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Francisco Rodriguez-Valera

Francisco Rodriguez-Valera

Miguel Hernandez University
Spain

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Biology and Biochemistry
Spain
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
97
Citations
30193
World Ranking
1769
National Ranking
22

Francisco Rodriguez-Valera publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Francisco Rodriguez-Valera sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 350 publications — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Francisco Rodriguez-Valera D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Francisco Rodriguez-Valera sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 80 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 183 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 317 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 504 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 718 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 900 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 1,026 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 1,150 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,236 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 1,253 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 1,163 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 1,131 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 1,032 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 897 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 814 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 715 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 709 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 596 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 512 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 473 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 412 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 373 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 358 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 285 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 273 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 227 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 208 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 193 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 153 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 157 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 148 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 120 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 113 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 100 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 86 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 67 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 72 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 73 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 64 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 53 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 60 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 54 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 43 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 38 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 49 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 26 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 18 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 23 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 32 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 32 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 27 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 19 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 22 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 12 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 16 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 14 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 10 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 13 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 10 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 7 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 9 scientists 162–163 D-Index: 13 scientists 164–165 D-Index: 4 scientists 166 D-Index: 4 scientists 167+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 97 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Spain Leader Award
  • 2020 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences

Overview

Francisco Rodriguez-Valera is affiliated with Miguel Hernandez University in Spain. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions to the subfields of Ecology, Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Microbiology, and Plant Science.

They have focused extensively on topics including Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Bacteriophages and microbial interactions, Protist diversity and phylogeny, Photoreceptor and optogenetics research, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, and Microbial infections and disease research.

Their recent publications include:

  • RaFAH: Host prediction for viruses of Bacteria and Archaea based on protein content, 2021, Patterns
  • Uncovering a hidden diversity: optimized protocols for the extraction of dsDNA bacteriophages from soil, 2020, Microbiome
  • High-resolution structural insights into the heliorhodopsin family, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • New viral biogeochemical roles revealed through metagenomic analysis of Lake Baikal, 2020, Microbiome
  • Viral rhodopsins 1 are an unique family of light-gated cation channels, 2020, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors associated with Francisco Rodriguez-Valera include:

  • José M. Haro-Moreno
  • Mario López-Pérez
  • Pedro J. Cabello-Yeves
  • Riccardo Rosselli
  • Juan J. Roda-Garcia

They have published predominantly in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • mSystems
  • Microbiome
  • The ISME Journal
  • Frontiers in Microbiology

Francisco Rodriguez-Valera was named a Member of the European Academy of Sciences in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Unexpected diversity of small eukaryotes in deep-sea Antarctic plankton.

    Purificación López-García;Francisco Rodríguez-Valera;Carlos Pedrós-Alió;David Moreira

  • Development of a Multilocus Sequence Typing Scheme for Characterization of Clinical Isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii

    Sergio G. Bartual;Harald Seifert;Corinna Hippler;M. Angeles Domínguez Luzon

  • Explaining microbial population genomics through phage predation

    Francisco Rodriguez-Valera;Ana-Belen Martin-Cuadrado;Beltran Rodriguez-Brito;Lejla Pašić

  • Minimum information about an uncultivated virus genome (MIUVIG)

    Simon Roux;Evelien M. Adriaenssens;Bas E. Dutilh;Eugene V. Koonin

  • Numerical Taxonomy of Moderately Halophilic Gram-negative Rods

    Antonio Ventosa;Emilia Quesada;Francisco Rodriguez-Valera;Francisco Ruiz-Berraquero

  • Comparison of prokaryotic diversity at offshore oceanic locations reveals a different microbiota in the Mediterranean Sea.

    Milagros Zaballos;Arantxa López-López;Lise Ovreas;Sergio Galán Bartual

  • Changes in archaeal, bacterial and eukaryal assemblages along a salinity gradient by comparison of genetic fingerprinting methods in a multipond solar saltern.

    Emilio O. Casamayor;Ramon Massana;Susana Benlloch;Lise Øvreås

  • Salinibacter ruber gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel, extremely halophilic member of the Bacteria from saltern crystallizer ponds.

    Josefa Antón;Aharon Oren;Susana Benlloch;Francisco Rodríguez-Valera

  • Viral and microbial community dynamics in four aquatic environments.

