of Girardia sinensis (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida, Continenticola, Dugesiidae) in Morocco. Zootaxa. 5169(5). 497–500. 2 indexed citations

Ferrer, Joan, José M. Herranz, Josephine R. Paris, et al.. (2022). Species delimitation using genomic data to resolve taxonomic uncertainties in a speciation continuum of pelagic seabirds. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 179. 107671–107671. 15 indexed citations

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Stocchino, Giacinta Angela, et al.. (2021). Amphibioplanidae: a new branch and family on the phylogenetic tree of the triclad flatworms (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida), represented by a species from Sardinian caves with a remarkable lifestyle. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 193(4). 1364–1391. 5 indexed citations

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Jones, Hugh D., Eduardo Mateos, Marta Riutort, & Marta Álvarez‐Presas. (2020). The identity of the invasive yellow-striped terrestrial planarian found recently in Europe: Caenoplana variegata (Fletcher & Hamilton, 1888) or Caenoplana bicolor (Graff, 1899)?. Zootaxa. 4731(2). zootaxa.4731.2.2–zootaxa.4731.2.2. 8 indexed citations

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Vila‐Farré, Miquel, et al.. (2019). Outstanding intraindividual genetic diversity in fissiparous planarians (Dugesia, Platyhelminthes) with facultative sex. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 19(1). 130–130. 14 indexed citations

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Vila‐Farré, Miquel, et al.. (2019). Cryptic species delineation in freshwater planarians of the genus Dugesia (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida): Extreme intraindividual genetic diversity, morphological stasis, and karyological variability. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 143. 106496–106496. 20 indexed citations

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Riutort, Marta, et al.. (2012). Evolutionary history of the Tricladida and the Platyhelminthes: an up-to-date phylogenetic and systematic account. The International Journal of Developmental Biology. 56(1-2-3). 5–17. 53 indexed citations

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Torruella, Guifré, Hiroshi Suga, Marta Riutort, Juli Peretό, & Iñaki Ruiz‐Trillo. (2009). The Evolutionary History of Lysine Biosynthesis Pathways Within Eukaryotes. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 69(3). 240–248. 24 indexed citations

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Philippe, Hervé, Henner Brinkmann, Pedro Martı́nez, Marta Riutort, & Jaume Baguñà. (2007). Acoel Flatworms Are Not Platyhelminthes: Evidence from Phylogenomics. PLoS ONE. 2(8). e717–e717. 98 indexed citations

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Baguñà, Jaume & Marta Riutort. (2004). The dawn of bilaterian animals: the case of acoelomorph flatworms. BioEssays. 26(10). 1046–1057. 100 indexed citations

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Jondelius, Ulf, et al.. (2001). Nemertodermatida, a basal bilaterian group. Belgian journal of zoology. 3 indexed citations

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Carranza, Salvador, Jaume Baguñà, & Marta Riutort. (1997). Are the Platyhelminthes a monophyletic primitive group? An assessment using 18S rDNA sequences. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 14(5). 485–497. 183 indexed citations

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Carranza, Salvador, Gonzalo Giribet, Carles Ribera, & Marta Riutort. (1996). Evidence that two types of 18S rDNA coexist in the genome of Dugesia (Schmidtea) mediterranea (Platyhelminthes, Turbellaria, Tricladida). Molecular Biology and Evolution. 13(6). 824–832. 132 indexed citations

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