Ricardo León‐Sampedro

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Ricardo León‐Sampedro is a scholar working on Molecular Medicine, Molecular Biology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Ricardo León‐Sampedro has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Molecular Medicine, 10 papers in Molecular Biology and 5 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Ricardo León‐Sampedro's work include Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (12 papers), Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (5 papers) and Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing (3 papers). Ricardo León‐Sampedro is often cited by papers focused on Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria (12 papers), Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (5 papers) and Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing (3 papers). Ricardo León‐Sampedro collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Ricardo León‐Sampedro's co-authors include Álvaro San Millán, Jerónimo Rodríguez-Beltrán, Javier DelaFuente, Teresa M. Coque, R. Craig MacLean, Rafael Cantón, Rosa del Campo, Laura Ruiz-Ripa, Carla Andrea Alonso and Cármen Torres and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Reviews Microbiology and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ricardo León‐Sampedro

18 papers receiving 1.0k 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.

Beyond horizontal gene transfer: the role of plasmids in bacterial evolution

2021 277 citations Jerónimo Rodríguez-Beltrán, Javier DelaFuente et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ricardo León‐Sampedro Spain	15	526	396	247	232	198	19	1.1k
Yingzhou Xie China	8	593 1.1×	470 1.2×	142 0.6×	344 1.5×	143 0.7×	13	1.1k
Jane Hawkey Australia	20	751 1.4×	594 1.5×	214 0.9×	269 1.2×	144 0.7×	41	1.5k
Sergio Arredondo-Alonso United Kingdom	12	409 0.8×	388 1.0×	228 0.9×	172 0.7×	100 0.5×	20	909
Edita Sužiedėlienė Lithuania	19	451 0.9×	368 0.9×	111 0.4×	170 0.7×	139 0.7×	38	972
Piklu Roy Chowdhury Australia	23	756 1.4×	278 0.7×	140 0.6×	299 1.3×	243 1.2×	48	1.2k
Rachel A. F. Wozniak United States	11	422 0.8×	480 1.2×	145 0.6×	378 1.6×	142 0.7×	28	1.2k
Saeed Khan United States	18	205 0.4×	356 0.9×	234 0.9×	193 0.8×	153 0.8×	60	1.0k
Dayna M. Harhay United States	15	271 0.5×	596 1.5×	140 0.6×	266 1.1×	170 0.9×	36	1.2k
Julie Haendiges United States	9	384 0.7×	340 0.9×	172 0.7×	190 0.8×	99 0.5×	20	1.0k
Michael S. M. Brouwer Netherlands	15	803 1.5×	319 0.8×	116 0.5×	189 0.8×	383 1.9×	33	1.2k

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19 of 19 papers shown

León‐Sampedro, Ricardo, et al.. (2025). Multi-layered ecological interactions determine growth of clinical antibiotic-resistant strains within human microbiomes. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9733–9733.

León‐Sampedro, Ricardo, et al.. (2023). Clinical antibiotic-resistance plasmids have small effects on biofilm formation and population growth in Escherichia coli in vitro. Plasmid. 128. 102706–102706. 1 indexed citations

Angst, Daniel C., et al.. (2023). Antibiotic-degrading resistance changes bacterial community structure via species-specific responses. The ISME Journal. 17(9). 1495–1503. 17 indexed citations

DelaFuente, Javier, Alfonso Santos-López, Ricardo León‐Sampedro, et al.. (2022). Within-patient evolution of plasmid-mediated antimicrobial resistance. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(12). 1980–1991. 48 indexed citations

Herencias, Cristina, Jerónimo Rodríguez-Beltrán, Ricardo León‐Sampedro, et al.. (2021). Collateral sensitivity associated with antibiotic resistance plasmids. eLife. 10. 25 indexed citations

