2026 Antonia Herrero: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	67	8389	7743	144	142	153	12475

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

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Biology and Biochemistry

8389

7743

144

142

153

12475

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index

Citations

12475

World Ranking

8389

National Ranking

144

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Antonia Herrero is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with significant work in molecular biology and environmental sustainability fields.

The scientist has contributed to various topics including:

Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
Algal biology and biofuel production
Protist diversity and phylogeny
Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology
Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Circadian rhythm and melatonin

Frequent publication venues for Antonia Herrero include:

mSphere
Molecular Microbiology
mBio
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
eLife

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Herrero are:

"Robust, coherent, and synchronized circadian clock-controlled oscillations along Anabaena filaments," 2021, eLife
"A novel septal protein of multicellular heterocystous cyanobacteria is associated with the divisome," 2020, Molecular Microbiology
"Interactions of PatA with the Divisome during Heterocyst Differentiation in Anabaena," 2020, mSphere
"Coexistence of Communicating and Noncommunicating Cells in the Filamentous Cyanobacterium Anabaena," 2021, mSphere
"The Inorganic Nutrient Regime and the mre Genes Regulate Cell and Filament Size and Morphology in the Phototrophic Multicellular Bacterium Anabaena," 2020, mSphere

Frequent collaborators in Herrero's research include:

Ana Valladares
Enrique Flores
Cristina Velázquez-Suárez
Ignacio Luque
Rinat Arbel-Goren

Herrero's work spans molecular biology techniques, microbial ecology, and photosynthetic processes, contributing across multiple interdisciplinary areas linking cellular and environmental biology.

Best Publications

Nitrogen control in cyanobacteria.

Antonia Herrero;Alicia M. Muro-Pastor;Enrique Flores

835
Citations
Compartmentalized function through cell differentiation in filamentous cyanobacteria

Enrique Flores;Antonia Herrero

516
Citations
Nitrogen assimilation and nitrogen control in cyanobacteria

E. Flores;A. Herrero

363
Citations
The cyanobacteria : molecular biology, genomics, and evolution

Antonia Herrero;Enrique Flores

351
Citations
Assimilatory Nitrogen Metabolism and Its Regulation

Enrique Flores;Antonia Herrero

341
Citations
Molecular mechanism for the operation of nitrogen control in cyanobacteria.

I Luque;E Flores;A Herrero

323
Citations
Requirement of the regulatory protein NtcA for the expression of nitrogen assimilation and heterocyst development genes in the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120.

José E. Frías;Enrique Flores;Antonia Herrero

296
Citations
Photosynthetic nitrate assimilation in cyanobacteria.

Enrique Flores;José E Frías;Luis M Rubio;Antonia Herrero

276
Citations
Cellular differentiation and the NtcA transcription factor in filamentous cyanobacteria.

Antonia Herrero;Alicia M. Muro-Pastor;Ana Valladares;Enrique Flores

262
Citations
Regulation of nitrate reductase levels in the cyanobacteria Anacystis nidulans, Anabaena sp. strain 7119, and Nostoc sp. strain 6719.

A Herrero;E Flores;M G Guerrero

245
Citations
The multicellular nature of filamentous heterocyst-forming cyanobacteria.

Antonia Herrero;Joel Stavans;Enrique Flores

244
Citations
NtcA, a global nitrogen regulator from the cyanobacterium Synechococcus that belongs to the Crp family of bacterial regulators.

M. A. Vega-Palas;E. Flores;A. Herrero

213
Citations
2-Oxoglutarate increases the binding affinity of the NtcA (nitrogen control) transcription factor for the Synechococcus glnA promoter

Marı́a Félix Vázquez-Bermúdez;Antonia Herrero;Enrique Flores

213
Citations
Mechanism of intercellular molecular exchange in heterocyst‐forming cyanobacteria

Conrad W Mullineaux;Vicente Mariscal;Anja Nenninger;Hajara Khanum

190
Citations
Mutual dependence of the expression of the cell differentiation regulatory protein HetR and the global nitrogen regulator NtcA during heterocyst development.

Alicia M. Muro-Pastor;Ana Valladares;Enrique Flores;Antonia Herrero

184
Citations
An ABC-type, high-affinity urea permease identified in cyanobacteria

Ana Valladares;María Luz Montesinos;Antonia Herrero;Enrique Flores

162
Citations
Is the periplasm continuous in filamentous multicellular cyanobacteria

Enrique Flores;Antonia Herrero;C. Peter Wolk;Iris Maldener

160
Citations
Nitrate assimilation gene cluster from the heterocyst-forming cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120.

J E Frías;E Flores;A Herrero

159
Citations
Ammonium/Methylammonium Permeases of a Cyanobacterium IDENTIFICATION AND ANALYSIS OF THREE NITROGEN-REGULATEDamt GENES IN SYNECHOCYSTIS sp. PCC 6803

Marı́a Luz Montesinos;Alicia Marı́a Muro-Pastor;Antonia Herrero;Enrique Flores

146
Citations
Cytochrome c oxidase genes required for nitrogenase activity and diazotrophic growth in Anabaena sp. PCC 7120

Ana Valladares;Antonia Herrero;Dietmar Pils;Georg Schmetterer

139
Citations