Teresa Rito

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Teresa Rito is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Teresa Rito has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Molecular Biology, 14 papers in Genetics and 11 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Teresa Rito's work include Forensic and Genetic Research (10 papers), Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (9 papers) and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (7 papers). Teresa Rito is often cited by papers focused on Forensic and Genetic Research (10 papers), Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (9 papers) and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (7 papers). Teresa Rito collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, United Kingdom and United States. Teresa Rito's co-authors include Pedro Soares, Martin Richards, Vincent Macaulay, Maru Mormina, Stephen Oppenheimer, Antonio Salas, Luca Ermini, Arne Röhl, Luı́sa Pereira and Margarida Correia‐Neves and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Teresa Rito

34 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Correcting for Purifying Selection: An Improved Human Mitochondrial Molecular Clock

2009 534 citations Pedro Soares, Luca Ermini et al. The American Journal of Human Genetics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Teresa Rito Portugal	16	696	413	324	152	136	36	1.3k
Verónica Fernandes Portugal	19	745 1.1×	268 0.6×	408 1.3×	193 1.3×	133 1.0×	34	1.2k
Bertrand Ludes France	27	1.2k 1.8×	458 1.1×	746 2.3×	146 1.0×	323 2.4×	70	2.2k
Thomas Nyambo United States	18	1.3k 1.9×	547 1.3×	191 0.6×	146 1.0×	68 0.5×	31	2.2k
Viktor Černý Czechia	23	788 1.1×	180 0.4×	485 1.5×	293 1.9×	210 1.5×	61	1.4k
J. Víctor Moreno-Mayar Denmark	15	587 0.8×	307 0.7×	191 0.6×	155 1.0×	274 2.0×	24	1.1k
Daniel Corach Argentina	24	1.2k 1.7×	651 1.6×	269 0.8×	86 0.6×	139 1.0×	110	2.0k
Ana T. Duggan Canada	14	409 0.6×	172 0.4×	179 0.6×	46 0.3×	157 1.2×	27	658
Jack Kamm United States	10	630 0.9×	269 0.7×	72 0.2×	82 0.5×	92 0.7×	15	951
François‐Xavier Ricaut France	21	860 1.2×	219 0.5×	481 1.5×	275 1.8×	228 1.7×	64	1.3k
Alessia Ranciaro United States	13	1.2k 1.7×	463 1.1×	93 0.3×	63 0.4×	30 0.2×	22	1.9k

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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.

Rito, Teresa, et al.. (2025). Analysis of Selective Pressure on Ancient Human Mitochondrial Genomes Reveals the Presence of Widespread Sequencing Artefacts. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 26(16). 7739–7739. 1 indexed citations

Gandini, Francesca, Teresa Rito, M. George B. Foody, et al.. (2025). Leveraging known Pacific colonisation times to test models for the ancestry of Southeast Asians. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 37044–37044.

Rito, Teresa, et al.. (2023). Evaluating Data Sharing of SARS-CoV-2 Genomes for Molecular Epidemiology across the COVID-19 Pandemic. Viruses. 15(2). 560–560. 3 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

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

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

Rodrigues, Diana, et al.. (2022). Torulaspora delbrueckii Phenotypic and Metabolic Profiling towards Its Biotechnological Exploitation. Journal of Fungi. 8(6). 569–569. 19 indexed citations

Oliveira, Olena, Ana Isabel Ribeiro, Raquel Duarte, Margarida Correia‐Neves, & Teresa Rito. (2022). Intra-urban variation in tuberculosis and community socioeconomic deprivation in Lisbon metropolitan area: a Bayesian approach. Infectious Diseases of Poverty. 11(1). 24–24. 4 indexed citations

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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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Rito, Teresa, Martin Richards, Maria Pala, Margarida Correia‐Neves, & Pedro Soares. (2020). Phylogeography of 27,000 SARS-CoV-2 Genomes: Europe as the Major Source of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Microorganisms. 8(11). 1678–1678. 14 indexed citations

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Oliveira, Olena, Ana Isabel Ribeiro, Elias Teixeira Krainski, et al.. (2020). Using Bayesian spatial models to map and to identify geographical hotspots of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Portugal between 2000 and 2016. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 16646–16646. 14 indexed citations

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Rito, Teresa, Daniel Vieira, Marina Silva, et al.. (2019). A dispersal of Homo sapiens from southern to eastern Africa immediately preceded the out-of-Africa migration. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 4728–4728. 43 indexed citations

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Rito, Teresa, Carlos Carvalho, Henrique Machado, et al.. (2018). A complex scenario of tuberculosis transmission is revealed through genetic and epidemiological surveys in Porto. BMC Infectious Diseases. 18(1). 53–53. 17 indexed citations

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Brandão, Andreia, Ken Eng, Teresa Rito, et al.. (2016). Quantifying the legacy of the Chinese Neolithic on the maternal genetic heritage of Taiwan and Island Southeast Asia. Human Genetics. 135(4). 363–376. 30 indexed citations

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Soares, Pedro, Jean Michel Dugoujon, Andrea Novelletto, et al.. (2015). Early Holocenic and Historic mtDNA African Signatures in the Iberian Peninsula: The Andalusian Region as a Paradigm. PLoS ONE. 10(10). e0139784–e0139784. 18 indexed citations

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Soares, Pedro, Diogo Abrantes, Teresa Rito, et al.. (2013). Evaluating Purifying Selection in the Mitochondrial DNA of Various Mammalian Species. PLoS ONE. 8(3). e58993–e58993. 43 indexed citations

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Soares, Pedro, Teresa Rito, J. Tréjaut, et al.. (2011). Ancient Voyaging and Polynesian Origins. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 88(2). 239–247. 107 indexed citations

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Warman, Ashley J., Teresa Rito, Nicholas Fisher, et al.. (2010). The type II NADH: Quinone oxidoreductase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: A novel drug target for an age-old problem. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1797. 117–118. 1 indexed citations

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Soares, Pedro, Luca Ermini, Maru Mormina, et al.. (2009). Correcting for Purifying Selection: An Improved Human Mitochondrial Molecular Clock. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 84(6). 740–759. 534 indexed citations breakdown →

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