Richard Torres

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 885 citations indexed

About

Richard Torres is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Torres has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 885 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Genetics and 5 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Richard Torres's work include Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies (5 papers), Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy (4 papers) and Amphibian and Reptile Biology (4 papers). Richard Torres is often cited by papers focused on Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies (5 papers), Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy (4 papers) and Amphibian and Reptile Biology (4 papers). Richard Torres collaborates with scholars based in United States, Colombia and Brazil. Richard Torres's co-authors include Ke Ren, Ronald A. DePinho, Nicole Schreiber‐Agus, James W. Horner, Eben Olson, Fung‐Chow Chiu, Michael J. Levene, P. A. Baisden, Milan Jamrich and Andy T. Y. Lau and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Molecular and Cellular Biology and Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

In The Last Decade

Richard Torres

27 papers receiving 865 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.

Role of interleukin-1β during pain and inflammation

2009 580 citations Ke Ren, Richard Torres Brain Research Reviews profile →

Peers

Richard Torres

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Mitsuya Shiraishi Japan

Danielle L. Ippolito United States

Hiroko Itô Japan

Peng Zhou China

Kun Liu China

Yan Bai China

Miriam Langelaar‐Makkinje Netherlands

Jordi Bermúdez Spain

Jianying Shen China

Mitsuya Shiraishi Japan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard Torres

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Torres, Richard, Magali Torres, Babacar Mbengué, et al.. (2025). Unraveling an enhancer-silencer regulatory element showing epistatic interaction with a variant that escaped genome-wide association studies. Cell Genomics. 5(7). 100889–100889.

Torres, Richard, et al.. (2024). A new cave-dwelling species of Charinus (Amblypygi: Charinidae) from northern Brazil. Zootaxa. 5399(4). 418–432. 1 indexed citations

Crews, Sarah C., et al.. (2021). The flattie spiders of the Selenops isopodus species group (Araneae: Selenopidae) with a review of Selenops records from Colombia . Zootaxa. 4964(1). zootaxa.4964.1.3–zootaxa.4964.1.3. 1 indexed citations

Torres, Richard, et al.. (2021). Seasonal and intra-populational diet variation in the Colombian Swamp frogPseudopaludicola pusilla(Anura Leptodactylidae). Ethology Ecology & Evolution. 33(6). 611–627. 3 indexed citations

Torres, Richard, et al.. (2021). Diversity of orb-weaving spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from tropical dry forest in Northern Colombia, with eleven new records for the country. Journal of Natural History. 55(19-20). 1237–1250.

Perincheri, Sudhir, Randy L. Luciano, Gilbert Moeckel, & Richard Torres. (2020). Evaluation of a Direct-to-Digital Histology Method for Rapid Evaluation of Kidney Biopsies. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 31(10S). 13–13. 1 indexed citations

Brescovit, Antônio D., et al.. (2020). Six new species of the spider genus Centroctenus Mello-Leitão from the Neotropical region (Ctenidae, Cteninae). Zootaxa. 4877(2). zootaxa.4877.2.5–zootaxa.4877.2.5. 2 indexed citations

Torres, Richard, et al.. (2020). Traveling with an invader: ectoparasitic mites of Hemidactylus frenatus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) in Colombia. Cuadernos de herpetología. 34(1). 79–82. 7 indexed citations

Torres, Richard, et al.. (2019). Tenebriochernes, a new genus and species of Chernetidae (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones) from north-western Colombia, with ecological observations . Zootaxa. 4624(1). zootaxa.4624.1.6–zootaxa.4624.1.6. 3 indexed citations

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Torres, Richard, et al.. (2019). Charinus rocamadre (Amblypygi, Charinidae): description of the female, ultrastructure of the male and female gonopods, and mitochondrial DNA sequences. Zootaxa. 4664(1). zootaxa.4664.1.6–zootaxa.4664.1.6. 2 indexed citations

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Torres, Richard, et al.. (2019). Aspects of the natural history of Phrynus barbadensis (Pocock, 1893) (Amblypygi: Phrynidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 78(1). 12–21. 6 indexed citations

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Torres, Richard, et al.. (2018). Morphogeometric variation in Phrynus barbadensis (Pocock, 1893) (Amblypyghi: Phrynidae) from Colombia. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina. 77(1). 18–23. 4 indexed citations

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Gülden, Elke, Nalini Vudattu, Songyan Deng, et al.. (2017). Microbiota control immune regulation in humanized mice. JCI Insight. 2(21). 21 indexed citations

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Olson, Eben, Michael J. Levene, & Richard Torres. (2016). Multiphoton microscopy with clearing for three dimensional histology of kidney biopsies. Biomedical Optics Express. 7(8). 3089–3089. 52 indexed citations

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Ren, Ke & Richard Torres. (2009). Role of interleukin-1β during pain and inflammation. Brain Research Reviews. 60(1). 57–64. 580 indexed citations breakdown →

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Eler, Joanir Pereira, Richard Torres, Gérson Barreto Mourão, et al.. (2006). Genetic parameters of growth and adaptive traits in a composite beef cattle population (Bos taurus * Bos indicus).. Proceedings of the 8th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 13-18 August, 2006. 2 indexed citations

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Schreiber‐Agus, Nicole, Lynda Chin, Ken Chen, et al.. (1994). Evolutionary relationships and functional conservation among vertebrate Max-associated proteins: the zebra fish homolog of Mxi1.. PubMed. 9(11). 3167–77. 25 indexed citations

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Schreiber‐Agus, Nicole, et al.. (1993). Comparative Analysis of the Expression and Oncogenic Activities of Xenopus c-, N-, and L-myc Homologs. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 13(4). 2456–2468. 12 indexed citations

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Grant, Patrick M., et al.. (1992). Solution thermodynamics at high temperature. 1. Pr-diglycolate stability constants from 23 to 95�C. Journal of Solution Chemistry. 21(3). 213–227. 4 indexed citations

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Grant, Patrick M., P. A. Baisden, W. F. Kinard, & Richard Torres. (1988). Enthalpies of formation of the monofluorolanthanide complexes. Inorganic Chemistry. 27(7). 1156–1158. 10 indexed citations

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