Rodríguez-Beltrán, Jerónimo, Javier DelaFuente, Ricardo León‐Sampedro, R. Craig MacLean, & Álvaro San Millán. (2021). Beyond horizontal gene transfer: the role of plasmids in bacterial evolution. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 19(6). 347–359. 277 indexed citations breakdown →

Valle, Aída Alonso-del, Ricardo León‐Sampedro, Jerónimo Rodríguez-Beltrán, et al.. (2021). Variability of plasmid fitness effects contributes to plasmid persistence in bacterial communities. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2653–2653. 130 indexed citations

León‐Sampedro, Ricardo, Javier DelaFuente, Cristina Díaz-Agero Pérez, et al.. (2021). Pervasive transmission of a carbapenem resistance plasmid in the gut microbiota of hospitalized patients. Nature Microbiology. 6(5). 606–616. 100 indexed citations

Rodríguez-Beltrán, Jerónimo, et al.. (2021). Translational demand is not a major source of plasmid-associated fitness costs. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 377(1842). 20200463–20200463. 16 indexed citations

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León‐Sampedro, Ricardo, Rosa del Campo, Mercedes Rodríguez-Baños, et al.. (2019). Phylogenomics of Enterococcus faecalis from wild birds: new insights into host‐associated differences in core and accessory genomes of the species. Environmental Microbiology. 21(8). 3046–3062. 9 indexed citations

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León‐Sampedro, Ricardo, et al.. (2019). Transfer dynamics of Tn6648, a composite integrative conjugative element generated by tandem accretion of Tn5801 and Tn6647 in Enterococcus faecalis. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 74(9). 2517–2523. 7 indexed citations

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Hernández-García, Marta, Blanca Pérez-Viso, Ricardo León‐Sampedro, et al.. (2019). Outbreak of NDM-1+CTX-M-15+DHA-1-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae high-risk clone in Spain owing to an undetectable colonised patient from Pakistan. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents. 54(2). 233–239. 15 indexed citations

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Hernández-García, Marta, Ricardo León‐Sampedro, Blanca Pérez-Viso, et al.. (2018). First Report of an OXA-48- and CTX-M-213-Producing Kluyvera Species Clone Recovered from Patients Admitted in a University Hospital in Madrid, Spain. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 62(11). 17 indexed citations

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Torres, Cármen, Carla Andrea Alonso, Laura Ruiz-Ripa, et al.. (2018). Antimicrobial Resistance inEnterococcusspp. of animal origin. Microbiology Spectrum. 6(4). 194 indexed citations

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Botelho, João, Adam P. Roberts, Ricardo León‐Sampedro, Filipa Grosso, & Luı́sa Peixe. (2018). Carbapenemases on the move: it’s good to be on ICEs. Mobile DNA. 9(1). 37–37. 40 indexed citations

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Freitas, Ana R., Ricardo León‐Sampedro, Mohamed Salah Abbassi, et al.. (2017). Detection of optrA in the African continent (Tunisia) within a mosaic Enterococcus faecalis plasmid from urban wastewaters. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 72(12). 3245–3251. 58 indexed citations

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Curião, Tânia, Emmanuela Marchi, Denis Grandgirard, et al.. (2016). Multiple adaptive routes of Salmonella enterica Typhimurium to biocide and antibiotic exposure. BMC Genomics. 17(1). 491–491. 39 indexed citations

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Furi, Leonardo, Richard Haigh, Ian Morrissey, et al.. (2016). Dissemination of Novel Antimicrobial Resistance Mechanisms through the Insertion Sequence Mediated Spread of Metabolic Genes. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7. 1008–1008. 29 indexed citations

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León‐Sampedro, Ricardo, Carla Novais, Luı́sa Peixe, Fernando Baquero, & Teresa M. Coque. (2016). Diversity and Evolution of the Tn 5801-tet (M)-Like Integrative and Conjugative Elements among Enterococcus, Streptococcus, and Staphylococcus. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 60(3). 1736–1746. 34 indexed citations

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