Ricardo Franco‐Duarte

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Ricardo Franco‐Duarte is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Food Science and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ricardo Franco‐Duarte has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Molecular Biology, 25 papers in Food Science and 17 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Ricardo Franco‐Duarte's work include Fermentation and Sensory Analysis (24 papers), Horticultural and Viticultural Research (16 papers) and Fungal and yeast genetics research (10 papers). Ricardo Franco‐Duarte is often cited by papers focused on Fermentation and Sensory Analysis (24 papers), Horticultural and Viticultural Research (16 papers) and Fungal and yeast genetics research (10 papers). Ricardo Franco‐Duarte collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, Slovenia and France. Ricardo Franco‐Duarte's co-authors include Dorit Elisabeth Schuller, Célia Pais, Paula Sampaio, Teresa Lima, Maria João Sousa, Martyna Leszczewicz, Antonio Bevilacqua, Karishma S. Kaushik, Bahare Salehi and Hubert Antolak and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and Food Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Ricardo Franco‐Duarte

48 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Advances in Chemical and Biological Methods to Identify Microorganisms—From Past to Present

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ricardo Franco‐Duarte Portugal	20	596	513	439	174	133	49	1.3k
Valerio Mezzasalma Italy	16	321 0.5×	363 0.7×	251 0.6×	58 0.3×	55 0.4×	27	776
Lélia Chambel Portugal	17	364 0.6×	316 0.6×	129 0.3×	95 0.5×	21 0.2×	32	1.0k
J. P. van der Walt South Africa	23	659 1.1×	1.4k 2.7×	741 1.7×	265 1.5×	26 0.2×	153	2.0k
Paul V. Attfield Australia	24	692 1.2×	1.6k 3.0×	299 0.7×	648 3.7×	9 0.1×	50	2.3k
Ludwig Niessen Germany	27	254 0.4×	606 1.2×	1.3k 2.9×	509 2.9×	6 0.0×	69	2.0k
Tigst Demeke Canada	24	292 0.5×	826 1.6×	1.6k 3.7×	178 1.0×	4 0.0×	56	2.3k
Verónica Rojas Chile	17	201 0.3×	308 0.6×	160 0.4×	19 0.1×	32 0.2×	32	952
Lynferd J. Wickerham United States	25	817 1.4×	1.4k 2.8×	901 2.1×	232 1.3×	23 0.2×	64	2.5k
Bruce M. Pearson United Kingdom	20	954 1.6×	700 1.4×	156 0.4×	94 0.5×	3 0.0×	40	1.6k
Norman R. Eaton United States	15	506 0.8×	1.1k 2.2×	378 0.9×	219 1.3×	7 0.1×	25	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ricardo Franco‐Duarte

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Basto-Fernandes, Vítor, Rudy Vergauwen, Ricardo Franco‐Duarte, et al.. (2025). The ATO gene family governs Candida albicans colonization in the dysbiotic gastrointestinal tract. mBio. 16(10). e0164425–e0164425. 1 indexed citations

Franco‐Duarte, Ricardo, Tiago A. Fernandes, Maria João Sousa, et al.. (2025). Phylogenomics and functional annotation of 530 non-Saccharomyces yeasts from winemaking environments reveals their fermentome and flavorome. Studies in Mycology. 111(1). 1–18.

Jayasinghe, Thilini N., Hanna Cho, Yuchen Zhang, et al.. (2025). Dietary Fibre Modulates Body Composition, Blood Glucose, Inflammation, Microbiome, and Metabolome in a Murine Model of Periodontitis. Nutrients. 17(7). 1146–1146. 3 indexed citations

Chopra, Aditi, Ricardo Franco‐Duarte, Pedro O. Soares, et al.. (2024). Exploring the presence of oral bacteria in non-oral sites of patients with cardiovascular diseases using whole metagenomic data. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 1476–1476. 9 indexed citations

Santos‐Pereira, Cátia, Teresa Rito, Pedro Soares, et al.. (2023). Functional and sequence-based metagenomics to uncover carbohydrate-degrading enzymes from composting samples. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 107(17). 5379–5401. 15 indexed citations