    Beltran Rodriguez-Brito;Lin Lin Li;Linda Wegley;Mike Furlan

  • Diversity of Free-Living and Attached Bacteria in Offshore Western Mediterranean Waters as Depicted by Analysis of Genes Encoding 16S rRNA

    Silvia G. Acinas;Josefa Antón;Francisco Rodríguez-Valera

  • Transcription at different salinities of Haloferax mediterranei sequences adjacent to partially modified PstI sites

    F. J. M. Mojica;G. Juez;F. Rodriguez-Valera

  • Extremely halophilic Bacteria in crystallizer ponds from solar salterns

    Josefa Antón;Ramón Rosselló-Mora;Francisco Rodríguez-Valera;Rudolf Amann

  • Use of the 16S–23S ribosomal genes spacer region in studies of prokaryotic diversity

    Jesús Garcı́a-Martı́nez;Silvia G Acinas;Ana Isabel Antón;Francisco Rodrı́guez-Valera

  • Prokaryotic genetic diversity throughout the salinity gradient of a coastal solar saltern

    Susana Benlloch;Arantxa López-López;Emilio O. Casamayor;Lise Øvreås

  • Long stretches of short tandem repeats are present in the largest replicons of the Archaea Haloferax mediterranei and Haloferax volcanii and could be involved in replicon partitioning

    F.J.M. Mojica;C. Ferrer;G. Juez;F. Rodríguez-Valera

  • Classification of Non-alkaliphilic Halobacteria Based on Numerical Taxonomy and Polar Lipid Composition, and Description of Haloarcula gen. nov. and Haloferax gen. nov.

    Marina Torreblanca;F. Rodriguez-Valera;Guadalupe Juez;Antonio Ventosa

  • Detection and identification of bacterial DNA in patients with cirrhosis and culture-negative, nonneutrocytic ascites☆

    José Such;Rubén Francés;Carlos Muñoz;Pedro Zapater

  • The genome of Salinibacter ruber: Convergence and gene exchange among hyperhalophilic bacteria and archaea

    E. F. Mongodin;K. E. Nelson;S. Daugherty;R. T. DeBoy

  • The genome of the square archaeon Haloquadratum walsbyi : life at the limits of water activity

    Henk Bolhuis;Peter Palm;Andy Wende;Michaela Falb

  • Development of a Multilocus Sequence Typing Scheme for Characterization of Clinical Isolates of.

    Bartual Sg;Seifert H;Hippler C;Luzon Mad

Frequent Co-Authors

Purificación López-García
Purificación López-García University of Paris-Saclay
Antonio Ventosa
Antonio Ventosa University of Seville
David Moreira
David Moreira University of Paris-Saclay
Alex Mira
Alex Mira Foundation Center
Ernst Bamberg
Ernst Bamberg Max Planck Society
Silvia G. Acinas
Silvia G. Acinas Spanish National Research Council
Katherine D. McMahon
Katherine D. McMahon University of Wisconsin–Madison
Elena P. Ivanova
Elena P. Ivanova RMIT University
Mart Krupovic
Mart Krupovic Université Paris Cité
Eugene V. Koonin
Eugene V. Koonin National Institutes of Health

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Publications: 199

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Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Publications: 163

Wen-Jun Li

Wen-Jun Li

Sun Yat-sen University

Publications: 80

Ramon Massana

Ramon Massana

Spanish National Research Council

Publications: 62

Purificación López-García

Purificación López-García

University of Paris-Saclay

Publications: 61

Matthew B. Sullivan

Matthew B. Sullivan

The Ohio State University

Publications: 59

David Moreira

David Moreira

University of Paris-Saclay

Publications: 58

Simon Roux

Simon Roux

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Publications: 58

Josep M. Gasol

Josep M. Gasol

Spanish National Research Council

Publications: 56

Edward F. DeLong

Edward F. DeLong

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Publications: 53

William D. Grant

William D. Grant

University of Leicester

Publications: 51

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Michael L. Dyall-Smith

University of Melbourne

Publications: 51

Gerhard J. Herndl

Gerhard J. Herndl

University of Vienna

Publications: 50

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Ramon Rosselló-Móra

Spanish National Research Council

Publications: 50

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Publications: 47

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