Toni Gabaldón

45.8k total citations · 7 hit papers
275 papers, 21.9k citations indexed

About

Toni Gabaldón is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Toni Gabaldón has authored 275 papers receiving a total of 21.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 181 papers in Molecular Biology, 69 papers in Plant Science and 67 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Toni Gabaldón's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (76 papers), Antifungal resistance and susceptibility (62 papers) and Fungal Infections and Studies (42 papers). Toni Gabaldón is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (76 papers), Antifungal resistance and susceptibility (62 papers) and Fungal Infections and Studies (42 papers). Toni Gabaldón collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United States and Germany. Toni Gabaldón's co-authors include Salvador Capella-Gutiérrez, Marina Marcet‐Houben, Jaime Huerta‐Cepas, Martijn A. Huynen, Leszek P. Pryszcz, Miguel A. Naranjo-Ortíz, Jesse R. Willis, Eugene V. Koonin, Joaquı́n Dopazo and Ewa Księżopolska and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Toni Gabaldón

269 papers receiving 21.8k 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.

trimAl: a tool for automated alignment trimming in large-scale phylogenetic analyses

2009 7.8k citations Salvador Capella-Gutiérrez, Toni Gabaldón et al. Bioinformatics profile →
eggNOG v4.0: nested orthology inference across 3686 organisms

2013 492 citations Toni Gabaldón et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
The genome of the recently domesticated crop plant sugar beet (Beta vulgaris)

2013 478 citations Salvador Capella-Gutiérrez, Toni Gabaldón et al. Nature profile →
Functional and evolutionary implications of gene orthology

2013 409 citations Toni Gabaldón et al. profile →
Redundans: an assembly pipeline for highly heterozygous genomes

2016 333 citations Toni Gabaldón et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
The Human Oral Microbiome in Health and Disease: From Sequences to Ecosystems

2020 279 citations Jesse R. Willis, Toni Gabaldón Microorganisms profile →
Worldwide emergence of fluconazole-resistant Candida parapsilosis: current framework and future research roadmap

2023 125 citations Toni Gabaldón et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Toni Gabaldón Spain	66	12.3k	6.4k	3.6k	2.7k	2.5k	275	21.9k
Gordon Blackshields Ireland	15	13.1k 1.1×	6.3k 1.0×	3.9k 1.1×	3.4k 1.3×	1.7k 0.7×	26	24.6k
Iain M. Wallace Canada	16	13.6k 1.1×	6.5k 1.0×	3.9k 1.1×	3.5k 1.3×	1.7k 0.7×	23	25.4k
Paul McGettigan Ireland	29	13.5k 1.1×	6.3k 1.0×	3.9k 1.1×	4.1k 1.5×	1.7k 0.7×	48	26.1k
Michael Li United States	16	11.2k 0.9×	8.3k 1.3×	5.6k 1.6×	3.8k 1.4×	3.0k 1.2×	30	28.5k
F. Valentin United Kingdom	6	13.8k 1.1×	6.5k 1.0×	3.9k 1.1×	3.6k 1.3×	1.8k 0.7×	6	25.7k
Chenna Ramu Germany	8	15.1k 1.2×	7.1k 1.1×	4.2k 1.2×	3.9k 1.4×	1.9k 0.8×	11	28.1k
Vincent Lefort France	13	9.1k 0.7×	5.4k 0.8×	4.8k 1.4×	3.5k 1.3×	2.0k 0.8×	23	21.0k
Ivica Letunić Germany	37	20.0k 1.6×	8.7k 1.4×	6.5k 1.8×	3.5k 1.3×	2.5k 1.0×	48	34.9k
Nikolay Vyahhi Russia	6	13.0k 1.1×	5.2k 0.8×	7.0k 2.0×	2.1k 0.8×	2.8k 1.1×	7	24.8k
Andrey D. Prjibelski Russia	15	11.7k 1.0×	4.6k 0.7×	6.4k 1.8×	1.9k 0.7×	2.6k 1.0×	25	22.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Toni Gabaldón

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

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Gabaldón, Toni, et al.. (2025). Newly Developed Structure-Based Methods Do Not Outperform Standard Sequence-Based Methods for Large-Scale Phylogenomics. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 42(7). 5 indexed citations

Armero, Carmen, et al.. (2025). Probabilistic modelling improves relative dating from gene phylogenies. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 16(10). 2461–2471. 1 indexed citations

