Rafael Bargiela

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Rafael Bargiela is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Rafael Bargiela has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Molecular Biology, 16 papers in Ecology and 14 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Rafael Bargiela's work include Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization (13 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (13 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (13 papers). Rafael Bargiela is often cited by papers focused on Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization (13 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (13 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (13 papers). Rafael Bargiela collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Spain and Germany. Rafael Bargiela's co-authors include Manuel Ferrer, Peter N. Golyshin, David Rojo, Coral Barbas, Mónica Martínez‐Martínez, Olga V. Golyshina, Vítor A. P. Martins dos Santos, Jana Seifert, Andrés Moyá and Martin von Bergen� and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Medicine, Nature Communications and ACS Nano.

In The Last Decade

Rafael Bargiela

64 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Gut microbiota disturbance during antibiotic therapy: a multi-omic approach

2012 473 citations Ana Elena Pérez‐Cobas, María José Gosalbes et al. Gut profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rafael Bargiela United Kingdom	27	1.6k	458	406	405	330	64	2.8k
Nicolas Barraud Australia	26	2.2k 1.4×	284 0.6×	712 1.8×	487 1.2×	144 0.4×	38	4.0k
Markus Schuppler Switzerland	28	1.1k 0.7×	355 0.8×	245 0.6×	410 1.0×	337 1.0×	52	2.9k
Chuanwu Xi United States	42	1.6k 1.0×	1.3k 2.8×	715 1.8×	707 1.7×	242 0.7×	116	5.5k
Qian Yang China	31	1.3k 0.8×	247 0.5×	349 0.9×	429 1.1×	125 0.4×	215	3.8k
Yong Nie China	31	1.5k 1.0×	975 2.1×	365 0.9×	640 1.6×	164 0.5×	106	3.1k
Dongmei Deng Netherlands	33	898 0.6×	300 0.7×	799 2.0×	117 0.3×	398 1.2×	132	4.2k
Toshinari Maeda Japan	38	2.2k 1.4×	593 1.3×	965 2.4×	492 1.2×	177 0.5×	185	4.8k
Martina Cappelletti Italy	25	1.3k 0.8×	592 1.3×	548 1.3×	600 1.5×	139 0.4×	84	3.6k
Abdul Rauf Shakoori Pakistan	28	1.1k 0.7×	555 1.2×	321 0.8×	194 0.5×	211 0.6×	314	3.7k
Yogesh S. Shouche India	29	979 0.6×	454 1.0×	550 1.4×	353 0.9×	151 0.5×	102	2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Rafael Bargiela

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rafael Bargiela

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

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Graf, Martine, Michaela K. Reay, Rafael Bargiela, et al.. (2025). Biodegradable mulch films exhibit slower-than-expected degradation with negligible effects on soil microbial communities. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 498. 139871–139871. 2 indexed citations

Reay, Michaela K., Martine Graf, Lucy M. Greenfield, et al.. (2024). Microbial degradation of bioplastic (PHBV) is limited by nutrient availability at high microplastic loadings. Environmental Science Advances. 4(1). 133–146. 9 indexed citations

Sánchez‐Rodríguez, Antonio Rafael, et al.. (2024). Lime, gypsum, and nitrogen as drivers to increase the abundance of soil fungi and N-cycling microorganisms in integrated agricultural systems. Applied Soil Ecology. 202. 105549–105549. 1 indexed citations

Distaso, Marco A., Tatyana N. Chernikova, Rafael Bargiela, et al.. (2023). Thermophilic Carboxylesterases from Hydrothermal Vents of the Volcanic Island of Ischia Active on Synthetic and Biobased Polymers and Mycotoxins. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 89(2). e0170422–e0170422. 11 indexed citations

Marasco, Ramona, Marco Fusi, Cristina Coscolín, et al.. (2023). Enzyme adaptation to habitat thermal legacy shapes the thermal plasticity of marine microbiomes. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1045–1045. 17 indexed citations