Costa, André da, Ricardo Franco‐Duarte, Raúl Machado, & Andreia C. Gomes. (2022). Uncovering the promiscuous activity of IL‐6 proteins: A multi‐dimensional analysis of phylogeny, classification and residue conservation. Protein Science. 31(11). e4469–e4469. 3 indexed citations

Franco‐Duarte, Ricardo, Neža Čadež, Teresa Rito, et al.. (2022). Whole-Genome Sequencing and Annotation of the Yeast Clavispora santaluciae Reveals Important Insights about Its Adaptation to the Vineyard Environment. Journal of Fungi. 8(1). 52–52. 4 indexed citations

Franco‐Duarte, Ricardo, Alberto Gómez‐Carballa, Antonio Salas, et al.. (2022). Phylogeography of Sub-Saharan Mitochondrial Lineages Outside Africa Highlights the Roles of the Holocene Climate Changes and the Atlantic Slave Trade. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(16). 9219–9219. 3 indexed citations

Rito, Teresa, et al.. (2021). Improvement of Torulaspora delbrueckii Genome Annotation: Towards the Exploitation of Genomic Features of a Biotechnologically Relevant Yeast. Journal of Fungi. 7(4). 287–287. 12 indexed citations

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Santos, Helena, et al.. (2021). Fungal infections diagnosis – Past, present and future. Research in Microbiology. 173(3). 103915–103915. 58 indexed citations

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Pozdniakova, Tatiana A., et al.. (2020). Single Cell Oil Production by Oleaginous Yeasts Grown in Synthetic and Waste-Derived Volatile Fatty Acids. Microorganisms. 8(11). 1809–1809. 25 indexed citations

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Pozdniakova, Tatiana A., et al.. (2020). Modified high-throughput Nile red fluorescence assay for the rapid screening of oleaginous yeasts using acetic acid as carbon source. BMC Microbiology. 20(1). 60–60. 30 indexed citations

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Franco‐Duarte, Ricardo, et al.. (2018). Differentiation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae populations from vineyards of the Azores Archipelago: Geography vs Ecology. Food Microbiology. 74. 151–162. 20 indexed citations

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Sanchez, Isabelle, Ricardo Franco‐Duarte, Carole Camarasa, et al.. (2017). Integrating transcriptomics and metabolomics for the analysis of the aroma profiles of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains from diverse origins. BMC Genomics. 18(1). 455–455. 32 indexed citations

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Franco‐Duarte, Ricardo, et al.. (2016). Yeast Biodiversity in Vineyard Environments Is Increased by Human Intervention. PLoS ONE. 11(8). e0160579–e0160579. 44 indexed citations

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Franco‐Duarte, Ricardo, Lan Umek, A. C. Silva Ferreira, et al.. (2016). New integrative computational approaches unveil the Saccharomyces cerevisiae pheno-metabolomic fermentative profile and allow strain selection for winemaking. Food Chemistry. 211. 509–520. 26 indexed citations

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Franco‐Duarte, Ricardo, Frédéric Bigey, Laura Carreto, et al.. (2015). Intrastrain genomic and phenotypic variability of the commercialSaccharomyces cerevisiaestrain Zymaflore VL1 reveals microevolutionary adaptation to vineyard environments. FEMS Yeast Research. 15(6). fov063–fov063. 19 indexed citations

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Franco‐Duarte, Ricardo, Lan Umek, Elza Fonseca, et al.. (2013). Computational Models for Prediction of Yeast Strain Potential for Winemaking from Phenotypic Profiles. PLoS ONE. 8(7). e66523–e66523. 19 indexed citations

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Santos, Miguel M., M.A. Reis-Henriques, Raúl Guillot, et al.. (2008). Anti-androgenic effects of sewage treatment plant effluents in the prosobranch gastropod Nucella lapillus. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part C Toxicology & Pharmacology. 148(1). 87–93. 18 indexed citations

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Pereira, Luı́sa, et al.. (2007). No Evidence for an mtDNA Role in Sperm Motility: Data from Complete Sequencing of Asthenozoospermic Males. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 24(3). 868–874. 54 indexed citations

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