Toit, Lisa Du, Ifeoma Offiah, Tanya Kahawita, et al.. (2025). A pilot and feasibility study investigating the abundance and activity of nitrate-reducing bacteria in women with pre-eclampsia. Pregnancy Hypertension. 39. 101188–101188. 1 indexed citations

Mixão, Verónica, Ewa Księżopolska, Ester Saus, et al.. (2023). Evolution of loss of heterozygosity patterns in hybrid genomes of Candida yeast pathogens. BMC Biology. 21(1). 105–105. 13 indexed citations

Horta, Maria Augusta Crivelente, Jacob L. Steenwyk, Matthew E. Mead, et al.. (2022). Examination of Genome-Wide Ortholog Variation in Clinical and Environmental Isolates of the Fungal Pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus. mBio. 13(4). e0151922–e0151922. 8 indexed citations

Theelen, Bart, Verónica Mixão, Giuseppe Ianiri, et al.. (2022). Multiple Hybridization Events Punctuate the Evolutionary Trajectory of Malassezia furfur. mBio. 13(2). e0385321–e0385321. 13 indexed citations

Colabardini, Ana Cristina, Fang Wang, Zhengqiang Miao, et al.. (2022). Chromatin profiling reveals heterogeneity in clinical isolates of the human pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus. PLoS Genetics. 18(1). e1010001–e1010001. 12 indexed citations

Molina, Manuel, et al.. (2021). PhylomeDB V5: an expanding repository for genome-wide catalogues of annotated gene phylogenies. Nucleic Acids Research. 50(D1). D1062–D1068. 31 indexed citations

Gabaldón, Toni, et al.. (2021). Transient Mitochondria Dysfunction Confers Fungal Cross-Resistance against Phagocytic Killing and Fluconazole. mBio. 12(3). e0112821–e0112821. 23 indexed citations

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Marcet‐Houben, Marina, María Villarino, Laura Vilanova, et al.. (2021). Comparative Genomics Used to Predict Virulence Factors and Metabolic Genes among Monilinia Species. Journal of Fungi. 7(6). 464–464. 14 indexed citations

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Willis, Jesse R., Ester Saus, Isaac Almendros, et al.. (2021). A Mouse Model Suggests That Heart Failure and Its Common Comorbidity Sleep Fragmentation Have No Synergistic Impacts on the Gut Microbiome. Microorganisms. 9(3). 641–641. 3 indexed citations

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Boekhout, Teun, M. Catherine Aime, Dominik Begerow, et al.. (2021). The evolving species concepts used for yeasts: from phenotypes and genomes to speciation networks. Fungal Diversity. 109(1). 27–55. 39 indexed citations

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Fernández, Rosa, Marina Marcet‐Houben, Fabrice Legeai, et al.. (2020). Selection following Gene Duplication Shapes Recent Genome Evolution in the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 37(9). 2601–2615. 13 indexed citations

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Marcet‐Houben, Marina & Toni Gabaldón. (2019). EvolClust: automated inference of evolutionary conserved gene clusters in eukaryotes. Bioinformatics. 36(4). 1265–1266. 12 indexed citations

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Hovhannisyan, Hrant & Toni Gabaldón. (2018). Transcriptome Sequencing Approaches to Elucidate Host–Microbe Interactions in Opportunistic Human Fungal Pathogens. Current topics in microbiology and immunology. 422. 193–235. 8 indexed citations

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Tóth, Renáta, Vitor Cabral, Tibor Németh, et al.. (2018). Investigation of Candida parapsilosis virulence regulatory factors during host-pathogen interaction. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 1346–1346. 21 indexed citations

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Zhao, Pengshan, Salvador Capella-Gutiérrez, Yong Shi, et al.. (2014). Transcriptomic analysis of a psammophyte food crop, sand rice (Agriophyllum squarrosum) and identification of candidate genes essential for sand dune adaptation. BMC Genomics. 15(1). 872–872. 29 indexed citations

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Neurohr, Gabriel E., Andreas Naegeli, Dominik Theler, et al.. (2011). A Midzone-Based Ruler Adjusts Chromosome Compaction to Anaphase Spindle Length. Science. 332(6028). 465–468. 75 indexed citations

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Boxma, Brigitte, Rob M. de Graaf, Georg W.M. van der Staay, et al.. (2005). An anaerobic mitochondrion that produces hydrogen. Nature. 434(7029). 74–79. 151 indexed citations

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Gabaldón, Toni & Martijn A. Huynen. (2003). Reconstruction of the Proto-Mitochondrial Metabolism. Science. 301(5633). 609–609. 137 indexed citations

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