Serrano‐Villar, Sergio, Camilla Tincati, Sajan C. Raju, et al.. (2023). Microbiome-derived cobalamin and succinyl-CoA as biomarkers for improved screening of anal cancer. Nature Medicine. 29(7). 1738–1749. 15 indexed citations

Graf, Martine, Lucy M. Greenfield, Michaela K. Reay, et al.. (2023). Increasing concentration of pure micro- and macro-LDPE and PP plastic negatively affect crop biomass, nutrient cycling, and microbial biomass. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 458. 131932–131932. 28 indexed citations

Bargiela, Rafael, Aleksei A. Korzhenkov, Stepan V. Toshchakov, et al.. (2023). Evolutionary patterns of archaea predominant in acidic environment. Environmental Microbiome. 18(1). 61–61. 5 indexed citations

Yakimov, Michail M., Rafael Bargiela, & Peter N. Golyshin. (2021). Calm and Frenzy: marine obligate hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria sustain ocean wellness. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 73. 337–345. 38 indexed citations

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Distaso, Marco A., Tatyana N. Chernikova, Rafael Bargiela, et al.. (2020). Utilization of low-molecular-weight organic compounds by the filterable fraction of a lotic microbiome. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 97(2). 2 indexed citations

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Golyshina, Olga V., Rafael Bargiela, Stepan V. Toshchakov, et al.. (2019). Diversity of “Ca. Micrarchaeota” in Two Distinct Types of Acidic Environments and Their Associations with Thermoplasmatales. Genes. 10(6). 461–461. 20 indexed citations

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Coscolín, Cristina, Nadine Katzke, Antonio García‐Moyano, et al.. (2018). Bioprospecting Reveals Class III ω-Transaminases Converting Bulky Ketones and Environmentally Relevant Polyamines. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 85(2). 17 indexed citations

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Deusch, Simon, Sergio Serrano‐Villar, David Rojo, et al.. (2018). Effects of HIV, antiretroviral therapy and prebiotics on the active fraction of the gut microbiota. AIDS. 32(10). 1229–1237. 26 indexed citations

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Serrano‐Villar, Sergio, David Rojo, Mónica Martínez‐Martínez, et al.. (2016). Gut Bacteria Metabolism Impacts Immune Recovery in HIV-infected Individuals. EBioMedicine. 8. 203–216. 83 indexed citations

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Bargiela, Rafael & Manuel Ferrer. (2016). Degradation Network Reconstruction Guided by Metagenomic Data. Methods in molecular biology. 1539. 145–157. 1 indexed citations

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Bargiela, Rafael, Christoph Gertler, Mirko Magagnini, et al.. (2015). Degradation Network Reconstruction in Uric Acid and Ammonium Amendments in Oil-Degrading Marine Microcosms Guided by Metagenomic Data. Frontiers in Microbiology. 6. 1270–1270. 14 indexed citations

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Kubacka, Anna, María Suárez‐Diez, David Rojo, et al.. (2014). Understanding the antimicrobial mechanism of TiO2-based nanocomposite films in a pathogenic bacterium. Scientific Reports. 4(1). 4134–4134. 346 indexed citations

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Bargiela, Rafael, María Suárez‐Diez, Anette Friedrichs, et al.. (2013). Functional consequences of microbial shifts in the human gastrointestinal tract linked to antibiotic treatment and obesity. Gut Microbes. 4(4). 306–315. 73 indexed citations

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Pérez‐Cobas, Ana Elena, María José Gosalbes, Anette Friedrichs, et al.. (2012). Gut microbiota disturbance during antibiotic therapy: a multi-omic approach. Gut. 62(11). 1591–1601. 473 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ferrer, Manuel, Alicia Ruíz, Francesca Lanza, et al.. (2012). Microbiota from the distal guts of lean and obese adolescents exhibit partial functional redundancy besides clear differences in community structure. Environmental Microbiology. 15(1). 211–226. 189 indexed citations

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